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ROM & Kernel with the best battery life?

Hi, so far the only rom I have used is CM6, and the battery life is just absolutely terrible. Maybe its just my nexus, maybe not, point is I want a new ROM.
A ROM that you guys have tried and decided to stick to.
Battery life is VERY important to me.

Try IntersectRaven's CFS kernel, best I have found for CM
For ROM try Enomther, battery life pretty good on that one
Rellikzephyr
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I had been using CM 6 for a while and just recently switched over to Enomether's latest TheOfficial ROM. The battery life is now DRAMATICALLY better. Just looking over the Juice Plotter graphs shows that the standby time overnight is almost flat. Say 3-4% drop every 3 hours or so. With CM6, the battery level is on a constant and steeper decline, even when not in use. I didn't take any records, but my N1 on CM6 would be down to ~45-50% overnight if I forget to plug in the charger (from full). I heard that SetCpu will help, but I don't think it worked out for me.
Enomether has its own CPU Governor and while it doesn't offer as many features as SetCPU - the ROM's default settings work well right out of the box - no tweaking is needed really for the CPU governor.

I too was having really poor battery life with CM6, losing about 50% within 8 hours after charge, without even using the phone much! I'm trying out other roms right now just for fun. I'm using Evil's Nxsense but with the kernal posted by Autinhyeu (post # 8541 in that thread). So far seems to be holding battery extremely well. About 5 hours since charge and about 90% battery.

LeoFroYo Rom is pretty good with battery

try the leofroyo rom latest beta. i get great battery in standby with the stock kernal that it comes with. 2.5 hrs per 1% battery. typically in a day making calls and using the internet, i lose about 30%-25% battery. not too bad.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=693595
2.0.1 beta 3 is the latest version that i'm using

BigJeebz said:
I too was having really poor battery life with CM6, losing about 50% within 8 hours after charge, without even using the phone much! I'm trying out other roms right now just for fun. I'm using Evil's Nxsense but with the kernal posted by Autinhyeu (post # 8541 in that thread). So far seems to be holding battery extremely well. About 5 hours since charge and about 90% battery.
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cm sucks when it comes to battery life in my experience. i tried the 6.0 version when it came out (first stable release) and battery life was horrible.
5 hours since charge? only standby or some usage?

sg1dan said:
cm sucks when it comes to battery life in my experience. i tried the 6.0 version when it came out (first stable release) and battery life was horrible.
5 hours since charge? only standby or some usage?
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That was mostly standby with setcpu profile setting cpu to minimum when the screen was off. But even with those same settings on CM6 my battery would be about 70% after the same amount of time.
I just reflashed cm6 but with that other kernal so I'll see how well it works today.

MIUI has the best battery life of any ROM I've used on my N1.. idle drain of about .5% / hour when using pershoot's kernels from droidbasement.

I'm using shadow rom2.1 stripped down and I get about 16 to 18 hours usage.
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I'm using CM6 and my battery life is great. I got rid of my Seidio extended battery to get an Otterbox case and the stock battery on CM6 is awesome.
My phone has been off the charger since before 1pm and now at midnight its on 46% and thats with heavy use of Angry Birds, text, emails and web browsing !

My battery life is also acceptable on cm6. Not amazing but acceptable. Then again I put mine in airplane mode overnight and get about a 4% drain, which I kind assume might be something to do with my Widgets.

Okay, so I decided to try one of these two ROMs:
Enomther
LeoFroYo
not sure which one yet, and not sure what kernel to use with the ROM I choose.
I hate switching ROMs cuz of the wiping and restoring and all that crap.

skinnyq said:
Okay, so I decided to try one of these two ROMs:
Enomther
LeoFroYo
not sure which one yet, and not sure what kernel to use with the ROM I choose.
I hate switching ROMs cuz of the wiping and restoring and all that crap.
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I still recommend IntersectRaven's kernel, he has cm and non cm versions
Rellikzephyr
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Rodrigo's miui is the best I've seen.
Easily lasts the whole day

do you guys know if the leofroyo rom will work with slcd nexus w/ updated HBOOT??
i posted in the leofroyo rom thread, but no replies yet. itching to give it a shot.
cm6 is eating battery like crazy!

rods miui has amazing battery life It lasted two days for me on release 1.3 I think he is on 1.5 now

steveohan said:
do you guys know if the leofroyo rom will work with slcd nexus w/ updated HBOOT??
i posted in the leofroyo rom thread, but no replies yet. itching to give it a shot.
cm6 is eating battery like crazy!
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dont see why not! give one of the betas ago!

Gingerbread 2.3 ROM

Hey guys, just wondering what the best Gingerbread ROM is for the HD2.
Thanks.

The one you prefer, after trying all that is available.
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Well is there one that stands out above the rest or anything?
I've only found 2 Gingerbread ROMs on here so far.

SecrtAgentMan said:
Well is there one that stands out above the rest or anything?
I've only found 2 Gingerbread ROMs on here so far.
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Then try them and see which one you prefer

i don't know why so much people are asking for the "best" rom, instead of testing them by themself. tastes are different and in case of gingerbread you don't have much options...
i love mdj's gingerbread 1.8a - everything works with awesome speed.

fruchtfliege said:
i don't know why so much people are asking for the "best" rom, instead of testing them by themself. tastes are different and in case of gingerbread you don't have much options...
i love mdj's gingerbread 1.8a - everything works with awesome speed.
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hows your battery life? I've tried ALL of the froyo nands. I've been wanting to switch over to gingerbread but I'm waiting until the major bugs get ironed out. Battery life being the biggest one.

broknindarkagain said:
hows your battery life? I've tried ALL of the froyo nands. I've been wanting to switch over to gingerbread but I'm waiting until the major bugs get ironed out. Battery life being the biggest one.
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you complain about battery life on ginger bread? for me gingerbread has by far the best battery life. hd roms and builds drained my battery very fast - especially when i'm using the phone a lot. i just flashed 1.8a some hours ago (used 1.5 some time ago), so i can't tell you much about total drain in hours. but from what current widget says, standby drain is 3-4ma.

fruchtfliege said:
you complain about battery life on ginger bread? for me gingerbread has by far the best battery life. hd roms and builds drained my battery very fast - especially when i'm using the phone a lot. i just flashed 1.8a some hours ago (used 1.5 some time ago), so i can't tell you much about total drain in hours. but from what current widget says, standby drain is 3-4ma.
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I'm not complaining about gingerbreads battery life. I was just asking. I haven't run it yet. I've heard that battery life is terrible on it.
I'm using TopiaHD nand (2.2.1) and getting about 2mA standby
As well another concern of mine is TMOUS mms. I do a lot of picture messaging and the blurry MMS kills me. TopiaHD has perfect TMOUS mms.
So with battery life not being terrible on 2.3......last thing is the MMS. Is there any word on that yet?

don't feel attacked by my words. my english isn't good enough to express exactly what i want to
well can't tell you much about mms, since i'm not using it. if you get 2ma on a hd build you should stick with it. i got 3-4ma in standby on gingerbread, compared to hd builds i used before with 5-7ma standby it's a hugh improvement. especially as i said before, it lasts much longer while playing around!

Can the Froyo builds by Parad0XUA or dan1j3l be put on NAND?

SecrtAgentMan said:
Can the Froyo builds by Parad0XUA or dan1j3l be put on NAND?
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you should ask the devs of course.

I'll get on that, also what's the main difference between Froyo and Gingerbread?

SecrtAgentMan said:
I'll get on that, also what's the main difference between Froyo and Gingerbread?
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you can get better answers from google than from anyone here

which for better battery life: Open Soju or GB-ns4G-deck?

Hi guys, I have a Sprint NS 4g. (saw another similar thread, but they are discussing ROMs for the other versions...) I stopped using it because the battery life is miserable even though I have 0% Time Without Signal. (My rooted Evo literally lasts 3x as long at this NS.) Therefore I am looking into alternative ROMs.
Any idea which of the above ROMs has better battery life?
Thanks!

I've been using mikeyinid's rom in the ns4g dev section. It's titled "updated 6/27/11..." using matr1x kernel. Had very good battery ever since he went to the new kernel and I'm using it as-is. No performance tweaks.
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Thanks - would you provide a link? I don't see that one. Thanks

You really get better battery on your evo? My ns4g lasts so much longer than my evo on any rom. I prefer cm7 for the options, with heavy use I can still get 20 hours
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Yeah, my Evo goes for 1.5 days with a lot of use. The recent roms are great on battery life.
My Nexus goes maybe 5 hours with heavy use.

brokentoaster24 said:
You really get better battery on your evo? My ns4g lasts so much longer than my evo on any rom. I prefer cm7 for the options, with heavy use I can still get 20 hours
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Broken, any tricks to get batt life that long? I have had two NS phones, each with dismal battery life.

ronnienyc said:
Broken, any tricks to get batt life that long? I have had two NS phones, each with dismal battery life.
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If you are using your phone non-stop, meaning you have the screen on straight periods of time, 5 hours is not bad, really. You have to remember that the SAMOLED screen sucks battery down. On the weekends when my phone is on all the time, I generally have to swap batteries 2 or 3 times in a day. Thats very heavy use, of course. During the week with moderate use, texts, gtalk, emails, and xda app, I get 10- 12 hours on a charge. Screen on time is a killer with the NS

Why does this thread get more hits than mine?
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I am trying Soju right now - so far it looks and feels elegant.

My NS4G gets way better battery life than my Evo did probably almost twice as long. But aside from that I have had good lick with open soju and Cyanogen. Open Soju was nice because it has voodoo control for headset audio which really takes advantage of the wolfson headphone amp built into the ns. Voodoo makes the audio like night and day once you have tried it you cant go back. Than Cyanogen is great many options but to get voodoo I had to use nets kernel. Both having great battery life but Cyanogen has more options but its still in beta.
Edit: I did not really answer your question about the GB-Deck because I have not used it but have heard good things you have to flash gapps with it like Cyanogen.

There's really something to be said for turning down the screen brightness. Also make sure you have wifi sleep on never. Try james bond kernel and let it settle for a couple days. First day or two of a new rom/kernel will be a little low on battery
Sent from my Nexus S 4G

My Evo has been unplugged for 16 hours of heavy use, and there is now 28 percent battery remaining. This is with a current 2.3.3 rom. Well done Google.

ronnienyc said:
Thanks - would you provide a link? I don't see that one. Thanks
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Here you go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1070383
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Thank you sir.

[Q] What is the BEST Battery ROM?

I want to know what is the BEST battery / battery life rom out there because right now I can only get 4 hours screen on time with moderate use which is pretty bad to me coming from an M8.

SomeArabDude said:
I want to know what is the BEST battery / battery life rom out there because right now I can only get 4 hours screen on time with moderate use which is pretty bad to me coming from an M8.
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4 hours of on screen is pretty good for the N4. You could try browsing this thread for battery impressions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/battery-impression-thread-t1992627

abaaaabbbb63 said:
4 hours of on screen is pretty good for the N4. You could try browsing this thread for battery impressions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/battery-impression-thread-t1992627
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Thanks! I am now using franco kernal and Nexus Experience ROM to see how it goes.

Hows your battery life on sense to GPE m8

Hey guys
How is your battery life after changinge sense to gpe ? Mine sucks quite a lot. Maybe a half day on average usage. On sense I got a full day.

xthetobs said:
Hey guys
How is your battery life after changinge sense to gpe ? Mine sucks quite a lot. Maybe a half day on average usage. On sense I got a full day.
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Keep! I am also very interested in it!

I didnt convert to full blown RUU GPE. I am however using stock 5.1 ROM from the GPE. I get around 4hrs SOT with my use (im not a heavy user, never play games). Again this depends to each persons daily use/signal/services, etc. On sense I think I would get maybe around 15min more SOT. not much of a difference. Keep in mind there are many variables (I had a time that Google play services was draining my batt a lot, so these variables are not ROM related). so the best way to compare is to try them both for at least 1 week. For me, about a month ago, I think I saw minimal better batt in Sense. I wouldnt expect dramatic improvement.

We already have a battery discussion thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2694719
Lets move this discussion there please.
Thread closed, thanks.