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Hello XDA.
I'm considering to flash a custom rom on my htc hero. I'm wondering which custom rom does have the best battery life, which would you recommend?
I would like a rom that can last a day, so that i only have to charge over night?
By the way, how do i find out if i have the gsm or cdma edition?
ChosSimbaOne said:
Hello XDA.
I'm considering to flash a custom rom on my htc hero. I'm wondering which custom rom does have the best battery life, which would you recommend?
I would like a rom that can last a day, so that i only have to charge over night?
By the way, how do i find out if i have the gsm or cdma edition?
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If you live in the us you have the cdma. Every other place in the world use gsm.
ChosSimbaOne said:
Hello XDA.
I'm considering to flash a custom rom on my htc hero. I'm wondering which custom rom does have the best battery life, which would you recommend?
I would like a rom that can last a day, so that i only have to charge over night?
By the way, how do i find out if i have the gsm or cdma edition?
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Battery life has more to do with how you use the phone rather than the rom, most are similarly optimised now.
It nice to hear. How much battery time do you get?
Which ROM would you recommend? Been Thinking of installing beHero.
ChosSimbaOne said:
It nice to hear. How much battery time do you get?
Which ROM would you recommend? Been Thinking of installing beHero.
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Personally i get between 1-4 days on a standard battery depending on how I use the phone, and I get between 4-10 days on my extra life battery (3000 mah).
I use VillainROM and am currently on 5.2, but 5.3 is out in about 30 mins or so. I have heard good things about many of the roms, check out their features and see which you prefer.
tristan202 said:
If you live in the us you have the cdma. Every other place in the world use gsm.
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Not necessarily! The US does use GSM as well as CDMA - it just uses a different set of frequencies. A Telus Hero is a GSM Hero and will work on AT&T in the US.
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Dave
Now i've rooted my HTC Hero. And i've come to the point where i should update my radio. Is this nessescary, can in ruin my phone and what excatly does it do?
ChosSimbaOne said:
Now i've rooted my HTC Hero. And i've come to the point where i should update my radio. Is this nessescary, can in ruin my phone and what excatly does it do?
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It can brick your phone, however as long as you don't flash a GSM radio on a CDMA hero or visa versa (assuming they have cdma radios?) you are fairly safe. Also don't pull the battery out whilst its happening. Just be patient, it can take a while for some people apparently (10 mins or more), though it takes about a minute on mine.
All the radio does it let your phone know where signal towers are, from what I gather. Though people often talk about some radio's working better with certain rom's and they apparently affect battery life - i'm not entirely convinced.
Okay. Could it have any effect on my signal strengh? Are you using the laste radio rom?
Thanks for the help and guides. Now i've got it all up and running Has been a greate help, and i'm really looking forward to use android 2.1 Will see if i change back to HTC when they can get their act together and release the 2.1 update for android
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Okay. Could it have any effect on my signal strengh? Are you using the laste radio rom?
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ChosSimbaOne said:
Thanks for the help and guides. Now i've got it all up and running Has been a greate help, and i'm really looking forward to use android 2.1 Will see if i change back to HTC when they can get their act together and release the 2.1 update for android
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Yes I'm on the latest radio. I noticed a difference, before i only ever got 2 bars of signal max, now it ranges from 0 to full.
If you continue with the 2.1 custom roms when the devs get the new kernal i'm sure there will be some nice features.
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Personally i get between 1-4 days on a standard battery depending on how I use the phone, and I get between 4-10 days on my extra life battery (3000 mah).
I use VillainROM and am currently on 5.2, but 5.3 is out in about 30 mins or so. I have heard good things about many of the roms, check out their features and see which you prefer.
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just a last question. When you get 1-4 days on the standard battery, do you turn it off at night? And how much do you use it during the day, for texting, calling, internet and so on?
ChosSimbaOne said:
just a last question. When you get 1-4 days on the standard battery, do you turn it off at night? And how much do you use it during the day, for texting, calling, internet and so on?
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Stays on at night, for my alarm in the morning. I use it for calls for approximately 30-60 minutes every couple of days. Send about 10-20 texts a day. Usually check for updates to apps on a daily basis, as well as twitter updates and some browsing of the net when i'm away from computer. Not heavy use really.
Just make sure you turn stuff off when you're not using it - i.e. wifi, 3g, bluetooth, sync, backlight, etc (there is a power control widget for most of these, and a 3g widget separate)
Mine might get 3 days with moderate-low usage.I have Villain Rom 5.3 and of course i keep closed bluetooth,wifi,gps,3g when i don't use them.Also i have Advanced Task Manager to kill all apps that might run on the background when i don't need them.
Hi sorry to bother everyone but i'm kinda sick of failing atm
I hate how the battery life is so short on the x10 so then i looked at eric's ewjet rom. some guy said he got 4 days battery
BUT when i;ve installed it, it always drains in less than a day
i;ve reinstalled it about 3 times already. can some1 help me?
and could u maybe outline the steps simply?
unfortunately X10 are the well known device that drains battery quicker than many other phones. You might want to wait 2 days or 3 to wait for the new GB 2.3 firmware to be released as it is told that it will improve problems of battery consumption
My girlfriend gets around 50 hours with thi phone, some surfing, and quite a bit playing games, she gets nearly triple the battery life that i get with my sensation. Edit: this is with wolfbreaks rom, she is quite happy with it. damn i need some sleep
Charaity said:
Hi sorry to bother everyone but i'm kinda sick of failing atm
I hate how the battery life is so short on the x10 so then i looked at eric's ewjet rom. some guy said he got 4 days battery
BUT when i;ve installed it, it always drains in less than a day
i;ve reinstalled it about 3 times already. can some1 help me?
and could u maybe outline the steps simply?
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On the stock x10, there are a bunch of apps that run in the background that really don't need to.
Another thing you can do is install something like a Task Manager and end applications that aren't being used. An example, is that if I open my camera app and close it when I am done, my camera app stays open for hours after I have exited the program....I could kill it using Task Manager.
Don't use animated desktop....keep bluetooth and data and wifi off when you aren't using them.
My stock phone would only last a day. My BlueSpark ROM, with light use, will run for 2.5 days without having to recharge. When I made my own custom ROM, that was very minimalist, it lasted for 3 days of light use with no charge.
You could try flashing a different baseband, I've heard that'll help.
Utking said:
My girlfriend gets around 50 hours with thi phone, some surfing, and quite a bit playing games, she gets nearly triple the battery life that i get with my sensation. Edit: this is with wolfbreaks rom, she is quite happy with it. damn i need some sleep
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I'm on Wolfbreak's rom and I only get 1 day out of the battery. What baseband is she on?
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/12/motorola-droid-razr-max/
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http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/12/motorola-droid-razr-max/
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If its anytime soon you bet your ass i will be leveraging big red to swap us o.g. razr owners out into this new Pepsi err i mean razr max
Are you serious right now....
Man, I don't even want to look at any new phones right now! Ahhhh!
Man, Moto is pissing out a new phone every two months these days. Thats messed up.
If this phone is put out to address current razr issues as stated then we all have a right to this device at no additional charge or change in our contract. Seems like motor/Verizon are admitting guilt with this.
This better be a joke. #$%#$%@#$%%&*^%%[email protected]#[email protected]$!
"battery issues" quoteth the article?! After a couple of weeks, only basic usage of smart actions (e.g. turn off radios and sync over night) and regular usage.. a few calls, data sync on during the day either via wifi at work/home or mobile data when out and about.. I'm getting over two days between charges as are others afaik (not everyone to be sure.. but the current razr is doing a damned fine job!!)
YMMV of course
The question is... did we get the RAZR to have the best and show it off to friends and to be on top of the phone game or.... did you get it cause it's a super duper cool phone that you will enjoy to use?
There will ALWAYS be a better spec'd phone out there than the one you currently have, unless you get one every three weeks or so.
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"battery issues" quoteth the article?! After a couple of weeks, only basic usage of smart actions (e.g. turn off radios and sync over night) and regular usage.. a few calls, data sync on during the day either via wifi at work/home or mobile data when out and about.. I'm getting over two days between charges as are others afaik (not everyone to be sure.. but the current razr is doing a damned fine job!!)
YMMV of course
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You on the xt910 or 912 ? The GSM version doesn't support 4g and does not have the same issues as the Droid razr
opensourcefan said:
The question is... did we get the RAZR to have the best and show it off to friends and to be on top of the phone game or.... did you get it cause it's a super duper cool phone that you will enjoy to use?
There will ALWAYS be a better spec'd phone out there than the one you currently have, unless you get one every three weeks or so.
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True,...its just usually not by the same manufacturer.
I'm not having any battery issues. I haven't set up any smart actions yet and keep the screen at 100% and I get a full day with moderate use. My DX running CM7GB never came close to that. I had to carry extra batteriesif I was going anywhere after work. I couldn't even make it through a 10 hour workday without recharging. I'm very happy with the Razr. I just want to know what to do after 500 charges and I'm still under contract!
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"battery issues" quoteth the article?! After a couple of weeks, only basic usage of smart actions (e.g. turn off radios and sync over night) and regular usage.. a few calls, data sync on during the day either via wifi at work/home or mobile data when out and about.. I'm getting over two days between charges as are others afaik (not everyone to be sure.. but the current razr is doing a damned fine job!!)
YMMV of course
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Re battery comments, my home and office are literally just one mile and over a hill from four bars of 4G, so I'm on strong 3G most of the time. I don't use WiFi much, dozens of emails, perhaps an hour or so of calls, numerous SMS, market updates / downloads, Angry Birds, surfing, and I can easily go from fully charged at 0600 to 30% battery at 2200.
This is perfectly acceptable for my needs, but as noted above, no 4G, and I find that WiFi draws my battery faster than idling on 3G--which seems contrary to the experience of many others. This is better than my T-Bolt, and even tho I travel a lot, I don't mind the sealed battery--I carry a couple iGo 1,540 chargers instead of a couple T-Bolt batteries when traveling.
Hopefully everyone realizes that's a Photoshop image with an article based on a story from a Verizon store employee. The same employees that normally do not know JACK SQUAT about when a phone is coming out... But either way, there's ALWAYS going to be a better phone out several months after you buy yours.
There will be newer models for sure. Why everyone is being unhappy with that ? Would you like to follow a brand like SE who still sells singlecore phones ?
Get over this bs and get used to technology if you like to follow it.
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You on the xt910 or 912 ? The GSM version doesn't support 4g and does not have the same issues as the Droid razr
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xt910 so no 4g, but have read of plenty of people whinging about battery life on the gsm versions too
i thinkit might be The model for the china carrier
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xt910 so no 4g, but have read of plenty of people whinging about battery life on the gsm versions too
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The xt910 doesn't have the connectivity issues we have thus causing further drain...
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xt910 so no 4g, but have read of plenty of people whinging about battery life on the gsm versions too
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I'm using the gsm version now and the battery is as expected. I've had plenty of dual core phones this year and they all seem to have similar battery life.Compared to my last phone, a sgs2, the battery is not quite as good, but it is very close.
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Instead of releasing a new phone to piss us off, they can recall all RAZRs back to replace the battery with a more capable one (as the user shouldn't be able of replacing it himself, but it's easy to replace) and sell the new RAZRs with already the new battery.
Or damn at least Moto, make the new MAXX battery to be compatible with the "old" RAZR, so that we can replace it "losing the warranty"...
Somehow, it seems over time battery life on ICS has consistently diminished. May try some things but this is stock rom, and really not a lot of apps widgets. Is everyone having this?
Example, Sunday I unplug it at noon, and by 7 its at 4%, made a few calls, say 3 under 5 min. Used navigation some, texted some, and a bit of fantasy football app. But that seems below reasonable expectations.
Widgets: 1 weather, Tim Hutt ICS calendar, SiMi Clock, battery & Weather(lockscreen), Widget Locker, Google Music. Launcher: Apex pro.
Did a bit of surfing and didn't see much around stock ICS (could have missed it)
Mez-Jr said:
Somehow, it seems over time battery life on ICS has consistently diminished. May try some things but this is stock rom, and really not a lot of apps widgets. Is everyone having this?
Example, Sunday I unplug it at noon, and by 7 its at 4%, made a few calls, say 3 under 5 min. Used navigation some, texted some, and a bit of fantasy football app. But that seems below reasonable expectations.
Widgets: 1 weather, Tim Hutt ICS calendar, SiMi Clock, battery & Weather(lockscreen), Widget Locker, Google Music. Launcher: Apex pro.
Did a bit of surfing and didn't see much around stock ICS (could have missed it)
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I have the same problem too. The battery life is so horrible :crying:
I need to charge 2 - 3 times per day. I am thinking of downgrading to ginger bread if this continues.
did you tried the Canadian base?
mimmus said:
did you tried the Canadian base?
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I'm on the US AT&T stock ICS. Have not tried any roms.
If you upgraded via kies or OTA...the chance of a corrupted flash is high.
I'm not saying that it is, but we have had several reports of failed OTA or kies upgrades to ICS...
The only good fix is a re-install of the build...
I would go to samfirmware.com, and push the rom to the device again, and then test the battery life.
this would not be the first bad rom image we have seen from the upgrade.....g
And remember, it takes 3-5 days of normal usage after a fresh install, for the dalvik cache to build, and for the device to "settle" before any accuracy can be measured...g
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If you upgraded via kies or OTA...the chance of a corrupted flash is high.
I'm not saying that it is, but we have had several reports of failed OTA or kies upgrades to ICS...
The only good fix is a re-install of the build...
I would go to samfirmware.com, and push the rom to the device again, and then test the battery life.
this would not be the first bad rom image we have seen from the upgrade.....g
And remember, it takes 3-5 days of normal usage after a fresh install, for the dalvik cache to build, and for the device to "settle" before any accuracy can be measured...g
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If this is the case, should I try something like a factory reset then reinstall? I initially updated via Keis.
What is typical battery life on ICS? I recall I got the note right before going to SXSW and it would run from 8am to 11pm with solid use and maybe a 10-20% top off somewhere in the day. This has given me serious cell phone "range anxiety", even bought a external battery to address it.
Mez-Jr said:
If this is the case, should I try something like a factory reset then reinstall? I initially updated via Keis.
What is typical battery life on ICS? I recall I got the note right before going to SXSW and it would run from 8am to 11pm with solid use and maybe a 10-20% top off somewhere in the day. This has given me serious cell phone "range anxiety", even bought a external battery to address it.
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Best screen on times I've seen are ranging from 3-4 hours, and overall battery times are going 18-24 hours...
Now mileage varies greatly between users, and i'm running ICS as well, and since 6 a.m. today, I've used 14% battery in 7 hours...
I've made 2 phone calls, sent 3 texts, and messed around with settings for about 30 minutes...
It does sound like you may have gotten a dirty flash image...but it's so hard to tell, unless you get random freezes, boot loops etc.
But the stock ICS battery life was horrible for me........g
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Best screen on times I've seen are ranging from 3-4 hours, and overall battery times are going 18-24 hours...
Now mileage varies greatly between users, and i'm running ICS as well, and since 6 a.m. today, I've used 14% battery in 7 hours...
I've made 2 phone calls, sent 3 texts, and messed around with settings for about 30 minutes...
It does sound like you may have gotten a dirty flash image...but it's so hard to tell, unless you get random freezes, boot loops etc.
But the stock ICS battery life was horrible for me........g
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It boots and actually runs fine. Occasionally cell standby chews the battery out of nowhere, andriod os and phone idle too.
I pulled it off the charger today at 9am and as of 2:00 I was at 68%. Checked email, messed on flipboard while making coffee, updated a few apps. Checked traffic. Mostly just sat on my desk.
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It boots and actually runs fine. Occasionally cell standby chews the battery out of nowhere, andriod os and phone idle too.
I pulled it off the charger today at 9am and as of 2:00 I was at 68%. Checked email, messed on flipboard while making coffee, updated a few apps. Checked traffic. Mostly just sat on my desk.
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Yeh...thats nearly double the battery drain i'm seeing.....
I really think you should either re-flash the stock build using samfirmware.com, or flash up a custom rom you can adjust to get this battery issue under control...g
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Yeh...thats nearly double the battery drain i'm seeing.....
I really think you should either re-flash the stock build using samfirmware.com, or flash up a custom rom you can adjust to get this battery issue under control...g
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Agh, yeah I'll have to give that a shot... Been looking at CM10 or something, I had a jailbroken iPhone4 previously so I'm not ADVERSE to doing this... was hoping to stay stock a little bit longer... I know the samfirmware thing is the stock firmware but still, playing with the OS DOES cause a bit of anxiety...
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Agh, yeah I'll have to give that a shot... Been looking at CM10 or something, I had a jailbroken iPhone4 previously so I'm not ADVERSE to doing this... was hoping to stay stock a little bit longer... I know the samfirmware thing is the stock firmware but still, playing with the OS DOES cause a bit of anxiety...
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Though, would a factory reset take it back to GB and allow me to do the upgrade again?
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Though, would a factory reset take it back to GB and allow me to do the upgrade again?
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Possibly .....
But you can push the factory roms to the device any time you wish ....it's endless really ....g
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Agh, yeah I'll have to give that a shot... Been looking at CM10 or something, I had a jailbroken iPhone4 previously so I'm not ADVERSE to doing this... was hoping to stay stock a little bit longer... I know the samfirmware thing is the stock firmware but still, playing with the OS DOES cause a bit of anxiety...
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Understood ...
Fortunately, the note is painless to use on custom roms ...
With the ATT version, you simply push a custom recovery to the device via Odin, then download and flash the rom.
No root needed. And if you don't like it, you restore the stock nandroid backup and presto...no more rom.
Root is very nice though, as it allows sooo much more control ....g
Extra Batteries, their cheap and totally worth it just make sure you get a wall charger too
I've pretty much given up on eking out more battery life since it seems universally bad.
A bit more than 4 hours screen-on time seems to be the limit without setting the screen to ultra dim.
Standby seems entire dependent on my signal strength and whether I have LTE enabled or not. If it's strong, 24+ hours isn't unreasonable.
ChronoReverse said:
I've pretty much given up on eking out more battery life since it seems universally bad.
A bit more than 4 hours screen-on time seems to be the limit without setting the screen to ultra dim.
Standby seems entire dependent on my signal strength and whether I have LTE enabled or not. If it's strong, 24+ hours isn't unreasonable.
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Well, yeah screen destroys the battery. After ICS it seems as though they cranked up the brightness and contrast. Or is that just me?
Lately my battery usage in battery monitor widget has been going over 1000ma multiple times a day. In fact this has been the case both at the beginning of my Rezound's life on the first firmware, and again now.
At one time in between I used to never see it go over at most 700ma, and experienced reasonable battery life too. Usually I saw about 70ma to 300ma usage. This was with several different roms on the same firmware. I think it was the first or second ICS firmware but I don't remember for sure.
I'm starting to think the firmware a few versions ago was better on battery life. What do you guys think?
I was running GB with the old firmware up until just last week. I was averaging about 20 hours on a full charge with 1-2 hours of screen on time. The rom ran great and the only issue I really had was my 4G would cut out completely whenever I tried to play Youtube videos....
Last week I updated to the latest official ICS global rom with the new radios and firmware, and my battery life has gone in the toilet. I'm averaging about 15 hours on a full charge with the same 1-2 hours of screen on time. My phone gets MUCH hotter when just doing simple things like browsing the web, often getting above 100* F. On GB firmware I was usually in the mid 90's unless I was gaming. This is with the stock kernel. For the past couple days I've been trying FunkyKernel with some under clocking and undervolting which has helped the heat but not so much the battery life.
I'm kinda pissed and strongly considering finally going S-OFF just so I can roll back to the old firmware.
I actually think I had the best battery life on the first ics firmware, but like I said it might have been the second one. I don't remember how many there have been, but I have done all of them.
This latest one just seems to suck down power.
Anybody else have some input?
I just recently updated to the official global firmware and am running Rezone Redux with Funky 3.7. I'm not doing any undervolting and the only change I made to the frequencies was setting the min to 96 and the max to the stock 1512. With my extended battery, I'm averaging around 4.5 hours of screen on time, which is actually about 30 minutes more than I've ever gotten out of this battery. Then again, I keep my data, WiFi, and GPS off at all times unless they're needed, screen brightness at 13%, I'm using an app called Greenify to hibernate certain apps (not freeze, there's a difference), and I'm using the Wheatley governor. I'm very happy with this setup.
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So maybe it isn't affecting your as much because you keep your radios turned off. I also use greenify and it has definitely helped.
I might go a day with my mobile data enabled all day and see what happens. I got into the habit it of toggling my data off about a year ago. The only reasons for me to keep it on would be weather updates and Facebook notifications, neither of which is really important enough to me to have them refresh automatically. I don't use push email or anything like that, either. I suppose it would make a difference for someone who needed instant email notifications and such.
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I also keep data off most of the time unless the phone is plugged in, but still, battery just hasn't been the same since the latest firmware update...
I want to update you guys on my battery issue I thought was related to the new firmware. Every rom I had used since the newest firmware release was horrible on battery life. Using battery monitor widget to monitor power usage, I was often seeing over 1000ma usage many times per day.
I recently installed neo's infection 2.9.1 which uses a stock kernel based off Flahalf's work. My extreme battery drain is gone! The highest usage I have seen in 2 days is around 500ma, and normally it is 100ma or less! Not only that but this Rom is smokin fast. It feels like a new phone!
And it fixed wireless tethering! I'm so happy and thankful for the awesome work or devs have been doing. Thanks guys!
Unfortunately for peeps like me who enjoy gaming on their phone, the JB roms aren't all that great. Graphics performance is generally poor....
Maybe you should give it another try. I just played some shadow gun and the performance was fine.
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I want to update you guys on my battery issue I thought was related to the new firmware. Every rom I had used since the newest firmware release was horrible on battery life. Using battery monitor widget to monitor power usage, I was often seeing over 1000ma usage many times per day.
I recently installed neo's infection 2.9.1 which uses a stock kernel based off Flahalf's work. My extreme battery drain is gone! The highest usage I have seen in 2 days is around 500ma, and normally it is 100ma or less! Not only that but this Rom is smokin fast. It feels like a new phone!
And it fixed wireless tethering! I'm so happy and thankful for the awesome work or devs have been doing. Thanks guys!
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I have looked for neo's infection 2.9.1 and find it nowhere. Its getting late so maybe im just tired. But i need a fix for battery also.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
splatoid said:
I have looked for neo's infection 2.9.1 and find it nowhere. Its getting late so maybe im just tired. But i need a fix for battery also.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Then you must not have looked very hard, it is here on XDA in the Rezound Original Development forum, along with other amazing ROMs like Tron, Beanstock, Liquid Smooth, PAC-Man, etc.
[ROM][GPL][CDMA/GSM][Jb-4.2.2]☣INFECTION-2.9.1☣[07/20/13][CM-10.1.2][LINARO-4.8] will take you right to the Infection thread!
Well I thank you for the post and help I keep forgetting there are two separate forms for DEV now which i really never understood why they made two.
Thanks