I had the battery depleting rapidly after I upgraded my phone to froyo, and just a few days ago I bricked my phone and had to go back to eclair and then I noticed much improved battery life, so I hope this works for you:
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1. Flash to your original eclair firmware, or any eclair frimware that's known to have good battery life
2. as for why eclair, just to use the 2e recovery to flash directly to the custom rom of your choice, and I honestly think that the stock eclair is better in performance and battery, as they seem to have rushed the froyo update.personally, I use darky's 8.1 no-wipe rom after installing the 8.0 wipe version.
enjoy, and give me your feedback plz
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Hello,
I'm looking to finally take the plunge and flash a custom ROM, but I'm a bit lost in all the possibilities. I have a green Defy flashed with stock 2.2—what would be the best upgrade, bearing in mind the following criteria (ordered by priority):
1. Stability
2. Battery life
3. Speed/performance
4. Appearance
Also, I'd prefer it to have the least possible applications/services/clutter installed while still running stable, so I can work my way up from there with the apps I need.
Any input would be appreciated.
Try cm7 for a while start with the stable and then try a few nightlys, it will get you used to flashing, then try cm9 and you will see how good it can be,
Green lense defys don't get flashed with sbfs after froyo, you will just have issues, if you break something then just reflash your sbf of froyo and you'll be fine
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Thanks for your reply. Forgive my skepticism, but I was under the impression CM7 was all about adding functionality and features—how is it going to make my phone lighter or increase battery life?
more free ram more multitasking..android 2.3 gb ..you can yourself give it a try and have a look at your battery stats..+ you get firmware update! and its ultra smooth then defy froyo 2.2.1 ..much much better .. you can play 720p hd videos too ,,flash is much better in GB..then on froyo..try it out and feel the difference..good luck!
Hey
I still have Froyo on my U8800 and I want to update to a flawless rom
wht shall I choose
official GB
oxygen
Aurora
....etc
It deppends of what do you want to do with your phone.
Install all the tree and make your choice
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well I want...
improved functions
radio
longer battery life
no essential fails (like no haptic feedback or missing wifi ..etc like the official GB)
play games that froyo can't
i think you must try it one by one.
I would choose a .32 kernel based ROM, as they are still more stable at the moment. Oxygen by dzo would be my first choice
Which rom is stable and less bug?
i am newbie..
I Have Tried Lots Of ROM. I Can Say Best ROM It CM7 Till Now.
The first thing I did when I bought my phone summer last year, was root it and install a custom rom. Didn't even boot it to look at the stock set up first!
First rom I installed was Oxygen, and I have it say it worked great. Stable, fast, good battery life, and never had any problems.
Last month I decided I needed a change, not because there was anything wrong with Oxygen, but just because once in a while I like to play around with different roms.
Tried Aurora, and have to say it's great. Not quite as speedy as Oxygen and battery doesn't last as long, but pretty and damn stable, haven't had a crash yet.
Tried MIUI one afternoon, but not to my liking, too far from the Android experience imo.
Can't go wrong with either Oxygen or Aurora, depending on what you're looking for.
after flashing alomost all the possible roms for i9500, i noticed that any CM/AOKP/AOSP/PA roms gives very bad battery life.
i can actually see the % coming down as i use it very lightly that too.( just using gallery, File manager, SMS ,etc) :crying:
but this is not the case when i use a stock or stock based ROM. Stock gives amazing battery.
i even tried many different kernels, still no use,
is there any way i can get max battery life ( like stock) thru any of the CM/AOKP/AOSP/PA roms? if so which ROM and which kernel
cz i like the CM looks and easiness in functioning much better than stock . and i would like to use 4.4.3 or 4.4.4
Currently Running
Stock 4.4.2
KOT49H.i9500XXUFNC1 build
stock kernel
ROOTED
Baseband- i9500DDUFNA4
I'm kinda lost here. I'm looking to buy a D800, but wanted to know if root and leave the phone free to install aosp roms like CM11 will be possible and not complicated as hell. Wich are the steps I should follow to root / unlock, install twrp, and backup the original rom? (To later install CM11)...
Please any advice, links, etc will be greatly appreciated. Cheers!
The phone itself is good but the stock software is annoying. There are stable aosp roms available, but they have all very bad Cameras and inferior battery life. So basically most people would be forced to use the crappy lg stock rom anyway. Rooting is very easy as well as recovery
Oh that's bad news... had the idea to flash it with CM11 (while 12 is under development), or G3 roms, some people had told me this phone were good with AOSP roms... It's only the camera that does not work as intended on aosp roms? No fix for battery?
FedericoUY said:
Oh that's bad news... had the idea to flash it with CM11 (while 12 is under development), or G3 roms, some people had told me this phone were good with AOSP roms... It's only the camera that does not work as intended on aosp roms? No fix for battery?
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I have D800 and it really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. I can get 12 hours of usage on CM11 with 4-5 hours of screen time. Stock Rom is fine but then again I use the T-Mobile stock Rom on mine when I'm stock or CloudyG3 Rom. Right now I'm using Flyme OS Rom and I started this morning at 45% and was at 7% after 12 hours of work and had 4 hours of screen time.
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I have D800 and it really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. I can get 12 hours of usage on CM11 with 4-5 hours of screen time. Stock Rom is fine but then again I use the T-Mobile stock Rom on mine when I'm stock or CloudyG3 Rom. Right now I'm using Flyme OS Rom and I started this morning at 45% and was at 7% after 12 hours of work and had 4 hours of screen time.
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Yes I'm about to purchase a d800, if it is good with CM11, then its good for me. Maybe later it will have lollipop roms and that will be another era... Thanks for the answers! Cheers.
Hey FedericoUY, I received my phone about a month ago and I'll go through my journey from all of the likely problems and what's required for unlocking, rooting, installing a rom for the first time on this device. I'll describe the benefits/disadvantages from the different rom distributors recommended for this device. Until a few days ago I would have agreed AOSP was better left avoided on this device, and why CM11 is still not recommended for the G2.
When I received my G2, while I had the intention to flash it. I was gravely disappointed with it, because of the shocking software and default setup. But it's become my favourite phone since. I too thought CM11 would do it for me, it really didn't on this phone. And the display & specs make it seem extremely outdated, not to mention none of the phone-specific features really worked.
(In order of events)
Sim Locking for AT&T (do first)
By default it's locked, as I imported it through the US and without an account for them I had to purchase a 3rd party unlock code for $2. Strangely I had to keep it unlocked on the stock firmware for a certain amount of time (tried a day) before it remembered the unlocking when flashing a custom firmware.
Rooting (do secondly)
The only method which worked on the latest G2 stock rom was to use "Stump Root" in the "Brute force" mode as the latest rom version didn't have a pre-configured rooting routing.
Installing a custom recovery (do third)
The only method which worked on the latest G2 stock rom was an app called "D800_AutoRec.apk" which just installed the latest TWRP recovery, from there I could flash anything.
Which roms are decent for the D800?
While personally I've stayed with more AOSP roms like CM and AOKP, the best rom & kernel to use in terms of performance/battery life and phone specific features is not the stock G2 software nor AOSP. I'll explain further why.
For the kernel, the arguably most matured and feature rich, battery friendly and performance suited kernel is the Dorimanx kernel. Which is unfortunately only compatible with stock G2 & G3 roms.
With this in consideration and all of the improvements in the G3 firmware, fully supporting this phone's features, makes the G3 roms peoples choice, in particular CloudyG3 targeted for the G2.
When it comes to AOSP like roms, there is two okay kernels which are compatible with CM and the other is only compatible with AOSP roms, with a few exceptions. Both of these kernels have poor battery life in comparison and produce a lot of heat, not to mention lesser abilities in terms of tweaking (overclocking, underclocking rate, faster charge, etc). It generally only gets worse from here using rom released kernels. It's fairly uncommon for features such as double tapping wake to work, and the lack of on-screen keyboard usability improvements.
However, Lollipop has turned things around. While not flossing as much battery life savings as CloudyG3 with the Dorimanx kernel, performance, design/look (can change Google keyboard to old theme) has brilliantly increased. It's been the only close to stock rom I've ever been largely happy with. Despite not having any real CM features and a few bugs at this moment in time.
Therefore, if you like the ability to tweak and charge faster and overclock a lot with great battery life I suggest CloudyG3 and Dorimanx. If you want an AOSP rom, I'd use Lollipop. If you want a full featured stock rom with a nice kernel, I'd wait awhile and opt for CloudyG3 until lollipop roms mature. For a battery comparison, the stock G3 rom with a custom kernel lasted me 5-7 days without charging, with CM11 I can only get about 1 day if I'm lucky.
Hello there. I have this phone since last year, and it's a nice model. Not the best because, first, my battery life has been drained a few since I've bought it (I can't reach a day with battery). Obviously, no words after the camera design, after 6 months with no falls and a nice caring, the camera started scratching. Well the thing is that I'm in doubt about changing my system to a ROM. I've done this before, but when I've installed the firmware again and updated by OTA, the phone bricked down. So I'm a little scared of doing this again. I've already learned that one time that you come from a ROM to a Firmware, you can't update by OTA. That's not the only reason. I'm waiting Oreo for too long in my phone (Motorola/Lenovo said that it will come out for our phones) so I don't know if I'll wait, or try, for example, the Resurrection Remix Oreo.
I want to know some things before doing anything of that: Can it increase the battery life? Can it get a better performance? (comparing it with the original)
Thanks.
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Hello there. I have this phone since last year, and it's a nice model. Not the best because, first, my battery life has been drained a few since I've bought it (I can't reach a day with battery). Obviously, no words after the camera design, after 6 months with no falls and a nice caring, the camera started scratching. Well the thing is that I'm in doubt about changing my system to a ROM. I've done this before, but when I've installed the firmware again and updated by OTA, the phone bricked down. So I'm a little scared of doing this again. I've already learned that one time that you come from a ROM to a Firmware, you can't update by OTA. That's not the only reason. I'm waiting Oreo for too long in my phone (Motorola/Lenovo said that it will come out for our phones) so I don't know if I'll wait, or try, for example, the Resurrection Remix Oreo.
I want to know some things before doing anything of that: Can it increase the battery life? Can it get a better performance? (comparing it with the original)
Thanks.
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Well the stock rom is by far the best balanced among all roms. But you must decide for your own if you need special features or something else the stock rom won't give you.
Here are some of the treads covering your questions and will help you with your decision, especially thread 4:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/help/best-rom-moto-g4-plus-t3703836
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/help/rom-using-t3691454
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/how-to/rom-benchmarks-t3575807
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/how-to/coming-circle-t3739850
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mo...reme-battery-life-moto-g4-plusathene-t3740307
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/how-to/8-hrs-massive-sot-rr-o-32bit-loony-t3802164
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/how-to/6-hrs-sot-1-12-year-battery-rr-oreo-64-t3791193
All current oreo roms for athene are in beta stage, none of them is stable. This is because of the lack of necessary drivers and blobs of oreo for athene which will be in the first official stock oreo release from Lenovorola.
About battery and performance, honestly no oreo custom rom can beat latest rooted stock nougat firmware. You can test the latest oreo 8.1 build (both 32-bit and 64-bit) roms and help developers by providing log cat but my suggestion is to stick to stock 7.0 for now as daily driver.
Root 7.0, use a custom kernel of your choice, tweak your rom using a kernel manager of your choice, and you'll get more than one day of battery life (if optimized) and best performance out of your hardware by overclocking and changing cpu and gpu governers.