I was previously on CloudyG3. Then to get a taste of Marshmallow, I installed Fulmics rom back then. The rom was buggy for me with terrible battery life. I then switched to Stock Marshmallow and used it as my daily driver for some time. The screen on time was decent at 3h. Seeking for something that was a little tweaked, I opted for the N&N rom. It turned out to be the best MM rom that i used. It was super smooth with no evident issues. The screen on time was 3 hours for this rom as well. There was one defect with the rom though (Fulmics had this as well), the charging times were very erratic. Sometimes it would charge in 2 hours while sometimes leaving it for 8 hours plus would have charged it to just 80% from 20%. The unreliable battery charge times resulted in me having to limit essential working on my phone. The other thing that bothered me about MM roms (don't know if any body else had it) was that the phone would continue to lose charge if I used the phone while it was charging. I tried Fulmics 6.1 after that (clean install) but it was unbearably laggy, from the lockscreen to switching apps. It was unusable for me. So, I couldnt take it anymore and decided to go back to CloudyG3 2.5 with Xceed Kernel. Turns out it was a wonderful decision. My charging times are back to normal, my phone doesnt lose charge while working and charging at the same time and best of all my screen on time has gone way up to 4 hours. It is as smooth as any marshamllow rom and practically bugless. It doesnt heat up as the other roms. There were a couple of old apps that i used that were not compatible with MM and they are working flawlessly on Cloudy G3. So it is back to Lollipop CloudyG3 for me. If anyone of you all are having issues with Marshmallow roms, hop back to CloudyG3.
Tottaly agree!!! The same about me! I was on CloudyG3 2.5. I tried lot of MM Roms (Fulmics 6.1 , N&N and Zoe 2.7) but almost all of them had terrible battery life, tha is the most important for me! Finally i flashed again Cloudy G3 2.5. I think a made the best move. Battery life turn to normal again. No bugs. I was thinging on going to Stock MM, but maybe not!!
you should try limitless rom with Xceed kernel right now my battery at 51% and screen usage is 2h 35m from these numbers you should get 4:30 to 5 hours of screen usage. i've been using it for 5 month and i'm very happy with it and most importantly i get like 65000+ on antutu
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Hi everyone! I am on the stock kitkat GNG8 and my battery is not good at all. I get arround 2 hours on screen time from a full charge in a day or less. I tried updating to Lollipop, but reverted because some of the bugs, and the battery was not that great either. I have 2 original samsung batteries, and both get drained pretty fast. Any rom/kernel confinguration that can get me at least 3 hours of battery life please? Thank you!
I'm using the Imperium ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/i9505-develop/rom-imperium-ll-v1-0-t3046889/page92
My best Kernel to avoid batery drains, was the Googy Kernel, and the settings as "Conservative".
But don't expect so much, I also get 100% charge, and in just a 5 minutes, I get about 90% (with a brand new batery and even another one 7200mAh with 8 months of use).
This sucks, I know, but it's what it is.
Avoid to get all the time the screen on, and sometimes power off the wireless/nfc/BT, or whatsoever connection that you wouldn't use it.
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Hi everyone! I am on the stock kitkat GNG8 and my battery is not good at all. I get arround 2 hours on screen time from a full charge in a day or less. I tried updating to Lollipop, but reverted because some of the bugs, and the battery was not that great either. I have 2 original samsung batteries, and both get drained pretty fast. Any rom/kernel confinguration that can get me at least 3 hours of battery life please? Thank you!
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I'd recommend Danvdh's GPE rom. It has a nice battery life. I can't tell you how much screen time you will get 100-0% because I generally don't let it go under 50%.
But I can get around 2 hours, from 100% to 50% (while gaming) This is with wifi and bluetooth off. Screen brightness at the minimum and no vibrations.
Anyway. It's worth a try. And many people praise the rom. It's also the most bug and hassle free lollipop rom I've tried.
Or you can try any AOSP rom and Ktoonsez kernel. It's a really awesome kernel. Look in the Ktweaker shop and download some kernel profiles and switch between those. There are 3 categories: Conservative, Balanced, Performance. I guess they are self explanatory.
I used Sleeping-Dragon 1.2 Single Core (Basically turns your phone into a single core phone. It is still surprisingly smooth though) as my battery profile. There are several profiles for each category.
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I'd recommend Danvdh's GPE rom. It has a nice battery life. I can't tell you how much screen time you will get 100-0% because I generally don't let it go under 50%.
But I can get around 2 hours, from 100% to 50% (while gaming) This is with wifi and bluetooth off. Screen brightness at the minimum and no vibrations.
Anyway. It's worth a try. And many people praise the rom. It's also the most bug and hassle free lollipop rom I've tried.
Or you can try any AOSP rom and Ktoonsez kernel. It's a really awesome kernel. Look in the Ktweaker shop and download some kernel profiles and switch between those. There are 3 categories: Conservative, Balanced, Performance. I guess they are self explanatory.
I used Sleeping-Dragon 1.2 Single Core (Basically turns your phone into a single core phone. It is still surprisingly smooth though) as my battery profile. There are several profiles for each category.
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Thank you very much! I will give it a try soon!
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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I know, I know, YMMV. A similar question to this one was asked in late April. A LOT has happened on custom ROMs for the MXPE since then (thank you to the devs who continue to work on this phone). I wonder what ROM users think would yield the best battery life now.
most likely trupure or stock, with frankenclark and using the rephyp scripts
Stock gives the best battery life without significant kernel tweaking in most cases. Motorola at least got one thing right, they optimized the heck out of that kernel, too bad they used an LCD display panel that uses more battery than a few "normal" panels combined, nothing we can do about that.
As mentioned above, stock is definitely the best for battery life, but for me the gap has closed considerably.
In the last few months the CM based roms have gotten good enough that battery life is comparable to stock. I've been running AICP pretty much exclusively since August. Standby drain is a touch higher on AICP, but the difference is so small now that it doesn't make any real difference in how often I charge my phone.
I haven't spent any significant time on AOSP based roms recently, but they used to have pretty poor battery life when compared to stock. I'd lose like 10% battery just idling overnight vs. 2 - 3% on stock. AOSP might have improved a lot recently as well, because the CM based roms used to run that way too.
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As mentioned above, stock is definitely the best for battery life, but for me the gap has closed considerably.
In the last few months the CM based roms have gotten good enough that battery life is comparable to stock. I've been running AICP pretty much exclusively since August. Standby drain is a touch higher on AICP, but the difference is so small now that it doesn't make any real difference in how often I charge my phone.
I haven't spent any significant time on AOSP based roms recently, but they used to have pretty poor battery life when compared to stock. I'd lose like 10% battery just idling overnight vs. 2 - 3% on stock. AOSP might have improved a lot recently as well, because the CM based roms used to run that way too.
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Which AICP ROM are you using? MM or N?
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Which AICP ROM are you using? MM or N?
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M when I wrote that, but N now.
If battery life is your primary concern N is a little better for me, except for an audio out wakelock I get. Streaming audio from Pandora or playing video in a browser tab and things like that keep my phone from getting back to sleep sometimes. Only seems like streaming does it to me. Playing local music doesn't do that. Takes a reboot to fix it. Not a huge problem once I figured out what to watch for.
With this phone, if you want everything to work right, and good consistent battery life, stock is the only way to go. No matter how much effort is put into the custom roms for this phone, there is always something wrong, and they require a ton of tweaking to get battery life to equal stock. So just use stock with xposed for customization for the best experience with this phone.
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With this phone, if you want everything to work right, and good consistent battery life, stock is the only way to go. No matter how much effort is put into the custom roms for this phone, there is always something wrong, and they require a ton of tweaking to get battery life to equal stock. So just use stock with xposed for customization for the best experience with this phone.
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Yeah, battery life is the most important for me because of my heavy usage, but the problem with Stock & TruPure is that somehow my tether/hotspot is being tracked and it's limiting my speeds for that. On AOSP ROM's the tether/hotspot speeds are consistent with Sprint LTE. I have an average of 4 hours SOT daily and need to charge the phone 2-3 times fully a day on turbo charger.
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Yeah, battery life is the most important for me because of my heavy usage, but the problem with Stock & TruPure is that somehow my tether/hotspot is being tracked and it's limiting my speeds for that. On AOSP ROM's the tether/hotspot speeds are consistent with Sprint LTE. I have an average of 4 hours SOT daily and need to charge the phone 2-3 times fully a day on turbo charger.
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If you are using a lot of data when you tether/hotspot, then you are not going to see any big differences in battery life regardless of ROMs or tweaks. Using a lot of mobile data via a hotspot, even with the screen off, will be heavy on the battery.
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Yeah, battery life is the most important for me because of my heavy usage, but the problem with Stock & TruPure is that somehow my tether/hotspot is being tracked and it's limiting my speeds for that. On AOSP ROM's the tether/hotspot speeds are consistent with Sprint LTE. I have an average of 4 hours SOT daily and need to charge the phone 2-3 times fully a day on turbo charger.
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The only non-stock rom I have gotten good battery life, without having to do a ton of tweaking, is CrDroid. It has issues though, like taking 20 seconds to open the camera, and the stupid stuttering when changing orientation in youtube, that most of the custom roms have.
Why audio stutters when rotating display
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The only non-stock rom I have gotten good battery life, without having to do a ton of tweaking, is CrDroid. It has issues though, like taking 20 seconds to open the camera, and the stupid stuttering when changing orientation in Youtube, that most of the custom ROMs have.
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The "stupid stuttering when changing orientation", if you are referring to the audio stutter, is because when you turn your phone in landscape to the right (with the volume buttons underneath) the Left and Right channels switch.
This "feature" Motorola put in Lollipop and then pulled out by them again in Marshmallow, it can be disabled by a simple edit into build.prop
Code:
ro.audio.monitorRotation = true, false
Or you could delete the whole line. Note that reflashing a custom rom zip replaces your build.prop file!
It doesn't happen on the stock rom, so it isn't a problem
I use AICP 11 or Resurrection Remix 5.7.4. I can get over two days on a charge. I don't do games or Bluetooth. Just mail, text, browser and music. See attached screenshot.
Custom ROM's are Ressurection Remix and CrDroid to give you the most battery (i don't know about AICP, never used it)
Stock ROM still gives me the best "user experience/battery life" since i don't mind recharging every night, but i get home with something next to 35%, then i "watch some videos/play some games" to get the battery down, till i go to bed it gets to something like 5%, then I leave it charging through the night
ps: not sure if it makes any difference, but i charge it with the 15w turbo charger that i bought in a Motorola Store not the 25w that came in the box, it heats to much with the 25w one, no heat at all in the 15w version
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Custom ROM's are Ressurection Remix and CrDroid to give you the most battery (i don't know about AICP, never used it)
Stock ROM still gives me the best "user experience/battery life" since i don't mind recharging every night, but i get home with something next to 35%, then i "watch some videos/play some games" to get the battery down, till i go to bed it gets to something like 5%, then I leave it charging through the night
ps: not sure if it makes any difference, but i charge it with the 15w turbo charger that i bought in a Motorola Store not the 25w that came in the box, it heats to much with the 25w one, no heat at all in the 15w version
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I've noticed the phone heats up more on the 25W charger, but it is nice in a pinch. I just charge in the evening with a 15W charger and go through the night without charging. I keep my 25W at work (for those slow days in which I watch movies/shows).
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Hi guys,
I started this thread because i want to know about your experience regarding the performance/smoothness/battery life of our Mi5s with the 8.1 Oreo ROMS available.
I only tried PixelExperience ROM and overall it's very good. But it just doesn't feel as smooth as latest stable MIUI 9 for example. The latest stable 9.2.1.0 is really smooth, but battery life is not great. With PixelExperience I encoutered constant micro stutterings in the overall fluidity and battery life was pretty much the same as with MIUI.
So i ask you: Which is the best 8.1 ROM regarding smoothness and battery life in your oppinion? Maybe it's a combo of a ROM and a custom Kernel?
Thank you
I think it's too early to say which one is the best. For practically all so far released have the same problem. In my case it is from time to time the touch gets half dragged and the home and auxiliary buttons stop working. The most recent migrations of the last update of the lineage are with a better deep sleep, but at a great expense during the use, even only using wifi, the spending is the same as spent using 4G networks. But for me, the ones I tested have the same problem on the touch and auxiliary and home buttons.
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I think it's too early to say which one is the best. For practically all so far released have the same problem. In my case it is from time to time the touch gets half dragged and the home and auxiliary buttons stop working. The most recent migrations of the last update of the lineage are with a better deep sleep, but at a great expense during the use, even only using wifi, the spending is the same as spent using 4G networks. But for me, the ones I tested have the same problem on the touch and auxiliary and home buttons.
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What can you tell me about smoothness from your experience?
In all that I tested, which was the pixel experience, Lineage 15 and AOKP, presented the same problem during use. During use, for example, of the telegram, in some moments the touch was half dragged and the buttons home, back and applications remained unresponsive during this time that was of a few seconds. In those moments the act of turning the screen off and on again, the device was once again functional. The touch returned to its smoothness and the buttons came back on. I am currently using miui 9 beta Brasil and these problems do not occur.
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In all that I tested, which was the pixel experience, Lineage 15 and AOKP, presented the same problem during use. During use, for example, of the telegram, in some moments the touch was half dragged and the buttons home, back and applications remained unresponsive during this time that was of a few seconds. In those moments the act of turning the screen off and on again, the device was once again functional. The touch returned to its smoothness and the buttons came back on. I am currently using miui 9 beta Brasil and these problems do not occur.
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I never encountered this issue with PixelExperience. Did you clean flashed? Also did you ensured to have latest firmware installed?
I personally switched back to MIUI stable because it is the most fluid ROM for Mi5s.
I am using AEX with Floppy Kernel
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I am using AEX with Floppy Kernel
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And what can you tell me about fluidity and battery life?
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And what can you tell me about fluidity and battery life?
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Always the same for me whatever ROM I use.
The best SOT was with a LOS15.1 from january 2, maybe because then I did not use titaniumbackup.
Battery life is pretty good with the latest LOS 15.1 if you also use ForceDoze (which sometimes get's it root access disabled after an update, so periodically check), and let the privacy guard do it's thing. For me this ROM also has proven to be the most stable with the latest iterations. Also, don't forget to update the firmware once in a while (https://github.com/fjtrujy/capricornCNFirmware/releases).
I am on Validus and vouch for its smoothness, fast and fluid. I tried most of the Oreo ROMs, but this one I get best battery without any battery optimization app or tweaks.
To me, i use atomic rom, from 5 am to noon, i only use 20% battery with data on, some report that they left the phone overnight and only use 4% battery, cheers
Any updates on this, new experiences?
About smooth... I can sure all rom 8.x are smooth now...
But about battery i trust only rom "pixel experience "
Why
Because some rom i test (rr, aex, los,...) have a problem with gov. Try run fb about 10minute then open "ex kernel manager" u will see small core only run with 2 clock speed (300mhz and 1.5ghz... Others clock run but only 1-2s in total 10' ) -this not good... Only pixel rom run small to high with true value cpu clock speed need to make app run smooth without no lag.
Using latest AEX 5.5 and my battery goes pretty fast with mobile data on...
With mobile data off i think i might get 2.5 - 3 hours screen on time and about 24 hours battery life on a single charge.
Which one is best for smooth gaming?
Whats everybody's recommendation for what ROM to run on the note 4 (mine is A snapdragon). I was using Dr Ketans rom, and that was all really good - fast and snappy, good battery except video was not GPU accelerated! And was a battery drain, or having playback issues. That was the only issue i had with it.
So i went back to the factory Samsung Marshmellow android, but immediately everything was laggier and slower, and the battery drain was horrendous (from 5hours SOT, down to 2hours SOT). Im almost %100 sure Samsung intentionally made it that way to force users to upgrade. But i dont want to let them win! since these phones have removable batteries to keep them going for some time yet!
So what is everybody elses using? I really like to use the pen for taking quick notes which may rule out lineage?
Thanks
Uhm, I don't get 5 hours of SoT on any rom, maybe 3-3.5 hours if I'm lucky. Did you manage that on "Dr Ketan's rom"?
On terms of usage experience, I'd recommend Resurrection Remix.
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Uhm, I don't get 5 hours of SoT on any rom, maybe 3-3.5 hours if I'm lucky. Did you manage that on "Dr Ketan's rom"?
On terms of usage experience, I'd recommend Resurrection Remix.
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yeah i was managing 5 hours SOT and i think once or twice hit 6 hours. May of been on kit kat before i used dr Ketans Rom, but all i know is going back to samsung stock Marshmellow was a big mistake.
I should have some screenshots somewhere to show those SOT times. I really ran things bare minimum though. I will give Resurrection Remix a go thanks.
Anyone else have any feedback? please share.