Had tried rom 4.4.2 but camera and wifi tethering bug really got to me.
Right now, what is the most best battery life, stable and smooth 4.3 rom for s3?
no need for extra feature, just need basic feature to operate smoothly.

i had try archidroid but not smooth and contact take few second to load...
Omega rom also got battery drain issue and lagging...
There is quite many rom out there so to try all would take too much time
Any recommendation for me to try?
is wanamlite ok? i see it's based on ML2 which is not as good as ML4
(based on i read on internet)

p.s.: miss xperia e rom..great batteri life but no longer updated

I have not try the temasek rom yet. At its page, it's said that it got camera problem so never tried it. I'm gonna test it this weekend....

archidroid tested at my phone is a bit lagging. Tested for day, transition between window is a bit lagging, lagging few second when opened whatsapps. i already do full wipe before install so not sure why....using xperia e rom is much smoother. maybe isolated case....

for omega rom, i have compared it to xperia e rom. During my daily use, discharged on morning, omega rom would get at 20-25% around 6-7 pm while xperia e rom manage to get until 10-11...this 3 hours different is important since i sometime do OT and it's hassle to charge at office

BUT just like you said, for omega, i use touch wiz which could be the reason of lagging feeling while xperia e, i use nova launcher.. could try dialer ex later for contact. For me, while very stable, stock rom has too much bloatware which has caused battery drain...

wanna ask, does samsung apps can be installed in temasek? like some of it in my phone.... if do, any guide on installing it that i can read?

have install both of version... ver 2.x is based on omni rom so for me who used to samsung rom and samsung apps, struggle a little bit with the setting and all other things. At first lagging, but then install it back with full wipe, wipe dalvik cache and wipe battery stat, it is much smoother than ver 1.x and as more battery saving than ver 1.x if always in standby mode. Reason of change to ver 1.x is the camera often FC. justarchi has post the solution in the forum but i'm just too lazy to learn the solution.

So change to ver 1.x which is based on samsung rom. Overall i am satisified with its battery time and also stable. At first, got problem with apps sometimes FC but after flash back the standalone blue theme and boffela 5.1 over the beta, no problem whatsoever and still happy using it...

if can enter download mode, just flash stock rom using odin... someone has post the link here

Just buy power case later on if still not enough....However i started to feel that newer android is more battery friendly and custom kennel can help to further your battery usage...even for me, still using original battery, my s3 can stand a day usage compare to ice cream time.

Always like sony UI after use rom xperia e...now, since sony z2 have great hardware feature and have solved main issue with z1(screen), now really intrigued me to change

For me, i just want to have fresh feeling of phone usage. Still, better wait for review on how both work actually...
After all, wanna see which feature is useful or just gimmick (smart stay )

Do you wearing spek or not?
smart stay only work for me when i'm not wearing spek.
When i do, it just fail to recognize the eyes...
Since i got a bad sight, well most of the time, it doesn't work

Quite funny since the custom rom based on kitkat can run on s3... maybe a slick way to force people to change phones to s5?