I'm confused topic

My Dear community,

I've been around the xda forums since wm5 and progressed to android with 7 different android phones between back then and now.

I have my s4 now for quite some time and started of with the omega Rom which gave me some sort of safety because I was just flashing update after update. I was never satisfied with its performance and I figured it's because everyone is flashing custom kernels and optimizing their phones. I just don't know much about kernels unfortunately so always sticked to settings and kernels that came with the roms.

Then came along the 4.4 roms. I started off with jamals ge Rom and was happy with the increase in performance. Now he discontinued development and I just don't know what Rom I can take to have good performance and battery life.

Also what kernel can I take and most of all how do I optimize it to get speed and decent battery life.

What Rom kernel and settings configurations do you use? Is there a fool proof manual to follow to get optimal performance?

Please help me out here to get out of limbo. I'm romless and clueless :(

Thanks my friends!

Thomas

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