[Desire General] Mahlzahn:
Hey everyone,

I've been playing around a little with different Kernels for Runnymede AIO 2.2 in order to get good performance and battery life and I thought I share my results with you. Furthermore, it would be great if you guys could share your thoughts on which kernel gave you the best battery life/performance/feel/benchmark results. So feel free to participate and I'll collect useful results in the first post :)

I have tested 3 different kernels so far:

- Gingercakes 0.9 bfs no2way HAVS

- Gingercakes 0.8 bfs no2way HAVS

- Snq 2.6.35.8-1111118-bravo no2way

Performance has been tested with three different benchmarks, four benchmarks tests each in order to get average results. Other settings and hardware can be checked in my signature or below under testing environment. I only use bfs kernels because cfs doesn't really make sense for our Desire. And from my experience HAVS kernels give you better battery life on average while maintaining good performance. However, I'll test some svs kernels in the future, too. I also only use no2way because they don't cause issues with various ROM's and i don't need 2way recording anyway...

If you have other ideas or methods for testing, please let me know and share your results.

My results so far:

Best

2nd

3rd

Quadrant Benchmark Results:

1. Snq average score: 1760

2. Gingercakes 0.9 average score: 1608

3. Gingercakes 0.8 average score: 1595

AnTuTu Benchmark Results (without SD test):

1. Snq average score: 2340

2. Gingercakes 0.8 average score: 2328

3. Gingercakes 0.9 average score:2319

CF Bench:

1. Snq average score: 2249

2. Gingercakes 0.9 average score: 2143

3. Gingercakes 0.8 average score: 2111

Overall Score:

I will add all individual scores together and divide it by 3 (for the number of tests) in order to get the overall score :)

Snq: 2116,33

Gingercakes 0.9: 2023,33

Gingercakes 0.8: 2011,33

Conclusion:

First of all, all three worked fine and caused no major trouble ;)

Based on benchmarks, Snq is the way to go. Blazing fast and most important noticeably faster than the gingercakes kernels. A lil downside is that despite being blazing fast most of the time, it lags sometimes, especially after a fresh boot although this settles over time and then the Snq is simply amazing :) I am running it right now and i am really satisfied with the result.

As expected, the two gingercakes-kernels have been quite close to each other in terms of benchmark results, the 0.9 version being a lil faster but imo less smooth. I have to say that the 0.8 version seemed to harmonize a lil better with the Runnymede AIO 2.2 ROM in terms of stability. Speed has been almost the same but it "felt better". Less lag and no stability issues at all. The 0.9 version, which is included in the ROM (however a different kernel type) was also smooth and quite stable but somewhat off compared to its lil brother.

So if you want maximum speed, go with Snq and see how it works for you in terms of stability. If you want to use gingercakes (for whatever reason), flash the 0.8 version, although it seems slower based on the results. Alternatively try all of them and report back what your impressions are ;) (You can find all three kernels attached to this thread to download)

Outlook:

I will do some more testing for battery life (which will be a major point in the next thread update) and maybe some other kernels, like i.e. svs versions. But i am happy to hear your experiences with different kernels and this amazing ROM! Feel free to share, comment and participate:)

Disclaimer:

I don't guarantee that these results will be the same on all other Desires running Runnymede AIO 2.2. A lot is dependent on the overall configuration etc. Even these results are not what I expect to see from my Desire in the near future as I am still working on the perfect setup. However, it might be useful for people looking for some data on kernels wondering which one to flash. There's always room for improvement... and error ;)

All kernels have been used for several hours, sometimes several days, in the following testing environment:

Runnymede AIO 2.2 Honey HD Theme

Daemon Controller (Wake state: 245-998 smartassV2 governor; Sleep: 128-245 smartassv2 gov.)

SanDisk 16GB SD (noclass/class 2...not sure; i didn't use my Patriot Class10 mentioned in my signature for testing)

For further details see my signature or ask :)

Update: 24.11.2011