Hey guys,
I have played around with a few different roms for my SGS2 and was wondering which one has the best battery life in your experience?
Cheers
I honestly think stock ke7.
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I am using Litening rom and my phone isn't reaching 2 days of battery life like some people do with this rom
darkstar09 said:
Hey guys,
I have played around with a few different roms for my SGS2 and was wondering which one has the best battery life in your experience?
Cheers
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That's an almost impossible question to answer as there are so many different factors involved which can affect battery life both on a custom rom and a stock one for example.
signal strength
push
gaming
screen brightness
Everyone will have a different experience and your best bet is to try different rom's and choose the one which suits you as a rom which is great for them may not be great for you.
If some rom creator would make make a black-red theme for his mod it would be probatly the best mod... Of course with all other goodies and tweaks.
Black-red theme because it would drain the lowest energy from the battary in the standart screen mode, but since we all use mostly different apps with different colors it will vary anyway.
To be fair, although it is purely anecdotal, people who have tried different ROMS while going through the sameness of their daily lives should be able to make a relatively valid comparison of battery life.
All the custom ROMs out at the moment are extremely close to stock, so I doubt there's much difference.
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droidluck said:
I am using Litening rom and my phone isn't reaching 2 days of battery life like some people do with this rom
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2 days?? I'm gald to reach one day.. I just flashed lite'ning V 1.3. Hope to reach one day without any problems..
have a nice day
hattrick
It appears the battery indicator is often way off. I let mine drain as much as it could til it would not boot at all, then charge it for 6 hours. Now it seems to last twice as long on stock (2 days with a lot of use)
Kevincod said:
It appears the battery indicator is often way off. I let mine drain as much as it could til it would not boot at all, then charge it for 6 hours. Now it seems to last twice as long on stock (2 days with a lot of use)
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I'm going to try this right now. I'll just let it stream some music over wifi at a high bitrate to drain it quickly. And using GPS, Blue-tooth. Playing music through PowerAmp at the same time.
Kevincod said:
It appears the battery indicator is often way off. I let mine drain as much as it could til it would not boot at all, then charge it for 6 hours. Now it seems to last twice as long on stock (2 days with a lot of use)
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That would be great if true... I will try it too.
mguel said:
That would be great if true... I will try it too.
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Let us know how it goes
I'm having excellent battery life with ke2. I personally had problems with ke7.
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i have a great battery life with KE8 guys... pls try it & then comment...
its too good...i recommend litepro 1.3 for every SGS2... its the best i have ever had so far....
Same here
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That would be funny if a lot of the battery problems are actually because we keep thinking it is flat when it isn't - it is just being mis-reported. Kind of iphone batterygate in reverse.
I had a lock up on my device the other night but didn't realise until the following morning when I found the device unresponsive and stuck on my last screen. Although I had to pull the battery to regain control, the screen had stayed on all night because of the freeze and the battery meter graph was red for about 7 hours. The screen was still on and bright before I pulled the battery though.
Think I will also try ignoring the meter today.
darkstar09 said:
Hey guys,
I have played around with a few different roms for my SGS2 and was wondering which one has the best battery life in your experience?
Cheers
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stock KE2 and stock KE8 is best
ke7 is a nightmare
Using stock ke8 got about 30 hours with juice defender, constant wifi usage and app store and constant browser usage
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droidluck said:
I am using Litening rom and my phone isn't reaching 2 days of battery life like some people do with this rom
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+1!! 10 characters **** so I have to keep typing
Thank you guys for all your informations.
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Just want to give thanks for this rom to whomever put it together. Master? Not sure I'm not to involved with the roms usually. But my Vibrant is an entirely different phone now. Seems to be using the hardware now to its potential. I can't get over how smooth the phone is. No more hitching or lag when you scroll around the screens. My programs all work better now. Stitcher Radio now loads up quicker. Doesn't reset or stop on its own. One little thing is that the orientation seems to be off. When I tilt the phone horizontally for example the image doesn't change over. Regardless, this is a small thing compared to the overall improvement of the device. I'm a newbie to flashing roms but now can't wait for the next one!
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Just want to give thanks for this rom to whomever put it together. Master? Not sure I'm not to involved with the roms usually. But my Vibrant is an entirely different phone now. Seems to be using the hardware now to its potential. I can't get over how smooth the phone is. No more hitching or lag when you scroll around the screens. My programs all work better now. Stitcher Radio now loads up quicker. Doesn't reset or stop on its own. One little thing is that the orientation seems to be off. When I tilt the phone horizontally for example the image doesn't change over. Regardless, this is a small thing compared to the overall improvement of the device. I'm a newbie to flashing roms but now can't wait for the next one!
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Use the orientation button in the dropsown status bat......ppl confuse it with the sync button
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Use the orientation button in the dropsown status bat......ppl confuse it with the sync button
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lol..thanks once again! I thought it was google syncing! Working fine now.
@azure100. Last night I went to plug in the phone for charging before going to bed. About 10pm. The phone read 71% battery. Kinda shook my head in disbelief. Especially since I get up at 5am! I didn't have my phone on a charger all day but I did have it USB'd to my laptop for a total of about 30mins moving some files and playing around. I'm sure it picked up some charge there? Still, it seemed like a lot of battery life left for that time of day. Usually I make it until about 8pm before the phone is fully out of juice. I'll keep a eye on it today. I won't hook it up to any charger or pc and report back.
Ok so I got three hours before it changed from 100 percent. Battery on this Rom is really good
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ImTheDuke said:
Just want to give thanks for this rom to whomever put it together. Master? Not sure I'm not to involved with the roms usually. But my Vibrant is an entirely different phone now. Seems to be using the hardware now to its potential. I can't get over how smooth the phone is. No more hitching or lag when you scroll around the screens. My programs all work better now. Stitcher Radio now loads up quicker. Doesn't reset or stop on its own. One little thing is that the orientation seems to be off. When I tilt the phone horizontally for example the image doesn't change over. Regardless, this is a small thing compared to the overall improvement of the device. I'm a newbie to flashing roms but now can't wait for the next one!
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you do know there is a "thanks" button feature on the forum right?
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it's the best I've ever had
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Battery life with axura is almost double that of the stock rom..i'm loving it.much love to the guys @ devsforandroid that put this together..
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you do know there is a "thanks" button feature on the forum right?
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You go tell that to the other 20 threads saying "nero is best thanks dev!"
Axura has the best battery I've ever had, but I tried other roms and loved the look of them with black notification bars and such... I'm on nero, but the battery just isn't the same
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you do know there is a "thanks" button feature on the forum right?
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I did that to . Just thought I would express what I liked about it.
Battery
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I wake up at 6 a.m. and battery will last me until around 11 p.m. That is the longest I have let it run without recharging. Normal use. Ill have about 25-30% bat level at that time. I think this is pretty awesome. What I mean by normal use is I am making a phone calls and just checking email. No connecting to wifi etc.. Obviously there will be more battery drain then.
Charging seems to take a while. Even from the wall it just feels to charge slow. But not snail pace or anything. The battery is def lasting longer than before I flashed it.
I've been going back and forth between Axura2.2.5.9 and NeroV3 lol. To me, these ROM are both awesome. It really comes down to customization preferences and how each specific ROM reacts to your individual Vibrant. For my Vibrant, the battery is a little bit better on NeroV3. GPS is somewhat comparable. As a matter of fact, I've been manually customizing my Vibrant by taking bits and pieces of what I like from the Axura ROM and incorporating onto my NeroV3 core.
BTW: Is it just me or others simply do not care?????? In Axura2.2.5.9, the audible tone is not working on the dial pad even when the option is enabled in settings.
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Battery life with axura is almost double that of the stock rom..i'm loving it.much love to the guys @ devsforandroid that put this together..
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Ok. Two days ago I put a newly charged battery in at 3pm. It didn't fully die until after 10pm last night! So over 31 hours on one charge. Granted, Ive been sick so the phone hasn't been used as much. Phone calls. Email but no games, gps or anything like that. WiFi, Bluetooth on. Still, even with light use, the most I was getting is 15 hours thats it. So this rom looks real good for battery
Also want to throw a quick thanks out. I have really started enjoying this phone more than struggling with it. I might even hang onto it for a bit.
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3 days, ~6 hours on straight standby.. with a couple of texts and battery status checks.. recharged it when it hit 10%.... this was after clearing battery stats and trying to reconditioning the battery... longest ever... Axura 2.2.5.6
Love the Rom.but only getting like 7 hours of battery life on a full charge. Tried everything but still getting fast battery drain. Hardly any apps running or Widgets. And on low screen brightness. What's up with this.still thanks for the awesome Tom.
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darkside79 said:
Love the Rom.but only getting like 7 hours of battery life on a full charge. Tried everything but still getting fast battery drain. Hardly any apps running or Widgets. And on low screen brightness. What's up with this.still thanks for the awesome Tom.
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Have you tried Set CPU? With Axura and some custom underclocking profiles from set cpu along with managing my wifi/data via toggles on my homescreen, I am gettting really good battery life
I have been on Axura for over a week now and im consistently averaging 13/14 hours on a full battery charge with.moderate use. My current charge is in its 23 rd hour.
Im reluctant to flash any other rom coz I like this one so much but I still want to flash lol
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;D I'm running Bionix v1.3.1 and the battery life is AWESOME. Yesterday, I did a LOT of texting, gaming and talking. By the end of the day, I still had 90%.
Usually, if I do that on any other ROM, by the end of the day, I'd probably have around 0%-30%
I didn't recondition the battery, either.
BUT ONE THING, I've NEVER EVER experienced a problem with the GPS on my vibrant, but right after flashing V1.3.1, it wouldn't work anymore. It'd take like 15 mins to lock D:<
wow. using any different kernels? What modem? I get stock battery life on bionix. I have no idea how people are getting such amazing battery life. Maybe i need to do a battery reconditioning.
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wow. using any different kernels? What modem? I get stock battery life on bionix. I have no idea how people are getting such amazing battery life. Maybe i need to do a battery reconditioning.
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Yeah same thing here. How do you recondition the battery?
That's amazing I used it and I ended the day with like 40% i used trigger and I get like. 70% 60% on average
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Same here, running 1.3.1 with the overstock kernel, keeping wifi on all day due to the great wifi sleep policy, after an 8 hour work day of moderate to heavy use my battery is at about 70% everyday. I don't even want to update to the newest version of overstock, too scared to lose what I have.
Edit: And my gps works flawlessly, but I've done the hardware fix on it.
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Battery life on my vibrant using Binoix
Here is the screenshot of battery usage with Bionix...
I swore by bionix since the first rom came around, but recently I strayed and tried trigger. Trigger + overstock 2 kicks any bionix roms in the behind.
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My phone never liked Bionix, regardless of what kernel I ran. I was lucky to get 12 hours with moderate use, mostly texting.
Where can I find the hardware fix for the GPS?
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Search for (I'd link it but I'm lazy) "CORRECT hardware gps fix", but be careful, steady hands and big balls are required.
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dilluj said:
Here is the screenshot of battery usage with Bionix...
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Hows that paperweight? Im got good battery life with bionix, usually under 20% after work(8-6). Im getting great battery life with trigger rom now. Usually around 40% after work. All this is with music playback for atleast 4-5 hrs a day with data running.
Hate calling people liars but I will never understand people who get 2 days wiht an oem battery. I jsut dont see someone besides an extremely light user getting 2+ days without a charge. I got 2 days with my 2700mah extended battery.
can you play angry birds for 2 hours and say how's your battery?
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I also swore by bionix since it's first release but seriously trigger + overstock = fastest rom with the best battery life I've had so far
If you get more than a day on your vibrant...
You need to start using your phone and not just checking time or battery every 10 minutes.
Ditto
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If you get more than a day on your vibrant...
You need to start using your phone and not just checking time or battery every 10 minutes.
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Does it really last that long when use all day?
zerosource said:
Does it really last that long when use all day?
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it won't last 5 hours with heavy browsing.(web,xda,facebook,twitter etc)
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zerosource said:
Does it really last that long when use all day?
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This is probably as accurate as you can get:
Heavy use: 6 hours or less, MAYBE 7, but unlikely if its heavy use.
Moderate use: 10-14 or less, no more than 14.
Light: a day, and possibly more.
draikz said:
;D I'm running Bionix v1.3.1 and the battery life is AWESOME. Yesterday, I did a LOT of texting, gaming and talking. By the end of the day, I still had 90%.
Usually, if I do that on any other ROM, by the end of the day, I'd probably have around 0%-30%
I didn't recondition the battery, either.
BUT ONE THING, I've NEVER EVER experienced a problem with the GPS on my vibrant, but right after flashing V1.3.1, it wouldn't work anymore. It'd take like 15 mins to lock D:<
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It was good for me but no as good as Trigger,but the rom that lasted more on a charge for me was Azura,it had incredible battery life.
I used to get 2+days battery life on mine when I was running previous version of Bionix. I can't recall which version it was, i think 1.2.0. It was when the froyo was released for the vibrant i believe january-febuary-ish. After flashing to 1.3.1, i can't get passed to 24hours anymore. Also all my settings, syncs, wallpaper (etc..),except the modem,kernel, and 2 scrabble apps, where similar. The KB1 modem was one of the culprits of the drain and i have it replace with the JK and KA variants (still testing which one is the best). KB1 was awesome with my gps locks though with almost 3 meter accuracy with 8/12 sats locked). The speeds were also like +1-2mbs depending on the location and this was tested with a friend that has JKx modem. Also google googles and the 3d gallery up was not shutting down the sensor server which was draining the battery hardcore. Until now I still havent been able to replicate how I got the 2days battery life. I could revert to the previous bionix version because i have a back up too but this battery issue is not really that of a problem.
Hi guys.
I'm having a weird battery drain issue. I keep my data network on all day long but it usually lasts 24-36 hrs without needing a recharge.
Since yesterday though it has suddenly stopped lasting for even 12 hours even when the data network is off. No live wallpaper. Gallery not working in the background. The battery history shows 90% usage by Display usage when the phone is not being used at all in the night when i am sleeping.
Any ideas what i can do to improve the battery life??
hahahaha so its time for you to shift to STOCK ROM
have a great day
flores.diane02 said:
hahahaha so its time for you to shift to STOCK ROM
have a great day
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I have Stock JPM, just that it's rooted and deodexed and JIT mod
flores.diane02 said:
hahahaha so its time for you to shift to STOCK ROM
have a great day
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If you dont have anything to say just dont say it. Im using custom rom, Kyrillos 5 beta 2 non OC and battery life is much better than stock rom.
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flores.diane02 said:
hahahaha so its time for you to shift to STOCK ROM
have a great day
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very bad to see people making fun of others in forums..!!!! we were all a noob someday!!
try going onto lestatious or kyrillos..!!! even indroid!! all has cool battery life
Try my ROM, if you are looking for a safe ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1079052
Hi All,
This is my first ever post on this forum although I have learnt a lot reading through various posts which was immensly helpful. I have run numerous ROMs on my Samsung Galaxy s2 and finally settled on Villainrom 1.4 which I must say ROCKS especially in terms of Battery Life which was a main concern for me! Earlier-with stock ROm and also with other ROMS (Litening, Cognition, Batista) battery life was getting better but it hit the pinnacle with VillainRom 1.4.
For an idea, I used to get 1 full day of juice with moderate calls, no wifi, few smses, some market downloads/ updates, 2 mail accounts set to sync every 30 minutes, some gaming and some video playback.
Now with the same usage I get close to 2 full days. Thats a remarkable improvement. Thanks to all the ROM developers especially VillainRom which made me tweak my S2 to the max.
Cheers
Sunny
I ran into nothing but problems with villian rom. Im pretty sure 99% of that was mods I was trying add. But I lost my hardware buttons when using it.
But battery life was really good. I always start roms with 100% and let them discharge. Every device is different and happy ur enjoying it.
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Your battery will also have had a few more charges and be holding a charge for longer.
i agree i had troubles getting it on but plusar helped me and it worked and the battery life has improved loads! well done to him I say
Yuuuuup pulser rocks!! . Been on ere since 1.1 .
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darrenjdoc said:
Your battery will also have had a few more charges and be holding a charge for longer.
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Yes, a battery needs some charges/cycles to be running at full performance. Maybe when you tried the other roms this wasn't the case
I'm very happy with Litenin' ROM v 1.5 battery life.
I use to have 1,5-2 days of moderate use.
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Yes, a battery needs some charges/cycles to be running at full performance. Maybe when you tried the other roms this wasn't the case
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Wellll I dunno. I was running stock rom for about 2 weeks and then plunged into custom roms. Phone also went through numerous charge cycles before being custom rommed.
how is the sound quality with villianrom???
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how is the sound quality with villianrom???
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Excellent though it may be stock sound .
jje
Hey guys im keen to know your experiences with the various custom roms out there.. I have flashed villianrom today as my first custom along with various kernals but have had constant drain issues..
Looking at my battery awake stats it seems as if it never sleeps :-(
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JAG131990 said:
Hey guys im keen to know your experiences with the various custom roms out there.. I have flashed villianrom today as my first custom along with various kernals but have had constant drain issues..
Looking at my battery awake stats it seems as if it never sleeps :-(
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Screenshots showing battery usage and more importantly screen on time.
I don't have Villian ROM but from reading the comments on thst thread this is one of the best as regards battery drain so im amazed you experience high drain.
I run Cognition and am happy with this.
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You can see it just gettin eaten away screen off doesnt stop drain note the awake vs.screentime i have tried 4 kernals to no avail
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Put on watchdog and let it run in the back ground and see if it's any app or widget misbehaving.
Thanks trying now
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Just read in another thread that having motion sensor enabled causes this.
In my case ... Absolutely confirmed!
Very weird
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JAG131990 said:
Just read in another thread that having motion sensor enabled causes this.
In my case ... Absolutely confirmed!
Very weird
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That is very very weird!!
I was on Villain too,1.4 to be exact...drains as well,now on Litening 2.2,after resetting batt stats,best so far screen on time almost 5 hours, using mostly wifi..but with 3G,I get around 4hr 30mins...I usually leave my wifi on all the time at home,and switch on data only when I leave...
literom 2.2 doubled my battery life (no exageration) coming from stock rom. impressive.
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I was on Villain too,1.4 to be exact...drains as well,now on Litening 2.2,after resetting batt stats,best so far screen on time almost 5 hours, using mostly wifi..but with 3G,I get around 4hr 30mins...I usually leave my wifi on all the time at home,and switch on data only when I leave...
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That sounds really poor performance..
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Some extended idling:
Cognition 1.13 with CF KG1 Kernel, Phone undervolted as in screenshot + GPU @ 750mV for both states.
Android OS still taking 1h15m CPU time in that screenshot, which, in my experience in this case is I *think* because of Skype running all the time there. Also Trillian connected to multiple services running constantly with Wifi.
I'm using Cognition 1.15 with modified 1.4 ninmphetamine kernel, very good battery life so far! (probably the best compared to villainrom and litening rom for me)
Having fixed my awake issue my battery life is reasonable but i expected betted with villainrom + nenphetamine custom + undervolt.
We need to guage some good comparisons id like to get an extended idle test dont know if i can leave my phone for that long. LOL
Btw How did you undervolt gpu?
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I would stay away from these newer kernels like Nephetamine until they actually mature. I alslo tried some other custom kernels and they kinda drained the battery way more. So I'm sticking to a plain kernel like CF for the moment. Also seems better to stick to the normal ondemand governor.
Undervolting GPU via Tegrak Ultimate, it's worth it imho, especially since I basically shaved off 25% voltage without any issues.
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That sounds really poor performance..
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How many hours are you getting if 4:30 and 5 hours screen display on time is poor performance? Please enlighten me...
I too flashed Villain rom (KF2) 2 days back and after flashing I get more battery drain compared to KF2 stock rom. android os is consuming 60% of battery.
BTW How can i see that graph thats shown above? is there any app for that
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I too flashed Villain rom (KF2) 2 days back and after flashing I get more battery drain compared to KF2 stock rom. android os is consuming 60% of battery.
BTW How can i see that graph thats shown above? is there any app for that
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Just tap on the grey part,where it states the hours and minutes on battery, the graph will be expanded and shown...
I will post screenshots i took this morning 9 hours standby wifi off, background data off, auto sync off, everything else on, stock rom KF3, no freezing of anything
the result?
1%!! loss over 8.5 hours