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Does anyone have experience with this app on the ThunderBolt? I just purchased it and was really impressed with the advanced options.
I have it but I haven't used it in awhile. It helps a little, but don't expect miracles. I don't think it's worth $5. You are better off buying a spare or extended battery.
I've used it since I had the incredible use it on the droid x and now i use on the thunderbolt I've always had good results with it's always got me quite a bit of extra battery life but the same time I am using an extended battery on the thunderbolt I can push a good 18 to 22 hours and that's running 4 g consistently
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In my opinion its a joke
you can get the same results by doing everything manually
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Turning off your data connection when you aren't using it will help a lot of people in 4g areas...sure you can do it manually, but this is eaiser...
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In my opinion its a joke
you can get the same results by doing everything manually
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This is just an unhelpful reply. Sure you can always do almost everything manually that an app does but alot of people like automation, which you generally are going to pay for. Does the App help, I used it a lot on my OG Droid and it did help, I have not installed it on my TBolt but I think I will and give it a try again, it also has a free version so give it a try and see if it help, the worst thing you have to do is uninstall it.
didnt help much for me. I am bamf 1.86 with control freak kernel and its saving batt very well.
I regret spending the money on it. Definitely try the free version. It seemed like a good idea but a few days after buying the app, I learned how to use my phone and android and ended up liking manual configuration A LOT more, and getting way more battery life without sacrificing anything I need.
Rooted Thunderbolt on BAMF Sense 3.0 RC 4 with MR2 radio and latest dreamKernel.
Sometimes it helps, but other times it kills the battery. Turning the radio on and off seems to kill the battery too.
My ADR6400L is just as good as your PG86100.
I have seen where it will fail to turn the mobile data back on without a reboot
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I'm just wondering, does it really helps a lot? Because I'm running the free ver and it's not that effective.... does it really worth $8? I;ve been thinking this back and forth..
not much for me,
I tried JD on my TB when I got it, then paid for the upgrade, a few roms later I uninstalled it for all the reasons mentioned. Worse battery life, at times it would not re-enable mobile data. To be completely honest, once you pay for the extra stuff, you may not use it as much as you think you would (I didn't).
The competitor Green power is more user friendly, updated often and in my experience provided slightly better battery life. The "pro" version of that is less than JD and the only difference between free and PRO is the night functions. If you plug you phone in overnight, you don't need the pro version of green power.
In the end, I don't use either anymore. Once I got to know my phone I set things up manually.
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I've used it since I had the incredible use it on the droid x and now i use on the thunderbolt I've always had good results with it's always got me quite a bit of extra battery life but the same time I am using an extended battery on the thunderbolt I can push a good 18 to 22 hours and that's running 4 g consistently
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That is horrible, unless your are using your phone every second.
i installed the free version and it has dramaticallly helped my battery life. and i am constantly using my phone
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i installed the free version and it has dramaticallly helped my battery life. and i am constantly using my phone
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the free version is all you need
just enabled the free version after you install it that's all you need
it does helps
This is a question to the masses of the Photon community. Just wondering if anyone is having bad laggy-ness with this device? The reason I ask is because I am coming from the epic touch because I need a world phone now and have watched the dog fight part 2 and seemed the phone they were using was laggy especially on the internet.
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Laggy yes. But not if you don't use the stock launcher. Download any other launcher and the phone should be fine. It does feel a tap Laggy neitherless. But it handles somehow gaming and media stuff in general better. And the reception is awesome unlike when I had the Samsung epic touch.
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Laggy yes. But not if you don't use the stock launcher. Download any other launcher and the phone should be fine. It does feel a tap Laggy neitherless. But it handles somehow gaming and media stuff in general better. And the reception is awesome unlike when I had the Samsung epic touch.
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Did you not like the epic touch?
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Laggy yes. But not if you don't use the stock launcher. Download any other launcher and the phone should be fine. It does feel a tap Laggy neitherless. But it handles somehow gaming and media stuff in general better. And the reception is awesome unlike when I had the Samsung epic touch.
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I agree hole heartedly on this one , ditch motos and use something else and this phone is a bamf
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Mine runs Fast as Puck with Launcher Pro Plus.
and with the qHD screen I can easily configure Launcher pro to allow 5 rows of icons or widgets without looking crappy
Thanks for all the replies but how is the browser?
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Also does this device have an nfc chip?
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No NFC unfortunately. I use Dolphin Browser HD on this and seems very fast, the only slowdowns you may see would be in Sprint's 3G Network.
Well I did like the Epic Touch. Beautiful device fast light. But the bad reception and the loss of service issues where a pain and the slow data on it was a pain too and not being able to handle games and media as well sucked to. And the random error with sd cars mount were all a pain in the butt. The photon is great just sometimes Laggy. Specially when scrolling to pages and my battery is horrible. It drains it like hell even the 3500 mah battery is dead within 11 hours in slightly use wtf.
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Well I did like the Epic Touch. Beautiful device fast light. But the bad reception and the loss of service issues where a pain and the slow data on it was a pain too and not being able to handle games and media as well sucked to. And the random error with sd cars mount were all a pain in the butt. The photon is great just sometimes Laggy. Specially when scrolling to pages and my battery is horrible. It drains it like hell even the 3500 mah battery is dead within 11 hours in slightly use wtf.
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Sounds like you have something draining it. No way an extended battery won't last longer than 11 hours. My regular battery will do that with slight use no problem. The Photon has excellent battery life for an Android phone. Even my ogEVO could get a day & 1/2 with extended battery under heavy use and it was terrible with battery life.
Stock browser is just OK. So many better browsers on the Market. I have used them all and still go back to Miren for everyday usage.
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Sounds like you have something draining it. No way an extended battery won't last longer than 11 hours. My regular battery will do that with slight use no problem. The Photon has excellent battery life for an Android phone. Even my ogEVO could get a day & 1/2 with extended battery under heavy use and it was terrible with battery life.
Stock browser is just OK. So many better browsers on the Market. I have used them all and still go back to Miren for everyday usage.
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Agreed..maybe you need to recalibrate that battery?
+ 1 for Miren browser
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Did recalibration a few times. I also can't find anything draining the battery strange thing is that it gives me a lot of idle that says that it has in average like 80% of times no signal even though my coverage is great.
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Did recalibration a few times. I also can't find anything draining the battery strange thing is that it gives me a lot of idle that says that it has in average like 80% of times no signal even though my coverage is great.
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I've had the same thing happen where the battery drained extremely fast and showed majority of use as phone idle. Battery pull/reboot took care of it for me. If you can't get it to stop might have to do a factory reset. Either that your battery/device is defective.
Battery pull seemed to work so far. I even had it so bad happen today that the battery didn't get recognized and gave me no power reading. Now it works. Have to see how long. Thanks for your reply and idea and input. I appreciate it.
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I played with my bros stock photon today giving him some tricks and stock is still snappy but yes get blur off it. If you're an android user, its just nature to modify anyways so its no buggy. Solid radios in the phone, great construction. I'm impressed w them.
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Obvious total noob here. I've read all the thunderbolt reference material here and have followed a couple of tutorials on how to root my thunderbolt, but I keep finding broken mirrors. I just keep finding dead ends. Can someone point me to a current root method for this device. My goal is to try the leaked ICS rom. Thanks.
The closest I got was with revolution.
It did see my device and I was on the last step but it seemed like my rom was not compatible. There was a nice video and followed all the steps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703455
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Thank you for the link. I had to use that with revolution to achieve root. I am on Liqiuid now and my god its like a new super awesome phone.
Thanks again.:good:
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Thank you for the link. I had to use that with revolution to achieve root. I am on Liqiuid now and my god its like a new super awesome phone.
Thanks again.:good:
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Yeah. Rooting and having ICS is quite nice. Lol.
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Welcome to the rooted club! I just joined this week myself.
I hadn't seen the all in one tool but I think I'll snag it. Revolutionary worked great for me. The only thing I had to do was temp root since I was running the .19 ROM. It was smooth sailing after that.
I'm running SkyRaider 1.3 now. I'll probably flash to ICS next month after playing with SR for a bit.
What has SR been like for you?
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So far I'm digging it. It's been considerably faster and seemingly more reliable than stock. The past two years have been hateful and I wish I would have rooted a long time ago.
I'm still trying to figure out what things have changed (like what new options I have and where to find some things) but it's been a fairly easy ride. I did have to flash twice to get it to work but now it seems to be solid.
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I just started using the thunderbolt and is this battery performance is terrible. I'm not going to make a full day at work. If you want to keep 4G on do you have to use a extended battery.
I am liking liquid Ics should I try another rom or is this just how LTE is
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Alright..... at 7am I was fully charged and now is about 1pm and now I'm at 14% so on the charger I go. Perhaps a bad battery? I bought this phone used
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Sounds like a battery. I typically charge overnight and I'm good from about 7-4. Then I charge on the 30 min drive home and I'm good until the nightly charge. I've never seen exceptional battery life even with JuiceDefender. Right now it's bad but not quite like yours. I was on a third-party battery, though. I just swapped to the HTC battery and I'll see how it is. I think I'm going to turn JD off as well to see how SkyRaider managers on its own.
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Alright..... at 7am I was fully charged and now is about 1pm and now I'm at 14% so on the charger I go. Perhaps a bad battery? I bought this phone used
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This was typical for me.
I recommend turning off 4G. It's not really useful anyways unless you're trying to download something. Calibrate the battery also. Turn down your screen brightness and backlight timing. Also adjust how often accounts sync. Slow your CPU speeds.
You should be set after that.
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Yeah, I only use 4G if I'm doing file transfers or tethering. I need to look at underclocking. How often do you sync? I have a number of accounts that I check every 15 min. I could probably increase that to 30.
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Yeah, I only use 4G if I'm doing file transfers or tethering. I need to look at underclocking. How often do you sync? I have a number of accounts that I check every 15 min. I could probably increase that to 30.
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I increase mine to 4 hours.
Some of these are apps you can change within the apps settings, such as Facebook. I usually sign on before it syncs anyways.
Definitely checks your social apps and change the update intervals. It's basically the same thing.
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I unplugged at 7:30 and it's almost 4pm now. On 3G with some forum browsing and regular email checking I'm at 38%. So if you were dropping to 14% I'd definitely try a new battery. This is with JuiceDefender disabled as well.
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I finally hit 14% 12 hours after disconnecting from the AC charger. I guess that's not too bad.
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I unplugged at 7:30 and it's almost 4pm now. On 3G with some forum browsing and regular email checking I'm at 38%. So if you were dropping to 14% I'd definitely try a new battery. This is with JuiceDefender disabled as well.
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I finally hit 14% 12 hours after disconnecting from the AC charger. I guess that's not too bad.
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I just bought a 1600 battery. We'll see how that goes.
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You need to realize the stock battery is only 1450. So very small for a 4g phone. I have found juice defender only made my wallet lighter. You might want to look in to an aosp ROM as it gives you better battery life. I personally disable auto sync and turn off GPS. Also while I am at work I disable data as SMS and MMS doesn't come over mobile data part. In the end some people carries more than one battery on them if they won't be in a place they can charge.
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You need to realize the stock battery is only 1450. So very small for a 4g phone. I have found juice defender only made my wallet lighter. You might want to look in to an aosp ROM as it gives you better battery life. I personally disable auto sync and turn off GPS. Also while I am at work I disable data as SMS and MMS doesn't come over mobile data part. In the end some people carries more than one battery on them if they won't be in a place they can charge.
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I'm on liquid ics so I'm good there. I will be swapping batteries once it comes in.
I used to swap batteries in my old blackberry days.
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has it been decided yet whether snapdragon battery guru is worth a crap or is Greenify just better at hibernating apps?
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Gunny been running the guru and honestly I have been getting the same without it on my non rooted and locked bootloader HTC and same in my rooted one so I'm thinking greenify is better in my opinion
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I'm using greenify and sometimes it won't hibernate some user apps. I might give snap a try. I also think HTC power management saves quite a bit of battery.
Edit: just installed snap,says it needs 4 days to learn. Lets see how things go!
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I've been using snap and so far it's good
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I actually use both. Greenify to hibernate user apps and batteryguru to handle when things get synced etc....
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I actually use both. Greenify to hibernate user apps and batteryguru to handle when things get synced etc....
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Is using both helping with battery? I just deccided to try both. I still have one day for batteryguru to stop learning.
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It creates wakelock and needs location acces on,i can't see any difference...
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Greenify.
They seem to take different means to the same end, but I prefer controlling when things get synced myself. I may use Battery Guru to control Wifi or something.
I tried out Guru and to be honest, I feel like I get the best battery life with just Greenify alone. I swear the Guru generates a ton of wakelocks.
SD battery guru
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I noticed a significant performance boost on my htc with snapdragon. I get 15-20% more battery life but I also cleaned up alot of apps/system files from running in the background with all-in-one toolbox so I don't know which deserves the cred.
Cons:
Wait 4d 4h for SD to learn my usage.
SD manages my wifi and auto enables it. Hate this feature at my work since we use content filter.
Other than that its good
For me it's Greenify and it's not close. I had the Optimus G a little while back and I saw minimal difference. I am using the paid version of Greenify because it has option to hibernate system apps and a few other things that aren't in the free version. Plus he is constantly working to make it even better. I think I got 2 updates in the last 5 days. It's the only battery saving app I even consider using right now.
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I have not used greenify but I have used snapdragon guru. I can tell you this. My battery life improved after I deleted snapdragon guru. It sucks more battery life than it saves.
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All the "battery saver" apps drain your battery faster. They are a waste. Don't use them. Learn how to manage your device.
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All the "battery saver" apps drain your battery faster. They are a waste. Don't use them. Learn how to manage your device.
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You obviously haven't tried Greenify.
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You obviously haven't tried Greenify.
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Greenify is a great app! However why not use both... I'm currently testing the Snapdragon battery guru to see if I notice a difference. To compare the two to one another is like comparing an apple to an orange.
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I have used greenify on my previous phone for a while. Once I got my HTC one I put it on here also. On my previous phone I did notice slight battery improvement but nothing significant. On the one I'm not sure since as soon as I got it out of the box I went to rooting and installed all my previous apps.I did however install snap dragon guru about a week ago to try it out and to me it seemed to drain my battery quicker after the learning process. I recently deleted it but stayed with greenify.
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Greenify all day if you want ultimate control of you're battery life.
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Greenify all day if you want ultimate control of you're battery life.
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What sort of times are you people seeing with the standby and screen time? I'm curious because with root and CM 10.2 Nightlies flashed, I am on 44 hours of charge with 3hrs 24 minutes of screen time (75%) and 3% battery left. With the stock rom, I couldn't even make it past the 24 hour mark without major wake locks and battery drain over night. I also use pandora stream with bluetooth in my vehicle for about 1-2 hours a day.
Greenify by far + framework !
Hello, all, since I've had my Note 2 I've been incredibly impressed with the battery live, much better than other droids I've owned. Within the last two weeks or so, however, I've seen a dramatic drop in battery life. Where I used to be able to last a day and a half without charging, The phone is now not capable of lasting through the day. There hasn't been any real change in my usage patterns, but I am constantly trying new apps, so I figured that one of the new ones must be the culprit. The stock battery stats indicated that Android System was consuming about 41 percent of the battery, which based on previous readings and having owned other droids seemed much too high. I downloaded Battery Stats Plus, which indicated hat the rogue app was wssyncmldm, consuming that same 41 percent. I wasn't familiar with this app, but google revealed that it manages ota updates? I tried rebooting the phone, and went back to Battery Stats Plus, which now indicated that same 41 percent, but named the app "Factory Test." I let the phone charge overnight to a full 100, then checking again today, I'm seeing similar numbers. Today Factory Test is listed at about 33 percent. Both apps are active in application manager, and reappear as soon as I force close them. Neither can be disabled on my stock, non-rooted note 2. I've not tried the factory reset just yet, was hoping to avoid that, but wondered if anyone had any suggestions.
Thanks so much, all!!!
Mika
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Hello, all, since I've had my Note 2 I've been incredibly impressed with the battery live, much better than other droids I've owned. Within the last two weeks or so, however, I've seen a dramatic drop in battery life. Where I used to be able to last a day and a half without charging, The phone is now not capable of lasting through the day. There hasn't been any real change in my usage patterns, but I am constantly trying new apps, so I figured that one of the new ones must be the culprit. The stock battery stats indicated that Android System was consuming about 41 percent of the battery, which based on previous readings and having owned other droids seemed much too high. I downloaded Battery Stats Plus, which indicated hat the rogue app was wssyncmldm, consuming that same 41 percent. I wasn't familiar with this app, but google revealed that it manages ota updates? I tried rebooting the phone, and went back to Battery Stats Plus, which now indicated that same 41 percent, but named the app "Factory Test." I let the phone charge overnight to a full 100, then checking again today, I'm seeing similar numbers. Today Factory Test is listed at about 33 percent. Both apps are active in application manager, and reappear as soon as I force close them. Neither can be disabled on my stock, non-rooted note 2. I've not tried the factory reset just yet, was hoping to avoid that, but wondered if anyone had any suggestions.
Thanks so much, all!!!
Mika
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I'm not sure how much help I can be, but I'll do my best.
Let's start with the obvious things
1. Try uninstalling any apps that you recently installed
2. In application manager go under all and look for the "wssyncmldm" culprit. I don't have it in my application manager but I have one that is very close in name
3. Have you recently installed any OTAs?
4. Are you rooted by any chance?
5. When I updated to the 4.1.2 update, I had a similar battery issue. I just ended up backing up all my apps with "Helium" (No root required if you plug it into a pc with some directions) and just did a factory in settings. It fixed the battery issue for me, though I never looked into it to see if it was this same culprit.
I hope I can help in some way, I'll try my best though!
Welcome to 4.1.2.. Went from 30 hours to 15....tempted to install a backup of 4.1.1 to see if it comes back. Bad news is 4.2.2 seems worse on battery until you change kernel. I've done it in og DROID but scared to on my note.
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Welcome to 4.1.2.. Went from 30 hours to 15....tempted to install a backup of 4.1.1 to see if it comes back. Bad news is 4.2.2 seems worse on battery until you change kernel. I've done it in og DROID but scared to on my note.
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Scared to flash a new kernel or flash 4.2.2?
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Kernel... I've heard they are the real difference maker.
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Kernel... I've heard they are the real difference maker.
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Well every single one I have used, and I've flashed em all, are excellent. Don't be scared to flash em, the worst that can happen is you'll have a bootloop and you can restore your nandroid. They offer amazing features, some more so than others, and can make your phone run super fast with excellent battery life.
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Would you mind posting links on your top 2 or 3? I might give them a shot since I have a nandroid backup.
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Perseus, PB&J, and Sabre are probably the top three, not including stock.
Faux all day! Matrix(plasma) if on aosp
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I'm not running any rom right now... Just rooted 4.1.2. I've read faux was a good one though.
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OK after running the latest faux kernel and adding grennify I'm back to 4.1.1 battery life... Thanks for giving me the push to flash the kernel.
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Faux all day! Matrix(plasma) if on aosp
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PLASMA! Hell yeah! That's my go to kernel seeing as how I mainly run AOSP.
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