Ok. So phone will be here shortly and plan on doing a factory reset then switching to ART first thing.
Has anyone came across any drawbacks? Any apps not working correctly?
Lorimere said:
Ok. So phone will be here shortly and plan on doing a factory reset then switching to ART first thing.
Has anyone came across any drawbacks? Any apps not working correctly?
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xposed doesn't work, except of that i've faced none.
Lorimere said:
Ok. So phone will be here shortly and plan on doing a factory reset then switching to ART first thing.
Has anyone came across any drawbacks? Any apps not working correctly?
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Some apps do not work with ART, its not a fault with ART itself, its a problem with the apps that only the app devs can correct.
Boot time will be longer with ART, but its hardly noticeable, and hopefully you don't reboot a lot anyway.
Benchmarks results will be lower on ART but it is because benchmark tests are not optimised to work with ART.
I run ART since day 1, only thing that doesn't work as far as I know is Xposed (But I'm not even rooted yet, so no issue)
Also, I haven't found any real differences on that phone between Dalvik and ART, but as I said, I didn't use it much on Dalvik.
I'm planning to root it after the first OTA (10b?) and I'll probably want to use the G3 TweakBox, so I'll be back to Dalvik until it's compatible with ART.
any differences to battery life ? I have heard that with art is worst , Is this true?
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any differences to battery life ? I have heard that with art is worst , Is this true?
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No, if anything it is meant to be better on battery as it is no longer compiling things on the fly like Dalvik does, it does it all at boot time instead.
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Haven't seen any significant difference, but then again, I haven't done a lot of testing.
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ART should theoretically give you better battery life. In practice though, I see the same battery life on Dalvik as I do with ART from Android 4.4.x KitKat
Battery life is 100% reliant on your personal usage patterns. Someone else with a totally different usage pattern could get more or even less battery life with ART. There's way way way too many variables
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Recently purchased the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S2 and I flashed Beastmod v4.2 onto it. I'm experiencing a lot of battery drain, approximately 10% an hour with very minimal usage. I flashed the same ROM onto an identical SGS2 and the batterylife on that one is great. I've tried reflashing Beastmod but still getting the same issues. Anyone knows whats going on or how to resolve this?
How are you flashing it? Wipe everything and fix permissions?
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I flashed it following the directions on the Beastmod thread in development.
1. Download it and place it at the root of your SD Card.
2. Boot into recovery.
3. Factory Reset then wipe cache.
4. Flash the ROM then wipe dalvik cache.
5. Reboot!
Beastmod is still 2.3.5, you should consider flashing one of the 2.3.6 ROMs and maybe updating your Radio to the latest , much better battery seems to come with the newer update ...
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Beastmod is still 2.3.5, you should consider flashing one of the 2.3.6 ROMs and maybe updating your Radio to the latest , much better battery seems to come with the newer update ...
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Why would there be such a large discrepancy in battery life though from one T-Mo SGS2 with Beastmod to the other? That's what is making me scratch my head.
Did u do a battery Calibration? If not this might the reason why
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Did u do a battery Calibration? If not this might the reason why
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Umm yeah that too ... duh ....
There is a BIG change in 2.3.6 in battery life, at least what I am seeing and others have reported, some say it is the ROM some say it is the radio , I am using both, I get better battery life, but overall the SGS2 Hercules is a battery hog ...
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Did u do a battery Calibration? If not this might the reason why
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I have done a battery calibration on the phone.
Disable sync for your Exchange email. I found that to be the biggest source of drain.
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I feel the same way my man..no matter which ROM I use, my battery drains like a mother
A lot of this can be due to signal strength. If you're in an area where you're constantly disconnecting/reconnecting to the towers, or you're just below the acceptable level for 4g, it might be switching between 3 and 4g, draining your battery.
Another thing to note, you usually want to run a rom for a couple of days before you start judging battery. It takes a while sometimes to build the dalvik-cache, and calibrate the battery. Sometimes as much as 3 full charges.
Lastly, look at what you have running on your phone. If you've tried tons of different roms, and they all drain, chances are it's an app you have that's misbehaving causing wake-lock. I'd try downloading system tuner from the market, and first going into the startup section. Remove ANYTHING that doesn't need to run in the background. You'd be amazed how many apps run at startup that really shouldn't, at least until you start them yourselves. Battery spy and cpu spy can be useful for troubleshooting what's draining your phone as well.
I drop 1% per 5 minutes or less....
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A lot of this can be due to signal strength. If you're in an area where you're constantly disconnecting/reconnecting to the towers, or you're just below the acceptable level for 4g, it might be switching between 3 and 4g, draining your battery.
Another thing to note, you usually want to run a rom for a couple of days before you start judging battery. It takes a while sometimes to build the dalvik-cache, and calibrate the battery. Sometimes as much as 3 full charges.
Lastly, look at what you have running on your phone. If you've tried tons of different roms, and they all drain, chances are it's an app you have that's misbehaving causing wake-lock. I'd try downloading system tuner from the market, and first going into the startup section. Remove ANYTHING that doesn't need to run in the background. You'd be amazed how many apps run at startup that really shouldn't, at least until you start them yourselves. Battery spy and cpu spy can be useful for troubleshooting what's draining your phone as well.
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Thanks for the tips. I didn't give it a chance to do 3 full charges yet and I'll take a look into removing startup apps.
From the OP, it sounds like you have more than one SG2 phone available to you. Try swapping batteries to see if the same rapid discharge occurs where transferred.
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From the OP, it sounds like you have more than one SG2 phone available to you. Try swapping batteries to see if the same rapid discharge occurs where transferred.
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Very good thinking.
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Very good thinking.
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I did try this but the issue with the draining is still there.
Have you tried changing kernels? Each phone responds differently to kernels and like some more than others. I've tried everyone and Faux's "stock" kernel works the best on my phone. It's UV, on stock speeds with a screen off profile.
To make sure your phone is actually going into deep sleep check the app CPU spy on the market. it'll tell you what clocks your phone is running through and staying at for the most time.
Also, check out System Tuner to see what rogue apps could be running constantly in the background [se Bloatware Freezer to freeze or remove apps as necessary] as well as if your 2nd core is staying offline and not staying on when it's not needed.
I would also throw your phone into airplane mode and compare the drain with no data activation to how you normally keep it to check if the 3G/4G toggling is draining your battery.
This is a semi general android question... but i have a galaxy nexus... and that's what I'll be paying with...so....
I am currently testing out ROMs... mostly apex and its previous incarnations...
I was wondering if there is any downside to flash ROMs often? Like once or twice a week, as far as longevity of the device or its rank management or " snappiness"?
Thanks for the info!
You will be fine. From what I understand it takes your battery a couple of days to "adjust" to your rom properly and display accurately
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You will be fine. From what I understand it takes your battery a couple of days to "adjust" to your rom properly and display accurately
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and if not you can calibrate your battery using battery calibration.
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This is a semi general android question... but i have a galaxy nexus... and that's what I'll be paying with...so....
I am currently testing out ROMs... mostly apex and its previous incarnations...
I was wondering if there is any downside to flash ROMs often? Like once or twice a week, as far as longevity of the device or its rank management or " snappiness"?
Thanks for the info!
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Hey I am on build 20 or AOKP so I have rebuilt mine at least twenty times but probably a lot more because I have tried ever rom available. I think of it like rebuilding my laptop, I don't think it does any harm at all but over time the device will deteriorate just like any other hardware device.
NAND flash is susceptible to write wear and will degrade over time. Frequent ROM flashing will increase the write rate to the NAND and over time the storage performance will decrease.
I have not measured the impact myself.
what sillow said is what is worrying me mostly...i will probably end up keeping one stable build and only reflashing once a month or something of the nature just to get updates....
I know that hardware performance will deteriorate over time like any other device...the only thing is that i'm in Canada...so...yeah, three year contracts...hehe
i'd like to have my phone survive at least 2+ years comfortably...hehe
minipaolo - do you mean the battery calibration app? i'm using cwm recovery and there is an option to wipe the battery stats from the recovery, which i think is just what the app does, if i'm not mistaken? (other than showing stats, of course...)
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minipaolo - do you mean the battery calibration app? i'm using cwm recovery and there is an option to wipe the battery stats from the recovery, which i think is just what the app does, if i'm not mistaken? (other than showing stats, of course...)
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There has recently been a google+ post from one of the google developers who said that deleting you're battery stats has no influence whatsoever. Your battery will automatically calibrate itself, so no need to use a special app or delete the stats.
Anyway, good question in the OP. I can imagine it decreases the lifespan, but I can't imagine that it's decreased by a lot -or maybe just wishful thinking-
haha...exactly, let's just hope if there is an impact, that it's quite minimal...
I've been flashing roms ever since I got my first Android phone all the way up to the Galaxy Nexus now. Never had a problem.
As the title said, i'm looking for a kernel to improve my nexus 7 battery life. I do not play games, my most concern is improve battery life when browsing web. Anyone can help me? I'm quite busy so i don't have time to try every kernel.
Thanks in advance
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As the title said, i'm looking for a kernel to improve my nexus 7 battery life. I do not play games, my most concern is improve battery life when browsing web. Anyone can help me? I'm quite busy so i don't have time to try every kernel.
Thanks in advance
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ElementalX 1.8 beta gives me great battery life. Here's a link to it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2389022
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ElementalX 1.8 beta gives me great battery life. Here's a link to it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2389022
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Thanks a lot. Gonna try that soon . BTW, how much screen on time do you get in a single charge?
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Thanks a lot. Gonna try that soon . BTW, how much screen on time do you get in a single charge?
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Screen on time is taking about 20% instead of the 60% I used to have ( I normally have it on lowest settings). Lasts me a day without charging.
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Screen on time is taking about 20% instead of the 60% I used to have ( I normally have it on lowest settings). Lasts me a day without charging.
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Thanks again
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Screen on time is taking about 20% instead of the 60% I used to have ( I normally have it on lowest settings). Lasts me a day without charging.
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This of course is BS, a kernel can't alter the percentage the screen uses in such a ludicrous amount. But if it works for you, great :angel:
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This of course is BS, a kernel can't alter the percentage the screen uses in such a ludicrous amount. But if it works for you, great :angel:
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Kernels can affect screen time in "ludicrous amount" when you overclock, use the device for a period of time, application usage, GPS, Bluetooth, and display settings etc.
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Kernels can affect screen time in "ludicrous amount" when you overclock, use the device for a period of time, application usage, GPS, Bluetooth, and display settings etc.
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No. Not in the amount you specified. Complete nonsense, with all due respect. Underclocking, undervolting, all those things will never yield your result. One hundred percent impossible.
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No. Not in the amount you specified. Complete nonsense, with all due respect. Underclocking, undervolting, all those things will never yield your result. One hundred percent impossible.
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Well I don't know what to say to this. I know what my battery stats were and I wipe them (and I continue to wipe them) daily. Maybe my nexus is special. Come to think of it, it has had some problems before. Maybe this is a way for it to make up to me
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...and I wipe them (and I continue to wipe them) daily
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This, also, has no use whatsoever, FYI :angel:
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This, also, has no use whatsoever, FYI :angel:
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Its true, battery stats have no effect on battery life. I wipe them across ROMS because the battery stats file can get messed up when switching ( it has happened to me before ).
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Its true, battery stats have no effect on battery life. I wipe them across ROMS because the battery stats file can get messed up when switching ( it has happened to me before ).
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No, it can't. Wiping battery stats has no influence over the battery indication whatsoever. As per Google themselves.
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No, it can't. Wiping battery stats has no influence over the battery indication whatsoever. As per Google themselves.
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I never said that the battery stats file had influence over battery indication. Like in the link you provided :
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That is, it has deeply significant things like "app X held a wake lock for 2 minutes" and "the screen was on at 60% brightness for 10 minutes."
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No, it can't. Wiping battery stats has no influence over the battery indication whatsoever. As per Google themselves.
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Interesting things happen when you wipe the cache. This is from my Nexus 7 during Video playback. Seem like the battery consumption gets attributed differently.
Exactly the same setting, ROM & Kernel, both cases I use MX Player Pro with H/W+ accleration to playback 720p videos. Only difference is in first case Screen battery consumption 83.5%, the other 57.7%.
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As the title said, i'm looking for a kernel to improve my nexus 7 battery life. I do not play games, my most concern is improve battery life when browsing web. Anyone can help me? I'm quite busy so i don't have time to try every kernel.
Thanks in advance
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Get Elemental X 1.8 and run it at stock clocks (1.5Ghz CPU/400mhz GPU) will probably give you the best battery life. If adjusting a lot of settings when installing a kernel is a hassle to you, get Bulletproof 1.3 instead. Bulletproof have the same developer(flar2) as Elemental X, it is basically a developer optimized version of Elemental X running stock clocks & optimized for Battery life.
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I never said that the battery stats file had influence over battery indication. Like in the link you provided :
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So you wipe the file for exactly what other reason?
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So you wipe the file for exactly what other reason?
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Maybe he was just wiping cache & dalvik.
Edit: Nevermind.
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So you wipe the file for exactly what other reason?
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I wipe them because like I said before, the file can get messed up when switching ROMS. It got messed up on my LG phone before so I wipe just to be thorough.
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I wipe them because like I said before, the file can get messed up when switching ROMS. It got messed up on my LG phone before so I wipe just to be thorough.
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How do you KNOW it's messed up?
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How do you KNOW it's messed up?
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When you love a phone just like I loved my LG G2X, you know when something is wrong.
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When you love a phone just like I loved my LG G2X, you know when something is wrong.
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Thought so. Unclear answer as you don't have anything conclusive to say.
Just keep on wiping, it's highly recommended :good:
Reading reviews I always see them speaking aabout a lag compared to say HTC one m8
I was wondering if it improves on art
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Reading reviews I always see them speaking aabout a lag compared to say HTC one m8
I was wondering if it improves on art
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It definitely helped me. I was having some terrible keyboard lag that was mostly resolved by switching to ART
Also helped me a great deal. Most of the lag was gone with animations set to zero and switching to nova. Changing to art then made it nexus 5 smooth for me
There are reports of ART messing with Bluetooth audio though. But it's been said to help with UI performance, yes
ART pretty much eliminated the UI lag for me. It was within tolerable range before the switch, but it's pretty much gone with ART. I would certainly recommend giving it a try.
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There are reports of ART messing with Bluetooth audio though. But it's been said to help with UI performance, yes
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I use Bluetooth audio in my car every day.
The reason I went from note 3 to m8 was due to size. How big is the g3 compared to the m8?
I miss removable batteries and hoping T-Mobile carries the 3gb ram version
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G3 is a little wider, same height. T-Mobile will have the 3GB version
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G3 is a little wider, same height. T-Mobile will have the 3GB version
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Awesome I hope to hold one in hand
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The reason I went from note 3 to m8 was due to size. How big is the g3 compared to the m8?
I miss removable batteries and hoping T-Mobile carries the 3gb ram version
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I think g3 is a lot bigger. I sold my m8 because it was so tiny. note 3 is where it's at
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At the risk of angering a lot of people on here I wish to put forward the view that 99% of the increase in performance people believe they get on ART is just placebo at this time.
The ART build on the G3 is the ART build that came with android 4.4.2 - this is now very outdated and in no way reflects the power of ART on the Android L. There are various articles and youtube videos showing that there are virtually no differences between dalvik and ART on android 4.4.2 and indeed most top developers recommended (and still do!) that you don't use ART until android L.
In terms of real world experience, I have had my D855 since release day, I spent one week on Dalvik, then one week on ART, I was amazed by the performance increase (I tweeted about it a lot!) then I switched back to Dalvik for the last 4 days and I have had no drop in performance.
Anyone who has spent a lengthy period on ART I implore you to switch back to Dalvik for a few days, you will be surprised by how little the differences actually are.
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At the risk of angering a lot of people on here I wish to put forward the view that 99% of the increase in performance people believe they get on ART is just placebo at this time.
The ART build on the G3 is the ART build that came with android 4.4.2 - this is now very outdated and in no way reflects the power of ART on the Android L. There are various articles and youtube videos showing that there are virtually no differences between dalvik and ART on android 4.4.2 and indeed most top developers recommended (and still do!) that you don't use ART until android L.
In terms of real world experience, I have had my D855 since release day, I spent one week on Dalvik, then one week on ART, I was amazed by the performance increase (I tweeted about it a lot!) then I switched back to Dalvik for the last 4 days and I have had no drop in performance.
Anyone who has spent a lengthy period on ART I implore you to switch back to Dalvik for a few days, you will be surprised by how little the differences actually are.
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Exactly my experience. I was happy with ART then I swiched back, still happy
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At the risk of angering a lot of people on here I wish to put forward the view that 99% of the increase in performance people believe they get on ART is just placebo at this time.
The ART build on the G3 is the ART build that came with android 4.4.2 - this is now very outdated and in no way reflects the power of ART on the Android L. There are various articles and youtube videos showing that there are virtually no differences between dalvik and ART on android 4.4.2 and indeed most top developers recommended (and still do!) that you don't use ART until android L.
In terms of real world experience, I have had my D855 since release day, I spent one week on Dalvik, then one week on ART, I was amazed by the performance increase (I tweeted about it a lot!) then I switched back to Dalvik for the last 4 days and I have had no drop in performance.
Anyone who has spent a lengthy period on ART I implore you to switch back to Dalvik for a few days, you will be surprised by how little the differences actually are.
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I've been an advocate of ART since 4.4 KitKat. On my nexus 5, ART makes multitasking faster than when using Dalvik. I also see a little less stutter when scrolling through pages with a lot of 'post' type elements. This isn't a night and day comparison, but it is definitely noticeable on my end. You can say it's a placebo, but in my eyes, there is a micro-stutter on Dalvik when pressing the multitasking button as well as when switching to another app.
I'm not saying you're wrong and demanding that I'm right. It's just been my experience. I switch apps and multitask a lot, so it's very noticeable for me. I don't see any benchmark improvements, I don't see any increase in battery life, but I do see a difference on my Nexus 5.
I'll give the G3 a week or so on Dalvik before I make the switch though. It depend on how often I see this UI lag that everyone has been talking about. I'll be getting my G3 sometime today. Hopefully before lunch
I should note that I don't sacrifice anything when using ART. All of my apps work on ART just like they do on Dalvik. So it's not like I'm losing anything by using ART instead of Dalvik(on my N5)
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At the risk of angering a lot of people on here I wish to put forward the view that 99% of the increase in performance people believe they get on ART is just placebo at this time.
The ART build on the G3 is the ART build that came with android 4.4.2 - this is now very outdated and in no way reflects the power of ART on the Android L. There are various articles and youtube videos showing that there are virtually no differences between dalvik and ART on android 4.4.2 and indeed most top developers recommended (and still do!) that you don't use ART until android L.
In terms of real world experience, I have had my D855 since release day, I spent one week on Dalvik, then one week on ART, I was amazed by the performance increase (I tweeted about it a lot!) then I switched back to Dalvik for the last 4 days and I have had no drop in performance.
Anyone who has spent a lengthy period on ART I implore you to switch back to Dalvik for a few days, you will be surprised by how little the differences actually are.
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I did just that because I wanted to use Xposed and it's Lag City everywhere!! The slowness is really getting on my nerves.. maybe it's time for a factory reset..
Let's hope Xposed runs on ART in the very near future...
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I found the reason for the lag, it was xPrivacy! once I got rid of it, the lag improved quite a lot. Not as good as a brand new phone but much better than previously. Interestingly enough xPrivacy didn't lag my note 3 at all..
I ran my D850 on Dalvik for the first day. It seemed a little laggy.
Switched to ART on the second day - thought I saw a small improvement, but it could have been placebo. Installed Nova and froze a bunch of the bloat.
Here's the kicker: I then installed Xposed and used the D850 for several hours before I realized that it had switched back to Dalvik. I never noticed a drop in performance. I would argue that changing the launcher, installing Xposed mods, and the G3 TweaksBox, made a much bigger impact on performance than ART.
This phone also takes a much longer time than normal to "settle" in. I was having terrible keyboard lag the first day which slowly let up over time. Now a week and a half later I don't have issues with it but I did switch to ART on day 2. I don't have any apps that aren't incompatible with ART so I won't be switching back. All I know is I lagged like a ***** the first day and a half and switching to art gave me a bit of speed over time. Now it's flawless. Would it be the same with dalvik? Maybe. I'm not willing to try. I need the phone for work and I type long emails and it was horrendous before.
How much "miscellaneous" battery drain is normal after google fixed the lollipop bug?
I've read about the initial bug in lollipop causing high battery drain under the entry "miscellaneous". I'm using a 5.0.2 rom (as far as I've understood from the information about it) so the bug should be fixed. Yet I'm seeing quite some battery drain going to this "miscelanous" entry. Right now it's 9%, screen is first at 10% but I still feel 9% sounds like quite a lot or is this correct? What's "normal" here?
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I've read about the initial bug in lollipop causing high battery drain under the entry "miscellaneous". I'm using a 5.0.2 rom (as far as I've understood from the information about it) so the bug should be fixed. Yet I'm seeing quite some battery drain going to this "miscelanous" entry. Right now it's 9%, screen is first at 10% but I still feel 9% sounds like quite a lot or is this correct? What's "normal" here?
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Im seeing the same - Misc is at 14% now and Screen at 10%. not sure if its WiFi related, as was the case with the early 5.0 release for the nexus 5, or if its related to NFC / something else?
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Im seeing the same - Misc is at 14% now and Screen at 10%. not sure if its WiFi related, as was the case with the early 5.0 release for the nexus 5, or if its related to NFC / something else?
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What bothers me is that we do not know if this is "rediscovered" battery use that previously just wasn't reported, or if it's a new drain coming with lollipop. I like lollipop but there are quite a few things about the code that has me concerned.
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What bothers me is that we do not know if this is "rediscovered" battery use that previously just wasn't reported, or if it's a new drain coming with lollipop. I like lollipop but there are quite a few things about the code that has me concerned.
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I dont think its the same bug. The Miscellaneous Drain encompases many things that run in the background that don't have their own status group in the battery stats. Usually, they are small drains compared to the screen, apps etc... it will be hard to determine whats causing it, unless you are a developer i think. Still the battery life isnt bad, so not really bothering me too much.
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I dont think its the same bug. The Miscellaneous Drain encompases many things that run in the background that don't have their own status group in the battery stats. Usually, they are small drains compared to the screen, apps etc... it will be hard to determine whats causing it, unless you are a developer i think. Still the battery life isnt bad, so not really bothering me too much.
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I had some battery issues coming to lollipop as compared to kitkat so I guess that made me more doubtful. On my device misc always use up about as much as the screen which sounds like a whole lot that the cell has no idea where it went.
did you have it after flashing? or is it always there?
it only appears for me after using TWRP.
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did you have it after flashing? or is it always there?
it only appears for me after using TWRP.
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I'm not sure as I started flashing pretty much the first thing I did with the LG G3 that is affected by it. Do you think TWRP itself is to blame or rather an incompatibility with custom roms? I've not flashed stock to compare, but I could check my wifes phone, she is stock wout any root or hacking.