I currently have Alien Build #4 with the green theme installed on my Atrix. I am wondering if by using the theme rather than just the basic Alien rom, does the battery drain faster? Or would it be pointless to recover to an old back-up from before I put the theme on expecting better battery life?
The display drains a lot of power. So if your theme is bright, it uses more power, your battery will last shorter.
ghoststar479 said:
I currently have Alien Build #4 with the green theme installed on my Atrix. I am wondering if by using the theme rather than just the basic Alien rom, does the battery drain faster? Or would it be pointless to recover to an old back-up from before I put the theme on expecting better battery life?
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If anything the theme should (slightly) improve battery life as it has darker colors. It's been a long time since I used Alien but from what I remember the theme was similar to AOSP Gingerbread and uses a lot of blacks and greys. Darker colors = less power from the screen = better battery. But if battery life is your primary concern I would recommend trying out Neutrino EE. The only reason NOT to flash it is if you use webtop as it is a CM7 rom. It's a very stripped down rom so it's incredibly fast and has yielded the best battery life I have ever had with my Atrix.
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If anything the theme should (slightly) improve battery life as it has darker colors. It's been a long time since I used Alien but from what I remember the theme was similar to AOSP Gingerbread and uses a lot of blacks and greys. Darker colors = less power from the screen = better battery. But if battery life is your primary concern I would recommend trying out Neutrino EE. The only reason NOT to flash it is if you use webtop as it is a CM7 rom. It's a very stripped down rom so it's incredibly fast and has yielded the best battery life I have ever had with my Atrix.
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I see how that makes sense. One thing that keeps bugging me and is making me think it uses more battery life is that when I use Home Switcher, it shows the theme and the stock rom as two seperate launchers. Do I need to be concerned about that or can I just ignore it?
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Its there something with our in singer themes that make battery life better our worse? I flashed sc 2.9 and have had great battery life better then ever before I always theme but decided to stay stock for some reason. I want to try a theme but asm scared I wil lose my 24+ hours of battery life.
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Um, a theme is just a package of recolored icons, apps, and other graphics. How would that cause poor battery life? Okay, I guess some also come with some mods like the accurate battery mod, but nothing that should ever affect battery life negatively. Theme away, my friend. Oh, and make sure you get a theme that's designed for the specific rom you're using (I.e. don't install a theme for AOSP on Super Clean, and vice versa). Worst case scenario, something in the theme actually does cause battery drain, and you reflash the rom to revert to the stock theme.
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I love 4g. but I don't like how 4g loses battery life so fast.
Has anyone noticed battery life changes I'm gb?
You're lucky you have the option.
For me there is a huge difference between battery life of Froyo and GingerBread (assuming that's what you mean). Due to the radio brick possibility, I went back to Froyo (Senseless 1.6.3, now 1.7) and yeah, huge huge difference in battery life. With medium to light usage I can get 24 hours of battery life (and I have 4G). With Gingerbread, I couldn't make it through half of the day but I chalk most of that up to the fact that I had my phone on most of the time looking at the pretty weather animations.
I've gotten great battery life on ginger and horrible battery on froyo
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So i have a filename. I love minuit and all the features/customization, but the battery life is killing me BC i work long hours outside. So my question is, shud i just deal or downgrade back to my wonderful battery life from Froyo?
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Looking at my previous ROMs on my Vibrant, I have resorted back to Battery Life. Yes, the extra tweaks and pretty customization are very eye candy but in the long run, you want a phone to be a phone that can last you whenever you need it when you go out for a long night or for a mini trip. I feel it's pointless for a pretty arse phone that can only last you a few hours. It's only good for the show. For me, I found a middle ground of battery life and customizables with Toxic8.
From the past, my best battery life comes out from Bi-Winning, then Bionix, then Toxic8, and then the GingerBread ROMs and then CM7.
Kudos to Toxic 8. It looks amazing and it has a good battery life!
You can also try Trigger3.2. I tried it and personally have found it to have better battery life than Bionix. However it's all preference.
Try Trigger3.2/Toxic8/Bionix with bali and see which one works for you!
I've tried them all and Biwinning and Bionix give you the best life and stability (along with a Bali or Immortality kernel)
Toxic8 also rocks with its themes (geared towards young people) but at it's current latest state, the GPS warms up the battery and kills the battery life.
The rest of the ROMS you have to play with and see what you like. The battery life is most important to me and the ROMS mentioned above are fast and stable. I don't need more until an official GB leak is released for the Vibrant.
I have been running cm7 for a couple of weeks now and my battery has been stable and pretty good life. However last night I put a new epic blue theme on and this morning after a full night of charging after 1hr and 11 minutes and I am down to 81%? Looks great but does it pull more juice? Thanks in advance!
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I have been running cm7 for a couple of weeks now and my battery has been stable and pretty good life. However last night I put a new epic blue theme on and this morning after a full night of charging after 1hr and 11 minutes and I am down to 81%? Looks great but does it pull more juice? Thanks in advance!
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I suppose its possible, I have definitely noticed that some themes produce more lag than others so I don't think your idea is too outlandish...
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I did not think it would matter I never noticed it before. However this theme looks awesome but curious if all this extra color and extras could cause more batery drain? I just turned down the brightness I am sure that did not help being on brightest setting.
In theory, I would say its possible. If a theme has more complex images then I would say it could take a little more effort for the phone to render them. But I wouldn't think it would make that big of a difference.
No, not on our device anyway. SuperAMOLED screens I think get better battery life on a dark theme, but not 100% on that. No matter what, the same amount of light is used on a color choice for our device. The "lag" users are getting is possible due to a conflict with image size or an image missing; not 100% on that either, but 99% sure that the answer to your question is no. UOT or Theme Chooser CM7?
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No, not on our device anyway. SuperAMOLED screens I think get better battery life on a dark theme, but not 100% on that. No matter what, the same amount of light is used on a color choice for our device. The "lag" users are getting is possible due to a conflict with image size or an image missing; not 100% on that either, but 99% sure that the answer to your question is no. UOT or Theme Chooser CM7?
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Theme Chooser on cm7. And I did have to accept that it does not fit my screen and use anyways. It probably is not the theme it might have been a coincidence that it happen after the theme. Thanks for the clarification pretty much like I thought but it was weird to have a unusual battery drop right after I changed themes. Thanks again.
Peperm1nt said:
No, not on our device anyway. SuperAMOLED screens I think get better battery life on a dark theme, but not 100% on that. No matter what, the same amount of light is used on a color choice for our device. The "lag" users are getting is possible due to a conflict with image size or an image missing; not 100% on that either, but 99% sure that the answer to your question is no. UOT or Theme Chooser CM7?
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Couldn't have put it better myself.
Travisdroidx2 said:
Theme Chooser on cm7. And I did have to accept that it does not fit my screen and use anyways. It probably is not the theme it might have been a coincidence that it happen after the theme. Thanks for the clarification pretty much like I thought but it was weird to have a unusual battery drop right after I changed themes. Thanks again.
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I have been using cm7 and it does AMAZING with the battery. I can actually last a day. What kills my bat life is leaving the data on, I think there is an error somewhere with the data controller with this port. If I turn data off with screen off,I can probably go 5 days (but little to no usage). But if I turn data on and leave screen off,I might last 10 hours
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Which of the ROMs available in the development area will provide me with the greatest battery life? (without loss of important features or anything)
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Which of the ROMs available in the development area will provide me with the greatest battery life? (without loss of important features or anything)
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I personally prefer Nottachtrix, it's fast as hell and awsome battery life
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You could take a look at the Neutrino ROM. It is missing features, though there are plenty of add-ons that you could easily download to suit your needs. Other than that it's extremely compact and snappy, and (so I've heard) the black and white theme actually helps out battery life tremendously.
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You could take a look at the Neutrino ROM. It is missing features, though there are plenty of add-ons that you could easily download to suit your needs. Other than that it's extremely compact and snappy, and (so I've heard) the black and white theme actually helps out battery life tremendously.
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This is for my girlfriend's phone. I can't test these out realtime, but I put the light Neutrino on it and it didn't last a whole day. Got Aqua on there and the battery life on there doesn't seem to be exquisite either.
Gonna try out Nottachtrix when I get the chance.
ROMS generally take a few days to show their full battery potential. In other words, when you install a new ROM you should charge it to 100% (before installing), delete the battery stats, and discharge all the way through until it turns off. Charge it all the way to 100% and discharge to 0% for a few cycles and you'll begin to see more accurate battery performance. Installing a ROM for one day and then installing another the next isn't going to tell you anything about true battery performance. It needs a little bit of time, just like it took a few cycles when she first got her phone for the battery to last its full amount.
Neutrino and CM7 should generally be lasting a whole day, if not 2 days. I am on a CM9 based ROM and even my battery lasts from 6 in the morning to 12 at night. As I've stated, it takes a bit of time for the battery to shine.
I get pretty decent battery life out of The Darkside Prefinal. From 6am-10pm with about an hour or so charging inbetween I usually have about 40% or so left. Neutrino ROM has been pretty good to me too. About 35%-30% left in the same time frame mentioned earlier