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[Q] Most stable custom ROM avail

Hi all,
I know most of you guys use CM7 RC0 But I just want to know which is the most stable custom ROM which has all the features avail and no FCs or ANRs?
I almost tried all the ROMs including Stock Eclair, Froyo, CM7, MIUI, China Unicom etc. Currently using China Unicom 2.10,
My main concern is about battery coz no matter which ROM i use I get only a day of battery life :
So I'm looking for a Froyo/Gingerbread ROM which gives MAX battery life, supports HD video recording, fast and stable. Of course Ill stick on to CM7 once the official version gets released.

I am also looking for a rom with good batt usages n smoothness will wait untill any1 rreplies
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for good battery life, please keep the 2G on, and switch to 3G only when needed. this is probably the best thing you can do for your battery life. also, make sure the baseband is correct for your usage. however, only you will be able to do this yourself. try a few until you hit a good one.
cheers!

lanfearxt said:
for good battery life, please keep the 2G on, and switch to 3G only when needed. this is probably the best thing you can do for your battery life. also, make sure the baseband is correct for your usage. however, only you will be able to do this yourself. try a few until you hit a good one.
cheers!
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Well.. Of course I always follow the tips to conserve the battery like setting to 2G, very few animations, setvsel to undervolt, not many widgets. But still I get around 1 to 1.5 days of backup.

I have been using CM7 beta 6 for a few weeks already and it has been pretty stable. Lasts around 3.5 days with moderate use. Heavy use( a lot of phone calls), around 1.5 - 2 days.
Just make sure that you select the correct baseband.

actino said:
I have been using CM7 beta 6 for a few weeks already and it has been pretty stable. Lasts around 3.5 days with moderate use. Heavy use( a lot of phone calls), around 1.5 - 2 days.
Just make sure that you select the correct baseband.
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Yes, I install the correct baseband everytime I change the ROM, I'm suspecting my sim might be the culprit which is not letting the phone to go to DSM. Ill change it and see..
How stable and cool is Pays rom???

If you can get through a full day with the "micro laptop" we now refer to as a phone, you're in good shape! Plug it in every night and be happy.
If your particular usage patterns don't get you through a full day, or if you can't plug in every night, there are plenty of extended battery options available.
You guys need to understand that the manufacturers are forced to decide between battery life and size/packaging. Today's phones are designed to be practical for the average consumer who is able to plug in/recharge their phone every day. And fortunately, the aftermarket offers us the option of getting longer battery life in exchange for a larger package (ie 3500+ mAh batteries with covers)...

dew.man said:
If you can get through a full day with the "micro laptop" we now refer to as a phone, you're in good shape! Plug it in every night and be happy.
If your particular usage patterns don't get you through a full day, or if you can't plug in every night, there are plenty of extended battery options available.
You guys need to understand that the manufacturers are forced to decide between battery life and size/packaging. Today's phones are designed to be practical for the average consumer who is able to plug in/recharge their phone every day. And fortunately, the aftermarket offers us the option of getting longer battery life in exchange for a larger package (ie 3500+ mAh batteries with covers)...
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Well, You are right.. But I'm very Jealous that many people get 3 to 4 days of battery backup on an avg usage, I have seen posts where they mentioned 6 days of battery backup using the china unicom's rom, So I flashed the ROM hoping Ill atleast get 2 - 3 days of backup.. but even that didnt help..

vikrambharadwaj said:
Well, You are right.. But I'm very Jealous that many people get 3 to 4 days of battery backup on an avg usage, I have seen posts where they mentioned 6 days of battery backup using the china unicom's rom, So I flashed the ROM hoping Ill atleast get 2 - 3 days of backup.. but even that didnt help..
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Turn off your data connection and any automatic syncing. Your phone will go a full week if it just sits there sleeping the whole time ;-)

Power-saving optimizations and results

My girlfriend just got a P6 and asked me for advice on battery-saving and I have noted there is no thread on power-saving optimizations and actual results so I have started one.
Can you please post your battery-related results and any optimization that you have done about this?!
What firmware?
How much battery discharge do you see over day?
Even more relevant - how much battery discharge do you see over night?

xclub_101 said:
My girlfriend just got a P6 and asked me for advice on battery-saving and I have noted there is no thread on power-saving optimizations and actual results so I have started one.
Can you please post your battery-related results and any optimization that you have done about this?!
What firmware?
How much battery discharge do you see over day?
Even more relevant - how much battery discharge do you see over night?
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Newest firmware is meant to be good, also theres a few power saving options in the menus, some users have reported that they get up to 2 days moderate use

JackHanAnLG said:
Newest firmware is meant to be good, also theres a few power saving options in the menus, some users have reported that they get up to 2 days moderate use
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Thank you for your feedback and I hope others will provide info too (and ideally some numbers).
Just to place things into perspective and show the kind of numbers that are most relevant for such a thread - my i9300 over night has a battery discharge of around 2% over 8 hours (that is registered on the voice network so that I can get voice calls but with WiFi off and data off; most apps are also set to only update on WiFi or manually anyway). In order to achieve that I use a custom kernel, power-saving enabled on a Samsung-derived ROM with root and then Titanium Backup to freeze anything that I use less than once/week and Greenify for almost everything else.
I plan on trying some of the above on my girlfriend's phone next weekend or the one after that, and until then I was interested to learn more about the subject.

xclub_101 said:
Thank you for your feedback and I hope others will provide info too (and ideally some numbers).
Just to place things into perspective and show the kind of numbers that are most relevant for such a thread - my i9300 over night has a battery discharge of around 2% over 8 hours (that is registered on the voice network so that I can get voice calls but with WiFi off and data off; most apps are also set to only update on WiFi or manually anyway). In order to achieve that I use a custom kernel, power-saving enabled on a Samsung-derived ROM with root and then Titanium Backup to freeze anything that I use less than once/week and Greenify for almost everything else.
I plan on trying some of the above on my girlfriend's phone next weekend or the one after that, and until then I was interested to learn more about the subject.
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I also have a samsung galaxy S3 Gt-i9300 and have rather moderate battery life, last night i lost 20% ! I have the Boeffla kernel, which do you use?
Huawei are meant to be good at this sort of thing, im getting real tired of only having a phone capable of 2-3.5 hours of screen on time ( S3, Nexus 4 ) So, im hoping the huawei can deliver that or ill be going to something with a bigger battery ( Nexus 5 and underclock it too 1.5ghz maybe less to save some major battery life )
I also would like to see what users are getting in terms of numbers, screen on time would be great
- Jack

JackHanAnLG said:
I also have a samsung galaxy S3 Gt-i9300 and have rather moderate battery life, last night i lost 20% ! I have the Boeffla kernel, which do you use?
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Currently I am mostly using Googy-Max, but over weekends I normally do a lot of experimenting and for instance last night I noted an increase from 2% to 4% (over 8 hours), which could be from moving from Googy-Max 1.7.5 to 1.7.6 or from moving from modem EMF1 to EMG4 - for the moment I moved back to Googy-Max 1.7.5 and I will see over the next night if it was the kernel, the modem or both. Also as a note - I get about 4-5 hours of screen time, but with low use and I "adapt" the brightness (I have some profiles defined with LLAMA and I keep the brightness on lowest auto when I am indoor and only go to max when I go outdoors for more than a few minutes).
That being said 20% is extreme - I have only seen such numbers in CM 10.2 (where it is said that there is a bug that prevents the modem from sleeping after a cellphone call, but the last word is that it might now be fixed). Either way on i9300 it is a well-known situation that Sammy ROMs (after some degree of de-bloating) still are a huge lot better with power-saving than CM. Which was the kind of info I was looking here about the Ascend P6

xclub_101 said:
Currently I am mostly using Googy-Max, but over weekends I normally do a lot of experimenting and for instance last night I noted an increase from 2% to 4% (over 8 hours), which could be from moving from Googy-Max 1.7.5 to 1.7.6 or from moving from modem EMF1 to EMG4 - for the moment I moved back to Googy-Max 1.7.5 and I will see over the next night if it was the kernel, the modem or both. Also as a note - I get about 4-5 hours of screen time, but with low use and I "adapt" the brightness (I have some profiles defined with LLAMA and I keep the brightness on lowest auto when I am indoor and only go to max when I go outdoors for more than a few minutes).
That being said 20% is extreme - I have only seen such numbers in CM 10.2 (where it is said that there is a bug that prevents the modem from sleeping after a cellphone call, but the last word is that it might now be fixed). Either way on i9300 it is a well-known situation that Sammy ROMs (after some degree of de-bloating) still are a huge lot better with power-saving than CM. Which was the kind of info I was looking here about the Ascend P6
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I know this is a Huawei thread but xD
Do you reccomend Googy-max then? All i care about is batter life!

JackHanAnLG said:
I know this is a Huawei thread but xD
Do you reccomend Googy-max then? All i care about is batter life!
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I am still answering here since I believe what I am about to say could also be very relevant for the P6.
The thing is that in my experience the kernel is only relevant for battery life once every single other problem was fixed!
In other words if the over-night (8h or so) battery drain is 20% then your gains from the kernel will not be very relevant (and technically Boeffla and Googy-Max are not very far apart in this regard). If you are on a CM 10.2 (or 10.1?) the main advantage that I see is that Googy-Max will let you keep that (I suggest to move it to secondary) and then install a de-bloated Sammy as primary and then see for a few weeks how is battery life between the two.
And another thing that could be also relevant to the P6 - on my phone I am replacing the "stock" launcher and 'stock" dialer with something that for me is a lot snappier (but that remains to be seen if it will be well-received by my girlfriend on her P6 - or if it will improve anything).
But generally BetterBatteryStats and Greenify tend to improve battery life (sometimes a lot), so it looks very likely that I will have to root that P6.

xclub_101 said:
I am still answering here since I believe what I am about to say could also be very relevant for the P6.
The thing is that in my experience the kernel is only relevant for battery life once every single other problem was fixed!
In other words if the over-night (8h or so) battery drain is 20% then your gains from the kernel will not be very relevant (and technically Boeffla and Googy-Max are not very far apart in this regard). If you are on a CM 10.2 (or 10.1?) the main advantage that I see is that Googy-Max will let you keep that (I suggest to move it to secondary) and then install a de-bloated Sammy as primary and then see for a few weeks how is battery life between the two.
And another thing that could be also relevant to the P6 - on my phone I am replacing the "stock" launcher and 'stock" dialer with something that for me is a lot snappier (but that remains to be seen if it will be well-received by my girlfriend on her P6 - or if it will improve anything).
But generally BetterBatteryStats and Greenify tend to improve battery life (sometimes a lot), so it looks very likely that I will have to root that P6.
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Ive got to hand it to you, i had a good look on the googy kernel and found many, many battery optimizations and found threads to do with underclocking, undervolting and other tweaks and the batter life is amazing, im only running it at 800mhz and its really smooth and fast still, so thanks for introducing it to me, its made my galaxy S3 a whole lot better.
Although there is one bug, ill turn on phone, connect the WiFi, turn the screen off and it will disable the WiFi :S im on 1.7.5 and have asked if 1.7.6 will fix it, fingers crossed

Battery with 4.4.3 worse than 4.4.2

What really upset me is that my phone was fine I was using 4.4.2 stock and had good battery life even without battery saver being on... Then I went against my ownif it ain't broke don't try to fix it principles and downloaded 4.4.3 Since then I've noticed my phone wasn't as fantastic battery wise as it used to be.. I started becoming conscious of the need to switch on power saver more often as my phone was draining much quicker than 4.4.2. For this reason I can't wait to switch over to lollipop hopefully issues will have been ironed out...without a show of a doubt 4.4.3 is not as battery efficient as 4.4.2, for my phone anyway... It's a sin that android users don't have the flexibility to roll back to previous versions as they see fit really annoying that I have to wait to the next version....I'm not a hardcore tech user so i dont have the confidence to root and all that...if I send my phone back to my phone company will they roll back to 4.4.2 for me?

Is it a carrier branded version? There are apps you can use to see what is draining your battery. Its possible if you have a carrier branded phone, that there is carrier bloatware that is causing battery drain. Try to disable sync or any apps you don't use (particularly the bloat) and see if that helps.

Have a peek at the first 4 posts in the battery help thread in my signature. If you would like help, post the recommended screen shots there. And specify you are on an M8 to avoid confusion.
There's likely an issue.... Battery life can be great on any version, depending on your usage type and setup. ?

battery on 4.on 4.4 sense is 10 times better for me than on 4.4.3 ...i just go back (because i wanted s2w...hope the new kernel source will come in next days) and again further to 4.4.4 because 4.4.3 battery is just to bad...also on original unrooted

Ok just visited the battery help thread and tried some of the suggestions...before without power saving I would get 1 percent drainage every 2-3 minutes with max brightness...now reduced brightness to auto and slider to lowest level and averaging ten minutes per 1 percent....also removed Google now....this is an improvement but didn't have to do this with 4.4.3...I think some apps are not playing nicely with 4.4.3. I hear Google is making a big effort with battery management for lollipop release...

Use an app to see what is draining the battery. Otherwise you are just guessing.
You also never answered my question whether it was carrier branded, as some carrier bloatware has been known to access the data connection frequently and kil the battery.
Hard to help, if you don't respond to suggestions and questions.

Thanks redpoint, I am on Rogers Canada, actually I was just reading that some nexus users also had battery drain issues with 4.4.3 update. One suggestion there was to disable 4g as maybe the updated modem drivers weren't as efficient as the 4.4.2 ones...going to see if I can select 3g on my HTC one m8 and see if that makes a difference...I wonder if HTC have also modified the modem drivers for their 4.4.3 update too?

mwake4goten said:
Thanks redpoint, I am on Rogers Canada, actually I was just reading that some nexus users also had battery drain issues with 4.4.3 update. One suggestion there was to disable 4g as maybe the updated modem drivers weren't as efficient as the 4.4.2 ones...going to see if I can select 3g on my HTC one m8 and see if that makes a difference...I wonder if HTC have also modified the modem drivers for their 4.4.3 update too?
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Still all guessing without the screen shots.
Gotta help us help you. I dislike guessing. ??

Update: well I just changed my device from 4g to 3g and the signal bar has instantly shot up from two bars to maximum five bars, wondering if this will make a difference to battery life? If so I can live with 3g

mwake4goten said:
Update: well I just changed my device from 4g to 3g and the signal bar has instantly shot up from two bars to maximum five bars, wondering if this will make a difference to battery life? If so I can live with 3g
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Don't like answering questions meant to help you? Weird.

Yeah? Its even worse on 4.4.4. Using the same settings, same apps, same usage patterns, my battery lasts only 10 hours. I used to get 18 hours with %25-%35 left at bedtime. Google sucks - coz, at the end of the day, the combined battery usage of Android System + Android OS + Google Play Services is more than %60!

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Yeah? Its even worse on 4.4.4. Using the same settings, same apps, same usage patterns, my battery lasts only 10 hours. I used to get 18 hours with %25-%35 left at bedtime. Google sucks - coz, at the end of the day, the combined battery usage of Android System + Android OS + Google Play Services is more than %60!
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Go to the thread in my signature and fix your issues. ?

Overheating OnePlus 3 while charging.

Hey people.
I own the OnePlus 3 and its is on a custom ROM Named Experience OS based on OB 17.
Its running on the kernel provided by the ROM and firmware is also stock as I use TWRP from Blu_spark v 33.
Now the problem is when I am charging the device it heats up abnormally high note higher than 46 degrees.
And also I get bad standby time with only upto 4 and a half hour Run time between charges.
I have noticed high drainage from Android System.
I charge only upto 80℅.
Tell me where I am wrong.
Do I need to visit the service center..??
If you require additional information do tell me.

Joyo-rocker said:
Hey people.
I own the OnePlus 3 and its is on a custom ROM Named Experience OS based on OB 17.
Its running on the kernel provided by the ROM and firmware is also stock as I use TWRP from Blu_spark v 33.
Now the problem is when I am charging the device it heats up abnormally high note higher than 46 degrees.
And also I get bad standby time with only upto 4 and a half hour Run time between charges.
I have noticed high drainage from Android System.
I charge only upto 80℅.
Tell me where I am wrong.
Do I need to visit the service center..??
If you require additional information do tell me.
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Try another ROM or kernal. I think sultan's ROM has better battery experice and less heat issues. Try to switch to Sultan's.

Something isn't right since dash is meant to take the heat away from the device while it's charging
Are you using the phone at the same time? Also check your app usage maybe a rouge app is keeping it away while charging and causing the heat

+1 i too face the heating issue while the phone is charging. I had a strange incident as well: When i visited my parent's house last week, i received a phone call while it was getting charged and since it was from a family person i told my father to receive it in my place as he was standing near the phone. As soon he touched the phone to his ears he told, "it's is very son".
I have been facing this since last couple of months when i used to have stock oos. Then unlocked bootloader and started triying different roms. But the heating problemus still there and instead i got addicted to installing roms every week?

Joyo-rocker said:
Hey people.
I own the OnePlus 3 and its is on a custom ROM Named Experience OS based on OB 17.
Its running on the kernel provided by the ROM and firmware is also stock as I use TWRP from Blu_spark v 33.
Now the problem is when I am charging the device it heats up abnormally high note higher than 46 degrees.
And also I get bad standby time with only upto 4 and a half hour Run time between charges.
I have noticed high drainage from Android System.
I charge only upto 80℅.
Tell me where I am wrong.
Do I need to visit the service center..??
If you require additional information do tell me.
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Well can you provide us some data atleast? It's not normal that you have to charge your phone every few hours. This means something is draining your phone most likly an user app.. Have you tried a full clean install / factory reset with the unbrick tool (method). With 46 degree you mean Battery temp or whatever? What is your surrounding temperature?

same problem , even i'm charging my op3 from a normal charger. device temp. gets upto 42-43 C .. i live in delhi, india and its too hot here.
and one more thing that only 50 minutes takes my fon to get fully charged ,if i charge my op3 from dash charger . i dont think its good !! high temp. is not good for Li batteries
every thing stock except twrp recovery !! tried many roms but oxygen is better out of those !!

Puddi_Puddin said:
Well can you provide us some data atleast? It's not normal that you have to charge your phone every few hours. This means something is draining your phone most likly an user app.. Have you tried a full clean install / factory reset with the unbrick tool (method). With 46 degree you mean Battery temp or whatever? What is your surrounding temperature?
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Well I will be glad to provide you data...
But what data do you want..??
And what should I use to give you data.
46 is the battery temperature.
And it's hot around my place at about 41 degree Celsius.
I haven't used the full unbrick tool yet.
Is it really required as I have to backup first XD

liam_davenport said:
Something isn't right since dash is meant to take the heat away from the device while it's charging
Are you using the phone at the same time? Also check your app usage maybe a rouge app is keeping it away while charging and causing the heat
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As soon as I use my phone the phone starts cooling down.
But as soon as I set it down it heats up again.
Tried checking for rouge app found Instagram stopped it but still no effect.
I even used the fix zip from the dev behind Experience OS.

Joyo-rocker said:
Well I will be glad to provide you data...
But what data do you want..??
And what should I use to give you data.
46 is the battery temperature.
And it's hot around my place at about 41 degree Celsius.
I haven't used the full unbrick tool yet.
Is it really required as I have to backup first XD
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Joyo-rocker said:
As soon as I use my phone the phone starts cooling down.
But as soon as I set it down it heats up again.
Tried checking for rouge app found Instagram stopped it but still no effect.
I even used the fix zip from the dev behind Experience OS.
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Well you see. When you lay down your phone it will go into deep sleep. Deep sleep doesn't use alot of power which means your device won't heat up at all. In your case it does, as you describe you have only 4.5hr of standby which means something is draining your phone drastically. Can you provide some screen shots of your battery stats? Post as many different screen shots as you can. Also BetterBatteryStats is a really good app you can find the free version on XDA.

This was asked in the ExperienceOS thread too.
You have a runaway process on your phone. This will use 20-30% CPU on all cores all the time, more or less. Use an app that can check the KERNEL log like 3C Toolbox and you'll find that the heat is due to excessive logging (like several lines every second) from the same process. One of the more common issues is the kernel not able to get write permission for the pm-service to thr IPC Router. THis is solved by setting SElinux PERMISSIVE until the kernel can write to it.
This will make your phone charge slower, get hotter while doing it and give you lower SOT.
Usually this is due to using Magisk, since Magisk has issues with the sepolicy and needs to set SElinux to permissive. If SElinux is Enforcing (as it SHOULD be to protect your phone) the above issue will arise.
If you're using SuperSU then Jamal issued a FIX for this as he made an error in the init.d config for SuperSU 2.82. Basically the two issues are identical as far as the end user is concerned.
All this can be found in the Experience thread where you asked the same question and did not read the 10 posts right above your question.

Painfully bad wifi reception on HTC 10

Hi, I just got a new HTC 10, but I've encountered an issue with it - the wifi signal reception is a pure clown fiesta. My room is fairly far from the router, but even then I managed to get near perfect connection with my ~5 year old Samsung. With my new phone, I can't even open google play most of the time. Same router, nothing changed there
I've googled it up a bit, and some people suggested to force the 2.4Ghz band, but it's already the one I'm on. Do you guys have any other idea what to do?

LK255 said:
Hi, I just got a new HTC 10, but I've encountered an issue with it - the wifi signal reception is a pure clown fiesta. My room is fairly far from the router, but even then I managed to get near perfect connection with my ~5 year old Samsung. With my new phone, I can't even open google play most of the time. Same router, nothing changed there
I've googled it up a bit, and some people suggested to force the 2.4Ghz band, but it's already the one I'm on. Do you guys have any other idea what to do?
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Can't give feedback on 2.4 but i am on 5 Ghz and that is working fine. It still could perform better in my opinion but it is surely fast enough everywhere in the house to have a solid stable connection.
Did you try 5 Ghz ?

I'm not sure if my router allows that. Tbh I couldn't even find the band settings in the wifi settings - I'm on stock Oreo update :/

LK255 said:
I'm not sure if my router allows that. Tbh I couldn't even find the band settings in the wifi settings - I'm on stock Oreo update :/
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Well the 10 isn't very well known by its awesome Wi-Fi reception, it has been a discussion from the beginning but as far as i can see it it should be more than fine in standard conditions.
Another possibility is that it can be better on nougat than oreo but with an S-ON device it involves downgrading firmware by a pretty complicated tutorial (at least if you don't know anything about flashing, fastboot commands, basic android flashing)

Mr Hofs said:
Well the 10 isn't very well known by its awesome Wi-Fi reception, it has been a discussion from the beginning but as far as i can see it it should be more than fine in standard conditions.
Another possibility is that it can be better on nougat than oreo but with an S-ON device it involves downgrading firmware by a pretty complicated tutorial (at least if you don't know anything about flashing, fastboot commands, basic android flashing)
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Well I've played around with the phone for a bit and found out a different problem - the battery is absolutely pathetic. With data/location on I get under 1 hour of SoT, which is waaaayy less than what I get with my current 5 year old 2600mAh device.
So I figured I'd actually try some of the custom ROM as people seem to like it - is there any 'easy tutorial' out there how to do the whole thing step by step? I've seen some tutorials how to do root, or how to flash, how to install stuff, but never quite all together... Even though I'm very anti-technical type, it seems like it's a last possibility since with this battery, the phone is borderline useless to me

You can find some info here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66714156&postcount=2
The first 2 video's explain basically how to unlock the bootloader and how to flash TWRP recovery. But check for updated files, the ones used in the video may be outdated by now.

Mr Hofs said:
You can find some info here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66714156&postcount=2
The first 2 video's explain basically how to unlock the bootloader and how to flash TWRP recovery. But check for updated files, the ones used in the video may be outdated by now.
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So if I understood it correctly... I must follow these three steps (unlock bootloader, Root the device, install TWRP recovery and "S off"), and after that I just download and install the things that people share on the forums, such as this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ht...lineageos-16-1-unofficial-builds-pme-t3851614 ?
Also do you (or anyone) have experience with some of the custom roms? Does the battery get significantly better? Right now I lose more than 1% per 1 minute of watching video on youtube which is a bummer

LK255 said:
So if I understood it correctly... I must follow these three steps (unlock bootloader, Root the device, install TWRP recovery and "S off"), and after that I just download and install the things that people share on the forums, such as this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ht...lineageos-16-1-unofficial-builds-pme-t3851614 ?
Also do you (or anyone) have experience with some of the custom roms? Does the battery get significantly better? Right now I lose more than 1% per 1 minute of watching video on youtube which is a bummer
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No, only this
Unlock the bootloader
Flash TWRP
You do not need S-OFF specifically and you do not root the device, you give root access to the running OS ! Don't mix that up. A custom rom has root access 99% of the time.
Do NOT expect wonders to your battery, if you get less than 1 hour screen on time either the battery is bad or you have a massive drain on an app. The OS won't likely improve this behavior. So dont get your hopes up that it will be 2 or even 3 hours after flashing just a custom rom.
Getting more battery life is a combination of running the proper custom rom and a custom kernel with usually the according app to customize it. Don't expect it all to be good with one press on a button, this is all pretty advanced.

Hmm I don't really see any app draining it... As for the battery, the phone was apparently checked sometime in 2016 and left in the box ever since... I know it's rather specific technical question, but do you suppose it's possible that the battery degraded so much from just sitting in the box?

Well yes everything at this point can be a possibility, i see many reports lately about bad batteries. I must say mines still oke, i get around 4 hours SOT and it get's me through the day easily without charging it.
In my opinion, 1 hour SOT or less is pretty sure a bad battery and a custom rom and kernel might stretch that but 4 hours you will never reach.
LK255 said:
Hmm I don't really see any app draining it... As for the battery, the phone was apparently checked sometime in 2016 and left in the box ever since... I know it's rather specific technical question, but do you suppose it's possible that the battery degraded so much from just sitting in the box?
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wifi works well at my home on 5ghz and 2.4ghz
usually just use 4g though outside of home network, since im now on unlimited data plan
accubattery is a pretty sweet app.
says my battery is at 77%, which seems about right. I can also get around 3.5-4.5 hours SOT on Nougat crdroid.

andybones said:
wifi works well at my home on 5ghz and 2.4ghz
usually just use 4g though outside of home network, since im now on unlimited data plan
accubattery is a pretty sweet app.
says my battery is at 77%, which seems about right. I can also get around 3.5-4.5 hours SOT on Nougat crdroid.
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Yeah I was warned that battery life is a poor on Oreo update, but I couldn't quite figure out how to avoid the update when setting up the device... Yeah I actually got Accubattery myself, it shows that 1/3 of the battery is gonezo (2,069 MaH out of 3,000) straight out of box so it explains a lot.
I figured I'd try my luck with some of the custom ROM, but since I've never done it before I'm afraid I'm just going to brick my device... Still worth trying I guess :silly:

LK255 said:
Yeah I was warned that battery life is a poor on Oreo update, but I couldn't quite figure out how to avoid the update when setting up the device... Yeah I actually got Accubattery myself, it shows that 1/3 of the battery is gonezo (2,069 MaH out of 3,000) straight out of box so it explains a lot.
I figured I'd try my luck with some of the custom ROM, but since I've never done it before I'm afraid I'm just going to brick my device... Still worth trying I guess :silly:
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Nah, bricking is more on an ruu or messing with the aboot.img
Flashing a rom you should be fine. But I understand man.
I'm on AOSP N and getting decent battery with 77% battery, and this is from 80% charge. It's rare I charge above 80%
I've had my phone since release day.

LK255 said:
Yeah I was warned that battery life is a poor on Oreo update, but I couldn't quite figure out how to avoid the update when setting up the device... Yeah I actually got Accubattery myself, it shows that 1/3 of the battery is gonezo (2,069 MaH out of 3,000) straight out of box so it explains a lot.
I figured I'd try my luck with some of the custom ROM, but since I've never done it before I'm afraid I'm just going to brick my device... Still worth trying I guess :silly:
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WiFi is nothing to write home about, I gave up on 5ghz and use 2.4ghz as it reaches farther (more stable from 40ft distance to router).
I used to get up to 3hrs expected SOT (70%health) on the original battery per Accubattery, device was new, but sat on a shelf for a couple of years.
With new battery, expected SOT went to 4.5 hrs (100% health). It was worth the pain of opening it up and changing it (I also had to change the charge port, was causing ‘otg_default’ and ‘ohio_wakelock’ wakelocks eating into Sleep mode and reducing SOT indirectly.)
Check wakelocks with Betterbatterystats app, maybe you have similar issue.

mcmorariu said:
WiFi is nothing to write home about, I gave up on 5ghz and use 2.4ghz as it reaches farther (more stable from 40ft distance to router).
I used to get up to 3hrs expected SOT (70%health) on the original battery per Accubattery, device was new, but sat on a shelf for a couple of years.
With new battery, expected SOT went to 4.5 hrs (100% health). It was worth the pain of opening it up and changing it (I also had to change the charge port, was causing ‘otg_default’ and ‘ohio_wakelock’ wakelocks eating into Sleep mode and reducing SOT indirectly.)
Check wakelocks with Betterbatterystats app, maybe you have similar issue.
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Just curious, but do you have a link for the battery that you bought? I'm thinking of buying one but with all the ching brands to choose from I'm afraid I'm going to pick one that's going to explode and burn my house down with me in it :silly:

LK255 said:
Just curious, but do you have a link for the battery that you bought? I'm thinking of buying one but with all the ching brands to choose from I'm afraid I'm going to pick one that's going to explode and burn my house down with me in it :silly:
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It's all eBay stuff I buy, sometimes it's not perfect...
Anyway, I bought from "battery_expert" seller out of New Jersey, and got lucky.
Link:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-ship-NE...000mAh-/173462237898?du=1&txnId=1952246227007