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Battery life on custom roms

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.

Bus Driver said:
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.

JAG131990 said:
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

galaxyII said:
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

Sense 3.0 rom with best battery life

I am far from a noob, its just that I have been on aosp roms for months now. I have been checking out these new 3.0 roms but I never see information on battery life. Could you tell me your set up and how your battery life is. I also worry about the performance but need the phone to get through not of the day. Thank you
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I was on stock OTA GB for about a month while I wasn't able to root, and my battery life was about 6 hours with constant lowest brightness display (that is, without the display turning off during that time). I could manage about 12 hours of minimal use.
I'm now on Synergy RLS1, and I have not noticed any improvement. I've done battery calibration and conditioning and nothing's changed.
I'm using the stock battery. I have a 3500mAh battery that doesn't seem to live much longer, but I haven't used it since I've rooted.

PwnCloud said:
I was on stock OTA GB for about a month while I wasn't able to root, and my battery life was about 6 hours with constant lowest brightness display (that is, without the display turning off during that time). I could manage about 12 hours of minimal use.
I'm now on Synergy RLS1, and I have not noticed any improvement. I've done battery calibration and conditioning and nothing's changed.
I'm using the stock battery. I have a 3500mAh battery that doesn't seem to live much longer, but I haven't used it since I've rooted.
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Oh wow, I know stock sucks, but I figured that rooted sense would at least be better. Just wondering have you tried to change your kernel? What kernel are you on? Also have you tried any tips on here, to lower down your sync and such? Thanks

I'm using Synergy RLS1 and I have the extended battery as well. I got like 27 hours on a single charge. I don't know if that is amazing or not but, it is better than when I ran the stock rom

Swyzzlestickz said:
I'm using Synergy RLS1 and I have the extended battery as well. I got like 27 hours on a single charge. I don't know if that is amazing or not but, it is better than when I ran the stock rom
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I consider that good lol... I don't have an extended battery but still. What kernal are you running? Thanks

redsoxfan320 said:
Oh wow, I know stock sucks, but I figured that rooted sense would at least be better. Just wondering have you tried to change your kernel? What kernel are you on? Also have you tried any tips on here, to lower down your sync and such? Thanks
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I'm using aggressive Freedom v0.8.5. That's my battery life after 5 or 6 cycles. I don't know what the problem is either. I've seen other people with good battery life with the same ROM and kernel. Even had it underclocked.
I'm going to try CM7 and see if there's any sort of improvement.

PwnCloud said:
I'm using aggressive Freedom v0.8.5. That's my battery life after 5 or 6 cycles. I don't know what the problem is either. I've seen other people with good battery life with the same ROM and kernel. Even had it underclocked.
I'm going to try CM7 and see if there's any sort of improvement.
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How old is your battery? Also did you flash it right, I usually wipe the device, cache and delvik cache 2-3 times each.

redsoxfan320 said:
How old is your battery? Also did you flash it right, I usually wipe the device, cache and delvik cache 2-3 times each.
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I got the phone new from Sprint just a little over a month ago. I flashed it along with the rom, so I wiped it including cache and dalvik cache.
I bought the extended battery about a week after thinking that my original battery may have been defective and that it would be nice to have a longer lifetime, but it only doubled (which isn't drastic considering how short it lasts with the stock battery).

PwnCloud said:
I got the phone new from Sprint just a little over a month ago. I flashed it along with the rom, so I wiped it including cache and dalvik cache.
I bought the extended battery about a week after thinking that my original battery may have been defective and that it would be nice to have a longer lifetime, but it only doubled (which isn't drastic considering how short it lasts with the stock battery).
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Oh okay. That may be a bad evol Sometimes phones jut don't work right with a rom. I'm gonna try and flash this rom. You should try a different rom
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I'm running mikg stock with nothing extra and i get a good solid day of moderate usage..

marksedge said:
I'm running mikg stock with nothing extra and i get a good solid day of moderate usage..
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Thanks and congrats on the first post

Haha thanks ..I do way more reading than posting

marksedge said:
Haha thanks ..I do way more reading than posting
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lol I was like that, and i'm still like that on other forums.

I dont think that my rom is 3.0,i believe its 2.1but I may be wrong.anyway,that said,im running Synergy RC2 with godmode.ive noticed an inbelieveable change in battery life.i had about 92% like 9 hours ago, im at 76% now and thats with using a few apps when I woke up.godmode utilizes a hybrid filesystem witg Yaffs2 and EXT.im still learning about it,but I guess using this hybrid FS makes performance.phenominal.ive seen an amazingg improvement in battery life.im using the stock battery as well.it comes with a stock kernel,so im not under or overclocking.
Evo 4G Synergy RC2

Using EVOlved with golden monkey and getting a good 15-18 hrs of moderate use on 3g

Thanks to both of you. Last night I flashed Synergy 3.0 with Freedom. I'm on 60% after about 11 hours. Most of which the phone was sleeping.

Check my Sense setup. A day of moderate usage ends in about 50% battery left
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tropicalbrit said:
Check my Sense setup. A day of moderate usage ends in about 50% battery left
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I will check it out. Thanks

I'm new to the forums, new to EVO - coming from iphone 4, I must say.. have tried atleast 15 different roms, all of which drastically suck the life out of my battery.. gingerbread evo deck definitely seemed to be the best for my battery life.. I'm trying MikG right now and it seems hideous, love how it runs/looks but going from 100-80% battery, in less than 20minutes is not good. All i've been doing is browsing tapatalk forums.
Not sure what I've been doing wrong, I do ofcourse do a complete wipe between rom changes. Wipe cache, dalvik, data, and run superwipe vr - using armon latest. ( think that's what it is called lol)

Im running synergy rls1 with Freedom 0.8.5 morefreedom version and getting a good 16 hrs of moderate use. Also have carasoul 3.0 rosie so it might take it down a little bit.

How else can I get battery to original state?

Like others in the forum have mentioned, there is a very serious bug that causes the phone to just turn off when something more power intensive is turned on (especially mobile data).
I'm fairly sure my battery still holds a lot of charge after my phone turns off, and I'm getting poor battery life because of that. Changing back to old roms doesn't fix it, but I don't want to buy a new battery because I think this one should still be healthy.
So, my question is, what can I do? Is there anything else I should wipe besides batterystats.bin? Something a reflash or data/cache wipe doesn't remove? I tried to fully discharge the battery, but the phone always turns off much before it's empty.
Also, how can I be sure this bug wouldn't affect my new battery, if I were to buy a new one?
Your help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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jpaisneto said:
Like others in the forum have mentioned, there is a very serious bug that causes the phone to just turn off when something more power intensive is turned on (especially mobile data).
I'm fairly sure my battery still holds a lot of charge after my phone turns off, and I'm getting poor battery life because of that. Changing back to old roms doesn't fix it, but I don't want to buy a new battery because I think this one should still be healthy.
So, my question is, what can I do? Is there anything else I should wipe besides batterystats.bin? Something a reflash or data/cache wipe doesn't remove? I tried to fully discharge the battery, but the phone always turns off much before it's empty.
Also, how can I be sure this bug wouldn't affect my new battery, if I were to buy a new one?
Your help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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For better battery backup, I recommend you to flash "Fugumod" kernel v2.4 Beta 3 (Flash standard edition if 800mhz version causes lag). I have tested the battery life and I got 5-6 days backup (Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS is on)

J.Purungrit said:
For better battery backup, I recommend you to flash "Fugumod" kernel v2.4 Beta 3 (Flash standard edition if 800mhz version causes lag). I have tested the battery life and I got 5-6 days backup (Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS is on)
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Thing is, I'm not getting bad battery backup. It's more like the phone just turns off if I actually try to use it. With mobile data on and to some extent wifi it just turns off in minutes or seconds. A full charge lasts for 2 hours or less with 3G on. I've tried other roms and kernels, including stock, but nothing fixed it.

For example, is there an app/method to prevent the phone from shutting down, only allowing a"hardware" shutdown? I mean only when the battery reached a critical voltage and stopped discharging for safety reasons, or something. Maybe that way I could properly calibrate it.

J.Purungrit said:
For better battery backup, I recommend you to flash "Fugumod" kernel v2.4 Beta 3 (Flash standard edition if 800mhz version causes lag). I have tested the battery life and I got 5-6 days backup (Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS is on)
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It works with cm7?
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J.Purungrit said:
For better battery backup, I recommend you to flash "Fugumod" kernel v2.4 Beta 3 (Flash standard edition if 800mhz version causes lag). I have tested the battery life and I got 5-6 days backup (Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS is on)
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I used the fugumod 2.4 beta 3 but it didn't work properly...it was laggy,the phone was freezing from time to time. ..now im back on g3mod OC and my battery lasts 2-3 days and for oc thats ok
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jpaisneto said:
Thing is, I'm not getting bad battery backup. It's more like the phone just turns off if I actually try to use it. With mobile data on and to some extent wifi it just turns off in minutes or seconds. A full charge lasts for 2 hours or less with 3G on. I've tried other roms and kernels, including stock, but nothing fixed it.
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What are u using now and what have you tried?
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nanos7 said:
What are u using now and what have you tried?
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Batter backup started getting worse even when mobile data was off, so I just bought a new battery on eBay. It seems to have fixed it
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Glad to hear it! ;-)
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Got this issue when I upgraded my cell from kyrillos' v 4 to kyrillos' v10. Well that might be a bug in gingerbread upgrade for G3 but never experienced that when I was on official Rom or even when upto. Froyo. Well for now I am gonna switch to ICS and see if issue persists.
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s2 in jb 4.1.2 battery life

hi. I am o supernexus build 5 wth siyah kernel. I got round 7 hiurs if heavy usage on gs2. I've done facebook, viber, internet using stock browser and downloading around 200mb zip file. what can you say about this battery life. its my first time to use gs2 and I am using 2000mah. the battery life seems pretty bad in my opinion. I will attach screenshot of my hardware info, battery use and screen time. hoping for any opinions out there
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I think is good , for me with stock battery (1650mah) i get 3 hours and 30-40 minutes (screen on time), wifi on , screen brightness auto
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I think the battery life should be better with a 2000mah battery..
Is the battery properly callibrated??

krazy1101 said:
I think is good , for me with stock battery (1650mah) i get 3 hours and 30-40 minutes (screen on time), wifi on , screen brightness auto
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oh really that means I should be getting better because I am on 2000mah but it seems not. Im not sure what's the problem if its the battery or the kernel. I also used an ICS firmware from Samsung I9100TDULP4. I don't know if that affects the battery life
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peRFect! said:
I think the battery life should be better with a 2000mah battery..
Is the battery properly callibrated??
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Well I dont know if it is properly calibrated. By the way I got this unit from my uncle so I am not really sure if the battery is still good. How do we know if its still good. I dont know how old is this battery. How do we calibrate the battery and does the room affect this battery life?
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by the way I just installed this rom A week ago. The battery takes 3-4 hours to be charged using my xperia charger
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I have suggestion for you , go to miuiandroid.com and download the latest build , install Siyah Kernel v6.0b5 with that and you will love the battery timing on that (Trust me, i am using it right now)

Mr.KiLLeR said:
I have suggestion for you , go to miuiandroid.com and download the latest build , install Siyah Kernel v6.0b5 with that and you will love the battery timing on that (Trust me, i am using it right now)
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you mean downloading the miui rom? yeah definitely I'll give it a try after slimbean which I will try if I see no improvement on the bAttery. Has anyone had 2000mah and siyah kernel with supernexus rom build 5? What are your timings?
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infinitylook said:
you mean downloading the miui rom? yeah definitely I'll give it a try after slimbean which I will try if I see no improvement on the bAttery. Has anyone had 2000mah and siyah kernel with supernexus rom build 5? What are your timings?
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I have tried Slim Bean too and after trying that i came to Miui Rom

anyone who have experience with 2000battery
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anyone who have experience with 2000battery
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right now I am using the original 1650 mah stock battery of s2. I've been doing a lot of file transfers as of this moment via e.s. file explorer and currently I am transferring almost 13gb of data via wifi from my laptop. its been awake for 4 hours now with screen time of 1 hour and 30min. e.s. file explorer is keeping the system awake for 3 hours. I did some facebook and viber chats. screen at 35% brightness.. do you think this is the expected life of the stock battery? I am fairly new to samsung and I found the battery life to be disappointing even with the stock jelly bean rom from samsung. I will post some pics of the battery stats and cpu stats from cpu spy. another thing though. is there a good app from the market where I can test my two batteries and compare them? thank you
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infinitylook said:
right now I am using the original 1650 mah stock battery of s2. I've been doing a lot of file transfers as of this moment via e.s. file explorer and currently I am transferring almost 13gb of data via wifi from my laptop. its been awake for 4 hours now with screen time of 1 hour and 30min. e.s. file explorer is keeping the system awake for 3 hours. I did some facebook and viber chats. screen at 35% brightness.. do you think this is the expected life of the stock battery? I am fairly new to samsung and I found the battery life to be disappointing even with the stock jelly bean rom from samsung. I will post some pics of the battery stats and cpu stats from cpu spy. another thing though. is there a good app from the market where I can test my two batteries and compare them? thank you
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To callibrate battery..first completely drain the battery to about 5%, then charge the phone non stop without disturbing it till 100% and immediately remove the charger..again fully drain the battery and follow the above steps and u will get better battery life after a few cycles!
About roms..battery life does differ from rom to rom...i suggest u could check the custom kernels packed with zzmoove governor, ithat particular governor definitely improves the battery backup!
And in the above post es file explorer is eating ur battery..for that u should download greenify and hibernate apps continuously running in background!

great. I will follow your steps. one more thing. how can I know if the battery is still good or if its still holding the proper charge its suppose to have? thanks
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best I can get is about 3 days standby in jb stock.

I use the 2000mAh battery is primary battery.. no big surprise to expect here, capacity is just 21% more by construction...
With wifi on, JB burns in my case about 3% in IDLE.. stock kernel.. and about 5% in 3G mode, IDLE.. then battery drains more or less fast depending on screen on, phone calls etc. I use the phone extensively for work (email sync & replies, phone calls, sms and voip) and i have to topup the battery twice or trice a day!
Have tried various custom kernels with all sort of magic to reduce battery drain.. more or less effectively.. sometimes with less stability.
Right now trying out latest dorimanx 8.27.. seems thatn IDLE with WIFI on drains around 2% per hour.. better than stock.. still not quite awesome
I miss the GB battery life.. but JB is so beautiful in comparison, I cannot go back!

jmarcnms said:
I use the 2000mAh battery is primary battery.. no big surprise to expect here, capacity is just 21% more by construction...
With wifi on, JB burns in my case about 3% in IDLE.. stock kernel.. and about 5% in 3G mode, IDLE.. then battery drains more or less fast depending on screen on, phone calls etc. I use the phone extensively for work (email sync & replies, phone calls, sms and voip) and i have to topup the battery twice or trice a day!
Have tried various custom kernels with all sort of magic to reduce battery drain.. more or less effectively.. sometimes with less stability.
Right now trying out latest dorimanx 8.27.. seems thatn IDLE with WIFI on drains around 2% per hour.. better than stock.. still not quite awesome
I miss the GB battery life.. but JB is so beautiful in comparison, I cannot go back!
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Does Jb stock for you has better life or does custom rom have more? I really like the custom roms but as per observation stock rom offers more battery time. Right now I just reverted to stock rom i9100xwlss. Touchwiz really sucks. Supernexus is really beautiful but offers less battery (but I will have to try yet their latest build). Also one of the reasons for going back to stock is the camera shot quality. Custom roms really have poor camera quality. I guess when it comes to lowlight shots the stock roms are best. So much for that. Does stock rom offer more battry for you or custom rom does?
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SGS2 Battery Life on 4.1.2
infinitylook said:
hi. I am o supernexus build 5 wth siyah kernel. I got round 7 hiurs if heavy usage on gs2. I've done facebook, viber, internet using stock browser and downloading around 200mb zip file. what can you say about this battery life. its my first time to use gs2 and I am using 2000mah. the battery life seems pretty bad in my opinion. I will attach screenshot of my hardware info, battery use and screen time. hoping for any opinions out there
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Below is a reply in some other forum by Samsung offcials regarding a specific method to Hard-Reboot your phone after a Firmware update: This method particularly helped me improve the battery life on SGS2 after 4.1.2 update.
"1. I’m sorry you are having issues with your device after upgrading the firmware. I can understand your frustration about this.
Old systems settings can be left on the phone after an update occurs, which is why we usually recommend a full factory reset after updating. If this isn’t done your device may begin to give false readings from system resources, or experience technical problems, which may explain the issue you are having.
We would advise on doing the following, which is designed to reset the settings on your device. Please back up your device using Samsung KIES before you do this.
1) Remove the battery for at least 40 minutes, put the battery back in and allow it to fully discharge. Afterwards, perform a full battery charge with the device turned off. Do not interrupt the charging process.
2) After the battery is fully charged, we would like you to perform a full factory reset, which can be done via Settings > Backup > Reset.
This process will reset your device, remove old system files that are no longer needed and enable your device to operate normally again.
Please let us know if your device continues to experience problems after the reset so we can investigate further.
If you require any further assistance, please contact Samsung again and we will be more than happy to help.
Kind regards,
Stewart
Online Support Team
SAMSUNG Customer Support Centre

infinitylook said:
Does Jb stock for you has better life or does custom rom have more? I really like the custom roms but as per observation stock rom offers more battery time. Right now I just reverted to stock rom i9100xwlss. Touchwiz really sucks. Supernexus is really beautiful but offers less battery (but I will have to try yet their latest build). Also one of the reasons for going back to stock is the camera shot quality. Custom roms really have poor camera quality. I guess when it comes to lowlight shots the stock roms are best. So much for that. Does stock rom offer more battry for you or custom rom does?
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Actually I only use stock JB.. and trying to get it last longer with some custom kernels.. recently trying snapdragon rom, which is stock JB as well but with some S4 apk made compatible with S2... tried some time back omega, vanila rootbox and some other android builds for s2.. but was facing few stability issues / bugs and also missed some features that i was getting from stock rom.. so i gave up with these... now just aiming at stability and if possible battery endurance.. but not at the cost of stability.

[Q] What's a relatively stable ROM to replace CM7.2?

I currently have CM7.2 on my MB525.
There seem to be a billion options out there. What's are relatively stable ROMs of newer versions of Android for Defy?
I don't mind a few bugs as long as the basic functionality (GPS, Phone, Camera) works fine.
Thanks

4.1.2
I tryed some 4.1.2 and they seems to be stable. Except my latest try with slimrom that have nonworking wifi tethering and the one before this had broken pitch sensor.

Try illusion 2.1,its based on 4.2.2,
Very stable,
Or try xperia d 4.1, based on 4.1.2,
Much stable
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i'm sticking to epsylon's cm9.1 for now, at least until and unless they fix the problem with the "android os" battery draining issue.....

Well I'm not experiencing any battery drain even though system settings show android os as the main consumer. I get 1-2 days of battery life with android os as the top consumer.
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hotdog125 said:
Well I'm not experiencing any battery drain even though system settings show android os as the main consumer. I get 1-2 days of battery life with android os as the top consumer.
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well fortunate for you,but unfortunately not the same for me. when i left my phone overnight for about 10hrs with everything off (wifi, gps, sync, data) and only with mobile phone radio on (for phone call), i got the following results (as best as i could remember from memory):
1. epsylon's cm9.1 - about 0.4 to 0.5 % /hr battery drop. battery settings shows roughly:
phone idle 54%
phone standby 40%
android os 4%
note: now this is what i expected for a phone that is on "real" idle/standby!
2. quarx's cm10 (4.1.2) - about 1.1 % /hr battery drop. battery settings shows something like:
android os 60 to 70 %
screen 20 to 30 %
follows by phone idles and others.
note: i know i quoted about 2% drop in one of my previous post at quarx's cm10 thread, but i've edited that to say it was because the battery calibration was way out (after flashing cm10 about 10 times trying out every possible ways like different gapps, settings, wiping etc). i did use bbs (better battery stat) apk but it was too complicated for me to decifer, so i didn't bother.
edit: not only android os obviously indicating that something keep waking up to do something but possibly flashing the screen as well? i mean how could the screen percentage be 20-30% when the phone is just sitting there with screen off for 10 hrs??? unfortunately no one seems to care!!!

I think I know your problem. Android OS must be keeping your phone awake. Happens to me sometimes. Toggling Airplane mode on and off, or a reboot usually fixes it. Also using defy full wiper when starting is advisable.
Edit - I think you should test CM10 once more. I normally get 0.3-0.4% per hour on standby.
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hotdog125 said:
I think I know your problem. Android OS must be keeping your phone awake. Happens to me sometimes. Toggling Airplane mode on and off, or a reboot usually fixes it. Also using defy full wiper when starting is advisable.
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already tried all that but unfortunately no joy.
Edit - I think you should test CM10 once more. I normally get 0.3-0.4% per hour on standby.
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if i can get that sort of battery usage i won't be complaining either which version of cm10 are you using? i believe i was using the july 3rd version as some people recommended that to be the most stable. can't remember if i've tried the latest sep 18 version. i'll give it another go this weekend and let you knowm the results. thanks for your helps btw.

jh20 said:
already tried all that but unfortunately no joy.
if i can get that sort of battery usage i won't be complaining either which version of cm10 are you using? i believe i was using the july 3rd version as some people recommended that to be the most stable. can't remember if i've tried the latest sep 18 version. i'll give it another go this weekend and let you knowm the results. thanks for your helps btw.
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I'm testing the latest version by MarcinRN. It's surprising because my battery is almost 2 years old now.:cyclops:
EDIT - Test it out, and give BBS stats after 2-3 days. Also, restore all your apps, because some app might be rogue.

hotdog125 said:
I think I know your problem. Android OS must be keeping your phone awake. Happens to me sometimes. Toggling Airplane mode on and off, or a reboot usually fixes it. Also using defy full wiper when starting is advisable.
Edit - I think you should test CM10 once more. I normally get 0.3-0.4% per hour on standby.
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i'm back. thanks for encouraging me to try it again. don't know what i've done different this time but the latest 20130918 version is now giving me 0.55-0.60%/hr battery consumption and following stats:
android os 70%
cell standby 23%
phone idle 8%
well i'm happy with that since gingerbread was giving me about 0.7%/hr anyway. if they could fix the android os problem we might be able to get the same consumption as cm9.1 though.
details of how i flash the rom this time:
1. wipe/format the phone with defy_fullwipe_ext4.zip (proper wipe/format).
2. flash 20130918 rom.
3. flash cwm_twrp-forjellybeanroms-v2-signed.zip (for safety).
4. wipe cache and dalvik.
5. reboot. (want to test rom without gapps first).
6. switched of all signals (data, gps, sync, bluetooth and wifi) except phone radio.
7. toggle airplane mode.
8. reboot into recovery and wipe battery stat.
9. reboot phone with charger in.
10. charge phone to 100% and left the phone on standby overnight (about 10hrs)
11. checked battery stat in the morning and got about 0.55% /hr.
12. reset all settings to my liking, fresh install all apps i used, switch baseband to my region and reboot.
13. flashed tjkv's minimal gapps and reboot.
14 checked battery % before putting phone on standby for another 10hrs. got about 0.58%/hr this time. very happy
thanks again hotdog125. and my apology to the op for taking up your space. hope you found your perfect rom.