[Galaxy S II General] iron@ss:
N.E.A.K. v1.3

I said I would be a, "Happy Bunny", if I could get 24 -> 27 hours battery with my usage and set-up on this kernel...

Well, I'm a Happy Bunny! :)

Before anyone posts that 24 -> 27 hours is nothing because they can get 48 -> 72 hours on their phone... I did say, "with my usage and set-up".

Why 24+ hours you may ask? Don't you just charge it up every night?

Well, the answer is, yes, I do but then I like to have a reserve so that I'm not worried about using my phone if I'm out-and-about or in case I don't make it home until the following morning... it happens!

Personally, I didn't get a top of the range smartphone, that is packed with features, to treat it like a stone. I could have stuck with my very old Nokia 3210 for that.

Neither do I want to become a slave to my phone and have to worry about turning Wi-Fi off every time I leave the house or re-enabling GPS or disabling background data and auto sync or even switching to GSM and fiddling about to manually adjust the brightness.

I want my location based weather widget to update along with my news and calendar widgets and my WhatsApp and email accounts to carry on sync'ing along with my Contacts and Tasks.

Sure, if someone comes up with a suggestion that saves me battery, that doesn't detract from my usage of the phone, I will take it on board. Our very own hawker did that recently by suggesting that I switch clock/weather widgets to a virtually identical one that was more configurable and did not poll when I was asleep.

Which brings me back to the N.E.A.K. v1.3 kernel. It is one of those items that I mentioned that I don't, or shouldn't, have to worry about once it's set up and can potentially save a lot of battery for me without impairing performance.

I'm happy to say simone, that it does. I resisted the temptation to install the latest Siyah 2.6.6 kernel when it came out within hours of the N.E.A.K. v1.3 release as I wanted to give it at least a couple of days trial.

I initially started with Lionheart + v(r) which was very smooth and slick on my phone. After one cycle I then changed to lulzactive + v(r) and after a couple of tweaks with the lulzactive app, it too was running sweetly on the same u/v and u/c for Lionheart. I also used the 2nd Core app for Dynamic hotplug on both, although I'm still not sure if this is needed on the latest kernels!

N.E.A.K. has consistently liked my phone and usage patterns and the v1.2 served me well over the festive holidays after a Siyah kernel had left me with a flat battery at a pre Christmas party and I had to borrow an iPhone, (the shame) to make a call.

I have yet to delve into the world of, "Thunderbolt" scripts for either this or the Siyah kernel and so cannot comment on whether these would improve, what is for me, a really great kernel.

Perhaps someone might like to comment on the use of Thunderbolt with N.E.A.K..

The bottom line is that when I first started using my phone some 8 months ago, I was getting around 10 -> 12 hours battery usage. Now, thanks to developers like simone, as well as rooting, removing bloatware and optimising my app's and settings... I'm getting more than double that.