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[Q] speed up my kaiser android

hi all, i'm still here
i installed android on my kaiser (scooter's cyanomod build froyo), and i'm happy (exept for the camera... still hoping) but i have a question :
it's normal that the animation are slow, the menu are ... don't know... "fat" to appear even with a fresh installation...
i mean, i know that kaiser is not the fastest phone on the Earth, but i think that a completely empty android coud be handeled by it..
i tried to play with compache settings, but i dont have manu results, and i prefere not to overclock, due to the high battery drain
ps : i tried to search in the forum and in google, but with no results
thanks !

I know what you mean. I wasn´t here in the Kaiser thread for a long time because i have a HTC HD2 now. But i loved Android for my Kaiser.
I can say that the older Donut builts runs much faster/smoother than froyo. The Kaiser is an old Phone but quite good. But it is like as it is on PC. You can run Vista on an old machine but the experience is... uhm...
I had Myn´s Warm Donut on my Kaiser but it seems that there is no further development. But RLS5 was fast an stable...
Another thing for smoothiness is the kernel you use. I changed to an older kernel because under a newer one the animations seems to be laggy. I dont know how it is now with the kernels. But you should test some different kernels.
I should dig out my Kaiser an play a little bit around with the new kernels and androids... ;-)

@ highcoder:...
2 builds of Froyo I would suggest is ThoughtlessKyle's NSS (Not So Super) Froyo and Incubus26Jc_'s Super FroYo RLS15 with .25 for a kernel. You have to put in a wireless update, and either 1.65 or 1.70 radio ROMs (both work great), but so far so good. 520MHz OC and everything on NAND and the only app that FC's on me is Pandora radio (I guess because it uses so much memory for each song)
I will probably be trying ThoughtlessKyle's Fat Free Froyo soon with the same .25 kernel here soon, but the 2 suggested above seem to be what I like to use.

Fat Free Froyo is by far the fastest release I tried.. But I'm still facing some problems with my battery, it drains so fast.. I think i will go a release back and try Donut for a change
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highcoder said:
I can say that the older Donut builts runs much faster/smoother than froyo. The Kaiser is an old Phone but quite good. But it is like as it is on PC. You can run Vista on an old machine but the experience is... uhm...
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Best explanation quote

thanks for reply
poor kaiser, is a little oldie phone =) but with android maquillage tadaaan, it seems brand nes (ehm...)
i'll try with a stable .25 kernel version then
but htc touch (touch dual) is better than kaiseR? the cpu freq is the same... (even worst, in compasrison wih the first touch 200mhz)
thanks again

I'm running the .35 kernel with an overclock at 500Mhz done using Atools.I have always overclocked to 500 using this method & my battery lasts for a good couple of days with moderate use.well,texting,the odd phone call and a bit of data usage.
Sent from my CyanogenMod Kaiser/Kaiser using XDA App

scooter1556 said:
I'm running the .35 kernel with an overclock at 500Mhz done using Atools.I have always overclocked to 500 using this method & my battery lasts for a good couple of days with moderate use.well,texting,the odd phone call and a bit of data usage.
Sent from my CyanogenMod Kaiser/Kaiser using XDA App
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I found using Vaniji Eclair with the .25 kernel is the fastest, and gives me decent battery life (about 12hrs with moderate use). I've been using Gingerbones with the .32 kernel, but because of how unstable .32 kernel is, I kept getting crashes, data corruption, etc...
Scooter, how did you get the .35 kernel? Can you IM me how or where you got it, so I can maybe compile my own version? The thought that you get several days under moderate use makes me want to get inside the kernel to check out if CPUFreq is indeed working on that kernel.

can i have your kernel too? or where to get it
thanks !

Krazy-Killa said:
Scooter, how did you get the .35 kernel? Can you IM me how or where you got it, so I can maybe compile my own version? The thought that you get several days under moderate use makes me want to get inside the kernel to check out if CPUFreq is indeed working on that kernel.
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The kernel i am using is compiled from dzo's original .32 git repo, i have made a few adjustments to it which i can't remember because it was before christmas. Once i've got my jan exams out the way i will do a git diff and push any changes i have made. Life's a little chaotic at the minute though. I am running my 5.5 build, phone came off charge at 9 this morning and was reading 97%, after a day of texting, some data usage and general gaming on the toilet (as you do!!) my battery is reading 70%. It's the original samsung battery too, so it's quite a few years old.

scooter1556 said:
The kernel i am using is compiled from dzo's original .32 git repo, i have made a few adjustments to it which i can't remember because it was before christmas. Once i've got my jan exams out the way i will do a git diff and push any changes i have made. Life's a little chaotic at the minute though. I am running my 5.5 build, phone came off charge at 9 this morning and was reading 97%, after a day of texting, some data usage and general gaming on the toilet (as you do!!) my battery is reading 70%. It's the original samsung battery too, so it's quite a few years old.
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Oh nice! Looking forward to compiling this myself, though really don't mind trying it out now. lol
Well back on topic, since everyone here is saying go Donut, I think I'll be a rebel and say go Eclair, it's not far from Froyo, and ahead of Donut, so you kinda get the inbetween of the two.

today i tried to overclock my kernel to 500 mhz...
now, i see a lot of artifatcs... now i rollback, but anyone had the same issue?
with "atools" can i set something that can help me to inmprove performance?
thanksy
update : rolled back to base kernel... but artifacts still here
another update : downloaded from frash the kernel, applied the overclock to 500 and no other options : no more artifacts

Ok i´ve reactivated my Kaiser to try around a little bit.
The last one i´ve tried was Fat Free Froyo with the latest 2.6.32 Kernel from DZO and it´s a very fast & stable built. Not as fast/smooth as Myn´s warm Donut (with an older Kernel) but for a Froyo on Kaiser much impressive.
@bboygolem
Overclocking ist not the best way to improve performance. Better... its a poor way. Even if you have a new big battery the batterylife is not so long... one day or so... and if you now speed up your CPU your batterydrain is much higher, the thermal stress for CPU and other components is higher and the chance of force closes, app hangs, artifacts, system crash, data corruption/loss is very high. On the other side you have only a little performance increase. Too little that you dont recognise it in all day use. Of course a calculating benchmark will show you maybe a 20% performance boost but only for calculating things. But the Speed of an operating system is defined by the weakest thing in the whole chain.
Better get a good optimized android built. building a android for kaiser nowdays is easy as going to toilet, but cook a highly optimized, smooth runnin, slim rom is the real deal...
So you have to test and compare the builts and the kernels (the newest is not always the best).
The best (fast,smooth,stable) built on the first Forumpage is Fat Free Froyo.
But still the best (most suitable for Kaiser) built i´ve ever tested is Myn´s Warm Donut RLS5 in conjunction with an older Kernel from Kallt_Kaffee. The best combination ever.
It is an Android 1.6 so it is older but smaller too. So it runs faster and smoother and you have more RAM for apps. Especially when you run resourcehungry programs like Navigon Mobile Navigator you need the extra Memory. With eclayr, froyo you have only force closes...
But at least it´s on you. Your favors, your taste, your choice...

highcoder said:
it´s a very fast & stable built. Not as fast/smooth as Myn´s warm Donut (with an older Kernel) but for a Froyo on Kaiser much impressive.
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May I ask about the battery consumption in Myn's warm Donut release? is it the same as Froyo built?

highcoder, thanks for you reply, but i have some questions:
1 - i know that overclocking the cpu , i have a more battery drain and disease percentage, but i noticed a little performance increase.... can it be "placebo effect"?
2 - I thought to use the old kernel, but i read somewhere that is slower than the new one. It's true?
3 - I can install the donut, i don't care about eyecandy's, but I'm afraid that a lot of apps in the market shall not work with the "donut" distribution.. am i wrong? using fat free froyo with the old kernel shall improve my performance?
thanks again

sorry, dobule post

Oh that are a lot of questions i cant answer properly.
The overclocking has of course an effect. But it is only a little average performance increase. Hard to notice that. the most of that is really placebo. But the risk of brick something or to have an instable system ist sigificant higher... so its not worth it...
i dont know about the older kernels because i have a HTC HD2 since 6 Month so there was a lot of change here. Froyo have got a real performance increase the last months. So the kerneldevs and the chef´s here do a good work. But the best Foyobuilt (2.2) here with the newest kernel don´t beat the smoothieness and felt speed of Myn´s warm Donut (1.6).
I never had a problem with market apps and donut. Shure there will be apps that wont work with donut anymore but for that case there are enough alternative apps that will work.
If you want i can search my HDD´s for the kernel i used an give it to you...
But now i´ll go to bed.

thanks highcoder, it'd be very kind from you =)
have a good night

@bigboss2200 & bboygolem
Battry Drain Test with newest DZO Kernel and Fat Free Froyo is in progress. After that i will test Myn´s war Donut with a NEW Kernel. So i can compare these builts about batterydrain and Speed. May be the speed improvements of the new Froyobuilts i´ve noticed are only Kernel related. In this case Myn´s warm donut should benefit from this kernel optimizations too an we will have a real performance boost. I'm curious about it.
I will post my results...

in the meantime, i installet latest dzo kernel and fat free froyo, and it seems stable and usable
but if using the .25 kernel i will be able to use the camera and to shut down the phone permanently, keeping an accettable speed, i think i'd downgrade the kernel
i'm looking forward to see your test results

ok i have tested Myns warm donut with .32 kernel = laggy animations
so i downloaded the latest .25 kernel from here. After that i downloaded the mandatory update for all older builts from here. Without this update wifi won´t work. In newer builts it is cooked in already.
Flash the kernel.
Install Myns
Install Update
Weeehaaaa! It works with the newer .25 too. Smooth animations, very responsive and snappy. WLAN works fine... battery drain will show a longer test...
I always made some adjustments. Go to spareparts -> Window Animation = fast and transition animation = fast, fancy input animation = on
Give it a try... Let your Kaiser feel "young" again ;-)
EDIT: Dont use the builtin Astro filemanager. Its outdated... Download a newone from market. My Favourite is Estrong ESfileexplorer. Because it can handle FTP and SMB. That mean Windows network shares too. So you can exchange your files over wlan with your PC.

Running Laucher Pro, should I ditch HTC Sense?

Ever since I found Launcher Pro I've never used anything else.
I'm running SkyRaider 3.5 (which is HTC Sense) and I'm wondering if I should go to an AOSP ROM like CM7.
I'm wondering:
> Will it be faster than current setup?
> Will it be better on battery than current setup?
Let me know, thanks.

Battery and speed will improve depending on which kernal you use. The main advantage to using a AOSP ROM for me was better bluetooth support. I can't use wii controlers with my emulators using Sense but I can if I use a non-Sense ROM like CM6 or CM7. Shows you what I look for in a ROM doesn't it.

Doesn't Skyraider offer a senseless version of the Skyraider ROM?

POQbum said:
Ever since I found Launcher Pro I've never used anything else.
I'm running SkyRaider 3.5 (which is HTC Sense) and I'm wondering if I should go to an AOSP ROM like CM7.
I'm wondering:
> Will it be faster than current setup?
> Will it be better on battery than current setup?
Let me know, thanks.
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Speed will depend, more likely than not it will be a bit speedier and better on battery IMO. I have been running CM7 with the Savaged-Zen kernel and i got over a day and a half out of it, that with setcpu at 128/1113 with smartass governor.

I used to stick with Sense based ROMS because they where just so smooth and stable, but now im with AOSP ROMS like CM7 and a few others. I use launcher pro and its awesome. The customization of AOSP ROMS are pretty much endless, and they give you a cleaned up Android. Id give it a try, just make a back up of SkyRaider then download the latest CM7 RC.

@OP
I was in your shoes about a week after using the phone after I bought it.
Went AOSP and haven't gone back except for the occasional, lets see if somehow the grass somehow decided to paint itself greener and became super plants.
I recommend AOSP completely. It's alot more of a streamlined android experience, and IMO lets you really customize the OS to work for you, rather than having to work with sense.
Not saying sense is bad or anything, it's my favorite non stock rom, but AOSP is just above and beyond for me.
Although incredibly re-engineered had me off AOSP for about 3 days before switching back

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Doesn't Skyraider offer a senseless version of the Skyraider ROM?
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Senseless is still Sense framework, which lacks the advantages of a true AOSP ROM. The advantage to Senseless is a vanilla interface, but the stability of the Sense framework.

Thanks for the input!
Will be switching to an ASOP ROM sometime tonight.

For me unfortunately, the lack of decent widgets keeps forcing me back to the new desire z based sense roms. Too many additional features in sense. Wish there were good equivalent aosp widgets for what you can get from htc in the hd/z/mt4g/inc s roms...
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POQbum said:
Thanks for the input!
Will be switching to an ASOP ROM sometime tonight.
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I don't know if you wanna jump in head first or not but, I'm really enjoying the new Cyanogenmod 7 RC1 right now. Another great is MIUI. They're both great on battery life and they're both highly customizable. But they are a big change from sense- especially MIUI. And, obviously, CM7 is a release candidate so it isn't perfect (although damn close.) Whether you jump on them now or later, once you've gotten your feet wet, you should check em both out some time.
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Smabbage said:
Battery and speed will improve depending on which kernal you use.
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That's false. I have never gotten the battery life from an AOSP rom that I have from an optimized Sense rom. I've used almost every kernel for both types of roms. There are quite a few people that actually complain about CM battery life. As far as speed its like the butt dyno, just saying your phone feels faster is all perception. There are people that say the optimized Sense roms are the fastest and some say the AOSP are the fastest. Try what you like and use it. The real differences is in the interface. Bluetooth is definitely better supported on CM.

I found my best battery life AND speed were with Ruby ROM 2.0.2 with Launcherpro. Cyanogenmod 6 is good too but had tons of features I didn't use. Invisiblek kernels are a great addition to AOSP ROMs.
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I've been running MIUI 1.1.26 with invisablek #28 for a while now, w/o setcpu and while I wouldn't say it's the fastest combo (not that it's slow) its is the most stable my phone has been since I switched from Virtuos using stock kernel.
After setting up invisablek #28 and wiping battery stats it did take a few days of crappy battery life until it started to kick butt. I can get thru a 10 hour work day of moderate web surfing and constant music playing and still have at least 20% battery left. And if I run with the 2150mah extended battery forget about it.
I would definately recommend giving MIUI and invisablek #28 kernel a try. It has the faster charging the stock kernel has and runs smooth and stable. The launched takes a bit to get used to but you can always run launcher pro over it. Tried that but I love the MIUI launched too much.

Thats my issue with the CM line, it has tons of features I dont use (which could be flashable) and includes way too many localizations. I must admit I forgot about Ruby, it was the best in terms of speed. No lag, no hesitation, smooth as butter.

Launcher Pro doesn't extend any battery life on any ROM I have used it just a different launcher but one of the best ones I have used so far.

If you aren't attached to the Sense experience, the don't even hesitate to try out different ROMs. I gave up on Sense after a month of purchasing the Dinc, tried out CM6, tried out MIUI, and now I've been "crackflashing" CM7 since January. A lot of people are experiencing really good battery life. Can't say so for myself since the Dinc is my main computer, but I would certainly say that it is the fastest ROM I've tried.
Do a nandroid backup. Try out a bunch of new setups. Restore the nandroid if you aren't happy. Simple as that--when you're rooted you can do a lot with these devices.

nfiniti9 said:
There are people that say the optimized Sense roms are the fastest and some say the AOSP are the fastest.
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I will say that CM's GPU performance is better than that of the Incredible's on 2.2. My guess is that this is due to CM's release using more recent drivers for the Adreno 200. I've tested this with both benchmarks and games.
On Sims 3, owning the largest house makes panning/zooming is a virtual crawl on stock Sense, even with a good custom kernel. On CM7, it's playable, a huge difference. Quadrant advances/profession GPU score (not the worthless combined score) is nearly 150 points different. To give a perspective, it's 280 to 410 on average, which is a huge jump.

What ROM do you use?

Right now I am running axi0m 2.1. So far its the best rom that I have used. Its very smooth and battery life is great especially when your phone is asleep. Losing only 3-4 bars over 9 hour period.
The rom can be found at rootzwiki.
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Haven't seen any reason to change from stock. I lose about 3-5% overnight as-is, and everything is perfectly stable with no hiccups.
I may run CM9 when it hits a stable release.

Until CM9 is out, I am sticking to stock and rooted...
Skickat från min ASUS Eee Pad TF101

I didn't have any reason not to run stock so I backed it up and just to check it out I am running Android Revolution HD™ 2.1.2 and it's working very well to date.

i'am using stock rom. i tried android revolution 2.1.2 but i had so many problems with it. stock is far more stable and its faster. with android revolution my battery worked for a day with normal usage (a few emails, a bit gaming) now it last for 2 days...

Started on Th3ory zygote 1.8, now on Axiom 2.1 + matr1x OC kernel. btw these gay ass names kill me! I love you devs but why the idiotic titles?
Im OC'd to 1.35 and stable as a rock. A bit more snappy than the stock, boots much quicker (have my girlfriends bone stock GN side by side to compare) and I love the notification area power toggles too.
Wifi teather up and running and the 240dpi/BRD launcher mod really puts the 720p screen to use! Cant go back to the normal screen density now! Loving this GN more and more...

stock rom because it offer stability, speed, and more stability.

I started with ARHD, but now i am using bigxies rom 5 with the latest franco kernel! Without oc, it's really smooth! But i can't wait for flashing cm9! ;-)

rockin' Axiom 2.1 and lovin' it. fast/stable/ great batt life.

Best/recomended MIUI rom?

Hello all.
I've been out the loop for a while now, still got stock sense on my DZ but have recently become very interested in MIUI roms. I have a few quick questions I hope someone can answer as after reading the various roms etc I'm a bit confused.
1. How well do MIUI roms work with the hardware keyboard? I'm seeing a few threads saying it isn't totally supported. This is a deal breaker for me really, can anyone clarify?
2. Which MIUI rom? I see there is an official one, but also others similar to official eg MIUIandroid, any particular 'best' version?
3. How is the battery life compared to sense? Does anyone have any current draw figures for screen off etc, my sense draws around 32mA screen off.
4. I assume they come with overclockable kernels, if so, is OC beater or whatever it's called still the best to use?
I'm interested to hear from MIUI users, sell it to me.

1. I've had no problems while using the keyboard with MIUI, it seems to work the same way as before. I have heard some people say that their backlights don't work but mine do. However, landscape is not supported on the homescreen but it is everywhere else.
2. I use the official english supported rom for Desire Z/G2, you can get it from ROM Manager or the MIUI website. I'm not sure about the best one because I've only used the official one.
I don't know about 3 and 4 but I do enjoy using MIUI. It was the first rom I used after I rooted my phone. I used to want sense but because of emoji support and themes I probably won't use another. I do recommend it as I have not been disappointed.

Thanks for replying.
Instead of exact current figures, maybe you could say what your typical daily use is like and what your battery level is at the end of the day?

I've tried miui us and miui android. Both are good and can tell any difference in look feel or performance. Also tried a couple of the miui v4 roms in the dev section. They are really good and give a snappier feel to the miui environment.
V4 is possibly better with battery but marginal. Compared to the stock rom I came from, battery is much improved. No figures I'm afraid as my days vary greatly. Camera is an issue on all ICS roms on the dz/g2 so decide if that's a problem or not.
Enjoy.
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Thanks for that.
I'm gonna flash the 'official' miuiAndroid tonight I think, need the camera so the ICS is a no go for now.
As long as battery is noticeably better than stock sense then I'll be happy.

Myrmidon83 said:
Thanks for that.
I'm gonna flash the 'official' miuiAndroid tonight I think, need the camera so the ICS is a no go for now.
As long as battery is noticeably better than stock sense then I'll be happy.
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good luck and enjoy. Give it a couple of charge cycles with the CPU adjusted you should see a significant improvement.
I generally run 900mhz Max with interactive governor.
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i definitely recommend the MIUIandroid version, the translation is far more complete. Miui.us just has faster servers! If you send/receive a bunch of picture messages, I suggest you download my modified Mms.apk from the link in my signature, more info is in that thread.
I've been using MIUI.au v4 for the last few days. pictures are slightly annoying, but if you take two or three, you usually get a good one, but the pictures do have to be taken in landscape.

Well I have been running it for the day and I have to say that I love it! Much better than sense, seems really stable and I love the customisation.
I was going to ask about that mms thing, I'll check the thread out.
As for the battery, it has run down quite quick today but I've been playing with it a lot and expect to need to have a few charge cycles till it settles.
One question though, does the OC/OVbeater overclocking thing work with this rom/kernel or should I stick with set cpu?

Myrmidon83 said:
One question though, does the OC/OVbeater overclocking thing work with this rom/kernel or should I stick with set cpu?
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Just to give you an answer, I don't know. But it's an AOSP kernel so... it should!

Have you flashed the bulletproof addon? It adds the Vituous OC daemon as well as OC/UV Beater. From there you can operate as intended and should probably have no issues. Personally I've never been able to OC over 1,3GHz on any MIUI ROM, may be the Tiamat kernel for me though...Anyway the highest I'd go on MIUI would be just barely 1,3-1,4GHz! Practically you wouldn't be needing more than 1,2GHz for heavier apps but considering this is MIUI and is a bit heavier, 1,3GHz will cater your needs.
Otherwise, OC/UV Beater will work but it will be limited to just Normal configuration, since the Virtuous OC daemon (which I presume you use?) is not cooked in, hence it can not be configured. You also can't undervolt because viper uv is also not included. If you're not interested in flashing Bulletproof then I'd stick with either SetCPU or even CPU Tuner (switched to this over from SetCPU and liking the fact it has more extensive configuration, as well as less battery drain). You can find CPU Tuner in the market, if you're interested.
Also, battery life wasn't half as bad actually. I find the MIUI Launcher to be a bit heavy and more resource consuming for my use. You can use Go Launcher or ADW if you want though.

Take a look at the bulletproof add on pack. It includes some nice tweaks, one being a kernel that supports OCing.
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MarkyG82 said:
I've tried miui us and miui android. Both are good and can tell any difference in look feel or performance. Also tried a couple of the miui v4 roms in the dev section. They are really good and give a snappier feel to the miui environment.
V4 is possibly better with battery but marginal. Compared to the stock rom I came from, battery is much improved. No figures I'm afraid as my days vary greatly. Camera is an issue on all ICS roms on the dz/g2 so decide if that's a problem or not.
Enjoy.
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I will like to second that! Im running a MIUI V4 port by ajhavery and lenny_kano (MIUI_Au 4.0.3 base 2.3.2) and it is working very well. Except my battery life is not as good as the official MIUI ROMS. BTW Angel Camera from the market works perfectly on this ROM with no glitches.

crestofawave said:
Have you flashed the bulletproof addon? It adds the Vituous OC daemon as well as OC/UV Beater. From there you can operate as intended and should probably have no issues. Personally I've never been able to OC over 1,3GHz on any MIUI ROM, may be the Tiamat kernel for me though...Anyway the highest I'd go on MIUI would be just barely 1,3-1,4GHz! Practically you wouldn't be needing more than 1,2GHz for heavier apps but considering this is MIUI and is a bit heavier, 1,3GHz will cater your needs.
Otherwise, OC/UV Beater will work but it will be limited to just Normal configuration, since the Virtuous OC daemon (which I presume you use?) is not cooked in, hence it can not be configured. You also can't undervolt because viper uv is also not included. If you're not interested in flashing Bulletproof then I'd stick with either SetCPU or even CPU Tuner (switched to this over from SetCPU and liking the fact it has more extensive configuration, as well as less battery drain). You can find CPU Tuner in the market, if you're interested.
Also, battery life wasn't half as bad actually. I find the MIUI Launcher to be a bit heavy and more resource consuming for my use. You can use Go Launcher or ADW if you want though.
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Oh so you can use the bulletproof add on with any miui rom then?
I'm using setcpu just now but I may try cpu tuner. I tend not to overclock to be honest, I'm more interested in underclocking when screen is off etc but I may try 900MHz or 1GHz, it's running very smooth at 800MHz though.

Myrmidon83 said:
Oh so you can use the bulletproof add on with any miui rom then?
I'm using setcpu just now but I may try cpu tuner. I tend not to overclock to be honest, I'm more interested in underclocking when screen is off etc but I may try 900MHz or 1GHz, it's running very smooth at 800MHz though.
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1. Bulletproof addon is for ANY 2.3 based miui. NOT miui v4.
2. The chip in dz/g2 is designed to run at 1ghz. Htc just UCed it to save on juice and market it as a lower spec (that's how I understood it anyway). I find at 800 it just feels a touch laggy. That extra 100 takes the edge off.
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Does installing bulletproof clear any data at all?
Is it flashed from recovery?

Shouldn't clear anything. I say shouldn't as you can never guarantee it. I've never had any issues. Always a good idea to clear cache and dalvik when flashing anything. And yes, its flashed in recovery.
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So I flashed this at the weekend and so far all is well.
Though I must admit, I'm not noticing the battery gains I was hoping for, a minimal boost is all. It does kinda seem that it uses more with the screen on than it used to, some comparison figures for those interested, taken using battery monitor widget.
Screen Off
Stock Sense: 31-34mA current draw
MIUI: 28mA Current Draw
Screen On (taken as sitting at homescreen doing nothing)
Stock Sense: 147-190mA
MIUI: 137-230mA
It's probably still calibrating and I never wiped the battery stats. Would there be a benefit in doing so?
Also, I have noticed that when charging, the light goes green when charge is only around 90% done, any news on this?

The light goes green once the battery is > 90%, this is more or less intended behaviour.
There had been a recent announcement by a Google employee that wiping the battery stats has no visible battery life improvement. All it does is wipe the statistics file that shows you what uses your battery. What you can merely do is run the battery down to 20~% (wouldn't go below that as the failsafe might go off) and then back to 100% for 3-4 times, so that the Battery Meter can become more accurate. From there it is ideal to run it down to 20-30% twice every month in order to keep the battery health in good shape.
MIUI was merely created to be iPhone-ish, cool looking, and very user friendly. It looks awesome, inarguably, but battery life isn't it's strong point. I wouldn't be surprised if it draw more than Sense itself, too. ROM's that have the best battery life are barebones. These have a lot of features suppressed in order to save up in RAM as well as battery consumption. There's also little customizing you can do to them.
However, if you want a good battery life ROM that does not cost you anything in features, you should try Tsubus' ILWT CM7 ROM. It is a CyanogenMod 7 based ROM, that has been fine tuned for speed and battery life alike. I've been a user for a long time and the phones takes me easily through a day with plenty of juice left (about 40-50%). You will have to go through the above meter calibration process again.

Yeah I know and don't get me wrong, MIUI gets me through a day no problem, maybe I was just being a bit too hopeful.
Have to say though that I have fallen in love with MIUI, I can't imagine using another rom now.

well if you are looking to use the bulletproof addon then i made a rom myself with some mods included in it... you can check it out from the link in my signature...

[Q] Your favorite daily ROM?

hi evo owners, my girlfriend has an evo 4g and she is always complaining about how slow it is and how fast her battery drains. (she's a pretty heavy user)
so i come to you guys for help..
which ROMs are you running that are showing the best battery life i can get out this thing and are they stable for day to day use. (being as its not my phone and she knows nothing about rooting. i wont be able to follow updates as ofter as i do on my GSII)
Im just looking for a great stable build with the best battery battery life.
any and all input is really appreciated, thanks

I am using MokeeOS, right now. pretty much everything is working and getting good battery life. Based on gingerbread. see the forum below...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1696993&referrerid=0
Also used MIUI 2.3.2 b1 based on gingerbread. See the thread below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1715566&referrerid=4694676

Deck's Reloaded or Tommytomatoe's Classic, if you want everything working on the phone.
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I'm using Cm7.2 latest nightly with Mason rc15 and performance is amazing battery life is good
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Swagged out stock is a clean fast Sense 1.0 rom that i've been using for months. There's a lot you can customize so you can get some better battery life. In general, the stock battery is what it is.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1258932

I like any of the sense 1.0 roms for quickness, battery and responsiveness. Classic rom, Digital Karma, Nitrous. U use Set CPU and make a profile for screen off. Use power save governor if kernel allows so while locked it will only run at lowest speed. This is helpful on any from though. Hope this helps.
I feel more like I do now then I did then.

I've been jumping back in and forth with JMZ's CM9 ROM and Cyanogenmod's CM7. I never had a Sense phone, so this was my first. After being with the OG Samsung Moment for about 3 years, until the developers fled, I was so used the classic UI. When I was introduced to Sense, I never stuck on to me. Luckily, I barely got this phone this year, meaning most CM7 ROMs were stable with ICS at hand. If you a Sense guy, I would recommend the Classic ROM or the Nitrous ROM. Nitrous gives more of the original Sense experience, but the Classic ROM gives really impressive battery life. It has a lot of available tweaks to play with. My ONLY problem with the ROM is the boot sound LMAO. I never thought i could hear my phone be that loud.

I, too, am running jmz unofficial cm9, & it's great for me but maybe not for her. The issue with battery life, however, is not the ROM; it's more likely the screen & radios that are killing it. My solution has been two-part: using Juice Defender to customize data activity, & larger aftermarket batteries (ChiChiTec - Amazon).

ive been using most of decks roms lately, but if i had to choose a reliable rom it would be synergy. its a little outdated but everything works.

Digitalkarma v7 fast smooth and everything works
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