Best battery life ROM? - Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

Which ROM has the best battery life in your guys' opinion?
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On viperROM I got about a day and a half of battery before it died on me. And I was running his dual core ultimate mod along with it.
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wow! im currently on pkmn ROM, and its great, but the battery life could be better. i can barely last a day with it though. so i guess viper rom is the one to install?

every phone is diff.. a rom thats good on battery for one lte mite not be for another.. to be honest i got better battery life when i was stock not rooted not unlocked.. my battery life is still good but it was deff better for me when i was stright stock..

evo401 said:
every phone is diff.. a rom thats good on battery for one lte mite not be for another.. to be honest i got better battery life when i was stock not rooted not unlocked.. my battery life is still good but it was deff better for me when i was stright stock..
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I felt stock was better too at first, but then I realized that I just obsess over battery life more now since I actually see the percentages drop... I now prefer not seeing the percentages, haha. I know it's dumb, but it's true.
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I think the stock should run the best....
Right now I am running the Fresh rom (bc i had it on my old evo and the battery was always good) Right now I cant tell you which is the best one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1696645 (fresh rom)
But If the battery on fresh rom sucks I'm going to try this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1696645
it has stock everything except that the dev added some goodies.
I really want a rom to be able to push my bat to 35 hours or more, that would be sick.
I got the stock rom to go 24 hours and having 45 percent batt life but i didnt use the talk function
So if anyone else has more applied knowledge on this topic i would like to read what there opinion

Have a look here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1689597
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I prefer flex360's stock rom with all the mods added so far great battery life. 6+ hours off charger and at 92%.
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Thx for the replies guys! I think that ill go with flex's stock ROM.
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MARIO SHARK said:
Thx for the replies guys! I think that ill go with flex's stock ROM.
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You wont regret it
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MARIO SHARK said:
Thx for the replies guys! I think that ill go with flex's stock ROM.
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I just got done with my battery test on this ROM and it is remarkable. Nearly 7 hours of screen time. I don't believe I'll be flashing anything else for a while.
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Stock is awesome for me.
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purock said:
I just got done with my battery test on this ROM and it is remarkable. Nearly 7 hours of screen time. I don't believe I'll be flashing anything else for a while.
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You must be at minimum brightness, right? Personally I can't see the screen in such conditions, but I'm on the international One X and there is no way that I'd ever get 7 hours of screen time no matter what I do.
Were you surfing the internet as well alot?
What is the increase in battery life with Flex's rom?

wow!! I'm going to install right now haha
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lamenramen said:
You must be at minimum brightness, right? Personally I can't see the screen in such conditions, but I'm on the international One X and there is no way that I'd ever get 7 hours of screen time no matter what I do.
Were you surfing the internet as well alot?
What is the increase in battery life with Flex's rom?
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I had it set at auto brightness the entire time. I'm not willing to give up the best part of the phone. I was using my data connection a lot (3G and Wifi) for XDA app, browse web pages, downloading podcasts, updating apps. I never thought I'd see 7 hours of screen time either. This is still shocking to me. It's not like I put my phone on lockdown. I used it a lot.
When I took my phone out of the box, I got 2-3 hours screen time, I rooted and monitored/tweaked settings and I got 4 hours of screen time.
Then I flashed this ROM and something magical happened. Don't know what, but I am happy. The phone sleeps well when the screen is off. The only thing I really did of any note was allow wifi to sleep when not plugged in.
Now I have to see if it was a fluke.

now i dont know whether i should switch to the updated FRESH ROM or stay with flex's. do u guys know which ROM has better battery life?

thanks for the good word guys
i got an androidfilehost account
so i guess im officially a dev lol. faster and more reliable speeds ^_^
look out for an update soon

oh sweet! guess i'll wait for your update then!

flash fresh's and see if its smoother
^_^
ill release my update tomorrow. ive been optimizing apks for the past 4 hours. i hope its worth it lol.
if everything goes well, expect better ram and smoother experience ^_^

Flex, you will be everyone's hero if you improve RAM. I won't have to listen to SIII crap all day tomorrow maybe...
"OMG 2GB RAM!1!"
Ugh.
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Synergy vs viperROM

For those of you who have flashed both, which one do you like better and why?
Synergy would random reboot when I app restored all my apps. It's viper for win
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sense vs senseless
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sense vs senseless
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Uh, they are both sense
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EricSS619 said:
Uh, they are both sense
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uhhh, ViperROM is senseless. It says it in the thread title.
edit: oops, I was thinking of VirusROM. sorry
Actually they both have Sense and Senseless roms. So, which are you referring to?
Most likely you are asking about Sense based roms.
I have ran both and currently am sticking with Nightly builds of Synergy. I just love the speed. And, my internet speeds on 3g, 4g, and wifi are all extremely faster with Synergy.
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Actually they both have Sense and Senseless roms. So, which are you referring to?
Most likely you are asking about Sense based roms.
I have ran both and currently am sticking with Nightly builds of Synergy. I just love the speed. And, my internet speeds on 3g, 4g, and wifi are all extremely faster with Synergy.
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I'm definitely referring to the Sense roms. Didn't even know Viper and Synergy had Senseless versions.
They both sense, for battery life stability Viper all the way for more speed and nice Transitions Sinergy
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dmablade said:
uhhh, ViperROM is senseless. It says it in the thread title.
edit: oops, I was thinking of VirusROM. sorry
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Please link me that thread.
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Awesome post, I'm looking for more feedback as well,
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These are the only two that I have flashed thus far and I have been able to try these out for about three days each now and haven't noticed anything very different between the two... The phone is still really fast regardless of which I have installed and the battery life is disappointing (~ 9-10 hours) compared to stock (~13-16 hours). I think I will flash something else and maybe come back to these two at some point to see if anything has improved.
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These are the only two that I have flashed thus far and I have been able to try these out for about three days each now and haven't noticed anything very different between the two... The phone is still really fast regardless of which I have installed and the battery life is disappointing (~ 9-10 hours) compared to stock (~13-16 hours). I think I will flash something else and maybe come back to these two at some point to see if anything has improved.
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Ummm, try Showdown 1.0.
I like viper over synergy, more stability and I like his oc daemon script. Showdown is nice and very esthetically pleasing and its snappy but it lacks full stability Imo as well. Hope that helps.
So far every rom has given me around 10 hours of battery with moderate use if I don't play stuff like order and chaos all day.
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Drachen808 said:
These are the only two that I have flashed thus far and I have been able to try these out for about three days each now and haven't noticed anything very different between the two... The phone is still really fast regardless of which I have installed and the battery life is disappointing (~ 9-10 hours) compared to stock (~13-16 hours). I think I will flash something else and maybe come back to these two at some point to see if anything has improved.
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Interesting. I thought it was a given that viperROM would give you better battery life than stock.
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Interesting. I thought it was a given that viperROM would give you better battery life than stock.
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No I got better battery life before I rooted and romed too. Strange right? I don't mind the lesser battery life though since I get better performance and features. 10 hours is still a full day and that's with Pandora going all day, texts and emails
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I loved Viper, will go back to it once I'm finished playing with CM9.
I got better than 15 hours on my newest 3D. But I don't charge half charged batteries or let my phone go completely dead before charging either. I'm really old school when it comes to rechargeable batteries.

Which custom ROM has best battery life and apps2sd?

i'm going to root a friends stock Amaze. he complains that the battery life is less than perfect, and he installs a lot of apps. which newest ROM, in the opinion of you guys, has the best battery life, and has apps2sd? i assume all, if not most, apps have a2sd, just want to make sure. thanks!
This Rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535173
This Kernal
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359951
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Rom and Kernal are rock solid. No reboots or weird stuff at all. It has Sense removed. That is what saves a lot of battery. Any Amaze running Faux's Kernel will have a lot better battery life anyway. Sense or not.
Cobra281 said:
i'm going to root a friends stock Amaze. he complains that the battery life is less than perfect, and he installs a lot of apps. which newest ROM, in the opinion of you guys, has the best battery life, and has apps2sd? i assume all, if not most, apps have a2sd, just want to make sure. thanks!
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Energy ROM 3.10.12 release with the modified stock kernel. By far the most stable ROM also, which your friend will appreciate
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glacierguy said:
Energy ROM 3.10.12 release with the modified stock kernel. By far the most stable ROM also, which your friend will appreciate
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The Energy Rom has better battery life than CapAlpha, ive tested both and the Energy rom lasted me more, i cant prove it but trust me on this one
Veras1996 said:
The Energy Rom has better battery life than CapAlpha, ive tested both and the Energy rom lasted me more, i cant prove it but trust me on this one
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That maybe but I like sense being gone. That battery life is good for me. I had nothing but trouble with wifi on energy. Trust I had the right kernel all that. Great for eye candy though.
Really fauxs kernel makes the biggest difference at least in my experience.
I am running energy right now and it is giving me the best battery life so far with the stock kernel and some profiles set with setCPU. And capromalpha is running a close second, I have tried just about all the available ROM's and I'm settling on energy, even though I don't like sense that much the theme makes it more bearable + I have finally been able to get through a day without needing to charge my battery halfway through.
Now I just sit and wait for CM9 or a stable AOSP.
My 2 cents.
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I am running energy right now and it is giving me the best battery life so far with the stock kernel and some profiles set with setCPU. And capromalpha is running a close second, I have tried just about all the available ROM's and I'm settling on energy, even though I don't like sense that much the theme makes it more bearable + I have finally been able to get through a day without needing to charge my battery halfway through.
Now I just sit and wait for CM9 or a stable AOSP.
My 2 cents.
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And on the newest release, I noticed when I'm not using my phone, my battery doesn't budge. It was @ 90% when I went out the other night. 3 hours later, I checked and it was at 89%
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I also settled on Energy 031012 w/Stock Kernel. I use my phone A LOT and it seems to be the best route for me. My battery lives vary depending on what im doing so its not really consistant. But if I hardly use it it last a good 24hrs+
I just started messing with System Tuner. So hopefully stupid apps, like Maps Friend Finder, stops running in the background.
I'm using bulletproof. Would u guys recommend energy for significant battery boost ?. Bulletproof is INCREDIBLY stable n thats all I go for.
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fuego77 said:
I'm using bulletproof. Would u guys recommend energy for significant battery boost ?. Bulletproof is INCREDIBLY stable n thats all I go for.
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Imho, Energy is the most stable that we have. You can usually tell by the issues (or lack there of) listed in the thread... And if you notice NRGZ thread stays pretty off-topic because there's nothing to report... I did like BP2.5 though, and will call it a close second. I prefer the themeing and battery of energy myself
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glacierguy said:
Imho, Energy is the most stable that we have. You can usually tell by the issues (or lack there of) listed in the thread... And if you notice NRGZ thread stays pretty off-topic because there's nothing to report... I did like BP2.5 though, and will call it a close second. I prefer the themeing and battery of energy myself
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see, the energy theme is the only reason im not running it now. never really had any issues with it, just cant stand the theme. if i could have energy and have it look exactly like stock, id be back in a heartbeat
Thanks for your opinions guys. I like the "theme" on everything except for the icons...I like stock icons =\
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installed android revolution HD, as the link for energyrom wasn't working(md5sum did not match).
So based on recommendations in this thread I switched to Energy ROM (though not a huge fan of Sense). So far the battery seems to be significantly better even comparing to CapRomAlpha.
But everybody in this thread also implied that the Energy is the most stable custom ROM for Amaze. Yet I can not get WiFi or bluetooth working - it does not turn on (says "error" for Wifi and bluetooth just does not turn on). If battery life keeps going like this I definitely want to stick with this ROM but lack of working Wifi and BT is a serious problem.
Any word of advise or recomendation would be greatly appreciated....
Thanks.
Go to Energy Rom thread post #4 and download the stock kernel flasher.
Unzip the folder to your desktop and open the unzipped folder. Plug in your device, charge only, and turn on usb debugging via settings>applications>development. Then run the flash.bat batch file from unzipped folder and you're done
nav200, thanks for your response.
I was just about to post the "never mind" message as I found the same information myself. But thanks anyway. Totally makes sense that kernel did not flash in recovery with the ROM coming from a stock and CapRomAlpha roms.
I am really intrigued right now. I was already getting a better battery life but that was even with the wrong kernel and therefore no OC daemon in play. It should be even better now. I am recharging my battery to 100% now and will wipe the battery stats to start over. Will post with results later.
fuego77 said:
I'm using bulletproof. Would u guys recommend energy for significant battery boost ?. Bulletproof is INCREDIBLY stable n thats all I go for.
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Energy has a much better battery life....and with faux's kernal, its even more amazing
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Energy has a much better battery life....and with faux's kernal, its even more amazing
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How did you get faux kernel working with NRGZ's ROM ?
I get the WiFi error if I put the faux 009 kernel, have you put the previous ver (008) ?
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How did you get faux kernel working with NRGZ's ROM ?
I get the WiFi error if I put the faux 009 kernel, have you put the previous ver (008) ?
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I've read that you have to flash the kernel twice, sometimes 3 times for it to work
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glacierguy said:
I've read that you have to flash the kernel twice, sometimes 3 times for it to work
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Thanks glacier...flashing twice did the trick
Actually, I had faux kernel running fine on my earlier ROM so didn't think I had to reflash it again when I installed NRGZ's..but re-installed it twice and its good

Mean Rom ICS vs. Viper Redline ICS

I'm trying to figure it out which ICS rom to flash based on battery life and I've narrowed it down to Mean Rom ICS and Viper Redline ICS, and I was wondering if anyone would mind posting pics of the battery times.
MEAN ICS v2.0
I'm currently running MR ICS 2.0 and I'm getting pretty decent batter life. I'll have a screen shot in the morning as I haven't actually measured so I'll do an overnight test and have the screenshot up in the AM. I haven't tried the ViperROm though.
I use MR also. Pretty decient useage and i get a solid 15 hours out of it. I tried Vipers ICS in the beginning and was getting about the same. Im not sure what he has changed since the first release. I would post a pic but i just switched back to a gingerbread Rom. ICS to me has some bugs and GB i was getting better battery life and faster performance.
Hope this helps
Any one have pictures ?
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Viper Rom ICS Beta 3.1, using stock settings it came with, and I just installed it today, been using it moderately.
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Just came back home, so charging back up.
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flintman said:
I use MR also. Pretty decient useage and i get a solid 15 hours out of it. I tried Vipers ICS in the beginning and was getting about the same. Im not sure what he has changed since the first release. I would post a pic but i just switched back to a gingerbread Rom. ICS to me has some bugs and GB i was getting better battery life and faster performance.
Hope this helps
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I agree! I'm back to meanROM GB v4.2. Downloading meanROM GB v4.4!
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I went from Viper to MeanRom and never looked back. Even using Viper's CPU Control I still don't get the battery life that I do from Mean. Not to mention Mikey is focused on one sole device and Viperboy's attention is divided by at least two (3D and 4GLTE) maybe more I don't go to all the forums. Also, I use gps a lot my phone (Hardware Ver 2) runs a lot cooler with Mean then Viper when using the gps for hours upon hours. I've even used it for a 14 hour singe day drive once the screen was never off (I did use a car charger of course lol)
MeanROM.
Thanks!
Thanks Everyone! I decided to flash Mean Rom!
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MeanROM.
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How in the world do you get that type of battery life. I've been running Mean rom for 2 days now with almost all settings i could do to save battery, but i still get about 10 hours on it.
airplane mode maybe =P. really ive been running meanrom and cant get that type of battery life..
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airplane mode maybe =P. really ive been running meanrom and cant get that type of battery life..
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Even with Airplane mode on you'd probally get about 2 hours extra battery life :/
MikRom ICS
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Avi8ion said:
How in the world do you get that type of battery life. I've been running Mean rom for 2 days now with almost all settings i could do to save battery, but i still get about 10 hours on it.
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The screen is only at 17% so either he is not using the phone too much or the brightness is very low
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The screen is only at 17% so either he is not using the phone too much or the brightness is very low
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Or it could be what he has on his Screen. For Example he could have an alternative Launcher with one homescreen and a clock widget. And also i heard that if you use a regular black wallpaper it could save you quite amount of power. So maybe could throw in a Black Wallpaper in there.
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I use MR also. Pretty decient useage and i get a solid 15 hours out of it. I tried Vipers ICS in the beginning and was getting about the same. Im not sure what he has changed since the first release. I would post a pic but i just switched back to a gingerbread Rom. ICS to me has some bugs and GB i was getting better battery life and faster performance.
Hope this helps
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How do you set up your ROM? I get like six hours.
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MeanROM
MeanROM all the way! quick, and great battery life, 16-17 hours unplugged, 3+ hours display time, and ~25% battery at the end of the day. just spent $12 and got two new batteries from amazon. Again, MeanROM
Mean Rom ICS 2.0
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Mean Rom ICS 2.0
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What settings you running?
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deadhead_fred said:
I'm trying to figure it out which ICS rom to flash based on battery life and I've narrowed it down to Mean Rom ICS and Viper Redline ICS, and I was wondering if anyone would mind posting pics of the battery times.
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I liked MeanRom. The battery life was comparable to the GB version.

S4 sluggish as heck

I just got my S4 and rooted it and flashed Beans 2. Phone is so sluggish. I have wiped and wiped and reinstalled several times. This is nothing like the GN2 on beans 18 that i had. ANy thoughts? I'm trying Hyper ROM now.
Did you odin back to stock.
Use the stock no-wipe rom. It will fix your problem. I am using a stock rooted rom, it is nice and smooth.
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earled said:
I just got my S4 and rooted it and flashed Beans 2. Phone is so sluggish. I have wiped and wiped and reinstalled several times. This is nothing like the GN2 on beans 18 that i had. ANy thoughts? I'm trying Hyper ROM now.
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Can't blame a device for being sluggish when you installed an aftermarket firmware. That's similar to complaining about a firm ride after installing an aftermarket suspension.
I would say go back to stock unrooted and see how it runs.
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the gs4 in general is a very laggy, sluggish phone. the hardware doesn't seem to matter; touchwiz supercedes that and it lags it out like crazy.
i've seen varying reports of people who were happier with the Note 2 in terms of speed and less heat, and regretted selling theirs for an S4.
i sold my s3 towards an s4, so i can't say i agree with them, bc i was never a big note 2 fan...but hell, even the s3 was less sluggish than this phone.
stock rooted/unrooted on this thing is even slower than custom roms..hell, beans 2 is the quickest rom in my opinion.
jayochs said:
the gs4 in general is a very laggy, sluggish phone. the hardware doesn't seem to matter; touchwiz supercedes that and it lags it out like crazy.
i've seen varying reports of people who were happier with the Note 2 in terms of speed and less heat, and regretted selling theirs for an S4.
i sold my s3 towards an s4, so i can't say i agree with them, bc i was never a big note 2 fan...but hell, even the s3 was less sluggish than this phone.
stock rooted/unrooted on this thing is even slower than custom roms..hell, beans 2 is the quickest rom in my opinion.
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I actually came from a note 2, I kept it on stock unrooted and it ran the same as my s4. You guys are both noticing lag but are on the same ROM. I'm not bashing roms or devs, but nowadays, manufacturers are doing such a great job in customizability and speed that many custom roms only slow down or kill battery life.
The first phone I realized this on was my rezound. Most of the scripts and "tweaks" incorporated are all placebo and do nothing. There's devs that create Roms and add "faster and better battery life" like in every update changelog that it becomes ridiculous.
This phone stock does as much as cm7 did in terms of customization but some people still find reasons just to bash stock firmware.
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Using Clean Rom 1.3 odex version, my phone runs faster than stock and smoother than stock. The only time I get sight lag is when I have almost every app, including games running.
I think the s4 is going back tomorrow. I odined back to stock. And still not nearly as smooth as my note2 running beans 18
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earled said:
I think the s4 is going back tomorrow. I odined back to stock. And still not nearly as smooth as my note2 running beans 18
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Hi I am looking to send back my S4 too. Do you know how to odin it back to stock? And did you unroot it? If yes, can you teach me how? Or point me to the website/thread that teaches me how? A million thanks
I wonder if there are some marginal SOCs out there that have a lot of throttling issues or something, because I don't notice any lag.
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I love this phone, but notice some slight lag when transitioning between apps and other things. My last couple phones were really bad for lag until switching to slimmed out custom ROMS (usually AOSP.) TouchWiz has lots of nice features that I enjoy, but I'd bet AOSP/CM/AOKP/etc will run much quicker once the quirks are ironed out.
On another note, I seem to remember other carriers getting a pretty quick update which made the phone less laggy. Obviously it also broke root exploits (I think) but nevertheless a lag fix would be nice. I'm stock rooted for now, but am watching development on several roms.
its got nothing to do with the rom I'm running. the s4 is laggy out of the box. clean rom was laggy, hyperdrive was laggy. beans id the least laggy of them all. don't get me wrong, I love my s4, its just laggy lol. Im sure some updates will help it.
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Flash hyper with faux u kernel OCd... it will change immediately
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Flash hyper with faux u kernel OCd... it will change immediately
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Of course one can get a new kernel and tweak it, but with the hardware this device is packing you shouldn't need to OC to have a smooth experience.
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earled said:
I think the s4 is going back tomorrow. I odined back to stock. And still not nearly as smooth as my note2 running beans 18
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Wait for the google edition of the s4 comes out so you can try out the stable aosp ports. They should perform great. My galaxy nexus with the ti omap is butter smooth on aosp and that is a way slower chip.
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Of course one can get a new kernel and tweak it, but with the hardware this device is packing you shouldn't need to OC to have a smooth experience.
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Can't agree more.... quad core should be killing it. I think they rushed the 4.2.2 touch wiz os
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Can't agree more.... quad core should be killing it. I think they rushed the 4.2.2 touch wiz os
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With such high demand for the device there is no doubt it was rushed. You don't produce and move this many units without cutting corners. As Jay said previously I believe some leaks down the line should fix some issues that people are having.
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Well I returned thhe s4. Note 2 is muxh better phone, imo. Waiting for note 3
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i havent noticed any lag at all and i havent even rooted

No 4.3 in the works?

Are we the only s4 with no 4.3 in the works?
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Im sorry but think anout what you just asked. why would a BRAND NEW flagship phone not get the next android version? Jesus christ, use some logic.
Someone forgot their midol.
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There will probably be a 4.3 to come, ~six months after everybody else gets it. Thanks for posting this in the right section. There are at least 4 question posts on the front page of General right now.
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Having a slopped together no custom kernel 4.3 build isn't all that enticing to me.
But I do have by own build that boots. Its OK. It feels and looks exactly like 4.2.2 ge. The differences are that it really is aosp vs tw-aosp.
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Having a slopped together no custom kernel 4.3 build isn't all that enticing to me.
But I do have by own build that boots. Its OK. It feels and looks exactly like 4.2.2 ge. The differences are that it really is aosp vs tw-aosp.
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Isn't there also a pretty significant decrease in Android OS memory usage? More memory for cached apps is always good. It may or may not indicate a slight performance boost as well. Lighter memory footprint may mean lighter CPU usage as well. *shrug*
Also, I believe 4.3 also improves graphics and GPU performance quite a bit using some techniques that I can't remember off-hand.
Hard to say how much these are kernel related or dependant though.
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Metallice said:
Isn't there also a pretty significant decrease in Android OS memory usage? More memory for cached apps is always good. It may or may not indicate a slight performance boost as well. Lighter memory footprint may mean lighter CPU usage as well. *shrug*
Also, I believe 4.3 also improves graphics and GPU performance quite a bit using some techniques that I can't remember off-hand.
Hard to say how much these are kernel related or dependant though.
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Likely true. I only ever ran it for 5-10 minutes at a time. So none of the new memory handling was apparent to me.
I may play with it more but I've got a lot of other stuff I want to get done.
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Im sorry but think anout what you just asked. why would a BRAND NEW flagship phone not get the next android version? Jesus christ, use some logic.
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Check the other s4 forums dopey. And take a chill pill while you're there. No need for needless childlike hostilities. I'm just trying to open up a discussion about something I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering about.
Thanks for the input dubbsy, I was assuming it was something like that. I was wondering if there was working network on it. I just wanted to get it running to convince my friend with his nexus 4 to root hahaha.
I currently run your ge build, but would love a working 4.3 even just for the SS hahaha. But performance wise I'm sure currently something with all the tw firmware would probably perform better.
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For benchmarks the TW framework should bench higher every time. But I haven't ran benchs on 4.3. I don't know why it would be any different than the rest of the pure aosp builds. I would think any gains with 4.3 would have to be compared to a similar build of 4.2.2 and not TW-based. The biggest differences I've seen from AOSP to TW based roms were in the cpu category and by huge differences. Presumably due to samsung drivers.
I did not get network working yet, didn't really try. Probably won't because I'm too busy with other things. Random FCs also due to not having a kernel specific for the device. If I took the time to actually build my own kernel for it I could get it working at least as well as my ge build. But when I say that, any person with a working knowledge of android and using a kitchen could do the same.
Thanks for the input, that's pretty close to what I was guessing. Did you notice any increase in touch response? I read there is on the nexus 4 but no other devices.
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Thanks for the input, that's pretty close to what I was guessing. Did you notice any increase in touch response? I read there is on the nexus 4 but no other devices.
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No more than I get by tweaking any install. :shrug:
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If I took the time to actually build my own kernel for it I could get it working at least as well as my ge build. But when I say that, any person with a working knowledge of android and using a kitchen could do the same.
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I shouldn't have even posted this because my "whythehellnot" thought process got the best of me. So I have the 4.3 ramdisk, I have the CM 4.2.2 boot.img from the nightly, and I have my kitchen all set to build a vzw 4.3 kernel. Now I just need to do it.
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I shouldn't have even posted this because my "whythehellnot" thought process got the best of me. So I have the 4.3 ramdisk, I have the CM 4.2.2 boot.img from the nightly, and I have my kitchen all set to build a vzw 4.3 kernel. Now I just need to do it.
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Lol! Well don't overwhelm yourself haha I know you've got like 3 other gs4 things going right now hahaha but I'll be supporting you either way
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Lol! Well don't overwhelm yourself haha I know you've got like 3 other gs4 things going right now hahaha but I'll be supporting you either way
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Just need the kernel now.
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Isn't there also a pretty significant decrease in Android OS memory usage? More memory for cached apps is always good. It may or may not indicate a slight performance boost as well. Lighter memory footprint may mean lighter CPU usage as well. *shrug*
Also, I believe 4.3 also improves graphics and GPU performance quite a bit using some techniques that I can't remember off-hand.
Hard to say how much these are kernel related or dependant though.
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You are absolutely right. stock untweaked.
For pure aosp with no TW framework this is pretty amazing. Highest I've gotten on an aosp 4.2.2 quadrant was 8,8xx
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Running synergy
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Running synergy
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Which is TW. You won't get anywhere near 12k on 4.2.2 aosp. Comparing apples and puppies doesn't really work out too well..
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Yeah I know its tw, dont really care for aosp personally just wanted to chime in with my scores is all.
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Yeah I know its tw, dont really care for aosp personally just wanted to chime in with my scores is all.
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Seriously? You just had to throw your irrelevant scores into the discussion knowing full well it was irrelevant due to the scoring differences between TW and AOSP which was previously mentioned as being irrelevant in this very thread? Is that really what youre saying?
Anyway...Stock basically cheats anyway when it comes to benchmarks. Open up quadrant or antutu on TW and it will automatically turn on all cores and run at max speed, no matter how little the CPU is being used. ASFAIK this doesn't happen on an aosp ROM.
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Seriously? You just had to throw your irrelevant scores into the discussion knowing full well it was irrelevant due to the scoring differences between TW and AOSP which was previously mentioned as being irrelevant in this very thread? Is that really what youre saying?
Anyway...Stock basically cheats anyway when it comes to benchmarks. Open up quadrant or antutu on TW and it will automatically turn on all cores and run at max speed, no matter how little the CPU is being used. ASFAIK this doesn't happen on an aosp ROM.
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I was shocked by the 4.3 numbers to be honest. I knew it felt smoother and faster... But thought it was placebo. And I was wrong.
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