[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] griz.droidx:
I too am on an MVNO, but Selectel, Do you get roaming on non-verizon towers with Straight Talk? Just wondering, because with tracfone you are not able to roam with android smartphones. At least not on the BYOP deal. I tried the BYOP with my old DX2 and it worked great on Verizon towers but the minute I got home on a regional carrier tower where big red used to roam great, I had nothing. With Selectel I am able to roam but without data on regional non-verizon towers. I can talk and text on those only. Which is fine with me since my plan is only 20 dollars a month., Probably should have sent a private message for this part of the post.

On to The DKP kernel, I used it regularly, for Kitkat ROMs without issue. I usually on Nameless or BrokenOS, and sometimes Liquid. But again, no issues for me at all with the DKP kernel. I haven't used the latest and greatest DKP on Kitkat but I did use one as recently as 06-08 I believe without any issues at all. I'd try flashing the kernel again being sure to wipe dalvik cache at least. I sometimes just wipe cache which also wipes Dalvik in the process. An easy way to update the splash screen and I used to use it regularly is to use ROM Toolbox Pro / and the free Rom Toolbox will probably work as well. There's a huge selection of splash images to choose from. I don't use the boot ani feature from that tool though, because I'm afraid it may screw something up with the built in theme engine in Kitkat, It probably won't but I didn't want to take any chances. There are more than likely other tools to change the splash screen, and most individual tools in ROM Toolbox can be had individually for free. I bought it years ago because I wanted the latest and greatest ROMs for my DX, and Rummy's were some of the best at the time. JRummy is a great dev, IMHO, and is supposedly working on a huge update to ROM Toolbox which it sorely needs given the number of toolboxes that have sprung up which have almost made using it obsolete. It is still however a great tool to use. I'm sure you could search XDA and figure out how to change it manually as well. But I know for a fact that the toolbox works with kitkangs.

Good luck, and again, you should have no trouble with DKP, it's a great kernel from a superb and extremely nice and helpful dev. The community maybe able to provide more insight into your issues than I, but a reflash couldn't hurt. DKP has worked on every KK build I ever tried. KT did too for that matter, but I just preferred DKP for his governors. I never had any bad experience with KT and Perseus is keeping that one updated lately so if you can't get DKP working, and I see no reason why it wouldn't, try KT.

One other thing you might try is to re-flash you rom and DKP at the same time again. You won't have to wipe data to flash the exact same rom. Just wipe cache or at least Dalvik Cache to be on the safe side. I always wipe Dalvik when flashing a new kernel. I think you're supposed to.

Good luck, I'm not on here much myself anymore, but everyone I've encountered on XDA has been most helpful. You would be hard pressed to find a better community of individuals who are usually eager to help out others when needed. It does help to search the forums, or at least the extra extra long threads like this one for similar issues before posting though. Sometimes people get upset/angry when people post things that have been mentioned a zillion times. Like changing DPI in the old slim thread, I bet that was asked a minimum of 20 times.

Good luck again, and again, I must thank Decimalman for continuing to build awesome kernels for our aging device. And thanks to the community for the feedback and help they provide.

griz.