I have villain 5.4 installed just now and battery is poor. The music player burns about 30% and hour.
Would I get better battery life with a non sense rom? If so what would you guys recommend?
Also what would I lose buy going back to 1.5?
I was also using Villain 5.4 and variuos other 2.1 roms. I rolled back to Kimera 1.6 because of the poor batterylife on 2.1 roms overall. Plus i recognized that most 1.5 roms are still a lot faster (espacially Kimera + overclock).
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I was wondering if anyone did a comparison between those two roms. I like Sense but want fast and stable rom. Which one is more stable, faster, has longer battery life, doesn't crash too often, and stuff like APS2SD and 3d Gallery work flawlessly?
Best way is: try it out yourself Everyone has their subjective look on it and their own preferences.
tried Cronos 1.7.1 and had problem with APS2SD... VillainROM 12.0.0 had a problem with battery being drained too quickly after I reset it at 5% (as suggested by many). I'm just looking for stable rom untill developers get Froyo up and running
I think I will go with stock 2.1 for now
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=1973
Cronos 2.0.2 all the way
so I tested all three roms myself and from user experience here is what I found:
stock rom is very slow and once I installed it I wanted to switch right away, the battery life in VillainROM 12.0.0 is not that great and plus it gets buggy if I set my CPU at 176 with screen off (works perfect at 190), Cronos 2.0.2 is a keeper the battery life is way better than other roms I tried and my Hero wakes up flawlessly when CPU is set to 176.
I am using the Villain 12 with the kernel and optimizations here: (my kernel & optimizations )
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=97&t=1928
I have no battery issues, no wake up issues and speed is great at 691/160 (using SetCPU with no profiles).
I don't know about Cronos 2.0.2, but with 2.0.1 I had some minor problems. Here no issues at all.
I have used both (only used Chronos for a day before I got bored, fiddled with it and broke it )
Chronos seemed faster for the bit I used it, but there doesn't seem to much in it. Apps2sd ect. work fine in both. Will check battery life later.
Its down to personal choice, try both and see what you like, you can't try them for short periods though keep each for over a day if you really want to try them out.
Many people prefer different things in roms and it depends what you want to do with them.
Just a quick fact about cronos droid 2.0.2. My highest fps that i got from neocore was 32.3fps which In my opinion is excellent. So if you want good 3d, this might be something to consider about.
Hi, I recently switched back to my Hero, I never experienced 1.5 ROMs because 2.1 dropped the day I got my Hero, I'm just wondering if at this point 2.1 ROMs are just as good as the old 1.5 ones or do the 1.5 ones still offer the best stability/battery life?
If anyone could point me in the direction of a stable ROM with a long battery life (1.5 or 2.1) that would be lovely.
Thank you,
couponfork
Try VillainROM 13. It's based on 2.1 and has good battery life.
i think that the 1.5 ones have better battery life
i use Elelinux-7.1.0-Hero-v2.4 Android 2.3.4 .. its very stable and the battery last more that 2 days with heavy use
couponfork said:
Hi, I recently switched back to my Hero, I never experienced 1.5 ROMs because 2.1 dropped the day I got my Hero, I'm just wondering if at this point 2.1 ROMs are just as good as the old 1.5 ones or do the 1.5 ones still offer the best stability/battery life?
If anyone could point me in the direction of a stable ROM with a long battery life (1.5 or 2.1) that would be lovely.
Thank you,
couponfork
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here rom 1.5
You should try an AOSP rom. Its got a better battery life than a sense rom.
I would recommend you to try one of these.
Elelinux-7.1.0-Hero-v2.4 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932377
Elelinux-6.2.0-Hero-Speedmachine-v4 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=906552
Floyo 1.2.0 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=784689
couponfork said:
I'm just wondering if at this point 2.1 ROMs are just as good as the old 1.5 ones or do the 1.5 ones still offer the best stability/battery life?
If anyone could point me in the direction of a stable ROM with a long battery life (1.5 or 2.1) that would be lovely.
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Bought mine with the 1.5 rom two years ago. The 1.5 stock rom was laggy crap (sorry ...) compared to the 2.1 or higher roms. Believe me: You won't try a 1.5 rom, even if battery would last for a month.
fast and stable ROM
Flash a custom ROM and use Droid Overclock to set CPU Frequency Scaling. Make one profile to overclock when screen on, and one to underclock when screen off. Will make your device quick when in use, and save battery when not in use. I'm not a specialist, this is my understanding of it. And it is what I have done and I've never been more satisfied with my Hero. I have Elelinux-7.1.0 v2.7
The CPU settings that seems to work for me is: Screen on - max 576 MHZ, min 264 MHZ smartass. Screen off - 176/19 MHZ smartass. Many will probably have better suggestions and more knowledge to other settings that is better, but this is what i use and i'm happy with it.
Will anyways be better than a 1.5 ...
Hi,
i was thinking to move back to 2.1. ROM (chocolate eclair) because there is not stable enough Sense RoM for 2.2 or 2.3 and battery life is so much better with 2.1. I was thinking what are the biggest differences between 2.1. and 2.2/2.3. roms? Is there many apps/games that won't work on 2.1.? Any other things i should be aware of?
TIA
I have often wonder this same problem myself
So..............
i brought a wicked 3500mAh battery from some generic online site for 10 pounds
including p&p and downloaded elelinux 2.9
Battery problem no more
Muhahahahahaha.
p.s
with minor tweaks the battery lasts about 6 days with constant use (internet/wifi/3G) all plodding along.
that's very nice but doesn't solve the Sense problem
Litening is back in action with an ICS 4.0.3 version (yeay!) and he used to do a solid job on the old 2.3 Android Rom's. http://z13.invisionfree.com/Litening/index.php?showtopic=1
Have anyone coming from the CM9 ROM tried his new one and if so can they post on battery life impressions?
Litening is better I think.. but you have to try it depends a lot by the users
I've used cyanogenmod 9 for about a day and the battery life is horrible, although I haven't use Litening one must assume it is better than cm9 since it had taken the battery from full to 0% in a few hours with minimal use.
i see both OS's giving kinda same results. what have you all found? GB with custom kernal? or ICS roms?
THanks all
I can tell you this:
Over the weekend, I swapped from the setup in my sig which is GB to Innefilbis ICS v1.0. I installed exactly the same apps as the original setup & made all the exact same ROM tweaks.
I love the ICS setup but my battery life is A LOT worse now than it was with the old setup.
what kind of screen on time were you getting on GB compared to ICS?
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i see both OS's giving kinda same results. what have you all found? GB with custom kernal? or ICS roms?
THanks all
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After I s-off'd I flashed the 3.14 RUU and then flashed CleanRom 4.5. I previously ran CleanRom 4.4 with the GB firmware. I'd say my battery life is worse with my current set-up. I've been using Better Battery Stats and Battery Monitor Widget to get a handle on the battery drain. What is annoying to me (meaning I can't figure it out) is that when the phone is "sleeping" my drain in mA bounces all over the place. Previously, I could look at the history in BAttery Monitor Widget and see a pretty straight and flat line <10mA . Now I get 20-400+, for no apparent reason. I've tried both the 3.13 leak kernel and the 3.14 kernel. IF anything the 3.13 may slightly better. I might just reflash the RUU and run it for a while and see how it behaves. We need the OTA to come out with the kernel code ASAP
I went from stock gingerbread to Scotts Clean ROM to Newt's sense 4.0 and each time my battery life improved. I'm on the latest leak RUU.
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I went from stock gingerbread to Scotts Clean ROM to Newt's sense 4.0 and each time my battery life improved. I'm on the latest leak RUU.
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Interesting...i've reflashed kernels several times but I haven't gone and wiped and reflashed the ROM yet. I'm trying to avoid setting up all my homescreens again.
Did you change your firmware (flashed the leaked RUU) or are you using the GB patch?
I went from stock, unrooted GB to the latest leak. I disabled the bloatware because ICS is cool like that, and my screen off battery drain was way lower. However, if the screen is on and I'm using 4G this beast just kills the battery. The operating system can't help the battery thirsty hardware.
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I've never noticed a difference. 80% of your battery is consumed by the screen, so the only place the OS is going to make a major difference is in how aggressively it controls your screen brightness. Unless there's something really wrong with one or another version of the OS. In theory ICS should offer better battery life by being optimized for dual cores, but the savings is probably not much.
Battery life has always seemed the same for me on GB or ICS. Stock had the worst battery life for sure though.
The really battery hog for me is Sense itself. On ICS or GB I'd be getting anywhere between 8 and 10 hours of battery life on one charge. I tried so many Sense ROMs it made my head hurt. As a last ditch effort, I flashed CleanROM Tapped (sorry if I butchered the name) which is a mostly Senseless ROM with AOSP apps replacing the Sense ones and I'm doing much better.
If you're willing to sacrifice Sense I'd honestly go with a Senseless ROM. That's what I'm having the most luck with.
GB gave me the best battery life on GB firmware. i'm back on a sense 4 rom with latest leak firmware, though, because i think it has better 4g reception in my area....and my battery suffers. my life is about cut in half when i run an ICS rom as opposed to GB, even on GB firmware.
i'd have stuck to GB but the develpment for GB roms sucks since all devs jumped ship to ICS, which IMO kind of sucks, since the battery life is so bad. whatever, i have an extended batt coming my way! lol
I've noticed my dads rezound drains battery significantly faster than my nexus. I think a lot of it is sense. Also the snapdragon s3 is more power hungry than the omap 4460 which is one of the best in power usage. He's now on cleanrom gb edition. I installed juice defender today to see if that helps. Well see what happens. I hope he can get something close to what I get as my battery on my nexus has been great (over 4 hours screen on time). Much better than my incredible.
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