Hi
I am pretty much obsessed with battery life.
I have been trying few roms and I have yet to find the perfect one for me.
1) gingerbread 2.3.6 stock rom unroot
Performance wise is so so. Battery life, not what I expected
2) gingerbread 2.3.6 rooted
Tweak the CPU and does see a lot of improvement in battery life.
3) ICS stunner. 19
Great rom but I feel that the battery does drain a lot.
4) ICS cyanofree
Smoother compared to stunner but battery wise is worse than stunner
5) Gingerbread 2.3.6 rooted
Back to gb to see if there's any difference in terms of battery life. Better than the Ics
I do have a lot of my friends who are using the custom ics and their battery life is superb. I don't know why mine is bad.
6) stunner 19
Back to stunner again. Still feel the battery doesn't last. Heart pain when you have to under utilize the phone just to save the juices.
7) litening rom 1.0 (currently using )
awesome even thought that its not as smooth compare to the ics. Battery wise improved a lot but I am still searching for even better one.
Question.
Anyone using speedmod or Franco kernel before and could you share your experience especially the battery life?
By the way. The testing are based on my observation. It may differ from other people.
Appreciate it very much.
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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?
Edit:
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.
Any suggestions how to keep battery life longer with roms higher then 4.1.2? Every time i flash rom like cm kitkat, paranoid 3+ or higher my battery life sucks (battery life to 5 hours). And with 4.1.2 roms battery life is just awesome (about a day).
Sorry for bad english.
tuduxx said:
Any suggestions how to keep battery life longer with roms higher then 4.1.2? Every time i flash rom like cm kitkat, paranoid 3+ or higher my battery life sucks (battery life to 5 hours). And with 4.1.2 roms battery life is just awesome (about a day).
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The reason why battery life is noticeably worse on kitkat is because of the lack of drivers available for or device. It isn't well optimised for our device and as a consequence, battery life is lost. If you absolutely want the best features (in kitkat) and want reasonable battery life, look for roms that have been built to be as close to aosp sources. That is look at rom like slimkat or neatrom aosp as they seem to have the least bloat ware and are running on the latest version of kitkat.
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The reason why battery life is noticeably worse on kitkat is because of the lack of drivers available for or device. It isn't well optimised for our device and as a consequence, battery life is lost. If you absolutely want the best features (in kitkat) and want reasonable battery life, look for roms that have been built to be as close to aosp sources. That is look at rom like slimkat or neatrom aosp as they seem to have the least bloat ware and are running on the latest version of kitkat.
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And how about kernels? Do they have any impact on battery life?
tuduxx said:
And how about kernels? Do they have any impact on battery life?
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Kernels can provide driver updates to the graphics therefore there may be better performance in games. Most custom kernels allow the user to undervolt their cpu (and sometimes gpu) therefore accounting to battery savings. So yes, if tuned properly (sometimes if custom kernel settings are left to the defaults), there may be a slight improvement to battery life. As I said before, I can only recommend to you aosp roms such as neatrom or slim saber rom if you want minimal battery drain.
Well i'm technically new here (not in xda, but in the Galaxy S2 Community). I got a i9100 used a couple weeks ago. This was a dream come true for me because, since it was announced, i wanted this phone. And i'm not disappointed of my decision.
For a 4 years old device (a ETERNITY talking in phone years) it is JUST AMAZING. Battery life more than acceptable with the correct ROM, kernel and tweaks. Performance over the average. The only problem with it is the overheating when you use it, but it's not that big of a deal imo.
Now, i'm going to say it. I'm a Flashing maniac i love downloading roms from here to try out. I wish to find a good Lollipop rom (Minimal OS is excellent, but because it's overclocked to 1,4 Ghz battery life shoit itself) by the way
CM13 has bugs that i can't stand (Videos have desync audio, and again... Battery life is shoit... Even with DorimanX Kernel).
But you think it's possible that CM14 comes to our devices? I mean oficially
CM14 is possible, but only time will tell. We faced quite a few challenges with CM13, and CM14 will be no exception. Best ROM will always be stock 4.1.2 in terms of battery life and overall performance. As for custom kernels, I will plan to support sooner than my late efforts in keeping dori kernel alive for MM.
gsstudios
S2 will never die
maiyudemiao said:
S2 will never die
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True dat!
Hey, i got a sweet deal for brand new Z5 compact, and bought it for a family member (previous phone galaxy s4 mini)
Compact size (and good reviews) were deciding factors
I'm a long time nexus user and don't know anything about Xperia in general, apart from reviews for Z5..
Can you help me with a bit of tl;dr what should i expect from software in general, and Z5 model? quirks, problems, something i should watch out for or modify?
I'm not gonna root/rom if not necessary, want a stock stable android and maybe cosmetic changes with a good launcher or similar
any help appreciated
Overheating, bad camera image quality, battery drain, lagging due to old CPU, 2G ram and aggressive throttling..
My advice would be get newer model instead like X Compact or XZ1 Compact if you have higher budget.
I'm a old Nexus 4 user too. I bought my Z5c when my Nexus 4's screen become unusable after it was dropped. I've installed official Lineage OS on my Z5c. I'm not a heavy phone user but occasionally in the day i look up reddit use firefox to read/search something and listen music when I'm using subway and of course use Whatsapp to communicate with my friends. I don't use Facebook on my phone. Installing Lineage rooting via Magisk and installing Brevent app for increasing battery life made phone my favorite. It endures my daily use for 2 days without charging sometimes it may go 2 and 1/2. The features of stock rom like Bravia engine were not interesting for me and considering the bloatware included it's hard to call that they are worth it. I generally don't use my phone as camera but sometimes take quick photos of the landscapes with scenic views. Camera quality is enough for me. I'm not taking 4K videos w/ my phone anyway. There is a feature of stock ROM that I miss though. The iOS like selection magnifier for text boxes was a killer feature of stock ROM. RAM usage dropped 200 MiB and responsiveness of the phone is significantly increased with LOS. It is a great phone overall.
mlleemiles said:
Overheating, bad camera image quality, battery drain, lagging due to old CPU, 2G ram and aggressive throttling..
My advice would be get newer model instead like X Compact or XZ1 Compact if you have higher budget.
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Well, i bought it already X or XZ1 would be in much higher price range than for what i got.
It's gonna be very very lightweight usage, basic stuff only, so only thing that concerns me is that 'battery drain' after nougat update?
Is that issue fixed with some recent updates or still a problem?
xenondroid said:
I'm a old Nexus 4 user too. I bought my Z5c when my Nexus 4's screen become unusable after it was dropped. I've installed official Lineage OS on my Z5c. I'm not a heavy phone user but occasionally in the day i look up reddit use firefox to read/search something and listen music when I'm using subway and of course use Whatsapp to communicate with my friends. I don't use Facebook on my phone. Installing Lineage rooting via Magisk and installing Brevent app for increasing battery life made phone my favorite. It endures my daily use for 2 days without charging sometimes it may go 2 and 1/2. The features of stock rom like Bravia engine were not interesting for me and considering the bloatware included it's hard to call that they are worth it. I generally don't use my phone as camera but sometimes take quick photos of the landscapes with scenic views. Camera quality is enough for me. I'm not taking 4K videos w/ my phone anyway. There is a feature of stock ROM that I miss though. The iOS like selection magnifier for text boxes was a killer feature of stock ROM. RAM usage dropped 200 MiB and responsiveness of the phone is significantly increased with LOS. It is a great phone overall.
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Huh man, now i'm thinking of Lineage ^^ i know it's better os, but i used nexus because i didn't have time to constantly updating my roms and guessing will my camera work properly with new one etc.
If i decide to flash Lineage, can you tell me is it streamlined and documented properly for Z5 so i don't waste hours on research?
And also, is nougat battery drain still present? any major bugs in Lineage for Z5?
tnx for replies!
I'm running latest stock rooted. Having overheating and lags when browsing webs..
wipe calvik data cache...remove bloatware (spotify, moviecreator...) try again...after that the phone works as it should
100% use LineageOS. Performance and battery life life are phenomenal compare to the latest stock firmware.
Cerhio said:
100% use LineageOS. Performance and battery life life are phenomenal compare to the latest stock firmware.
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I just tested to see how much battery drain will happen when phone is not in use, no sim card, connected to my wifi, with stamina turned off.
It's siting on my desk for 3 days, currently 45% battery left, thats not bad right? i'm sure that with sim card it will be more, but still..
If i go for LOS Can you tell me what version should i go for, for most stable performance? I see there is Stable Release Date: 2017-08-27..
tnx
invisibles said:
I just tested to see how much battery drain will happen when phone is not in use, no sim card, connected to my wifi, with stamina turned off.
It's siting on my desk for 3 days, currently 45% battery left, thats not bad right? i'm sure that with sim card it will be more, but still..
If i go for LOS Can you tell me what version should i go for, for most stable performance? I see there is Stable Release Date: 2017-08-27..
tnx
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Hey, look for the official LineageOS rom. There was an unofficial that was compiled by someone but it seems that he's stopped.
I've recently gotten an Z5 Compact too.
mlleemiles said:
Overheating, bad camera image quality, battery drain, lagging due to old CPU, 2G ram and aggressive throttling..
My advice would be get newer model instead like X Compact or XZ1 Compact if you have higher budget.
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Overall it's a good camera in Z5C.
Camera quality is pretty much same same for Z5 Compact and X Compact, the XZ1 Compact has somewhat better image quality though.
invisibles said:
Well, i bought it already X or XZ1 would be in much higher price range than for what i got.
It's gonna be very very lightweight usage, basic stuff only, so only thing that concerns me is that 'battery drain' after nougat update?
Is that issue fixed with some recent updates or still a problem?
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I haven't noticed any battery draining so far.
mlleemiles said:
I'm running latest stock rooted. Having overheating and lags when browsing webs..
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I'm running latest stock, not rooted. No overheating or lag whatsoever when browsing the web.