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[Q] ROM with best battery life?

Hi there. There seems to be a number of tweaked ROM's for the Aria and unfortunately, I'm not tech savvy enough to understand the different kernels. From your personal experience, which ROM gave good battery life on the Aria?
I'm currently running CM7.0.0 and usually gets a day with normal usage. I'm willing to drop down to froyo if it means more battery life. Any input would be awesome.

if you use setcpu just flash my kernel as it has lower cpu speeds and no need for a screen off profile

drowningchild said:
if you use setcpu just flash my kernel as it has lower cpu speeds and no need for a screen off profile
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Can you flash the kernel on any ROM? Do you lose any data? SetCPU bottoms out at 246 for me right now, but I know I've seen others here at lower. I'm running FR008.

gfinockio said:
Can you flash the kernel on any ROM? Do you lose any data? SetCPU bottoms out at 246 for me right now, but I know I've seen others here at lower. I'm running FR008.
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i couldnt build a kernel for sense
it works on cm7
i would try more on sense but i dont like it much

TealLeader said:
Hi there. There seems to be a number of tweaked ROM's for the Aria and unfortunately, I'm not tech savvy enough to understand the different kernels. From your personal experience, which ROM gave good battery life on the Aria?
I'm currently running CM7.0.0 and usually gets a day with normal usage. I'm willing to drop down to froyo if it means more battery life. Any input would be awesome.
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Just because it's gingerbread doesn't make it awesome. Still has its downsides. 2.2.2 and fr008 have been so refined its stupid. I get the best battery life out of those. Setcpu with 2.2.2 gives me a warm sensation.
Sent from my HTC Aria using XDA App

CM7's battery life, when the GPS libraries aren't forcing the CPU to 100%, is good. A day or so. Maybe more.
2.2.2 is a little over a day on average, and CM6.1.1 can go up to as much as two days. So CM6 is the winner with battery life. But it's Froyo.

I'm getting two days with moderate usage with FR008...

andrew.cambridge said:
Just because it's gingerbread doesn't make it awesome. Still has its downsides. 2.2.2 and fr008 have been so refined its stupid. I get the best battery life out of those. Setcpu with 2.2.2 gives me a warm sensation.
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By 2.2.2 do you mean Gene Poole's hfr003b? Do I just flash that as a ROM or are there other kernel or settings things I need to flash? There seems to be a lot of zips on his post. Sorry for my noobness

TealLeader said:
By 2.2.2 do you mean Gene Poole's hfr003b? Do I just flash that as a ROM or are there other kernel or settings things I need to flash? There seems to be a lot of zips on his post. Sorry for my noobness
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Flashing the ROM is enough. It comes with a kernel that will let you overclock only while you're using SetCPU. If you don't use that app it will run like a stock kernel and will give you great battery life. That's my choice and I'm happy with it.

Cool. Thanks everyone.

Using CM7? You must read this! (Correct post)

Ok guys. I have to admit, I was about to give up on CM7 due to battery issues and what seemed to be memory leaks progressively making my phone lag more and more throughout the day. I have found something some of you may not be aware of and I wanted to share this amazingly helpful kernel with you.
Using x99, Scary, and stock kernels regardless of governor I seemed to maybe get 8 hours of battery life with moderate to heavy use. I am proud to say, using bcnice20's kernel I have had my phone on for 9 hours with 60% battery life today. This is incredible, even with lighter use on the other kernels I had NOWHERE near this amount of battery left.
Most of you may not have seen this kernel because it isn't posted. (as far as im aware) Let me help you out. First, go into your Market and download Kernel Manager. There is a lite version in there that is free. If you have an extra buck or two donate to the developer for making a neat app where you can download kernels in a convenient place by downloading the pro version.
What you will be downloading is called bcblend SIO tinyRCU kernel. I have not tried VR tinyRCU kernel yet. Not sure what the differences are, if someone could elaborate that'd be appreciated.
Regardless, I find the sweet spot for this to be at 245MHz min and 1GHz max on Interactive governor to work really well. The phone does not seem to get laggier throughout the day and consistently performs well, snappy, and just way better than the other kernels. (No offense to x99 and Scary, I appreciate all you've done!)
Give it a try and let me know if you all have similar results! I have heard that AOSP gets less battery than Sense ROMs from people on this very forum, and this may be the kernel to put that little debate to rest.
Oh, and be sure you have the latest CM7. I am on 7.0.2.1 trying this out.

Thanks ima try this out
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+1
I've been flashing too much to test out battery life but bc's kernel is just like melted garlic butter smooth. At 768mhz max my Shift still hums along like it's OC'd
^ Shift Faced

jesusice said:
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I've been flashing too much to test out battery life but bc's kernel is just like melted garlic butter smooth. At 768mhz max my Shift still hums along like it's OC'd
^ Shift Faced
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I owe it to you for having me download kernel manager.

Well with CM7 and the x99 kernal seems to give me the best battery life with the SMARTASS governor. About 20 hours with medium to heavy use.

Link?
Sent from my EVO Shift 4G powered by CM7

koolkid09 said:
Link?
Sent from my EVO Shift 4G powered by CM7
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There is no link at this point, you have to do it via kernel manager. I'd upload it but I don't want to without bc's permission.

I haven't use any other "controllers" other than the one built into cm7... can I use that or is there a prefered one to change governers and such. Thanks!
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lilgrass71 said:
I haven't use any other "controllers" other than the one built into cm7... can I use that or is there a prefered one to change governers and such. Thanks!
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Since CM7 lets you change governors right in its settings I uninstalled SetCPU for now, in theory I would think it would cause more battery drain but I don't know for sure. But yes I just changed it right in CM7. I changed the governor to interactive and set the max cpu frequency to 1036MHz.

Gonna try this out. I love CM7 but the battery is killing me. I pray this works.

Android system & cell standby seem to be the battery use culprit. I will give this a try though but don't really think its in the kernel. Ill report back...
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This kernel seems to be really good about not sucking the battery while on standby for me, that seems to be the crown jewel of it all. Right Now I am at 14 hours off the charger with 29% left.. remember I was lucky to get 8 hours most days before using this kernel.

This is off-topic, but along the same lines: which kernels gave the best battery life for Sense?

+1 OP was right I flashed this kernel and so far so good on battery life
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This is off-topic, but along the same lines: which kernels gave the best battery life for Sense?
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Honestly I didn't get much difference between x99 and bcnice20's 1.5GHz kernel so either of those two. Scarykernel SUV works well on Sense if your phone can boot it too.

fifedogg said:
Android system & cell standby seem to be the battery use culprit. I will give this a try though but don't really think its in the kernel. Ill report back...
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It seems to be true. I'm def getting better battery life. I also calibrated my battery but I've done that before without any major change. So far I have 5 hours of quite a bit of use and I'm at 71% I would normally be around 55-60% by now. I wonder what the main difference is with the kernel...

PaulB007 said:
Ok guys. I have to admit, I was about to give up on CM7 due to battery issues and what seemed to be memory leaks progressively making my phone lag more and more throughout the day. I have found something some of you may not be aware of and I wanted to share this amazingly helpful kernel with you.
Using x99, Scary, and stock kernels regardless of governor I seemed to maybe get 8 hours of battery life with moderate to heavy use. I am proud to say, using bcnice20's kernel I have had my phone on for 9 hours with 60% battery life today. This is incredible, even with lighter use on the other kernels I had NOWHERE near this amount of battery left.
Most of you may not have seen this kernel because it isn't posted. (as far as im aware) Let me help you out. First, go into your Market and download Kernel Manager. There is a lite version in there that is free. If you have an extra buck or two donate to the developer for making a neat app where you can download kernels in a convenient place by downloading the pro version.
What you will be downloading is called bcblend SIO tinyRCU kernel. I have not tried VR tinyRCU kernel yet. Not sure what the differences are, if someone could elaborate that'd be appreciated.
Regardless, I find the sweet spot for this to be at 245MHz min and 1GHz max on Interactive governor to work really well. The phone does not seem to get laggier throughout the day and consistently performs well, snappy, and just way better than the other kernels. (No offense to x99 and Scary, I appreciate all you've done!)
Give it a try and let me know if you all have similar results! I have heard that AOSP gets less battery than Sense ROMs from people on this very forum, and this may be the kernel to put that little debate to rest.
Oh, and be sure you have the latest CM7. I am on 7.0.2.1 trying this out.
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I have been using the x99 kernal and i have about 1 d and 12 hrs with about 45 % left.. I also have the calibrator apk from the market so it wipes the battery stat when im at 100%. and various other apps that deal with the speed of the sd card and what nots. So, me coming from the Hero is very happy with this phone...
Thank you for sharing your findings... THIS IS SO AWESOME !!!!!

CrashV2010 said:
I have been using the x99 kernal and i have about 1 d and 12 hrs with about 45 % left.. I also have the calibrator apk from the market so it wipes the battery stat when im at 100%. and various other apps that deal with the speed of the sd card and what nots. So, me coming from the Hero is very happy with this phone...
Thank you for sharing your findings... THIS IS SO AWESOME !!!!!
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Holy crap that is good battery, how often are you using the phone?

Thanks PaulB007. Followed your suggestion and my battery life has DRASTICALLY improved!

PaulB007 said:
Holy crap that is good battery, how often are you using the phone?
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Medium use.
On my Gingerbreaded Evo-Shifted Premium XDA App.

Best Setup/Kernal for Battery Life

I'm wondering what others have experienced as being the best setup for battery life on the N1? I'm running Cyanogen 7.1 RC1 and haven't been that happy with the battery performance.

desertflyer said:
I'm wondering what others have experienced as being the best setup for battery life on the N1? I'm running Cyanogen 7.1 RC1 and haven't been that happy with the battery performance.
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Latest CM nightly with juice defender ultimate nets me about 36 hrs normal use.

I've been using CM7.1 RC1 for a few weeks now... battery life did seem pretty weak but I then tried out JuiceDefender Ultimate. It actually made the battery life worse, which didn't make any sense... I gave the beta a try and it practically doubled the battery life right off the bat. I'm currently using the stock Aggressive settings for the beta so I'm assuming I could do better if I did custom settings.

ss4n1 with any kernel that works with it

Yeah, SSN1 is nice, but I have tried almost every kernel out there with a multitude of voltage settings and I have yet to see one that gets better battery life than the current CM7 one. I am not sure if the one they use for nightlies is different than the RC, but it is very very impressive for battery life. It doesn't have any fancy add ons or governers it is just low voltage and no frills.

Interesting when i use ss4n1 on top cm7 with slight uv and smartass or interx I yield way better batt
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Yeah, SSN1 is nice, but I have tried almost every kernel out there with a multitude of voltage settings and I have yet to see one that gets better battery life than the current CM7 one. I am not sure if the one they use for nightlies is different than the RC, but it is very very impressive for battery life. It doesn't have any fancy add ons or governers it is just low voltage and no frills.
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Interesting, last time I tried to run it over that kernel I didn't think it was working. No matter how far I undervolted it it kept running, usually if you push it that far it will freeze. I will try again when I get a chance. Were you using the scrip itself or ckz tools?

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Latest CM nightly with juice defender ultimate nets me about 36 hrs normal use.
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Am running CM 7.0.3 with Tiamat 4.06. Tiamat increased my battery life a little. I installed JuiceDefender and battery life by the end of today will be more than double what I saw on 7.0.3 w/o Tiamat. ++1 for JuiceDefender

I haven't tried SS4N1 yet. I'll be trying it with MIUI.

Try using the stock CM7 kernel with Juicedefender, I think you will see a significant gain again. Tiamat makes a nice kernel, but it is not known for good battery life.

kendoori said:
Am running CM 7.0.3 with Tiamat 4.06. Tiamat increased my battery life a little. I installed JuiceDefender and battery life by the end of today will be more than double what I saw on 7.0.3 w/o Tiamat. ++1 for JuiceDefender
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Try using the stock CM7 kernel instead, I think you will be pleasantly surprised at the additional increase in battery life. Tiamat makes some really nice kernels, however they are not known for good battery life.

U have to use the script czk tools is just a gui
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Interesting, last time I tried to run it over that kernel I didn't think it was working. No matter how far I undervolted it it kept running, usually if you push it that far it will freeze. I will try again when I get a chance. Were you using the scrip itself or ckz tools?
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Not anymore, ckztool now includes an updated script as part of the program, check out the thread. He updated it about a month ago. It is nice cause you don't have to reinstall the script everytime you flash a new rom or an update. It installs the script each time you open and activate the program.

Get an extra battery from ebay for $5 (and charger $8) and keep that with you.
Beats any software tweak

If you don't mind carrying a battery around;-)
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Just installed latest version of SuperOSR, new kernel combined with Incredicontrol to undervolt is producing pretty amazing results. It is a very cool Rom on top of it too.

Best Battery Life..

Hi, let me first say sorry for this post. I know there are a million..
I do not have a Inc but my daughter does, last time I messed with it, I put CM7 rc3 on it right when rc3 was released. ever since then I have not read one word on the development of this phone. The phone runs good but battery life could be better.
Is there anything better than CM7? looking for the best battery life possible. Please suggest ROM/Kernel. sense or senseless.
Thanks,

Coming from an avid user of Sense I would say CM7, MIUI, and OMGB or OMFGB are the "best" with battery as they are stripped of Sense. If you don't get good battery life with any of those AOSP roms, kernel combo or not, there isn't much more anyone can do.
I only use Sense roms but I know if battery life & Senseless were my thing, I would have an AOSP rom. Not sure on kernels, the crowd can fill you in on their experience.

Best bet would be to flash incredikernel, and then dl incredicontrol from the market. Stick with cm7, use the underclocking app of your choice, and then use incredicontrol to lower the voltages at different frequencies...if it reboots, go one back until its stable.

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Best bet would be to flash incredikernel, and then dl incredicontrol from the market. Stick with cm7, use the underclocking app of your choice, and then use incredicontrol to lower the voltages at different frequencies...if it reboots, go one back until its stable.
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There's still other options like upgrading to a 1900mAh battery (still fits in stock casing)

POQbum said:
There's still other options like upgrading to a 1900mAh battery (still fits in stock casing)
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That's what I did, lasts me all the way through the day now lol. Its a snug fit, but it fits.
Sent from my Droid Incredible running some random CM7 nightly.

I would suggest flashing the newest CM nightly. There have been some changes and kernel tweaks since rc3.
I'm on 10 1/2 hours sitting at 70%, albeit light use, but still I usually get at least a day and a half with moderate use.

I'm a big fan of Jermaine's In-Sensitive Minimalist ROM. It has by far been the fastest and best on battery life for me.

I'm on the latest cm nightly. I use incrediblekernel with aggressive voltage. I have CPU set to 128 min and 664 Max. I could last all day plus with moderate to heavy usage.
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paboater76 said:
Hi, let me first say sorry for this post. I know there are a million..
I do not have a Inc but my daughter does, last time I messed with it, I put CM7 rc3 on it right when rc3 was released. ever since then I have not read one word on the development of this phone. The phone runs good but battery life could be better.
Is there anything better than CM7? looking for the best battery life possible. Please suggest ROM/Kernel. sense or senseless.
Thanks,
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Pretty much the same discussion going on here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1265028
IMHO - I'm getting a ton more life over stock on this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1265028
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1247253
Plus - one of the 1900maH batteries from htcexpress is a very worthy investment !
Dan

Mcsense 2.2 with tinys 8/31 kernel with smartass. Rom looks great and fantastic battery. Personally, ill never use aosp on my phone again. Never had that "great" battery life others claim. I can overclock tinys to 1.113, minimum 245, and its very stable, very fast, and i get a good 12+ hours with HEAVY use. Thats on a stock day one battery. Ive got about as old a dinc you can get, been rooted longer than i can remember, and flashed atleast 3 to 4 times most weeks. Tryin out newts new runny rom now, dont know about battery yet on it. Good luck dude.
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Thanks everyone for the replies, I'm going to try the latest CM7 nightly... I think

at4r1 said:
I'm a big fan of Jermaine's In-Sensitive Minimalist ROM. It has by far been the fastest and best on battery life for me.
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I'll second this. In-Sensitive Minimalist takes out almost all of the bloat of Sense, but leaves in the framework and the best apps. With Tiny's modules and SetCPU you can basically get it to run for days with minimal usage and 24-30 hrs with normal usage on a 1500mAH battery, which are $10 from Amazon.com and a good deal.
If you want to stick with Sense, that's the ROM to use. Otherwise, CM is a good choice.

CM9 Battery life

First of all, I want to thanks every developer whom make ours Evos looks like a new phone.
I have been using mikg since I rooted my 2 Evos. I tried cm7 and I went back to mikg because the sence. I used cm9 for 2 days and is so amazing. I do like it way more, even without 4g. It is so smooth, just the best ROM I ever tried. But, there is always a but, since cm9 is an AOSP I expect better battery life. In 2 hrs went from 95% to 15%. Today in the morning went from 100% to 75% in half Hour. So I had to went back to mikg cuz I have more than 24 hrs w/o charging. I tried to find some trick or any scrip or something to get better battery life but I did not find anything.
Please I will really appreciate any help on this.
Thanks!!!
PT; I cant post in the cm9 thread because I don't have 10 posts, So that's why I start a new thread

sirlinux03 said:
First of all, I want to thanks every developer whom make ours Evos looks like a new phone.
I have been using mikg since I rooted my 2 Evos. I tried cm7 and I went back to mikg because the sence. I used cm9 for 2 days and is so amazing. I do like it way more, even without 4g. It is so smooth, just the best ROM I ever tried. But, there is always a but, since cm9 is an AOSP I expect better battery life. In 2 hrs went from 95% to 15%. Today in the morning went from 100% to 75% in half Hour. So I had to went back to mikg cuz I have more than 24 hrs w/o charging. I tried to find some trick or any scrip or something to get better battery life but I did not find anything.
Please I will really appreciate any help on this.
Thanks!!!
PT; I cant post in the cm9 thread because I don't have 10 posts, So that's why I start a new thread
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Have you tried to flash the Mason SBC kernel with it? I think the cm9 port has a mason kernel baked in but it doesn't have SBC. I've been running the Mason I .15rc3 kernel with it and battery life has been great. Also, give the rom+kernel a few days to settle in before passing judgement on battery life. I've found that after giving a fresh install of a rom/kernel a few days the battery life will improve.
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Have you tried to flash the Mason SBC kernel with it? I think the cm9 port has a mason kernel baked in but it doesn't have SBC. I've been running the Mason I .15rc3 kernel with it and battery life has been great. Also, give the rom+kernel a few days to settle in before passing judgement on battery life. I've found that after giving a fresh install of a rom/kernel a few days the battery life will improve.
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Thank you, I will try that kernel to see how it goes.

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Thank you, I will try that kernel to see how it goes.
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Yea try it out and let us know. Just remember, with SBC kernels, you want to let the phone charge for about another hour or so after it reports that it is fully charged in order to get the full SBC effect.
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Yea try it out and let us know. Just remember, with SBC kernels, you want to let the phone charge for about another hour or so after it reports that it is fully charged in order to get the full SBC effect.
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I get your advise and I have to tell you that I notice the difference in just 10 mins. Now we are talking about. I was off today so I decide to play with my Evo to test this kernel, I spend almost 5 hrs(straight) between playing with settings, browsing the internet, setting some apps and watching videos from the internet(2 hrs maybe) and I'm on 20% right now. I think that's pretty good. Thank you for the advice!!!

I don't know about u guys but on my evo using stock battery which is 1500mah will last more then 24hrs using cm9.
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culua said:
I don't know about u guys but on my evo using stock battery which is 1500mah will last more then 24hrs using cm9.
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I have the 1500 mah stock batery too and with cm9-stock kernel I had a poor bat-life, Yesterday I flash the Mason I .15rc3 kernel and so far I'm impressed.
My set up is;
Evo 003 stock battery
cm9 nighties 05/10
Mason I .15rc3 kernel, Wheatley governor (min cpu 245mhz - max cpu 1075mhz)

sirlinux03 said:
I have the 1500 mah stock batery too and with cm9-stock kernel I had a poor bat-life, Yesterday I flash the Mason I .15rc3 kernel and so far I'm impressed.
My set up is;
Evo 003 stock battery
cm9 nighties 05/10
Mason I .15rc3 kernel, Wheatley governor (min cpu 245mhz - max cpu 1075mhz)
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Yea when I flash it already came with MANSON kernal. I did not even mess around with the CPU.
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Just thought I would post this...Running the unofficial CM9 from JMZ Taylor with the Mason v0.14 non-sbc kernel that comes baked into the ROM and using vipermod to lower voltage by 50mv

culua said:
Yea when I flash it already came with MANSON kernal. I did not even mess around with the CPU.
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CM9 comes with a MANSON kernel, but in not the same one. The one that I flashed is the "I 15r3", means that is the 3rd released candidate so is not a final version yet. I'm not sure whats the one that comes with cm9, but I think is a basic version of Manson Kernel made for cm9.
Remember this are electronic devices, maybe whats works for me don't work for you and vice versa. This is a great example. The cm9 stock kernel works great for you, I didn't get the same as you, but I get it with another kernel.

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Just thought I would post this...Running the unofficial CM9 from JMZ Taylor with the Mason v0.14 non-sbc kernel that comes baked into the ROM and using vipermod to lower voltage by 50mv
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that's looks awesome!!

sirlinux03 said:
that's looks awesome!!
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I have messed around with all of the governors and really found for my device that the performance governor believe it or not gives me the best battery life with this rom...well put about the differences in results! Posting setups gives others ideas to try for themselves to see the results!!

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CM9 comes with a MANSON kernel, but in not the same one. The one that I flashed is the "I 15r3", means that is the 3rd released candidate so is not a final version yet. I'm not sure whats the one that comes with cm9, but I think is a basic version of Manson Kernel made for cm9.
Remember this are electronic devices, maybe whats works for me don't work for you and vice versa. This is a great example. The cm9 stock kernel works great for you, I didn't get the same as you, but I get it with another kernel.
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Yea that's true. But my GPS isn't working well anymore before it take only a sec to locked my location I need it for my work I travel a lot so I might flash back to sense or cm7.
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culua said:
Yea that's true. But my GPS isn't working well anymore before it take only a sec to locked my location I need it for my work I travel a lot so I might flash back to sense or cm7.
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Well curiously I get lost Today when I was driving and I was scared cuz I haven't tested before and it worked great for me. I used it with a voice command and responded very quick and very well.

I think that's pretty cool.