Question pretty much summed up by the title. I have been using "Beans" for quite a while now and have tried Sabre and Perseus, both of which have their own little quirks. Before I go through the headache of flashing a new one and setting my device up yet again, I figured I would ask for other's views and opinions on the kernel choices.
The ones I am looking at are Stock, PBJ, Perseus, Sabre and Faux 003. Any feedback, recommendations, suggestions, pros & cons, or experience will be greatly appreciated.
Also ideal settings/tweaks hints and tips are greatly appreciated because I keep missing the mark with Perseus and ending up with terrible battery life but great performance, or sluggish performance and horrible battery life, I can't find a good mid-point.
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Question pretty much summed up by the title. I have been using "Beans" for quite a while now and have tried Sabre and Perseus, both of which have their own little quirks. Before I go through the headache of flashing a new one and setting my device up yet again, I figured I would ask for other's views and opinions on the kernel choices.
The ones I am looking at are Stock, PBJ, Perseus, Sabre and Faux 003. Any feedback, recommendations, suggestions, pros & cons, or experience will be greatly appreciated.
Also ideal settings/tweaks hints and tips are greatly appreciated because I keep missing the mark with Perseus and ending up with terrible battery life but great performance, or sluggish performance and horrible battery life, I can't find a good mid-point.
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I personally use Perseus or Sabre. However, there is no need to setup your device again just to flash a kernel. Just boot into recovery, wipe cache/dalvic, flash kernel, and reboot.
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Question pretty much summed up by the title. I have been using "Beans" for quite a while now and have tried Sabre and Perseus, both of which have their own little quirks. Before I go through the headache of flashing a new one and setting my device up yet again, I figured I would ask for other's views and opinions on the kernel choices.
The ones I am looking at are Stock, PBJ, Perseus, Sabre and Faux 003. Any feedback, recommendations, suggestions, pros & cons, or experience will be greatly appreciated.
Also ideal settings/tweaks hints and tips are greatly appreciated because I keep missing the mark with Perseus and ending up with terrible battery life but great performance, or sluggish performance and horrible battery life, I can't find a good mid-point.
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sabre i have noticed some pretty excellent battery life, faux kernel i noticed to be a bit quicker not as great as battery life but still very good! another thing to keep in mind is a 24 hour period can't give you real results on a kernel it's something you have to let settle in to really know what you are getting battery life wise. for example when i first flashed sabre i was getting about 14 hours with 2.5 on screen time let it set in a few days and i was getting about 23 with 4.5 on screen time. so long story short play with them all to see what your phone likes, milage varies on each device. Good luck my man!
I chose PBJ for my phone because of 2 reasons.
First I have used imnuts work since the fascinate. And it has always been excellent work.
Second because its a lean kernel without a lot of unnecessary fluff. I have been using it for about a month and battery life is great. After I have about 16 to 18 hours between charges I still have any where from 30 to 50 % battery. Depending how much I streamed TV to the phone.
It has worked great. The kernel and rom have been very stable.
I have tried Perseus, Sabre, PBJ and Beans stock...they are all good (which probably means its the Note 2 which is good). Since the update to VRAMC3 though I have stuck with Beans Stock and been very happy. Routinely getting 30+ hours of uptime on 4G with 5+ hours of screen time. Can't really ask for more. I can't speak to the speed/fluidity etc...I can't tell the difference (again, its a great phone).
I am testing out greenify w faux to see how battery is will report back in a few days after it sets in
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I am testing out greenify w faux to see how battery is will report back in a few days after it sets in
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Faux has been very good to me. Smoothest kernel around, but pbj had a little better overall battery life for me. I stick with faux though
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Faux has been very good to me. Smoothest kernel around, but pbj had a little better overall battery life for me. I stick with faux though
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Well after my sluggish issues with Perseus, I decided to try to Faux when I did a clean install of 18 last night, and so far I am having MUCH better performance, hasn't been long enough to judge the battery life, but apparently from the performance standpoint my Note II likes Faux way more than Perseus. :victory:
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sabre i have noticed some pretty excellent battery life, faux kernel i noticed to be a bit quicker not as great as battery life but still very good! another thing to keep in mind is a 24 hour period can't give you real results on a kernel it's something you have to let settle in to really know what you are getting battery life wise. for example when i first flashed sabre i was getting about 14 hours with 2.5 on screen time let it set in a few days and i was getting about 23 with 4.5 on screen time. so long story short play with them all to see what your phone likes, milage varies on each device. Good luck my man!
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Just out of curiosity, why does the phone needs a few days to "Settle" for the optimized battery life?
I can understand some updates may run in the background that draw the battery, but that should take less than a day to complete.
By the way, would a few reboots accelerate this "settling" process?
Thanks!
Rebooting won't do anything not sure how to exactly To explain it but like flashing a new ROM its no different takes a few day to see how battery is sorta like conditioning your car for best milage it may get some one day some other days depending On lots of different things Think of it like fluids properly dispersing through out the vehicle i5d the same kind of logic as far as I can understand it probably not the best analogy but I think it fits best.
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using faux 3 and having no problems at all
smooth as silk
Sabre just has the latest update as 6/13, though I am still on PBJ and haven't tried it.
Tried both Perseus and Faux. I feel PBJ gives very good battery life and that's why I am hesitant.
Faux 5 installed today. I personally love his work so far
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Which kernel I can use for 4.3 official updated samsung...I have just rooted the note2 again but cant find the kernel for overclocking cpu and gpu... can anybody tell me what I can do...
Plzzz....reply guys...if I can find any help.. thanku...
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So the usual - CM7.1.0-RC1.4; imoseyon's leanKernel, but I barely get 12 hours. Any suggestions?
have you tried nerozehls dreamkernel yet? i thought it was pretty damn sweet. fast and good on battery. i have liquids thunderbread 2.5. had cygenmod7 1.4 also but ended up changing back. im big on aosp now because i dont give 2 ****s about sense and battery wasting crap. but the dreamkernel worked pretty well for me. after u do it id suggest wiping battery stats after a full charge and wait a day or two. usually i notice a difference after that. hope something in that helps you in some way
Nerozehls kernel is Imoseyons kernel with just a few things added to it.
Battery life depends on a lot of things. Are you using speedtweak.sh to set the profile to batterysaver or are you overclocking? Also you have to be mindful of how often things sync and things like that.
Yeah, I ran spedtweak.sh and set it to battsaver, to no effect. I guess I'll try dreamKernel and follow the advice from the first reply.
Many thanks
Just rooted today...
My main issue is to extend the battery life.
Do I need to install a ROM to do that
If so what ROM do you suggest, but prefer something that is fast, barebones, great battery life, I am prolly going to be running go launcher...
How long have you been with the phone? I just got it a few days ago and waiting to "break-in" the battery...
I know for my t989 it was the same deal.
There are a few kernels that really help, go to the dev section and read up on them (and roms too!).
Install a custom rom and kernal.
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try fourth bar
you might want to try fourth bar rom. it's default launcher is go launcher and says it has amazing battery life. here's the link to it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1421811
I just got the phone on the weekend and installed xboarders BulletProof ROM day before yesterday and the SetCPU app. My battery life has improved dramatically. Now I can get 14-16 hours of moderate use out of the phone on 4g. This gets me through my day and has made this phone the PERFECT device for me. I love it!!
On Wifi and with more careful power management the battery could definitely last up to 24 hr.
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On Wifi and with more careful power management the battery could definitely last up to 24 hr.
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I believe WiFi actually takes more juice than on 4G.
Search JuiceDefender in the Market. It's helped significantly with my battery life.
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I believe WiFi actually takes more juice than on 4G.
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Leaving WiFi on and scanning while not connected to a network will drain your battery, but in a head-to-head wifi vs 4g connection battle WiFi comes out on top.
Flash Faux's Kernel located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359951
Otherwise use Xboarder56's Sense 3.5 Rom. I've been on it for about a week with amazing battery life (40 hours-ish)
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How long have you been with the phone? I just got it a few days ago and waiting to "break-in" the battery...
I know for my t989 it was the same deal.
There are a few kernels that really help, go to the dev section and read up on them (and roms too!).
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I had if for a few months... you are 100 percent right about the break in period, when I first got this phone I could almost watch this phone drain to nothing..
I also purchased a couple of anker batteries and a wall chargers... I noticed that if I complete charge and drain the battery the life would even get better I did this about 12 times for each battery.
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Search JuiceDefender in the Market. It's helped significantly with my battery life.
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Tried it and did nothing for me... well it did make my phone super glitchy..
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daeboe said:
Flash Faux's Kernel located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359951
Otherwise use Xboarder56's Sense 3.5 Rom. I've been on it for about a week with amazing battery life (40 hours-ish)
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should I do both... I will admit I not sure what the difference between rom and a kernal...
try the fourth bar sense. my batter has improved a lot
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should I do both... I will admit I not sure what the difference between rom and a kernal...
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Yes you need to do both. Most, if not all, ROMs come with their own kernel that must be installed so that everything in the ROM works correctly. You flash a rom through recovery and then use fastboot to install the kernel. A lot of the current ROMs come with a script that flashes the kernel for you though, so it's not a big deal. (Other devices that have S-OFF can flash the kernel directly when you flash the rom, which is one reason why we want S-OFF so much, so possibly think about donating to the cause).
Awesome... installed the 4th sense rom... I am very happy with it so far!
I also flashed kernel by faux.. but I am not sure if took, how can I tell?
Any suggestions for overclocking my cpu... or does the kernel do that?
thanks a bunch guys I will let you know how the battery life issue goes!
Donations... Yes I will send some juice to these folks!
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Awesome... installed the 4th sense rom... I am very happy with it so far!
I also flashed kernel by faux.. but I am not sure if took, how can I tell?
Any suggestions for overclocking my cpu... or does the kernel do that?
thanks a bunch guys I will let you know how the battery life issue goes!
Donations... Yes I will send some juice to these folks!
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You'll know it works by not having any problems. I believe the kernel overclocks it for you, but OCing lowers battery life, so it kind of goes against what you originally wanted.
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You'll know it works by not having any problems. I believe the kernel overclocks it for you, but OCing lowers battery life, so it kind of goes against what you originally wanted.
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No problems so for.. battery life looks really good so far.. I just popped in a fresh battery so I will see how it goes.
It is overclocked for sure... I ran a couple of benchmark tests. We will see how it goes... I would like to get through a day... finally..
I am even thinking of underclocking... thanks again!
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No problems so for.. battery life looks really good so far.. I just popped in a fresh battery so I will see how it goes.
It is overclocked for sure... I ran a couple of benchmark tests. We will see how it goes... I would like to get through a day... finally..
I am even thinking of underclocking... thanks again!
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I've tried almost all of the roms here (except bulletproof) in combination with stock and faux kernels. The best combos I came up with for battery was BeastMod and 4th Bar with stock kernel from BeastMod. No matter what I did with faux kernels (OC, UC, Undervolt) I could never beat the battery life of stock kernel. Good luck and keep us updated.
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I've tried almost all of the roms here (except bulletproof) in combination with stock and faux kernels. The best combos I came up with for battery was BeastMod and 4th Bar with stock kernel from BeastMod. No matter what I did with faux kernels (OC, UC, Undervolt) I could never beat the battery life of stock kernel. Good luck and keep us updated.
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For the limited time I have been on kernel and Rom there is been no significant change in battery life.
The phone is faster that is for sure.. that will drain battery
faster but I a running less widgets and no live wallpaper that I normally rock.
The deal breaker for me is that the sound remains on when you close apps/games... and stays on even when the screen is off.
I will give beat mod a try with a stock kernel.
Okay. So I am currently running shostock3 on my sgs2 with siyah kernal. I read the article from zedomax on galaxys2root.com that it has very good battery life and very stable but when i am running it, I have terrible battery life and i am currently underclocked or whatever the word is. Is there anyway to fix this?
My advice, run SHOstock3 as it was released. It runs great as shoman94 dev'd it.
...and stay away from that web site u mentioned.
Stick to XDA. Period!
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Yes. I'm running shostock3 with the included kernel and get good battery life.
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Getting great battery life on Shostock3 V3.0. Flashed the AJK 1.52s kernel. Checkout Better battery stats...see if you have wakelocks killing your battery. And..I agree that website is no good..stick to XDA.
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Okay. So I am currently running shostock3 on my sgs2 with siyah kernal. I read the article from zedomax on galaxys2root.com that it has very good battery life and very stable but when i am running it, I have terrible battery life and i am currently underclocked or whatever the word is. Is there anyway to fix this?
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which siyah kernel u r using. as far as i know theres no siyah kernel to run with shostock 3 except for ajk's (ktoonsez stopped working on siyah kernel for jb i777 after release of 4.3.3).
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Getting great battery life on Shostock3 V3.0. Flashed the AJK 1.52s kernel. Checkout Better battery stats...see if you have wakelocks killing your battery. And..I agree that website is no good..stick to XDA.
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Most people get really good battery life on SHOstock3. Just search the SHOstock3 thread for the word battery to see what I mean. If you're not getting good battery life, you need to find out what in your configuration is causing the problem, and fix it. There is a thread in the general section started by Entropy512 that you should study to help you identify where the problem is.
I was on GB ShoStock for a long time thinking ICS and JB would never leave me satisfied on battery life.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1353513
Finally came to my senses and tried out ShoStock 3 and have never looked back. To make it short the best Rom Ive ever flashed for any device I have had in the present and past.
You definitely have a rogue app killing your battery, find out which one it is and uninstall.
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Okay. So I am currently running shostock3 on my sgs2 with siyah kernal. I read the article from zedomax on galaxys2root.com that it has very good battery life and very stable but when i am running it, I have terrible battery life and i am currently underclocked or whatever the word is. Is there anyway to fix this?
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Sorry you have battery life problems.
I have been running Shostock3 since it came out (it's version 3.02 today!), but I also been on and off at least five (wow can it be that many?) JB roms on my SGH-i777 (won't even mention the # GB roms here!). After trying many, I must agree with the other posters who state that this rom delivers very good battery life when compared to stock and when compared with other custom roms.
Lately, it has delivered the best battery life I have ever had on this phone using any rom (although SlimBean JB provided very very good battery life for me recently as well! Also UnNamed was great for battery life in the old GB days )
I followed the recommendations made by creepyncrawly to read Entropy's (& others) battery notes/faqs. They provide some really good background, some with that typical "XDA flavor" (read technical!. That material, plus some more plain old simple user adjustments to how and what I use on the phone have improved my phone's battery time; and it might help you as well.
It really boils down to the fact that each phone user loads different apps and our usage patterns vary.
Assume that you've flashed it and let it settle for a few days and several recharge cycles. After doing this you can see what YOUR "norms" are. They may be good or bad, but that's the baseline for you with this rom and with the apps and usage pattern you have.
(You can tweak voltage and speed (well, not speed on SS3!), but my experience has been that the more noticeable changes will be by adjusting your pattern of use, or doing the "hunt for the app" (or apps) that are burning down your run times when not in use.
Not many here seem to like or do this, but I would also try one of those "help-you-with-battery-use" apps --like juice defender (Ok, I get that many here seem to think it a waste, but it really did help me --a little-- when I used it); or get DS Battery saver (a bit more aggressive and noticeable, but you also notice the lag while you wait for things to turn on when you want them).
Actually, these may not be precision solutions, and don't focus on your specific phone app use, but they do work in a macro way to slow battery use and simply working with them for a few days or weeks will provide you with a better a sense of what the heck is going on under the plastic; they will cause you to look at what you have/run and when.
Oh, this includes using Better Battery Stats, which is fine for reporting out exactly which the apps behave --or don't-- and by how much and when. I'm not slow (well, that slow but it frankly, it took me quite a while to figure out what I was reading in the BBS readouts and what they meant! (Now, after a year+ or so of using it, I don't even have it loaded, since I've done the fiddling I need --and BBS, plus those other battery apps, helped me to figure out what apps worked well, what apps I was willing to sacrifice battery on and what apps were useless and should be tossed.)
Finally, some roms just don't work for people! So it's not worth the frustration chasing something you may not be able to achieve with this or another rom. (You probably read how individuals have problems that you don't -yet, you run the same rom and the same phone! That is our world. So, too, you will read about some who make amazing claims on how long they continue on one charge. Some are pretty amazing, and some may even be real
My final five cents would be:
#1 run the rom a couple of days, get a baseline. Then switch from Jeboo kernel to AJK's latest for TW (I think it is 1.25ss, but I really also had great results from 1.48s) and run it a few more days. They were pretty much even for me, but others find one or the other kernel makes a real difference!). Compare after doing the same activities through a charge or two.
#2 If your battery life remains "poor," note what poor really is (ex. how much screen time? and how much total run time prior to getting to zero or 10-15%? ...something like that).
#3. Then get BBS and one of the "automatic" battery-saver programs and work with it for about 4-5 days and that many recharge cycles. See what your norms are but do it for the same type of usage!!! If better while using the battery fixers, then you can work at picking off the app or apps that are sucking your battery more than you want. Not as tedious as it sounds. Of course, staying with a rom for three weeks might be a challenge :laugh:, but this is a nice rom to work with.
#4. I don't think you will need to under-volt to get good BL. I wonder if your phone is stable in doing that? Or, does it induce additional lag? That might be a high price to pay for more run time. (You could compare the UV results with your "norm" as well!)
#5. Finally, we are on Galaxy S2 Sgh-i777 -and can change batteries all day long for not so much per battery! It is not elegant, but it works. (Done it myself several times -even with good battery life).
Good Luck!
Best ROM, Good battery life... been with Shoman's ROM since shostock2 never have a problem with the battery life...
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Ive looked though the development section but can find anything. Basically what im looking for is a "lean" kernal. When I was on the gs3 (I think) there was a kernal that was called lean kernal and it was basically a minimal profile that got great battery life. I almost never do anything that requires alot of cpu usage.
Most of my time is spent on forums and YouTube/ Netflix. I dont think those are cpu hogs. And when ibdo play games they are like angry birds, candy crush, and coin dozer. That about it. I can see the games being a little on the higher usage side. But I still have yet to get these awesome battery stats that I see.
I am connected to strong wifi almost all the time and screen set to auto. Also I dont use gps, nfc, or any of that. Thanks for any tips. I can post one of those battery usage logs but I cant remember the name of the app off the top of my head. Haha.
Also im on beans build 19 and the stock kernal. All other kernals ive tried (ones under his aroma setting) have yeilded the same if not worse battery life. Thanks again.
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Ive looked though the development section but can find anything. Basically what im looking for is a "lean" kernal. When I was on the gs3 (I think) there was a kernal that was called lean kernal and it was basically a minimal profile that got great battery life. I almost never do anything that requires alot of cpu usage. Moat of my time is spent on forums and YouTube/ Netflix. I dont think those are cpu hogs. And when ibdo play games they are like angry birds, candy crush, and coin dozer. That about it. I can see the games being a little on the higher usage side. But I still have yet to get these awesome battery stats that I see. I am connected to strong wifi almost all the time and screen set to auto. Also I dont use gps, nfc, or any of that. Thanks for any tips. I can post one of those battery usage logs but I cant remember the name of the app off the top of my head. Haha. Also im on beans build 19 and the stock kernal. All other kernals ive tried (ones under his aroma setting) have yeilded the same if not worse battery life. Thanks again.
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You should use paragraphs or at least brakes in your lines when you have that much to day on here.
Anyways faux kernel seems to be the crowd pleaser for beans
And neak kernel is getting attention for the 4.2 ROMs.
Faux is in general
I edited it to try to make it better to read haha. I will give faux a try. I know I tried it back on like build 7 or 8. Is there anything I need to do other than flash it? Sorry but I spent most of my time on android on a droid x ao I didnt get to experience changing kernals.
You want Imnuts work. On both my N7 and the Note II his are my favorite just flash and run kernels.
If the kernel was called lean kernel it might have have been Imnuts work. On the N7 his kernel is called 'leankernel'
For the Note II his kernel is the PB&J kernel.
Not to say that there aren't many good kernels. . .
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I typically use perseus on 4.1.2 roms and plasma on the 4.2.2 roms.
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Heres the lean kernal I was referring to. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2013943
I just flashed faux and my battery is dropping faster. But I assume that it just needs to settle in.
Im new here and Ive been lurking around in the forums. I just installed jb v4 on my note i717. Any idea on how I can get the smartassv2 govenour and the sio scheduler? I dont have any of those and Id really like to have more battery life. And if not is there a kernel I can flash to have it and thats compatible with my rom? Im using trickster mod btw, Thanks!!
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Im new here and Ive been lurking around in the forums. I just installed jb v4 on my note i717. Any idea on how I can get the smartassv2 govenour and the sio scheduler? I dont have any of those and Id really like to have more battery life. And if not is there a kernel I can flash to have it and thats compatible with my rom? Im using trickster mod btw, Thanks!!
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I have already directed you to the only alternate kernel that is going to work with Padawan. I am definitely no developer, but it would take a lot of effort just to extract those little options, not to mention the permission of the developer, and it would then most likely have to be installed into another kernel that could be compatible with Padawan.
I am not sure what it is that you are so intent on having those options for, I am sure you have your reasons. not sure that anything else is going to give you better battery life on a 4.1.2 rom. it seems with the progression from 4.0 through 4.4, the battery life is going to diminish a bit with every evolvement.
can I suggest maybe you try Black Jelly. the different rom may provide you that option. if not, Blownfuse has an alternate kernel list in that OP which was designed specifically for that rom.
good luck
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I have already directed you to the only alternate kernel that is going to work with Padawan. I am definitely no developer, but it would take a lot of effort just to extract those little options, not to mention the permission of the developer, and it would then most likely have to be installed into another kernel that could be compatible with Padawan.
I am not sure what it is that you are so intent on having those options for, I am sure you have your reasons. not sure that anything else is going to give you better battery life on a 4.1.2 rom. it seems with the progression from 4.0 through 4.4, the battery life is going to diminish a bit with every evolvement.
can I suggest maybe you try Black Jelly. the different rom may provide you that option. if not, Blownfuse has an alternate kernel list in that OP which was designed specifically for that rom.
good luck
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Ok. I had posted this before I asked you. But what do you recommend? Should i go back to ics? Im more about battery life but features are nice to.
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Ok. I had posted this before I asked you. But what do you recommend? Should i go back to ics? Im more about battery life but features are nice to.
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My friend, its your phone. Out side of the governer and scheduler, battery life is the only feature you are bringing up. What kind of user are you?
Heavy video streamer
Big time gamer
Lots of music
Facebook addict
Various roms are going to provide various results. And no 2 devices are going to react the same. I know, folks have said this before, so sorry to repeat.
For what is may be worth, here is my rundown
4.O ICS ... most stable but may be lacking in some features
4.1.2 JB ... touchwiz based, the most stable JB your going to get
4.2.1 JB ... more features evolving into, but most unstable. Some able to control with alternate kernel. Battery life dwindling.
4.3 JB ... increased smoothness and improved stability. Still able to control with an alternate kernel to a certain extent. To me it started to become like medication. The phone seemed to build up a tolerance and stability would decrease. Decreased battery life.
4.4 KK .... did not have a problem with stability, but battery life has really suffered as is the complaint of many.
No rom is going to be 100% perfect. It is more of what can you tolerate for an inadequacy.
I love my music, I FB quite often, I'm on XDA several time a day and I have been catching a few minutes of Youtube.
My phone ran ORGASMIC on Padawan and I did enjoy Hellybean also. To me, battery is like gasoline, nobody is getting any better than me. Everybody pays the same at the pump. You can always get a Ravpower battery 2700 from Amazon for $8 and many swear it increase battery life immensely.
Wow, did I go on and on or what?
So what kind of user are you?
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My friend, its your phone. Out side of the governer and scheduler, battery life is the only feature you are bringing up. What kind of user are you?
Heavy video streamer
Big time gamer
Lots of music
Facebook addict
Various roms are going to provide various results. And no 2 devices are going to react the same. I know, folks have said this before, so sorry to repeat.
For what is may be worth, here is my rundown
4.O ICS ... most stable but may be lacking in some features
4.1.2 JB ... touchwiz based, the most stable JB your going to get
4.2.1 JB ... more features evolving into, but most unstable. Some able to control with alternate kernel. Battery life dwindling.
4.3 JB ... increased smoothness and improved stability. Still able to control with an alternate kernel to a certain extent. To me it started to become like medication. The phone seemed to build up a tolerance and stability would decrease. Decreased battery life.
4.4 KK .... did not have a problem with stability, but battery life has really suffered as is the complaint of many.
No rom is going to be 100% perfect. It is more of what can you tolerate for an inadequacy.
I love my music, I FB quite often, I'm on XDA several time a day and I have been catching a few minutes of Youtube.
My phone ran ORGASMIC on Padawan and I did enjoy Hellybean also. To me, battery is like gasoline, nobody is getting any better than me. Everybody pays the same at the pump. You can always get a Ravpower battery 2700 from Amazon for $8 and many swear it increase battery life immensely.
Wow, did I go on and on or what?
So what kind of user are you?
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Pretty much the same as you hah. All I care about is my music, facebook, with rededit and a glass of milk
bluebeanie said:
Pretty much the same as you hah. All I care about is my music, facebook, with rededit and a glass of milk
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I would just take a few for a test drive then. if you had a problem with Padawan and random reboots, then my guess is you either had a bad download or your not flashing clean. a dirty flash is going to leave some straggling files from previous rom which are most likely going to conflict.
but try some different roms and let them settle. give them a couple days. if its not going to work for you, try the next.
one rom just wouldn't run on my phone and that was Carbon Rom. I tried several different versions, with and without alternate kernels. always clean. many swear by it and love it, that's why I kept trying it, but it just did not like my phone. no biggie, plenty to choose from.
don't take this the wrong way, but if you the only one suffering from a side effect, than it is most likely user error. there are many glitches throughout all roms and they are usually well documented in that thread.
refer back to my last post in Padawan. again, my flashing process may be overkill, but you cant get much cleaner than that
if a battery gets me through the day, I am good
keep us posted
captemo said:
I would just take a few for a test drive then. if you had a problem with Padawan and random reboots, then my guess is you either had a bad download or your not flashing clean. a dirty flash is going to leave some straggling files from previous rom which are most likely going to conflict.
but try some different roms and let them settle. give them a couple days. if its not going to work for you, try the next.
one rom just wouldn't run on my phone and that was Carbon Rom. I tried several different versions, with and without alternate kernels. always clean. many swear by it and love it, that's why I kept trying it, but it just did not like my phone. no biggie, plenty to choose from.
don't take this the wrong way, but if you the only one suffering from a side effect, than it is most likely user error. there are many glitches throughout all roms and they are usually well documented in that thread.
refer back to my last post in Padawan. again, my flashing process may be overkill, but you cant get much cleaner than that
if a battery gets me through the day, I am good
keep us posted
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Hey man. Just giving you an update. It turns out I had a bad battery. The middle of the battery was enlarging, I have no idea why. I got a new one and everything's working much better now. Have you heard of anything like that before?
bluebeanie said:
Hey man. Just giving you an update. It turns out I had a bad battery. The middle of the battery was enlarging, I have no idea why. I got a new one and everything's working much better now. Have you heard of anything like that before?
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Very common at about the 10 to 12 month mark. Battery starts to swell. You can get stronger battery for $8 on amazon.
Glad everything is working better, still want to stay clean though.
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