That's a nice write up dwoid...
I think most try the LV's because you keep the heat down that way first, and if everything runs ok, then ...
How would upping my voltage to the standard increase my batt life if I'm running ok with no issues other than batt life on LV?
Thanks, and yes, if you're running OK now at your desired speed with LV or ULV, that's great and I wouldn't change anything...
But if you're just starting out trying to find the right kernel, I'd recommend *starting* with standard voltage so you can see what speed your Droid will successfully run at. It'll be painfully obvious if you're running too fast, you won't be able to keep from the boot loops.
From a generic standpoint, you know the kernels that originally come with the leaked ROMs are using standard voltage. That's one of the reasons why they are so stable.
On my Droid, I got a lot of wierd instability (FCs, timeouts, etc...) with lower powered kernels. I also got less than desirable battery life and higher temps. That all disappeared when I moved to standard voltage, even at higher CPU speeds.
For everyone: I just spoke with P3, he will check google goggles when he returns home (I'm thinking it may need a tweak to the deodex that voice needed), so when he finds out later, we may have that corrected as well, or we'll know what is up.
We really need to let the man rest
From my experience so far I strongly suspect that the odexed version doesn't have these problems. That's what I'm running and everything that people have been talking about is working fine for me. (I don't run the Facebook app, so i don't know about that.)
I'd like to send a big thanks to P3, CZ and everyone else involved with getting these updates to us so regularly. They are a big reason I love my Droid.
Just a note: If everyone exercise safe ROMming and do their backups regularly, there would be a lot less concern about which ROM is the "right one". If it doesn't do what you want it to do, all you have to do is restore a backup.
Between market updates and ROM tweaks, I probably do about 3 to 6 backups a day. I'm real safe dancedroid