I want speed and i want battery life with CM7; lately my phones been spitting out battery percentages like division.... >.< anyone got any good ideas?
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I'd like to hear some experiences that everyone is having on how the battery life is on the stock ROM (POST OTA, NOT OVERCLOCKED) vs custom ROMs (Again, NOT overclocked).
I've tried the Virtuous ROM, and as expected the battery life got slurped down like coca-cola! CM6.1 isn't as bad, but still seems to suck the life out of the battery quite a bit faster than stock.
Is everyone seeing similar? What makes the stock ROM so much better on the battery?
My experience was actually quite the opposite. When I switched to CM, my battery life improved by about 20-25%. I have a NAM Desire Z so it was running HTC Sense over Froyo.
Remember that it takes a few days of usage for your battery to 'calibrate' itself to the new ROM. My first two days on CM were really bad, but since then, battery life has improved greatly. Yesterday, after moderate use and 15 hours, I still had 45% of my battery left. With my stock ROM, I would be lucky to get 15 hours of use out of the phone period.
As far as overclocking goes, I haven't seen much of a difference in battery life. Reason is, even though you are overclocked when the screen is on, you can adjust settings to under-clock at other times, saving battery power.
I would recommend trying a Custom ROM for 4-5 days, that will give you a better idea about its battery life. Also, there are lots of settings you can tweak that affect battery life greatly. Widgets, background data, signal strength... SOO many variables in personal usage that battery life is going to fluctuate user to user regardless.
Im using cm7 nightly builds (currently 100) and i was just wondering has any one had better experience with different kernels that give better battery life? I really have been seeing poor battery results and im barely even doing anything! Most of the time my brightness is at zero or like 20 percent, and i even have 3g turned off alot. Any one have any tips or suggestions for battery life? I normally can get about 8 hours use if i barely do anything on it. (also running the latest incredikernel)
I've always stuck with the stock CM7 kernel but am wondering if there is a better one that doesn't loose any performance but improves battery life.
I really don't know much about kernels, so hoping for done good advice on this.
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well I'm sure you've read somewhere that every device is different when it comes to handling different things like roms and kernels. My EVO doesn't mind Golden Monkey, give me badass battery life and doesn't give up speed and performance. It'll suck on Chop Suey though. When it comes to AOSP roms and kernels, SAV-ZEN is perfect on my phone when it comes to speed AND battery life. I can get almost a whopping 2 1/2 days out of my extended without ever charging it along with decent use. i tried a CM kernel and i had a no go with it no matter how many times i tried it. i got horrible battery life and it lagged bad. but like i said, every phone is different like people LOL. you might like skinny jeans where as someone else might hate them haha
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Hello,
My battery life hasn't been so great as of lately. IDK if it's ICS or if because my battery is nearing the end of it's life but sometimes my phone reboots and I lose like 30% battery out of nowhere. Is there an app that anyone can recommend to test to see if a battery is still good?
caaznkid said:
Hello,
My battery life hasn't been so great as of lately. IDK if it's ICS or if because my battery is nearing the end of it's life but sometimes my phone reboots and I lose like 30% battery out of nowhere. Is there an app that anyone can recommend to test to see if a battery is still good?
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Its kinda an issue with our phones from what i can gather. It seems at 50% or lower it will drop in large numbers when it reboots. I read if u have to reboot to turn on airplane mode before reboot. They say its a fix but i can not confirm.
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Not sure if it's an app to test if your battery is still good but you can test if your battery is bad by taking it out and see if it's bulging on the sides.. Also if you let you phone die alot or alot of deep charges that will kill your battery (its best to charge our batteries as much as possible for long term health)
In the meantime you can grab GSam battery monitor from the market or better battery stats to see if it's something chewing up your battery
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caaznkid said:
Hello,
My battery life hasn't been so great as of lately. IDK if it's ICS or if because my battery is nearing the end of it's life but sometimes my phone reboots and I lose like 30% battery out of nowhere. Is there an app that anyone can recommend to test to see if a battery is still good?
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Are you stock ics or are you on a custom Rom ?
If your stock ff18 ics, this is as good as it gets. If on custom Rom you may have options to tweak settings and save some batt, custom Rom wise the better ones are near stock, the more bells and whistles custom roms have the greater battery hogs they are.
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I'm on toroplus. Preferably Jellybean. Well here are the ROMs I've tried.
Black bean baked is causing extreme battery drains. Cleared battery stats and did a calibration and nothing.
I have a Hyperion Extended battery 3500mah and I am getting a battery of 50 minutes screen off/on.
Thanks and do not flame.
BAKED is causing battery drain? That way improved mine. Stock kernel. Try ru jellin. Basic stock, no mods but extremely awesome right out the gate
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To be honest, kernels are all about same right now battery wise. It also depends on which ROM you use. I never tried Baked, so I can't recommend best kernel for that, but what I can say is, if you don't need color control, overclocking or anything like that, just go with Stock. It's most reliable kernel out there
If you do want extra features from the kernel, just try them all. Make sure that you use them for about a day or two for battery life.
Me personally am using AOKP nightly with Franco Kernel (Latest nightly), overclocked to 1.4GHz with stock battery (GSM) and still manage to get about 4.5 hours of battery life
Stock rooted.