[Optimus One, P500, V General] Xx Jafours xX:
4.3 ROM/ 3.0.8 perf+chocolate Kernel

My apologies. I had meant the kernel as well as the 4.2/4.3 ROM, the "3.0.8-perf+chocolate", that is being used by most. The latest ROM's with 4.3 all have the perf+chocolate kernel on them, which is also the cause of all the battery drain and all. 4.2 ROM with the same perf+chocolate Kernel seems better with the battery, but that was what I had noticed. Maybe it isn't. Again, my apologies, I had meant the kernel as well as the ROM, not the ROM itself.

I have yet to try the Sweetnsour kernel with 4.2 (or possibly, 4.3) and hopefully won't run into the problem of the distorted blue and green colors, a problem I had run into years ago when trying to install 4.1, and needing mighty "Joban's Kernel" to fix that problem; a problem with all P505's. P500 clones (P505, P506, so on...) are not exactly clones from the Kernel perspective (they will need slight tweaking in kernels to get the right color). And of course, the RAM also differs, with the P500 having 512 MB RAM, as well as the P506, but P505 (mine) having 414 MB RAM. Keep in mind that different Kernels/ROM's each have certain incompatibilities, that is, not all of what can be installed on the 4.2/4.3 perf+chocolate Kernel can be installed on the Sweetnsour Kernel. Same is with the ROM's.

Yes, the problem with the battery has been there. However, going for the ROM/Kernel with the least battery consumption would not at all be a smart choice. If the Sweetnsour Kernel does not have the compatibility with Link2SD (or Apps2SD) scripts, I would not look twice at that Kernel, only because of the reason that the 270 apps I have installed on my phone are only because of Link2SD (...and of course, the SD card space ;) ), which made space on the SD card for all the /data, /cache, /dalvik-cache files, so that we don't have to worry a lot about our Legend phones' internal space running out. Without Link2SD type of applications existing, a 32 GB SD-card would not be a bit better than a 2 GB SD-card, as space would run out of internal storage faster than you would know.

Look at the names Google has been coming up with for the Android OS's. From the Cupcake, to Donut, Eclair, Froyo, GingerBread, HoneyComb, Ice Cream Sandwich, to JellyBean, and now soon to come to the table is "KitKat". ;) And by the way, I would suggest you try the "Juice Defender" application, as it has many neat features, including lowering your screen brightness to lower than the default lowest of your phone's to save battery, and short-cuts to closing Wi-Fi/Data, so on, and much more than the 2xBatterySaver or others would have. Can you please tell me what CPU Frequency the Kernel Sweetnsour has got? As in, does it have the same Frequency as 120-866? What else is different? I'd like to know about it before testing it out, because of the fact that I would need a full factory data reset before installing it, only because the Link2SD and other apps that have those scripts installed, and the partitions in the SD-card will mess the whole installation up (at least that's what had happened to me when I tried without factory data resetting). Thanks!

Regards,

Xx_Jafours_xX