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Hello,
I have done nothing to my Nexus 4 so far but I recently noticed that the battery isn't that good. I heard that the Franco Kernel might give more battery life. I don't play any games I just use it for texting, surfing and listening to music. Is the Franco Kernel good for my usage then or would you suggest another kernel?
I found the thread where I can download the Kernel but what is OP, Milestone and Nightlies? How do I flash this Kernel? Do I have to root? I couldn't find any HOW TOs.
Hope you guys can help!
Thanks!
easygoingx said:
Hello,
I have done nothing to my Nexus 4 so far but I recently noticed that the battery isn't that good. I heard that the Franco Kernel might give more battery life. I don't play any games I just use it for texting, surfing and listening to music. Is the Franco Kernel good for my usage then or would you suggest another kernel?
I found the thread where I can download the Kernel but what is OP, Milestone and Nightlies? How do I flash this Kernel? Do I have to root? I couldn't find any HOW TOs.
Hope you guys can help!
Thanks!
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Yes you will need to unlock your bootloader, install a custom recovery, and root. Then you download the franco kernel zip and flash it through recovery.
OP = original post
Nightly = means the latest build (they are compiled every night, and may have bugs)
Milestone = usually means a complete version (stable releases)
Milestone = stable version
Nightly = newer version may contain bugs
U first need to root your device and download the Franco kernel zip and place it in your extSdCard. Once rooted goto recovery (volume up + home + power) select install zip from external card. Browse to file select then install... And enjoy...
Make sure u know wot you doing. Read first n read alot before any action else you may brick your device.
:*: Neebi :*:
also you can buy the app and it install the flash by itself,
i guess you still need to root
since you don´t game it`s weird to have bad battery, try greenify
easygoingx said:
Hello,
I have done nothing to my Nexus 4 so far but I recently noticed that the battery isn't that good. I heard that the Franco Kernel might give more battery life. I don't play any games I just use it for texting, surfing and listening to music. Is the Franco Kernel good for my usage then or would you suggest another kernel?
I found the thread where I can download the Kernel but what is OP, Milestone and Nightlies? How do I flash this Kernel? Do I have to root? I couldn't find any HOW TOs.
Hope you guys can help!
Thanks!
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Please search first
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2266654
Nexus 4 Guide-Unlock Bootloader, Root, Install Custom Recoveries & Custom ROMs/Kernel
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okay I see thanks!
Well I don't play games but I often use 3G Service and that usually drains A LOT of battery. I just want some more screen time when using 3g or WiFi. Does the Franco kernel change that?
easygoingx said:
okay I see thanks!
Well I don't play games but I often use 3G Service and that usually drains A LOT of battery. I just want some more screen time when using 3g or WiFi. Does the Franco kernel change that?
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Kernels don't do that.
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easygoingx said:
okay I see thanks!
Well I don't play games but I often use 3G Service and that usually drains A LOT of battery. I just want some more screen time when using 3g or WiFi. Does the Franco kernel change that?
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Your apps will make the biggest difference. Stop apps causing wake locks such as Facebook and anything with auto refreshing/push alerts.
The biggest benefit for me of using Franco is adjusting color profiles. Once you try other settings, you'll never go back to stock colors.
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easygoingx said:
okay I see thanks!
Well I don't play games but I often use 3G Service and that usually drains A LOT of battery. I just want some more screen time when using 3g or WiFi. Does the Franco kernel change that?
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Kernels don't change this I'm afraid, and 3G will always use pretty much battery. Wifi on the other hand uses nearly nothing.
If you say you're not a heavy user then Franco's Kernel will be a good one for ya. As it contains hotplugging (meaning it will make the device slower if it's not used but fast when you want it to be)
Slower = more battery conservation.
Also let's you underclock your device. As for example you don't play games so you don't want it at 1512Mhz, you can run it at 1ghz and the time your screen is off lock it to 384Mhz (or a bit higher) which again makes your battery last longer.
It comes to a small downside, that kernel comes with its own app which costs a bit of money. But it's very much worth it as you can tweak it just as you want.
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"unfortunatly" you need root before you can flash this. But there have been very useful links in previous posts, try those!
Then if you've done all that, look into Greenify. You'll notice a difference when using it, trust me
enjoy
Hi easygoingx! i wouldnt recommend you flash franco for now. I have been using franco for 2 months , i purchased the app and everything but lately it's comsuming a lot of battery! it drained my battery a lot with last updates i was getting crazy!
if i were you i'll flash trinity!
i've turned on my phone 30 min ago and my battery is in 98%, with franco it would be by 92%
but if you wanna flash ,first root your phone and put a custom recovery (cwm or trwp) and download the zip to your nexus 4 and flash it from custom recovery.
alvin182 said:
Hi easygoingx! i wouldnt recommend you flash franco for now. I have been using franco for 2 months , i purchased the app and everything but lately it's comsuming a lot of battery! it drained my battery a lot with last updates i was getting crazy!
if i were you i'll flash trinity!
i've turned on my phone 30 min ago and my battery is in 98%, with franco it would be by 92%
but if you wanna flash ,first root your phone and put a custom recovery (cwm or trwp) and download the zip to your nexus 4 and flash it from custom recovery.
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That's definatly not the cause of Franco, but most propably some other apps rogueing. Try Greenify.
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It's maybe the case with nightlies on particular devices.
I'm not the one to judge on that but on Milestones (Milestone 2 aka latest) there is nearly no battery consumption in idle and I've used Franco since r102 (newest is r136)
In the including pic I had flashed Milestone 2 from Franco, then afterwards changed some values in the app to my liking (aka max freq 1350, min freq 384 etc...) and then left it be for a couple hours and look at the result. Lost maybe 1% over nearly 4 hours. If I leave it on generally over night on wifi + data sync enabled, I lose about 2-3% (depending on the sync times ofc). I sleep approx 6h a night btw
Also feel free looking here and see all the positive comments of people and their battery! (also one of the most active and responsive forum topics around)
Therefore I highly recommend Franco!
Oh now I understand these terms. Thank you guys! I'm considering flashing my phone and change the color settings. I'm really annoyed by those washed out colors!
You know what really annoys me? That when I am on 3g and my screen is locked IT DRAINS my battery SO MUCH. Isn't there any ROM/Kernel that fixes that? I mean the S3 has this even on Stock and unrooted....
Hmm... Somehow my phone gets so warm lately.... I'm kinda worried.
easygoingx said:
Oh now I understand these terms. Thank you guys! I'm considering flashing my phone and change the color settings. I'm really annoyed by those washed out colors!
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They sure are.. but you can take a pick from like 30-35 presets (using Franco's preset myself). Trust me, the result is just... awesome! (if you prefer AMOLED (cause you refered to an S3, you can also change colors to that, it's in the spreadsheet here (check kernel column to see for your chosen kernel))
easygoingx said:
You know what really annoys me? That when I am on 3g and my screen is locked IT DRAINS my battery SO MUCH. Isn't there any ROM/Kernel that fixes that? I mean the S3 has this even on Stock and unrooted....
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I doubt that there is a way around the battery drain with 2G/3G/3G+ but just having a different kernel will do miracles concerning battery life. Always feel free to ask this in the thread, maybe someone has a "solution" to your issue.
I don't know how often you're without wifi. But just make a tasker task like I have:
- "if wifi connected (=state)-> Data off"
- "if not wifi connected -> Data on"
easygoingx said:
Hmm... Somehow my phone gets so warm lately.... I'm kinda worried.
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Don't worry about it too much. The nexus 4 is known for having bad thermal handling inside the phone (read this) but it won't harm your phone in any way.
If however you are still worried just download the kernel and go to "Voltages", just press-25mV a couple times (I recommend 3 or 4x). This will reduce the heat generated from your device. (Yes your device can handle this, even more but I'm not responsible )
Another thing is what is getting hot inside your device, battery or CPU? Franco Kernel Updater (app) has Device Monitor which let's you check the CPU temps. If the CPU gets warm/hot too often or too fast, just reducing the max CPU frequency can help you out (1.5Ghz is "too" much anyway, you'll be fine with a couple steps less )
Hope this helped If you have more questions that I could answer, just quote me
Hi xda family
What has everyone's battery life been so far on root?
Preroot I was getting over a day with 6sot and 16 percent
Android drain.
After rooting with the eng kernel it has dipped a lot with high android system drain. Have not used amplify and greenify yet. Just been used my tweaks I did on pd7 kernel.
Thoughts?
Amplify will probably help out a lot. I've seen others reporting the battery is worse after rooting as well. Hopefully someone nails it down and posts a fix. If not, I'll see what I can do once (if) I decide to root.
Yeah I can literally watch my battery % drop after root. I noticed 46% of use is the android system. I'm also getting lots of random reboots.
You guys rooted with an EngBoot that was not intended for daily use, this is one of the side effects.
Yeah the ENG-BOOT is a terrible way to achieve root. I really hope that this tiny victory doesn't cause people to stop looking for real root. The ENG-BOOT is not meant for daily use is going to cause lots of issues, it's designed just to push fixes to the system for an authorized repair shop.
The focus should have always been on the bootloader.
MegaNoob said:
Yeah I can literally watch my battery % drop after root. I noticed 46% of use is the android system. I'm also getting lots of random reboots.
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Wow 46 is high. To be honest for eng kernel it's been stable. No lag and reboots for me. I am debloating and doing a few tweaks and making it settle in some more. If I can get to 4 sot I will take that.
Also I have heard if you your governor set to on demand it will cause reboots. Using interactive and been solid.
MegaNoob said:
Yeah I can literally watch my battery % drop after root. I noticed 46% of use is the android system. I'm also getting lots of random reboots.
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Same. This is worse than my old s6 back in the glory days.
I recommend checking out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmo...ekx-dev-deodex-systemui-3minit-multi-t3411776
TEK knows what he's doing, so I'm sure this will at least help with battery. This, plus Amplify and BBS+ should at least help get battery close to where it was before root.
AKW said:
I recommend checking out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmo...ekx-dev-deodex-systemui-3minit-multi-t3411776
TEK knows what he's doing, so I'm sure this will at least help with battery. This, plus Amplify and BBS+ should at least help get battery close to where it was before root.
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Thanks I am following. I have gotten android system drain down to 13 percent with amplify.
Things are looking very promising but will see how the next 48 hours go.
icugotit2 said:
Thanks I am following. I have gotten android system drain down to 13 percent with amplify.
Things are looking very promising but will see how the next 48 hours go.
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Excellent. Keep us posted.
AKW said:
I recommend checking out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmo...ekx-dev-deodex-systemui-3minit-multi-t3411776
TEK knows what he's doing, so I'm sure this will at least help with battery. This, plus Amplify and BBS+ should at least help get battery close to where it was before root.
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+1 it runs a lot cooler than the normal stock rooted. And way smoother without have to tweak anything with kernel. It's basically plug and play.
Keep us informed please
guaneet said:
+1 it runs a lot cooler than the normal stock rooted. And way smoother without have to tweak anything with kernel. It's basically plug and play.
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Indeed it does run much cooler and smoother too .
I went ahead and pushed it without re odining I r factory reset without anything bad happening . Temps are back to 38degc as opposed to almost 60degc without texhd. All idle. Happy
Sot time
cuezaireekaa said:
Indeed it does run much cooler and smoother too .
I went ahead and pushed it without re odining I r factory reset without anything bad happening . Temps are back to 38degc as opposed to almost 60degc without texhd. All idle. Happy
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Can you post sot time stats and Android usage with teks rom?
I was able to get 5 sot and 1 day of usage. Android drain was at 14 percent.
Sot time and battery tweaks
icugotit2 said:
Can you post sot time stats and Android usage with teks rom?
I was able to get 5 sot and 1 day of usage. Android drain was at 14 percent.
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Also, vp7 has an excellent tool guide to tweak out even more battery life. Had advanced setting for amplify etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884
Have not tried the above link or Teks rom yet.
If some one can do so it would be helpful as I am running stock eng with my own customizations
icugotit2 said:
Can you post sot time stats and Android usage with teks rom?
I was able to get 5 sot and 1 day of usage. Android drain was at 14 percent.
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I'm reodining because it was suggested to do when updating to texhd 1.5
dam we got root now? I didnt even know
With all the different tweaks now available through root, the battery life is quite excellent. The only concerning thing is how hot this phone can get at times (after a reboot, gaming, downloading an app) that I may be doing great harm to my batteries life in the long run.
okay so,
the engineering kernel's default governor is performance and that's the only thing that's causing the heat issues and thus, the throttling of the CPU cores to lower frequencies resulting in lag/stuttery performance. that's all you're experiencing. thinking that apps are using more/less battery than usual is silly.
after wiping data and cache and going through the horribly slow setup process, I used kernel adiutor to change the governor back to interactive (NOT ondemand) and let the phone finish settling/syncing. after 2 days, it's back to its silky smooth performance and all-day battery. I don't see anyone experiencing anything other than symptoms of the performance governor.
btw, it took the same amount of time for my phone to stop being laggy when I first bought it. so literally all you need to do is change your governor back to interactive if you want the performance/battery life you had before, and zero heat issues. antutu scores 110k-138k depending on temperature/throttling. just like it did before. battery gets 4:30-5:30hrs SOT just like it did before.
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yalls trippin
xVermicide said:
okay so,
the engineering kernel's default governor is performance and that's the only thing that's causing the heat issues and thus, the throttling of the CPU cores to lower frequencies resulting in lag/stuttery performance. that's all you're experiencing. thinking that apps are using more/less battery than usual is silly.
after wiping data and cache and going through the horribly slow setup process, I used kernel adiutor to change the governor back to interactive (NOT ondemand) and let the phone finish settling/syncing. after 2 days, it's back to its silky smooth performance and all-day battery. I don't see anyone experiencing anything other than symptoms of the performance governor.
btw, it took the same amount of time for my phone to stop being laggy when I first bought it. so literally all you need to do is change your governor back to interactive if you want the performance/battery life you had before, and zero heat issues. antutu scores 110k-138k depending on temperature/throttling. just like it did before. battery gets 4:30-5:30hrs SOT just like it did before.
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yalls trippin
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I used kernel aduitor too till I found out my big core were maxed at 1500 also just like the little cores and you can't change those with aduitor.
Once I installed kernel toolkit, I confirmed it.
So I bumped up the big cores max and got much more speed back. No heat here
Food for thought.
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I have a very odd problem that I can't solve nor diagnose, my device (N9005) keeps rebooting at no expected pattern if I changed CPU governor to anything but interactive or under-voltage.
The problem started about a year or so ago and since then I have tried lots of roms, kernels and batteries if they had something to do with it but I can't understand why the reboot happen.
I can record a cat log if it would show the problem and if someone can help identify the cause of it or if someone already familiar with this problem and solve it would be much better.
I would appreciate any suggestions in order to try and solve the issue.
What happens with stock rom ??
JJEgan said:
What happens with stock rom ??
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You mean AOSP or TW? since both can be considered stock in different ways xD
Anyway, the behavior is the same on either but the problem started while on Temasek's ROM last year which was and still my main rom.
Samsung stock TW .
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JJEgan said:
Samsung stock TW .
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Aha, and same thing happen as mentioned earlier.
tharwat96 said:
Aha, and same thing happen as mentioned earlier.
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Check your CPU binning (pvs) and read about it. You might find answers.
zlazaar said:
Check your CPU binning (pvs) and read about it. You might find answers.
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Thank you very much for the suggestion. However, after reading about it which is a very new concept for me so thank you again for that, I understood it affects overclocking speeds and tolerance but I still don't understand what could it mean to my case.
One thing I forgot to mention or implicitly mentioned is that, I used to use conservative or powersave governors and used to undervolt by 25mv till the problem occured.
Also, I think checking device's CPU binning method differs from a device to another (not sure if I'm right) but I tried a command found on OPO's site and it didn't show an actual output but it showed a 1 before the usual command line and I don't know if it means anything but thought of mentioning it anyway.
tharwat96 said:
Thank you very much for the suggestion. However, after reading about it which is a very new concept for me so thank you again for that, I understood it affects overclocking speeds and tolerance but I still don't understand what could it mean to my case.
One thing I forgot to mention or implicitly mentioned is that, I used to use conservative or powersave governors and used to undervolt by 25mv till the problem occured.
Also, I think checking device's CPU binning method differs from a device to another (not sure if I'm right) but I tried a command found on OPO's site and it didn't show an actual output but it showed a 1 before the usual command line and I don't know if it means anything but thought of mentioning it anyway.
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You can find your soc's pvs by navigating to /sys/devices/system/soc/soc0 then open the file "soc_pvs" with a text viewer.
There will be an integer (from 1 to 6).
1 means best support for undervolt/overclock. And 6 the worst one.
Your phone reboots when you just set different governor (no undervoltage applied) ? And which governor you set ?
zlazaar said:
You can find your soc's pvs by navigating to /sys/devices/system/soc/soc0 then open the file "soc_pvs" with a text viewer.
There will be an integer (from 1 to 6).
1 means best support for undervolt/overclock. And 6 the worst one.
Your phone reboots when you just set different governor (no undervoltage applied) ? And which governor you set ?
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Thank you very much for your reply.
I just checked and it is actually 1 .
The governor I was trying to set was Yankactive/ondemand.
There's a chance that the problem is actually fixed but I'm still not sure. However, if it's solved the reason would be ridiculous actually but compounded into 2 parts and I'm not sure if one of them it the main cause or both but they are the most recent changes which led to the current stability with no reboots since 2 hours now.
The first part is the SELinux status which was enforcing and had to change it to permissive for any heavy change otherwise it won't work and it kept changing after every reboot so what I did is forcing it to change to permissive on each boot. and it helped a lot but I'm not sure how it affected my situation.
The second part is that I was using PowerNap xposed module and there's a chance that it force stops the android system. I also have no idea how this contribute to solving my problem since the problem existed before even installing xposed.
Anyway, I'm still testing the device to see if it's actually solved.
tharwat96 said:
Thank you very much for your reply.
I just checked and it is actually 1 .
The governor I was trying to set was Yankactive/ondemand.
There's a chance that the problem is actually fixed but I'm still not sure. However, if it's solved the reason would be ridiculous actually but compounded into 2 parts and I'm not sure if one of them it the main cause or both but they are the most recent changes which led to the current stability with no reboots since 2 hours now.
The first part is the SELinux status which was enforcing and had to change it to permissive for any heavy change otherwise it won't work and it kept changing after every reboot so what I did is forcing it to change to permissive on each boot. and it helped a lot but I'm not sure how it affected my situation.
The second part is that I was using PowerNap xposed module and there's a chance that it force stops the android system. I also have no idea how this contribute to solving my problem since the problem existed before even installing xposed.
Anyway, I'm still testing the device to see if it's actually solved.
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Sorry i did a mistake.
The higher the PVS bin value the better. This means 1 is not good.
I have the value of 1 on my Note 3 and undervolt by 30 with zero problems. Also i change between interactive and performace govs a dozen times a day.
zlazaar said:
Sorry i did a mistake.
The higher the PVS bin value the better. This means 1 is not good.
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Undervolting aside, shouldn't I be able to change governors no matter the PVS bin value? since it matters the most while overclocking and I'm trying to do the opposite
RaduNastase said:
I have the value of 1 on my Note 3 and undervolt by 30 with zero problems. Also i change between interactive and performace govs a dozen times a day.
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I used to do too but no clue what happened on newer Android versions. BTW, which ROM and Kernel you are on?
Kernel: CivZ-KK_Xplorer-Rev1.9
Rom: Omega 4.4.2 v24
I am using both Synapse and Kernel Toolkit for CPU/GPU tweaking, as they wok well together (on the other hand Kernel Adiutor conflicts with Synapse).
In case you want to know, the battery goes down 1% every hour or so in idle and about 1% every 3 minutes of using the phone with screen on (browsing, gaming, etc).
RaduNastase said:
Kernel: CivZ-KK_Xplorer-Rev1.9
Rom: Omega 4.4.2 v24
I am using both Synapse and Kernel Toolkit for CPU/GPU tweaking, as they wok well together (on the other hand Kernel Adiutor conflicts with Synapse).
In case you want to know, the battery goes down 1% every hour or so in idle and about 1% every 3 minutes of using the phone with screen on (browsing, gaming, etc).
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I believe your battery is dead?
tharwat96 said:
I believe your battery is dead?
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Why do you say that? It's brand new (bought it original from Samsung, a month ago). One of the few new original batteries left in stock. manufactured at the end of 2014.
Only yesterday (@3%) i got 4 hours of gaming in Retroarch emulator (pretty intensive on the CPU), with a total of 4 h and 40 min SOT, with the Note charged to full 21 hours before that. Pretty decent performance imo.
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Why do you say that? It's brand new (bought it original from Samsung, a month ago). One of the few new original batteries left in stock. manufactured at the end of 2014.
Only yesterday (@3%) i got 4 hours of gaming in Retroarch emulator (pretty intensive on the CPU), with a total of 4 h and 40 min SOT, with the Note charged to full 21 hours before that. Pretty decent performance imo.
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O.O I'm terribly sorry I somehow misread your post.
I was confused when I read it since I was actually sticked to SlimKat before switching to nougat because of the battery.
BTW, what is your usual SOT without heavy usage?
tharwat96 said:
O.O I'm terribly sorry I somehow misread your post.
I was confused when I read it since I was actually sticked to SlimKat before switching to nougat because of the battery.
BTW, what is your usual SOT without heavy usage?
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Well, it depends on how bright the image is. That is if you watch some darker images or pages, it consumes less than white ones.
If i unplug it in the morning (i usually unplug it in the evening), the SOT is a sure 5 hours, with some 5 % left in the evening.
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Well, it depends on how bright the image is. That is if you watch some darker images or pages, it consumes less than white ones.
If i unplug it in the morning (i usually unplug it in the evening), the SOT is a sure 5 hours, with some 5 % left in the evening.
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Aha, now with RR nougat and synergy the consumption is very close to yours.
tharwat96 said:
Aha, now with RR nougat and synergy the consumption is very close to yours.
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Great Should be even better overall with that deep sleep option that nougat has.
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Great Should be even better overall with that deep sleep option that nougat has.
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When the device doze the battery percentage gets stuck for how long you may leave the device idle, it's pretty impressive
Hello Guys ! After reading up about the issues with the Nougat Official updates i wanted to give custom roms a chance.
However , the experience with Custom ROMS over the years have made me realise , Battery backup is never the same on a custom ROM compared to the Stock firmware.
Can people who tried out different ROMS and Kernels , suggest which rom or ROM+Custom Kernel combination gives Stock like Battery performance ??
Eagerly waiting for you replies so that i can get flashing..
Thanks in Advance
Your help is much appreciated
In every Nougat custom ROM battery is almost the same as stock. You have simply to choose the best for you.
I personally have AospExtended with Optimus r21 and I'm happy with it
nplezka said:
In every Nougat custom ROM battery is almost the same as stock. You have simply to choose the best for you.
I personally have AospExtended with Optimus r21 and I'm happy with it
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Any specific Governor settings in the Optimus R21 kernel ??
And do you use dual sims in 4G ?
Any other Misc Settigns you do ?
What about the Standby time and SOT that you generally get ??
Thanks in advance BRO
I prefer "sis" eheh
Anyway, my kernel settings: BIG cluster max freq set to 1.6Ghz instead of 1.7 (I don't need any overclock), min freq to 345Mhz and Little cluster max to 1.1Ghz and min to 499Mhz, both clusters on Optimus governor. I left the other settings to r21 original.
I have a european single-SIM device, so no...
For the rest, all il stock, I haven't any battery friendly script, I believe in my Moto X Play, I don't want to mutilate it.
In Wi-Fi I reach 8h of SOT, I can stand 2 days without charge it in normal use. In LTE mode, almost 5-6 hours if I go out with a normal use, I can't tell you with a heavy use... when I'm out I don't use the phone so much also I have a tedious mobile radio active bug (that seem affect only me and maybe a couple of other users, I'm investigating) so previously in LTE I reached also 6-6.30h of SOT
nplezka said:
I prefer "sis" eheh
Anyway, my kernel settings: BIG cluster max freq set to 1.6Ghz instead of 1.7 (I don't need any overclock), min freq to 345Mhz and Little cluster max to 1.1Ghz and min to 499Mhz, both clusters on Optimus governor. I left the other settings to r21 original.
I have a european single-SIM device, so no...
For the rest, all il stock, I haven't any battery friendly script, I believe in my Moto X Play, I don't want to mutilate it.
In Wi-Fi I reach 8h of SOT, I can stand 2 days without charge it in normal use. In LTE mode, almost 5-6 hours if I go out with a normal use, I can't tell you with a heavy use... when I'm out I don't use the phone so much also I have a tedious mobile radio active bug (that seem affect only me and maybe a couple of other users, I'm investigating) so previously in LTE I reached also 6-6.30h of SOT
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Thanks a lot
I am thinking to try out teh kernel on the stock rom first with some tweaks and then switch to custom ROMs if the results are not satisfactory
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Hello Guys ! After reading up about the issues with the Nougat Official updates i wanted to give custom roms a chance.
However , the experience with Custom ROMS over the years have made me realise , Battery backup is never the same on a custom ROM compared to the Stock firmware.
Can people who tried out different ROMS and Kernels , suggest which rom or ROM+Custom Kernel combination gives Stock like Battery performance ??
Eagerly waiting for you replies so that i can get flashing..
Thanks in Advance
Your help is much appreciated
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I am on Aosp extended since it's version 3.3
Right now, I'm on version 4.3
No custom kernel.
If SOT is what you want to know, for me it's between 4 to 5 hours.
Dual sim with one on 4g and second on 2g.
Data remains on whole day.
Extermely stable. Just like stock MM.
If you don't want to use root or themes, maybe it will be more stable for you.
Sent from my Moto X Play using Tapatalk
swaggy123 said:
Hello Guys ! After reading up about the issues with the Nougat Official updates i wanted to give custom roms a chance.
However , the experience with Custom ROMS over the years have made me realise , Battery backup is never the same on a custom ROM compared to the Stock firmware.
Can people who tried out different ROMS and Kernels , suggest which rom or ROM+Custom Kernel combination gives Stock like Battery performance ??
Eagerly waiting for you replies so that i can get flashing..
Thanks in Advance
Your help is much appreciated
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I'm on Resurrection Remix (Official) and has some little bugs in the movements on locked screen (camera and led torch don't work as expected). Another thing is if u open camera by lock screen can't close it (navbar is blocked), the way is re lock the phone and then get to the pattern screen again.
The SOT is about 3-4h on 70% time in WiFi and 30% mobile data (4G/LTE)
About battery in general there is some screen shots: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_XlbO-BACx0bmRHc0R1dDcyQ3M
I will change my ROM because the dev (GtrCraft) discontinued the RR (see his message on the post)... So I think it's hour to test another.
K.khiladi said:
I am on Aosp extended since it's version 3.3
Right now, I'm on version 4.3
No custom kernel.
If SOT is what you want to know, for me it's between 4 to 5 hours.
Dual sim with one on 4g and second on 2g.
Data remains on whole day.
Extermely stable. Just like stock MM.
If you don't want to use root or themes, maybe it will be more stable for you.
Sent from my Moto X Play using Tapatalk
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Thanks a ton K.Khiladi.. those stats are impressive ... I would try this rom for sure..
My usage is mostly erratic... I am in office fro almost 7-8 hours when the phone just lies dead in pocket and when office is over i use phone services like location data and what not .. So basically i needed a ROM that has minimal drain while in the pocket and good SOT when i use my device actively for short burst of periods.... I know its always a trade off between SOT and Standby . Thanks for your advice
leo_97 said:
I'm on Resurrection Remix (Official) and has some little bugs in the movements on locked screen (camera and led torch don't work as expected). Another thing is if u open camera by lock screen can't close it (navbar is blocked), the way is re lock the phone and then get to the pattern screen again.
The SOT is about 3-4h on 70% time in WiFi and 30% mobile data (4G/LTE)
About battery in general there is some screen shots: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_XlbO-BACx0bmRHc0R1dDcyQ3M
I will change my ROM because the dev (GtrCraft) discontinued the RR (see his message on the post)... So I think it's hour to test another.
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Thanks man.. do update me on your experience when you switch ROMs.. I have had great time with RR on my old Motorola Atrix 2 as this particular ROM managed to stay on my phone for a long time but yeah the battery issue was always there as it is very feature rich.. Thanks for the info
the 615 chip is not very efficient in the first place, especially when it comes to gaming.
pijes said:
the 615 chip is not very efficient in the first place, especially when it comes to gaming.
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Thats all right , i dont play any games on the phone
all i care is battery life and fluidity in the OS
swaggy123 said:
Thanks a ton K.Khiladi.. those stats are impressive ... I would try this rom for sure..
My usage is mostly erratic... I am in office fro almost 7-8 hours when the phone just lies dead in pocket and when office is over i use phone services like location data and what not .. So basically i needed a ROM that has minimal drain while in the pocket and good SOT when i use my device actively for short burst of periods.... I know its always a trade off between SOT and Standby . Thanks for your advice
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Standby is minimal but after flashing make sure you go to settings - battery - - battery optimisation and check that every app is optimized.
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wifi and data problems
Does anyone know why in every nougat custom rom ive installed on my mxp when i turn screen off wifi and data turns off? I have already check the option "keep wifi during sleep phone" and nothing
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Thanks man.. do update me on your experience when you switch ROMs.. I have had great time with RR on my old Motorola Atrix 2 as this particular ROM managed to stay on my phone for a long time but yeah the battery issue was always there as it is very feature rich.. Thanks for the info
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So, I flashed AOSP Extended last night... It's the best so far (just tried two ROM's yet), no bugs found by now. The torch light and camera movements works fine and I liked it.
When I completely test it perhaps make a review (maybe post here in XDA, if rules accept it).
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So, I flashed AOSP Extended last night... It's the best so far (just tried two ROM's yet), no bugs found by now. The torch light and camera movements works fine and I liked it.
When I completely test it perhaps make a review (maybe post here in XDA, if rules accept it).
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Great to know that..
How the drain during mobile standby even with all apps installed and synch on?
swaggy123 said:
Great to know that..
How the drain during mobile standby even with all apps installed and synch on?
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The standby drain is okay for me.
A tip is go to the system settings > "Extensions" > "System" > "General Tweaks" > "Suspend Actions"
Then enable it...
My settings are:
Screen off delay: 5s
Screen on: 5s
Switch to 2G: Enabled
Disable Mobile Data: Disabled
Disable GPS: Enabled
This is doing magic in standby and the best part is enabling this don't make u losing any notification, they work fine here.
Hello guys. I know that this is a very common question not just in OnePlus 2 forum. I read some posts of this, tried, but no success. So far I've tried couple of ROMs but battery life is so disappointing. Best shot was RR ROM 8.1 official with BB kernel installed. After system and kernel installed, I've done a wipe of data. I wanted to make sure there is nothing except system on my phone. After that, all necessary apps I use. That was operating very good in few days. But recently, out of nowhere, battery life is awful! Over the night, with no use and battery saver turned on, I loose more than 20%! I know that I haven't downloaded any additional apps after first days of installation, I haven't changed any settings since first day... I added fingerprint lock 2 days ago and yesterday I turned it off. So What is going on??? Phone is not overheating, seems like there is nothing in the background running to drain battery.
If you know what could cause the problem, it would be very helpful. But I'm also opened for installing a new ROM, kernel...
Who is here with good battery life? Gimme some advice! Btw, I don't care if it's N or O, or anything as long as it's operating well, reliable and no bugs. Thanks!
That's probably a battery issue, install AccuBattery then see how much health your battery have(requires few charges).
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Hello guys. I know that this is a very common question not just in OnePlus 2 forum. I read some posts of this, tried, but no success. So far I've tried couple of ROMs but battery life is so disappointing. Best shot was RR ROM 8.1 official with BB kernel installed. After system and kernel installed, I've done a wipe of data. I wanted to make sure there is nothing except system on my phone. After that, all necessary apps I use. That was operating very good in few days. But recently, out of nowhere, battery life is awful! Over the night, with no use and battery saver turned on, I loose more than 20%! I know that I haven't downloaded any additional apps after first days of installation, I haven't changed any settings since first day... I added fingerprint lock 2 days ago and yesterday I turned it off. So What is going on??? Phone is not overheating, seems like there is nothing in the background running to drain battery.
If you know what could cause the problem, it would be very helpful. But I'm also opened for installing a new ROM, kernel...
Who is here with good battery life? Gimme some advice! Btw, I don't care if it's N or O, or anything as long as it's operating well, reliable and no bugs. Thanks!
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I reached (haters gonnah hate) best battery life on lineage 13 with boeffla kernel (zanezam's uber builds, use some battery safe profile from profile thread or make your own), amplify, greenify (optimized accordingly to the corresponding thread, with xposed) and NO GAPPS. Get about 3 days with SOT of 2-4h or a sot of 6-9h on 1 day (on an old oneplus2, no gaming). You can also use dualbootpatcher and a second, battery optimized (but lagging) ROM so you can switch when you can't charge your phone for a longer period of time.
lucyr03 said:
That's probably a battery issue, install AccuBattery then see how much health your battery have(requires few charges).
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I did, really awesome app but I'm not sure that I understand what is saying to me. And I don't think that is battery issue because before this I had a really good battery life. I'm sure that if I do a fresh install of new ROM, battery life will be great but only for few days.
wertus33333 said:
I reached (haters gonnah hate) best battery life on lineage 13 with boeffla kernel (zanezam's uber builds, use some battery safe profile from profile thread or make your own), amplify, greenify (optimized accordingly to the corresponding thread, with xposed) and NO GAPPS. Get about 3 days with SOT of 2-4h or a sot of 6-9h on 1 day (on an old oneplus2, no gaming). You can also use dualbootpatcher and a second, battery optimized (but lagging) ROM so you can switch when you can't charge your phone for a longer period of time.
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Can you explain this please with simple phrases? How was the performance? Do you use it now?
Snuff1 said:
I did, really awesome app but I'm not sure that I understand what is saying to me. And I don't think that is battery issue because before this I had a really good battery life. I'm sure that if I do a fresh install of new ROM, battery life will be great but only for few days.
Can you explain this please with simple phrases? How was the performance? Do you use it now?
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I personally use AOSiP with NGK and I get 3-4 hours SOT in 2 days, give it a try if you want.
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I personally use AOSiP with NGK and I get 3-4 hours SOT in 2 days, give it a try if you want.
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What is AOSiP with NGK and SOT? Sorry dude...newbie
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Can you explain this please with simple phrases? How was the performance? Do you use it now?
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Forget everything with dualboot patcher, you would probably mess up your phone.
For everything else, use xda search. Seriously, you only have to type the apps i suggested 1:1 into the adress bar and you will find it! If you are too lazy for this, unroot and go back to stock.... seriously...
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Yes, i'm using this now (lineageos13) with a self compiled boeffla kernel (uber 8, camera focus fixed on 6.0.1 roms), greenify, amplify (own build), xposed (needed for amplify, greenify works better with it) and no GAPPS (= google apps--> no playstore, youtube, etc--> draining battery as hell, idk what they are always doing in the background...)
My boeffla profile: 3 cores 1250mhz max, big cores disabled, battery extreme governor, system and my apps (whatsapp, telegram, 9gag, browser) work fluently (they start up a very little bit slower than before).
Battery profile is same but with 2 cores 675mhz, still only few microlaggs (you have to disable all animations in developer settings), internet browser is slow (use a lightweight browser, such as firefox focus) apps open up slower but aside from that the phone is usable. If you're interested in the kernel and my profiles, please tell me (you still have A LOT of work to do by yourself, such as setting up amplify and greenify, disabling (system) apps you don't need, adjusting everything for your needs, deny unnecessary permissions on app ops xposed, etc).
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884/ best battery life thread (for me)
Snuff1 said:
What is AOSiP with NGK and SOT? Sorry dude...newbie
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AOSiP it's a rom - Android Open Source Illusion Project
NGK it's a kernel - No Gravity Kernel
SOT - Screen On Time
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Results can vary. As someone who flashes way too many ROMs - its an addiction - I currently use crDroid Oreo as my daily. I also flashed the blue bolt kernel. This seems to give me good battery. I do have a rooted version of the stock ROM I flashed in twrp backup. Just in case. With crDroid also backed up I can move quickly from one to the other in about ten min without losing all my settings. It is a good idea to occasionally do a fresh backup of one or both since apps added or deleted or updated and any changes you've made since last backup will not be kept otherwise.
shonkin said:
Results can vary. As someone who flashes way too many ROMs - its an addiction - I currently use crDroid Oreo as my daily. I also flashed the blue bolt kernel. This seems to give me good battery. I do have a rooted version of the stock ROM I flashed in twrp backup. Just in case. With crDroid also backed up I can move quickly from one to the other in about ten min without losing all my settings. It is a good idea to occasionally do a fresh backup of one or both since apps added or deleted or updated and any changes you've made since last backup will not be kept otherwise.
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Do you know dualboot patcher (google it )? Very nice opportunity to have multiple roms installed on the device (which even share the data for specific apps--> u have all your wa chats from one rom on the other, directly after reboot). Wouldn't recommend for people who can not restore a backup over adb (unexpected things can happen, but way better than always saving and restoring a backup)...
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I did, really awesome app but I'm not sure that I understand what is saying to me. And I don't think that is battery issue because before this I had a really good battery life. I'm sure that if I do a fresh install of new ROM, battery life will be great but only for few days.
Can you explain this please with simple phrases? How was the performance? Do you use it now?
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If you don't mind for a worse looking screen quality, you can use terminal emulator (with root), do a backup in TWRP(ALL partitions!) then type (hit Enter after each line):
"su" (grant root if asked)
"wm size 720x1280" (for 720p, it looks about the same as 1080p, u can also use 480x854)
"wm density 300" (200 for 480x854)
Then u can lower your cpu frequencies until it lags. (and disable system animations, my phone works fine at 480p with 2 cores at 768mhz max freq) will post sot/running time (without charging) when i have the time to test.