hey guys, I'm running CM7 and I have tested several different radios and they were all pretty bad. Does anyone have any recommendations on what I should use? Thanks!
Define "bad."
Speed test are not always accurate, if that's what you're getting at.
Used mr2 and was good. Every upgrade seems to be better. And the newest 802 is ridiculously fast with nice switchovers between Gs and no issues.
I used 2.5 when I was running AO5PTH3ORY... it worked great. I had no issues connecting to 3g and 4g.
+1 802 working great for me. I've been running DroidTh3ory's AO5P roms, based on cm7.
yareally said:
Define "bad."
Speed test are not always accurate, if that's what you're getting at.
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Sorry, by bad i meant terrible battery life. Maybe its my area. No matter what radio I have ever used my 4g and 3g would always switch back and forth and I think that drains battery pretty quick..
paulhf said:
Sorry, by bad i meant terrible battery life. Maybe its my area. No matter what radio I have ever used my 4g and 3g would always switch back and forth and I think that drains battery pretty quick..
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Try recalibrating your battery if you have not. I would also stay off LTE as much as possible unless you need it. LTE just drains your battery like a thirsty man does a glass of water.
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Try recalibrating your battery if you have not. I would also stay off LTE as much as possible unless you need it. LTE just drains your battery like a thirsty man does a glass of water.
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should i recalibrate my battery every time i install a new radio?
paulhf said:
should i recalibrate my battery every time i install a new radio?
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I only do it when I feel my battery life is degrading. That could happen any time you so a lot of updating.
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is best for download/upload speeds, not too worried about battery life or any of that none sense.
Dr Jeff 281 said:
is best for download/upload speeds, not too worried about battery life or any of that none sense.
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Don't really think you will notice a big difference no matter what radio you choose. Try them out and see which one gives you best coverage, I always stay with the latest radio, but that's me.
The official MR2 has been working great for me in all areas. I agree with the poster above tho I doubt you will notice much of a difference speed wise. I know you said you don't care but with the MR2 official when my phone is sleeping (just sitting in my pocket etc..) it uses like NO battery.
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JBO1018 said:
The official MR2 has been working great for me in all areas. I agree with the poster above tho I doubt you will notice much of a difference speed wise. I know you said you don't care but with the MR2 official when my phone is sleeping (just sitting in my pocket etc..) it uses like NO battery.
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I agree with this, the BEST battery life I got was with the official MR2, i'm using the latest right now. I'm getting about 35-37 hours with the extended batt. With MR2 I was up around 45-50.
I have gotten similar performance from all of the MR2xx radios.
Not around for a while, thinking for going to GB from FOYO. Last time I hear the GPS is working but if you trun it off it won't turn back on until you reboot.
GPS is kinda important to me, so how is the GPS now? Still buggy?
jackhuny said:
Not around for a while, thinking for going to GB from FOYO. Last time I hear the GPS is working but if you trun it off it won't turn back on until you reboot.
GPS is kinda important to me, so how is the GPS now? Still buggy?
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I can't recommend Miui enough. Also I do not have that reboot issue.
Proof it works well - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15922881&postcount=521
Miui - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1123922
Be prepared to have a drop in battery life though. Even with less battery life I still feel it's completely worth it, and wish I made the switch to Miui sooner.
about the battery life
ferhanmm said:
I can't recommend Miui enough. Also I do not have that reboot issue.
Proof it works well - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15922881&postcount=521
Miui - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1123922
Be prepared to have a drop in battery life though. Even with less battery life I still feel it's completely worth it, and wish I made the switch to Miui sooner.
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He is right that MIUI ROM is the best GB rom i have used. ABout the battery life, just flashed the Bali kerrnel for CM7/MIUI, give it 2 days and you ll see the difference
ferhanmm said:
I can't recommend Miui enough. Also I do not have that reboot issue.
Proof it works well - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15922881&postcount=521
Miui - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1123922
Be prepared to have a drop in battery life though. Even with less battery life I still feel it's completely worth it, and wish I made the switch to Miui sooner.
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Thanks for the info.
I always carry a charger with me, so battery life is not a problem to me.
I see the gps is working alright, but does it have problem turning on/off?
Djapatos said:
He is right that MIUI ROM is the best GB rom i have used. ABout the battery life, just flashed the Bali kerrnel for CM7/MIUI, give it 2 days and you ll see the difference
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+1 for MIUI I've never heard anyone regret it
jackhuny said:
Thanks for the info.
I always carry a charger with me, so battery life is not a problem to me.
I see the gps is working alright, but does it have problem turning on/off?
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I do not have reboot issues.
This one totally worked for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1172428
If you are on MIUI, try it. I never had GPS working and now it is 5 meter accurate
running liquid aosp+ kangbang. overclocked to 1228/245 ondemand. off the charger at 9am im now down to 75% with virtually no usage. is this bad for 4g being on?
looking at battery usage is says cellular radio is taking up everything. im on the latest leaked radio too. i wonder if i should go back the the last official ota radio.
fixxxer2008 said:
running liquid aosp+ kangbang. overclocked to 1228/245 ondemand. off the charger at 9am im now down to 75% with virtually no usage. is this bad for 4g being on?
looking at battery usage is says cellular radio is taking up everything. im on the latest leaked radio too. i wonder if i should go back the the last official ota radio.
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That's about double what mine is using on standby with no use. I'm looking at about 1.6% per hour standby. I'm on the RUU 2.11 radio too. I've got my sync schedule set up to fairly conservatively, and made sure it doesn't update whether whenever the widget is viewed.
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That's about double what mine is using on standby with no use. I'm looking at about 1.6% per hour standby. I'm on the RUU 2.11 radio too. I've got my sync schedule set up to fairly conservatively, and made sure it doesn't update whether whenever the widget is viewed.
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well it must be the new radio then.
fixxxer2008 said:
well it must be the new radio then.
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I'd point the finger at the ROM. I'm using the same radio and getting much better results than you're showing, and I'm using a Sense ROM. Your's should be equal or better than that. Even under moderately heavy use I can eek out 10 to 12 hours on a charge. You should definitely be doing better than that on an AOSP ROM, I would think.
I would stay off LTE unless you're actually using it. It's just a waste if your phone is just idling.
loonatik78 said:
I'd point the finger at the ROM. I'm using the same radio and getting much better results than you're showing, and I'm using a Sense ROM. Your's should be equal or better than that. Even under moderately heavy use I can eek out 10 to 12 hours on a charge. You should definitely be doing better than that on an AOSP ROM, I would think.
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i doubt its the rom as i never had this until i used the leaked radio. id use a sense rom but the volume is too low for me. the aosp kernels have the audio tweaks.
yareally said:
I would stay off LTE unless you're actually using it. It's just a waste if your phone is just idling.
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well then there would be no point in having a 4g phone.
i loaded up the latest official ota radio and will test tonight. worse comes to worse ill have to look for a different rom.
fixxxer2008 said:
well then there would be no point in having a 4g phone.
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i said turn it off when not in use, not when you are letting your phone sleep. back in the day when 3g came out, it was a battery drainer too.
yareally said:
i said turn it off when not in use, not when you are letting your phone sleep. back in the day when 3g came out, it was a battery drainer too.
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CDMA is STILL a battery killer. It can kill a battery FAR, FAR faster than LTE ever could. I'm inclined to agree with Fixxxer2008; what's the point in having LTE if you can't just use it? And at 1.4 percent per hour idling, I'm not sure that qualifies as a grotesque overuse of power. I think that's conservative by ANY measure.
Buy the extended battery.
I refuse to neuter my phone.
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If the OP wants to take the time to deal with it, I would wipe /system, /cache, dalvik cache and /data and redo their rom over again with only restoring user data at the most. Perhaps something just coincidentally went out of wack with the latest update you did for the ROM. I doubt it's the radio doing it, but it would take more time/effort to know like reading through the logcat to see if there's anything weird going on and such.
i was gettibg pretty decent battery with CM7 + DreamKernal + MR 3.5 radio
i could watch a whole movie and it would use abour 10% battery
that and when i'd go to sleep(normally 5 - 6 hours), when i woke up it lost about 7 - 8% battery.
i switched to the latest Synergy + DreamKernal + MR 3.5 radio
only did so because of issues with Skype
now it consumes 13 - 15% battery watching a movie, and wheb i wake up it's used more then 20% battery.
i have the 2750 extended battery
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If the OP wants to take the time to deal with it, I would wipe /system, /cache, dalvik cache and /data and redo their rom over again with only restoring user data at the most. Perhaps something just coincidentally went out of wack with the latest update you did for the ROM. I doubt it's the radio doing it, but it would take more time/effort to know like reading through the logcat to see if there's anything weird going on and such.
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Im testing a new kernel. I already wiped cache and dalvik.
fixxxer2008 said:
well then there would be no point in having a 4g phone.
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Use a ROM that allows you to toggle between 3 and 4g. That way you can switch to 4g when you'really in data-heavy mode and idle in 3g.
I believe at least a Chingy related ROM has such a toggle.
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Use a ROM that allows you to toggle between 3 and 4g. That way you can switch to 4g when you'really in data-heavy mode and idle in 3g.
I believe at least a Chingy related ROM has such a toggle.
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Go back and read the thread. I'm using about 1.3 percent an hour at idle. I'm running a Chingy ROM. I don't toggle LTE. Cutting the balls off your device isn't much of an answer. That's like cutting your arm off to cure an infection. That answer ain't good enough for me, and I'm feeling its not good enough for him.
im testing the 3.5.8 lean kernel today. if it doesn't get any better ill be moving back to a sense rom. aosp is giving me alot of headaches.
CanesDrew said:
Buy the extended battery.
I refuse to neuter my phone.
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nah...i don't want my phone to look like a brick. i may get an extended slimline one though.
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im testing the 3.5.8 lean kernel today. if it doesn't get any better ill be moving back to a sense rom. aosp is giving me alot of headaches.
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I have been using the same kernel and I get awesome numbers?
Remember to use the settings in terminal it recommends so you can choose how much it will undervolt and which governor it will use.
And exit the menu using 14 otherwise what you choose will not be saved.
Bryan
fixxxer2008 said:
im testing the 3.5.8 lean kernel today. if it doesn't get any better ill be moving back to a sense rom. aosp is giving me alot of headaches.
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my friend was having drain issues with some of imo's latest aosp kernels on cm7 so they ended up going back to the default kernel for cm7 and that cleared it up
I've flashed cm7 yesterday and I've noticed that the battery life isn't that good. Is it gonna get better? I recalibrated the battery last night and I've seen little improvement ...and is there a way to change the CPU speed?
blackangel104 said:
I've flashed cm7 yesterday and I've noticed that the battery life isn't that good. Is it gonna get better? I recalibrated the battery last night and I've seen little improvement ...and is there a way to change the CPU speed?
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You might be stuck with the battery you have post calibration. As far as CPU speeds I believe you can slow down the speed but you cannot speed them up. We need unlocked bootloaders for that
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thelowend said:
You might be stuck with the battery you have post calibration. As far as CPU speeds I believe you can slow down the speed but you cannot speed them up. We need unlocked bootloaders for that
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Dang it son!!! ight, it seems like my battery is worse off than it was before I flashed the ROM .... I guess I'm s.o.l then
blackangel104 said:
Dang it son!!! ight, it seems like my battery is worse off than it was before I flashed the ROM .... I guess I'm s.o.l then
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Didn't mention that you can use ROM toolbox or the CPU manager found in cm7's settings to mess with CPU speeds.
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I've tried changing the CPU speeds in those settings but nothing is changing. When I try to go to a lower speed, it just stays the same ... Any idea why?
blackangel104 said:
I've tried changing the CPU speeds in those settings but nothing is changing. When I try to go to a lower speed, it just stays the same ... Any idea why?
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No idea why, it always helped conserve battery when I was on miui.
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Give the rom a couple days to "level" out. I just flashed eclipse 2.1 on my room mates phone and the first couple days his better life sucked and then it better and better, I suggest you do a battery calibration, some say it works others say it doesn't. I feel like it does.
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Triscuit said:
Give the rom a couple days to "level" out. I just flashed eclipse 2.1 on my room mates phone and the first couple days his better life sucked and then it better and better, I suggest you do a battery calibration, some say it works others say it doesn't. I feel like it does.
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Ight I will. I'm really loving this ROM
One thing I've noticed between the Blur-based ROMs and CM7 is that it seems that the display uses a lot more in CM7. On Blur ROMs "Phone Idle" has the highest % and on CM7 it's "Display". I've tried dimming the display and/or shortening the timeout but it doesn't really make much difference.
Also, FWIW, battery calibration is useless: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
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One thing I've noticed between the Blur-based ROMs and CM7 is that it seems that the display uses a lot more in CM7. On Blur ROMs "Phone Idle" has the highest % and on CM7 it's "Display". I've tried dimming the display and/or shortening the timeout but it doesn't really make much difference.
Also, FWIW, battery calibration is useless: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
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Thanks for providing that link.
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Since 4G On The 3D Runs On WiMAX Which Is Wifi, Would It Be Better For Battery Life Than 3G? I Ask This Becouse Wifi Gets Better Battery Life Than 3G And Whenever I'm On 4G It Doesn't Seem To Kill My Phone.
NexusS4gFreak said:
Since 4G On The 3D Runs On WiMAX Which Is Wifi, Would It Be Better For Battery Life Than 3G? I Ask This Becouse Wifi Gets Better Battery Life Than 3G And Whenever I'm On 4G It Doesn't Seem To Kill My Phone.
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I've noticed with ICS that if I accidentally leave my 4g on, it does not kill my battery like it did using GB. For battery life, it has traditionally been Wifi is best, 3g is second, and 4g is a battery killer, but now I am not so sure. I am not around 4g enough to test it, but if you are, that would be a great experiment. If you do it, please report back as inquiring minds want to know.
coal686 said:
I've noticed with ICS that if I accidentally leave my 4g on, it does not kill my battery like it did using GB. For battery life, it has traditionally been Wifi is best, 3g is second, and 4g is a battery killer, but now I am not so sure. I am not around 4g enough to test it, but if you are, that would be a great experiment. If you do it, please report back as inquiring minds want to know.
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I just switched to MeanROM ICS myself and have noticed the battery drains faster than it ever had on GB or the stock Sprint ROM. With or without 4G on. Are you getting the same battery performance on ICS that you were on GB?
TheDaltanian said:
I just switched to MeanROM ICS myself and have noticed the battery drains faster than it ever had on GB or the stock Sprint ROM. With or without 4G on. Are you getting the same battery performance on ICS that you were on GB?
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I've seen a couple posts saying Meanrom ics is killing battery pretty quickly. It may, I haven't updated the past 2 versions... But in one of the latest versions, he's did post less emphasis on battery savings and more on power. I'm on an earlier version and get great battery life.
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TheDaltanian said:
I just switched to MeanROM ICS myself and have noticed the battery drains faster than it ever had on GB or the stock Sprint ROM. With or without 4G on. Are you getting the same battery performance on ICS that you were on GB?
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Screen off time on ICS is substantially better than screen off time on GB (like 1% drain every 3 hours). Screen on time seems to be worse. In the end, I get through the entire day using MeanROM ICS with about 50% battery left (today: 13.5 hours off charger with 1.5 hours screen on time). So, it is not quite as good as GB, but since I recharge every night anyway and I love ICS's interface and features, I stick with it. I am going to flash ZR3dX tonight to see what the new version is about though.
coal686 said:
I've noticed with ICS that if I accidentally leave my 4g on, it does not kill my battery like it did using GB. For battery life, it has traditionally been Wifi is best, 3g is second, and 4g is a battery killer, but now I am not so sure. I am not around 4g enough to test it, but if you are, that would be a great experiment. If you do it, please report back as inquiring minds want to know.
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