when battery life is the main preference, which ROM should I chose?
I am using CM7 for the last 3 weeks and it's been horrible compared to stock.
Thanks!!!
I like the team toxic rc3 D9 has a good battery life and very smooth
why not taste a little ics passion v11
18 to 21 hours of batt. I'm lovin this rom!!!
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D9 has one of the best, but of course is based off of 2.2. Also, hasn't been updated in a while.
ICS Passion is by far the best ROM for the Vibrant at the moment. No lag, everything works, and the battery life is amazing. I recommend it. Have been using it since v5 and the improvementsare great and good to see.
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why not taste a little ics passion v11
18 to 21 hours of batt. I'm lovin this rom!!!
check it out....
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I am not so sure bout this one. I just flashed my phone to ICS passion V11 and it only lasts half a day with wifi on, gps off, sync off... or maybe it is just me.
I've tried a dozen ROMs over the past year and they've all been about the same until recently. The Passion ICS ROM has had the best battery life that I've ever had on the Vibrant. The only thing that drains it is the pulse notification light. It's a great feature and I love it, but it drains the battery quick and it tends to come back on every time you reboot the phone. I ODINed from LIDROID to Passion ICS.
I will have to concur with the other few. The Passion ICS so far seems to cut the cake... also with appearance.
If you havent already you could consider Trigger 3.3. I cant speak on others.
Battery life was pretty reasonable on there with full-day wifi usage, net searching, multiple app usage, some music listening and customizing, and often some bluetooth...lets not forget brightness mid to high.
But you may have to also consider the amount of cycles your battery has been using. Maybe you can come out better with a replacement IF its feeling like its not performing at it peak potential.
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why not taste a little ics passion v11
18 to 21 hours of batt. I'm lovin this rom!!!
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well is it available for Turkish language_?
Thanks
Ics passion is horrible battery life for me
...and here we go again.
I've been using ICS Passion v11 for a few days, and I've consistenntly getting 30+ hours of battery, and Wi-fi is always on, screen brightness about half maximum.
I have been using DOC's Master ICS ROM V2 and have been getting 12 - 15 hours with heavy use while connected to a bluetooth headset. I have 1 glitch though, I can not send pictures through the stock text messaging app. I used Passion beta v5 and had extremely horrible battery. I read that all the battery drains have been fixed. I am going to give Passion v12 a try. hopefully i can send pictures from text on there!
zendroid 2.1.2 with bali UV kernel
I couldnt believe it, but my girlfriends vibrant showed 3 days and 14 hours on battery since plugging it in last time with still 8% battery left. Thats absolutly insane on a standard 1500 battery. Personally i dont care that much about heavy use but rather standby time. thats always been best with bali 1.8.8 uv kernel and zendroid combination (probably bionix is good too - in general 2.2 roms seem to be much better in this regard)
im running bionix 1.3.1 pair with bali kernel 1.8.8 no uv no oc. so far so good. i can run it for ALMOST 2 days. moderate to heavy usage.
If your looking for speed/stability and extremely good battery life you should go with Fisherman's V3 Bionix 1.3.1 with the bali kernel. That rom is the ish make sure after you flash the rom you use the battery calibrator from the market and calibrate your battery and your open for buisness
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Ideas please! I've ran Evil Eris 3.0 for months and months and had no problems and loved it. I recently switched to KaosFroyo V37. I like it a lot but the battery life seems to not be so great. Looking for idea's on what rom you all think is the best for reliability everyday use and battery life. At work i get 0 bars or just 1bar. I know that's a huge problem but Evil Eris 3.0 was good other than if you turned the gps on it would stay on and you would have to re-boot to fix sometimes.
I run v37 too and have also had some battery issues. Does anyone know of another froyo rom with even better battery life? Note: my brightness is on the lowest possible setting and allegedly uses 70% battery... Also, ive found myself having to turn off 3g to make it to the end of the day. Lastly, when i get to about 90 percent full charging i get the green light. Any ideas?
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I run v37 too and have also had some battery issues. Does anyone know of another froyo rom with even better battery life? Note: my brightness is on the lowest possible setting and allegedly uses 70% battery... Also, ive found myself having to turn off 3g to make it to the end of the day. Lastly, when i get to about 90 percent full charging i get the green light. Any ideas?
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same symptoms here.
Plain and simple, no matter what froyo you're using you are going to notice a significantly shorter battery life when moving from 2.1 to 2.2 and there is not much you can do about it. Are you using collins battery script? If not, that should help somewhat. Also, turn off auto sync and if OC'd, crank that down as well. Also make sure BT, and GPS are disable.
As for your LED lighting up when only at 90%, try to recal your battery and see if that does the trick - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780724&highlight=recalibrate
Nonsensikal is a great rom with great battery life.
I use my phone with minimal use I guess you would say, texting most of the day, couple calls, turning on 3G for 5 mins at a time to roam the internet/apps about maybe 5-10 a day. My battery lasts me about 2 days without a charge with that kind of use.
Great ROM, wonderful theme, and great battery life. Try it out.
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Nonsensikal is a great rom with great battery life.
I use my phone with minimal use I guess you would say, texting most of the day, couple calls, turning on 3G for 5 mins at a time to roam the internet/apps about maybe 5-10 a day. My battery lasts me about 2 days without a charge with that kind of use.
Great ROM, wonderful theme, and great battery life. Try it out.
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anyone else have more info? what rom would be best for me? reliable and good battery life?
Thanks for the help, im about to recal now
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Kaosfroyo v37 is pretty insane once you tweak it... i just recalled my battery and im very impressed by the results
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Um 2.2 does not intrinsically have worse battery life than 2.1. In fact JIT is supposed to increase battery life. I am on Tazz froyo and I get like... at least 20 hours on a normal day. Slow days I can get 30+.
Make sure you're using the latest kernels.
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Um 2.2 does not intrinsically have worse battery life than 2.1. In fact JIT is supposed to increase battery life. I am on Tazz froyo and I get like... at least 20 hours on a normal day. Slow days I can get 30+.
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I flashed in Conap's latest CFS kernel in KaosFroyo v37 and have no complaints. I have the screen set to drop the cpu to 245 when blacked out. It seems fine.
I haven't tried colin_ph's script yet but its on my to-do list.
cfs is pretty sick. What exactly does it stand for?
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I run v37 too and have also had some battery issues. Does anyone know of another froyo rom with even better battery life? Note: my brightness is on the lowest possible setting and allegedly uses 70% battery... Also, ive found myself having to turn off 3g to make it to the end of the day. Lastly, when i get to about 90 percent full charging i get the green light. Any ideas?
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From what I understand froyo is set up to give you the green led light while charging once you hit 90% charge. I think 2.1 was maybe 95% or 100% I can't remember exactly what it was. It's not a problem though your phone will still charge to 100% on froyo you just get the green light sooner.
Really? That explains a lot and now i know im not damaging my battery while charging after the green light. Thanks
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I run koasfroyo v37 with cfs.v6 and battery tweak with underclocks when screen off at lowest 19 and with moderate use I got over 30 hours and I never had to turn off 3g
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I didn't see anybody else mention it so I thought I would throw this out:
Use "Toggle 2G" from the market with Froyo ROMs to extend battery reserve.
This (free) app shuts off the 3G Mobile network a (programmable) number of minutes after the screen is blanked, and turns it back on when you next light up the screen again. Having a few minutes delay is useful - if you fire off an e-mail, and the counterparty responds within that interval, you will get the notification (I'm thinking of Gmail/push here), but if you are ignoring your phone for an extended period of time, it is saving some juice. (Text messages are still delivered as they are 1x/RTT, aka 2G)
Toggle 2G never worked on my phone. Maybe I just didn't have it configured correctly.
Thanks, ill try toggle 2g now
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I'm also wondering this same thing..I just ordered my eris and would like to find a good reliable rom that I wont need to change in the near future.
I wish there was like a poll or something setup as a sticky...though with version changes that might be kinda hard to maintain.
My advice:
Vanilla Froyo: Either Nonsensikal, or Tazz Froyo
2.1 Sense: Either XtrSense, or (preferably) xtrRCMix
2.1 Vanilla: Not a big fan of those so Im not even gonna say anything
2.2 Sense: Help out and be tester
Im running xtrRCMix and I LOVE IT. Great battery life and amazing Rom. BUT, flash the v6 CFS kernel for a near perfect experience with it
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My advice:
Vanilla Froyo: Either Nonsensikal, or Tazz Froyo
2.1 Sense: Either XtrSense, or (preferably) xtrRCMix
2.1 Vanilla: Not a big fan of those so Im not even gonna say anything
2.2 Sense: Help out and be tester
Im running xtrRCMix and I LOVE IT. Great battery life and amazing Rom. BUT, flash the v6 CFS kernel for a near perfect experience with it
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I use the xtrSense and it's on CFS I think and it's running just fine. I may try xtrRCMix.
What is the best vibrant rom for battery life? This is going to be for my g/f I am running MIUI on my evo and was happy to see the vibrant starting to get a taste of that greatness
Anyone have a recommendation for best battery life? I have flashed team whiskey's bionix but it's draining the battery like crazy, battery is dead in literally 6-8 hour with little use, no apps installed, nothing......
as batttery-wise..
Master's Axura has always done the trick for me.
But the key is to recondition your battery.
Recondition it on every rom you go and you will definately last 15+ hours easily with light-moderate use
Stock, bionix v, nero 5... either of these will do. If you want to see some great extended battery life I would suggest to dl the "superpower" and "setcpu" apps. If you tweak these two Apps they can make a big difference.
Most I got out of nero5 as 32+ hours.
Gotta say, the Axura really has the best battery of all the roms I have used and I have used them all, but remember your specific usage habits affect the battery life results.....
Axura has been great for me. I've been on axura, bionix, and nero v5 and axura is by far the best.
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I've tried just about every rom out there at this point and they all get decent battery life for me. It's when I start using OC kernels that I start seeing alot of battery drain but even those are getting better.
Hate to post anything about battery life, but I must. I would post this in the dev thread but not enough posts yet.
First off battery life was not that bad on froyo and understand GB has issues but this seems a bit extreme. I am running Full version of Gingetitis and other state battery life is great but not for me. I did full drain and battery wipe and calibration last night but seems even worse now . Phone has been on for 37 minutes and battery is down to 80%. brightness is turned all the way down, screen off in 1 minute, I have run speedtweak and set to battery saver, no gps, no blue tooth. I love gingeritis and the sense 3.0 so any assistance would be great.
Nope battery life is terrible on chingys GB rom. I was running it not good.
I'm using dasBAMF REMIX V6 amazing battery !
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which kernel you are using?
i use the mr2 radio and 3.0.1 kernel. The batterylife is worse than froyo i agree, but it shouldnt be too bad to not last for a day.
Also, i think 4G drains a lot. My area switched form 3G to 4G and its gone worse.
I am running the default kernel, haven't flashed anything else. Unfortunately I do not live in an area with 4G so I just get 3g, I do run WiFi when at home.
I have the same issue.
I just tweak the speedtweak into option 5)
I went out taday. tb lost 10% battery per hr. Is this normal?
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I am running the default kernel, haven't flashed anything else. Unfortunately I do not live in an area with 4G so I just get 3g, I do run WiFi when at home.
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Did you turn off 3g in the settings?
I have turned off 3g lately, when I can get wifi, to see if it will help but haven't noticed much difference.
This is interesting because I'm on gingeritis with the included kernel and my battery life has been very good.
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If everyone post their usage and battery drain condition. That will be more help us to realize our TB. Cause we might have different phone before, and we might compare TB with our privious phone. So I think this is the different replies on this thread.
ex. my previous phone is droid 2 global, and it has terrible battery drain as well.
Now I got TB for a couple days, and I feel TB get more battery drain problems. (of course, it is the first 4G LTE phone )
kernel: imoseyon 3.01
baseband: 1.39.00.0430
rom: Gingeritis v1.0
and I set speedtweak.sh as battsaver 5) and battery tip on rom's op.
that's I do to my phone now.
And I lost 10% battery life per hour (use 4G to surf on net)
Is my battery drain case terrible?
(I think only comparsion can help us to know where is the problem )
flashed a kernel a zip file,and 2 fonts.
Rebooted 4 time I total.
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Nope battery life is terrible on chingys GB rom. I was running it not good.
I'm using dasBAMF REMIX V6 amazing battery !
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I had that rom!!! And I was losing 30 percent an hour with almost no usage on that Rom...face it the Tbolt for as bad ass as it is the battery sucks....many devs claim their battery is great but for the average user noob or not the battery is terrible HTC really should have thought about this a bit more before trying to have the latest greatest the extended battery on my blackberry gets almost 3 days on a full charge with moderate to heavy usage, this piece of android crap gets almost 3 hours on a full charge with little to no usage, seems senseless(no pun intended) to pay this kind of money for a device that is useless after an hour or 2 off the charger not all of us have cushy jobs where we can keep our phones at our desks on the charger!!
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Hate to post anything about battery life, but I must. I would post this in the dev thread but not enough post yet.
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This isn't a post you would put in Dev thread. Unless its directly in gingeritis' thread.
^_^_^
Thanks, I did not know if it was Rom, GB, or just my phone specific.
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I had that rom!!! And I was losing 30 percent an hour with almost no usage on that Rom...face it the Tbolt for as bad ass as it is the battery sucks....many devs claim their battery is great but for the average user noob or not the battery is terrible HTC really should have thought about this a bit more before trying to have the latest greatest the extended battery on my blackberry gets almost 3 days on a full charge with moderate to heavy usage, this piece of android crap gets almost 3 hours on a full charge with little to no usage, seems senseless(no pun intended) to pay this kind of money for a device that is useless after an hour or 2 off the charger not all of us have cushy jobs where we can keep our phones at our desks on the charger!!
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well...I think most android phone will face this problem in recent period.
I have nexus 1, droid 2, and TB. Only nexus 1 has better battery life.
It seems that delay battery drain is a big task for later android pone.
Try dream kernel. Using Gingeritis with it has given me superb battery life.
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I'm running 1.0 with kernel that comes with it with rapist and battery life was alright. Got extended battery this weekend. It takes away from the tbolts sleekness but man its worth it. Good 9 hours of web YouTube facebook phone and texting and its at 51% and still strong. Love it.
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Aratheff said:
Hate to post anything about battery life, but I must. I would post this in the dev thread but not enough posts yet.
First off battery life was not that bad on froyo and understand GB has issues but this seems a bit extreme. I am running Full version of Gingetitis and other state battery life is great but not for me. I did full drain and battery wipe and calibration last night but seems even worse now . Phone has been on for 37 minutes and battery is down to 80%. brightness is turned all the way down, screen off in 1 minute, I have run speedtweak and set to battery saver, no gps, no blue tooth. I love gingeritis and the sense 3.0 so any assistance would be great.
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I agree! I was running BAMF froyo remix with outstanding battery life. Made the switch to gingeritis and the battery life was so-so, tried the dream kernel and for a few days the battery life was as good as froyo. Then random reboots forced me back to stock kernel with gingeritis with normal on speedtweak and it is slightly better than before.
There should be a new dream kernel out soon, I plan to try that one when it drops, dream kernel was great when it worked.
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I agree! I was running BAMF froyo remix with outstanding battery life. Made the switch to gingeritis and the battery life was so-so, tried the dream kernel and for a few days the battery life was as good as froyo. Then random reboots forced me back to stock kernel with gingeritis with normal on speedtweak and it is slightly better than before.
There should be a new dream kernel out soon, I plan to try that one when it drops, dream kernel was great when it worked.
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your stock kernel version is?
I am running gingeritis and a full charge last me about 7 hours, on a good day. Mind you, I am over clocked to 1.4 and have a bad habit of checking my phone even when I haven't felt it vibrate or heard it ring. Because of this, I started to notice that when I would pull my phone out of my pocket, the screen would be on. I'm assuming that my constant movement at work is causing my volume button to be pressed, resulting in my display eating up 50% of my battery.
I've been running BAMF Remix Beta 6 for almost a week now. I just got the extended battery a few days. It's lasted anywhere from 12-16 hours on a full charge with 4G always on. Earlier today I had it on 3G only and lost 25% in about 4 hr and 40 min. I am using batterysaver in speedtweak.sh with the kernel that came with the ROM.
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'm on Eclipse and it has GREAT battery life. I can last through the day on 1 charge.
Does CM7 have a good battery life? I'm thinking of changing it up a bit, since I'm always on Eclipse.
Its always a bit subjective to the user, but I have been on CM7 for a few weeks now and feel as though I am getting better battery life than I did on Eclipse. Actually if I was just to break it down between blur based ROMs and Cyanogenmod ROMs, Cyanogenmod always seems to be better in this aspect. CM7 and CM10 had excellent battery life for me. Liberty and Eclipse, while good blur based ROMs, both had not so good battery life.
Honestly I can get about 1 day and 3 hours on Eclipse 2.3 but when I flashed CM7 for the first time, my battery drained within 8 hours!!!! After I let it settle for a week and re-calibrated the battery, it lasted for about 19 hours ha still not good enough for me but it also depends on how much you use your phone. I was a heavy gamer and I had to narrow it down I am now running MIUI 2.8.10v and would never look back:laugh: