So as usual, our device has many fantastic ROMs available and before I continue, I wanna thank every awesome developer that takes the time out to work on them and make users that much happier with their SGSIII's.
With that said, I've been trying a few JB AOSP/AOKP ROMS and I wanted to get some user input on two particular ROMs (though you can mention any other ROM as well if you wish).
I've personally really enjoyed using ResurrectionRemix 3.x.x and FoxHound 1.x.
I wanted to know what your experiences have been with these two ROMS (in comparison to eachother). Pros/Cons, general comments, etc...
The things im looking at are Battery Life, Consistent Performance, Buggieness, and overall satisfaction.
Any comments would be appreciated! =D
Thanks!
PS.: Please also mention the kernel u used when running each ROM, for the sake of thouroughness.
I'm using RR and running Siyah latest dual boot 1.7RC kernel
I would like to say that I experience Good battery with WiFi or data On for nearly 12 hours and I could get 15% or less battery left at the end of the day. With heavy usage I forgot. This ROM is very smooth for me and I experience no lag.
I have not tried FH ROM thou.
amosljl1995 said:
I'm using RR and running Siyah latest dual boot 1.7RC kernel
I would like to say that I experience Good battery with WiFi or data On for nearly 12 hours and I could get 15% or less battery left at the end of the day. With heavy usage I forgot. This ROM is very smooth for me and I experience no lag.
I have not tried FH ROM thou.
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Yeah that sounds roughly the same that i've been getting with RR and Siyah 1.7rc1. Although sometimes it would be more like 19 Hours of normal-medium usage, and sometimes it would be 10 hours for same usage. Sometimes it feels a little like it has its own temperaments. lol.
Stefan, I realize you are just asking for user input, but this is basically asking which rom/kernel combo is the best. Which comes down to this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1935514
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Hey guys,
I finally installed CM7 a few days a go (nightly #74), and I'm very pleased with it. The only downside, really, is the battery life. It's usable, but it drains at least 40% faster than Samsung-based ROMs.
Most of the power seems to be going to Cell Standby. I hear some of the custom kernels can improve things a lot.
Could those of you who have experimented with different kernels give me a good recommendation for a kernel and/or modem release which will work well? I just don't have time to spend hours digging through hundred-page forum posts these days...
Thanks in advance!
Glitch is good. Battery will be a bit better with a custom kernel but it still won't be as good as Froyo. Just the way it is.
What's your cell standby reading? Percentage of battery use? Also of android system and OS,?
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i recommend NEO 9 v5 it has great battery life and its really smooth it comes with led version and no-led
When I ran CM7 Nightlies a while back I always stayed on the Stock Kernel. I guess that since Kernels aren't updated "Nightly" like the Nightlies you shouldn't use other ones. Just my personal preference.
Stock kernel is more stable but other kernels give better battery an there much smoother
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Hi!
I used my P500 for some months with CyanogenMmat, which is really great but sometimes produced screen freezes.
Now I'm giving my phone to a technically less skilled person. To make sure this person enjoys the phone as much as I did, I want to install an adequate rom for her.
In my opinion this means, the rom should be really stable and guarantee long battery life. Also it wouldn't hurt if the rom was quite up2date, but that's not the main issue.
Can you recommend me a rom?
Thank you very much in advance!
FarmerBlair said:
Hi!
I used my P500 for some months with CyanogenMmat, which is really great but sometimes produced screen freezes.
Now I'm giving my phone to a technically less skilled person. To make sure this person enjoys the phone as much as I did, I want to install an adequate rom for her.
In my opinion this means, the rom should be really stable and guarantee long battery life. Also it wouldn't hurt if the rom was quite up2date, but that's not the main issue.
Can you recommend me a rom?
Thank you very much in advance!
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Hi,
I recommend you to give her the phone with rooted official GB because according to my experience, I believe that official one is the best for technically less skilled person and I also suggest you to install Player pro for best experience of music with its inbuilt 5 band equalizer and you may also use DSP pack but I think it will hard for her to adjust the 10 band equalizer..
Also suggest you to use flash player 11 for stock rom to enjoy online games and videos.. Search the XDA for the thread..
And no doubt that battery backup is good on stock roms. You can also use Juice defender app for enhancing the battery life.
If she use Stock rom definitely she will not face any problem with wifi, usb, 2G,3G or any thing else.
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In my oppinion best stable is nightly4e and franco #4 kernel both combinations do extremly good job of preserving battery life
I am now using RESURRECTION 1.5, stock based and smooth so far
Both the wife and I are running oxygen with franco-4 and the wifes a junkie . Meaning phones always in her hand ... Making calls, texts, searching the net ,fb, playing smurfs and other games 75% of a day and she has never had any real problems other than a FC once or twice a week but phone always lasts her from 6:30 am till about 11pm. With her heavy use
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my opinion
old bb
mik cm7 6.5.8 + fserve gl(latest) + min480 max 710 + freeze/uninstall maps,facebook,tweeter + gps off when not in use + always 2g when not surfing the net...
new bb
nightly four e v4.6 + min480 max 710+ freeze/uninstall maps,facebook,twitter + gps off when not in use + always 2g when not surfing the net...
i cannot suggest what are the best battery friendly kernel between the new ones(fk 4,roqxiii,ta 1.1,etc...) i think all of them are performance oriented
All Cyanogenmod roms over 10.1, aosp, aokp roms make my battery drain so fast that I can't even get a half day. 1 to 2 hours of screen time only. I don't have this issue with sammy roms. I did a full wipe (even the internal sd) with some scripts i found before then flashed the roms normally also tried different kernels but nothing worked.
Same problem here but I think it has more to do with exynos sources. No sources, no CM love.
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First of all, in my experience, Samsung TW roms got a better battery life than AOSP/AOKP, whereas for instance SlimBean + GoogyMax now gets me around 24h with around 2h screen on time (on average).
What you could you is, if you did not do already, use BetterBatteryStats to identify the part that is draining your battery.
Yes. Aosp roms do drain battery faster. You can do nothing about it, it depends on the rom, even though some people do report they get good battery life on specific aosp roms as well (these are almost never CM or PA though, especially PA).
So, it's rom dependant for the most part. Try flashing a different rom...
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I read some comments that they used to get 8-9hrs of SOT, some said they could manage to get 10 or more hours on SOT, so ive been thinking on creating thread to get some info on what version of miui is the best for battery backup, ive used miui7 and yeah i got 8hrs of SOT back then, miui8 is pretty fast on battery drain, so can i have something on you guys? what version is good on battery backup?
I don't think there's a simple answer to your question. Everyone's use of the phone is different.
Playing games uses more battery than browsing or watching YouTube.
4G uses more battery than 3G.
3G uses more battery than WiFi.
Bad mobile signal uses more battery than good signal.
Setting the brightness higher uses more battery than setting it low.
Overclocking uses more battery than running at stock speed.
MIUI 8 uses more battery than MIUI 7.
So there is really no way to objectively compare SOT between users.
I never managed to empty the battery of my phone in one day, no matter what I was doing.
And as long as you come home in the evening and still have battery left, you shouldn't worry about other people's screen on times.
But do you even need to use MIUI? I have used both MIUI 7 and 8, for many months and I used to think that the user experience was pretty great till I installed an Android 7 rom here from XDA, Slim 7. Only then I understood what a great experience this phone can offer. I have been using Nitrogen OS for close to two months now, and not only does it have all the customization options I need, my phone is smooth as a flagship and I get 10-11 hours of screen on time regularly, with heavy use.
You could use a Marshmallow ROM if you really need a perfectly stable camera, but the camera works 9 out of 10 times anyway.
Custom ROMs are better in every way than MIUI.
Now im on miui7.5.30 battery back up is pretty good. I love aosp based rom but suddenly my fp breaks on NOs, dont know why, since then i get bootloop when i installed custom roms so i settled now in miui
I love aosp to but alarm dont work when turn off phone. And that is important to me.
Just wanna say in the beginning, this is nothing more than a gut feeling.
I have been using many custom roms by different developers running different android versions.
Quite a few months ago, I switched to miui because I was having some issues with than current pie roms, and I wanted a stable system. And I stuck with it till now because I am at home and limited internet. It was noticably slow and janky from the start but I kept using it, because it was stable.
Finally, my patience gave out, and I installed Havoc 3.3 (Android Q by sairam60 ), and it is insanely smooth compared to what I got used to.
Now, let me explain further. My device performs better, charges faster, and pubg performace went from unplayable to bearable. Other thing I noticed, that the device gets somewhat warm and battery drains faster, which is didn't happen on miui. This led me to believe that miui might be throttling the SoC and charging (for some reason).
Or maybe miui is just hopelessly bloated? Or the rom has the soc overclocked or something?
What do you guys think?
That's been the case for a while now and not just limited to land. Its an oft repeated complaint from MIUI users that performance becomes worse with newer updates just after the 1 year mark. Dunno if its deliberate or just plain negligence.
Anyways I would highly recommend Fork LOS 17.1 by Sairam. Its perhaps the most fluid ROM ever for land. Its based on 4.9 kernel so a few quirks can be expected considering it's only a few builds old. Personally I didn't encounter any issue other than RAM usage was a tad high for 2GB variant esp. since LOS is so lightweight usually. Customization is minimal but a few useful extras have been added. Battery backup was pretty good and on par with Havoc 2.9. To be fair the battery in my device is degraded so most ROMs give similar bb.
xEcuTR said:
Just wanna say in the beginning, this is nothing more than a gut feeling.
I have been using many custom roms by different developers running different android versions.
Quite a few months ago, I switched to miui because I was having some issues with than current pie roms, and I wanted a stable system. And I stuck with it till now because I am at home and limited internet. It was noticably slow and janky from the start but I kept using it, because it was stable.
Finally, my patience gave out, and I installed Havoc 3.3 (Android Q by sairam60 ), and it is insanely smooth compared to what I got used to.
Now, let me explain further. My device performs better, charges faster, and pubg performace went from unplayable to bearable. Other thing I noticed, that the device gets somewhat warm and battery drains faster, which is didn't happen on miui. This led me to believe that miui might be throttling the SoC and charging (for some reason).
Or maybe miui is just hopelessly bloated? Or the rom has the soc overclocked or something?
What do you guys think?
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You did the right thing for leaving memeui on this phone,
+ 1 for what the dude above said, fork los 17.1 4.9 sairam or any roms based on it have better performance for pubg/codm gaming, excellent battery life too