[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] griz.droidx:
just some questions..

Almost too legit.. Sorry, Please don't tell anyone about that reference, I'm almost ashamed to say I remember it being a huge metalhead, a Blues and some jazz even Bluegrass, fan. I'm actually a fan of anything that I feel shows the talent if any of the artist. If the banjos from those bluegrass players had distortion and tuned down, Uhh, It'd be screaming awesome with their already killer leads. Anyway, now back to our regularly scheduled progarm. (Hope toked see's this).

Hey Sandman, I remember seeing you in the DX forums I'm almost certain maybe in the unoffical CM, or MIUI build threads, I don't remember. But knowing you've been doing this a while, and since I respect your opinion, and feel like I know you from the posts I've read from you. Back in the DX days. I still have mine. I'm going to give this a go. I can NEVER get the screen time you some of you guys get. May I ask two questions though.

First, I'm getting ready to load this, since Gideon recommended it as well, in another thread. Not a question... Sorry

Secondly, To Sandman double naught seven I think it was, Are you on a stock battery?

Thirdly, do you underclock / undervolt. and Are you on the stock kernel.

Fourth, What does that screen time entail? Which apps were you using during the screen on time? Well, I can look at your processes at least those with the most drain percentages. I remember a screen of that but not the details. I'll look at that.

Fifth, Uhh, do you use anything to kill autostarting apps, at least some of them? I do this using Rom Tool Box. I also use adaway, and a firewall app (from f-droid), I think the FW, which I'd guess is a type of frontend to iptables or something, is open source as well.

Lastly, Do you use anything similar to Lux to decrease screen brightness even more?

TO ANYONE, do apps like I mentioned cause more battery drain than is necessary? I'm also bad to freeze any apps I don't use like email, email exchange, and anything included in the gapps that I don't use as well.

Thanks guys for your help, or any help provided as an answer to these questions. Hopefully before I get back on here, I'll have it installed. I've waited long enough. Been two weeks but I've had a lot of company from my little cousin who after using my linux box, has asked me to put it on his laptop he got for christmas. I set it up to dual boot though. He likes some of the open source games which can be played on windows as well, usually, but the ability to customize your os, the way you want with the window manager and DE of your choice is unparalleled.

I'm not demanding answers to these questions, but I feel they are relevant to the previous post about the battery life on this rom. Which if as you said was the first drain, is IMHO (about the only acronym I know), beyond spectacular. I got pretty good life on gummy. But I can't remember if I underclocked or anything like that.

I haven't read every single post yet in here but it shouldn't take long for me to... Sadly enough.

Also, to Gideon and Sandman, may I post your answers in the thread called beanstalk and other kit kat roms? I would tell where it came from of course. and will quote with your usernames if you don't mind. If not that's cool too. But these answers although all questions probably don't belong in this rom's thread, they would be great in a thread that discusses all the KitKats out there that anyone wants to talk about.

Happy New Year everyone here!