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Hi,
I've met with Galaxy S2 after ICS released so I've never used GB roms. So far I've tried ParanoidDroid, D4ROM, Hydrog3n, Slim Rom, Litening Rom, Turkbey Rom and Resurrection Remix. I've fairly used them all and happy with Hydrog3n atm. My gf also bought S2 and complaining about battery life since I've never tried GB roms and don't have any technical knowladge to compare GB with ICS (I mean voltage and stuff) I ask you gentleman to recommand a rom for me. It doesn't matter if it's stock ICS or stock GB or some custom rom. I just want to get best battery life out of Galaxy S2. Since I think custom roms remove most of the unnecesery apps and stuff from stock's it has to last longer and since ICS is newer and as far as I've read from posts that the voltage values on paper are lower then GB ICS has to last longer than GB but somehow ICS consumes more battery. I just upgraded her phone to ICS stock with Siyah Kernel with battery profile but she is complaining to me that it was better before I'm very confused and couldn't decide on what to do.
Is it better to not root at all or return back to GB ? I just want to maximize the battery life.
Thanks in advance
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No rom. Because there are far too many variables which determine battery life to say conclusively "Such and such rom/kernel is teh awesomz battery life man !"
Battery life depends on how you have the phone setup and how you use it. Any tweaks you might have made to kernel settings, and so on. There is no simple path to getting the best battery life possible from your phone, there are no quick fixes. It's a matter of experimenting with your phone setup & trying different roms/kernels until you find one that's good for you.
If that kind of thing doesn't enthuse you, as well as being in the wrong place, you might as well stick to stock tbh.
With all this in mind, IAmFrk was quite right to refer you to the forum policy of not asking for rom/kernel recommendations. There have been hundreds of these threads in the past, you should do a search & see what people recommended in those rather than start another thread.
No no you guys understood my q wrong. I'm asking if GB is better in terms of battery than ICS and not rooting the phone is a better option than rooting or not. I'm not asking any roms or kernels since I don't need any recommendation on that for myself since I've been trying diffrent roms and kernels in that matter. I just want technical information for the stuff as I mentioned above not rom or kernel. The difference between GB and ICS, stock phone and rooted phone. Does rooting a good thing or not ofc I've read tweak battery life related posts before asking mine but couldn't find any info comparing my needs.
And I'm asking this since I upgraded her phone and didn't do anything else she is using the same settings as she did in GB but her battery lasts less. That's why I'm questioning the GB and ICS, with the same settings which one will last longer ?
But it isn't as simple as 'GB is better in terms of battery than ICS'.
Some people on here (who help a lot of people in Q&A and whose opinions I really respect a lot) say GB is better, ICS is buggy & they've had crap battery life from the roms they've tried. For me, I get the best battery life I've ever had with CM9. Why ? Because I've put in the time/effort to tweak my setup to make it that way. My point is if you ask 100 people on XDA that question, you'll get different answers to the question depending on the person.
So far as rooting/not rooting concerned, again, nothing to do with battery life per se. What rooting does is give you control over your phone, and can (it can also enable you to make your battery life/phone performance a whole lot worse) enable you to run kernels (and tweak those kernels), and enable you to set your phone up to possibly give you better battery life .
Given it's your GF's phone & I presume you want it to work well 100% of the time with no glitches (because you'll probably end up playing tech support, which from experience I know is a pain in the arse), leave it on stock.
On the other hand if you like a challenge, I've given you plenty to think about in my two posts. Every bit of info you could possibly need to tweak your phone is on XDA. It's just a matter of searching, reading, learning & then using that info to make a setup that gives you what you want.
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No no you guys understood my q wrong. I'm asking if GB is better in terms of battery than ICS and not rooting the phone is a better option than rooting or not. I'm not asking any roms or kernels since I don't need any recommendation on that for myself since I've been trying diffrent roms and kernels in that matter. I just want technical information for the stuff as I mentioned above not rom or kernel. The difference between GB and ICS, stock phone and rooted phone. Does rooting a good thing or not ofc I've read tweak battery life related posts before asking mine but couldn't find any info comparing my needs.
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MistahBungle said:
But it isn't as simple as 'GB is better in terms of battery than ICS'.
Some people on here (who help a lot of people in Q&A and whose opinions I really respect a lot) say GB is better, ICS is buggy & they've had crap battery life from the roms they've tried. For me, I get the best battery life I've ever had with CM9. Why ? Because I've put in the time/effort to tweak my setup to make it that way. My point is if you ask 100 people on XDA that question, you'll get different answers to the question depending on the person.
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I totally agree with you I'm very happy with my rom also coz I'm tweaking kernel and also manually disabling stuff by myself but It's not possible for me to do that to my gf coz I'll have to act as tech support and I'm always checking if there is anything on wake while the screen is off and act accordingly to it, I can't do this on her phone.
So as you mentioned I'm not asking this formyself nor asking a rom reccomendetion but as you said I think I'm gonna install stock GB and do the necessary settings for her and leave it.
Thanks for your replies much appreciated.
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Best ROM is the one that works best for you. There are too many variables. Try a few out and make your own decision.
Hello fellow xda users. Im about to acquire a Samsung Galaxy S II in 26 Decembecer, to offer to a relative.
But i dont know any ROM available in XDA.
So i would like to know your opinions about which Rom is more stable , best battery life, and best performance.
Because i wont have any time to try the roms out, and the person i'll offer the phone, doenst know how to do it either.
But i wanted to give him a phone with a ROM already installed to bring out the best performance/battery life and stability.
Thanks for all the help u can give, i'll appreciate,
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Without trying to sound stupid its all down to preference, I have tried out a couple and some are better then others
I would just go for a slightly modded mod rather then a full on change as sometimes they are missing features or are harder to learn depending on the age of the relative your giving the phone to
There's a reason these types of threads are frowned upon, and they tend to get closed. ROM preferences are a highly personal thing, and everyone's opinions are different. Many times they even lead to disagreements and flame wars.
Without knowing your relative's usage patterns or preferences, there's no way to reliably recommend a ROM. A ROM that works well for me might not work well for him (or you).
Hi all. Had my SII for a long time now (since release). Just gave it to my girlfriend, and the nexus ROM I had on it keeps crashing in random ways. For example, stock keyboard stopped working completely, and kept forcing the force close popup. I'm just looking for a stable ROM for texting, talking, taking photos, and Facebook. This isn't a best ROM question, just a good, stable ROM with decent battery life. Thanks all.
chrisphoenix7 said:
Hi all. Had my SII for a long time now (since release). Just gave it to my girlfriend, and the nexus ROM I had on it keeps crashing in random ways. For example, stock keyboard stopped working completely, and kept forcing the force close popup. I'm just looking for a stable ROM for texting, talking, taking photos, and Facebook. This isn't a best ROM question, just a good, stable ROM with decent battery life. Thanks all.
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Shostock 3 was solid for me. Im running the ported version of pacman now from iconrunner and it's very good. But if you want a solid, no frills, stable, great battery for her, Sho3is my pick. Not alot of customization like pac/ aokp but it's awesome i tell you.
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This is exactly like a best Rom thread. Any Rom we have on these forums is likely to be stable.
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chrisphoenix7 said:
Hi all. Had my SII for a long time now (since release). Just gave it to my girlfriend, and the nexus ROM I had on it keeps crashing in random ways. For example, stock keyboard stopped working completely, and kept forcing the force close popup. I'm just looking for a stable ROM for texting, talking, taking photos, and Facebook. This isn't a best ROM question, just a good, stable ROM with decent battery life. Thanks all.
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My Recommendation for a high stability rom, with V good battery life (although that will always vary with how it is used) is Shostock3. Moreover, Shoman94's XDA thread for SHOSTOCK3 is very informative, positive, and reflects a wide range of user and Dev experience and insights.
Good Luck!
Shostock3 is where its at. Touchwiz has some awesome features and Shoman pretty much perfected them.
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Agreed SHOstock is solid but Tasks and Goldie's ROM are also solid players. But agreed this is a vs thread and will most likely get shut down. Try them for yourself and see what works best for you.
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redux -this is a valid question
chrisphoenix7 said:
Hi all. Had my SII for a long time now (since release). Just gave it to my girlfriend, and the nexus ROM I had on it keeps crashing in random ways. For example, stock keyboard stopped working completely, and kept forcing the force close popup. I'm just looking for a stable ROM for texting, talking, taking photos, and Facebook. This isn't a best ROM question, just a good, stable ROM with decent battery life. Thanks all.
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After re-reading the comments on this thread, I would like to add a post with an additional perspective.
I appreciate that some will not agree with the following --and I respect their differing opinions. It is important that they express their views so that we all have a balanced range of views to consider (especially the mods, if they read this thread )
Anyway, I would like to support the OP in his/her question or search for an answer:
- The OP question, and most responses to it, seem to me to reflect a qualitative difference from the typical "what's the best rom"? question. Here is why I say this:
- "Best rom" questions typically (but not exclusively) are characterized by a variety of assertions or declarations about a rom (or several roms), where the respondents assert characteristics that make a particular rom *superior* to all other roms.
- This OP's question, as posed and even noted by the OP, seeks only selected, specific datapoints, or feedback on specific characteristics or criteria. The poster seeks stability and reliability (not defined in detail) information for available SG2 i777 roms. [His focused concern (since he gave the phone to his girlfriend!) is real!]
- This is a specific and limited scope question. It is not an open-ended "best rom," solicitation. It seeks input that differs materially from that "best-rom" type of question. In this regard, the difference between the two questions is clear.
-Most replies here do address the specific question, and do not comment on the excellence or the superiority of one rom over all roms. That also highlights the distinction between his question and the "best rom" question.
An aside here, or additional comment, is that those of us who flash many roms over the days, weeks, and months of changes and (rom) developments do see variation in performance among the differing roms. It would not be an honest reflection of XDA to suggest that all roms on XDA are equally stable or equally reliable.
Therefore, soliciting feedback on rom stability or reliability, especially in the Q&A section, should not be deemed inappropriate, or viewed as a surrogate attempt at a "best rom" face-off.
Hope this can help keep the questioning (& answering) process alive!
Good Luck
Looks to me like he got his answer, and I tend to agree that Shostock is probably the most stable rom I have run. I haven't run the latest but the previous 2 or 3 have run flawless, and I can't recall a single random reboot on any of them much less ever having a SOD.
I ran stock on my S2, did an update, phone started locking up.
I switched to ParanoidAndroid, and my stability increased from there on out. Never had a problem with that rom.
I am currently on PA 3.68 and was on Omega for short time and before that I was on Viking.
Can anyone suggest a good ROM at present. On PA 3.68 , my battery is draining a lot faster. I tried to find if any application is consuming , but it seems its not the case.
So please suggest a stable , faster and better battery ROM.
'Which rom' threads are against the rules, try some yourself but don't share the results please.
Yup , first decide which one you want for yourself , a aosp or sammy base ROM.
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Despicable me Minion Rush Lags a lot in SIII
Even i want a ROM which consumes less battery, currently on Omega ROM 4.1.2, has average battery drain but lags a lot when i play Despicable me Minion Rush game, I know the game has pretty high end graphics but my friend can play this game without any lags in his Galaxy SII, if a galaxy SII can play this game without any lags why cant SIII, Please someone suggest me a ROM which has good graphics performance with less to moderate battery consumption. P.s I never turned on Power saving mode while playing the game so my phone is functioning with 4 cores al the time.
I am thinking of opting to Liquid smooth ROM ...which is very less in size around 120MB ..whats your suggestion guys.
With all due respect , Asking fellow users which rom they use and which they feel or suggest to others is unreasonable ?
Not many have the time to check multiple ROMs and come to a conclusion.
It takes atleast a week to settle with a new rom . Apart from this configuring each app , etc will take loads of time.
I tried three roms , all different ones , but cant able to find a good rom whcih has good battery , or faster ROM.
If you think , you can suggest , please do .
If mods feel this is against rule , please help me and fellow members who need some kind of pathway to get good ROM. Tried and tested ones.
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With all due respect , Asking fellow users which rom they use and which they feel or suggest to others is unreasonable?
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I'm afraid so. So many people ask the same question, the rule is to stop the forum being drowned in these thread. There is no real answer anyway, other than go back to stock and disable all the bloat.
All that will happen now is that this thread will get locked by a mod.
naveen_reloaded said:
With all due respect , Asking fellow users which rom they use and which they feel or suggest to others is unreasonable ?
Not many have the time to check multiple ROMs and come to a conclusion.
It takes atleast a week to settle with a new rom . Apart from this configuring each app , etc will take loads of time.
I tried three roms , all different ones , but cant able to find a good rom whcih has good battery , or faster ROM.
If you think , you can suggest , please do .
If mods feel this is against rule , please help me and fellow members who need some kind of pathway to get good ROM. Tried and tested ones.
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look at the popularity of the rom's threads in the dev section and you will have a direction on which rom is most popular / most used.
battery, speed etc. depends on your usage, hence there is NO way we can tell you what is best for YOU.
Omega was popular , but i tried 4.2.2 version of its ROM and faced few issues.
I am ready to try new ROM , but there are multiple ROM`s now , so among them , i dont know which one to pick.
Of course its hard to say which is better , atleast some user feedback would be good.
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Omega was popular , but i tried 4.2.2 version of its ROM and faced few issues.
I am ready to try new ROM , but there are multiple ROM`s now , so among them , i dont know which one to pick.
Of course its hard to say which is better , atleast some user feedback would be good.
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read the respective rom's threads (start with the most popular once, here you can look for instance at how often updated, how many posts in total etc.), tons of user feedback and after that you can decide by yourself.
ok will try...
Yeah it kinda sucks that best rom threads are against the rules but since most roms are published in xda noone want to create controversy directly IN xda.
Anyways i will answer cause i dont really care and cause that's what people that have the same phone do: give each other suggestions about software.
So.
first off i will state it's best you do NOT use aosp roms, they tend to drain your battery much quicker than samsung ("sammy") based ones. and samsung based ones are more stable.
secondly i suggest you do not flash any 4.2.2 roms yet, and definitely not any 4.3 roms.
Thirdly i will suggest probably one of the most popular roms for s3 (also the one i think is the best. And the one which sure has a higher costumizability rate than any other) because i like it, because it consumes significatively less battery thank my stock rom, because it's cool with all it's customizations: foxhound.
Like i said best rom threads ARE against the rules but im just gonna give my opinion here, so i have to remind you to keep in mind i have only tried a limited amount of roms (7? maybe 10 i dunno...) and my opinions can be very limited do not swear by them.
Not that we got copyright acts out of the way i will tell you i think omega is a good rom but not great. I mean it does everything many other roms do and with not so great performance or battery drainage, but not bad either...lets say its average and very stable and leave it at that.
Also check kernels and cpu governors to tweak performance/battery options.
use apps like greenify to control apps that run in background and apps like 3g watchdog to check apps that download in background and apps like the es system utility thing (it like an addon app to the file browser) that has integrated app startup manager, thats useful too.
But having a fast and stable rom isn't just about choosing the rom or kernel, it's about spending time (a week should be enough) to check it all, get into its nooks and crannies and tweak it everywhere!
Its about checking your battery life, which apps consume battery?
And bam, you find out 10% is consumed by that led color controller app that you dont even use. So delete, disable, kill.
You gotta make the right choices, use the right apps to tweak your system, and uninstall all the useless ones.
Get INTO those settings!
Get INTO dev options and set screen drawing to gpu instead of cpu!
Set animations to 0.5secs instead of 1!
Get INTO that s**t!
This is how you take care of a problem...android is not for iphone users
Use the power your phone really has, the beating heart of unix!
use it!
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Oh and watch out for launchers too...
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As stated above we really don't want best rom threads.
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I know that generally speaking, opinion-threads aren't highly looked upon here.
That said, I am not asking, "What ROM is your favorite?" I am looking here to find a ROM that meets a certain set of criteria, and am finding it difficult to do so with the way that things are organized here.
These criteria, in order, are:
Stable
Quick
Good Battery Life
Featureful
So in other words, while I would love for it to have the most modern, high-end KitKat features available, I would not want to make big sacrifices to battery life for their sake. I would not want to make big sacrifices to the fluidity for battery life, and I would not want to make big sacrifices to the stability for speed.
So my question is: what ROMs meet these criteria best? Not what roms are the best -- what ROMs best meet these criteria?
De-bloated stock.
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De-bloated stock.
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Debloated stock what?
Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jellybean. Probably JB to have the latest drivers and memory management.
This is solely my personal opinion, I would recommend that you try out a couple ROMs and decide for yourself, but the two that I immediately was reminded of when I read your "criteria" is
Padawan JB V4
Sons of Android
I hope you find what you're looking for.
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Debloated stock what?
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In addition rooted of course, F-Droid and a framework to install various modules to add even more features.
P/S
MODS:Note sure if this acceptable, if not just delete this reply.
MadnessG said:
This is solely my personal opinion, I would recommend that you try out a couple ROMs and decide for yourself..
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See, this is the thing that I don't get: when I try to install a new ROM, it is a lengthy process with lots of bugs and quirks along the way, usually, and lots of time invested to actually get the ROM fully running. Transferring old apps, SMS, contacts, call logs, working out the bugs that you encounter along the way and then fine tuning the settings of the ROM... it takes many, many hours for me.
Hence usually once I go through all of that effort, the thought of throwing it all away and trying something else seems bafflingly overwhelming to me.
Am I missing something?
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See, this is the thing that I don't get: when I try to install a new ROM, it is a lengthy process with lots of bugs and quirks along the way, usually, and lots of time invested to actually get the ROM fully running. Transferring old apps, SMS, contacts, call logs, working out the bugs that you encounter along the way and then fine tuning the settings of the ROM... it takes many, many hours for me.
Hence usually once I go through all of that effort, the thought of throwing it all away and trying something else seems bafflingly overwhelming to me.
Am I missing something?
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Most of that is done for me once I put in my gmail account. Except for sms. As far as bugs, are you flashing clean, cause there really arent that many bugs, or at least nothing that sohould be a suprise.
When I try a new rom, I go to the last post and start reading backwards. This makes you aware of the most recent problems and if there is a fix. If its more than I want to deal with, I dont bother.
But I do understand, it can seem like such a chore......sometimes
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In my personal opinion the most stable, battery life for use dialy is the NOVENA and PADAWAN v8 using ICS