If you are looking to conserve RAM, one way I have found helpful is to NOT upgrade Maps from the stock version. Later versions of Google Maps have become increasingly portly.

If you have already upgraded it, you can uninstall the upgrades using the Play store app.

Also, the app Autostarts lets you disconnect intents. That means for example you can prevent Maps, Play Store, Gallery, and other memory hogs from starting automatically every time your location changes. You have to be careful though, because disabling intents can also cause mysterious problems with the behavior of the device.

can someone mirror the kernel, nxd's site seems to be down

Oops. Fixed.

might be worth adding the information about setting the timer/column delays in the original post

Noob here...

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How exactly do I flash this? I cannot find anywhere how to do it. I understand that there is no CWM for this phone, save for the one included in this kernel (which is why I want it). The only recovery I could find in the SK4G is some Samsung options thing with like 4 different things you can do. I'm completely lost....

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Originally Posted by ZachGretzinger

How exactly do I flash this? I cannot find anywhere how to do it. I understand that there is no CWM for this phone, save for the one included in this kernel (which is why I want it). The only recovery I could find in the SK4G is some Samsung options thing with like 4 different things you can do. I'm completely lost....

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Yes you are, if I was you I would spend more time reading the general section. There are YouTube videos as well. There is a cwm for the phone
This kernel is old and unless you are going to flash an older rom I wouldn't bother myself. Best thing would be to ask the dev of the ROM you want if this works with it. Please spend a few days reading everything you can about how to do something. 99℅ of any question you are going to ask has already been answered and a video made to walk you through. You flash this just like you flash a ROM.
From my Nook Color running Paranoid Android 4.1.2 Nightlies

Originally Posted by ZachGretzinger

How exactly do I flash this? I cannot find anywhere how to do it. I understand that there is no CWM for this phone, save for the one included in this kernel (which is why I want it). The only recovery I could find in the SK4G is some Samsung options thing with like 4 different things you can do. I'm completely lost....

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Psst, there is a cwm that I used to flash a rom that wasn't this. I believe it's cwm 3.0.2.8 but I might be wrong with the numbers. There's a rootzwiki page for cwm for the sidekick that has a link.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app

Any O/C kernels//////???

Sorry. We never agreed on any kind of stable overclock for the SK4G. You'll have to experiment and find what works best for your device.

As far as I am concerned, there is only one stable kernel for the SK4G and that is the stock KG2 kernal. I wish someone would make a custom KG2 kernal that works.

Here is a list of kernals that sometimes reboot or totally lockup... rarely at total random, occasionally when using any GPS app, and regularly when using the latest Google Maps (especially for turn-by-turn Navigation):

KD1/KD2 stock - Used when I first got the phone, it would reboot sometimes, stock, with an old GMaps.
KD1/KD2 with Bali 2.1/2.2 - Used with many roms a year ago. About same as stock.
KG1 - Cannot find ROM, don't care since KG2 works.
KG2 with Bali - Cannot find compatible version of Bali to test with.
KJ2 stock - Not 100% tested, but I believe it has the bug.
KJ2 /w NXD kernal - Used with MANY roms over the last year. Worse than stock.

...and then I tried an ODIN of:
KG2 stock - STABLE! Sometimes locks up for up to 60 seconds. Has NEVER rebooted or locked up without recovering within 60 seconds.

I then flashed KJ2-rooted-deODEX.zip, and then NXD kernal. It was crashy again, so I am now ODINed back to KG2. I rooted it and have orange CWM (in 2 steps, stock recovery launches CWM) with Lag-Fix disabled (enabled = no boot). I removed about 50 apks from the system/app folder, and I setup SuperCharger V6. It is running very good this way, with 2-day battery life, but I do miss the custom framework with battery % and the reboot in the power-menu and such. Also I'm sure I could tweak things with a custom init.rc and such (if I knew what I was doing).


My final dream for this phone would just be to get a stable custom kernal (with keylogger removed) based on KG2 (or KJ2, if they can make it stable) and a custom ROM that has all the tweaks and ui-extras, but is otherwise stock with little to no theme-ing. What I have is close enough though I guess. I'm not going back to a crashy-rebooty-phone, not unless someone could get ICS/JB on it... then it might be worth living with a slightly unstable phone again.