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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.

Tuxi91 said:
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

Battery Life

So i know it may be a difficult question to answer, but I am wondering something... What sense ROM and what aosp ROM have the best battery life? Thanks in advance for your help!!
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dtraini7 said:
So i know it may be a difficult question to answer, but I am wondering something... What sense ROM and what aosp ROM have the best battery life? Thanks in advance for your help!!
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With WildStang83 Desire Inc HD ROM I go from 440am to 5pm with a single charge and still have like 20-30% left.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1253492
And aosp I can't really tell because I don't use aosp (I'm a Sense lover maniac) the only one I used was cyanmod7 nightlies like for a week and the battery life was ok. I had to charge atleast 30-50 minutes during my break time.
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Sense ROMs take up more battery life because their is more going on, but I don't think its that drastic compared to AOSP. I use Nils 2.3/3.0 gingersense and I can normally go till next morning or miday after a charge.

The only AOSP rom I've run was MIUI and I would constantly get 24+hrs and sometimes over a day (1800mah battery).
There's still a lot of tweaks to come on the Sense ROMs so don't expect too much from them at this point in time. Once the GB kernel source is released and we get some custom kernels then the battery life of Sense roms may increase.

MIUI with Chad's Incredikernel will give you ridiculous battery life. I would get over 24 on one charge. That's what I used during Hurricane Irene when the power went out lol
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I use Jermaine's In-Sensitive Minimalist. It's kind of a mix between sense and AOSP. Alot of the sense has been removed, but it still kind of has that feel. Love it...very responsive and stable. By the time I get home from work, around 7pm, I still have like 70% battery remaining.

Kratz17 said:
With WildStang83 Desire Inc HD ROM I go from 440am to 5pm with a single charge and still have like 20-30% left.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1253492
And aosp I can't really tell because I don't use aosp (I'm a Sense lover maniac) the only one I used was cyanmod7 nightlies like for a week and the battery life was ok. I had to charge atleast 30-50 minutes during my break time.
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Using Wildstangs: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1247253
noticable increase over stock. Lovin' it so far.

Bull_Moose said:
MIUI with Chad's Incredikernel will give you ridiculous battery life. I would get over 24 on one charge. That's what I used during Hurricane Irene when the power went out lol
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+1. I use either MIUI or one of many AOSP ROMs then I flash Chad's incredikernel. When I undervolt the kernel I can almost go two days without needing a charge.

The best battery life I've gotten is with the most recent stable Cyanogenmod 7.

For some reason my battery life is *noticeably* better on MIUI than with CM7. Seems strange but the difference is there.

of the few
of the few I've tried (gingersense, cm7, and uber), I found NilsP's Business Gingersense to get me the best battery life. Day and a half on one charge, mobile network on 80% of that time...

[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.
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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
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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.

armchairbear said:
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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tylerlawhon said:
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?

Rom with Smooth UI and battery life

I know this is a pretty dumb and common question but i wouldn't have asked if i didn't need to ask it badly. I am leaving leaving my place for a month and i would need a longer battery life between charges because i will mostly be on picnic outside or doing something else where the connection won't be possible. Two things i would ask is that whether the LC ICS atm has good battery life because i had stopped flashing a while ago and i don't have time to go through every rom just to record battery life. Also how is the 480p on LC ICS compared to the 720p on GB roms because i will be recording A LOT from my phone. If LC's rom isn't that stable then can someone link me to a good GB rom with smooth interface and good battery life. By "good" i mean 8-12 hours with moderate use, is that a lot? and of course more is better.
EDIT: oh yeah, Mods! please don't lock this right away xD
Thanks a lot in advance !

This gotta be in the Q&A section.
Back to your question:
I would maybe recommend cyanogenmod 7.2 or ARHD roms.

shad0wboss said:
I know this is a pretty dumb and common question but i wouldn't have asked if i didn't need to ask it badly. I am leaving leaving my place for a month and i would need a longer battery life between charges because i will mostly be on picnic outside or doing something else where the connection won't be possible. Two things i would ask is that whether the LC ICS atm has good battery life because i had stopped flashing a while ago and i don't have time to go through every rom just to record battery life. Also how is the 480p on LC ICS compared to the 720p on GB roms because i will be recording A LOT from my phone. If LC's rom isn't that stable then can someone link me to a good GB rom with smooth interface and good battery life. By "good" i mean 8-12 hours with moderate use, is that a lot? and of course more is better.
EDIT: oh yeah, Mods! please don't lock this right away xD
Thanks a lot in advance !
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I guess that CM7.2 is your call...has no sense at all, but works great and battery life is great. Take into consideration that battery life is not awesome in this device, but CM7.2 is not bad at all...also paranoid android is awesome, but is ICS and camera is not as smooth as in GB.
If not, you can try CoreDroid V9.4 or the Energy Rom...both have great battery life and no lags at all at least for me....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1364604
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858418
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=stable&device=ace
Hope it helps....

The best rom I ever had in terms of battery and smoothness was Bindroid. It's Android 2.3.5 and sense 3.5.
I don't have a link but you should easily find it by google.....
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Best battery life AOSP ROM?

Anyone know which is the best on battery? I've tried Slim, CM10, and ICJ. I'll go as far as trying an ICS AOSP, but does anyone have any good recommendations? Is it possible that I could completely De-Sense a ROM? Like take a sense rom but have the AOSP notification drawer and settings and say Nova Launcher?
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Anyone know which is the best on battery? I've tried Slim, CM10, and ICJ. I'll go as far as trying an ICS AOSP, but does anyone have any good recommendations? Is it possible that I could completely De-Sense a ROM? Like take a sense rom but have the AOSP notification drawer and settings and say Nova Launcher?
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i think battery is more related to the kernel than the rom per se. That being said, I'd suggest ICJ since it uses NCX kernel by default and IMO that is the best kernel for battery life.

massalami said:
i think battery is more related to the kernel than the rom per se. .
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Completely agree! NCX kernels giving better battery life than other ones.

massalami said:
i think battery is more related to the kernel than the rom per se. That being said, I'd suggest ICJ since it uses NCX kernel by default and IMO that is the best kernel for battery life.
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ICJ is probably the best One X ROM in terms of features, but for me it heats up way to quickly to the point where I can't use the ROM as battery drain is so bad.
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mibikin said:
ICJ is probably the best One X ROM in terms of features, but for me it heats up way to quickly to the point where I can't use the ROM as battery drain is so bad.
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99% of the time it's a rogue app doing that to the phone.
can you check in better battery stats which app is keeping the phone awake or if the phone is achieving deepsleep.
maybe one of the apps isn't playing nice with the phone and keeping it awake or draining it a lot.
if you're patient you can wait a while and try Owain's domination, which is my favorite aosp rom, though he hasn't been able to update it for a while,
but from what i've read, the next update should be amazingly awesome!!!
that + ncx's kernel should provide a good mix of battery life and features.

massalami said:
99% of the time it's a rogue app doing that to the phone.
can you check in better battery stats which app is keeping the phone awake or if the phone is achieving deepsleep.
maybe one of the apps isn't playing nice with the phone and keeping it awake or draining it a lot.
if you're patient you can wait a while and try Owain's domination, which is my favorite aosp rom, though he hasn't been able to update it for a while,
but from what i've read, the next update should be amazingly awesome!!!
that + ncx's kernel should provide a good mix of battery life and features.
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I'll give that a shot when I get home.
Sent from my SlimOneX

CM10 wins with zero idle drain over a few hours.
Sent from my OneX

I'm using CM10 nightlies. With the stock kernel I was lucky to get 10 hours standby with average use or 1 hour screen, and the phone was getting very hot. I changed to the NCX kernel and now I'm getting 24 hours standby with average use or up to 4 hours screen time.

I am surprised no one mention CM10 SE ver 2. I am on it and this is the only AOSP ROM that I managed to convince myself to stay on. And I have tried the rest. My phone stays cool on it, I have not met with any bugs with my usual usage of games, xda, browsing, music, camera, phone.. and it is smooth. Feature-wise, it is not as rich as ICJ or AOSP but I never needed so many features and more features just add to the probability of more bugs.
Try out CM10 SE by Seadersn!
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LiquidSmooth, or Seadersn's CM10
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I'm a noob and only tried 2 custom ROMs, but CM10 nightlies were draining my battery too quick so i tried CM10 SE and have been with it for a few versions now. Find the battery great on it.

Once the AOSP ROMs work on new HBOOT ill unlock again, but for now I'm content with sense 4+ and nova launcher.
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I've been using CM10 SE since yesterday and the battery has been fantastic. I'm on HBoot 1.31 so no GPS but everything else works perfectly. I went to bed last night with the battery on 87% and woke up this morning to find that it was still on 87%

Everyone has his own preference for ROMs. There's no point in comparing them with scales such as "speed", "battery life" or "smoothness".
You have to try them on your own and find out yourself.
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