Question for anyone using non-TW roms, how do you find battery life compared to TW roms?
I had to use Hyperdrive for a week or so for ISIS, and was surprised at the difference in battery life compared to the GPE rom. It seemed to last about twice as long. Switched to SlimKat and get about the same on it as on the GPE. I use Greenify, battery graphs are smooth, main difference looks like Android OS/System showing a higher percent.
Used KT's kernel with all of the above.
I'm expecting to be able to go at least 4-7 days without charging if I don't use it much, which was definitely possible on a stock TW-MK2 S4 and this one with Hyperdrive. This site says the S4 should be able to get 13-20 days standby time, has anyone ever actually gotten that?
Problem is, really can't stand TouchWiz.
TL;DR - Question: How long is your battery life on non-TW roms vs TW roms? Which non-TW rom have you found to be best for battery life?
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Meant to link "this site" to http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Samsung-Galaxy-S4_id7597
Not for me
I always had horrendous battery life with the kitkat ROMs I used back in fall of last year. Dead by 5 pm and now I get until about 1 am with my Moto X. That's pretty impressive though
I'm currently runnish Hyper drive and I get great battery life. will take off the charger at 9 am and will last till I get home at 3 am the next day. with the stock rom though it was terrible haven't tried running another rom on this s4 yet.
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As the thread title states, I'm looking for a ROM with good battery life, I'm currently using CleanROM ICSE 3.7, and it's has okay battery life, but I think it could be better. Any suggestions?
Nils' Business ICS 3.4 has amazing battery life.
I'd start there. I try pretty much any ROM that looks interesting, but I find I always come back to Nils. His last 2 updates have focused on improved battery life, and they really do bring it.
BBEgo said:
Nils' Business ICS 3.4 has amazing battery life.
I'd start there. I try pretty much any ROM that looks interesting, but I find I always come back to Nils. His last 2 updates have focused on improved battery life, and they really do bring it.
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what kind of results you get? usually massively debloated like CR dev edit does it for me....less system apps sucking on cpu
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In my (very) limited experience, the kernel has far more affect on battery life than the ROM. Been using CleanRom 4.3 with the stock kernel, battery life is quite good compared to my GNex which I ditched after 5 days
RezROM 3.3 and the newest CleanROM Developer Edition have done the best for me, also check out the Kang Tapped Edition of CleanROM DE, same thing basically with some tweaks, it's my daily driver currently.
Cleanrom DE (nonsense) has been on my Rezound for a day, and its yielding pretty decent results. Got about 7 to 8 hours of moderate use yesterday (I work at Target Mobile - use it for work/messing around with it). I text back and forth consistently, as well as taking multiple calls - one yesterday up to an hour long. I left work with a 17%, when I walked in with 89%. LTE on, auto-brightness. I also am using ROM Toolbox to change clock speeds, I have profiles for multiple scenarios - that helps battery life as well. The only thing I had off was autosync, I'll open up FB or Gmail to update. Oh and I played music in the car both to and from work (20 minutes each way - regular music player).
I obviously want a little more time with it, but from when I had cleanrom (with sense) it seemed cut in half (sense is pretty and all, but she just eats your battery - with flashy graphics and auto updating everything).
bamf 2.1 ics gr8 battery...16 hrs
moderate use
awesome rom
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I miss the old AOSP roms I became accustomed to on my Nexus phones (Specifically AOKP). The last time I tried any (about 2 months ago), they couldn't begin to compare with the TW base (stock modified) roms in terms of Battery life. Well, today I about had it with my TW rom, so I was considering giving AOSP another try. Has anyone found a stable one that can still give me 6-7 hours on screen time?
All AOSP ROMs will provide about the same battery life. Pick whichever you like, CM will be similar to AOKP, Pacman, etc. The same goes for TouchWiz ROMs, they will all offer more or less the same battery life. Not sure you'll get better battery life on AOSP than TW, but no one AOSP ROM is going to significantly better than another with regards to battery life.
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All AOSP ROMs will provide about the same battery life. Pick whichever you like, CM will be similar to AOKP, Pacman, etc. The same goes for TouchWiz ROMs, they will all offer more or less the same battery life. Not sure you'll get better battery life on AOSP than TW, but no one AOSP ROM is going to significantly better than another with regards to battery life.
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My experience with the non-TW roms is that they (counter-intuitively) provided significantly worse battery life. I was hoping that was because of their relative immaturity at the time I tried them ( a few months ago). Since I am not the sort that likes to switch roms every few days, I was hoping some people had some recommendations as to which had finally improved their battery life to be on-par with the stock based roms.
They are all going to be relatively the same. As one ROM includes fixes, it propagates out to the others. IMO, CM10.1 is probably going to be the most "mature" as that is likely where most of the updates come from, but if you're looking for a bug free experience, it's likely best to stick with TW.
Carbon has same battery life for me as touch wiz ROMs. However it does use the trinity kernel. The only aosp ROM that does. I'm running it still to this day. Like it.
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My opinion probably doesn't mean much, but Carbon is my choice for AOSP. I've seen it pull about the same screen time for a battery charge as my Beans12 load. To each their own. :good:
A friend of mine installed 2 ROMs a while ago and tested them for a week. One with clean android and the other one was CyanogenMod 10.
He says while it was prettier and nicer to use the battery went dead almost twice as fast without even using the phone.
Is this true? Are there any ways to fix this issue?
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Not true at all in my experience. I've used stock, Insert Coin, Viper and CM10 & I find that CM10's battery life is the longest by quite a margin.
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Not true at all in my experience. I've used stock, Insert Coin, Viper and CM10 & I find that CM10's battery life is the longest by quite a margin.
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There all sense roms. The OP was comparing AOSP vs Cyanogen. AOSP unless developed by monkeys will always have best battery life. This is because of all the extra features and mods that go into cyanogen. You can't have the best of both worlds. Cyanogen offers perfectly acceptable battery usage though, at least double what sense roms offer.
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Hey all,
I've tried most flavors of Lollipop ROMs for our beloved Note 2 and it rocks (my favorite is CynideL).
The only issue I have, which is true for all LP ROMs is that I can't get 12 hours of moderate use from it!
I know TW ROMs will always give better battery, but I was getting double this.
Yes, I've done all the usual (wakelock management, battery stats etc...)
Surely somebody can figure out what the difference is and exploit it for non TW ROMs?
Richard
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.