(This is not a "best rom" thread.)
I've flashed my girlfriend's phone awhile ago and have been running AICP for a year and a half, which has been a complete disappointment in all aspects, except features. (When they're not bugged)
Her phone is heating up to the extreme and battery life has been draining like no tomorrow. On other devices I've had a large amount of well created custom kernel's available, but for this it seems they are very closely aligned to stock.
As I only get access to her phone once every few months, hence don't have time to try out every version of ROM's. Could somebody recommend one which produces little heat? Also do you know if the heat is mostly generated by the CPU or GPU on this device?
Thank you.
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Hi, i plan to buy the m9 but the overheating and poor battery life problems that i heard kind of keeps me away from it. What's your avg battery life and it's still overheating 8 month after release?
The phone doesn't overheat but it DOES get hot.
Battery life is dependent on how you use it but as a normal phone it lasts a day or two. As a gaming device expect a couple of hours.
It's still one of the best phones out.
I wish I stole my HTC M9.
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Hi, i plan to buy the m9 but the overheating and poor battery life problems that i heard kind of keeps me away from it. What's your avg battery life and it's still overheating 8 month after release?
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I've never had mine get that hot honestly. I did get it more recently so it isn't one of the first batches. It stays cooler than my m8 did honestly. Battery life is definitely worse, though manageable. I can easily get a day out of it, just I can't go as crazy as I could with screen on time on my m8.
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Definitely true.
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Definitely true.
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not quite. My battery life is very acceptably lasting between 12 - 14 hours normal use (4.5hrs screen on time).
And I have no overheating issues, the phone has never crashed or rebooted due to heat. the only time the heat is even really noticeable is when I just flashed a rom and android is optimizing apps on first boot. For this I just put the phone on a cold pack the duration of the install (it's not like your holding it the whole time)
I have the dot view case on and very rarely notice heat. Battery is perfectly fine, better than my M7 which I had came from. All this is based on being on latest update and firmware. It has vastly improved since launch.
Depends how you define "overheat." It doesn't get so hot that it malfunctions or risks injury. It can get quite hot to the touch, especially if you're charging and doing CPU intensive stuff at the same time. I have had it get hot enough to stop charging quite a few times when I was using and charging at the same time.
Battery life is comparable to other top-end smartphones. 90% of the time I have little trouble getting through the day.
Some people complain about these issues, but it's hard to tell if they're truly experiencing exceptional problems or just suffer from Perfect Phone Syndrome.
When not rooted with custom rom ie out of the box original, its loaded with so much crap from htc after a few weeks of normal use it overheats and the battery life is poor. My guess is that with Cyanogenmod it would fly.
Hello, I've been thinking of switching to an AOSP-based ROM. However, I want to know if the battery life will be better or worse, and I need opinion from people who have tried an AOSP-based ROM.
I've heard that they give better battery life on other devices.
I'm not asking for "which ROM is the best", but I am asking what your experience is like with battery life, so I have full confidence that this kind of thread should be allowed. Thanks.
I personally haven't noticed a difference between the two. I'm currently running Candy5 and set the IO Scheduler to 'row'. It lasts me throughout the day. But to be fair, I don't use my phone very heavily. With heavy gaming, I'll go about 2-3 hours from a full charge to about 25% charge. I don't know if this is something that is universal or not, but the phone gets REALLY hot after about 5 min. of gaming.
Hi all,
I'm in the market for a new phone and was weighing the pros and cons between the Yureka Plus and Micromax Canvas 5.
The Micromax is slightly more expensive but has more RAM (3GB), a bigger battery (3000mAh), a smaller but sharper screen (5.2"), a LED flash for the front camera, nearly stock Android Lollipop, and possibly better gaming performance (Mali T720 GPU)
Also the Micromax camera appears to do better in reviews compared to the Yureka Plus.
In the Yureka's favor the massive development work in these forums seems to be eliminating and mitigating many of the shortcomings including battery life.
To me a fast action and decent camera is important. GPS reception is also important but no information is available on this. Moderate gaming is nice to have (MMR racing).
Between the two if you were buying now which one would you go for and why? Would the lack of custom ROM development (so far) be a deal breaker?
If you're proficient in flashing ROMs, kernels and whatnot, and understand the risks involved with it, go with the Yureka Plus. Out of the box, put plainly, Yureka Plus right now is what it is, a budget phone for 9k. You have stock KitKat, no news of any update, broken LED calibration, broken SD card support *at times*, decent battery, decent performance.
So what you get is basically what you would expect out of a 10-12k phone, for a lesser cost. The Canvas would give you much better performance ON PAPER, because it has more RAM, has better battery and also that it comes bundled with Lollipop.
However, like I said, if you're not scared about being careful, getting your hands dirty and flashing ROMs, I would go for the Yureka.
Personally, I haven't regretted buying this phone. I currently run an unofficial build of CM 13. Battery easily lasts 24 hours for me on a single charge and normal usage i.e 2-3 hours SoT, data/wifi connection for the entirety of discharge. My phone hardly lags. I don't game, so I don't know about the gaming performance/heating issues.
Previously, I had CM 12.1 and a custom kernel. Heating was controlled by thermal throttling. As far as the stock Cyanogen experience is concerned, yes, you will have terrible heating at times and weird battery drain akin to the early Lollipop days. But from experience, again, 75% of the time, the battery drain is due to something *you* installed or something *you* didn't uninstall properly. And custom kernels helped me get 1-2 days of battery life with normal usage from my phone, with excellent normal and gaming performance.
So, yes, if you're not too scared to go ahead and flash ROMS, or learn how to if you don't know how yet, then go for the Yureka.
Ok, so I got my new N5X 1,5 week ago. Before that I had the Z3 compact. After reading around on xda and reddit I decided to go with the purenexus + elementalx combination. Have been tweaking the kernel with EXKM with both bluejay, ghost pepper etc.
But the problems arise after >20hrs uptime. The lag and stutter gets really bad. Also the battery life starts to get eaten up (2-3hrs SOT with ghost pepper settings). I use messenger, Facebook, snapchat, chrome etc. I know these are memory demanding apps, buy I never experienced stuttering and such battery drain on my previous phone.
BTW, my idle drain is really good. Less than 3% during the night. I use amplify for wakelocks.
Don't know if I should try to change kernel or rom? Or just factory reset it to stock? Even though I love root..
Some suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Try purenexus with the kernel it comes with. It performs great with good battery life
I personnaly loved root and everything, did try purenexus with elemental x and a few tweak profile too
Result : no better performance, no better battery life, random bugs and hot phone with lags from time to time at the end of the day
I'm back to stock not rooted and I got to say I don't miss anything and the phone flies.
This is my personal experience.
I also recommend purenexus with its built-in kernel and leave kernel related values as they are. You should decript your data partition to get most out your N5X. Encryption is putting a considerable strain on CPU and battery and does not offer much in return (debatable). With Pure Nexus I get outstanding performance, amazing battery life and rock solid stability. Using it since tuesday and not considering any other rom for now. Just decrypt your data partition.
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I also recommend purenexus with its built-in kernel and leave kernel related values as they are. You should decript your data partition to get most out your N5X. Encryption is putting a considerable strain on CPU and battery and does not offer much in return (debatable). With Pure Nexus I get outstanding performance, amazing battery life and rock solid stability. Using it since tuesday and not considering any other rom for now. Just decrypt your data partition.
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What's the difference in battery life for you? I've never decrypted it, but I'm thinking about it.
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What's the difference in battery life for you? I've never decrypted it, but I'm thinking about it.
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With my usage i get about half an hour of SOT more. Im averaging around 6+ hours with 10% left. This is mainly on WI-FI.
Is there a simple way of finding out what prevents Doze from kicking in on an unrooted device, or is it trial and error without root?
Hello XDA!
I'm here seeking for some advice.
I'm a happy owner of an LG G4 since November 2015.
Phone has been running great (minus boot-loop, now fixed, last September).
Recently I've been noticing battery drains much faster, with the same usage as usual.
I know battery life is a thing, but having never changed a battery, I'm not sure if that means it's time to replace it yet.
I've been using 'Accubattery' for a few days, and out of 3000mAh, it reports 1980mAh, 66% health. Voltage is pretty much always at 3/4 (above 4mV, the bars turns orange sometimes aswell. Not sure if that means something)
Having never used this app before, I wanted to have a second opinion about this result, before I spend money on a new battery.
Notes:
- Last week I decided to try Resurrection Remix, and battery has been going pretty great. Although I reverted back to stock due the lack of a proper camera app/loss of camera features.
- I've been testing various kernels these days. SimpleGX is the one I've been using for the longest, and the early days (months ago) battery life has been great with it. I still use SimpleGX, but battery life drains by 1% every 10 minutes the screen is on more or less.
- In the past, when I was still using the phone fully stock, it used to get really hot (once it even triggered the 'overheating' error). I heard heat could drastically reduce battery life, so maybe... Overheating hasn't been an issue since I started using SimpleGX.
Thanks in advance.
I think all of us LG G4 owners who had owned it for more than a year has been complaining of short bad battery life just like me, on Accubattery app my battery health is currently at 72% (2152 mah out of 3000 mah), like I get maximum 3.5 hours SOT , So I think it's best time for most people to buy a new battery but for me I'm used to a power bank. In few months time I can't wait to purchase an LG G6! I'm giving more time to the LG G4 because in few months time let's see if my battery health drops below 72% of health. Can't say if the battery used to the heat from the CPU specially while charging? That heat might have degraded the capacity of the battery Happy that the LG G6 has thermal pipes and a much better CPU SD 821 that might not heat the battery in long term use
It could be time. If you ever played games heavily like pokemon go or done anything in general which sustained heat long term, it will slowly kill your battery health. With that being said these batteries do tend to go bad pretty quick especially after around the 1 year mark. I personally opted for the power bear extended battery and and nothing but good to report since then. I highly would recommend going for a new battery. Easy and cheap solution
Not a fan of Pokemon Go, but while using it completely stock, it often went hot for long time.
It stopped only after I started using a custom kernel, but I'd say I spent about 6 months with that already.
Not a fan of those extended battery, mainly due the aesthetic factor, but that's more a personal thing.
I will be ordering a new battery soon (Aukey one). Thanks for the advice