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How stable is CM10 on the Acro S?

Anyone here that can give me some advice and support about CM10 Stability on the Acro S? How is the battery life? How is the performance? Is it stable enough?
Just asking before I am flashing this one on my two days old Acro S, so nothing gets ****ed up
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Destroyedbeauty said:
Anyone here that can give me some advice and support about CM10 Stability on the Acro S? How is the battery life? How is the performance? Is it stable enough?
Just asking before I am flashing this one on my two days old Acro S, so nothing gets ****ed up
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Very stable. Been using CM10 as a daily driver since... around Decemember I am guessing. I have been following the weekly FXP updates and flash/wipe every time a major change come along our way.
Highly recommend CM10!
We are missing 1080p recording, Panoramic mode doesn't work on the camera... um that's all I can really think of. I've been using it so long that any minor bugs doesn't bother me anymore. It runs much better than CM9 and way faster than stock. Battery life is probably equivalent to stock ICS... again been away from stock for so long I don't really know anymore.
I ran stock for about two weeks and then broke open the bootloader and installed CM9. It was awesome! I went back to CM9 once after running CM10 for about 10 days while I was on vacation (needed the battery life before it was better optimized) and even then I missed CM10. Flashed CM10 back and never left.
With JB sources released for the Acro S we can only hope that the FXP team fix even more bugs and make CM10 even better. Hopefully soon also take us to CM10.1!
Oh one more thing for battery life. I was in Japan a couple of weeks ago with CM10 installed. With no data connection and using wifi only with auto-brightness enabled. (data uses more battery than wifi) According to batterbatterystats (my best record) I managed to push about 3hours 45min of "screen on" on a full charge. From the morning till the evening. Surfing the web, whatsapp, facebook, email, and some youtube. Hope that gives you an idea of battery life.

raginginferno said:
Very stable. Been using CM10 as a daily driver since... around Decemember I am guessing. I have been following the weekly FXP updates and flash/wipe every time a major change come along our way.
Highly recommend CM10!
We are missing 1080p recording, Panoramic mode doesn't work on the camera... um that's all I can really think of. I've been using it so long that any minor bugs doesn't bother me anymore. It runs much better than CM9 and way faster than stock. Battery life is probably equivalent to stock ICS... again been away from stock for so long I don't really know anymore.
I ran stock for about two weeks and then broke open the bootloader and installed CM9. It was awesome! I went back to CM9 once after running CM10 for about 10 days while I was on vacation (needed the battery life before it was better optimized) and even then I missed CM10. Flashed CM10 back and never left.
With JB sources released for the Acro S we can only hope that the FXP team fix even more bugs and make CM10 even better. Hopefully soon also take us to CM10.1!
Oh one more thing for battery life. I was in Japan a couple of weeks ago with CM10 installed. With no data connection and using wifi only with auto-brightness enabled. (data uses more battery than wifi) According to batterbatterystats (my best record) I managed to push about 3hours 45min of "screen on" on a full charge. From the morning till the evening. Surfing the web, whatsapp, facebook, email, and some youtube. Hope that gives you an idea of battery life.
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That is some good battery life, isn't?
Take in account that the Qualcomm is the regular SoC choice on every Xperia (except Xperia P) and Snapdragon is pretty powerhungry on stock firmware-based devices right? I hope CM10 is an batteryfriendly AOSP choice for the Acro S..
And yes, one more thing.. How is the camera performance on CM based ROMs for Xperia Acro S? Better or worse than stock? Camera is important to me..
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[Q] The best and most stable rom?

Hello looking for a fast, stable rom for htc wildfire. Please give me some good roms you think

Rempuzzle! Very stable, up time is currently 790 hours without a reboot. Zero glitches or lag since the day I flashed this ROM. Battery life is also great, I get generally about 5-6 days on stock battery. It has as well a nice look with the Sense 5 add ons.
I don't see a ROM for such a old and low-powered phone getting any better. It makes it an excellent business phone for me.

you have to try by yourself and decide which rom fits you best (; i can recommend latest cm 7.2 nightly, rem puzzle, jokerdroid 4.3, ultrabeam, orion and aokp (; those roms are the best ones imo (;
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Best Rom
My favorite at the moment is Ultrabeam 1.5, and I use MTD partition to get more internal memory for apps. Give it a try.

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Please post in the correct section, also please take some time to read this thread for guidance. Best ROM threads are not allowed, they only create fanboy wars as individual needs for a ROM differ. As already said, try a few and make you own decision.​

Pros/Cons of Custom Roms and Kernels?

I've been thinking about Custom Roms for a while now, and whether or not to go down the route again. I've had previous (awful) experience with ROM's and my old N7000.
What I'm basically looking for is someone to advise me, give me the advantages and disadvantages so I can weigh out whether or not it's worth it. Stay stock and wait for the L release, or just play with the custom roms... PA/CM mainly.
I know custom roms are often (usually) unstable, and can be troublesome at times. Unexpected boot loops was a huge issue for me back in the Samsung day.
I've never known much about kernels. I learnt a bit about them in the ICS/GB days because of the huge problem with hard bricking on a wide scale. Are there any issues with today's kernels?
If anyone could help a guy out, that'd be great!

Firstly you need to check if you can unlock your bootloader. I CANT so i must use stock based firmwares. Stock are really good and kitslim based on stock is the best stick based ROM. If you want cm Roma you need to know that in cm there is no Sony features some of then are already ported if i good remember in Sony cross development. Everyone need to w8 for L relaese cm users too. I think first cm 12 will be in January so as stock Sony should be in january /february i think that cm users of xperia devices are happy with cm and i dont hear about loops or random reboots. Xperias devices are quite different than Samsung so you need to check to know
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Hi
I've just flashed latest CM11 Mod Rom to my Z1 Compact and reporting no problems. Its pretty straight forward and well worth it, gives you complete control and no bloatware or google draining your battery! Just read through posts carefully before embarking, let me know if you need any help.
Chris.

One disadvantage is that the camera quality is not comparable to stock rom

Interesting, how would you compare the stock rom camera quality with cyanogenmod camera resolution? Just ive not noticed any difference thats all. Thanx.

Most custom ROMS have some bugs, which are non-existent on stock ones.
Manufacturers somehow implement some proprietary features, which we find useful. However, we can't implement such.
Overall, custom ROMS are a great addition of getting everything from device's hardware.
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cjh-75 said:
Interesting, how would you compare the stock rom camera quality with cyanogenmod camera resolution? Just ive not noticed any difference thats all. Thanx.
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Try doing a photo on good ligthing and low lighting, stock rom outruns AOSP based rom(CM11,Omni,carbonrom etc.) in terms of quality. The sharpness and details are gone. Images from non stock roms looks grainy

Ah I see. Im new to custom ROMs, so still finding out how it all works but have flashed 2 phones with success! Main reason I bought my Xperia Z1 Compact was the camera as I take a lot of shots, so this is of some concern to me. Am thinking of loading a stock ROM back on maybe, do you know of the best one thats unbranded and without google services etc? Does it overwrite the existing one as think I would want to start from fresh? Thanks.

Best ROM for battery life?

What's the most stable and battery-friendly Lollipop custom ROM and kernel combination for the Z1C at the moment?
I've lost track after months of not upgrading my phone and would appreciate some pointers. Thanks!

I would recommend to not use LP if you are out for battery life.
KitKat, especially this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-z1-compact/development/rom-d550314-4-0-108latest-t2862578/page59 has the best battery life. I downgraded a while ago after it sucked down my battery every day and doesnt provide any advantages...
Greetz

I agree with doenen.
Updated to 5.0.2 OTA (coming from 1 day old 4.3) and had a poor battery life. LP drained my battery from 100% to 30% in one day (12h) of occasional whatsapp, facebook and browsing.
I downgraded to Kitkat 4.4.4 (14.4.A.0.157_R2C, see here) and now I got from 100% to 20% in 3! days with the same activity (WLAN on, occasionally mobile data on, whatsapp, facebook and some chrome, airplane mode at night).
Kitkat is currently my favorite as battery life is one of my top priorities.

the_Walli said:
I agree with doenen.
Updated to 5.0.2 OTA (coming from 1 day old 4.3) and had a poor battery life. LP drained my battery from 100% to 30% in one day (12h) of occasional whatsapp, facebook and browsing.
I downgraded to Kitkat 4.4.4 (14.4.A.0.157_R2C, see here) and now I got from 100% to 20% in 3! days with the same activity (WLAN on, occasionally mobile data on, whatsapp, facebook and some chrome, airplane mode at night).
Kitkat is currently my favorite as battery life is one of my top priorities.
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I generally agree but I'm currently using prerooted stock 5.0.2 and can easilly reach 2 days od battery life with the right use of Greenify and Amplify combination as well as stamina mode. I recommend you to have a look at those threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-0-0-hour-idle-battery-drain-stock-t2973588
Good luck!

MarniC00 said:
I generally agree but I'm currently using prerooted stock 5.0.2 and can easilly reach 2 days od battery life with the right use of Greenify and Amplify combination as well as stamina mode. I recommend you to have a look at those threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-0-0-hour-idle-battery-drain-stock-t2973588
Good luck!
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Thanks for your advice, but since I just purchased my Z1C I wanted to stay as close to stock as possible (also in case I need to make use of the warranty - though I am aware that my downgrading may already have voided that, but I decided to take that risk).

Thanks for the advice, guys! I'd rather be using a CM based ROM, rather than stock, cos I don't like the Sony interface too much. Are KK/LP ROMs that are based on CM that considerably worse at battery life than the stock versions?

tracyn said:
Thanks for the advice, guys! I'd rather be using a CM based ROM, rather than stock, cos I don't like the Sony interface too much. Are KK/LP ROMs that are based on CM that considerably worse at battery life than the stock versions?
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I can only give you my experience with the Galaxy S2. I flashed CM11 Kitkat and the battery life was the same as with stock Jellybean.

tracyn said:
Thanks for the advice, guys! I'd rather be using a CM based ROM, rather than stock, cos I don't like the Sony interface too much. Are KK/LP ROMs that are based on CM that considerably worse at battery life than the stock versions?
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I was using CM 12.1 nightlies for about 3 months and I can tell you it requires a lot of tweaking to make it battery friendly (I mean A LOT) and it still wasn't even close to KitKat or even stock Lollipop I'm using now. If you consider staying on KitKat I highly recommend this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2743177. It's not updated for some time but it worked for me for almost a year and battery life was great.

MarniC00 said:
I was using CM 12.1 nightlies for about 3 months and I can tell you it requires a lot of tweaking to make it battery friendly (I mean A LOT) and it still wasn't even close to KitKat or even stock Lollipop I'm using now. If you consider staying on KitKat I highly recommend this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2743177. It's not updated for some time but it worked for me for almost a year and battery life was great.
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+1 for KitSlim_AMG, if you enable conservative governor and disable a few things in play services, you should get three day battery easily.

Problem with LP is wakelocks. If you have a messenger installed, it will keep the mobile radio active all the time.
Just flash a ROM with built in wakelock blocker (eg AICP) and you're good. My battery life improved on LP since it uses ART.

Miui works great too!! Two days and more are really well for me
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Ænimal said:
Problem with LP is wakelocks. If you have a messenger installed, it will keep the mobile radio active all the time.
Just flash a ROM with built in wakelock blocker (eg AICP) and you're good. My battery life improved on LP since it uses ART.
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That sounds pretty good, I think I'm gonna try that in the coming weeks when I got time! Thanks for the advice everybody, gives me a lot to consider!

tracyn said:
That sounds pretty good, I think I'm gonna try that in the coming weeks when I got time! Thanks for the advice everybody, gives me a lot to consider!
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This sounds promising:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/xposed-mobileradioactivefix-t3189393

Ænimal said:
This sounds promising:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/xposed-mobileradioactivefix-t3189393
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I've actually been using the old version of the MobileActiveRadioFix for a while now, with success I might say. Good to hear it's getting updated.

Two months since I switched to LP and I first tried stock ROM, then on AOSP.
Thanks to the stamina sony feature, I hardly noticed any faster battery drain between KK and LP stock ROM.
But with AOSP rom the story is quite different !
I've found this really interesting post ([GUIDE]Extreme Battery Life Thread(Greenify+Amplify+Power Nap))
But battery life is still not at stock ROM's level

the best ROM for battery life has to be stock. I'm on stock 5.1.1, with moderate usage 30% battery life gets used up per day
I'm on Xposed but didn't need to use greenify or amplify either. just use the stock STAMINA mode, activate to always-on, whitelist the apps that you want to continue to receive messages when screen is off

Didgesteve said:
+1 for KitSlim_AMG, if you enable conservative governor and disable a few things in play services, you should get three day battery easily.
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which few things please?

Custom Rom Performance

Hey guys.
Just want to know your thoughts about ROM performance in terms of smoothness on different roms.
I was a long time user of tylers RR build and it was really fluid.
Now i am back on Imperium since a month (because of camera) and its overall UI performance is worse that RR.
Can you please give me some thoughts about your experience in UI/ROM peformance on Rom/builds?
thx
pOpY

popy2006 said:
Hey guys.
Just want to know your thoughts about ROM performance in terms of smoothness on different roms.
I was a long time user of tylers RR build and it was really fluid.
Now i am back on Imperium since a month (because of camera) and its overall UI performance is worse that RR.
Can you please give me some thoughts about your experience in UI/ROM peformance on Rom/builds?
thx
pOpY
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Well I'm not surprised you experience worse UI performance on Stock based ROMs, overall in my experience the UI performance in AOSP Custom ROMs is way more fluid and smoother, but the performance in apps is slower than in Stock based ROMs. A bit longer load times, less frame rate's but a more stable frame rate in games and a bit less responsive after a long period of use. For me the camera performance and photo and video quality on Stock based ROMs outweighs AOSP ROMs and that keeps me close to Stock. I have used Dualboot Patcher for a while so I could use AOSP ROMs as my primary ROM and and a Stock based ROM as my secondary ROM so I could still enjoy a fluid and smooth UI and the camera performance of Stock when needed. I really dislike the micro stutters I experience on Stock, especially when I'm scrolling. But I dislike my phone getting slow after a long period of usage even more, which forces me to reboot my phone regularly. So because of that I am running a Stock based ROM as my primary ROM for now.

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Well I'm not surprised you experience worse UI performance on Stock based ROMs, overall in my experience the UI performance in AOSP Custom ROMs is way more fluid and smoother, but the performance in apps is slower than in Stock based ROMs. A bit longer load times, less frame rate's but a more stable frame rate in games and a bit less responsive after a long period of use. For me the camera performance and photo and video quality on Stock based ROMs outweighs AOSP ROMs and that keeps me close to Stock. I have used Dualboot Patcher for a while so I could use AOSP ROMs as my primary ROM and and a Stock based ROM as my secondary ROM so I could still enjoy a fluid and smooth UI and the camera performance of Stock when needed. I really dislike the micro stutters I experience on Stock, especially when I'm scrolling. But I dislike my phone getting slow after a long period of usage even more, which forces me to reboot my phone regularly. So because of that I am running a Stock based ROM as my primary ROM for now.
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thx a lot for your feedback!
Thats a good idea with dualboot patcher, but (for me) not really practical
Your experiences coincide with mine!
In my case i also had thermal issues with AOSP roms -> cpu runs hotter quickly than on stock.
Did you also experienced such a behaviour?
Which AOSP rom do you use?
And which do you think has the best (UI) performance?
thx
pOpY

popy2006 said:
thx a lot for your feedback!
Thats a good idea with dualboot patcher, but (for me) not really practical
Your experiences coincide with mine!
In my case i also had thermal issues with AOSP roms -> cpu runs hotter quickly than on stock.
Did you also experienced such a behaviour?
Which AOSP rom do you use?
And which do you think has the best (UI) performance?
thx
pOpY
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No problem! :good:
Oh, for me the CPU on AOSP ROMs actually ran a bit cooler and heated up less quickly than on Stock. Although my G4 never really runs that hot even on Stock. And I forgot to mention that I get better battery life both in stand by time and average SOT while running a AOSP based Custom ROM.
At the moment I run a Stock based ROM on my G4 but I have used CyanogenMod till it's end and it's successor Lineage OS which it's pretty much the same but under a new name . I've also tried other ROMs but most of them where based on CM and are based on Lineage OS and they pretty much performed more or less the same. So no big differences.

That's why i do not use any more customs roms...
It's on the decline !
I agree with you !
-camera and video quality lost
-lost performance after a long usage
-lost customer patent and innovation
-lost the pure performance on games
-the modem is not as well as exploited as customers firmwares (sometime bad network quality on customs)
-always minors buggs and sometime big buggs
-near all devellopers wait for Lineage source (Lineage spend 1 year to build an android version and it's never "perfect"....and lots of merges,abandon,clean... on their source all the time,it's never stable and finished)
- on RR,DU...etc....you remove design customizations and you see an empty poor rom
-you loose FM radio function and there never have had effort by the dev for to port an alternative like spirit-fm radio (this dev have had big succes with some very difficult phones ,and som LG)
-you have much more chance than stock to have battery drain with some system process (the main cause of stocks firmwares drain is the google apps ! )
Maybe a custom rom is good for low and some middle-end devices (principaly for to have a light rom.....and hardwares are not the best on these devices ) but completely useless for hight-end device like G4...that's my opinion !
I use a MM firmware + simpleGX 2.0.3 kernel and i'm very happy ! Very good...

Loulou-13 said:
That's why i do not use any more customs roms...
It's on the decline !
I agree with you !
-camera and video quality lost
-lost performance after a long usage
-lost customer patent and innovation
-lost the pure performance on games
-the modem is not as well as exploited as customers firmwares (sometime bad network quality on customs)
-always minors buggs and sometime big buggs
-near all devellopers wait for Lineage source (Lineage spend 1 year to build an android version and it's never "perfect"....and lots of merges,abandon,clean... on their source all the time,it's never stable and finished)
- on RR,DU...etc....you remove design customizations and you see an empty poor rom
-you loose FM radio function and there never have had effort by the dev for to port an alternative like spirit-fm radio (this dev have had big succes with some very difficult phones ,and som LG)
-you have much more chance than stock to have battery drain with some system process (the main cause of stocks firmwares drain is the google apps ! )
Maybe a custom rom is good for low and some middle-end devices (principaly for to have a light rom.....and hardwares are not the best on these devices ) but completely useless for hight-end device like G4...that's my opinion !
I use a MM firmware + simpleGX 2.0.3 kernel and i'm very happy ! Very good...
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thx for your input!
Which MM Firmware do you use?
thx

The last MM for my country, v20i "France" ...rooted with simpleGX kernel...

Loulou-13 said:
The last MM for my country, v20i "France" ...rooted with simpleGX kernel...
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Lineage os now is for old phone to revive them [emoji41]
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The last MM for my country, v20i "France" ...rooted with simpleGX kernel...
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Now using Imperium v13 with SimpleGX Kernel, that combo is really good from performance view