Hey guys, I'm leaving for a hike later this evening, 100km over 3 days and I need to use my Hero to track my exact location.
My question is, what is the best ROM for battery life?
I took the Hero on my last hike which was 30km tracking with MyTracks and running my own 2.1 ROM (see sig) and the battery died after 9 hours.
I DO NOT care what features the build has, I need it literally to be able to run MyTracks with GPS and nothing more for the next 3 days.
I have taken an emergency charger but the battery time that's likely to give me is negligable so I need something that can make the difference between an extra hour or two, or if more is possible it would be really great.
Any advice would be appreciated asap.
Thanks.
Frankly, with GPS on, even if you turn off everything else, theres no way your going to get a standard Hero battery to last 3 days. Take charged spares.
undergrid said:
Frankly, with GPS on, even if you turn off everything else, theres no way your going to get a standard Hero battery to last 3 days. Take charged spares.
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I'm aware of that, but I don't have any spares, not time to get hold of them, you an't just buy the things locally.
I'm looking for a ROM that will give me atleast a bit more battery life than I'm likely to get with my current one and hope I can find somewhere to charge half way (1.5 days) in
maybe modaco's 3.2 ROM? its based on 1.5. the kernel would offer best performance i would have thought. all the 2.1 ROMs have bad battery life so my advice would to be stay away from those.
next time buy this bad boy
PulpzillA said:
maybe modaco's 3.2 ROM? its based on 1.5. the kernel would offer best performance i would have thought. all the 2.1 ROMs have bad battery life so my advice would to be stay away from those.
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Yeh, I'm currently frantically modifying the stock 1.5 to remove Sense etc and see if iI can modify it it to be a bit more battery saving, I don't need 99% of the apps cause I just need it to run myTracks and nothing else.
My concern with Modaco is all the additions and performance increases may not necessarily be battery efficient, and the one and only time I tried ModaCo was a bad experience.
As for 2.1, of course I know theyre not great for battery, I made one (see sig)
im currently looking for a 2.1 that has decent battery performance im on the VillianROM 5.1 at the moment.
might try yours next
sincerely , i dont think that any roms would be able to get you one and a half day with gps.(
what i noticed is that battery drain differed from rom to rom with a couple of hrs between them ( like 3-4 maximum) but nothing like days
deeren said:
sincerely , i dont think that any roms would be able to get you one and a half day with gps.(
what i noticed is that battery drain differed from rom to rom with a couple of hrs between them ( like 3-4 maximum) but nothing like days
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Even 3-4 hours is good enough, it gets the last recorded location 3-4 hours closer to where i was before the battery died, I'm hiking so there is only so far I can have gone within that time.
I'v just stripped down the stock Hero ROM and removed all the HTC junk including Rosie and Lockscreen and most of the apps, all of the htc widgets etc. Going to see how I get o with this, I really do like Rosie but will be interesting to see how I get on with this ugly duckling.
PulpzillA said:
maybe modaco's 3.2 ROM? its based on 1.5. the kernel would offer best performance i would have thought. all the 2.1 ROMs have bad battery life so my advice would to be stay away from those.
next time buy this bad boy
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the mugen battery is very nice. i even bought one for myself at the beginning but i ended keeping it in my closet. The phone gets too thick and the lovely htc hero just looses its charm
well maybe you could try mcr 2.8 , disable all data sync(even google ...), even disable mobile network ( or switch on 2g). basically you can disable all the phone functions and use it only as gps i guess cause u need it for my tracks only.
deeren said:
the mugen battery is very nice. i even bought one for myself at the beginning but i ended keeping it in my closet. The phone gets too thick and the lovely htc hero just looses its charm
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I'll definately look into one of these for next time, but I'm leaving tonight so don't have time to get hold of one.
deeren said:
well maybe you could try mcr 2.8 , disable all data sync(even google ...), even disable mobile network ( or switch on 2g). basically you can disable all the phone functions and use it only as gps i guess cause u need it for my tracks only.
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that's the plan, I'm stripping the Stock one atm, I removed HTC_IME thinking it would default to the stock one though and I can't even get to input methods or anything to set it
would using a vanilla android ROM work?
PulpzillA said:
would using a vanilla android ROM work?
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Yeh, most probably, but which ones are light weight and stable (I'll stick with 1.5 builds because theyre official and fully working.)
Like I said I'm currently ripping everything out of the Hero stock one because I havn't been able to find a decent vanilla 1.5 for hero, most of it seems to be for the G1.
alias_neo said:
Yeh, most probably, but which ones are light weight and stable (I'll stick with 1.5 builds because theyre official and fully working.)
Like I said I'm currently ripping everything out of the Hero stock one because I havn't been able to find a decent vanilla 1.5 for hero, most of it seems to be for the G1.
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you could try aychteesee's vanilla cupcake from here :
http://android.modaco.com/content/h...illa-cupcake-rom-gsm-now-with-online-kitchen/
from what i know, he build it completely from the 2.73 hero rom.
deeren said:
you could try aychteesee's vanilla cupcake from here :
http://android.modaco.com/content/h...illa-cupcake-rom-gsm-now-with-online-kitchen/
from what i know, he build it completely from the 2.73 hero rom.
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Perfect thanks, looks like just that I need, and by the time I remove all the extra apps I don't need etc, should be great! Thanks.
after you have done that could you then post up the rom i would maybe like to test with out ripping and the only 2.1 rom i find that has goodish battery life is aHero
I would recoment SetCpu or something to keel the CPU running at 245mhz.
This is a age battery saver.
mach2005 said:
I would recoment SetCpu or something to keel the CPU running at 245mhz.
This is a age battery saver.
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Like he said^^
Use SetCPU or CPUoverclockwidget.
I use CPUoverclockwidget because it can change the CPU speed to 128MHz and also change how fast the phone should be in standby and with screen on.
Well, after flashing another ROM and deciding that I liked the Expresso UI I decided to go back, I was stuck on the version PREVIOUS to 1.35.531 and now that im back on 1.35.531 and Radio ver. 7.09.35.10 the battery life doesn't seem as good as this previous version, anyone think the same thing?
On a side note, how can I go about getting the most out of my battery? Any guides?
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Well, after flashing another ROM and deciding that I liked the Expresso UI I decided to go back, I was stuck on the version PREVIOUS to 1.35.531 and now that im back on 1.35.531 and Radio ver. 7.09.35.10 the battery life doesn't seem as good as this previous version, anyone think the same thing?
On a side note, how can I go about getting the most out of my battery? Any guides?
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Funny you say that about the battery life cuz the update was suppose to increase it. Check you settings. See what is draining your battery. Also i think the best battery life would come from using one of dumfuq's kernals and doing minor tweeking to the cpu. But i dont any work around to get his kernal to work with stock
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The first few days my battery seemed to be draining faster, but it seems to be about the same as before now. I definitely didn't notice an increase in battery life though.
Good morning everyone! I have a t-mobile with the original ROM and I wonder if there is any Rom or Radio that consumes less battery than the original ROM?
supercz said:
Good morning everyone! I have a t-mobile with the original ROM and I wonder if there is any Rom or Radio that consumes less battery than the original ROM?
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You could use a modified stock one that uses less resources, and maybe the 2.12.50.02_2 as people have been reporting it uses less battery.
Well, my experience is that the stock rom tends to be the most efficient as far a battery life goes. This is something I verified in many of the phones I've owned.
However, I've been a fan of the Core Cell ROM on my TP2 and these roms served me very well, but when I got my HD2 I found the battery life under the beautiful Core Cell roms to be really poor. for example: I would leave my HD2 on my night stand for 5 hours (with mail push off) and I would find it later at a 40-45% charge level. This was the constant pattern even after a couple of weeks of use.
Then, I tried the Elegancia ROM V3 and the battery life I had experienced with the stock T-Mobile rom came back. I have since upgraded to Elegancia version 4 and I have not regretted it... even though I sorely miss the Core Cell roms, their added eye candy and the extra 2 manila tabs it offers.
I did not try the Energy ROM on my HD2 because my experience with these ROMs on my TP2 indicated a not so good battery life with that device already.
Cheers;
Currently running Cyanogen 4.2.15.1, and am keen on upgrading to something post-dawn of time once I get my battery replaced (original one looks like a ball from the NFL and lasts about 4hrs standby or 10mins in use, and gets hot enough to fry an egg on). I'm running this thing here in Aust. I checked out a guide or 2 for flashing CM6, but they said not to do one of the pre-requisites if you've got a 1.x radio.
I'll be wanting speed, theme compatibility, and to be able to use my SD card for apps.
Cheers
i would also like some insight
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=800502
cheers. Mods feel free to close this one down
right now i am using
cyanogenmode 6.1 -ds
2.2.1
kernel pershoot
and 3.22 radio
my device is 32a
and my battery drain abit faster than what i am use to.
i tryed 2 dif batterys and both are the same.
no task killer that frain the device..
and all working nice without any bugs
but battery going fast to 80 % cant use it even few hours.
wifi is close 3g off everything is off.
sometimes i turn it on but the % going down faster than what i am use to
do you guys know any good rom with good battery life?
any1? need good rom
well, ur a 32a. but does ur mytouch have a 3.5mm jack?
nope. why ?
does it metter?
some gingerbread based roms have been known to have good battery life might want to give a look into that
yes battery life on gingerbread is much better,
as long as you dont use your pcs USB port to recharge it (if you do -> reboot)
RFOX100 said:
right now i am using
cyanogenmode 6.1 -ds
2.2.1
kernel pershoot
and 3.22 radio
my device is 32a
and my battery drain abit faster than what i am use to.
i tryed 2 dif batterys and both are the same.
no task killer that frain the device..
and all working nice without any bugs
but battery going fast to 80 % cant use it even few hours.
wifi is close 3g off everything is off.
sometimes i turn it on but the % going down faster than what i am use to
do you guys know any good rom with good battery life?
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Try Ginger yoshi 1.0 RC4 ROM. My battery last much longer than Cyanogen. This ROM is much faster than Cyanogen 6.1 -ds.
Best battery life I ever had was on official 2.1 senseUI rom for 6.35 radio.
ummm im on a mytouch with 3.5mm jack. i also want a rom like what the op posted. any roms out there?
yguns76 said:
Try Ginger yoshi 1.0 RC4 ROM. My battery last much longer than Cyanogen. This ROM is much faster than Cyanogen 6.1 -ds.
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thanks i will try