[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] bobdynlan:
Release 5, test 1 passed

I'm testing on my almost 3 years old phone, a clean ADC-Team release 5 with GApps, featuring K^Kernel 366/374MB (not using stock kernel as that one is basically a slimmed K^Kernel, sharing best features for a long time now :) ).

All programs installed: Nova Launcher, Total Commander, Super Backup, MX Player, Candy Crush, Adobe FLash Player, and WhiteScreen (soft flashlight). It's almost barebone, with no social media apps, no greenify/xposed etc. Phone on 2G with stable GSM network. No data/wireless in this first run.

Just one recurring stability issue right after clean install, fixed by a reboot - might be HW issue

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Phone will randomly get hot and freeze, minutes after I've finished the cyanogen setup wizard and the default launcher started.

- Recurring as in "11 out of 12" I've clean installed a new release, but it did not bother me so much as it only happens once, after messing with settings and a hard reboot it goes away.

- I give it more thoughts lately and I suspect it has something to do with Android OS being an ass when it comes to bundling app settings. JustArchi hinted about it in his ArchiDroid development.

- So if presets for kernel and advanced settings are messed up on the first boot - this might be a reason for the kernel to fail (having cpu, brightness etc. [MENTION=1198554]101[/MENTION]%) even if it will work just fine on next runs.

- Same goes for the setup wizard and the launcher settings, because I've overcome this issue in the past by baking a release without the Setup wizard and having Nova Launcher instead of Trebuchet. Maybe ADC-Team should include Nova, like ArchiDroid does, or at least recommend another reboot before creating a google account.

- It's not just my phone as I've tested it on another one, sadly both also have the line of dancing purple pixels on a side while loading recovery after a cold boot, might be the same batch.

With these being written, I have no other stability issues, everything works 100% after that first reboot.

Gaming performance is so-so, but that might improve with the newer driver.

And now for my quest, matching 10.1 battery consumption

: I think I've got it!

Release 5 is the best I've seen on KitKat (taking the crown from educk's ParanoidAndroid build).

There is no battery drain coming from the rom or kernel. If you have one on a clean install you might have a HW fault.

Chances are that personal app's/sync/gsm/kernel settings are to be blamed. Find out, then remember to uninstall BBS/WD monitoring software.

I wanted to see the raw potential, and over the last 3 days, I've limited my usage to couple minutes of gaming (damn Candy Crush drains allot) few pictures and recordings taking, few minutes of 720p watching, few minutes recording 720p watching :D, few songs playing over the headphones and lots of settings, gallery, total commander moving and editing files around. Using the phone as a phone could not be limited so I have 4h+ talking. I think It's acceptable for an used battery and is comparable to results I had on 10.1 with similar load.

I do use some tweaks, the same as in 10.1:

- extensive use of the GO TO SLEEP tile after using the phone (double-tap status bar on)

- no widgets on lockscreen or desktop (cLock should not appear in battery usage with disabled wheater plugin, but it does!)

- "faster than light" Nova preset (but "Nova" looks better with not so much impact)

- all on memory management and default CPU and I/O

- developer animations scale 0.25x

- no superuser notifications

- vibrator intensity 40% and on for all (headroom here)

- no touch or lock sounds

- buttons backlight 0.5sec and off on touchscreen press, no BLN

- display sleep 2min

And just to make KitKat competitive:

- no wallpaper (some might say extreme but it's actually high impact, ergonomic and also looks slick)

- automatic brightness starting with 0-20=0% (because having pockets full and not standing still wakes the phone allot)

all other reduced and ending with ~=90% (I stay in the trees allot :) )

For t5s, how to create the 0-20lux preset, well you hold the 0lux bar, click Split, enter 20.