Which ROM/Kernel combo offers the best battery life? I could care less about performance and features. I just got a vibrant with a potentially borked cellular radio (will be disabling it) that will be used strictly as a media player
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Which ROM/Kernel combo offers the best battery life? I could care less about performance and features. I just got a vibrant with a potentially borked cellular radio (will be disabling it) that will be used strictly as a media player
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Cm7 and tiamat kernal and juice defender app, all day
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Toxic firefly 2.9 with kb5 modem and bali kernel 1.8.4, got 24 hours out of it with light/moderate use.
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Bi-Winning V2 and Bali 1.8.5UV was getting me 40+ hours with light/moderate use. Trying DragonMODz SSJ-ULP/ZenDroid 1.3.4 and it looks to be even better. Still calibrating though.
Thanks for your suggestions
I got 40-48hrs multiple times with light to moderate use on bionix V 1.3.2 and nextgen v2 with bali 1.8.5uv. Testing it on Trigger now.
Anything with the Bali 1.8.4/1.8.5UV kernel.
I got a day and a half of use with Bi Winning V2(V3 Now) and Bullet kernel underclocked @ 800 mhz. Watched 5 episodes of that 70's show w/ wifi. Only thing is, the phone still flies.
Im using GB roms right now, and im very pleased with the battery life on M.I.U.I using Platypus Revolutions Kernel and the modem KB5. Im getting more than 15 hours, wich its great comming from CM7's 4-5 hours...
im getting great results with Trigger 3.2 and Bali 1.8.5 combo
Any rom not thats not ported. They use more battery. I used Zendroid rom and Bali 1.8.6 UV.
You guys have data enabled the whole time or just when you need?
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You guys have data enabled the whole time or just when you need?
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just turn off wi-fi and gps when you'r not using them, saves ALOT of battery life.
Try bosina's extreme galaxy ROM. Simply a great Rom with great kernel and working gps.Just love it.
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What's the best kernel+modem combo for MIUI?
What about 3g/hsdpa??
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What's the best kernel+modem combo for MIUI?
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I moved back to 2.2, but i was having great results with Platypus Revolutions and KB5 Modem.
I think my battery is screwed cause flashing too much
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I think my battery is screwed cause flashing too much
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Did you recalibrate your battery??
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ZenDroid 1.3.4 with Bali 1.8.6 or DragonMoDz_ULP gives me like 4 days, well i am alight user only with like a couple dozen sms per day few calls and10-20 mins of gameplay maybe...plus somewhat wifi usage
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I am using bionix v and people are reporting 20+ hours of battery life using the battery left widget.. and when using my battety left widget (nearly fully calibrated) it tells me I have 9 hours left.. what's the deal? Is this a battery issue, and could I need a replacement. I have had battery issues with nearly all of my roms in the past. I guess it could be a conditioning issue. Please help
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Something is probably running in your background. Download watch dog task manager and see wwhat is running on your backgrounnd.
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It says that there is nothing wrong. What are the normal voltages of my battery, like what should they be?
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I just flashed mine on Sunday and charged it overnight. I ended up getting just under 42 hours of life out of it without doing to battery recondition.
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I just flashed mine on Sunday and charged it overnight. I ended up getting just under 42 hours of life out of it without doing to battery recondition.
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How? What do you do to achieve that?
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How? What do you do to achieve that?
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By using your phone to just look at the wallpaper.
Lol,
How is the battery life on the real froyo that was released a few weeks ago?
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How? What do you do to achieve that?
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Not possible by someone who actually uses there phone. I never thought I was a heavy user but seeing replies like above I have to be past the definition of heavy user. With my extended battery I could get 2.5 days on a single charge.
Im also having battery drain with bionix newest rom. Nothings changed in my day-day usage. probably flash another modem or something.
I think I might switch to stock froyo if things don't get better. Or just order a new battery. Because it just drops like a rock. And im using watchdog but it doesn't really help that much. Or could someone with experience with battery drain guide me on how to stop it from happening?
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I am using bionix v and people are reporting 20+ hours of battery life using the battery left widget.. and when using my battety left widget (nearly fully calibrated) it tells me I have 9 hours left.. what's the deal? Is this a battery issue, and could I need a replacement. I have had battery issues with nearly all of my roms in the past. I guess it could be a conditioning issue. Please help
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Something tells me you have a bad battery if you've always had battery issues. Did you get your phone from T-Mobile? If so call them and tell them your battery is bad--they should send you a new one for free.
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I flashed on saturday and started having issues with the battery on monday. On tuesday my battery drained in less than 5 HOURS! I reconditioned the battery and added juice defender @ 5 this morning. I just plugged in my charger about 20 minutes ago. Went down to 5%.
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Something tells me you have a bad battery if you've always had battery issues. Did you get your phone from T-Mobile? If so call them and tell them your battery is bad--they should send you a new one for free.
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Yes I got it from t-mobile but I have not used stock long enough to see whether it was just a rom issue. I have only flashed team whiskeys roms and they seem to kill my battery. Nero v3 was the best but still wasn't great. I leave around 6:30 in the morning and maybe use the phone to get on xda, engadget, facebook, etc for about 1 hour, But my battery drops like a rock when I do this. And ever since bionix v it has only gotten worse. From that one hr of usage it drops 40 percent. Is hsdpa that big of a battery-killer? Because on wifi it seems to do a little better. Idk if this is just a network issue or what? Like right now it dropped 2 percent just from typing this up. brightness is less than half and everything is set to manually refresh. Wth?
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Cbzeej said:
I flashed on saturday and started having issues with the battery on monday. On tuesday my battery drained in less than 5 HOURS! I reconditioned the battery and added juice defender @ 5 this morning. I just plugged in my charger about 20 minutes ago. Went down to 5%.
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So you are having issues as well?
Everything else seems to be fine. The consistency of the battery is weird..
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Had terrible battery life as well with bionix v. Double checked to see if anything was running in the background and reconditioned my battery. Even then I was still getting atrocious battery life. Oh well I ended up switching back to axura which imo offers great performance and battery life. Not saying TW roms are bad (nero v3 was amazing) give Masters axura a shot if you haven't.
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Does axura come with titanium backup or does it not wipe your data? I would like to keep my settings and apps if I do end up switching
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Does axura come with titanium backup or does it not wipe your data? I would like to keep my settings and apps if I do end up switching
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Axura does come with TB.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919573
My battery life isn't that great. I am going to turn off lagfix and see if there is any improvements.
I don't think lag fix had anything to do with battery that much, all it sites is change the filesystem right? And with bionix v I got over 24hrs battery
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I just flashed ka5 modem which was in tw last rom. I had great battery life and reception. Ill be testing tomorrow and will post my results with stock battery.
Its either this or not use it like most with 5 days use on a single charge.
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Well I think I finally conditioned correctly, and watchdog is notifying me about programs that are using lots of of cpu. So I'll see how today goes. 9:00 AM right now. Let's see how long it takes to die
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Seems to be dying much faster in standby mode
Edit: nevermind it seems to be doing well enough for the time being. Talked on the phone for 1 hour, texted, and went on xda and engadget. It is at 70%. On standby mode it ia doing loads better after reconditioning. Does losing 30% to doing stuff like that sound about right? Battery left says I have 7 hours 58 min remaining
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What do you guys recommend to save battery? This team whiskey custom rom sucks battery up.
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What do you guys recommend to save battery? This team whiskey custom rom sucks battery up.
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They all do. The best thing you can do is leave it hooked up all day and use it as little as possible. Actually, I have not used any of these yet but I hear pretty good reviews for Juice defender & Startup Auditor both found on the market.
I just don't want to use one of those apps because I used juice defender and it turned off my 3g to save power, and it never ever came back on. Even after I reboot it didn't go on. So I had to flash back to an earlier rom.
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Custom Roms drain battery even more than stock ones do? WTF? The most important reason why Im intending to install one is the ****ty battery life on my Vibrant that the Froyo stock update only made it worse.
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Is there any extended battery for the vibrant out?!
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With most of the custom ROM's out there you should get about 15 to 20 hrs of battery life. Trigger and Auxura will get you 20 to 25. Those numbers are with normal use. If you're talking, texting, watching You Tube and playing Angry Birds all day you're gonna kill your battery alot quicker.
So trigger's rom is more battery efficient than that of bionix?
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It certainly seems like it to me, although I believe that I installed Overstock 1.4 incorrectly when I tried to flash it after I put Bionix on there (receiving horrible battery life), whereas I used the .zip for Trigger that included Overstock already. Not sure if it was that or simply due to the difference in Roms. I don't usually have 3g and wifi on when I'm not using it, but even with frequent texting I get about 40ish hours total according to Battery left.
Cool, then Trigger it is.
Trigger and Bionix give approximately the same battery life if using overstock kernel.
And by that you mean preserving the stock kernel when flashing the custom Rom, right? Im a noob in this you know
Na, it's called "Overstock Kernel" it comes with trigger by default, so you'd just leave it for that. However, you'd need to download it for Bionix and first flash the rom, reboot, and then flash the kernel.
Easy way to save battery, when not using data is to put your phone on the edge network instead of 3g, phone works great on edge. you only need 3G for data use
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So, time to install trigger?!
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Wait, where do I find it?!
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I am using the current Trigger w/ OverStock 1.4. I am lucky to get 12 hours!! How in the world are people getting 20+ hours with normal use?!?!? I do not play games often, I do not use WiFi, I maybe send out 5-10 texts a day, so what am I doing wrong?
Dood, where did you find the trigger download?!
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Dood, where did you find the trigger download?!
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tRY:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=921453
I had similar issues as you did. Bionix would drain battery much faster. Tried trigger 2.7.2 and the battery life is much better now. Not sure what the difference is, but it sure seems to last much longer. I do not have any overstock kernels.
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Na, it's called "Overstock Kernel" it comes with trigger by default, so you'd just leave it for that. However, you'd need to download it for Bionix and first flash the rom, reboot, and then flash the kernel.
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Well I went ahead and flashed Trigger. But the theme is killing me, damn Bionix looked so good but battery...
What is the best ROM in terms of battery performance? I'm running Bionix with Overstovk and battery isn't that great. I'm actually considering going back to stock 2.2 if it offers the best battery performance. Thanks!
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What is the best ROM in terms of battery performance? I'm running Bionix with Overstovk and battery isn't that great. I'm actually considering going back to stock 2.2 if it offers the best battery performance. Thanks!
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Been asked many times. Did you recondition your battery? Your phone will vary on different roms. I would try a couple of the more popular ones and see.
You can also change it by modem and or kernel choices no matter what rom you choose...its all different for every one
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I've been using bionix with overstock for two months now and have conditioned my battery multiple times.
You say modemm, I know KA5 is good in terms of battery. How can I install that?
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And how is Stock 2.2?
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I would check out the ROM called Toxic Heroes Presents Toxic FF SMoke. I have been using this rom for a few days and i can attest to the battery life. I got got 17 hours with heavy to moderate usage throughout the day and still had 50 percent battery life left. I have also had bionix and atriarc and both of them had gopod battery life. Also alot of depends on ur modem, kernel combo. For example i use the KB1 modem and right now have overstock 2.2 and getting great batt life.
Also i have used KB1 modem with supercurios stock KB1 kernel with voodoo on bionix v 1.3.1 and also had great battery life with it as well. Also depends on where you live as well hope this helps a little
If your jumping from edge to 3g alot that'll drain. Your battery. If you leave wifi on all the time and are going in and out of buildings or places in general that have wifi its constantly scanning and trying to connect. Hell, when im driving down the road mines trying to connect to houses that have it. The radio is a big thing though. (Or so I've read all over the forumns)
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Jk6 gives the best battery life for me, no matter what rom I use
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I'm currently running Kenneth's latest Alien ROM and I get a battery life of about 6 hours. I've tried letting the battery die out , fully charging, then doing a battery wipe. Also tried Jug's fix. All they seem to fix is a battery jump issue but I wish that was all it was. Any other things that might help? I really don't have the money for a new battery.
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+1 same issue here. All 2.3.4 roms. And cm7 2.3.5 now.
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Have you tried charging to 100% wipe battery stats in cwm then letting it run down till the phone dies and plugging it in without turning the phone on?give it a full charge from there should improve things some way.
Scotty, you win the award for clearly not reading the op. Congratulations on making yourself look like a retard.
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excuse me?Nowhere in the first post do I see mention of the phone being turned off while charging oh and -1 for the term you used its not good.
Your first post is the exact same result as the op. Therefore, spam.
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Easy, killer
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Your first post is the exact same result as the op. Therefore, spam.
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You are really mean dude; take it easy.
To the op:
I'm actually not having this problem... Getting great battery life. I get like 8 hours of talk time, 6+ hours of web browsing or days of standby. Have to charge like every other day. Running Alien 3. That's not too helpful I guess, but know that it may be some weird configuration you have.
Read and follow the instructions in this thread guys -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198333
Thanks xploited. I'll give that a shot. the weird thing now is that I get 100% and 4200mV in the battery calibration app. It doesn't make sense. It's apparently fully charged but as of now it's dropped about 10% in about 20 minutes.
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Confirmed that xploited's "fix" doesn't work.
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Sounds like your battery may just have a problem. Do you know anyone else w/an Atrix that you could swap batteries for like an hour and see if the problem follows the battery?
@epoh The only other person I know that has one lives about 2.5 hours away lol.
It kinda makes me curious if an SBF flash back to 1.83 would fix it. I only had this issue after flashing HKTW on a low battery.
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Have you tried AURA 1.1.1 ROM?
I don't know if you even want to give any other ROM a shot, but I have used Alien ROM # 2, too many issues and was not patient enough.
Flashed AURA 1.1.1, after that 2 issues with my battery are fixed, one is the battery life, I usually get around 15 hours from fully charged at 8 AM when I leave for work, so I usually charge just once a day. Second issue with Alien was my phone was overheating like a frying pan.
It just happened with any other ROMs I have tried so far but with AURA maximum temp I have seen on my phone is not more than 38 Degree C. With other ROMS it was just above 38 all the time.
If you don't mind flashing different ROM, try it.
Basically what I do is load into CMW
Wipe Battery Stats
Wipe Dalvik Cache
Wipe Cache
Wipe Data
Install ZIP
Reload Phone and use it for a bit
Process the battery stats wipe cycle twice
Battery is just normal now
Good Luck
It seems to me to be obvious issues with GB right now..which is disappointing because I was expecting it to get better. I went from 16+ hours of usage (with 2-4hrs of onscreen time) to about 8-10. I've went from Orange 2.3.4 to CherriPi now to Alien #3 with both the 1.1 o/c kernel as well as the stock kernel..with no improvements. I did notice a slight improvement when I turned the Social Applications from Push to 60mins..but still am nowhere near where I was with Froyo (yes..I've tried xploited's tips as well). I know its not my apps or configurations because none of that has changes since 2.2..
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Confirmed that xploited's "fix" doesn't work.
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If you want people to help, you need to be more specific.
What exactly have you tried and what results did you get?
I guess I'll give Aura a shot. KP has some great concepts but I only have the battery issues on his ROM.
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Can I ask real quick some questions? First off what do you have running as far as processes, cause for instance if Tune in Radio is left on running in background it KILLS my battery life. If I forget to exit it. Also, did you freeze any bloatware that alien didn't? example. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=972459 Also, what kernel are you using? Are you overclocking? Over / undervolting? Just trying to get a better idea of what's up unless I missed it in a previous post. But I think I read em' all.
@phalanx I haven't frozen anything. I'm using the last Alien full build including kernel. The only apps I have installed are facebook, google+, and XDA premium app. The thing that is supposedly killing my battery is phone idle. It's doing slightly better today than it has been. It says it's got about 10 hours so far. But it's still nowhere near the 12-16 I used get.
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did you flash the GB radio as well?
it you're still using the froyo radio that is known to cause terrible battery if paired with GB ROM
Yes I do have the GB radio. I believe it's version. 1.77.15* don't know the whole number.
Edit: I meant to say 1.77.30
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Sup guys so i didn't see one.of these threads so im making.one if you guys want post pics or just write down the amount of battery life you get, which Rom, what tweak, screen time and total life on a single charge and the size of the battery being used and heavy moderate or light use
Lets see who has the best battery skils
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1) You didn't even post a pic and it's your thread.
2) I think this has already been done before.
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1) You didn't even post a pic and it's your thread.
2) I think this has already been done before.
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My phones charging right now
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GB: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23560201&postcount=54
ICS: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25361182&postcount=1097
saurom wins best battery in my books
i went on a craze testing different roms specifically for battery life. the best battery i got was using saurom gb rom. 1.5 days!! i would say i was aiming for light/moderate usage at the time.
i got decent usage on seraphim ics rom, more on the heavy usage side when i was testing this rom. little over 12hrs. i love it graphically and how smooth ics is, but since im on my phone alot saurom suited my power taste better.
to save as much battery as possible, my config:
- antutu battery saver app
- brightness always at a minimum
- vibrate always off, silent at office, sound only everywhere else
- screen filter app in the dark
- wifi off (test purposes, its a given u'll save more when on wifi)
- auto sync off (im always on it so refreshing apps i need on the fly was good enough, i dont always need to know who emails or facebooks me every sec)
Almost 37 hours http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23515935
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Zelendel Gonna get you!
Oh snap Zelendel going to shut you down talkin bout Batteries!
Look at my crappy battery that came with the phone. I have stock rom...
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Not my best compared to GB but good enough for me. This is on an Anker 2500 mah battery on ics alpha 2. Usually get a little better with oem battery
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Another battery thread and another thread with people posting how long the battery lasts...
SCREEN ON time people. IMO the most important stat you can post for these battery threads. Who cares if you phone lasts 17 days...but the screen was only on for 5 mins.
My best is just over 4 hours. Haven't quite gotten that again tho.
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Agree. Screen time should be 90% determination. Here are mine. I'll be able to get to 4 hours screen time with Juice Defender and RootDim.
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Well ok then
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Well ok then
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Nice! What're you running?
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meh... :/
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Dagr8 alpha 2.
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Saurom RC 7.1 ROM, OC at 1.83 GHz with no battery saving options selected.
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I assume everyone who have this awesome battery life is not using stock ROM?
I have stock ROM, rooted and can never achieve those kind of battery life... no matter what kind of battery savings measure I did.
Running ucld2 appsdroid rom pre new leak:
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Best so far
I'm rooted on stock gb, using Da_G's OC kernel with no battery saving options or apps enabled.