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[Q] Good non-Sense Froyo ROM?

I got me a Desire from Telus a few days ago and i'm looking into rooting and installing ROMs, but i'm not really sure where to start (there seem to be a LOT of choices). I'm not a fan of Sense at all so anything that doesn't include HTC's fluff will probably get my attention.
Thanks!

im currently running opendesire...
pretty much stock 2.2 with a few tweaks, really quick, and no crap.
either that or defrost which is more tweaked and modded.
these are the only 2 active aosp roms that i have seen lately..
the crappy sense ones have kind of taken over

CM Wave said:
I got me a Desire from Telus a few days ago and i'm looking into rooting and installing ROMs, but i'm not really sure where to start (there seem to be a LOT of choices). I'm not a fan of Sense at all so anything that doesn't include HTC's fluff will probably get my attention.
Thanks!
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I'd strongly recommend OpenDesire . It's basically vanilla froyo, with a few minor modifications/optimisations. It's compiled from source (it isn't a mod of a nexus one or HTC rom), and so is fast and clean. It's also being updated regularly in response to bug reports.

How's OpenDesire with battery life? Would I see an improvement or would it be pretty much the same thing?

I'm having the same "problem" really. I now run some near to HTC's stock Froyo rom. I'm sure I found it on XDA somewhere but it wasn't from a well-known dev.
I only installed a rom with Sense because of the black bar, since I purchased LauncherPro. But now that the black bar is ripped perfectly I don't see a reason not to run OpenDesire.
All I want is speed and good battery life.

I think that if i didnt care for the sense UI id first try Cyanogens rom...

I'm running CyanogenMod's nightly build on Desire and I really love it.

CM Wave said:
How's OpenDesire with battery life? Would I see an improvement or would it be pretty much the same thing?
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With OpenDesire 3.1.0 and lates radio X.X.20 I got 2-3 days of battery life depending on the use of the phone. Normally I have 3G enabled almost 80-90% of the time.

Which is better : OpenDesire or DeFrost ???

Yes too bad so few NON SENSE ROM....

deepakoffline said:
Which is better : OpenDesire or DeFrost ???
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Hmmmm, good one, not sure to be honest, the 1st ROM I tried was DeFroST, and loved it, a few days ago I tried Opendesire 3.10, and now I bounce between the 2, as I can't decide.
No help I know, but had to give my thoughts.

deepakoffline said:
Which is better : OpenDesire or DeFrost ???
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Was using OD from version 2.xxx up to 3.1.0 but switched to Defrost 2.6a for two reasons:
1. Auto brightness is working (like in Sense ROMs) i.e. not too dimmed and that's out of the box.
2. My photos/videos taken with the camera app are recognised by my PCs and so can be transferred. In OD unfortunately cannot be seen.
Both ROMs are great vanilla stock like froyo an in my opinion the best ones. Try them both and stick to the one you like more.

AzureusPT said:
With OpenDesire 3.1.0 and lates radio X.X.20 I got 2-3 days of battery life depending on the use of the phone. Normally I have 3G enabled almost 80-90% of the time.
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Yep I have the same experience with OD3.1.0 and radio .20, I did download a weather widget from the market and it sucked the life from the battery, so got rid of the widget, all good now. Had no probs with the OJ dying yet, so cant comment on the power usage once the OJ dies.

Running OD 3.1 too
Love it and really see no use for the Sense UI on Android due to the availability of widgets.

Just question: why isn't MODACO present on XDA?
there's also one more ROM...
[FROYO-OTA] Psychosis 3.0 No Sense Deodexed A2SD+ AdBlock VERY FAST 720p

Are there any ROMs that offer undervolting or a specific focus on battery life?

CM Wave said:
Are there any ROMs that offer undervolting or a specific focus on battery life?
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Undervolting made my desire go wobbly, but not everyones. Defrost was and is doing lots of uv, uvoc, and oc ing.
Hope it helps
Sent from my 8-bit ZX Spectrum using semaphore.

CM Wave said:
Are there any ROMs that offer undervolting or a specific focus on battery life?
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Not that i know of.
Having tried leedroid, defrost, shadowfrost, opendesire, nextsense and neophyte id have to say opendesire has very good battery life compared to the others. Defrost is the most snappy, but it drains the battery like a mofo.

The_limit said:
Not that i know of.
Having tried leedroid, defrost, shadowfrost, opendesire, nextsense and neophyte id have to say opendesire has very good battery life compared to the others. Defrost is the most snappy, but it drains the battery like a mofo.
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I found the opposite, DeFroST seems to last longer than OD on my phone.

Which ROM to you think gives you the best battery life?

Title says it a really. I know this has been asked before (the last being Feb 2011 if my searches are correct) but we have had updates and new ROMs since then.
I have mainly used Oxygen and GingerVillian and don't seem to be able to get more that 24 hours out of my battery. My phone is only about 7-8 months old so I don't think it is the battery. I can't believe the official Desire battery life in standby is 340 hours! That's almost 2 weeks.... I'd be happy if I could get 2 days! I know it depends on certain parameters i.e. phone usage, signal, etc. but I would expect at least 2 days under medium useage if standby time is supposed to be 2 weeks!
Also does anyone see an improvement or decline in battery life from Froyo to Gingerbread?
Thanks all

Im using Redux and its really smooth and stable rom. Also the batterylife on the stock kernel is awesome. On this charge I've been playing for an hour or so Gamedev Story and been listening to some music as well making calls and sms. 24h on battery, 60% battery left. Night is the only time I shutdown the data connections and besides the night it syncs Google, Facebook and weather every hour. I would definately recommend this rom.

Oxygen, works great for me, and great battery life.

Oxygen FTW. Besides good battery life, fast as hell, too!

Sometimes even swaping kernels might get you a better battery life. I use CM7 RC2 with couttstech kernel which is gud for my case..!!

I haven't tried Oxygen yet but I'm currently using Ginger Villain
With Android 2.3 Gingerbread with almost the latest CM7
And the battery is just incredible. I think it can easily last 2 days with normal use(checking mail, whatsapp, checking some websites)
My phone is now a year old.
I've also flashed another kernel which supports 124mhz to 1119mhz (If I'm correct).
Also another friend of mine has the same rom and his battery also lasts very long and he has his phone even longer than me.
I find it odd you can't get 24 hours out of Ginger Villain. Maybe it is your kernel?
I can tell you it has a better battery life as the MIUI Roms have.

It might also be worth trying different radios as they can effect battery too.

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Im using Redux and its really smooth and stable rom. Also the batterylife on the stock kernel is awesome. On this charge I've been playing for an hour or so Gamedev Story and been listening to some music as well making calls and sms. 24h on battery, 60% battery left. Night is the only time I shutdown the data connections and besides the night it syncs Google, Facebook and weather every hour. I would definately recommend this rom.
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can u use htc facebook sync on reduxe? it's no sense rom right?
can't u only use htc widget on sense?
i am lloking for a stable good rom (2.3 would be great) but i need facebook sync on calendar and contacts.

Oxygen ftw!
But I miss sense.
Switching back to stock. >_<

redux for me
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I have been using Oxygen, great battery life (almost 2 days) and its very fast, but I've been getting reboots/bootloops every few days.
Anyone else experienced this, and would Redux be more stable?
Cheers

I'm using Redux too. Battery life is excellent.

Oxygen FTW!

I'm finding Ginger Villain equal to Oxygen for battery, although I think I only started using Eviollet's 1.3 kernel after I swapped which is a big help.
Much friendlier threads though for GV and no random reboots has made me stick with it.
Dabbled with data++ and ginger new sense roms recently and battery is sufficient, but not as good as AOSP
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I currently used CM7 RC4 with coutts .38 HAVS CFS kernel. Battery life is great. I do charge it up everyday but I do play games quite a bit but if I leave it on standby, I can get a couple of days out of it.
I had stock sense last month and I uninstalled just about everything and fit the rom onto the sense hboot, from that, I managed to get about 80 hours of battery life out of it with light usage.

I'm using ginger villain, not noticed to big of a change from the stock 2.2 tbh.
Is redux stable enough? Heard mixed reports
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I've been using Redux for a month now, battery is excellent, the ROM is amazing fast and i've never had bootloops/reboots during my use.

Oxygen, without a doubt. I don't know why or what it does different to others however. I only really noticed the difference a couple of days ago...76% remaining after 16hrs + of being unplugged and that was with GPS on network only, WiFi on etc and normal usage.

I use Insertcoin S port and it works great, I have 69% now after using it for 21 hours. I don't know which other rom has this but i am very happy with this rom.

I'd say oxygen...it really feels like on (nearly) any other rom battery life is halved compared to this masterpiece 0.o

Looking for a Change, Maybe Sense

I have been with DeFrost and Gingavillan for some time now,
And feeling i need a change in my phone as am bored lol!!!
I was thinking of a Sense ROM.
But i have not kept upto date on the forum for some Time,
So Sense users, what are you finding your Best ROM is, Speed, Space and Battery life.
I really like the look of: InsertCoin CM7/A2SD+ STABLE
But not sure on battery life or anything.
What you using guys and girls and your pros and cons

I am loving MIUI at the moment but the battery life isn't good, I can't recommend if that will be an issue, I was using Oxygen before and made it home at the end of the day with ~70%+ battery, I am getting home with ~50% now.

The last sense rom I tried was AceSMod because IC and RCMix had really crap battery life. No idea what it's like now. Just try some sense roms out.

Yer i tried InsertCoin CM7/A2SD+ STABLE
Its a good little ROM, i kinda like it, But the speed is just too slow for me.
So i might give some of LeeDroid's Roms a go later on

im currently using Reflex S
great little rom

I have actually had really good experiences with SGBS. Fast, decently smooth, and battery efficient after a radio upgrade (i was running shipped stock radio before then).
After finding that switch pro had some issues with Gingerbread, I decided to try a couple Froyo roms out... I have NOT had a good experience with Starburst.. but I really like the D2EXT it uses so I might try his Gingerburst today.
And before I had all that I was running a stock Froyo with several init.d mods I've collected, and I really had no reason to switch from that other than curiosity.

[Q] Best Battery Life ROM?

I've done some collection of ROMs that look the "best" to me, but not in terms of battery life; actual looks is what I liked about them.
Whether or not their battery lives are the best based on looks, I don't know, but I was wanting to see if there was one ROM in my collected list which most people found to be their favorite.
Here is my list:
OMFGB Latest Nightly
MIUI Latest
Virtuous Unity Latest
Pyramid3D Latest
TSM GingerBang Latest
RMK Ginger Sense Latest
TSMPoolParty Latest
Liquid Smooth
Of these, I've tried MIUI, Virtuous Unity, TSM GingerBang, RMK Ginger Sense, and TSMPoolParty. I liked Ginger Sense due to the fact that it is essentially a stock ROM but optimized, and I liked MIUI due to its simple complexity. I like the Sense look and feel, but senseless ROMs seem more efficient in regard to battery life to me.
So, what is your favorite among this list, and what can you recommend to me, knowing that I like a long battery life while still having the Sense look and feel?

Seems as if this is the incorrect section.
Could this thread be moved to Q&A, please?

My phone HTC HD2:
I used:
windows 6.5
Android
Windows 7
Ubuntu
I still Android ROM Desire Sense, it's slow but I like it. If be fast it be perfect.

So you used Windows on your phone? How did you go about doing that? What are the benefits?

Gingerbang 1.6 gave me the best battery life, with minimum usage, only voice calls and light web surfing, I got 4 days out of a full charge on the Mugen 1800mah cell. version 2.01 is very close but I had sense 3.0 patch running so the extra weight used up a little more juice. I would say GB 2.01 it's on par with Skyraider.

GingerBang 2.01 has all of the annoying Verizon bloatware that runs in the background disabled, correct? If not, how would you recommend either removing those apps, or disallowing them from running in the background?

bracketslash said:
GingerBang 2.01 has all of the annoying Verizon bloatware that runs in the background disabled, correct? If not, how would you recommend either removing those apps, or disallowing them from running in the background?
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yup, it has zero bloatware, you don't need to remove anything from it. I have tried every single one of the custom roms out there and the Gingerbang 2.01 is my only daily driver, with the sense 3.0 patch installed it looks similar to Skyraider (another hybrid rom I would run daily), but the Gingerbang feels much more responsive and snappier.

bracketslash said:
So you used Windows on your phone? How did you go about doing that? What are the benefits?
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Using the HD2 you can gain root, and install many an OS on it. I think due to the windows mobile it ran on.

RMK Gingersense has the best battery life for me as a user.
My phone works. Without glitch. And it provides about 15 to 18 hours of battery life with decent business usage (calls, emails) and streaming radio (about 3 hours).
Why someone would need more then that I dont know - I mean, I charge my phone before bed so it is good to go the next day unless I am traveling.

I've had good luck with CM7 or OMFGB for battery life.
25 hours, and still 54 percent left

PacerguyDon said:
I've had good luck with CM7 or OMFGB for battery life.
25 hours, and still 54 percent left
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Wow, that's definitely very impressive. What settings did you have to change, or what do you do differently than stock, to get the battery to last for that long?

bracketslash said:
Wow, that's definitely very impressive. What settings did you have to change, or what do you do differently than stock, to get the battery to last for that long?
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Nothing to much really in changes. I was using JD kernals 8-21-11 along with the smartass governor with CM7 nightly 56 when I took that screen shot. I also was using Incredicontrol with all the voltages dropped -25 from the stock JD voltage setting.
I hadn't been using the phone much that day though, so that really makes a lot of the difference.
Under moderate use I will go 24 hours on a charge pretty easily.
Edit,
Here's a capture from my Miui days.
This was with the Tiamat kernal, 1.1.2 I do believe, using the smartass governor (basically my default governor).
Since I was using the battery bar at the top of the screen I can't say what my exact percentage was that is left, but probably around 35-40 percent. This would be more of a normal usage for me.

Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
Moving to Q&A

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Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
Moving to Q&A
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Thanks for moving it.
If anyone else could PLEASE give some more info, it'd be extremely helpful.
Thanks,
bracketslash

I've been using GingerBang 2.01 for a while with excellent battery life. I'm usually down to ~30% left after 18 hours of moderate to heavy use.
ROM stability is very important to me, that's why I have stuck with this one. Long battery life is an added bonus.

SMDroid said:
I've been using GingerBang 2.01 for a while with excellent battery life. I'm usually down to ~30% left after 18 hours of moderate to heavy use.
ROM stability is very important to me, that's why I have stuck with this one. Long battery life is an added bonus.
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Vanilla or Sense?

OMFGB for me
I've gone from CM7 nightlies to TSM Ginger sense to Gingerbang Vanilla to Mikrom's Inc2 HD to OMFGB.
OMFGB seems to be the most lean of them all, and therefore the fastest and best battery life. For me anyway.
I keep on hearing good things about Virtous Unity, I may try that one next.
I've used MIUI on my Inc1 before and it seems faster than CM7, so I might give that a go as well.

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I've gone from CM7 nightlies to TSM Ginger sense to Gingerbang Vanilla to Mikrom's Inc2 HD to OMFGB.
OMFGB seems to be the most lean of them all, and therefore the fastest and best battery life. For me anyway.
I keep on hearing good things about Virtous Unity, I may try that one next.
I've used MIUI on my Inc1 before and it seems faster than CM7, so I might give that a go as well.
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Seems as if you're on nearly the same exact path as I. Good to hear! I'm using HD right now. Is OMFGB a Sense based ROM, Vanilla, or AOSP? How much bloat is on it?

It's AOSP, which is vanilla. It's a custom ROM though, so there's tweaks and stuff added.
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It's AOSP, which is vanilla. It's a custom ROM though, so there's tweaks and stuff added.
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Alright, sounds reasonable. What all do you do to it from the original settings to get it to be most lean, as you claimed?

[Q] Best Battery + bug free rom for HTC Wildfire Buzz?

Hi Guys
Looking for best battery life and bug free rom...
As I am just pissed off by battery life by stock rom, i do not mind going on Aosp rom either on gingerbread 2.3, 2.2 or 4.0
hope some experienced people over here at XDA will help me to find out a good battery life and smooth rom for daily use.
Thanks

From my experience, the best rom (fast, bugfree, no lags) that i have came through is splash mod. Now for the battery, you can download easy battery saved. You can then configure it to stop some things when the phone is locked so that battery consumption is reduced. I personally use it and have my phone up for more than 20 hours

The best thing I've found for battery is to buy a spare battery and a wall charger that holds the spare battery, that way by the time my battery is flat my spare one is fully charged. As for the roms its personal preference in my eyes, splashmod may be fast out of the box but I could have a sense based rom running just as fast within half an hour so my advice is try them all and find one that suits you.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using xda premium

Best rom
IMO,I would say the joker rom,spalsh v1.8,and sunaabh. Ive had about 30-60 percent battery life on averga more than stock rom with the 3 I mentioned

I am curious what makes splash rom faster than cm7 since it is based on nightly 256. I think it might be just because of JIT enabled in CM7 (not sure if it is by default) while it is not enabled in splash rom. JIT might (is) causing some delay when executing applications. What do you think?

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I am curious what makes splash rom faster than cm7 since it is based on nightly 256. I think it might be just because of JIT enabled in CM7 (not sure if it is by default) while it is not enabled in splash rom. JIT might (is) causing some delay when executing applications. What do you think?
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No there's nothing special about it, its because he's stripped out all the apps to make it a barebones Rom, thats all.
Not for me though I need apps like the clock and don't want to waste my time downloading such apps from the market, I'd rather have a full version and delete what I don't want myself.
Sent from my Wildfire using xda premium

jatinder3135 said:
Hi Guys
Looking for best battery life and bug free rom...
As I am just pissed off by battery life by stock rom, i do not mind going on Aosp rom either on gingerbread 2.3, 2.2 or 4.0
hope some experienced people over here at XDA will help me to find out a good battery life and smooth rom for daily use.
Thanks
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For me best rom is RemPuzzleRom fast,stable and good battery life.

I have had the best battery using CM7. I remove unwanted apps using Barebones tutorial.
~20 hours battery life on CM7.
~17 hours on Rempuzzle

Splash mod 2.0 is the best, becouse there is no bugs and it is very friendly to battery
Sent from my Wildfire using XDA

rempuzzlerom and splashmod .... worked really well for me (about 20 hours of battery backup)

I still use stock 2.2 and trust me battery last for 1 to 1.5 days with constant use of twitter, sms, gtalk, call and browsing.

SplashMOD is very smooth, having no issues with it yet, been in use for 2 months. No FCs, all apps working fine.
CM7 was with me for 4-5 months. Towards the end it got very laggy, like seriously jumpy (probably due to neglect), but battery life on splashmod is no where near as good as CM7.
Maybe i just use it more. I think sleep as android and copilot rinse it, which i didnt have on CM7
Am switching to Rempuzzle soon so see what all the crack is about