[Q] Best setup for basic phone functions - HTC Aria General

I've searched around these forums and read up a bit about the different ROMs and kernels. I'm no power user. I won't be playing games or downloading tons of apps. What apps/roms/kernels should I get to optimize these features in this order?
Calling
battery life
texting
speed/responsiveness
sound quality
connectivity
Thanks.

jamus28 said:
I've searched around these forums and read up a bit about the different ROMs and kernels. I'm no power user. I won't be playing games or downloading tons of apps. What apps/roms/kernels should I get to optimize these features in this order?
Calling
battery life
texting
speed/responsiveness
sound quality
connectivity
Thanks.
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Calling: I recommend Dialer One. Its free on the market.
Battery Life: I would turn off auto sync and would only leave wifi on when using it. Adjusting screen brightness down will also help with battery life. Also, any widgets that use an update service will use battery as well. Turning off notifications and automatic update services in apps helps too.
Speed/Responsiveness: If you're comfortable flashing custom roms than the CM6/7 roms cant be beat for speed. Also an alternate home launcher can help out here too, I prefer LauncherPro (free on market), but Go Launcher EX (free) is also an excellent launcher and is a little more up to date.
Sound Quality: The CM roms come with a built equalizer.
Connectivity: While I dont have any connectivity issues using the custom roms for this phone, there are people that do...
BUT...at the end of the day, the stock rom is whats suitable for 99% of the population and if you're not wanting to ever have any issues ever, than I'd recommend staying stock.

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[Q] New to the phone

Hi, i've just been offere a wildfire in replacement for a se x10i which is my 4th from my carrier. Apart from the processor being quicker, the one i've tried seems pretty ok with more features etc...
How do you guys get on with yours with bluetooth car kits, battery life etc.... heard angry birds doesnt play, thats the negative....
input be great, thanks, john
Hi,
On a custom rom, angry birds and the whole system is quite fast.
The bluetooth connectivity to my nokia carkit is great, all of its features work and it acts like its a nokia. It displays the caller, the one you call, the call register, it allows you to dial or call from the call register without touching the phone at all.
The battery is somewhere in the line of 2-3 days, depending on how much you play, talk or use the wifi on it.
The market is quite castrated, alot of the apps that the market doesn't display, work flawlessly on the device and you will have to search google for those free apps and just put and install them from the sdcard.
You will not be let down on this phone. It is my second but not my last HTC, that's for sure.
What I advise you to do on the phone:
- stay on the stock rom for now, the roms are quite buggy and lack even a decent camera app. It isn't worth it to install them yet. Keep your eyes peeled for the official froyo which hopefully will come this year.
- root it
- install setcpu and setup a profile to downclock the phone while the screen is off. Great battery saver
- activate automatic brightness. The phone has a light sensor that it's shame not to get used
- get a silicon case
- get a screen and camera lens protection film
- if you have the stock rom, you won't need (cuz you already have them or features similar): flashlight, ringdroid, voice recorder app, facebook and twitter apps, youtube, gmail app
- get airplane scheduler to further save battery
- get a battery notification program to display the percentage of battery ( the icon isn't very descriptive )
- go ahead and have fun.
That sounds brilliant, thankyou. Just need to remove vodafones bloat ware when it comes!
John
Angry worked on my wildfire.. just install it & lock the screen,it should work.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App
nemuro said:
What I advise you to do on the phone:
- stay on the stock rom for now, the roms are quite buggy and lack even a decent camera app. It isn't worth it to install them yet. Keep your eyes peeled for the official froyo which hopefully will come this year.
- root it
- install setcpu and setup a profile to downclock the phone while the screen is off. Great battery saver
- activate automatic brightness. The phone has a light sensor that it's shame not to get used
- get a silicon case
- get a screen and camera lens protection film
- if you have the stock rom, you won't need (cuz you already have them or features similar): flashlight, ringdroid, voice recorder app, facebook and twitter apps, youtube, gmail app
- get airplane scheduler to further save battery
- get a battery notification program to display the percentage of battery ( the icon isn't very descriptive )
- go ahead and have fun.
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Super post my friend! Great job! thanks for the info!
the 2 to 3 days battery life is with or without those settings?
If not, what's the stock battery life and how many hours can you add with these settings?
Believe or not, it came without vodafone bloatware, ie music and 360, but did have the vodafone logo at start up.
I have installed majority of things, battery is the main issue, but so was the xperia's.... For the money, you cannot go wrong with this phone at all.

[Q] Couple of questions regarding RoyalMIUI

I would of posted this in the development section but it would not allow me but I really like using the RoyalMIUI over CM7 just based on preferences but I just wanted to get a couple of quirks out of the way
1. Does Wi-Fi work on this rom because I use Wi-Fi at the house all the time seeing that HSPA+ speeds do not really reach my living area
2. Is there a good battery saving kernal for RoyalMiui because Miui battery comapred to CM7 battery is meh at the best.
3. Is it possible to download from the market using Wi-Fi I know the development page states an issue about that but is it possible at all?
Help help please! I want to use MIUI but without Wi-Fi, I will be CM7ing like a champ.
Yes wifi works. You can only download apps with wifi is what it says. If you are not on wifi the download will pause and you have to go into your download app that is included and fix it. Wifi crashes the first time you turn it on. Do a battery pull and reboot and you are good to go. As far as battery life, you can underclock using setcpu, but it sounds like you have wifi on all of the time so you arent going to get super amazing battery life anyway.
Alright thanks a lot for your answers, I also could not seem to get the theme manager to import the themes I downloaded and also its would not matter which kernal I used if it the stock kernal or the faux123 under volt kernal?

Retired Nexus S 4g

I apologize if I should have put this elsewhere, I will learn rapidly I swear.
I recently switched carriers to Verizon for a GS3, this has left my old Nexus S 4g with little purpose in life. I want to set it up as a ipod touch like device for my fiancee but I am hesitant mostly because in its life as a phone it was riddled with problems both on stock and custom roms. The most prevalent of these issues was the fact that it would freeze up randomly and need the battery pulled. On the stock rom when this happened the homescreen buttons would light up but be non responsive and the screen would be lit but all black and was else wise unresponsive. I have searched for these symptoms on numerous occasions but never found any real info. On custom roms it would do much the same thing but the buttons didn't always light up. So I was wondering if anyone else ever experienced these problems and if they over came them. Also wondering if anyone had a suggestion for a rom to use that would keep my fiancee from tripping over some functionality that no longer works. I've read lots of rom descriptions and their are a great many choices but I need help narrowing it down. I currently have CM9 installed and I've use some of the tweaks to put the phone on airplane mode to disable the cell phone radio and hide the air plane icon and I have a launcher that lets me hide unusable apps like phone and messenger. Wondering if anyone had a more elegant solution.
convoy83 said:
I apologize if I should have put this elsewhere, I will learn rapidly I swear.
I recently switched carriers to Verizon for a GS3, this has left my old Nexus S 4g with little purpose in life. I want to set it up as a ipod touch like device for my fiancee but I am hesitant mostly because in its life as a phone it was riddled with problems both on stock and custom roms. The most prevalent of these issues was the fact that it would freeze up randomly and need the battery pulled. On the stock rom when this happened the homescreen buttons would light up but be non responsive and the screen would be lit but all black and was else wise unresponsive. I have searched for these symptoms on numerous occasions but never found any real info. On custom roms it would do much the same thing but the buttons didn't always light up. So I was wondering if anyone else ever experienced these problems and if they over came them. Also wondering if anyone had a suggestion for a rom to use that would keep my fiancee from tripping over some functionality that no longer works. I've read lots of rom descriptions and their are a great many choices but I need help narrowing it down. I currently have CM9 installed and I've use some of the tweaks to put the phone on airplane mode to disable the cell phone radio and hide the air plane icon and I have a launcher that lets me hide unusable apps like phone and messenger. Wondering if anyone had a more elegant solution.
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I would suggest running Provision as your ROM, with Air Kernal. The consider using the Xperia Home Launcher; that will allow you to hide apps like the phone and limit the number of screens.
Slimrom 3.0 is good since it has no bloatware and it already has a launcher that allows hiding of unused apps on home screen and app drawer.
Put the phone on airplane mode and ur good to go for a WiFi media player for music, movies, games and browser.
Once the kernel settles in, u should have great battery life.
Good luck
Just make sure u flash the basic slim ROM gapps... the one without Google now and other battery sucking apps
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Nexus 6 How to obtain Best Battery Life

I have seen all across the web posts about the disappointment in the battery life of the Nexus 6. I have to say why not, because with a 3300 MAH battery we expect more than 2 hours of on screen time. Which seems to be the normal accomplishment across the device. I have actually been able to achieve 4-5 hours of SOT on a regular basis! I haven't seen many guides on how to do so. I have only seen people bragging about it. So, I decided to post this information for those of you looking for some guidance. Hoping maybe for a sticky
1. First, you're going to want to be rooted.
If you do not know how to root or are not sure how to go about it you can use the Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit which is located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/development/toolkit-wugs-nexus-root-toolkit-v1-9-8-t2947452
2. You're going to want to download Greenify. If you don't have it, it can be found here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify&hl=en it is free. The pay version does have more to offer though.
Hibernate every service that typically runs in the background when not used (Example: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Ebay, basically any notification based app). In addition, leave a widget on your home screen for hibernating the apps and going to the lockscreen. When you're done with your phone you can hit this. This will save battery when you're not using the phone.
3. Have Titanium backup installed (pro version) which consists of the free version + pro key. You can find them in the Google play store.. Free version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup&hl=en Pay key: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackupPro&hl=en.
Freeze any applications which you do not use. (Ex: Cloud Print, DMService, Docs, Google Earth, Google Fit, Google books, music, Maps, etc...)
4. Have Disable Service installed. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.wq.disableservice&hl=en
This one is a KEY in getting better battery life. I was not able to get GREAT on screen time until disabling services with the Disable Service app. I have attached pictures of which services you want to disable in regards to "Google play services" which tend to be a HUGE battery drain on the device. Disabling these I notice no issue with the device everything works properly.
5. Keep WI-FI on whenever possible
6. Use battery saver mode whenever possible.
7. Get rid of Google launcher (freeze it in titanium backup) and use an alternate launcher such as Nova, Apex, etc... For some reason the Google launcher seems to be a huge battery drain.
8. Don't use unnecessary services like the Google hot word detection. I have to admit this one is hard because I love just saying "Ok Google" and then telling it what I want to search. But is it really that hard to just hit the microphone on the Google search?
9. If you are a Facebook user: Set the application to NEVER check for an update unless you open the application. Same with Facebook Messenger.
10. Use adaptive brightness or leave brightness at the lowest setting.
By doing this I was in fact able to achieve 5 hours on screen time. I hope this helps someone. Also, if you're a HUGE gamer on your phone. It is very important to realize you're never going to get that kind of on screen time.
Pictures of which services to disable within Disable Service are below: :good:
So basically turn off every function on the phone. So now it's a dumb phone with a big screen.
Sent from my Z3
Ulver said:
So basically turn off every function on the phone. So now it's a dumb phone with a big screen.
Sent from my Z3
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Not really it's still a fully functional phone. Again this is if you want more battery life. Like any other device if you want full features, then you're going to jeopardize more battery. Pretty much common sense.
1) Rooting the device is complete overkill
2) Greenify has non-root functionality
3) Why not use Android's built in Disable feature. Most of those apps aren't going to just be running anyway. Freezing them is pointless
4) This is a can of worms that is going to have unforeseen consequences. Unless you know exactly what everyone of these services does and how they interact with each other and the OS, I wouldn't touch them
5) Good advice
6) The absolute best advice you've given. I'd suggest creating a Battery Saver settings shortcut on your homescreen and toggle on/off as necessary
7) Just install another launcher and set it as default
8) This is fine advice and is a matter of personal preference
9) Good advice
10) Adaptive brightness likely uses quite a bit of battery as it has to determine ambient lighting. Just set the lowest brightness level you can live with.
crachel said:
1) Rooting the device is complete overkill
2) Greenify has non-root functionality
3) Why not use Android's built in Disable feature. Most of those apps aren't going to just be running anyway. Freezing them is pointless
4) This is a can of worms that is going to have unforeseen consequences. Unless you know exactly what everyone of these services does and how they interact with each other and the OS, I wouldn't touch them
5) Good advice
6) The absolute best advice you've given. I'd suggest creating a Battery Saver settings shortcut on your homescreen and toggle on/off as necessary
7) Just install another launcher and set it as default
8) This is fine advice and is a matter of personal preference
9) Good advice
10) Adaptive brightness likely uses quite a bit of battery as it has to determine ambient lighting. Just set the lowest brightness level you can live with.
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I personally don't like the devices build in disable features because I've seen them still hog battery even though they claim they are "disabled" I suggested root because of using titanium backup which needs root as well. Again it's just personal preference. Not sure why you saying freezing apps is pointless. It accomplishes the same thing as disabling them
Ulver said:
So basically turn off every function on the phone. So now it's a dumb phone with a big screen.
Sent from my Z3
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this. these threads amuse me whenever they pop up for each new device. turn off everything and like magic you have a phone that lasts days. this is stupid. i have every feature turned on my N6 at all times with auto brightness and can make it through the day just fine. on days when i use gmaps navigation i may have to quickcharge it for 20 min or so but that's pretty much it. just live your life and use your phone man. best advice i can give...
oh one more thing. facebook app is a notorious battery hog. here's some real advice: ditch it and just use the web portal. MUCH better...
funny, i keep most everything enabled and still get from 5.5-6.5 hours sot. nor do i ever turn on or use wifi. only lte here.
simms22 said:
funny, i keep most everything enabled and still get from 5.5-6.5 hours sot.
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There's no way you are dead stock and have everything enabled and get 5.5-6.5 hours on screen time unless you barely use your phone for anything. lol
drivel2787 said:
There's no way you are dead stock and have everything enabled and get 5.5-6.5 hours on screen time unless you barely use your phone for anything. lol
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who said anything about being stock? even though i had the same battery life when i was on stock. being stock or custom rom doesnt matter anyways. its about how i have my phone and cpu set up, what apps i install, and about my phone/data signal quality. and yes, im a heavy user, not at all a light user. but i do not game very much, mostly a browser user.
simms22 said:
who said anything about being stock? even though i had the same battery life when i was on stock. being stock or custom rom doesnt matter anyways. its about how i have my phone and cpu set up, what apps i install, and about my phone/data signal quality. and yes, im a heavy user, not at all a light user. but i do not game very much, mostly a browser user.
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What specific rom/kernel and settings are you using to achieve such battery life?
drivel2787 said:
What specific rom/kernel and settings are you using to achieve such battery life?
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i run rastapop or terminus(with either elementalx or franco kernel), at 3033mhz/300mhz(ondemand/deadline or conservative/deadline for franco) with all 4 cores on all the time(no hotplugging). mpdecision always disabled. i never use the default kernels settings, and always set up my cpu my way. but i live in nyc, with great tmobile coverage. battery life has much to do with the quality of coverage that you get btw.
Im stock and get 5.8hr SOT.
PunishedSnake said:
Im stock and get 5.8hr SOT.
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Screenshots or BS
crachel said:
1) Rooting the device is complete overkill
2) Greenify has non-root functionality
3) Why not use Android's built in Disable feature. Most of those apps aren't going to just be running anyway. Freezing them is pointless
4) This is a can of worms that is going to have unforeseen consequences. Unless you know exactly what everyone of these services does and how they interact with each other and the OS, I wouldn't touch them
5) Good advice
6) The absolute best advice you've given. I'd suggest creating a Battery Saver settings shortcut on your homescreen and toggle on/off as necessary
7) Just install another launcher and set it as default
8) This is fine advice and is a matter of personal preference
9) Good advice
10) Adaptive brightness likely uses quite a bit of battery as it has to determine ambient lighting. Just set the lowest brightness level you can live with.
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You skipped 8. Lol
erapmicks said:
Screenshots or BS
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since i never drain my battery completely, here is my battery at 50%(was an especially good night, usually its around 3.5h sot at 50%). no game playing here, mostly browser and hangouts..
simms22 said:
since i never drain my battery completely, here is my battery at 50%(was an especially good night, usually its around 3.5h sot at 50%). no game playing here, mostly browser and hangouts..
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Booya!!!!!!!!!
Same here I get some good days and great days. 5.8 is one of the good. one day of 7 was great lol.
PunishedSnake said:
Booya!!!!!!!!!
Same here I get some good days and great days. 5.8 is one of the good. one day of 7 was great lol.
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absolutely. it cant be the same every day, but 5.5-7h sot is where it averages. mostly around 6h sot is what i get. but i really rarely reach near 10% battery left.
PunishedSnake said:
Booya!!!!!!!!!
Same here I get some good days and great days. 5.8 is one of the good. one day of 7 was great lol.
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yea i dunno why people try to call 'bs' on these things. i float during the day between everything disabled or stream and hog data at will. it takes like 10 seconds to cycle between the 2 'modes' and i like to test this things limits. i have turned in a 10 hour SOT before and rubbed it in my buddys iPhace, but that was a bizarre one. 5+ is the cellar. 6 is common. 7 is great. 8 is a chore.
leank is mostly why uc/uv, pure 3.98 stripped some w nano gapps and ones i choose, dark theme
edit: i meant to add: there are differences in hardware that MAY result in differences as well
i feel that the huge difference is network quality, for some, no matter what they do, they cant go over 4h sot. i think this is where network quality comes in. also, screen brightness is very important. keep it as low as you can, lol.
One thing I'm noticing is how much the Turbo charger affects battery life. I have a Nokia Qi wireless charger built into my nightstand that I typically use for charging my Qi devices at night. I only recently started using QC2.0 chargers in the car and next to that same nightstand and have seen much better results already. My 6 is trending to hit about 5.5 hours of SoT today whereas 4 was the norm previously.

Features Lost With Nougat?

Hey I just had a few questions when it came to flashing a custom Nougat ROM at the moment. If anyone could answer them that would be great I am on stock Marshmallow right now and not rooted or anything. But I am thinking about flashing a custom ROM if there are benefits.
What features do we lose when we are coming from stock? (Moto Display/Gestures mainly)
How's the battery life compared to stock?
Any issues calls/texts/signal/wifi/bluetooth?
Is there an audio problem with most of the ROMs?
How is the camera on Nougat?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance to those that respond
Jyjieng11 said:
Hey I just had a few questions when it came to flashing a custom Nougat ROM at the moment. If anyone could answer them that would be great I am on stock Marshmallow right now and not rooted or anything. But I am thinking about flashing a custom ROM if there are benefits.
What features do we lose when we are coming from stock? (Moto Display/Gestures mainly)
How's the battery life compared to stock?
Any issues calls/texts/signal/wifi/bluetooth?
Is there an audio problem with most of the ROMs?
How is the camera on Nougat?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance to those that respond
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Whether or not you will benefit from a custom ROM will depend on you and your expectations.
Ambient display is the alternative/replacement to Moto display and some ROMs and add-ons allow for gestures.
As far as your other questions, these vary from ROM to ROM and user to user and the set ups they have (apps, kernel, customization, etc.) The best thing to do is read through the threads for the various nougat Roms and determine for yourself if they will meet your specific requirements...then test them for yourself.
aybarrap1 said:
Whether or not you will benefit from a custom ROM will depend on you and your expectations.
Ambient display is the alternative/replacement to Moto display and some ROMs and add-ons allow for gestures.
As far as your other questions, these vary from ROM to ROM and user to user and the set ups they have (apps, kernel, customization, etc.) The best thing to do is read through the threads for the various nougat Roms and determine for yourself if they will meet your specific requirements...then test them for yourself.
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Thanks for the reply. I know I made a really big generalization here I was just wondering with other people's mileage whether Nougat helped there battery life or not, etc. But thank you
Here's the lowdown:
As far as features, you would probably gain a few that you don't really need (like the ability to use themes, and control the audio levels) and battery will be roughly the same, if not a little worse usually (stock ROM is more optimized). A few features will be slightly different (like ambient display instead of moto display) and you'll also gain access to the hidden LED inside the top speaker of this phone. That's right, the MXPE has a notification LED! Can you even imagine? But it's there!
LineageOS is a good choice if you want to test out nougat, it's very stable at this point and is easily the cleanest ROM in my opinion (no bloat, feels like stock android). Battery life is pretty good but it drains a lot more on standby than stock does. Remember when you flash a non-stock rom you will also have to flash google apps. I like the stock or "super" options because they also give you the pixel launcher.
Root adds a whole new world of possibilities, with the ability to modify or add functionality you wouldn't normally be able to access. Like changing CPU governors (for better battery or better performance). LineageOS comes unrooted, and personally I keep it that way for maximum app compatibility (Pokémon Go, many streaming video services, and some banking apps don't work with rooted devices). If you wanted to play with root you could flash the root .zip file or just flash supersu like I think most people on XDA do.
As far as issues, every ROM has different quirks. I can tell you that often times the hardware drivers for custom ROMs can be hit-or-miss. Right now LineageOS (and anything based on LOS) is very stable and doesn't have many bugs, but that can change anytime. Any time your ROM updates it could potentially add a new quirk/bug. As of the latest nightly (2/21/17) I have not seen any significant bugs. No issues with Bluetooth or cell service (AT&T) and all gestures work (twist for camera, chop for flashlight, wave hand over screen to silence ring, ambient display, etc) GPS also works well. The only quirks I've noticed on this build is the camera takes a little longer to start up (sometimes up to 7 seconds) and occasionally my cell signal will say I have zero bars for a few seconds even though I still have service (no dropped calls/dropped web pages/etc).
Sean89us said:
Here's the lowdown:
As far as features, you would probably gain a few that you don't really need (like the ability to use themes, and control the audio levels) and battery will be roughly the same, if not a little worse usually (stock ROM is more optimized). A few features will be slightly different (like ambient display instead of moto display) and you'll also gain access to the hidden LED inside the top speaker of this phone. That's right, the MXPE has a notification LED! Can you even imagine? But it's there!
LineageOS is a good choice if you want to test out nougat, it's very stable at this point and is easily the cleanest ROM in my opinion (no bloat, feels like stock android). Battery life is pretty good but it drains a lot more on standby than stock does. Remember when you flash a non-stock rom you will also have to flash google apps. I like the stock or "super" options because they also give you the pixel launcher.
Root adds a whole new world of possibilities, with the ability to modify or add functionality you wouldn't normally be able to access. Like changing CPU governors (for better battery or better performance). LineageOS comes unrooted, and personally I keep it that way for maximum app compatibility (Pokémon Go, many streaming video services, and some banking apps don't work with rooted devices). If you wanted to play with root you could flash the root .zip file or just flash supersu like I think most people on XDA do.
As far as issues, every ROM has different quirks. I can tell you that often times the hardware drivers for custom ROMs can be hit-or-miss. Right now LineageOS (and anything based on LOS) is very stable and doesn't have many bugs, but that can change anytime. Any time your ROM updates it could potentially add a new quirk/bug. As of the latest nightly (2/21/17) I have not seen any significant bugs. No issues with Bluetooth or cell service (AT&T) and all gestures work (twist for camera, chop for flashlight, wave hand over screen to silence ring, ambient display, etc) GPS also works well. The only quirks I've noticed on this build is the camera takes a little longer to start up (sometimes up to 7 seconds) and occasionally my cell signal will say I have zero bars for a few seconds even though I still have service (no dropped calls/dropped web pages/etc).
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Thanks for all the information that really helped me out. I will most likely stay stock due to the fact that battery life is important to me. It's hard to get good battery when the phone is in your pocket and doze doesn't work during movement.

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