My g900t with 5.1.1 is rooted. I'm looking for roms with better battery life. Do I need one that works with lollipop or can I use one based on kitkat? I don't understand why it matters since I will be flashing it.
If anyone can recommend any custom roms that would work for me, and that are for good battery life, let me know. As rooted, I've debloated, and Im using nova launcher, and I'm getting about 6hrs screen on time. I'd like more. The phone seems to drain fast in standby too.
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Just a curious, semi-NooB questions... I've been rooting phones and running custom ROMs for only about 6 months, but I just now started wondering what gives you better battery life.... Stock ROM or a Custom ROM?
The ROM doesn't really affect battery life unless it has bloat that runs in the background. With a custom kernel you can underclock/change cpu governors to save, but really battery depends on whether or not you let things run in background and how long you have the screen on.
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With my s3 I found aosp based roms with better battery life then touchwiz. With the s4 i find touchwiz with better life.
If you were asking between stock touchwiz and custom touchwiz there are a couple of factors. A lite touchwiz custom Rom with a custom kernel should have better life then stock non root Rom/kernel because of bloatware removed and slight tweaks. Custom roms with ported apps and over theming can lead to more battery usage.
All battery stats are user and location related so best to run some tests on your own. A test I use is battery usage from a full charge overnight with data/Wi-Fi/sync/Bluetooth.... disabled. I find it a good constant base as long as there are no tower troubles.
One of the best things about android in my opinion is trying different roms and finding the one that suits me the best.
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the best part about these types of questions is that you get to do the research yourself. try a few roms out for a week at a time. you'll find your answer.
We cannot answer this question for you it depends on how you setup any rom, how you use it, and all the other factors people above mentioned.
I for one cannot wait to get this bootloader cracked open and try and get 7 hours screen on time with this baby custom roms of course will help me do this
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xBeerdroiDx said:
the best part about these types of questions is that you get to do the research yourself. try a few roms out for a week at a time. you'll find your answer.
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Unfortunately, I'm on MF3 and can't flash any ROMs..... Now I'm sitting here with a rooted stock S4 and a rooted HTC One with a custom ROM. I can't keep both and have to choose which one to get rid of within the next week.
Decisions, decisions, decisions......
Hi in my opinion better battery life then touchwiz and this is best and also i know about that dependability.
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Unfortunately, I'm on MF3 and can't flash any ROMs..... Now I'm sitting here with a rooted stock S4 and a rooted HTC One with a custom ROM. I can't keep both and have to choose which one to get rid of within the next week.
Decisions, decisions, decisions......
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Well I can tell you without a doubt: GET RID OF THAT HTCrap!!!!
I have had 5 or 6 HTC phones in the past 4 years, all Android, all rooted and I pushed those suckers hard, but i had to make so many insurance claims on my last 2 phones through T-Mobile that T-Mo cancelled my insurance policy.. it was not that i abused them they just all had issues
Beyond that I can prettty much say with all certainty that once our MF3 devices get that bootloader cracked open, this thing will beat out any phone on the market and certainly that HTC phone you've got!
It all depends on usage. That is all.
Tips:
1. get Better Battery Stats, and look at what is using battery. If you don't need or use an app that is using battery, freeze it or uninstall it.
2. turn off vibrations, auto-brightness, smart sensor, wifi, etc.
If all you do is use the phone to talk for 30-45 minutes a day, look up stuff on the internet occasionally, and for appointments/alarms, then 24 hours of battery life is easily achievable. If you are an avid phone gamer, you're out of luck.
I've been bouncing between the two for months now. Generally TW based ROMs give better battery life from how use my phone. I prefer AOSP ROMs but i usually find myself back with TW
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Do custom ROMs depend on only the model number or on the firmware number as well ?
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Do custom ROMs depend on only the model number or on the firmware number as well ?
I got 97% deep sleep last night over a ten hour period with SlimKat 4.4.2 AOSP ROM and stock kernel. Best I've ever seen.
That was with Greenify doing its job though.
Hey all. I am thinking about getting the note 3.I have always rooted/run custom roms. How is the stock rom on this? Battery life good and everything?
Stock is good. Battery life is about 5-6 hours of screen time with normal use for me, 20 hours in total time on battery. Runs smooth.
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Hey all. I am thinking about getting the note 3.I have always rooted/run custom roms. How is the stock rom on this? Battery life good and everything?
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I like the touchwiz ROM myself, but that's definately a preference. I get about a day and half of battery.
This is the kind of information that is and could be asked and found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2466099.
I'm running simplerom on my n910f note 4. I've noticed lately that my screen on time is considerably worse than before.
I'm reaching maybe 4 hours now sometimes less, where as before I used to reach 5 and a half, pushing 6 hours.
My phone deep sleeps well with greenify and everything but I'm just wondering why my phone is performing so badly now?
AFAIK simplTEAM has done and still doing a great job with heavily debloated TW ROM. Its kinda strange though you should check the battery stats with Betterbatterystats... Xposed based mods could also be a reason for batter drain (if u r using xposed). Or perhaps simplROM team had intensivebatterymod in their V3 ROM (for N910C) you might wanna check their ROM thread for the same.
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Hi,
I am currently running Marshmallow stock firmware with root, because I pretty much have enough customization as I wanted with Xposed modules.
The reason I kept my firmware is because I think that its battery life is already great.
However, I am open to any ROMs that are more capable of handling more battery life than the current latest stock ROM.
Thanks.
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Hi,
I am currently running Marshmallow stock firmware with root, because I pretty much have enough customization as I wanted with Xposed modules.
The reason I kept my firmware is because I think that its battery life is already great.
However, I am open to any ROMs that are more capable of handling more battery life than the current latest stock ROM.
Thanks.
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According to people beanstalk and resurrection remix have best battery life
Try Oct OS N with Quark Kernel 2.2.
I'm getting around 6-8 hrs SOT with medium usage (Whatsapp, Tapatalk, Opera browser, Messenger, Music, General use like SMS, Phone)
Note: I use Greenify which further increases battery life.
From my experience even RR Nougat is pretty good. Great balance of customisation and battery life. Bugs are lil more compared to Oct OS or CM though.
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I dont care much about saving space, and from my experience debloating doesn't do much to the battery life. I'd like a stable rom with possibility of black theme. All I care about is decent speed and screen on time. As for kernel I'm open for anything. SmallWiz V8 UX seemed like a good fit, but fingerprint doesnt work and theming is not possible.
Maybe stock rom with assertive display, phoenix kernel and modded theme is enough?
If you want black/dark themes, you are limiting the possibilities by going with stock-based ROM. Resurrection Remix N may be a good candidate because it has theming support, good battery life (although less than stock) and is quite stable for daily use.
If you only care about battery life (and can give up some theming), (generic unbranded) stock official ROM is your best bet.
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If you want black/dark themes, you are limiting the possibilities by going with stock-based ROM. Resurrection Remix N may be a good candidate because it has theming support, good battery life (although less than stock) and is quite stable for daily use.
If you only care about battery life (and can give up some theming), (generic unbranded) stock official ROM is your best bet.
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Surprised to hear that stock is supposed to be best. I had xXx rom before, but when I got my phone back from repair with stock rom and new battery there's less juice than on xXx. Regarding black theme, it's just about battery life, not about fancy theme.
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Surprised to hear that stock is supposed to be best. I had xXx rom before, but when I got my phone back from repair with stock rom and new battery there's less juice than on xXx. Regarding black theme, it's just about battery life, not about fancy theme.
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Stock usually performs the best in SOT tests because it has better frequency scaling and is able to use samsung closed-source drivers that is unavailable to AOSP ROMs. Most problems with battery life arise from either carrier bloat, or the apps installed by the user. There may also be a chance where something else is the cause but only in rare-cases. Usually a factory reset can fix all of these problems, however it may not work for all.
With that last line in the original post, it is often thought that using stock kernel will yield the best battery and stability. It has been discussed throughly about the battery impact a custom kernel places, and whether or not undervolting makes a difference (where it usually will yield almost none).
Any rom that supports the Boeffla-Kernel
i'm using popwiz 5.1
give it a shot
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