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I've been following nexus one development since it gets the most love of any other android device in xda.One of the main things going for it are the undervolting kernel's.It seams to improve battery by a huge margin for most users and the oc part is also nice but i am mostly intrested in battery life since the hd2 has horrid battery in general not only in android.i know that that we are still a few months away from 99% working android but it still it will be nice to see that
Anyone?A simple "no" would be enough
cotulla's latest kernel has a lower voltage kernel so it should be possible to make it lower, but this may make things a bit unstable.
Im sure that will come with time. I think they are trying to get everything working before tampering with the voltage and overclocking it.
Thanks for the answers i will be waiting patiently
I'm getting better battery life than with winmo, Android is my daily OS.
Spoofy said:
I'm getting better battery life than with winmo, Android is my daily OS.
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+1 on that I've been getting much more life with the android hd²
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I get about the same or a little better battery life on android but that does not say much.The HD2 main weakness is battery.It has one of the smallest battery's out of any smartphone coupled with 4.3" LCD screen.I know that hd2 can't have the same battry life as the nexus one but at it's current state even with medium usage i don't get it to last more than 10-12 hours
I've always seen people saying that GB/ICS has better battery life than Froyo and I don't understand why. I have had the Vibrant for 2 years, I've flashed almost all popular roms but I don't know how people get better battery on GB/ICS.
To tell the truth, I haven't had much experiences with GB. It was just bad. Performance ain't much better than Froyo (perhaps worse), stability is nowhere close since there's no official release (source) for the Vibrant, battery is just worse than Froyo. GB didn't last more than a week on my phone and I never looked back. Even Sombionix himself said that GB overall is just a worse ROM compared to Froyo.
ICS roms have decent battery life but again, they aren't better than Froyo at all. I really liked using ICS, it has a plethora of features, performance improvements over Froyo and the interface are just sick but the poorer battery life is keeping me away from ICS roms. I have tried ICZen, Slim, Passion, RemICS and CM9, none of their battery life beats Froyo really. I usually charge the phone fully before going to sleep and when I wake up, battery will drop to 91~92% with nothing on, no 3G/Wifi/apps at all. Froyo would have had much crazier idle battery consumption, being about 95~96% most of the time through the night. Another thing about ICS is that the GPS is seriously broken and if activated, the GPSLocationProvider will drain the hell outta your battery...
P/S: This is mainly a battery life discussion thread, please do not talk about how easy you could charge the phone or so.
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I've always seen people saying that GB/ICS has better battery life than Froyo and I don't understand why. I have had the Vibrant for 2 years, I've flashed almost all popular roms but I don't know how people get better battery on GB/ICS.
To tell the truth, I haven't had much experiences with GB. It was just bad. Performance ain't much better than Froyo (perhaps worse), stability is nowhere close since there's no official release (source) for the Vibrant, battery is just worse than Froyo. GB didn't last more than a week on my phone and I never looked back. Even Sombionix himself said that GB overall is just a worse ROM compared to Froyo.
ICS roms have decent battery life but again, they aren't better than Froyo at all. I really liked using ICS, it has a plethora of features, performance improvements over Froyo and the interface are just sick but the poorer battery life is keeping me away from ICS roms. I have tried ICZen, Slim, Passion, RemICS and CM9, none of their battery life beats Froyo really. I usually charge the phone fully before going to sleep and when I wake up, battery will drop to 91~92% with nothing on, no 3G/Wifi/apps at all. Froyo would have had much crazier idle battery consumption, being about 95~96% most of the time through the night. Another thing about ICS is that the GPS is seriously broken and if activated, the GPSLocationProvider will drain the hell outta your battery...
P/S: This is mainly a battery life discussion thread, please do not talk about how easy you could charge the phone or so.
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I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone posting about awesome battery life on GB....especially not better than froyo. I don't even think I've ever really seen anyone say that ICS battery life was better than froyo either for that matter O-o I mean, for me...battery life is pretty satisfying on all of them....but for me, if I can wake up in the morning and use my vibrant to my hearts content and when I go to sleep still have some charge,...I am happy lol depending on what Rom I'm running though...I tend to get between 1-2 days so I'm usually happy. But froyo is definitely the best standby and such...on ICS I may have like 35% by the end of the night...but froyo, i might be at 55% or even 75% still lol
I have seen a plenty:
"With an unofficial upgrade to my Samsung Galaxy S (mid-2010!!! phone), ICS made battery life much more useful than GB or Froyo ever did. A lot smoother too, and that's just on 512 mb of RAM!"
Source: http://www.androidcentral.com/why-we-dont-need-another-version-android-year
Sometimes it just makes me wonder is it because that our ICS build was never official, that's why other phones are enjoying better battery life than us?
The reason why I care that much is because I'm using the Vibrant and I'm not from the states, there's no way for me to get a replacement if the battery goes haywire and I plan to use this phone for a long time to come. The fact that ICS uses battery faster just means that battery is gonna die sooner.
Wow vibrant still in the figth, grat phone by the way.
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My Vibrant's battery performace is horrible on many roms. The worst is at CM 7, 7.1, ICS Passion. It gets better at Bionix (Froyo) and to my surprise Slim ICS gave me the best battery performance. I pair Sub Zero kernel with Slim and this combination give me approximately 24 hours of normal usage in one full charge.
It's not good enough, I know. But my phone has the crappiest battery I ever seen. With ICS, I can barely get more than 8 hours with normal usage. I got to turn off 3G, GPS, Wifi, no wifgets etc for the battery to be acceptable for normal use and that is unacceptable.
So I think Slim ICS + SubZero kernel definitely worth a try for great battery.
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I've always seen people saying that GB/ICS has better battery life than Froyo and I don't understand why. I have had the Vibrant for 2 years, I've flashed almost all popular roms but I don't know how people get better battery on GB/ICS.
To tell the truth, I haven't had much experiences with GB. It was just bad. Performance ain't much better than Froyo (perhaps worse), stability is nowhere close since there's no official release (source) for the Vibrant, battery is just worse than Froyo. GB didn't last more than a week on my phone and I never looked back. Even Sombionix himself said that GB overall is just a worse ROM compared to Froyo.
ICS roms have decent battery life but again, they aren't better than Froyo at all. I really liked using ICS, it has a plethora of features, performance improvements over Froyo and the interface are just sick but the poorer battery life is keeping me away from ICS roms. I have tried ICZen, Slim, Passion, RemICS and CM9, none of their battery life beats Froyo really. I usually charge the phone fully before going to sleep and when I wake up, battery will drop to 91~92% with nothing on, no 3G/Wifi/apps at all. Froyo would have had much crazier idle battery consumption, being about 95~96% most of the time through the night. Another thing about ICS is that the GPS is seriously broken and if activated, the GPSLocationProvider will drain the hell outta your battery...
P/S: This is mainly a battery life discussion thread, please do not talk about how easy you could charge the phone or so.
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Heres from my experiences so far: (crappiest battery to best) GB > FROYO > ICS
All GB roms for me except Revolution ROM JVQ and a few others had the worst battery life in history. Froyo is better, but as soon as I do something on the phone, bam, it drains. Best battery rom for me on froyo is probably Bionix V Fishmanmod edition. ICS, tons of good stuff. SlimICS with Subzero = best battery for me.
Now for Jellybean So far, it has actually pretty good battery. im still testing though. On CM10 Preview by FE (v8) with devil 1.0.4 test3 Jb kernel, its pretty good. Pretty smooth, although Google Now lags a little bit from time to time. Its very nice. Think I'll be staying on it for a bit.
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Heres from my experiences so far: (crappiest battery to best) GB > FROYO > ICS
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You do see that means GB is greater than froyo which is greater than ICS
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ICS is best for me, GB and Froyo were similar
ICS seems to have the best DeepSleep/Not being used battery usage. I've used Bionix, MIUI Lithium (GB), ICS Passion and ICS Zen. When I switch to ICS I was able to stop using Juice Defender and just use without worrying about it.
I think gb was a little better because I got so sick of all the ics stuff.
henkohan said:
My Vibrant's battery performace is horrible on many roms. The worst is at CM 7, 7.1, ICS Passion.
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Oh man tell me about it. I could barely muster a day's worth of use on a full charge running CM7. Hopefully Slim ICS will be better in that regard.
Hey guys I got my Nexus 4 a month ago, I am happy with it but I'v been tempted to switch to iPhone 5 because the batter life is better on it " note that i am an android user " but before I want to do the switch I want to ask is there a ROM with 4.2 Jelly bean android that Can like Make the Nexus 4 Last MORE than the stock android that it got ?
and if there is which one is it ?
and is it hard to root + install rom on the N4 ?
Well for starters what is your current battery life stats.
and Also iPhone's are known to have a better battery life than android purely due to the way the OS works. The only devices that can meet or exceed this depending on who you are is the Note 2 and the Razer Maxx
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Hey guys I got my Nexus 4 a month ago, I am happy with it but I'v been tempted to switch to iPhone 5 because the batter life is better on it " note that i am an android user " but before I want to do the switch I want to ask is there a ROM with 4.2 Jelly bean android that Can like Make the Nexus 4 Last MORE than the stock android that it got ?
and if there is which one is it ?
and is it hard to root + install rom on the N4 ?
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You could root and try some of the different kernels. This effects battery more.
Personally I have found battery life dramatically improved with Franco's Kernel but not everyone/every phone see's the same results so you just have to try them yourself.
Rooting is very easy if you follow the instructions and read carefully.
The Nexus 4 stock is one of the worst Android phones I have owned in terms of battery life (2nd to only the Inspire) but using modified kernels made it much more reasonable for me.
With Next android around the corner(next month), I would not root or install the other ROMS. I was flashaholic Once with myh ARC S. But i have stayed on stock since i got my NEX4.
Stock is good for me. Love the pure android. Just wish KLP brings battery optimizations.
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The Nexus 4 stock is one of the worst Android phones I have owned in terms of battery life (2nd to only the Inspire)
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You found it worse than the SGS3, Personally i find it better however i had the international I9300 and it lasted half the SOT
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You found it worse than the SGS3, Personally i find it better however i had the international I9300 and it lasted half the SOT
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I had the AT&T S3 but yeah the S3 got pretty good battery life for me. Not amazing, but very average. I at least never had to worry about it dieing in 1 day while barely using it, which I can't say for stock N4. I do have one of the very early revisions so things may have gotten better?
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I had the AT&T S3 but yeah the S3 got pretty good battery life for me. Not amazing, but very average. I at least never had to worry about it dieing in 1 day while barely using it, which I can't say for stock N4. I do have one of the very early revisions so things may have gotten better?
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Possibly could be the latter. I got my Nexus 4 on Monday so its still a fresh baby but it seems to last longer than my Galaxy S3 ever did :laugh:
I don't find anything that makes my battery last longer. I get a day's use out of it for the most part do I'm happy
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for battery life get a custom kernel, different rom had no huge effect on battery for me. I have one of the first batches and I'm using franco and it lasts longer than the s3. And also reflashing stock rom may improve your battery life aswell.
I would like to know the opinion of you guys about the battery life of the Find 5 and possible future improvements.
Using the latest AOSP ROMS (in my case @maxwen AOKP, Aarons's PA 3.99 and CodefireX) I noticed that battery life is much better then on Oppo's Color ROM, yet it's still far from what I would expect from the device, I barely get more that 2 - 3 hours of screen time out of it on a daily basis. Compared to my last phone (S3) it's actually pretty bad.
Is there a chance that this is due to still poor sw sources from Oppo and might likely improve in the future or is the current battery life as good as it gets, what do you think?
uishido said:
I would like to know the opinion of you guys about the battery life of the Find 5 and possible future improvements.
Using the latest AOSP ROMS (in my case @maxwen AOKP, Aarons's PA 3.99 and CodefireX) I noticed that battery life is much better then on Oppo's Color ROM, yet it's still far from what I would expect from the device, I barely get more that 2 - 3 hours of screen time out of it on a daily basis. Compared to my last phone (S3) it's actually pretty bad.
Is there a chance that this is due to still poor sw sources from Oppo and might likely improve in the future or is the current battery life as good as it gets, what do you think?
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Well, I hope the battery life gets better overall, I get around 3-4 hours on screen time, and that's pretty darn good. Using Spotify/Soundcloud all day long aswell as webbrowsing, Reddit, Twitter and Facebook. I guess the battery life is OK, but I hope it'll get better.
This phone got almost the same batterylife as my S3 4G, which is pretty bad. :/
And I wouldn't hope for Oppo to improve their sources, since it seems like they've no idea what they're doing. ColorROM is still a huge mess!
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Well, I hope the battery life gets better overall, I get around 3-4 hours on screen time, and that's pretty darn good. Using Spotify/Soundcloud all day long aswell as webbrowsing, Reddit, Twitter and Facebook. I guess the battery life is OK, but I hope it'll get better.
This phone got almost the same batterylife as my S3 4G, which is pretty bad. :/
And I wouldn't hope for Oppo to improve their sources, since it seems like they've no idea what they're doing. ColorROM is still a huge mess!
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Thanks,
I agree that Color Rom is a nightmare but one can hope...
You seem to use your phone pretty much the same way I do but with somewhat better battery life. May I ask which rom/kernel you are using?
I'm currently on AOKP nightly from 28th September
uishido said:
Thanks,
I agree that Color Rom is a nightmare but one can hope...
You seem to use your phone pretty much the same way I do but with somewhat better battery life. May I ask which rom/kernel you are using?
I'm currently on AOKP nightly from 28th September
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Using latest CodefireX rom with audio fix, I've disabled some system things which seems to help with the battery. Just give me a PM if you want to know exactly what things I've disabled and how I've setup my phone!
Cheers,
Sebastian
I can't understand why everyone says he gets better batterylife with custom roms.
I tried the latest AOSP, PA, Cyanogenmod and gave them all a chance. I even changed the settings that hard, that i couldn't say it was a smartphone anymore... but i've never noticed better batterylife than with any color rom! And all the bugs on custom roms...
Actually i run Color ROM 1.0.1 (4.2.2)
Just bevore i ran Stable Cyanogenmod 10.1.3, PA 3.99, AOKP Maxween
Did you get other experience with the same roms or did you use other roms?
PipoMezenen said:
I can't understand why everyone says he gets better batterylife with custom roms.
I tried the latest AOSP, PA, Cyanogenmod and gave them all a chance. I even changed the settings that hard, that i couldn't say it was a smartphone anymore... but i've never noticed better batterylife than with any color rom! And all the bugs on custom roms...
Actually i run Color ROM 1.0.1 (4.2.2)
Just bevore i ran Stable Cyanogenmod 10.1.3, PA 3.99, AOKP Maxween
Did you get other experience with the same roms or did you use other roms?
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for me, I'm using the CM10.2 by maxwen / etc... definitely much better battery life, especially when on idle/screen-off/sleep... I can make the phone last >24 hours (couldn't do it with the original oppo rom)
settings that I've been using on that kernel: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45835020&postcount=152
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for me, I'm using the CM10.2 by maxwen / etc... definitely much better battery life, especially when on idle/screen-off/sleep... I can make the phone last >24 hours (couldn't do it with the original oppo rom)
settings that I've been using on that kernel: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45835020&postcount=152
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Ok. Yes, above 24h would be difficult with the color rom. But i never tried to reach 24h with cpu & gpu underclocking...
I think i use my phone relative often and with the ColorRom 4.2.2 i easily reach 12-14h.
And my thoughts on custom roms were, that wehen i have onscreen time i can watch them percents battery life falling and because of this i only got about 6-8h battery life with almost every Custom Rom.
I will post some screenshots of the batterylife with the ColorRom later this day and let you interpret them, ok?
Exactly what the title says. I've been looking here and there for some ROMs that I would like to flash and I found quite a number of them to try out. However I want to hear from the experts who have been flashing custom ROMs all the time. What would you say would be the best ROM on battery life? I am currently running Hyperdrive RLS21 and I'll say it does decent on the battery life albeit the standby time can improve (I lose around 10% in a night if I leave it 100% uncharged).
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Exactly what the title says. I've been looking here and there for some ROMs that I would like to flash and I found quite a number of them to try out. However I want to hear from the experts who have been flashing custom ROMs all the time. What would you say would be the best ROM on battery life? I am currently running Hyperdrive RLS21 and I'll say it does decent on the battery life albeit the standby time can improve (I lose around 10% in a night if I leave it 100% uncharged).
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First off battery life is subjective and usually has very little to do with the ROM. It is the kernel and settings which usually have most affect on battery life amongst the same user. This is not something you can compare from user to user but must be compared by the same user under the same conditions.
Let me give you some examples..a heavy gamer will get vastly different battery life from a heavy phone/text user. A person in low signal areas that has many apps synching will get horrible battery life compared to someone who has very little apps or great signal. I think you get the idea.
Kernel settings such as governor/scheduler/OC/UC choices will vastly affect your battery life. You really either need to compare ROMs yourself, or find someone that has compared ROMs under the same situation and similar use as you to get any useful data. I see that you asked for opinions from those flashing many ROMs. Other factors can affect that too...were they all clean flashed? Were any adjustments made?
Hope this helps! And hope you find the perfect ROM for you! Happy Flashing!
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First off battery life is subjective and usually has very little to do with the ROM. It is the kernel and settings which usually have most affect on battery life amongst the same user. This is not something you can compare from user to user but must be compared by the same user under the same conditions.
Let me give you some examples..a heavy gamer will get vastly different battery life from a heavy phone/text user. A person in low signal areas that has many apps synching will get horrible battery life compared to someone who has very little apps or great signal. I think you get the idea.
Kernel settings such as governor/scheduler/OC/UC choices will vastly affect your battery life. You really either need to compare ROMs yourself, or find someone that has compared ROMs under the same situation and similar use as you to get any useful data. I see that you asked for opinions from those flashing many ROMs. Other factors can affect that too...were they all clean flashed? Were any adjustments made?
Hope this helps! And hope you find the perfect ROM for you! Happy Flashing!
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Problem is that I'm on a locked bootloader (ATT variant) so it's only natural that I should ask for a ROM that could give the best battery life since I can't flash any kernels
I'm no expert but I've been flashing ROMs for my S2, now my s4 for last 3 years. I've found recently that Tesla has the best battery life, 4% drain over 8 hrs at night. Best ever