Root Noob question - flashing kernels

[paintmoonsred]

Alrighty..
So I have some things to ask about flashing kernels. Forgive me if this has been discussed before.

I just rooted yesterday, flashed the newest Fresh ROM and was quite happy, and then started looking at kernels. I decided to give this one a go
KingxKlick Forums • View topic - [KERNEL] [2.6.32.15] [HAVS] [BFS] KiNgxKernel #6/#8

So I flashed BFS #6, and for some reason at startup if I swiped across home screens in either direction, or pretty much did anything, it locked up, requiring battery pull or rebooted itself.

Luckily I had a NAND backup to right when I rolled to 2.1 rooted.*

So now I'm going to stock rooted 2.2 and waiting for someone who knows to give me the scoop on kernels and what I should be doing with them.

Btw the only widgets I had going were power settings and musicmod.
I did have Launcherpro running and 3d drawer setting enabled, if any of that matters.

Thanks!

*-interestingly at this stage the OTA for 2.2 still comes up as available. I may keep this nand handy in case I want to go the OTA route in the future.

 

[InstantKarma]

Hmmmm, my first guess was that it wasn't compatible with Fresh, but I didn't see any reports of that issue on XDA. Did you wipe the cache and Dalvik-cache when you flashed it?

You might want to try Netarchy's kernel, too.

P.s. If you install the OTA you'll lose root, so the Nandroid won't do you any good.

 

[exBBuser]

Did wipe everything ^^^^^^^^^^^ he said. When it comes to flashing Kernels they either work or not simple as that,sometimes a series of reboots is required before ur phone gets use to it.

 

[paintmoonsred]

Did wipe everything ^^^^^^^^^^^ he said. When it comes to flashing Kernels they either work or not simple as that,sometimes a series of rebooted is required before ur phone gets use to it.

Got it. I'll just keep a nandroid of Fresh, and keep trying different kernels I suppose. Thanks guys