[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ckisgen:
from an amateur kernel hacker/ROM developer.. you're missing out on heaps o' performance and battery life if you aren't using one of the several seriously SOLID and stable kernels that there are for CM10 for our devices.

KToonsez hacks one helluva kernel (I run his prob more than anything else these days)

Imoseyon's LeanKernel was my former go to kernel and is still AMAZING for battery life and stability (the lack of Trinity Colors on that one made me stray elsewhere..but that's purely aesthetics/personal preference)

GideonX picked up where Morfic left off with the BMS kernel. I run this one probably almost as much as KT's

Task650s CM kernel is real solid too. mt3g turned me on to that one and the only reason I haven't been running that one as much lately is because the update train seems to have slowed a little (he was straight ON IT for a while) and secondarily because I use my phone a lot for my business and I just generally prefer not to have a GIANT high res graphic of a pair of undies with 'FCUK' written all over them every time I reboot my phone :D

DKP has been doing very interesting things as of late with his 3.4 kernels. his are def worth a try as well.

there are more but I don't have all day.. sorry to whoever I temporarily forgot.

to me - the difference between running CM with its stock kernel vs running CM with one of the many fine choices of custom/3rd party kernels is virtually the same as the difference between running an unrooted TW 4.1.1 stock out of the box SGS3 vs rooting it and running a custom ROM.

sure, SOME people might can argue stability on 'leaving well enough alone' and by all means, it's your phone - do whatever you want to with it.

but my OPINION is - why wouldn't you want more performance, longer battery life, and more options/features?? (fast charge, trinity colors, fauxsound, the list goes on)

CM makes a very solid base with their stock kernel, but they don't have the time or motivation or ability to spend the countless hours afterwards fine tuning them specifically for our devices and testing/working out new and interesting features and tweaks like our fine dedicated kernel devs / hackers do. (THANKS AGAIN, GUYS!!)

to those of you who get constant random reboots or have negative experiences with these kernels.... MOST OF YOU AREN'T DOING SOMETHING RIGHT. I promise. I haven't had a random reboot or single issue to speak of on really any nightly for months. you either didn't spend the time or attention to make sure you educated yourself a bit and flashed the right version of that kernel for the right ROM version, or your phone really may not "like" that particular kernel or build of that kernel.. this does happen to me occasionally (so flash one of the other ones! it takes 45 seconds guys. it's TOO easy), or you haven't bothered to spend a few minutes experimenting and dialing in the right governor/scheduler/voltages for your particular device/setup/apps, or it also could be the particular CPU control app you're using... I know early on, my phone hated KTweaker, now it loves it. at different times, setCPU seems to give me intermittent quirks, so I uninstall and run over to TricksterMOD for a bit, or Voltage Control, or the 29 other viable options out there for that sort of thing... and of course you have the (incredibly unlikely) possibility of a bad flash or download. (once again, just flash one of the others)

I personally think you're missing the boat on SEVERAL levels if you run CM with its stock kernel.

as for the ignorant comments that suggest that the primary CM devs even fart on or glance at this thread or provide support from anything posted in it, you guys are only showing how little you know about how all of this works.

**users making posts on here specific to which 3rd party kernel they may or may not be running at the time and which bugs they may or may not be experiencing is 1000% relevant to those of us that actually read and use this thread for what it's intended and actually know what to do with this information**

I usually just smile and giggle and/or throw up in my mouth a little when I read the 85% of the posts in these threads that are either totally useless in and of themselves or are made by people who have no real grasp or knowledge of the topic they are even posting on.

most of the posts that claim 3rd party kernels are pointless, unstable, not worth it, or irrelevant to this thread fall into one of those 2 categories...

buuuuut with all of that said, even this entire post/rant is just one random schmo's personal opinion...

do whatever you want to with your phone and feel free to post whatever dribble you want. just know that most of us that actually know what we're doing are probably rolling our eyes or laughing at you while you sleep.

cheers :cool: