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Overview
The Nexus S is the second handset in the Nexus series of handset from Google, which run on stock Android. The handset was released in conjunction with a new version of Android – Gingerbread, and is manufactured by Samsung. The internals of the Nexus S is similar to Sammy’s Galaxy S.
Download Kernels
Now that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Nexus S is out, the developers have started making custom kernels for ICS. I have updated the page below with all the latest kernels for Ice Cream Sandwich based ROMs below. The kernels for Gingerbread are also listed for now.
—For Ice Cream Sandwich ROMs—
GLaDOS Kernel
- Based on stock Android 3.0.8 Kernel
- OC/UV Support (Up to 1.4GHz)
- Voodoo Color
- Voodoo Sound
- CIFS and TUN support
- More free RAM (20MB) available to end user
- Available in BFS and CFS versions
The download link and latest version can be downloaded from here.
Eugene’s ICUP Kernel
- Linux kernel version 3.1.6-ICUP
- Voodoo Sound
- Voodoo Color
- OC/UV Support (Up to 1.3GHz)
- CIFS and TUN support
- Tweaked Voltages
- LiveOC
- Enabled Backlit Notifications
- More RAM available to end user
The latest version and download link can be found here.
Matr1x Kernel
- Linux kernel version 3.0.13
- OC/UV Support (Up to 1.46GHz)
- Voodoo Sound
- Voodoo Color
- CIFS, TUN and NFS support
- LiveOC
- More RAM available to end user
- Tweaked Voltages
- CFS (Recommended) and BFS version Available
The latest version and download link can be found here.
franco.Kernel
- CFS Optimizations
- Readhead values optimized
- Voodoo Color
- Voodoo SOund
- Tweaked Wi-Fi drivers
- Tweaked for performance
The latest version and download link can be found here.
——————-For Gingerbread ROMs——————
Netarchy Kernel
- Linux kernel version 2.6.35.13
- Voodoo Sound v10
- Voodoo color
- Features Smartass and Interactive governor
- Supports OC/UVing (Up to 1.4GHz)
- Dimmer Backlit keys
- CIFS, TUN and NFS support
- Optimized EXT4 mount points
- Supports all AOSP based ROMs like CM7
The latest version and download link can be found here.
Trinity Kernel
- Linux kernel version 2.6.35.13
- Voodoo sound v10
- Voodoo color
- BLN support
- Dimmer backlit keys
- Trinity boot animation
- CIFS module
- Optimized EXT4 mount points
- OC/UV with GPU OC versions also available
- Supports all AOSP based ROMs
The latest version and download link can be found here.
Lucid Nexus Kernel
- Optimized EXT4 mount points
- Voodoo sound v10
- Voodoo color
- UV support
- Dimmer backlit keys
- Supports all AOSP based ROMs
The latest version and download link can be found here.
Matr1x Kernel
- BLN support
- Voodoo Sound
- OC support up to 1.44GHz
- Matr1x boot animation
- Tweaked voltages
- Features Smartass governor
- BFQ I/O scheduler
- Dimmer backlit keys
- TUN, CIFS and NFS support
- Supports all AOSP based ROMs like CM7
The latest version and download link can be found here.