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I am so sick and tired of my battery draining so fast, i lose 10% every like 20 min WITHOUT touching my phone!
-I tried reconditioning my battery, didnt work.
-Went to stock and flashed, didnt work.
-wiped factory/reset, flashed rom, then cleared cache and dalvik + fix permissions, didnt work.
I really dont get it, i mean i know its normal for this to likely happen because you flash alot of ROM's and i do, I've been on Axura, Nero, and the M9 clone roms, but reconditioning the bbattery should have done it...but it didnt, and im sure i did it the right way, i used Master's way....
so tell me....what do i do?
Find a friend with a vibrant, tell him ur gonna do something cool to his phone, and switch batteries
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Find a friend with a vibrant, tell him ur gonna do something cool to his phone, and switch batteries
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BAHAHA lol I wish, haha
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"Find a friend with a vibrant, tell him ur gonna do something cool to his phone, and switch batteries"
well, he's kinda right, you need to see if it's the battery or the phone, if it's a hardware problem, there is nothing you can do about it but change the battery. and the best way to know is to use someone else's for a while to compare, knowingly preferably
i bought a 2800mah extended battery for mine.... and its SWEEEEEET, never have to worry about my phone dying on me anymore! even if i do flash several ROM's a day!
Just out of curiousity when you flash new builds on to your phone are you flashing at 100% battery? I had a similar problem until i started making sure to be charged to 100% before I flashed. Its also worth noting that I seem to get better battery on ROMS I have flashed over stock JFD, this may just be a coincidence but maybe it will help.
go to the samsung website and but a new battery for your Vibrant
i did it sao i have 2 batteries to switch them around so im always charged
The best advice I have seen regarding batteries:
1. Always flash at 100%
2. It takes a couple days fo a rom to settle in.
3. Use system tools and see what apps are constantly running.
4. You can use Titanium backup to freeze apps you don't need in the background.
5. I always turn the brightness way down. These screens are very bright and if you look at battery usage it's always the display that uses the most power.
Find the combination that works for you. Nero4 has been very good for me, I flashed Nero5 and it really ate my battery for some reason. I'm currently running Nero4 with KA7 and it seems good so far. I've heard good thing about KA6 & KA7. With Nero4 I was at 40+ hours and still had battery left. I also see good reports of Nero5 + KA7.
Good luck.
wow my batt sucked befor ka7 i got it stock tmo froyo i let my btt drain went wiped batt stats let phone xharge overnight bam i could not be more happier with my phone/music player and how long it last thru the day i also down clock cpu sometimes from now on using setcpu ill see how lont this will mke batt last,dude froyo was eatin my batt alive righ as i wad watching batt stat go down in front of my eyes now that i got rrue froyo made truly for my phone i think this helped alot my 5 cnts
btw hatic feedback is off autosync for email is off i check my emil when i need to try also dark backgrounds reducing screen cokors eatin batt and if u use widgets try samsung widgets i think they re mde for batt life more than other stuff on market also advanced task kiler hit kill once a day or two days
eugene373 ha made a rogram u cn find on mrket it hels condition ur battery and its free forgot the nme of it but i bet someone here can providethe name
Thanks for all your help guys, ill try each of your advice/techniques and report back!
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How well is the radio working with older RUU? Also, how is the battery life?
Haven't really had a chance to test it. I installed SetCPU to make profiles when the screen is off and etc. Hopefully by tomorrow I will know how it goes. I only made it 8hrs on the "Out of the Box" config. So hopefully this puts a few more hours on to it.
any idea how high we can over clock?
Stock Kernel you cannot overclock
how much space do you have availible once bloatware is removed?
honestly I haven't personally deleted much of anything, as I am afraid that like other Verizon phones. I may delete a key app, that will disable the phone. Until I get a proper recovery going I have to say, you will need to find someone with more balls that I.
I suppose I could go re-flash the custom RUU that was made for rooting to get it booting again, as I have saved many people's non booting phones that way. However that would require more time than I care to waste, since I have alot of work related info I just got restored on the phone.
i sucked down 50% battery in 6 hours, not really using it much more than a few texts... and i have the LTE radio turned off in the service menu.
and, on the RUU with r/w system the phone was choppy / slow.
that sounds like my stock TB, but I use it a lot
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i sucked down 50% battery in 6 hours, not really using it much more than a few texts... and i have the LTE radio turned off in the service menu.
and, on the RUU with r/w system the phone was choppy / slow.
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Looks like I will wait til we can root the current firmware
LTE on the older RUU used for root is horrible.. Compared to my buddies stock TB, he's pulling over 15 meg down.. I couldn't get more than 3 ever..
Flashed back to stock and now my speeds line up exactly with his.
I am getting 14Mbps with Wireless Tether right now! Not too bad.. haven't noticed any difference with the older rooted firmware... keeping this until CM7 for TB!
Hi all,
I have almost had it up to "here" with my x2, and i want a faster experience.
I have tweaked this thing as best as i can and finally figure it may be time to install a different ROM...
So far i am rooted with the soak test 2.3.4... i have the tenfar (? is that it?) recovery (the green one with an arrow down it, the same one that i used to install from froyo to GB.
I was looking at liberty, or eclipse...
Whatever is fastest, has a lot of AOSP in it and has a decent camera. Some of them have the bionic camera?
I hate the x2 camera.
So far i have rom toolbox to download liberty if i want it, i am nervous about installing it though since i came from iphone and understand its nearly impossible to brick an iphone, i have heard differently about android.
Additionally, i DO know how to SBF, i have done it twice once to go backwards and send a returned phone and the other to install the soak test on my current phone.
Thanks for any imput, i appreciate it!
I have Molten and its faster than any other ROM I've tried. Very impressed with it! I think. Eclipse would be next. And if you soft brick it, no biggy, its usually what happens versus hard brick.
I'd suggest flashing multiple ROMs though, try one out, go to the next, and if you land on one you really like, then great! That's the one for you. But be careful! Too many flashes could cause flash addiction!!
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Have you tried v6supercharger? I have that with 2.3.5 blur and im a happy camper. V6supercharger will work with any rom. Its a script made by zepp.
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Have you tried v6supercharger? I have that with 2.3.5 blur and im a happy camper. V6supercharger will work with any rom. Its a script made by zepp.
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Yes, i have a widget to that actually lol.
No, that is what i HAD to do when i got the x2 in july and it was still froyo.
the 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 seem to fix most of it, but even running THAT i want a better UI and there are other little things i would like to NOT have to do that moto forgot:
1% battery
Better tray area
Better animations
Better battery life
Most of this was solved by me uninstalling most apps i have on the device that are not necessary, freezing pretty much ALL moto and vzw bloat, using Launcher Pro with NO transitions, juiceplotter and juicedefender to monitor usage and kill data connections and disabling the android battery management, installing battery circle...
I would like though to see a REAL dual core fast experience and i just do not think that anything coming from the motorolla rom builds will give me that to be honest.
The only time you are gonna het a real dual core experiance is if/when ics comes. Gb is not fully meant and not to many apps even make use of it.
And on 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 the 1% battery is useless since its not accurate reading and i think it cause more issues then working right. On eclipse 1.2rc i was getting really crappy battery life compared to blur 2.3.4 and i seem to have gotten my better batty life back on 2.3.5 so im staying away from 1% battery mod. And if your phone is running horribly get a new one. I barely have any problem with speed on my dx2 unless i use 3g cause 3g just sucks.
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densetsu86 said:
The only time you are gonna het a real dual core experiance is if/when ics comes. Gb is not fully meant and not to many apps even make use of it.
And on 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 the 1% battery is useless since its not accurate reading and i think it cause more issues then working right. On eclipse 1.2rc i was getting really crappy battery life compared to blur 2.3.4 and i seem to have gotten my better batty life back on 2.3.5 so im staying away from 1% battery mod. And if your phone is running horribly get a new one. I barely have any problem with speed on my dx2 unless i use 3g cause 3g just sucks.
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Huh... how can the 1% battery mod make battery life worse?
Sorry about your 3g speeds. I have excellent 3g speeds where I am, i can steam music, load web pages and get 1mb attachments while streaming shoutcast.
i have had terrible 3g in las vegas on att... my 1x on vzw though is terrible compared to edge on att so i am glad it (3g) works.
I highly enjoy/recommend eclipse 1.3rc2. Its the one that comes with bionic camera.
I feel like people think they are getting bad battery life due to how you can see the battery dropping with 1%increments as opposed to 10% stock increments. I have experienced about the same battery life with the same usage no matter which rom I run.
I find eclipse to be very smooth running rom. Worth a try. Just make a nandroid backup before flashing and if u don't like u can easily just restore ur stock nandroid and get back to where u were.
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I highly enjoy/recommend eclipse 1.3rc2. Its the one that comes with bionic camera.
I feel like people think they are getting bad battery life due to how you can see the battery dropping with 1%increments as opposed to 10% stock increments. I have experienced about the same battery life with the same usage no matter which rom I run.
I find eclipse to be very smooth running rom. Worth a try. Just make a nandroid backup before flashing and if u don't like u can easily just restore ur stock nandroid and get back to where u were.
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yeah.. about that.
I made a titanium backup of all system/apps
but nandroid uses system recovery bootstrap. so is that a COMPLETE backup as in a snapshot?
If so, that sort of makes titanium as a BACKUP tool obsolete, does it not?
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yeah.. about that.
I made a titanium backup of all system/apps
but nandroid uses system recovery bootstrap. so is that a COMPLETE backup as in a snapshot?
If so, that sort of makes titanium as a BACKUP tool obsolete, does it not?
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I never use titanium.
A nandroid backup makes a backup of system, data, and caches. U cannot use titanium to get ur system back to where it was before a rom flash. Titanium is only uses for backing up apps and data.
Someone could explain it better than I do but a nandroid is basically a snapshot of your entire system. Framework, apps, data, settings, etc...
If I flash a rom without making a stock nandroid then the only way to get back to stock is via sbf, and rooting and setting up again. A nandroid backup eliminates the need to sbf to get back to stock.
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I have found titanium to be obsolete from the very beginning as I don't mind redownloading my apps. And im not crazy about keeping their data either
Aldo if u are backed up to google servers(via settings in privacy settings) and install eclipse then whatever apps u had installed before the flash will automatically start downloading after u sign in to google during initial set up. It will also save all your settings such as wifi passwords and browser bookmarks. Very useful.
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I never use titanium.
A nandroid backup makes a backup of system, data, and caches. U cannot use titanium to get ur system back to where it was before a rom flash. Titanium is only uses for backing up apps and data.
Someone could explain it better than I do but a nandroid is basically a snapshot of your entire system. Framework, apps, data, settings, etc...
If I flash a rom without making a stock nandroid then the only way to get back to stock is via sbf, and rooting and setting up again. A nandroid backup eliminates the need to sbf to get back to stock.
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I have found titanium to be obsolete from the very beginning as I don't mind redownloading my apps. And im not crazy about keeping their data either
Aldo if u are backed up to google servers(via settings in privacy settings) and install eclipse then whatever apps u had installed before the flash will automatically start downloading after u sign in to google during initial set up. It will also save all your settings such as wifi passwords and browser bookmarks. Very useful.
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okay, so a nandroid backup will be quite large in size but is a failsafe in case you completely mess up and then do not have to spend time redoing it all.
Its like a system file that you can install if all else fails.
LIKE AN IPHONE BACKUP... where you ultimately get everything the way it was?
I would likely want to keep this on a seperate SD card even or my PC just in case the worst ever happens and i lose my physical phone...
Good to know because i HATE having to get all my stuff running again like i had it.
I am not familiar with iphone backups and how the work.
When u make a nandroid it will ask u before hand if u want it on internal or external sd card. I ALWAYS choose external sd card. It will create a folder on your sd card called clockworkmod. Inside that will be a folder named backup. In that will be the files for each backup you create. You can make one at any point as long as u have enough space on your sd card u can make as many as u desire. I usually make one every morning when I wake up and delete the one from the day before this was I ha e a very recent backup in case I screw up during the day and need to restore. I also keep backups of certain points in which I liked my setup.
Do not changed the names of clockworkmod folder or the folder in it named backup.
If u check out the sticky in general forum by moon shadow on creating a backup u will see the only safe way to rename your backups. Or u can just remember how ur phone was on the date u created it since it uses the date u madebit to name the nandroid file.
That sticky thread on nandroid backup will give u all the info u need to know about making/restoring nandroid backups. Very well written.
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I am not familiar with iphone backups and how the work.
When u make a nandroid it will ask u before hand if u want it on internal or external sd card. I ALWAYS choose external sd card. It will create a folder on your sd card called clockworkmod. Inside that will be a folder named backup. In that will be the files for each backup you create. You can make one at any point as long as u have enough space on your sd card u can make as many as u desire. I usually make one every morning when I wake up and delete the one from the day before this was I ha e a very recent backup in case I screw up during the day and need to restore. I also keep backups of certain points in which I liked my setup.
Do not changed the names of clockworkmod folder or the folder in it named backup.
If u check out the sticky in general forum by moon shadow on creating a backup u will see the only safe way to rename your backups. Or u can just remember how ur phone was on the date u created it since it uses the date u madebit to name the nandroid file.
That sticky thread on nandroid backup will give u all the info u need to know about making/restoring nandroid backups. Very well written.
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Right, an iPhone backup is a data file that is installed after a restore or iOS update.
It essentially starts the phone fresh, but then reinstalls your apps, sms, missed calls, browsing history, notes etc.
So you look as you did right before you went to work on the device.
This sounds the same. I have been reading the sticky, thanks for your help. I also made sure to click thanks.
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Right, an iPhone backup is a data file that is installed after a restore or iOS update.
It essentially starts the phone fresh, but then reinstalls your apps, sms, missed calls, browsing history, notes etc.
So you look as you did right before you went to work on the device.
This sounds the same. I have been reading the sticky, thanks for your help. I also made sure to click thanks.
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Me too. Now I know more about iphone backups
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yeah.. about that.
I made a titanium backup of all system/apps
but nandroid uses system recovery bootstrap. so is that a COMPLETE backup as in a snapshot?
If so, that sort of makes titanium as a BACKUP tool obsolete, does it not?
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I have found TiBU very useful for backing up user apps/data. If you don't have the time/Patience to re-download everything between rom changes, it comes in handy. A simple batch restore and all my apps, launcher and their respective settings are there. (system settings are not restored, I think there might be an option but have heard nothing good comes from restoring system data across roms) I have also found TiBU very useful when swapping different camera/gallery apks. Simply go in and uninstall one and restore a backup of another for easy comparison of shot quality and speed. Just my 2¢
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I have found TiBU very useful for backing up user apps/data. If you don't have the time/Patience to re-download everything between rom changes, it comes in handy. A simple batch restore and all my apps, launcher and their respective settings are there. (system settings are not restored, I think there might be an option but have heard nothing good comes from restoring system data across roms) I have also found TiBU very useful when swapping different camera/gallery apks. Simply go in and uninstall one and restore a backup of another for easy comparison of shot quality and speed. Just my 2¢
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would you freeze the old ones? that is pretty good idea.
I was thinking was there any reason i cannot just find the bionic camera app, for example and use that?
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would you freeze the old ones? that is pretty good idea.
I was thinking was there any reason i cannot just find the bionic camera app, for example and use that?
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I uninstall them once i have a backup made, that way i don't have any chance of duplicate names or anything, freezing may work though.. I would imaging if you get the Bionic camera and hacked gallery from eclipse 1.3rc2 it will work. I think the have to be pushed to /system/apps manually. Just remember to correct permissions. see if they work.
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Hi all,
I have almost had it up to "here" with my x2, and i want a faster experience.
I have tweaked this thing as best as i can and finally figure it may be time to install a different ROM...
So far i am rooted with the soak test 2.3.4... i have the tenfar (? is that it?) recovery (the green one with an arrow down it, the same one that i used to install from froyo to GB.
I was looking at liberty, or eclipse...
Whatever is fastest, has a lot of AOSP in it and has a decent camera. Some of them have the bionic camera?
I hate the x2 camera.
So far i have rom toolbox to download liberty if i want it, i am nervous about installing it though since i came from iphone and understand its nearly impossible to brick an iphone, i have heard differently about android.
Additionally, i DO know how to SBF, i have done it twice once to go backwards and send a returned phone and the other to install the soak test on my current phone.
Thanks for any imput, i appreciate it!
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I too was in the same boat. My experience thus far has been to go with Eclipse 1.3 RC2. It seems to be the fastest out of the box with no additional modifications. I consider myself a min/maxer. I don't play games or do any silly stuff with the phone. I want performance with calls, texting, email, GPS, and web browsing/forum posting. I've tried just about all the ROMs I could find and thus far, I have to say Eclipse 1.3 RC2 has met my needs.
I don't even bother with Titanium Backup anymore, in fact, since you use Nandroid to create the backup, there's no need to use Titanium Backup. The Nandroid does the same thing and so far, I've had a few problems back on the Droid X with it, as opposed to no problems yet with Nandroid. I figure using less resources is always better so I scrapped using it.
Following the guides for SBF, Root, and Bootstrap are easy (although I'm not new to this). The camera is superb on the Eclipse ROM, and the theme is absolutely terrific.
My very close 2nd place is the Liberty ROM. I liked it alot but found that directly out of the box, it felt just a bit slower. I did not install any apps to measure anything, just going by how things feel but all in all, I would recommend either of the two for the best experience, if your usage of the phone is anything similar to mine.
Hope that helps my friend!
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Huh... how can the 1% battery mod make battery life worse?
Sorry about your 3g speeds. I have excellent 3g speeds where I am, i can steam music, load web pages and get 1mb attachments while streaming shoutcast.
i have had terrible 3g in las vegas on att... my 1x on vzw though is terrible compared to edge on att so i am glad it (3g) works.
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Well i do everything the same with which ever rom i run but on eclipse 1.2rc it was so very poor in battery life. Just listening to music via power amp through headphones in an hr and a half i will lose 30% in battery life and with blur 2.3.4 in same time frame i would still be either 90% or 100%.
My opinion is that 2.3.4 does not read right we all know that and now we have this 1% reading the wrong info so the function is continously running using battery power just to give you this update by 1% and its just wrong.
And now im runing 2.3.5 and im back to having great battery life. Still get the jump but the battery function on stock for my phone is much more accuate. Btw i gave it about a week or so and it never got better. After my typical day 11 or so hrs off the charge its at 15-20% on eclipse but on stock blur 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 i have about 50-60% after the same amount of time.
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Difference between nandroid and titanium is that supposedly u can use titanium to restore apps/data/system data after doing a data wipe before flashing roms. Nandroid will RESTORE u to the position u were at before flashing. U can't use it to get apps and data back after flashing a rom(theoretically u could restore just the data portion but doing that after flashing a new rom could create more problems) and I say supposedly because I have seen many problems, such as force closes and.etc., come from using titanium to restore datas after flashing. I personally don't see the need /use for it when if u just backup to google ur apps download automatically when u set up after flashing(if u chose that option)
A nandroid is EXTREMELY useful when it comes to bootlooping. If that ever happens to you after u have done something. And u have made a nandroid before whatever it was u did before bootlooping. And u had system recovery (bootstrap) installed. All u need to do is pull battery(to power down) and.plug ur phone in and wait for bootstrap to come up(since after installation of bootstrap charge only mode is hijacked) and restore the nandroid. Which saves u from having to sbf. Aldo nandroid is great for getting back to an exact set up u liked and wanted to be able to return to it at any point. Very useful thing to have.
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Well i do everything the same with which ever rom i run but on eclipse 1.2rc it was so very poor in battery life. Just listening to music via power amp through headphones in an hr and a half i will lose 30% in battery life and with blur 2.3.4 in same time frame i would still be either 90% or 100%.
My opinion is that 2.3.4 does not read right we all know that and now we have this 1% reading the wrong info so the function is continously running using battery power just to give you this update by 1% and its just wrong.
And now im runing 2.3.5 and im back to having great battery life. Still get the jump but the battery function on stock for my phone is much more accuate. Btw i gave it about a week or so and it never got better. After my typical day 11 or so hrs off the charge its at 15-20% on eclipse but on stock blur 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 i have about 50-60% after the same amount of time.
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The thing is that with stock the meter only changes every 10%...so readings can seem a bit different. I also thought I got "better" battery on stock until I stayed with it for about a week and wrote down and took screenshots of battery usage graph.
I have just compared those graphs to my graphs from almost a week on eclipse. All have pretty much the same HEAVY usage. And trust me...when I say heavy....its heavy(just look at my.post count...99 % of them were done using stock web browser. Along with surfing multiple web pages at the same time....and I have pretty weal 3g signal at home so I constantly switch between 3g/wifi all day long)
And after comparison I can say that I see almost the exact same amount of battery time on both stock, eclipse (and the couple days I ran liberty also) .when running roms some.of the days had a LOT better battery times due to.me having the data toggle in the pulldowns so I could kill data when I wanted to..which saves a few hours of battery every day when done often enough. But besides that they were nearly the same except for maybe an hour extra battery life(on roms as compared to stock) and I attribute that to bloat removal since there is less running to drain battery...
And im not trying to come off as a prick or argumentative with this post. Just stating what my findings have been. Everyone battery.life will be different than mine due to individual use and also the fact that it seems like every X2 is picky/different in its own way
But I do get ur point of the 1%mod causing slightly more drain due to its constant need to update/call to system...but I can't see it as having that much of a noticeable difference besides the fact that you can "see in real time" how quick your battery is really dropping.
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Well i do everything the same with which ever rom i run but on eclipse 1.2rc it was so very poor in battery life. Just listening to music via power amp through headphones in an hr and a half i will lose 30% in battery life and with blur 2.3.4 in same time frame i would still be either 90% or 100%.
My opinion is that 2.3.4 does not read right we all know that and now we have this 1% reading the wrong info so the function is continously running using battery power just to give you this update by 1% and its just wrong.
And now im runing 2.3.5 and im back to having great battery life. Still get the jump but the battery function on stock for my phone is much more accuate. Btw i gave it about a week or so and it never got better. After my typical day 11 or so hrs off the charge its at 15-20% on eclipse but on stock blur 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 i have about 50-60% after the same amount of time.
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Not quite sure why you were getting bad battery life. I'm running Liberty ROM and I used ROM Toolbox to set my battery icon to 1% and I get great battery life. In fact, I had to go to the hospital and I was there for almost 24 hours. I forgot to bring my charger with me and by the time I got home (around 20 hours), I was at 14%. This was with texting, making and receiving calls, playing some Angry Birds and even listening to an NFL game for about 10 minutes.
The appearance of draining is more in how 2.3.4 is inaccurately reporting the battery life. When I reboot, it usually jumps back up about 5%, sometimes 10% and then it creeps back down slowly.
I probably rebooted 4 or 5 times that day since I was just waiting around having nothing better to do. And like I said, it lasted me 20+ hours and was at 14% when I finally got home and was able to hook it up to a charger.
What other apps are you running? I'm also running Juice Defender Ultimate and that has helped immensely. It will shut down the 3g connection when I turn off the screen and go into standby mode. I also have Blue-Tooth turned off as well as GPS location. I only turn it on when I need it.
I should also mention that I'm on an extended battery as well which has helped.
now when i had my xperia x10 it was a clear difference between
the stock rom and the custom roms. without the custom roms xperia x10 is garbage before and after gingerbread.
now i got this s2 4 days ago. this phone is crazy fast, never like ever really lags for any reason. and my battery will get me thru a full day easy, as of now.
so i would like to know any real significant differences in speed or any real benefits besides customizing the look of the phone by rooting and enhancing?
i know the general reasons to root android, but this phone in particular i would like to know what i can significantly get from this as i dont see how it could get too much faster lol....
please and thank you?
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now when i had my xperia x10 it was a clear difference between
the stock rom and the custom roms. without the custom roms xperia x10 is garbage before and after gingerbread.
now i got this s2 4 days ago. this phone is crazy fast, never like ever really lags for any reason. and my battery will get me thru a full day easy, as of now.
so i would like to know any real significant differences in speed or any real benefits besides customizing the look of the phone by rooting and enhancing?
i know the general reasons to root android, but this phone in particular i would like to know what i can significantly get from this as i dont see how it could get too much faster lol....
please and thank you?
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Features. Custom roms will add features that won't be available in the stock rom. Some of them are themed, and have themes available. Debloating may also offer improved battery life.
If you decide the stock rom is fine, obtaining root access adds to the functionality (gives you more power to mod, as well as certain useful apps that require root access).
You could also get on the deodexed, stock rom. This makes it easier to theme and modify system apks.
Well, on UCKH7 - if you don't want data overages you need to root in order to nuke the AP Mobile widget.
You can improve battery life a bit by debloating other stuff like SNS after that.
The stock UCKH7 ROM is pretty decent, not "garbage" - but there are obvious fixes available.
I may have never rooted my SGSII if I had not received the OTA upgrade to UCKK6 (2.3.6) which caused terrible battery life. So I rooted to return to stock UCKH7 (2.3.4) which improved the battery life.
After reading many threads on this forum, I wanted to tweak the battery a little more so I flashed UnNamed 1.3.2 which removed the AT&T bloat and improved the battery a little more.
tneil said:
I may have never rooted my SGSII if I had not received the OTA upgrade to UCKK6 (2.3.6) which caused terrible battery life. So I rooted to return to stock UCKH7 (2.3.4) which improved the battery life.
After reading many threads on this forum, I wanted to tweak the battery a little more so I flashed UnNamed 1.3.2 which removed the AT&T bloat and improved the battery a little more.
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yea ive seen the complaints about 2.3.6 but its clear that it isnt everyone. a few others, including myself, have not had bad battery issues with it. just earlier today my phone was on 100% for 2 and a half hours. and then after about 5 hours of use i still had 76% . not the greatest battery but it's fine.
i read somewhere that reverting back to 2.3.4 breaks wifi ? is that true ?
i wanted to go back just to see what battery life was like.
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yea ive seen the complaints about 2.3.6 but its clear that it isnt everyone. a few others, including myself, have not had bad battery issues with it. just earlier today my phone was on 100% for 2 and a half hours. and then after about 5 hours of use i still had 76% . not the greatest battery but it's fine.
i read somewhere that reverting back to 2.3.4 breaks wifi ? is that true ?
i wanted to go back just to see what battery life was like.
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The UCKK6 update has several bugs that UCKH7 does not. You're right, the wifi battery drain bug doesn't get everyone in a big way, but those it does really suffer. It gets others in a small way though. Also, bluetooth hid is completely broken on 2.3.6.
Reverting to UCKH7 without doing a wipe data/factory reset will break wifi, so if you revert, you must wipe. But you should always wipe when switching from one version to another anyway, except the ota update of course does not require a wipe, but they do that incrementally.
Quick question about debloating, i used root explorer and went to data/apps and found all the at&t crap, got rid of it, but after a factory reset, they are back.
i looked into the System/apps folder and they were not there so i don't know where else to look.
thanks
Snakehn said:
Quick question about debloating, i used root explorer and went to data/apps and found all the at&t crap, got rid of it, but after a factory reset, they are back.
i looked into the System/apps folder and they were not there so i don't know where else to look.
thanks
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You can try using Titanium Backup to freeze or delete the at&t bloat.
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mrljlamon said:
yea ive seen the complaints about 2.3.6 but its clear that it isnt everyone. a few others, including myself, have not had bad battery issues with it. just earlier today my phone was on 100% for 2 and a half hours. and then after about 5 hours of use i still had 76% . not the greatest battery but it's fine.
i read somewhere that reverting back to 2.3.4 breaks wifi ? is that true ?
i wanted to go back just to see what battery life was like.
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The problem I had with the UCKK6 bug was that it was intermittent. Some days I had good battery life and then out of nowhere the battery would just start to drain and of course it would happen when charging wasn't available.
If you decide to go back to UCKH7, I would strongly recommend you read the step by step guide by creepyncrawly in the General forum. It will guide you so you don't Increment the Flash Counter.
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You can try using Titanium Backup to freeze or delete the at&t bloat.
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The problem I had with the UCKK6 bug was that it was intermittent. Some days I had good battery life and then out of nowhere the battery would just start to drain and of course it would happen when charging wasn't available.
If you decide to go back to UCKH7, I would strongly recommend you read the step by step guide by creepyncrawly in the General forum. It will guide you so you don't Increment the Flash Counter.
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yea i saw that guide. gonna go with that if i decide to thanks.
but i mean i had wifi on last night while i was asleep for 5 hours and i only lost 3% so somehow i think i was not really effected by the problems with 2.3.6. from charging my phone to 100 yesterday around 6 using it till i fell asleep around 130. this morning at 930 i still had 63% . hmm
Hi,
I installed ViperRez 1.0.3 and I found this rom perfect for me, but the battery life was bad.
So I wanted to test another ROM. When I tested Nil's Business 2.3, I found the battery life was better.
Then I got an idea: Install ViperRom and flash the Nil's Business PH98IMG.zip.
Now, my battery life is doubled and I have no problems
thx will try
i used underclock to 600mhz
to get better battery [screen time] however idle is ok for me
just flashed，found that the kernel is the same.
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@OP Nice call bro. Interesting discovery :good:
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now if only I can figure out heat issues I have. on latest everything. I wonder if the .13 kernel from nils business 3.6 will work
You can also try a progam like setcpu, no frills...etc from play store. It seems to work for me.
GIGZ1971 said:
You can also try a progam like setcpu, no frills...etc from play store. It seems to work for me.
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Try cpu monitor widget by coconuts from the market and see how your cpu is working compared to what set cpu says...even using different governors.
check "enable profiles' within setcpu (don't need to set one up, just check the box) and your phone will get faster. For me it enables the 2nd core to be used more frequently, or all the time.
Just sayin...and there's been a ton of stuff written about setcpu, perflock...etc already so no need to rehash.
A screenshot of your better battery life would help..
read this thread and thought id try..
Abu-7abash said:
A screenshot of your better battery life would help..
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i did the same thing when i read this thread im running the viperRez rom 1.0.3 with the nils business PH98IMG with s-on and the latest ice cream sandwich firmware leak.. i originilly started this process with my rezound to try and save battery life the way i did with my incredible.. not getting as good of results. i noticed he never replied with a screen shot thought id add mine.. (note: this is my extended 3.7v battery and i removed my it at one point so theres actually three more hours added to the time on battery before it died adn this is light to med use all day) this really is honestly the best combination ive seen for battery life on the rezound.i cant say its doubled..at least personally. if anyone has any other suggestions im open to hear them..
Hey guys here is something else I've just done today that seems to be working awesome..
Download Rom Manager
Download and install the Kernal that they have listed under "free"
So far the phone still runs butta smooth and my battery hasn't beening flying rapidly down..
will try
eagle20g said:
Hey guys here is something else I've just done today that seems to be working awesome..
Download Rom Manager
Download and install the Kernal that they have listed under "free"
So far the phone still runs butta smooth and my battery hasn't beening flying rapidly down..
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are you using cwm recovery im on amonRa. would love to see my power stop rapidly dropping tho..
famouscollin said:
are you using cwm recovery im on amonRa. would love to see my power stop rapidly dropping tho..
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Yeah, i was on Arom "whatever its called" and I just flashed there touch cwm to just try it out and I haven't had any issues, I installed the Kernal listed in Rom Manager just for **** and giggles and yea It has made a really big difference
ok
eagle20g said:
Yeah, i was on Arom "whatever its called" and I just flashed there touch cwm to just try it out and I haven't had any issues, I installed the Kernal listed in Rom Manager just for **** and giggles and yea It has made a really big difference
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i dont seem to see any kernel in rom manager for down load:/ a couple screen shots on where would be awesome if you have the time..
One major improvement for battery life is customizing Juice Defender. They way I set mine up is as follows:
Enable data for anything that requires data (i.e. browser, market, etc...)
Disable data for anything that doesn't require data (i.e. Launcher, Music, Messages, etc...)
Enable/Screen Off for anything you stream or tether (i.e. TuneIn, Grooveshark, DI, etc...)
What this does is only enable data for anything you actually need data for rather than right after unlocking the screen. Sure you may have to wait a second or two after launching the market before data is enabled, but by the time you're done typing in your search it should be ready to go anyways. Just a couple pennies for anyone trying to max out battery life...
Here is my screenshot.
Yeah, i was on Arom "whatever its called" and I just flashed there touch cwm to just try it out and I haven't had any issues, I installed the Kernal listed in Rom Manager just for **** and giggles and yea It has made a really big difference
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I don't find the kernel. Where is it exactly ?
Dev222 said:
Hi,
I installed ViperRez 1.0.3 and I found this rom perfect for me, but the battery life was bad.
So I wanted to test another ROM. When I tested Nil's Business 2.3, I found the battery life was better.
Then I got an idea: Install ViperRom and flash the Nil's Business PH98IMG.zip.
Now, my battery life is doubled and I have no problems
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This kernel is the exact same kernel in Viper 1.0.3. If you're getting better battery life it's probably from using the ROM for a few days and not from flashing.
Yea I was going to say but you beat me to it, they are the same kernels.
Let the ROM settle, and your battery life should increase over time, then hold steady.
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