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After updating to 2.1, almost everything is fine including general speed, screen responsiveness etc. But the battery life seemed not to be improved in comparison to 1.6. So I am thinking of rooting the phone. Can someone tell me if rooting truly impacts the battery life positively? Thanks.
Just rooting the phone in general wont increase any battery life....but its what your gonna do afterwards that can. I myself rooted my phone and removed ALOT of apps preinstalled eg:timescape, face recognition and a whole bunch of others and have noticed a HUGE impact in overall speed performance....I mean you wouldn't believe how much difference after removing everything. So, I have yet to see my battery life after doing this since it was just last night I did a bunch of stuff to my phone. But, I would assume Ill get better battery life with like practically nothing running in my background.
Mr Patchy Patch said:
Just rooting the phone in general wont increase any battery life....but its what your gonna do afterwards that can. I myself rooted my phone and removed ALOT of apps preinstalled eg:timescape, face recognition and a whole bunch of others and have noticed a HUGE impact in overall speed performance....I mean you wouldn't believe how much difference after removing everything. So, I have yet to see my battery life after doing this since it was just last night I did a bunch of stuff to my phone. But, I would assume Ill get better battery life with like practically nothing running in my background.
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Thanks for your response. Can you post later about the battery life difference? Thanks.
piercewei said:
Thanks for your response. Can you post later about the battery life difference? Thanks.
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Yeah...ill monitor it all day tomorrow while im at work. And post back here tomorrow evening if its better or the same.
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I've always seen people saying that GB/ICS has better battery life than Froyo and I don't understand why. I have had the Vibrant for 2 years, I've flashed almost all popular roms but I don't know how people get better battery on GB/ICS.
To tell the truth, I haven't had much experiences with GB. It was just bad. Performance ain't much better than Froyo (perhaps worse), stability is nowhere close since there's no official release (source) for the Vibrant, battery is just worse than Froyo. GB didn't last more than a week on my phone and I never looked back. Even Sombionix himself said that GB overall is just a worse ROM compared to Froyo.
ICS roms have decent battery life but again, they aren't better than Froyo at all. I really liked using ICS, it has a plethora of features, performance improvements over Froyo and the interface are just sick but the poorer battery life is keeping me away from ICS roms. I have tried ICZen, Slim, Passion, RemICS and CM9, none of their battery life beats Froyo really. I usually charge the phone fully before going to sleep and when I wake up, battery will drop to 91~92% with nothing on, no 3G/Wifi/apps at all. Froyo would have had much crazier idle battery consumption, being about 95~96% most of the time through the night. Another thing about ICS is that the GPS is seriously broken and if activated, the GPSLocationProvider will drain the hell outta your battery...
P/S: This is mainly a battery life discussion thread, please do not talk about how easy you could charge the phone or so.
Martezgarki said:
I've always seen people saying that GB/ICS has better battery life than Froyo and I don't understand why. I have had the Vibrant for 2 years, I've flashed almost all popular roms but I don't know how people get better battery on GB/ICS.
To tell the truth, I haven't had much experiences with GB. It was just bad. Performance ain't much better than Froyo (perhaps worse), stability is nowhere close since there's no official release (source) for the Vibrant, battery is just worse than Froyo. GB didn't last more than a week on my phone and I never looked back. Even Sombionix himself said that GB overall is just a worse ROM compared to Froyo.
ICS roms have decent battery life but again, they aren't better than Froyo at all. I really liked using ICS, it has a plethora of features, performance improvements over Froyo and the interface are just sick but the poorer battery life is keeping me away from ICS roms. I have tried ICZen, Slim, Passion, RemICS and CM9, none of their battery life beats Froyo really. I usually charge the phone fully before going to sleep and when I wake up, battery will drop to 91~92% with nothing on, no 3G/Wifi/apps at all. Froyo would have had much crazier idle battery consumption, being about 95~96% most of the time through the night. Another thing about ICS is that the GPS is seriously broken and if activated, the GPSLocationProvider will drain the hell outta your battery...
P/S: This is mainly a battery life discussion thread, please do not talk about how easy you could charge the phone or so.
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I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone posting about awesome battery life on GB....especially not better than froyo. I don't even think I've ever really seen anyone say that ICS battery life was better than froyo either for that matter O-o I mean, for me...battery life is pretty satisfying on all of them....but for me, if I can wake up in the morning and use my vibrant to my hearts content and when I go to sleep still have some charge,...I am happy lol depending on what Rom I'm running though...I tend to get between 1-2 days so I'm usually happy. But froyo is definitely the best standby and such...on ICS I may have like 35% by the end of the night...but froyo, i might be at 55% or even 75% still lol
I have seen a plenty:
"With an unofficial upgrade to my Samsung Galaxy S (mid-2010!!! phone), ICS made battery life much more useful than GB or Froyo ever did. A lot smoother too, and that's just on 512 mb of RAM!"
Source: http://www.androidcentral.com/why-we-dont-need-another-version-android-year
Sometimes it just makes me wonder is it because that our ICS build was never official, that's why other phones are enjoying better battery life than us?
The reason why I care that much is because I'm using the Vibrant and I'm not from the states, there's no way for me to get a replacement if the battery goes haywire and I plan to use this phone for a long time to come. The fact that ICS uses battery faster just means that battery is gonna die sooner.
Wow vibrant still in the figth, grat phone by the way.
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My Vibrant's battery performace is horrible on many roms. The worst is at CM 7, 7.1, ICS Passion. It gets better at Bionix (Froyo) and to my surprise Slim ICS gave me the best battery performance. I pair Sub Zero kernel with Slim and this combination give me approximately 24 hours of normal usage in one full charge.
It's not good enough, I know. But my phone has the crappiest battery I ever seen. With ICS, I can barely get more than 8 hours with normal usage. I got to turn off 3G, GPS, Wifi, no wifgets etc for the battery to be acceptable for normal use and that is unacceptable.
So I think Slim ICS + SubZero kernel definitely worth a try for great battery.
Martezgarki said:
I've always seen people saying that GB/ICS has better battery life than Froyo and I don't understand why. I have had the Vibrant for 2 years, I've flashed almost all popular roms but I don't know how people get better battery on GB/ICS.
To tell the truth, I haven't had much experiences with GB. It was just bad. Performance ain't much better than Froyo (perhaps worse), stability is nowhere close since there's no official release (source) for the Vibrant, battery is just worse than Froyo. GB didn't last more than a week on my phone and I never looked back. Even Sombionix himself said that GB overall is just a worse ROM compared to Froyo.
ICS roms have decent battery life but again, they aren't better than Froyo at all. I really liked using ICS, it has a plethora of features, performance improvements over Froyo and the interface are just sick but the poorer battery life is keeping me away from ICS roms. I have tried ICZen, Slim, Passion, RemICS and CM9, none of their battery life beats Froyo really. I usually charge the phone fully before going to sleep and when I wake up, battery will drop to 91~92% with nothing on, no 3G/Wifi/apps at all. Froyo would have had much crazier idle battery consumption, being about 95~96% most of the time through the night. Another thing about ICS is that the GPS is seriously broken and if activated, the GPSLocationProvider will drain the hell outta your battery...
P/S: This is mainly a battery life discussion thread, please do not talk about how easy you could charge the phone or so.
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Heres from my experiences so far: (crappiest battery to best) GB > FROYO > ICS
All GB roms for me except Revolution ROM JVQ and a few others had the worst battery life in history. Froyo is better, but as soon as I do something on the phone, bam, it drains. Best battery rom for me on froyo is probably Bionix V Fishmanmod edition. ICS, tons of good stuff. SlimICS with Subzero = best battery for me.
Now for Jellybean So far, it has actually pretty good battery. im still testing though. On CM10 Preview by FE (v8) with devil 1.0.4 test3 Jb kernel, its pretty good. Pretty smooth, although Google Now lags a little bit from time to time. Its very nice. Think I'll be staying on it for a bit.
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Heres from my experiences so far: (crappiest battery to best) GB > FROYO > ICS
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You do see that means GB is greater than froyo which is greater than ICS
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ICS is best for me, GB and Froyo were similar
ICS seems to have the best DeepSleep/Not being used battery usage. I've used Bionix, MIUI Lithium (GB), ICS Passion and ICS Zen. When I switch to ICS I was able to stop using Juice Defender and just use without worrying about it.
I think gb was a little better because I got so sick of all the ics stuff.
henkohan said:
My Vibrant's battery performace is horrible on many roms. The worst is at CM 7, 7.1, ICS Passion.
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Oh man tell me about it. I could barely muster a day's worth of use on a full charge running CM7. Hopefully Slim ICS will be better in that regard.
Hey there!!
I want to ask you guys what best battery life results you get and which Roms+Kernels you are using?!
I'm testing around at the moment. Right now I'm on CM11 4.4.3 with KT-Kernel, but I guess theres a better solution for my battery life.
Btw: I'm using Viper4Android on High Audio with much settings a lot, that might cause the hardcore drain, but still im looking for something to make it a bit less
Thanks in advance guys!!!
greets
D5803_23.0.A.2.93 vs D5803_23.0.A.2.105
which one is better do you think in terms of battery time?
i think 93 should be slightly better
longer stand on 2.105
I have the 93. Can't compare, but neither can I complain. Everything is smooth as butter.
Any other ideas?
What is best offical firmware for battery life?
I am reluctant to switch over because I can't leave xposed. Is nougat faster or better than marshmallow by a significant margin?
Thanks for the input.
No
No it's actually worse especially battery life
Yes
For me N is better than MM, more fluid and battery is amazing.
So, here's the deal with the update. It's good, and offers much more enhancements than I thought. Notice I used the word "enhancements." The features are essentially the same in Nougat, but nearly everything works better (e.g. super quick unlock (fingerprint or not), ), no more annoying volume warning (finally!), ultra power saving mode has more compatibility and color, multitasking, notifications, camera smoothness, edge features, android stability). Initially, I was quite mad at Samsung for enforcing a change from QHD to FHD resolution, but it appears that the performance enhancements are worth it. It makes up for the Snapdragons lackluster performance on this device. I believe battery-life is slightly worse so far, but it might be because I'm using my device more. Is it faster? Yes, but a reboot is needed more often than before as well. Marshmallow felt slightly more smooth than this though. Still, the coolest thing about this update is it makes you feel like you got a new device for the few minutes.
People edge is ugly on nougat...
Really worse than mm
I'm loving it. Fast, better interface, better notifications, battery life seems better (Exynos)...the only thing I notice is that memory management seems more aggressive. I wouldn't change back. Not rooted, not using Xposed (if I was, then Nougat would not make sense yet)
Loving it so far, battery life has been better than ever before for me, love the interface the new performance mode selections, the power saving and especially changing the resolution it's great.
I like Nougat more then MM, but battery life on Nougat is worse for me then on MM....
i do not know battery life in mm. but battery life in nougat is pretty good.
Love N over MM. Battery life is better for me. Also ui is much nicer.
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termdj said:
I like Nougat more then MM, but battery life on Nougat is worse for me then on MM....
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... which apparently was one of the main 'selling points'.
Go figure.
I am in no rush to change from MM. 8 hour SOT average and I don't want to mess that up!!
The thing i love the most is the new UI.. And offcourse the batterylife is way better then mm
Bart3n said:
The thing i love the most is the new UI.. And offcourse the batterylife is way better then mm
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Can you post some screen shots?
drummerman said:
Can you post some screen shots?
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Sure
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Sure
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... of battery life ?
I don't like the light scheme. Possibly a contributor to reduced battery life. A dark scheme will help further.
drummerman said:
... of battery life
I don't like the light scheme. Possibly a contributor to reduced battery life. A dark scheme will help further.
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And auto-brightness.. I just started a fresh batteryload so when it's almost at the moment where i have to charge him then i will post a screenshot
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ericmky said:
For me N is better than MM, more fluid and battery is amazing.
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i totally agree all best featured who eat battery that removed so everything enhanced
I cant hide the DO NOT DISTRUB notification in lockscreen and I h8 that but battery life its much better