Awhile back my buddy and AndroREV contributor Grand Prix put me on to developer faux123′s Faux Kernel and at the time it wasn’t specifically opti mized for the Nexus 7. Now faux123 has brought a Nexus 7 kernel to the party which I have been checking out and I highly recommend it to you rooted Nexus 7  users out there. Smoothness is off the hook and my experience with it has been one of stability and top notch performance. There are two varieties of the kernel to choose from: Mainline with 1.4 Ghz clock speed and the Ultimate Edition which is fantastic packing 1.55 GHz clockspeed. Both kernels have the GPU of the Nexus 7 clocked at 520 MHz which gives you a noticeable improvement while gaming also eliminating the slowdown you can get running high end games. fauz123 has added an option for advanced users who would rather have the added stability of stock settings on the kernel. All of this can be found at the OP on XDA which I will link to below. I’ve pasted faux’s own features list for your perusal below. Again faux123′s kernel comes highly recommended. Happy Flashing!

Works On ALL Google Android 4.1 based ROMS

Memory Management subsystem:
– SLAB completed updated to Linux 3.5+

Core Kernel:
*** RCU: 
– completely updated to latest preemptive tree RCU to Linux 3.3+ ( http://en.wikipedia….ead-copy-update )
*** Scheduler:
– back ported select Linux 3.3+ cgroup (cpu control groups), threadgroup optimizations
– cherry picked select NOHz optimizations from Linux 3.3+ ( http://www.phoronix….m=651&num=1 )

File System:
– DOS VFAT (read/write), NTFS (read/write), CDROM/UDF FS, CIFS+UTF-8 (windows share) all built-in

Block I/O:
– Deadline (default), No-op, CFQ

Kernel Features:
– CleanCache Enabled ( http://lwn.net/Articles/386090/ ) (ultimate ONLY)

Device Drivers:
– USB OTG (USB On-the-Go, aka USB Host-like support allows for external USB sticks, Keyboard/Mice)
– ARM Berkeley Network Packet Filter Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler support ( http://en.wikipedia….y_Packet_Filter )

Library Support:
– Optimized memory and string libraries (used by many things)
– more selective cherry picks from Linux 3.3-rc3 (kernel 013b8+)

ARM / Tegra3 architecture drivers:
– CPU Overclocking to max 1.55GHz

Original Post For Faux123′s Kernel On XDA Developers

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