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Battery drain on all custom roms

I'm new to Xiaomi mi max 32Gb. At the moment, I'm running MIUI 9 global 8.2.24 beta and the battery life is fantastic, 11 hours of SOT, but every time I flash a custom roms the battery drain is crazy, 5 hours of SOT. I have tried a couple of custom roms but it's always the same. I get about half of battery life in any custom roms. Is there something that I'm doing wrong

same as mew , more SOT in miui than Other non miui custom rom.

coco1476 said:
I'm new to Xiaomi mi max 32Gb. At the moment, I'm running MIUI 9 global 8.2.24 beta and the battery life is fantastic, 11 hours of SOT, but every time I flash a custom roms the battery drain is crazy, 5 hours of SOT. I have tried a couple of custom roms but it's always the same. I get about half of battery life in any custom roms. Is there something that I'm doing wrong
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You should install:
-greenify:Restrict background apps activity
-app opsisable (location+keep phone awake+kee app in background) for all apps
-betterbatterystats:shows you what drains the battery
-run battery saver mode
-install custom kernel

when i first bought this phone and used miui i charge every 3 days. with custom rom and greenify, every day. so up to you. u want long battery or custom rom

yusoffb01 said:
when i first bought this phone and used miui i charge every 3 days. with custom rom and greenify, every day. so up to you. u want long battery or custom rom
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Did you try custom kernel?
What is the best battery saver miui?6 or 7 or 8 or 9

it was using miui 8. never tried newer ones.
currently using unleash custom rom. with greenify and the built in privacy guard's disable run in background, i get better battery

yusoffb01 said:
it was using miui 8. never tried newer ones.
currently using unleash custom rom. with greenify and the built in privacy guard's disable run in background, i get better battery
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What is the best rom in battery ?
What was the sot in this rom?

coco1476 said:
I'm new to Xiaomi mi max 32Gb. At the moment, I'm running MIUI 9 global 8.2.24 beta and the battery life is fantastic, 11 hours of SOT, but every time I flash a custom roms the battery drain is crazy, 5 hours of SOT. I have tried a couple of custom roms but it's always the same. I get about half of battery life in any custom roms. Is there something that I'm doing wrong
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Which costume ROM's?
Stable unofficial LineageOS (nijel8) out of the box gives 11~12h of SOT while stable global MIUI 9.5.2.0 gives 5 to 8 h SOT.
This is normal use without heavy gaming of course.

Zola III said:
Which costume ROM's?
Stable unofficial LineageOS (nijel8) out of the box gives 11~12h of SOT while stable global MIUI 9.5.2.0 gives 5 to 8 h SOT.
This is normal use without heavy gaming of course.
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I tried stable unofficial lineageOs nijel8 and had only 5 sot, also tried pixel experience and was all the same with 5-6 sot then went back to MIUI 9 and I'm back to 11 sot

Zola III said:
Which costume ROM's?
Stable unofficial LineageOS (nijel8) out of the box gives 11~12h of SOT while stable global MIUI 9.5.2.0 gives 5 to 8 h SOT.
This is normal use without heavy gaming of course.
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What is the best rom in battery you have tried?
Did you try custom kernels?

coco1476 said:
I tried stable unofficial lineageOs nijel8 and had only 5 sot, also tried pixel experience and was all the same with 5-6 sot then went back to MIUI 9 and I'm back to 11 sot
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Well obviously you did something wrong. With more costume scheduler settings people where getting & up to 17h of SOT (but that whose with rather extreme approach) on unofficial LineageOS 14.1 with light usage all well documented on power/performance thread. Had a guy with similar problem as you around month ago, his problem turned out to be a binary leftovers from dirty flashes of different costume ROM's. After he did it properly thing's changed. The name of user whose arbitrarygrill, read couple of pages back.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-max/development/rom-lineageos-14-1-t3529851/page436
& you can always get more with costume scheduler/hotplug script's. Prime concern whose to match good old MIUI 8.2 - 8.3 SOT out of the box but with much better performance & without MIUI limitations (background apps/services aggressive killing) which we achieved in all arias mostly by working on kernel which Xiaomi never did & it's a source of most firmware problems today. Fun part is that 90% of back supplementary settings & libs are the same today; Xiaomi uses CAF settings & libs across the board (same as our unofficial Lineage is) and unofficial LineageOS uses the vendor libs from MIUI aside from ROM (apps) side only general difference is the kernel for which I vouch that our works much better & is safer.
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leprince2007 said:
What is the best rom in battery you have tried?
Did you try custom kernels?
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Kernel is already semi costume, only a couple of things are added that are really beneficial as FIOPS IO scheduler & are set as defaults.

MIUI Based ROMs

Hey guys, I've searched around but didn't really find anything except masik rom and Hellas rom. Are there any more? And there aren't official XDA threads right? So are there any forums or anything like that officially for the other miui based roms? Could anyone share the links of the same, or at least their opinion on which is the better miui based rom.
Thank you.

Search on Google for 4pda Redmond note 5

There are also xiaomi.eu, mi globe, miui pro(maybe my favourite but it is paid now so I don't use it anymore), miui.am. I think there is also miuiTR and miuiMS available. As fast as I know, that is all.

Wrong section.

I have a question, Masik Released the final version.. does it mean it's over?
If so.. is the team working on another ROM?

Pupet_Master said:
I have a question, Masik Released the final version.. does it mean it's over?
If so.. is the team working on another ROM?
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i think theyll start again with stable miui 10 soon.

raptorddd said:
i think theyll start again with stable miui 10 soon.
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Let's hope so, they're work is amazing

FroZine said:
Search on Google for 4pda Redmond note 5
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I searched, Russian rom? How is it?

kostas gp said:
There are also xiaomi.eu, mi globe, miui pro(maybe my favourite but it is paid now so I don't use it anymore), miui.am. I think there is also miuiTR and miuiMS available. As fast as I know, that is all.
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Ohhhh okay okay. How are they? Battery life and performance Based on miui 10? Have you tried them??

Pupet_Master said:
I have a question, Masik Released the final version.. does it mean it's over?
If so.. is the team working on another ROM?
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How was the ROM? I mean compared to the official miui

supernoob1997 said:
I searched, Russian rom? How is it?
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I translate it with chrome itself. There are some ROMs you won't find on XDA.
Masik and Hellas were there first. Some devs only put their work only on 4pda. I tired all. But masik is the best IMO

FroZine said:
I translate it with chrome itself. There are some ROMs you won't find on XDA.
Masik and Hellas were there first. Some devs only put their work only on 4pda. I tired all. But masik is the best IMO
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Okay thank you so much. Would you say masik is better than the stock miui? Also I had this doubt, is it possible to prevent encryption by miui? Does this ROM do that? Does any ROM do that?

supernoob1997 said:
How was the ROM? I mean compared to the official miui
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Well it's hard to compare since my Note 5 Pro was Chinese and there for i never stook much time (except the 15 days wait to unlock) on it. Also on these 15 days i installed zero app.
How ever i can say that Masik is as smooth and has much better Battery Deep Sleep. Even with no app and GAAPS installed on stock chinese MIUI, it drain around 15 per cent over night, where om Masik with BlackBox Kernel it drain 1%.. That's very impressive and such a huge difference.
Also, it is more debloated, don't have the Xiaomi SIMCARD SYNC bug that the stock chinese MIUI had, i strong recommend you to try

Pupet_Master said:
Well it's hard to compare since my Note 5 Pro was Chinese and there for i never stook much time (except the 15 days wait to unlock) on it. Also on these 15 days i installed zero app.
How ever i can say that Masik is as smooth and has much better Battery Deep Sleep. Even with no app and GAAPS installed on stock chinese MIUI, it drain around 15 per cent over night, where om Masik with BlackBox Kernel it drain 1%.. That's very impressive and such a huge difference.
Also, it is more debloated, don't have the Xiaomi SIMCARD SYNC bug that the stock chinese MIUI had, i strong recommend you to try
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Okay okay, thank you. I will be trying it out today.

I suggest to try miuipro rom. It's better than masik.
https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=892339&st=16660#entry76118650

mogamycool said:
I suggest to try miuipro rom. It's better than masik.
https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=892339&st=16660#entry76118650
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Does it have OTA updates?
Thanks.

supernoob1997 said:
Ohhhh okay okay. How are they? Battery life and performance Based on miui 10? Have you tried them??
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I have only tried masik and mi globe(the second one only for a day). I don't have opinion on mi globe, but masik is very good. Good battery life, really snappy performance, and I think that devs have put a lot of work in it. It doesn't have as much features and customisation as miui pro has but it has a lot of under-the-hood work. Now I will try miui pro and will inform you about my opinion on it.

I would stick to Masik which i have been doing for a while. I have tried several other custom ROMs but the kind of stability that Masik offers is probably the best (purely my opinion and no offence meant to anyone). However Masik does not offer the kind of battery life like the other non-miui custom ROMS. I usually get about 2 days on a single charge with about 7hrs SOT. I managed to get about 10 hours on msm-extended. But still prefer Masik for its stability.
I am on masik 2.5 since it had better fonts and was based on the dev. The final version looked a little too plain jane

@mogamycool, does miui pro have arb 4 ?

murigny64 said:
@mogamycool, does miui pro have arb 4 ?
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It has but also no fw version available ( deleted by someone )

Which Custom rom gives more screen on time ?

I need a suggestion of custom rom which gives me more screen on time. It may be any android version but what i need is. I need more screen on time and as well as dash charging supported. So that i can flash and use it without any low battery.

avrrv3689 said:
I need a suggestion of custom rom which gives me more screen on time. It may be any android version but what i need is. I need more screen on time and as well as dash charging supported. So that i can flash and use it without any low battery.
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Depends on your customisation, usage and apps. That being said, in my opinion, sky dragon is the best pie rom, you can give it a try.
And go to havoc pie rom thread and search for "jamal", the search results will have a long af post by some user whose name starts with p.
It's a battery saving guide. That will help you get a lot of sot.

I have been using skydragon since 4 days.
sideswipeer said:
Depends on your customisation, usage and apps. That being said, in my opinion, sky dragon is the best pie rom, you can give it a try.
And go to havoc pie rom thread and search for "jamal", the search results will have a long af post by some user whose name starts with p.
It's a battery saving guide. That will help you get a lot of sot.
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I have been using skydragon pie rom since 4 days. But is there any way to get more screeen on time on any other rom.In skydragon the active drain is more in my opinion. It may be due to the usage of the phone i think. Ok Anyway thanks anything more guides or roms pls reply.

avrrv3689 said:
I have been using skydragon pie rom since 4 days. But is there any way to get more screeen on time on any other rom.In skydragon the active drain is more in my opinion. It may be due to the usage of the phone i think. Ok Anyway thanks anything more guides or roms pls reply.
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As my view, I just don't advise Havoc...
and I just feel that, maybe All Aosp-based rom is better than Lineage-based.. I tried Nitrogen, Omni, Havoc, AospA, AospExtended, Unicorn, from N to P, I could see Lineages is not well at SOT.
for my personal opinion, I support Aospextended & Nitrogen(bad temper dev XD)
just waiting for stable Aospextended pie. coming soon!

I like the elemental X kernel. You can still use OOS while increasing SOT.

Could you please share your highest sot?
bartovitc said:
I like the elemental X kernel. You can still use OOS while increasing SOT.
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How much screen on time did you get the highest?

avrrv3689 said:
How much screen on time did you get the highest?
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Think my SOT is increased by 100%. I used to get 2-3 hours, now 4-6 hours. You should accept that the gaming performance is decreased though. But I think it is a vast improvement

Custom ROM for Daily drive

What is the best custom ROM for Daily drive use... AOSP .. no google service to drain battery... Smooth and no lag...
What ROM are you using:

tze_vitamin said:
What is the best custom ROM for Daily drive use... AOSP .. no google service to drain battery... Smooth and no lag...
What ROM are you using:
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ArrowOS

Divolka said:
ArrowOS
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are you using it ,how long? is it stable? camera LOS?

DotOS(current), PE, Arrow and Miui.eu imo Dot performs best overall. For camera I have GCam (Urynx port) and its amazing. Just waiting for LineageOS or Paranoid Android to release for this device. TBH, all of these are equally good for daily use, it's just that I prefer the UI of Dot and it's a bit better in terms of gaming performance.

Pixel Experience with PE Recovery and using BSG Gcam version 8.1.101.
Getting near 2 days on a full charge, with over 5 hours SoT.
Way better and smoother than stock and I haven't had any weird overheating or reboots since installing. (Happened a bunch with stock ROM!)
Haven't tried other roms to compare because it's too much effort...

I have tried almost all the roms, and so far almost all of them runs fine.

Has anyone tried the Talesweaver kernel?

Sparkplug3000 said:
Has anyone tried the Talesweaver kernel?
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Yes, it works fine

AnibalSP said:
Yes, it works fine
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Just flashed it yesterday, been enjoying it very thoroughly

I use Pixel Exprerience as a long time. With GCam also. And i dont need to change. Because battery life is awesome. 6-7 hours screen time in daily use. I never see before...

Battery comparison as of 02.Jan 2021

So first of all, happy new year everyone!!
Compared to stock rom, does the battery life fares better with the custom roms released so far? Did you get more SOT hours with a custom rom compared to stock rom?

Fytdyh said:
So first of all, happy new year everyone!!
Compared to stock rom, does the battery life fares better with the custom roms released so far? Did you get more SOT hours with a custom rom compared to stock rom?
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Up to rom and kernel.
Some can get 9-11 SOT with stock rom and custom kernel.
Custom rom usually add more SOT. I can reach 14-16 SOT hours easily with no gaming. And my normal daily usage is around 10 hours.
I used device from July 2020.

Fytdyh said:
So first of all, happy new year everyone!!
Compared to stock rom, does the battery life fares better with the custom roms released so far? Did you get more SOT hours with a custom rom compared to stock rom?
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I've been complaining about battery drain with WiFi on for a long time. If you search the forum you'll see my nagging.
The problem started either with MIUI 12.5.x or Android 11. MIUI 12.0.x with Android 10 Custom ROMs don't have the WiFi battery drain.
I haven't tried Android 12 Custom ROMs yet, so I don't know how the battery is with it. Currently I'm using the latest version of https://crdroid.net/begonia/6.
I need at least a few more days to be sure how it goes.
Compass.

Compass Linux said:
I've been complaining about battery drain with WiFi on for a long time. If you search the forum you'll see my nagging.
The problem started either with MIUI 12.5.x or Android 11. MIUI 12.0.x with Android 10 Custom ROMs don't have the WiFi battery drain.
I haven't tried Android 12 Custom ROMs yet, so I don't know how the battery is with it. Currently I'm using the latest version of https://crdroid.net/begonia/6.
I need at least a few more days to be sure how it goes.
Compass.
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I had the same complaint. Thus I simply rollbacked my miui

Fytdyh said:
I had the same complaint. Thus I simply rollbacked my miui
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MIUI 12.0.x doesn't have battery drain with WiFi On, but I can't stand its interface.
Using an old version of a Custom ROM (MIUI 12.0.x based on Android 10) is an alternative, but be prepared for SafetyNet to be broken.
Compass.

Compass Linux said:
MIUI 12.0.x doesn't have battery drain with WiFi On, but I can't stand its interface.
Using an old version of a Custom ROM (MIUI 12.0.x based on Android 10) is an alternative, but be prepared for SafetyNet to be broken.
Compass.
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Well, I haven't used any phone with their stock launcher, so maybe that's why I don't mind it. And stock miui 12, with a nova launcher, and some pixel themes from the store does makes the phone ui overall better

https://crdroid.net/begonia/6
After using this for a while the WiFi battery drain doesn't happen on this ROM.
Compass.