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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] IndiNix:
You are missing an important distinction, actually several.

Here are some definitions for you:

Kernel - this is the android (cm) fork of the linux kernel source code and modules. CvD makes changes and tweaks to this code. This is not where the problem is.

Build process - consists of compilation of the kernel and modules, and assembing the required elements for its use. In CvD's case, this also would include creating the redistributable .zip which would require building the ramdisk etc etc. This is where the problem occurs.

What you are getting is a kernel package that includes a complied kernel, the modules, some scripts and a boot.img. The fix from elbermu reverts the change to the boot.img, fixing the problem with the init bin. This is the approach roger_n has taken with his updated cm10.1 builds, and now CvD's new kernel package.

Do you get it? Can you understand that your lack of understanding of concepts and terminology is what has you bleating about kernel while everyone tries to ignore you?

The revert is not in the kernel source code. Thus, it is not a 'problem with the kernel'. Just because the problem shows up as a problem with a part of a package that includes the kernel doesn't qualify it as such. This would be how it is 'related'.

I apologize for further ****ting up this otherwise great thread but I tire of this repeated stupidity.

Content: R1.07.03 working quite nicely for me with roger_n's latest, and many thanks to CvD for these updates, despite all the annoyances of the audio issues.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
Thank you for the clear, articulate explanation IndiNix. That should certainly help people understand what's going on. With that, if there is continued back and forth on what is and isn't causing the issue, I will ask moderators to step in and clean up the thread.

The really smart people (Topprospect, Mikeyman77, the rest of Chopsticks and Cyanogen) are still working on the permanent fix. We just have to be patient while they continue their effort.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddgoat:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

Who cares, it's being addressed and just be freaking thankful you even have someone dedicated to making a kernel for the skyrocket. Good Lord
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] engrboy:
Runs great after the first few minutes.However, I am getting some lag scrolling through individual pictures, but it is a minor detail. Runs great though, everything else seems snappy!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Bruno2123:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

Flashing the stock kernel over won't fix it you have to charge to full and start the battery stats over for it to show back normal. The new kernel does the same but in call audio works so I'm happy.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Locoman_:
Flashed r1.07.03 over 3/17 nightly and I'm back to bliss. Audio 100% and battery is looking to be phenomenal..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rccar:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

Found a bug.. went to go take a picture, camera takes forever and saving the actual image does as well.. also, changing governors and I/o's caused reboots to the point it reverted to default. Anyone else?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] DoesntPostAThing:
Turn on CPU usage overlay in Developer Options, and do you see red lines go across the page? Red means kernel processes, and I only get this issue on Moretz 1.07, both on the previous build and 1.07.03. This doesn't happen in 1.03.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ctalcant:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

Some more information is needed. What ROM? Are you OC/UCing? Are you UVing? Can you provide a logcat?

I haven't heard of issues regarding the camera with the kernel.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Krakozawr:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

1.07.03 like 02 do not read IMEI at any boot. After reboot all OK but on the next boot may be lost IMEI again (maybe not). Never see this issue before.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
I haven't seen this issue, stock camera, right? Can you repeat the issue at will? If so, can you run a logcat and send it to me?

Yeah, I noticed that. I've always had that random issue with CM10 where sometimes you boot up and the APNs are missing. A reboot fixes it every time though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ctalcant:
Tested pacrom, toyes aokp, orthus with Moretz, no issues with the camera. what rom are using?

Possible SD card issue? If the storage location is set to the SD card, could it be possible it's delaying finding it's storage on the SD card as the camera app starts and similarly delaying as it saves the picture to the SD card?

If you OC/UC and/or UV to a point that the phone can't handle it'll reboot. and if the settings are set to be applied at boot, they will revert to their default parameters.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
Looks like there may finally be a proper fix and root cause diagnosis for the call audio issue, check the nightly thread. I'm planning to have another release sometime this week, I'm hoping that the gerrit gets approved in the main CM10.1 repo before then.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] k20-:
Has anyone tried CvD's current kernel with Top's S2 build? Any issues?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2138102&page=157
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

R1.07.03 works great on Top's S2, call audio and all...

Thanks, CvD!

Sent from somewhere in Galaxy S2...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] k20-:
It killed my radio on both dirty and clean install.

Edit: Now I'm back to 1.07.02, radio is good but the in-call bug comes back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddgoat:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

Working good here. Call audio hasn't worked for me since mortez 1.0.4 until now. Happy happy happy
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Locoman_:
Tops experimental S2 w/ R1.07.03. Everything is a-okay!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] NoSpamDan:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

Try re-downloading the files and check MD5 sums...

Sent from somewhere in Galaxy S2...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] liquidzoo:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

Not sure if it's kernel or rom related, but had anyone gotten the "bluesleep" wakelock with this kernel, or more specifically with this kernel+orthus?

I had some call issues today and ended up having to reboot multiple times before bluetooth and signal would both be on at the same time, and I noticed the wakelock about an hour later (showed 58 mins of "bluesleep" and no deep sleep in that time frame. A Google+XDA search leads me to know this is related to bluetooth, but the only fixes I saw were for the Atrix under ICS.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Smittiegee19:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

I have had this happen and or wouldn't go away, so I had to flash a different rim. Sticks because it was chewing through the battery too. Bluetooth is always finicky when new systems grey released, usually the las fixed too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] k20-:
Yes I checked both MD5 and Sha-1 for all downloads every time just to make sure.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] phoneturf:
I have tried the current and previous versions of this kernel with AOKP but my phone did the same thing - never went into deep sleep and I had the bluesleep wakelock, but I never turn off bluetooth.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] liquidzoo:
I don't turn off bluetooth either, but sometimes when I reboot it turns off on its own and I can't turn it back on...

I'm going to stick it out. Everything is working for now, and I'm hopeful that things will get better. Wish I had a decent charger at work, and that I could copy/delete large amounts of files without the phone freezing (ROM issue, not kernel related I don't think).

I am really liking this kernel, though. It seems to do very well and cvd is on top of getting us regular updates and tracking down issues (not saying other developers are different, but I've seen a lot of kernels for this phone just stop development all of a sudden).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rccar:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

I'm uved but that doesn't happen on stock governors. I'm in toyes aokp March 14 build. Don't have an SD card because mine causes serious wakelocks. I may have to just sit and do a full wipe because I only wipe system, cache, and dalvik. Haven't data wiped nor factory reset in a long time and I switch ROMs every week between tw, aosp, pa, blah blah so bad data be causing my issues
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] engrboy:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

I started to experience odd behavior with the camera today, minor inconvenience though.

I saw someone post about the weird battery stats. Is there a fix for this I'm unaware of or a fix coming?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] engrboy:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

My phone just died with 4% left. My phone screen was off but it continued to vibrate like it was booting without the samsung or cyanogenmod boot screen. I am unsure how long my phone was on but it was less than 6 hours.

I got it to boot up finally. Running on 1.07.03 and 3/7 nightly. I'll flash the updates tonight and report back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xstokerx:
Sounds like stuck power button
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] engrboy:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

You're correct sir. I just repeated the issue I was having. Thank you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xstokerx:
NP I posted some apps in the q&a section that u might find handy. If u can't fix it hardware wise.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2191120

I'm also having screwy battery stats on latest 10.1 cm nightly
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hechoen:
CvD they just keep getting better. AOKP 3-19 and R1.07.03 have put a smile on my face. Deep sleep is insane. Lost only .3%/hr(NOTICE THE PERIOD. lol) last night. I few weeks ago I was stoked to hit .7% with 1.05. You've halved that. lol Just amazing. Thanks man.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xstokerx:
Aww man I'm going to have to hit that up blah I've been a flash aholic lately I just can't stay put
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] BlastTyrantKM:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

I was getting great battery with this latest update, too. But bluetooth isn't working with any ROM + Moretz. I tried latest AOKP, PACman, SOA Jedi. Bluetooth works for each of them before flashing this kernel. After flashing, bluetooth doesn't work.

Sent from my SGS2 Skyrocket w/ Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mtdew:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

You're doing something wrong I'm on PAC with moretz and BT is fine just tested with my headset.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] berniesteven:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

On aokp with Moretz, bt works until turn off, then won't turn back on until reboot.

SGH-I727 - Peace
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mtdew:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

Now that is confirmed see that's why details are important.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] berniesteven:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.03 (Updated: 3.17.13) [Project Mayhem]

I'll reflash and pull a logcat. Guess I gotta practice what I preach.

Logcat.

http://db.tt/63XgGfg6

SGH-I727 - Peace
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xstokerx:
Nvm
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
Moretz 1.07.04 Change Log:

Enabled Badass Phase 2 & 3

Added Ultra KSM 0.1.2.2 back in

Cherry picked a memory leak fix

Removed some logspam

Added proper call audio fix

Fixed gpu_control init.d script

Check the OP for the download link
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] BlastTyrantKM:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.04 (Updated: 3.21.13) [Project Mayhem]

I just had the same thing happen with AOKP w/out Moretz. Bluetooth was working earlier, now it's not. So the problem isn't exclusive to Moretz usage.

Sent from my SGS2 Skyrocket w/ Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jpcdeux:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.04 (Updated: 3.21.13) [Project Mayhem]

This still killing Bluetooth?

Edit: Yep. Turn it on and it turns right back off.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] raj3366:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.04 (Updated: 3.21.13) [Project Mayhem]

The download link in the op is not allowing me to click or copy from xda mobile. Anyone know any work around? I have been memorizing the link and typing it out in the browser each time I have to download the new versions. Just that it would be nice to just click and download. Not a big deal though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mtdew:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.04 (Updated: 3.21.13) [Project Mayhem]

I clicked and dl'd fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] raj3366:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.04 (Updated: 3.21.13) [Project Mayhem]

Yeah I could do it from a PC, but using xda app, if I click on the link in the 2nd thread, it selects the entire thread and only pops up the dialog box for replying and thanking...

My bad, I did not think of opening xda site in the mobile browser.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mtdew:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.04 (Updated: 3.21.13) [Project Mayhem]

I never use PC and didn't use browser I used taptalk.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Trinition:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.04 (Updated: 3.21.13) [Project Mayhem]

Tap post to get post menu, click more and there's a copy option. Now the whole post is in your clipboard. Paste it in a blank email or something where you can then copy just the link out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] RJQXCV:
Any reason this kernel went from giving me higher benchmark scores to lower ones than stock? Anyone else? Antutu went from 9000 oced to 1.78 down to 5000...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.04 (Updated: 3.21.13) [Project Mayhem]

Benchmarks are dumb son.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Locoman_:
I want to create a benchmark app that gives an ever higher score every time you run it. I'll make millions and everyone will be so happy!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
They are really only useful when running repeated tests on the same exact system, same apps, same settings ... then making small changes to see what it does. But, I've found that on mobile devices the scores can swing wildly between runs. Because of that, I have zero confidence in benchmark scores beyond a basic view into capable performance of a device.

Just my .02 - I ignore them at this point :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] RJQXCV:
I understand. Didn't make much sense to me since this kernel is faster.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
I'm going to be pushing out an update later today. Long story short, I will be removing the CPU topology changes I put in an earlier version. It doesn't appear as though it is playing nicely ... the cpu core 2 never really shuts down properly and spends a lot of time at the max cpu speed. Upon removal, things went back to normal. Not sure why that's happening, so I'm going to remove it for now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hechoen:
When did you push that change? Asking because overall 1.05 has been the best for battery life for me. And by best I mean "HOLY SH!TE!@!!!@!! That's good"
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Krakozawr:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.04 (Updated: 3.21.13) [Project Mayhem]

I think I can confirm - does not work with Jedi SoA ROM ;/

I experienced issues with .03 and .04 versions on clear installation: IMEI and radio missing on boot, GPS stability, strong slowing works with different governors and scheduler combinations.

With stock kernel all right.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] skyrocketeer:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.04 (Updated: 3.21.13) [Project Mayhem]

Do you have a copy of the old versions? Maybe I should start keeping backups

Edit: never mind... I love goo.im

Sent via Samsung Skyrocket
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
1.06 :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] RJQXCV:
Your 1.04 kernel ****s on everything else. I'm using it now. High bench scores are back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] RJQXCV:
Installed the 1.07.05 kernel. Did the basic of restarting after first flash etc. Ran antutu. 5353. Reflashed 1.04. Got 9400. I'm going to flash versions between those two to see where the scores start dropping.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Locoman_:
You might consider keeping this benchmark stuff to yourself. It's not appreciated by CvD and you'll potentially antagonize him by using benchmarks to compare versions.

Seriously, I'm not trying to offend you in the least and good luck with your experiments..

Edit: To Hechoen

Given that this is coming from the developer and author of this thread... (insert conclusion/insight here).

.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.05 (Updated: 3.22.13) [Project Mayhem]

No one cares.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hechoen:
LOL. Same phone, same setup is what benchmarks are intended for. There a good way to judge if tweaks are having a good or bad effect. It's when people compare them against each other that problems arise.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] k20-:
Did anyone try 1.07.05 on 0321-skyrocket nightly? Any issues?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
As a rule of thumb, when I release a new version it was tested on the most recent nightly.

EDIT:

Just posted a patch to the OP. The included init.d scripts do not have execute permissions, so they are not firing at boot. The patch fixes that simply by changing permissions. You can either do that manually in file explorer or terminal (chmod 7777) or flash the patch.

The kernel zip has been updated with the fix, so if you have downloaded it after 4PM today than you do not need the patch. (But, it doesn't hurt to run it either)

The next reboot after fixing those permissions will be slower. This is because sqlite tuning and zipalign will run for the first time, after that things will go back to normal.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.05 (Updated: 3.22.13) [Project Mayhem]

None of the settings stick on reboot for me. Cpu, voltage, etc.. neither by initd or upon boot completed
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
SHoot me over your init.d script (check the permissions on it) and a logcat. I'm not having this problem with incredicontrol, i just tested by rebooting about 5 million times to get my APNs to load :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.05 (Updated: 3.22.13) [Project Mayhem]

Let me try incredicontrol. I've been using android tuner, but I don't really like it. It also seems apns are loading less often with the new version, but that might not have anything to do with it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xstokerx:
I had to flash the kernel twice to get incredicontrol to work haven't had any probs with apns yet
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] RJQXCV:
How useful. Thanks for being so helpful and relevant.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] engrboy:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.05 (Updated: 3.22.13) [Project Mayhem]

I've downloaded 1.07.05 three or four times and I cannot get the md5 sums to match. Has it not been updated in the OP? I would like to test but don't want to Bork my phone.

Also I, Flashed 1.07.04 last night and had something holding my phone in my top slot today. Lost 45% in 1.5 hours running bad ass and row. I doubt it was a kernel issue because the problem resolved itself after a reboot. Unfortunately, something went wrong with BBS and I couldn't check my stats since boot.

EDIT: checked md5 sums on goo managers website. Got them to match. Flashing now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
Oops! Updated the file and didn't update the MD5, here's the correct one ... 452ececc55e0d7d9020a8f9287054e2e

OP updated. Thanks for catching that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.05 (Updated: 3.22.13) [Project Mayhem]

When I downloaded the kernel it matched the old md5. I just dl again and now it matched the new md5.

Weird, but now the settings all stick.

You have any idea what's going on with the battery reporting and it not showing screen on time at all? I know everyone has mentioned it but I didn't see if you knew what was going on.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] RJQXCV:
Video performance decreases significantly from 1.07c to the current build. Where it is, I don't know. All of the other builds between were deleted from the goo.im folder
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] car vs driver:
Yes, they were removed from availability. Versions 1.06 to 1.07.04 are fundamentally broken for several reasons ... some of those builds had a big problem with the GPU going into a race condition and freezing the phone, and after that the second CPU core would always peak even when it wasn't in use (good for performance, bad for battery).

If you can show proof that you're dropping frame rates (beyond a benchmark), I'd be happy to see them because so far nobody else has noted video performance issues. Additionally, you mention a problem and don't provide any relevant information such as logs, what governors, schedulers, voltages, launcher, background apps, etc that you are running.

EDIT:

Create an init.d script with any of the following groups of commands to bump up 2D performance, let me know how that works for you. Either of those should change the minimum 2D GPU frequency,

#228mhz

echo "228571000" > /sys/devices/platform/kgsl-2d0.0/kgsl/kgsl-2d0/gpuclk

echo "228571000" > /sys/devices/platform/kgsl-2d1.1/kgsl/kgsl-2d1/gpuclk

#266mhz

echo "266667000" > /sys/devices/platform/kgsl-2d0.0/kgsl/kgsl-2d0/gpuclk

echo "266667000" > /sys/devices/platform/kgsl-2d1.1/kgsl/kgsl-2d1/gpuclk
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Locoman_:
Big thanks for your contributions to the skyrocket community!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bps119:
Re: [KERNEL][CM10.1-UNOFFICIAL] Moretz R1.07.05 (Updated: 3.22.13) [Project Mayhem]

Hahaha! Thanks for ensuring I saw that period this time hechoen ;)