Which ROM is best if you use your phone mainly as Hotspot? - Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers

I am very annoyed now because I can't find a satisfying ROM. I have tried AEX Android v8.1, Jaguar Android v8.1, AEX Android v9.0 and maybe couple. They all seems good but not so good with standby mobile network. A couple of months ago I switched to AEX Android v9.0 from 8.1 but standby mobile network was very quickly draining the battery. So I flashed Jaguar. A couple of days ago I flashed 9.0 AEX again in hope the issue was fixed but the issue still exists. More than 50% of the battery is consumed due to mobile network standby. [Please see the attachment]
Most of the time my Mobile Hotspot and Data is turned on, because I use it to connect to my Computer. Is there any ROM you guys have used which is best in your opinion for:
Battery friendly: This is my main concern. I need a ROM which is best for the purpose of using my device as hotspot. So I have to enable mobile data and hotspot most of the time. My issue with current ROM is addressed above (tldr; they are bad with standby mobile network battery backup).
Best Internet speed : I use Jio. I don't know why internet sometimes keeps dropping with all the ROMS I have used. I have to restart the sim to get high speed again. So maybe a rom which fixed this issue for you.
Android Pie: Preferably based on Android Pie. 7/8/8.1 is okay too, I guess. This is not my main concern.
I believe many people use their phone as hotspot most of the time like me. I and they would thank you if you will help me decide this. TIA :good:!

Try miui 10 nougat. It doesn't have network drain and have very less standby drain

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Mobile Network Standby draining battey on Oreo 8.1 ROMs

So, I was on latest MIUI China beta before. Somedays ago, I flashed the Resurrection Remix 6.0.0 (06.03.2018 build). Battery was draining fast. I checked battery usage and there was this ”Mobile Network Standby” which was draining the battery. It even consumed more power than Screen and Android System. I thought it was some bug on RR. So, I flashed Lineage OS 15.1 (05.03.2018 build). Everything was fine here too. Except that ”Mobile Network Standby” thing. It was draining battery on this ROM too. I tried L OS 15.1 12.03.2018 build and RR 6.0.0 10.03.2018 build. That bug still present in these ROMs too.
I tried possibly everything to fix that issue. I've tried following -
1. Network Setting Reset
2. Turn off Data always on in Developer Settings
3. Turn off VoLTE (I don't even use LTE here)
4. Clean cache via TWRP
5. Turn off WiFi scanning during sleep
6. Turn of Location Services
7. Turn off Google play Services wakelock and background running via Privacy Guard
8. Finally, I clean flashed both ROMs
But, Nothing has fixed the issue.
on Nougat 7.1.2 ROMs everything is absolutely fine. There's no draining issue
PS - I used stock kernel with CN Firmware 8.3.1 and 8.3.8
Is there any possible fix for this issue? Anyone else having this issue? Any updates on fixing this issue in future?
Sorry for my English btw
Thanks
Update: Using the ForceDoze (root method) app reduced the battery drain. But, it didn't really solve the problem
Try the app "ForceDoze", helps with almost any battery drain. Does require root though. Another explanation could be that your reception is bad for whatever reason, so also check that. Also flashing a newer GApps might help.
8166uy said:
Try the app "ForceDoze", helps with almost any battery drain. Does require root though. Another explanation could be that your reception is bad for whatever reason, so also check that. Also flashing a newer GApps might help.
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Tried. Even tried Greenify force doze by rooting. No improvement.
And cellular reception is pretty fine here. I don't have this issue on nougat ROMs
I have same problem with clean lineagos 15.1. Probably everone on lineageos have the same problem. Thank you for listing what do not help. I do not have to try myself.
Nope, don't have it. Rarely goes above a few percent of the battery usage.
8166uy said:
Nope, don't have it. Rarely goes above a few percent of the battery usage.
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what kernel and firmware you're using? did you clean flashed? and which rom btw?
Stock kernel, firmware 8.3.1, OpenGApps of 11th of March, LOS 15.1 version of 5th of march, and dirty flashed all in-between version since the switch to the "official" status.
I tried using sim slot 2, a sim duplicate, also I have migrate my network carrier... still the same...
Since I read it also happens in miui roms and it could be firm related issue I flashed oldest firm required by LOS15.1, that as luk said is 8.1.4, and after switching off WIFI it still drains my battery...
I don't know why this happens, and I don't know why it is happening just to a few of us but is totally annoying...
bite_your_idols said:
I tried using sim slot 2, a sim duplicate, also I have migrate my network carrier... still the same...
Since I read it also happens in miui roms and it could be firm related issue I flashed oldest firm required by LOS15.1, that as luk said is 8.1.4, and after switching off WIFI it still drains my battery...
I don't know why this happens, and I don't know why it is happening just to a few of us but is totally annoying...
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Root and Use ForceDoze app
It reduced the drain noticeably. But, this drain still persists
8166uy said:
Try the app "ForceDoze", helps with almost any battery drain. Does require root though. Another explanation could be that your reception is bad for whatever reason, so also check that. Also flashing a newer GApps might help.
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it reduced the drain via rooting. via adb it doesn't do anything. but the drain still exists. Thanks a lot
This problem occurs due to incorrect work with VoLTE, including after various ways to disable it (in the settings, through Build.prop, etc.) and is relevant only for some cellular operators.
Kiasyd said:
This problem occurs due to incorrect work with VoLTE, including after various ways to disable it (in the settings, through Build.prop, etc.) and is relevant only for some cellular operators.
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I disabled VoLTE and I still have this drain. Dont think It's it.
Lesiuk said:
I disabled VoLTE and I still have this drain. Dont think It's it.
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As I said, the problem don't be solved by switching off the VoLTE in all of the listed ways.
Fix for battery drain Oreo 8
Work around, issue is with 4G preferred network type under mobile network settings, just change to 3G and
all will be fine. Guess I'll be waiting for the good people of Android to send out fix one of these years?
gfm1948 said:
Work around, issue is with 4G preferred network type under mobile network settings, just change to 3G and
all will be fine. Guess I'll be waiting for the good people of Android to send out fix one of these years?
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all won't be fine. I've tried that. though, draining reduces on 3G network. but, mobile network standby still drains battery. no fix so far. not even a clue, what's causing this drain
I only get a noticeable drain on the train, so I guess it has something to do with connecting to, or scanning for, network masts.
im having the same issue but I have full signal lte. mobile standby is at 34% last I checked. clean install, gapps nano and magisk 16.4
volte disabled. klte galaxy s5 g900t.
I think i know whats happening. When i first installed los 15.1 on my s5 it showed 2 sims when i only have 1 sim port. A reboot seemed to fix the issue and now shows 1 sim. However, i also noticed that without signal, mobile network standby is at 72% draining battery. At this point im thinking the phone is searching for network. What if that even though there is full siignal on lte, the phone is continually searching and scanning even though its connected to cellular network?? Thus giving us this massive battery drain.
I have an Umidigi A1 PRO and had a similar issue, Mobile Network Manager battery drain. I contacted Umidigi and they replied to me:
"Ok, please go to 'Settings --> Security location --> Location (under Privacy) --> Scanning' and disable both Wi-Fi- and bluetooth scanning. That scanning function uses both bluetooth and WiFi (in any phone) even if they are turned off."
This reduced battery drain considerably and now overnight, with wifi switched off, battery usage is between 2% and 3%. Even in day with wifi switched on drain is what I would expect of any mobile. There must be a reason why this option is not placed under 'Network'. I haven't tested out the above (dual sim), but will try adding a second sim and see what happens as the the Mobile Network Manager battery usage is still above normal.
Regards.
I have the same Cell Standby issue.
However Wifi & Bluetooth scanning are disabled.
I have also set my preferred network to 3G since I don't have an LTE contract yet.
I'm currently using a Galaxy Note 4 (SM-N910F), with the current Resurrection Remix Oreo build (RR-O-v6.1.0-20180712-trlte-Official).
I sure hope somebody figures this out.

Battery drain related to mobile data

Hi,
I used successfully lineage-17.1-20200220-UNOFFICIAL-serranoltexx for a while, it worked great, but for some reason, the phone started to drain the battery and loose 10% of capacity per hour. In the meantime, I could pinpoint the issue. The drain happens only if the mobile data is on, but even if I have a good, working Wifi connection. Using BetterBatteryStats, I can see that the wakelock "bam_dmux_wakelock" is waking up the phone very often, which confirms that the issue is related to mobile data.
I have updated to lineage-17.1-20200220-UNOFFICIAL-serranoltexx and the modem to I9195XXUCQL2, which seems to be the latest for me (Germany, T-mobile). It didn't help.
2G/3G/4G doesn't make a difference. With 4G, signal strength is about -100 dbm, on 2G, -70 dbm, which seem like reasonable values.
I don't phone often, but I have also issues with the normal calls: I cannot pick up, or the call gets interrupted. Maybe the issues are related.
I am out of ideas how to investigate further. Is there any way to see the reason of the frequent ""bam_dmux_wakelock" ? Could it be a hardware issue ? Any other idea?
Thanks!
@oliv4
You should address this in the topic of the rom you have installed
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-mini/orig-development/rom-lineageos-17-1-s4-mini-t4045147
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@oliv4
You should address this in the topic of the rom you have installed
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-mini/orig-development/rom-lineageos-17-1-s4-mini-t4045147
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Thanks, but I did already and didn't get any feedback. It doesn't really belong there anyway, because I don't think it is a problem with the system. A lot of other users are happy with it, and so I was, until the problem started. It could be the modem, the carrier, a hardware issue... Therefore I started a new thread.
I bought another used S4 mini, and I installed the same system ROM, and copied the complete data over. I have now good battery life times again, more than 24h. So it was actually a hardware issue. The S4 mini are getting old unfortunately.

ROM for Daily Drive for Note 8 (Ginkgo)

Welp, indeed I wait too long for MIUI 12 for my Redmi Note 8 4/64, either, so probably just changing it altogether would be nice and I kind of bored (again) with MIUI.
Usual daily drive usage. Social media, texting, YouTube, music, 9GAG, etc. Barely game and not too caring of game performance as long as the battery's good.
At least compatible safely with banking and financial apps.
Wireless tethering, and USB tethering, preferably with switchable with both 2.4 and 5 GHz and data limit for the wireless tethering with no stability issue as my whole family got internet from my phone. (for real)
MIUI's Mi Sound Enhancer would be a total plus, this is why I still kind of like MIUI. I use these kind of daily instead of struggling with Viper4Android.
Good RAM. MIUI 11.0.7 right now here, even idling just eat as much as 2 GB of RAM, usually only 1.7-2.1 GB left. Kind of still good enough but sometimes because of it the phone kind of struggling, especially when using work profile which I use for college.
The most important. Stable and reliable, and at least (could be) faster than the stock MIUI. Since it's a daily driver I don't wanna struggle much because of bugs or anything, and I still wanna gain daily usage performance out of this phone.
Resurrection Remix's kind of my choice so far, but the latest version got the wireless tethering issue, which I use EVERYDAY since it's the source of internet on my house, nearly 24/7, but probably should see if you guys can recommend others.
recommending arrow os
I recommend Reloaded OS. Based on CAF so topnotch performance
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Resurrection Remix's kind of my choice so far, but the latest version got the wireless tethering issue, which I use EVERYDAY since .........
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I use the unofficial version RROS-Q-8.6.4-20201113-ginkgo-Unofficial from Androidfilehost (from former official maintainer).
Hotspot does work for me, but only on "2.4Ghz" with "Data saving" off.
Because I use it sometimes for a short time, I have also unchecked "Auto off".
Never tried it 24/7 .
Elinx said:
I use the unofficial version RROS-Q-8.6.4-20201113-ginkgo-Unofficial from Androidfilehost (from former official maintainer).
Hotspot does work for me, but only on "2.4Ghz" with "Data saving" off.
Because I use it sometimes for a short time, I have also unchecked "Auto off".
Never tried it 24/7 .
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Have you experienced any bugs with that build? Fingerprint not working? BT problems?
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rr
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choose one
RROS-Q-8.6.2-20201014-ginkgo-Dtuxed
RROS-Q-8.6.4-20201113-ginkgo-Unofficial
RROS-Q-8.6.4-20201120-ginkgo-Unofficial
everything work fine here
badadam said:
.... Fingerprint not working? BT problems?
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Fingerprint is working, BT deep sleep too. I am very satisfied with this build
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RR unofficial

ROM with the most stable WiFi hotspot

I'm looking for recommendations for a ROM for the exynos S7 flat that can be reliably left unattended with hotspot enabled. I've tried a couple of lineage OS ROMs and a couple of note FE based ROMs, and I've had problems of one kind or another with the hotspot on all of them.
With the lineage ROMs, it's been that the hotspot will kick connected devices off, and won't let them reconnect again until I turn the hotspot off and on again. This isn't to do with the timeout settings, the hotspot is still active when this happens.
With the NFE ROMs, the phone crashes and reboots sometimes while using the hotspot, more so when plugged in, less often while running from battery. Often it will go for a couple of hours without happening, but it's happened enough times during large, non resumable downloads for it to be a problem.
I'd be happy to roll back to a ROM based on stock oreo if it will give me the stability I need, I rely entirely on my personal hotspot for internet. I would just concede that I'm asking too much from the personal hotspot feature, but I used my galaxy note 3 for years, running official lineage OS, and the hotspot was always extremely reliable.
Thanks.
Strange problem you've got, I use G930FD and I didn't had problems with most ROMs regarding hotspot (except on Slim AOSP Nougat ROM, which was already in the bug list).
You may be having a rare Wi-Fi chip, which requires a specific driver, maybe you should check custom Kernels available for AOSP & Stock-based ROMs.
I used to leave the hotspot on all night downloading stuff on the laptop, and another guy was connecting too. I also use ADB over WI-Fi. It never crashed or did any of what you're saying.

LG Wing Wi-Fi not working after Android 12 update. Any suggestions on fixing it?

My LG Wing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth settings stopped working after few weeks running Android 12. I have reset my phone and after 3 weeks it's the same problem. I just updated for 5G support(V30d-Jan-10-2023) and still the same problem. Is there any solution?
Hello, where are you and what carrier do you have? I'm in the United States and have verizon. So far I've had no issue with Android 12 on my device. If you have Wi-Fi calling turned on you might try to disabling that. Just a guess but maybe that could help.
kaluna00 said:
Hello, where are you and what carrier do you have? I'm in the United States and have verizon. So far I've had no issue with Android 12 on my device. If you have Wi-Fi calling turned on you might try to disabling that. Just a guess but maybe that could help.
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Hi I am in India and I use Airtel. I tried Wi-Fi disabling but it doesn't work. Phone is sluggish, UI is crashing frequently. Don't know what to do.
MaddyWing said:
Hi I am in India and I use Airtel. I tried Wi-Fi disabling but it doesn't work. Phone is sluggish, UI is crashing frequently. Don't know what to do.
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Backup what you need to keep,and factory reset it.If that doesn't work,use LGUP and downgrade the firmware.
So I noticed something strange. I went to another city for couple of days and my phone worked just like before. The Wi-Fi is working fine, the UI is not crashing, Settings is not crashing(Network and Battery was crashing previously) and no slowdowns whatsoever. But as soon as I am heading back to my home it starts slowing down again.
The GPS location with the most time logged on my phone(place where I use my phone the most) causes the phone to slowdown. Is Android 12 deliberately slowing it down? Did anybody face similar issues with Android 12 on LG or any other Android phone?
That is very weird. I have not noticed any slowdowns at my home versus anywhere else with Android 12. My Wi-Fi and Bluetooth also work perfectly. Before a factory reset you may try resetting the network settings.
Apple made their iPhones slower on purpose after year or so of use. Android might be trying to copy that feature in Android 12. It doesn't makes sense that my phone overheats, eats up battery and have super slow UI all of a sudden. Even after hard reset it's the same issue. I have noticed it working fine after I leave my home for sometime. Or maybe I am being paranoid.
Also I have been noticing a bug from Android on LG Wing for past 1 year. There is a small icon for location which appears on top of your phone when it is trying to locate you. But that icon appears randomly despite my GPS is turned off. Seems to me that Android is deliberately accessing your location no matter you turn GPS ON or OFF. But LG UI still shows GPS icon.

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