Well I finally did it last night. I had tried many ROM/kernel combinations to get the best performance with the longest battery life. I love the looks of the Super Dark DJ05 ROM but I couldn't get a kernel to go with it to give me great battery life. I'd take it off charge about 6:30 am and it would get down to 30% usually by 12:00. I have been rooted for about a month and have been reading about voodoo alot. I finally downloaded a StupidFast voodoo kernel. It went perfectly and the battery life seems to be better. My question is should I run SetCPU and if so what settings should I try? Any other kernels I should try also? Can I just flash a new voodoo kernel over the current one? I've read that you can and I've read you've got to disable the lagfix before reflashing a kernel.
I have found a combination for my phone, may not work on all phones. I am rooted, running voodoo, running jt's 1134 voodoo kernel on the Super Dark ROM. I was looking for performance with long bettery life. I flashed the kernel about 5 hours ago and I had 62% battery. Now I'm only down to 48% after internet, recording video at a birthday party, and a few calls. That's much better than any other setup, voodoo or not. I'm also running SetCPU set at 1000/200 with screen off profile set at 400/200 to hopefully save bettery life when it's asleep. FWIW it's scoring 1688 quadrant. What does everyone think? Thanks for the insight.
TBH with you I have been wanting to try out voodoo myself but I am still not entirely sure what it is. I know it is a different type of kernel, but thats about it.
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Hi guys!
My gf just got a HTC Magic but i don't know much about this phone so i would like you to give me a few tips. I have a N1 so i'm not a totally newbie to android and the ROMs thing.
I've installed CM6.1 into hers phone. Also i've installed and configured Pershoot kernel with setCPU:
Install SetCPU 2.x (by coolbho)
Autodetect, Min: 122, Max: 576, onboot, ondemand
Do not enable or setup Advanced
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but i'm not liking the battery life of the phone right now. I let it during the night with 64% battery life and in the morning (8h later) it was at 60%. It looked great for me. The problem is that like for each 5min using it 1% of battery drops. It is just not normal! Is it the kernel? Or CM6.1 or...?
So, my real question is: Is there a "combo" of ROM-kernel-radio-cpu-whatEverElse to get a great battery life? Should i stay with CM6.1 or change to a another (based or not in CM6.1)?
Thank you all
Make a new profile in SetCPU for when the phone's display is off. I use 176mhz max 122mhz min, and 590MHz min/max (performance profile) during the day.
I normally use my phone for ~an hour a day during school and maybe another hour when I'm at home, battery is always around 50% by the end of the day. Which I consider to be fine, I can use it two days without charge but that's a bit of a stretch.
Anywho, radio and SPL combos aren't an issue, forget about them. ROM & kernel is what's important. I don't flash ROMs very often but I'd highly recommend t-mobile's Froyo build, it doesn't contain any bloat, unlike CM and becuse of that seems to perform even better.
I have ran cm 6.1 rc1 and the battery life is not the greatest. In my opinion cm6.0 stable has better battery life.
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I have been in cyanogenmod foruns and i found that more people arent totally happy with cm6.1. Looks like that the last kernel (35.x) has some problems. There i read that the kernel 34.x doesnt have this problem. Im testing that kernel now.
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ok guys!
i think i found a way to get cyanogenmod 6.1 working with "good battery"
i only installed ezterry kernel (that i found in this post) and now i get much better battery life.
i believe i will get a steady 3days with with some wifi usage
I've been trying different ROMs and kernels on my Fascinate. I haven't run into any problems that I counldn't fix, though losing my Verizon voicemail took me some time to figure out, but I did. I've tried different ROM/kernel combinations trying to get the best performance with the longest battery life. So far I would have to say the best battery life came with Super Clean v.9 with the StupidFast v1.54 kernel. It also performed well. But I like the looks of the Super Dark ROM but I can't couple it with a kernel that gives me really good battery life. I've tried several of JT's non-voodoo kernels and StupidFast SV and UV overclocked kernels, the overclcoked SF is giving me alot of FC issues. Unless someone can give me recommendations I guess I'll go back with Super Clean and Stupid Fast SV.
Personally, I found DJ05 and SirGatez BlazedEclair kernels to have incredible - of course, after the the battery is calibrated that is. Almost no loss of battery during the night or during standy, and the amount of battery used in applications has been the least with the BlazedEclair kernels. BTW, I do use the Voodoo5 versions of the kernels, haven't tried nonvoodoo.
I'm still trying to get a little better battery life out of my Fascinate. I have just noticed something about the installed software. First off I am rooted and running a voodoo kernel. I noticed that the Baseband version is a DL09 but all the ROMs I've tried are DJ05. The phone is working fine otherwise. Do these need to match? How can I get the Baseband version for DJ05?
You can get a dj05 package and flash it with odin
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unrooted, fully bloated (for now) Fascinate
I have found a combination for my phone, may not work on all phones. I am rooted, running voodoo, running jt's 1134 voodoo kernel on the Super Dark ROM. I was looking for performance with long bettery life. I flashed the kernel about 5 hours ago and I had 62% battery. Now I'm only down to 48% after internet, recording video at a birthday party, and a few calls. That's much better than any other setup, voodoo or not. I'm also running SetCPU set at 1000/200 with screen off profile set at 400/200 to hopefully save bettery life when it's asleep. FWIW it's scoring 1688 quadrant. What does everyone think? Thanks for the insight.
I'm running Com Rom 1.3, and was looking for some kernel recommendations. I'm running the kernel that came with Com Rom which I guess is OTB, I never flashed OTB 1.4 so I don't know if I am running it. I was thinking about PeanutButta Jelly Time but was wanting some reviews on it first.
I am running PB&J 50 but found the smoothest is 100 and i will most likely flashing back to that later today.
But i could never get ComRom to run with OTB 1.4 so i cant really compare.
Good Luck!
what are you looking for? with otb you can customize your clock speeds/voltage settings to maximize speed or battery life. with pbj your locked into set values.
I know it doesn't get talked about much, but I've always gotten my best results with times_infinity's ComaVolt kernel.
Im looking for the best stability, speed, and battery life
Sent from this EMT's Fassy runnin' ComRom!
OTB 1.5 running great for me.
Personally, the kernel in ComRom works great for me,so that is what I use. As far as other kernels, I have used some versions of otb which was good... but you have to find the right configuration for yourself.
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Personally, the kernel in ComRom works great for me,so that is what I use. As far as other kernels, I have used some versions of otb which was good... but you have to find the right configuration for yourself.
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Amen. You could get 1,000 replies on this and you will eventually get recommendations for every available kernel. Everyone's set up is a little different, and there are even differences in each phone as they leave Samsung. The only way you will know for sure what works best on your phone is trial and error on your phone. A lot of people are having great success with OTB 1.5. For some reason on my phone with my set up on Comm ROM 1.3 and any of the OTB kernels, I get sleep of death. I'm using ComaVolt and having no problems. That's just unlucky for me that I can't get the OTB kernels to work.
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Amen. You could get 1,000 replies on this and you will eventually get recommendations for every available kernel. Everyone's set up is a little different, and there are even differences in each phone as they leave Samsung. The only way you will know for sure what works best on your phone is trial and error on your phone. A lot of people are having great success with OTB 1.5. For some reason on my phone with my set up on Comm ROM 1.3 and any of the OTB kernels, I get sleep of death. I'm using ComaVolt and having no problems. That's just unlucky for me that I can't get the OTB kernels to work.
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Same for me. Every OTB I tried give me SOD after about a day a half and I tried all sorts of different voltage combos. Comavolt game me SOD after about a day. I'm trying PB&J now to see how that works. I'm starting to think my phone does not like any UV kernels at all. Hopefully I can find a setup that works.
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Same for me. Every OTB I tried give me SOD after about a day a half and I tried all sorts of different voltage combos. Comavolt game me SOD after about a day. I'm trying PB&J now to see how that works. I'm starting to think my phone does not like any UV kernels at all. Hopefully I can find a setup that works.
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I have found the OTB kernels the most stable because you can choose to uv them or oc them, but you don't have to.
My own personal experience is that my phone can be uv'd to a point and then it gets flaky. I can nowhere near uv the way some others can... But I can experiment.
My current setup that seems to work best is OTB 1.3 with uv'd at least -50 everywhere and oc'd using 1200 as the limit at stock 1000 voltages. Gets me quick and responsive phone and seems to give great battery life (because most of the time the phone is spent at the lower steps where it's moderately uv'd).
I've tried imnut kernels and keep coming back to the OTB 1.3 (because 1.4 and 1.5 seem to break other things for me). For me, EVERYTHING seems to work on OTB 1.3.... BT, WIFI, everything...
But like others have said, YMMV. Good luck!
Well the -50 mv PB&J kernel is a no go as well it looks like. I got the SOD already. I would really like to UV, but my phone doesn't like it.
Wow. Just switched to peanutbutta jelly whatever -100v. Battery its invincible, and performance shows no lag. Literally my battery has only gone down about 3% in the past few hours with wifi on and light usage.
Try the comavolt kernel. I just flashed it yesterday after replying to this thread and have been running it nonstop since then without issue.
Battery life on comavolt is ASTOUNDING. I mean like shockingly good- on my phone at least.
I tried comavolt and got SOD on that too within a couple of hours.
I went with PnutButta Jelly Time 100, I like it, great battery and stable.
the otb kernels seem to work the best for me.
Ok - I normally don't use a kernel, but my battery life blows on ICS.
Anyone have a suggesstion for the NS4G?
I'd like to avoid overclocking, but I guess if the kernel has it, I can revert to stock with setcpu.
Thanks!
Depends on what you define as good battery life. I manage 17 hours, which is fine by my standards with my usage pattern. Some people can pull a day with normal use and I mean 24 hours on stock battery. I've stuck with Matr1x because it has what I want in a kernel. Stability, decent battery life, a variety of governors to toy with, and Voodoo sound . I'd say give it a go. There are so many out there and I've messed with a few. The life hasn't really changed between them though. It just seems Matr1x hasn't given me any issues.
For stock, thalamus provides an optimised stock kernel.
http://forum.oxygen.im/viewforum.php?id=18
Pick your poison. It doesn't have all the voodoo, bld, etc, but I get 18 hrs with about 3 hrs of screen time on it.
Trinity kernels are also excellent and their colours are spectacular. They have all the bells and whistles.
Ultimately it's up to you though. Try a few (after you've made a backup of course) and you can always go back should you encounter any issues.
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I also would say Matr1x, I was able to get 5 hours screen on time with 15 hours of total use yesterday, not sure if you will get the same result on stock but it should help