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So I am on stock 2.2. Yes its unofficial and i get decent battery life with Superpower, could go all day with very minimal use. Now I took a look at my friends Vibrant today and a few things I noticed. He had used the display at full brightness longer than me, used phone calls a full hour more than me, pretty much did much more than I did with mine today, with us both taking the phone off charge around the same time. His battery percentage was at 49%, mine was at 20%.
Is it possible something else is going on with mine? I mean I have systempanel on, and I am checking what is using the cpu and its nothing. Nothing is, at least to drain it so badly. Maybe I got a faulty phone? Even on stock OTA JI6 I still had worse battery life. I duno? Anyway got any thoughts?
Then go and try swap batteries. then do the test all over again.
Ask your friendto give you his phone fir a few minutes then when he's not looking switch the batteries. I did this with my brother haha
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lol I don't think its the battery, the battery seems to be dying at the correct voltage. Maybe it is a battery though, not sure. I flashed back to stock JI6 and will be doing more testing. These 2.2 roms just don't seem right, at least as far as battery life is concerned.
xriderx66 said:
Ask your friendto give you his phone fir a few minutes then when he's not looking switch the batteries. I did this with my brother haha
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wow so your the type of guy who rips off family and friends what a ****
Thanks to all developers for all The hard work to this comunity.
i think we all lile to come here and see a New Rom.
But in The end what is The diference from all of The roms here ?
No bugs or less bugs ?
More colours or less colours ?
I just want a stable rom with 24 hours of battery...but battery that let me use the SG2,,,use push mail , use GPS with acuracy , surf in The web ....
The iOS 4 let me do this...
I tried almost of The roms here...cant get more than 12 hours...diferent kernels...
I dont want set CPU , juice defender etc,,,i want a device that i dont want to think if i surf On The web ...i dont have battery for tonight.
I think The developers do a lota of effort..i think The sg2 is not good enough...
I bought 3 batterys ... All The same , waiting for The 2000mhn from Samsung ...last hope ...or i Will be back to iPhone .
Any advice On a good cobination / rom and kernel ?
Btw : The quality of The housing of The sg2 is poor..
Thanks for you advices , and thnks to all developers .
Cognition and ninphetamine
My SGS2 has better battery life than my iPhone. The only bad thing about the casing is the battery cover...that's the trade-off of having a removable battery. Sounds like you're using your battery wrong.
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My SGS2 has better battery life than my iPhone. The only bad thing about the casing is the battery cover...that's the trade-off of having a removable battery. Sounds like you're using your battery wrong.
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What you mean wrong ?
What rom and kernel are you using ?
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Galinha, there must be something wrong with your setup. On an iPhone 4 I was getting 7-8 hours of battery life. SGS2 lasts me a day at least. I'm using stock ROM and kernel.
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Lol it was just a joke (remember iPhone-you're holding it wrong?).
I'm using cognition and ninphetamine. I took my phone off charge about 15 hours ago and my battery is at 73%. Made a few phone calls, sent a few messages, played wordfeud, used opera and some random stuff playing around in the phone. I suspect there might be something wrong with your phone or there's an app that isn't running correctly. Why don't you back up your photos etc and try a reset?
Definitely something is not right because for me the GS2 has the best battery life out of all the smartphones I've used!
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Lol it was just a joke (remember iPhone-you're holding it wrong?).
I'm using cognition and ninphetamine. I took my phone off charge about 15 hours ago and my battery is at 73%. Made a few phone calls, sent a few messages, played wordfeud, used opera and some random stuff playing around in the phone. I suspect there might be something wrong with your phone or there's an app that isn't running correctly. Why don't you back up your photos etc and try a reset?
Definitely something is not right because for me the GS2 has the best battery life out of all the smartphones I've used!
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Same, the atrix and the sgs2 spank the iPhone for battery life. Can't wait to see the iFail 5 so I can laugh at them invent dual core smart phones.
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Ok. Something is really wrong with mine....really wrong
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Ok. Something is really wrong with mine....really wrong
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Whats the matter
Maybe dont matter to you but i spent 600 euros in a device that after 12 hours is dead....without bat , no matter rom or kernel i use...
Realy in terms of battery all cooked roms are equal...The rom and kernel that Will make The difference Will be The one that is really battery friendly ...
Mate my phone is the best for me. i was like you wondering what im doing wrong and i got **** battery. but i read about it and chopped and changed kernels till i found the best one for me. now i can use my phone for a day or two without charging it
I am coming from an SGS and have just snapped up an SGS2, both of which I am very happy with. I am a heavy smartphone user, I can't do without them because they have made my life easier and more enjoyable in a number of ways.
There often are occasions when I would never make a full day on a single charge, on *any* smartphone. Now, one of the iPhones' several showstoppers for which I could NEVER buy one and for which I think it's an absolute POS and it's really for people who do not need smartphones, is their non-removable battery! The SGS2 has a removable one so I can't understand all the talk about having to worry and limiting oneself in using one's smartphone!!
An original Samsung battery for the SGS and SGS2 costs around € 18 here in Italy and an original desktop charger is about € 20. I had 3 1500mah batteries for the SGS and have 4 1650 ones for the SGS2. However long I am out and about I NEVER run out of juice and however many batteries I use in any given day I just charge them once I am at home! What's easier and simpler than that????
Even when I have just used a single battery and still have some charge left by the end of the day I NEVER plug in my phone at night, I put it in airplane mode and keep it handy on the nightstand to use as an alarmclock and to quickly check whatever I may need after I go to bed (an appointment, a note, something on the net etc etc). Once the battery runs out (during the next morning or whenever) I switch batteries and charge the depleted one when I am back home. So even if you can make a whole day on a single charge having at least 2 batteries and a desktop charger which can charge your battery alone, you would never have to keep your phone on the leash of the powercord and limiting your freedom in using it!
Lighten up guys..
if you want a guide on the rom that you are using and how to get the best out of it follow the link below and hopefully that will help you out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1234264
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Hi, I love my 3VO but my biggest issue with it is battery life.. I use my phone a lot for music, texting, facebook, etc.. and can't get it to last me a full day. I seem to get 8-10 hours out of my battery, if I back off on usage I probably get 12 or a little better. is there much to gain by rooting? my old phone was a rooted hero, which stock the phone hardly worked.. so root was almost required, and made the phone so much better. I've considered rooting the 3vo, but it's just worked well enough that I haven't made time to mess with it and don't necessarily have a reason to. any input for me?
For battery life, I run MIUI. Yes root it. De bloat it at a minimum. Toss a few ROMs and kernels around. I like my Evo4G more than this phone until it was rooted.
Eternity is a sweet sense ROM by the way. Not great on battery, bit it is a best!
E3D'ed... Booyah!
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Root your phone, install clockwork mod recovery, flash clockwork recovery to save your rooted stock rom.
Next drain your battery until its dead, recharge to full and reboot into recovery.
From there you you will need to wipe your battery stats, found under advanced. Reboot.
Drain battery once again and charge to full.
useful links:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=669497
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954107
If ur gettiing that good of battery life u should be happy. Thats pretty impressive for any phone in my opinion.
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Oops.. My bad.
I might have to give rooting it a shot, my friends with iphones and similar usage seem to get at least a couple hours more than I do. could just be the tiny screens they have to deal with.. but if I could make mine last longer with a different rom I might have to give it a shot. As of right now my phone has been on the fritz a little bit.. and I wanna get that taken care of before I try rooting it. I'm sure sprint won't be too quick to replace a rooted phone.
Installed synergy and with Virtuous_OC-PC my battery life has doubled compared to stock htc sense. It appears to manage turning on and off services better then the stock, as well as under clocking when it's asleep. I really notice it when the battery is low, the power save settings seem to really kick in there.
Yes, absolutely root your phone. Best thing I have done! Check out CleanROM by Scott at www.scottsroms.com. Great battery life - I average about 24 hours with light to moderate usage and 12+ hours with moderate to heavy usage.
Just try out a few ROMS and see which one you like and runs good on your phone. Even with the same ROM some phones have can have issues and others don't.
I'm thinking of switching my EVO 3d for this, just don't want to get something worst on battery life. So please don't mind to drop your Intel on this.
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Battery life is variable like any other device.
How you have it setup, how you use it, how the phone came out of the factory. What rom you're running. What kernel you're running. What tweaks you've made. What modem you're using. Whether you use the phone in a low/fair/high signal strength area.
And a heap of other things.
Get the idea ?
When you first get it and play with it nonstop, probably 12 hours at most. Once you just use it as a phone and keep it in your pocket deep-sleeping all day, I get 48 hours out of it, frankenstein LA4 rom, stock voltage, siyah kernel.
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I tend to get between 16-18 hours from my phone, with a lot of texting and playing games. This is the best phone in terms of battery life that I've owned.
i manage to squeeze 1d 12 hours at a moderate usage so i cant complain
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Battery life is variable like any other device.
How you have it setup, how you use it, how the phone came out of the factory. What rom you're running. What kernel you're running. What tweaks you've made. What modem you're using. Whether you use the phone in a low/fair/high signal strength area.
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+1 on this. 80% of the difference is in the changes you make and how you use it. All that withstanding, I'd still say that it's pretty good, especially compared to some devices.
Get about 4 hours screen on so more than happy with daily charge.
As already said by others there's so many variables since we all have different set ups.
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It depends how you use it.
When playing games, movies, etc battery will last about 4hours give or take
if you tweek cpu/voltage/screen/dual core/wifi+data you could get 24+ easly with normal usage (messaging/browsing/calls/social)
battery drains uber fast in low signal (wifi/gsm) areas or when holding in "death grip". but that's true for all devices.
overall the device has good battery life considering the power it has and screen size.
with custom rom sconcauteam wxla4 2 day but depends on the use that one makes
Thank you all for answering, I think I'm going for it.
I tried Vigor360, and though I hate Sense, it was.. okay...except battery life was worse than on my Thunderbolt. I've tried flashing different kernels but more problems usually arrise out of the blue and I have NO CLUE which kernels are actually good , good as in they actually male an effort to improve the battery life. I'm currently on a CM9 ROM and holy hell! The keyboard lags and battery life is ATROCIOUS ! I haven't even hardly installed any apps!
I tried Newt's One XXX, v5.1.1 but couldn't stand the minor bugs, but I assume battery life on that ROM is way worse than on Vigor360 (since usually, the higher the version of Sense, the worse it is on the battery) when I had a galaxy Nexus, the picture quality was a joke, but I made it well through the day with it! I'm not getting an extended battery. The phone is thick enough -.-
My current usage is about 7 hours,an hour and a half of screen time, battery is at 7%. I can sort of stand sense 3.6 so long as it isn't theme. What ROM/kernel combo do you guys use to get through the day, or did I make a mistake getting this phone? (No offense)
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I tried Vigor360, and though I hate Sense, it was.. okay...except battery life was worse than on my Thunderbolt. I've tried flashing different kernels but more problems usually arrise out of the blue and I have NO CLUE which kernels are actually good , good as in they actually male an effort to improve the battery life. I'm currently on a CM9 ROM and holy hell! The keyboard lags and battery life is ATROCIOUS ! I haven't even hardly installed any apps!
I tried Newt's One XXX, v5.1.1 but couldn't stand the minor bugs, but I assume battery life on that ROM is way worse than on Vigor360 (since usually, the higher the version of Sense, the worse it is on the battery) when I had a galaxy Nexus, the picture quality was a joke, but I made it well through the day with it! I'm not getting an extended battery. The phone is thick enough -.-
My current usage is about 7 hours,an hour and a half of screen time, battery is at 7%. I can sort of stand sense 3.6 so long as it isn't theme. What ROM/kernel combo do you guys use to get through the day, or did I make a mistake getting this phone? (No offense)
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going to need some things from you:
1. are you s-on or off
2. what firmware are you on
3. do you like sense or aosp more
edit: 7 and 1/2 hours screen time. that is awesome for the REZ. the HD screen is what kills the battery the most. if you can get 7 hours then bravo.
He said he is averaging 7hrs of use with 1.5hrs screen time which is pretty bad. Believe it or not, newts one xxx has probably the best battery life for the rez. I can easily get 14hrs with 3hrs screen time with stock battery. Yesterday I got 17 hrs with 5.5hrs screen time on extended battery. That is probably the best Rom atm and sense 4+ is much more appealing to the eye. All I can say is if you don't like sense, you bought the wrong phone. People will forget about this phone before aosp/aokp is perfected, even though they are making great progress. I can never get any kernels to work right either. Leaving stock kernels is usually best. As with any android phone, you have to work for battery life
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He said he is averaging 7hrs of use with 1.5hrs screen time which is pretty bad. Believe it or not, newts one xxx has probably the best battery life for the rez. I can easily get 14hrs with 3hrs screen time with stock battery. Yesterday I got 17 hrs with 5.5hrs screen time on extended battery. That is probably the best Rom atm and sense 4+ is much more appealing to the eye. All I can say is if you don't like sense, you bought the wrong phone. People will forget about this phone before aosp/aokp is perfected, even though they are making great progress. I can never get any kernels to work right either. Leaving stock kernels is usually best. As with any android phone, you have to work for battery life
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Wow!! The big reason I have this phone is.. well..
Had a Nexus, broke it and sold it for $75, relative let me use an iPhone 4... I lasted a week before caving and bought a Thunderbolt for $90.
I couldn't stand the ancient android OS and the phone was having random data drops, so I got Verizon to replace it with another thunderbolt. The replacement had the same issue + the vibrate motor decided when and when not to work. The guy on the phone was like "well, since you've had several replacements of this phone, we're gonna see about sending g you a different phone to resolve your issues once and for all, but the phone you receive won't come with a battery cover or battery." I told him I had a battery cover and battery for a Rezound and asked if that could be sent to me, he said "sure, we should be able to do that."
This phone killed my 32GB microSD card :'(
I have S-OFF. I prefer AOSP, but they seem get get home horrendous battery life.
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He said he is averaging 7hrs of use with 1.5hrs screen time which is pretty bad. Believe it or not, newts one xxx has probably the best battery life for the rez. I can easily get 14hrs with 3hrs screen time with stock battery. Yesterday I got 17 hrs with 5.5hrs screen time on extended battery. That is probably the best Rom atm and sense 4+ is much more appealing to the eye. All I can say is if you don't like sense, you bought the wrong phone. People will forget about this phone before aosp/aokp is perfected, even though they are making great progress. I can never get any kernels to work right either. Leaving stock kernels is usually best. As with any android phone, you have to work for battery life
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didnt see that lol. sorry. work sucks today.
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I have S-OFF. I prefer AOSP, but they seem get get home horrendous battery life.
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newt's sense 4 roms are great on battery life. but when i moved to cm9 i now get about 18hours of life with a little under 5 hours screen on. im running rage 1.9.1.
Dr. Hax said:
I tried Vigor360, and though I hate Sense, it was.. okay...except battery life was worse than on my Thunderbolt. I've tried flashing different kernels but more problems usually arrise out of the blue and I have NO CLUE which kernels are actually good , good as in they actually male an effort to improve the battery life. I'm currently on a CM9 ROM and holy hell! The keyboard lags and battery life is ATROCIOUS ! I haven't even hardly installed any apps!
I tried Newt's One XXX, v5.1.1 but couldn't stand the minor bugs, but I assume battery life on that ROM is way worse than on Vigor360 (since usually, the higher the version of Sense, the worse it is on the battery) when I had a galaxy Nexus, the picture quality was a joke, but I made it well through the day with it! I'm not getting an extended battery. The phone is thick enough -.-
My current usage is about 7 hours,an hour and a half of screen time, battery is at 7%. I can sort of stand sense 3.6 so long as it isn't theme. What ROM/kernel combo do you guys use to get through the day, or did I make a mistake getting this phone? (No offense)
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When asking for help you usually shouldn't trash every kernel/rom made available to us by our hard working devs. Also, your theory on the sense number being higher = higher battery usage is way false. Sense 4 & sense 4.1 were actually designed to decrease battery usage and lag so I would stick with one of those. Also, try underclocking your cpu and changing governors.
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He said he is averaging 7hrs of use with 1.5hrs screen time which is pretty bad. Believe it or not, newts one xxx has probably the best battery life for the rez. I can easily get 14hrs with 3hrs screen time with stock battery. Yesterday I got 17 hrs with 5.5hrs screen time on extended battery. That is probably the best Rom atm and sense 4+ is much more appealing to the eye. All I can say is if you don't like sense, you bought the wrong phone. People will forget about this phone before aosp/aokp is perfected, even though they are making great progress. I can never get any kernels to work right either. Leaving stock kernels is usually best. As with any android phone, you have to work for battery life
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People need to stop judging battery life based on screen-on time and hours of use. It varies per person depending on how many accs/apps are syncing. I am tired of all this "better battery" and comparing usage time. If you want more battery, stop syncing on all apps/account. I wish people would stop posting screenshots of their usage. It just means they don't use their phone as much in terms of accs and apps running. Stock rom/kernel best for stability.
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People need to stop judging battery life based on screen-on time and hours of use. It varies per person depending on how many accs/apps are syncing. I am tired of all this "better battery" and comparing usage time. If you want more battery, stop syncing on all apps/account. I wish people would stop posting screenshots of their usage. It just means they don't use their phone as much in terms of accs and apps running. Stock rom/kernel best for stability.
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It might vary somewhat, but screen-on time and total time are still good yardstick level indicators of battery charge longevity. It's not like when you sync your google account your battery only lasts 1/3 as long - it's maybe a 10% difference, depending on your signal strength, if you're on wifi, etc.
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Wow!! The big reason I have this phone is.. well..
Had a Nexus, broke it and sold it for $75, relative let me use an iPhone 4... I lasted a week before caving and bought a Thunderbolt for $90.
I couldn't stand the ancient android OS and the phone was having random data drops, so I got Verizon to replace it with another thunderbolt. The replacement had the same issue + the vibrate motor decided when and when not to work. The guy on the phone was like "well, since you've had several replacements of this phone, we're gonna see about sending g you a different phone to resolve your issues once and for all, but the phone you receive won't come with a battery cover or battery." I told him I had a battery cover and battery for a Rezound and asked if that could be sent to me, he said "sure, we should be able to do that."
This phone killed my 32GB microSD card :'(
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Try reformatting the sd card on your computer via a card reader.
Rage ROM 1.9.1 is a good ROM, nice and smooth. I got about 2 and a half hours of screen on time with that ROM and Snuzzos Funky Kernel. Very nice combination.
If you want to be real fancy you can build a CM10 ROM. There's a guide for it in the Dev section. (Well, the guide is to make CM9, but it's easy to modify the commands to make it build CM10 instead). I get about 3 hours and 15 mins of screen on time on average with the stock battery, no kernel modifications or anything fancy. Brightness is at 25%. I ran it with brightness on 100% for a day and got about 2 hrs and 15 mins of screen on time.
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People need to stop judging battery life based on screen-on time and hours of use. It varies per person depending on how many accs/apps are syncing. I am tired of all this "better battery" and comparing usage time. If you want more battery, stop syncing on all apps/account. I wish people would stop posting screenshots of their usage. It just means they don't use their phone as much in terms of accs and apps running. Stock rom/kernel best for stability.
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As much as you dislike this method of determining battery life, it is really the only way to gauge battery life on a forum. You are right that it also depends on apps syncing and such but a Rom that can get 12hrs with 3hrs screen time is more battery friendly than a Rom that can do that same12hrs but with 1.5hrs screen on time with the same setup and usage.
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How much battery account sync uses is dependent on just how popular you are we have push sync. This isn't Android 1.5 wen're talking about. Push sync uses very little battery.
And sure, I could build a CM10 ROM, but won't it basically be useless cause most things will be broken or barely working?
I've been running it as a daily driver since the 12th. It's surprisingly stable. No random FCs or anything. There are some graphical artifacts while watching streaming video like on YouTube and Project Butter isn't working, but it's still pretty smooth. Bluetooth calling isn't working either, but nor is it on AOSP ICS either. That's pretty much it for problems.
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And just to clarify, I'm not.dissing ROM's or developers, in fact, I'm going to admit, I'm a huge Newtoroot fanboy lol. Maybe its cause I've known of him since the Droid Incredible! But I've been running One XxX Rom for about a day now and battery life is still pretty bad, what are some good Sense kernels for battery life?
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And just to clarify, I'm not.dissing ROM's or developers, in fact, I'm going to admit, I'm a huge Newtoroot fanboy lol. Maybe its cause I've known of him since the Droid Incredible! But I've been running One XxX Rom for about a day now and battery life is still pretty bad, what are some good Sense kernels for battery life?
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Try snuzzo's 1.6rc2 kernel with it . I am on ecliptic Rom, but have run Newts and switched to that kernel on both. It's in his funky kernel thread.
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I have tried all the sense roms and Nilsp business sense 4.0 gives me the best battery life
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I have tried all the sense roms and Nilsp business sense 4.0 gives me the best battery life
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That's good. About average for a sense 4+ Rom
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Rage ROM 1.9.1 is a good ROM, nice and smooth. I got about 2 and a half hours of screen on time with that ROM and Snuzzos Funky Kernel. Very nice combination.
If you want to be real fancy you can build a CM10 ROM. There's a guide for it in the Dev section. (Well, the guide is to make CM9, but it's easy to modify the commands to make it build CM10 instead). I get about 3 hours and 15 mins of screen on time on average with the stock battery, no kernel modifications or anything fancy. Brightness is at 25%. I ran it with brightness on 100% for a day and got about 2 hrs and 15 mins of screen on time.
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how the heck are you guys getting these ridiculous screen on times with the stock battery?? the best ive ever gotten WITH AND EXTENDED BATTERY is like 3hr screen on time and ~13 hours unplugged with countershrikes AOSP and Funky Kernel
and no where near that with my stock battery
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how the heck are you guys getting these ridiculous screen on times with the stock battery?? the best ive ever gotten WITH AND EXTENDED BATTERY is like 3hr screen on time and ~13 hours unplugged with countershrikes AOSP and Funky Kernel
and no where near that with my stock battery
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I've been wondering that myself lol. I haven't done anything different; same apps, same sync settings, same display brightness, just the ROM + kernel is different. I'm not even undervolted like I was and I'm doing better than before lol... Must be the ROM/stock CM10 kernel I guess.
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