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Hi,
I just now decided to flash a rom on my LG P500 tommorrow, and I'm looking for the right one now. Things that are important to me:
1. Performance! I really like to play games (not too fancy ones because LG P500 can't even install those but you know what I mean ... I'd prefer it if the rom has OCed the CPU automatically)
2. Decent battery life (I don't want all performance, I'd like a good balance)
3. Overall smoothness (scrolling etc)
4. A2SD (I just read the other day, that one rom could move all apps to sd, was that just darktremor or what? If no, how does that work and which roms have it?)
Thanks in advance!
i'm use GingerLOL 1.5.2 it a bit old but all balance with good performance , no bug , good battery life try it here
+1 to GingerLol
ya, even I used GingerLol for a while and I have to say it is completely bug free and smooth performance
oxygen rom
after using cyanogen mod nightly; stock; perfect peso & new oxygen rom 2.2 i find the oxygen rom as a best performer. it is light weight; doesnt lag & has good battery life. especially with launcher pro there is no screen lag & scrolling is excellent.
only bug i have found is that switching data from 3g to 2g doesnt work. one has to disable & reenable data for 2g to start.
hope this helps
Hey All,
What is the best stable (full featured) ROM for the x10i? Last ROM I installed was TEAM ROM v4.0 a year ago, recently upgraded to an S3 and am handing down old faithful to my daughter and want to get it running smoothly for her....she is technically inclined so I need something that is G2G no additional flashing or modding required. Any current recommendations appreciated...I realize that most ICS ROMS will be out of the questions...that is fine, GB = Happy. Thanks in advance.
PS - When I wiped the phone the home button lost its binding...working to wake the screen, but not as a multifunction button.
Hi bro,
if you like SONY's UI Achotjan V2 should be the best option, link :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1690148
Some bugs was reported (MMS on some provider, Bravia Engine) fixed, try to find it on that thread.
FYI
SFL44 said:
Hey All,
What is the best stable (full featured) ROM for the x10i? Last ROM I installed was TEAM ROM v4.0 a year ago, recently upgraded to an S3 and am handing down old faithful to my daughter and want to get it running smoothly for her....she is technically inclined so I need something that is G2G no additional flashing or modding required. Any current recommendations appreciated...I realize that most ICS ROMS will be out of the questions...that is fine, GB = Happy. Thanks in advance.
PS - When I wiped the phone the home button lost its binding...working to wake the screen, but not as a multifunction button.
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I think the best ROM is donutHD. It's smooth(highest benchmark) and very stable.everything is working
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I agree with Jakuburban. DonatHD 2.2.9 is best GB rom for X10i. Recommendations......
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SFL44 said:
Hey All,
What is the best stable (full featured) ROM for the x10i? Last ROM I installed was TEAM ROM v4.0 a year ago, recently upgraded to an S3 and am handing down old faithful to my daughter and want to get it running smoothly for her....she is technically inclined so I need something that is G2G no additional flashing or modding required. Any current recommendations appreciated...I realize that most ICS ROMS will be out of the questions...that is fine, GB = Happy. Thanks in advance.
PS - When I wiped the phone the home button lost its binding...working to wake the screen, but not as a multifunction button.
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Hay ..
all ROM for Xperia is good, but for ICS and JB there are some bugs. For example, Video Recording. If you intend to try but note that there is a problem faced by other users who have installed first.:silly:
Cm7zmod is the best, hands down. The performance offered by ZMOD eclipses all other gingerbread roms, even donutHD.
Achotjan Stock Remplacement Rom V2 is my best rom :good:
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the best rom is donat hd
its smooth and stable and its jellybean/ics themed , its awesome
Few ROMs Usage - Comments
Hi all,
Just wanted to share a bit of my own personal experience with a few of the X10 roms i tried for some time.
Keep in mind that the daily use was more or less the same for all ROMs and is as follows:
Telephony(calls), data usage (both wifi & 3G), gaming (quite a lot actually), camera (videos + pics), music and even watching videos (rarely).
- Stock 2.3.3: used this for a long time, once it was officially released by SE. When i bought the X10 it had 1.6!! then went to 2.1.
Then i joined the xda family here. Anyways, the overall 2.3.3 rating was that UI is slow and battery drainage is high. (I even charged it twice during a single day!!!)
- CM7-ZMOD-003: used for months. Overall rating was that UI speed is noticeably much faster than stock, but battery drainage is slightly better than with stock 2.3.3.
What i did not like so much was that i had to add another launcher because most toggle widgets i use would not work on the built in loader. Don't know why.
- Then i went back to stock 2.3.3 and tried various themes, launchers (like GO EX, Galaxy S3) but this only made UI much slower (response) and battery drained faster.
The look was nice but as long as you add extra stuff, its only logic that the power drain increases and UI performance decreases.
- FeraLab*** ICS v4 (17/11/2012) - Finally, i wanted to try this (obviously)
Had to learn to unlock BL which was interesting and finally was able to do it ..(after reading carefully - many thanks to all who contribute).
Used it for a month until recently.
The major difference in my case, was that the battery drain was much much less than with any other ROM of the above. This is a major PLUS!.
The only downside was that UI is a little slower but this is expected as the 4.x OS needs more power to sustain, since the X10 was not built for 4.x OS.
Another major factor for me was that, some of the games i played on any 2.x.x OS, will not run on the 4.x OS, like Plants vs Zombies (which is one of my favorites),
I have 3 different apk's saved but either of them work on ICS. Probably they are written for 2.x OS only.
So, now i'm back to stock 2.3.3 and will try a few other candidates that are in xda and see if i finally decide to stay on one, or simply buy a newer phone and more powerful one.
Since i am rather new at all this, i would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contributes to xda in any way.
Just wanted to share something back.
Regards,
Eros
dta1eros said:
Hi all,
Just wanted to share a bit of my own personal experience with a few of the X10 roms i tried for some time.
Keep in mind that the daily use was more or less the same for all ROMs and is as follows:
Telephony(calls), data usage (both wifi & 3G), gaming (quite a lot actually), camera (videos + pics), music and even watching videos (rarely).
- Stock 2.3.3: used this for a long time, once it was officially released by SE. When i bought the X10 it had 1.6!! then went to 2.1.
Then i joined the xda family here. Anyways, the overall 2.3.3 rating was that UI is slow and battery drainage is high. (I even charged it twice during a single day!!!)
- CM7-ZMOD-003: used for months. Overall rating was that UI speed is noticeably much faster than stock, but battery drainage is slightly better than with stock 2.3.3.
What i did not like so much was that i had to add another launcher because most toggle widgets i use would not work on the built in loader. Don't know why.
- Then i went back to stock 2.3.3 and tried various themes, launchers (like GO EX, Galaxy S3) but this only made UI much slower (response) and battery drained faster.
The look was nice but as long as you add extra stuff, its only logic that the power drain increases and UI performance decreases.
- FeraLab*** ICS v4 (17/11/2012) - Finally, i wanted to try this (obviously)
Had to learn to unlock BL which was interesting and finally was able to do it ..(after reading carefully - many thanks to all who contribute).
Used it for a month until recently.
The major difference in my case, was that the battery drain was much much less than with any other ROM of the above. This is a major PLUS!.
The only downside was that UI is a little slower but this is expected as the 4.x OS needs more power to sustain, since the X10 was not built for 4.x OS.
Another major factor for me was that, some of the games i played on any 2.x.x OS, will not run on the 4.x OS, like Plants vs Zombies (which is one of my favorites),
I have 3 different apk's saved but either of them work on ICS. Probably they are written for 2.x OS only.
So, now i'm back to stock 2.3.3 and will try a few other candidates that are in xda and see if i finally decide to stay on one, or simply buy a newer phone and more powerful one.
Since i am rather new at all this, i would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contributes to xda in any way.
Just wanted to share something back.
Regards,
Eros
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If you have the money, go for a new phone. The X10 is more like a ghost these days. Or you could try CM10 by scritch007, which everyone says is really smooth. There's also donutHD, which will give a good stock-based ROM (imo not nearly as smooth as ZMOD, but has better battery life). Or you could try on of the gaming ROMs, those are sure to have the maximum free RAM available..
If it were 'me' I'm tech savvy and can work around, or deal, with bugs and other minor issues.
She's not me.
So I need a ROM that's really stable and reliable. Doesn't have to do fancy things (if any at all), just needs to run some apps (think netflix, facebook, and youtube, but not much for 'gaming' apps), and be able to handle phone calls (a huge bonus for better reception/connectivity...and no, I don't know how much a ROM can affect that).
Not sure it matters, but so far, it's only had the default ROM on there from T-mobile. Really hoping I can surprise her with this, so I'm open to discussions and questions. Thanks.
mnm2317 said:
If it were 'me' I'm tech savvy and can work around, or deal, with bugs and other minor issues.
She's not me.
So I need a ROM that's really stable and reliable. Doesn't have to do fancy things (if any at all), just needs to run some apps (think netflix, facebook, and youtube, but not much for 'gaming' apps), and be able to handle phone calls (a huge bonus for better reception/connectivity...and no, I don't know how much a ROM can affect that).
Not sure it matters, but so far, it's only had the default ROM on there from T-mobile. Really hoping I can surprise her with this, so I'm open to discussions and questions. Thanks.
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Try slimsaber rom by Fusionjack. If you don't like the dpi, you can change it using the textdroider app.
Im assuming you have the international SII i9100?
then Cyanogen SaberMod 11 Kitkatt 4.4.4 by Markox89 is a great stable rom, battery efficient, bug-free, fast and powerfull
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56726280&postcount=2783
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/development-derivatives/rom-cyanogenmod-11-t2686887
Direct link Latest version: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95864024717074719
Then download pico modular gapps from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2397942
This Rom is included with standard kernel wich is great but Apolo kernel makes is a nice dream machine
Apolo kernel by pedestre for better performance and greater battery effiencency
https://www.copy.com/s/QhCImANLuLbc...itferne/Apolo_7.2_OMNI_Beta3_Regular-TWRP.zip
Direct link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/development-derivatives/kernel-t2291756
flawless:good:
for a clean install i sugest you use the HawkerScripts to get rid of the junk and leftovers of the previous rom/kernel
make a nandroid backup and/or save your important files/fotos before flashing any rom just in case
HawkerCore scripts: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405363
UPDATED FOR MARCH SECURITY PATCH! 08/03/2017
Hey folks!
Today I decided to share my actual setup for everyone to try and report back.
Mind that is still WIP, absolutely far from perfect and it's based on my personal preference, since it's built around the way I use the phone. But it can be easily adopted for many people here since it's pretty flexible.
The main goal of this setup is to provide consistency, both in battery and performance. Also, I mind security a bit, this is why I update the phone often; Because of that I want to flash the least possibile .zip files in recovery after updating to the latest security image (I'm lazy and I like things done nice once, and I never do them twice when it's not needed)
With this setup you should go between 10%/h to 15%/h SOT, consistently. I've seen some of my friends dropping to 9%/h, but no guarantees
Also, added bonus: It DOESN'T trips SafetyNet, so you can use Pay and your beloved Pokemon go!
Also note that english isn't my native language, but I try my best to write as readable that I can. Sorry about that.
This require an unlocked bootloader, but not necessary a rooted phone.
The Setup:
1) First things first: Clean your phone from junk around (I suggest a pretty hard wipe) and since this require to be on the stock system (which IMO works best) flash latest N build.
2) Convert your data and cache to F2FS. It's pretty good, and even if in your opinion it doesn't boost performance THAT much, take in mind that it requires no trimming (which EXT4 does need). Mind not converting /system, this is UNSUPPORTED on stock system. It needs a custom rom.
3) Flash "Flash Kernel" from here. You can literally use any kernel you prefer, but I found this rich enough to use it. Mind it does support F2FS, if you converted to it in step 2.
4) Flash Magisk. This way you have root out-of-the-box and safetynet isn't tripped (for you Pay users!) Also, it plays nice with the mods in the next steps. Don't forget to activate "magisk hide" in the app!
5) Flash this magisk mod (increases media volume steps to 30, in call volume steps to 15)
6) Reboot your phone and set it up.
7) Install Magisk App, WakeBlock, and your kernel manager for the kernel you chose. In this setup, I use EX Kernel Manager.
8) Now, from your favourite root file manager go to /cache and create this directory structure: magisk_mount/system/framework/oat/arm64/ then place in the last folder (arm64) this file. It's from this mod, called WakeBlock. (It basically acts like amplify, but doesn't need xposed NOR root)
9) Reboot the phone.
The setup it's done, you can now tweak it as you prefer or just follow the below steps.
The Kernel tweaking:
1) Open up EX Kernel App and go to CPU, set both governors to Interactive and tick stick on reboot
2) Go to governor options and choose your governor. I use AmanuensisOne v1.0, which gives me around 6-7h sot. Load it, stick it on reboot and back to CPU.
3) Go to CPU Boost options, and disable everything (set everything to 0/disabled) and tick stick on reboot. Then back to CPU.
4) Enable core_control and disable msm_thermal, stick them on reboot.
5) Go to Memory and Disable UKSM stick on reboot.
6) Go to Miscellaneous set I/O Scheduler to FIOPS, stick on reboot, Readahead to 1024 with stick on reboot, disable fsync, also set it to reboot.
Done!
Blocking those nasty wakelocks and save the battery! (aka R.I.P. NlpCollectorWakelock):
It's reccomanded to use the phone for a while before doing this. Wakeblock collects informations on wakelocks only when they fire the first time, so a bit of use it's needed.
1) Open wakeblock app and check if it says "service bound". If it doesn't you may have missed something on the "The setup" part, check point #8.
2) Go to wakelocks and block this wakelocks (the time is expressed in ms in the app - Don't enter spaces, of course.) if you don't have a wakelock, skip it:
- NlpWakeLock -- 600 000ms
- GCoreFlp -- 600 000ms
- RILJ -- 800 000ms
- UrlDispSvcFastWL -- 600 000ms
- CMWakeLock -- 600 000ms
- *net_scheduler* -- 3 600 000ms
- Wakeful StateMachine: GeofencerStateMachine -- 600 000ms
- LocationManagerService -- 600 000ms
- SyncLoopWakeLock -- 600 000ms
- NetworkStats -- 800 000ms
- Icing -- 3 600 000 ms
- ULR_BarometerReading_WakeLock -- 600 000ms
- NfcService:mRoutingWakeLock -- 3 600 000ms
- NlpCollectorWakeLock -- 600 000ms
Take in mind that this wakelocks are blocked without impacting ANY functionality of the phone. You may want to increase the time if don't use geolocation at your own risk
More tweaks (improve smoothness and perceived UI speed):
This is a highly WIP part, setting anything different might break your system or get your phone into bootloop (happend twice to me). I highly suggest to have a backup if you want to fiddle more with these settings. You are advised. If you find something useful, please share.
1) Download HEBF and L Speed. These two apps have many tweaks to improve UX and saves a little bit more juice.
2) Open up L Speed and set it this way:
- Main tweaks: Activate Kernel sleepers optimization, Improve scrolling, Liquid smooth UI
- Battery: Activate Battery improvement
- LNET Optimizer: Activate all the tweaks and set NET Buffers to small (or big, but it wastes more battery)
- Seeder: Set to Enlarger mode
- Settings: apply on boot delay set to 60 sec.
3) Open up HEBF and set it this way:
- Set user type to "Chuck Norris" and proceed.
- Battery: Activate Google play services drain fix (Master) and usage report
4) Go into Settings > Developer options and scale all animations to 0.5x
Done, if you done all of this correctly you should see a dramatic improvement on battery life and performance.
I still reccomend to use Naptime, or better, Greenify to save some extra juice.
Have a good day, and enjoy your phone!
Please comment with your battery stats or suggestions if you wish to improve this topic.
Today's battery performance pic
Well, pretty good for me!
CappyT said:
Today's battery performance pic
Well, pretty good for me!
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What's your average SOT?
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giovanto98 said:
What's your average SOT?
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Normally i go for 6-7h pretty consistently, i touched 8h, but it was a day were i kept my screen on pretty much all the time with really quick screen offs.
The average sot may vary, but with my friends we've tested around 6h
As you can see from the screen i've installed accubattery few hours ago, but is already almost accurate in battery reading.
I can provide more accurate averages in a week or two
CappyT said:
Normally i go for 6-7h pretty consistently, i touched 8h, but it was a day were i kept my screen on pretty much all the time with really quick screen offs.
The average sot may vary, but with my friends we've tested around 6h
As you can see from the screen i've installed accubattery few hours ago, but is already almost accurate in battery reading.
I can provide more accurate averages in a week or two
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Why don't you use a custom rom? Any reason in particular?
DEVILOPS 007 said:
Why don't you use a custom rom? Any reason in particular?
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Using a custom rom has for sure some advantages, but:
- It may (and possibly will) be unstable or certain features bugged out
- Doesn't provide much more than stock rom already does (and if it does, are just secondary things like looks and customization that you can live without)
- No wakeblock for it, which saves a TON of battery (i might compile it, but hell, takes a lot of time)
- You can switch Android versions easily (and mostly without wiping /data)
- Much more support (even the official one)
- The feel and look of a clean android version
- I often don't like crap integrated with other roms based on stock
- Odexed it's faster and saves a little little juice (i don't do app modding, so...)
That's pretty much why.
Take in mind that this is my thought, and doesn't universally qualify as truth.
CappyT said:
Using a custom rom has for sure some advantages, but:
- It may (and possibly will) be unstable or certain features bugged out
- Doesn't provide much more than stock rom already does (and if it does, are just secondary things like looks and customization that you can live without)
- No wakeblock for it, which saves a TON of battery (i might compile it, but hell, takes a lot of time)
- You can switch Android versions easily (and mostly without wiping /data)
- Much more support (even the official one)
- The feel and look of a clean android version
- I often don't like crap integrated with other roms based on stock
- Odexed it's faster and saves a little little juice (i don't do app modding, so...)
That's pretty much why.
Take in mind that this is my thought, and doesn't universally qualify as truth.
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Okay thanks, I appreciate your opinion. I mainly prefer custom roms not for customisability and features but roms (mainly Chad's uber) is faster and snappier than any rom out there and is on Clang 4.0 unlike any other roms I think. Also custom roms typically have less bloat and all and has more support for themes and stuff. Can you use substratum and what wakelocks do you block? If you do ever look at getting wakeblock on custom roms could you please look into Chad's uber. I contacted him but he hasn't responded. I'd be happy to help and do it myself but I don't know how to unfortunately.
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CappyT said:
Using a custom rom has for sure some advantages, but:
- It may (and possibly will) be unstable or certain features bugged out
- Doesn't provide much more than stock rom already does (and if it does, are just secondary things like looks and customization that you can live without)
- No wakeblock for it, which saves a TON of battery (i might compile it, but hell, takes a lot of time)
- You can switch Android versions easily (and mostly without wiping /data)
- Much more support (even the official one)
- The feel and look of a clean android version
- I often don't like crap integrated with other roms based on stock
- Odexed it's faster and saves a little little juice (i don't do app modding, so...)
That's pretty much why.
Take in mind that this is my thought, and doesn't universally qualify as truth.
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I was also wondering, are there any great custom roms that currently work with wakeblock? So odexed custom roms
CappyT said:
Normally i go for 6-7h pretty consistently, i touched 8h, but it was a day were i kept my screen on pretty much all the time with really quick screen offs.
The average sot may vary, but with my friends we've tested around 6h
As you can see from the screen i've installed accubattery few hours ago, but is already almost accurate in battery reading.
I can provide more accurate averages in a week or two
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What % of battery health accubattery shows you?
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DEVILOPS 007 said:
Okay thanks, I appreciate your opinion. I mainly prefer custom roms not for customisability and features but roms (mainly Chad's uber) is faster and snappier than any rom out there and is on Clang 4.0 unlike any other roms I think. Also custom roms typically have less bloat and all and has more support for themes and stuff. Can you use substratum and what wakelocks do you block? If you do ever look at getting wakeblock on custom roms could you please look into Chad's uber. I contacted him but he hasn't responded. I'd be happy to help and do it myself but I don't know how to unfortunately.
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Yeah, I understand custom rom may be compiled with different toolchains to be faster, but the speed gain is between negligible and placebo, to me. The stock with these settings is buttery smooth and fast. Also, to have a faster look, go to developer settings and set all the animations to 0.5x. I know it doesn't affect performance, but the percieved smoothness is increased.
I tried many custom roms. It's mostly a fight than a good experience for me, so I gave up on it (I used to have cyanogemod on all my phones, for years and I was a big fan of it)
For WakeBlock, I don't plan to compile it for other roms, I'm just currently working on a LineageOS version, but that's it. It's up to your rom dev to integrate it.
BTW Yes, I can use substratum themes, but only in legacy mode. Keep in mind that this will OFC trigger SafetyNet. (like all substratum themes)
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What % of battery health accubattery shows you?
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96%, right now.
Solid guide, similar to what i'm already doing but i use Uber as my ROM. Flash kernel is great, although for some reason i universally have a problem on my 6P where my android system usage is as high if not higher than my screen usage? Has anyone else had this issue regardless of their ROM etc? Tried multiples of combos, including stock/dark rom/Stock+ w/ different kernels. Any help would be appreciated!! Good guide none the less!
mrgenie1 said:
Solid guide, similar to what i'm already doing but i use Uber as my ROM. Flash kernel is great, although for some reason i universally have a problem on my 6P where my android system usage is as high if not higher than my screen usage? Has anyone else had this issue regardless of their ROM etc? Tried multiples of combos, including stock/dark rom/Stock+ w/ different kernels. Any help would be appreciated!! Good guide none the less!
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Lot of users had this problem, check out the tread "nougat battery life" here on xda.
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mrgenie1 said:
Solid guide, similar to what i'm already doing but i use Uber as my ROM. Flash kernel is great, although for some reason i universally have a problem on my 6P where my android system usage is as high if not higher than my screen usage? Has anyone else had this issue regardless of their ROM etc? Tried multiples of combos, including stock/dark rom/Stock+ w/ different kernels. Any help would be appreciated!! Good guide none the less!
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I had a similar problem and I found out that it was my WiFi signal too low.
I used "Battery Historian" to see that.
iI's a gui that helps you find what is draining your battery giving you a graph and very detailed stats.
You can also see the wakelocks that wake your device and how much you doze in screen off.
It's located in bathist.ef.lc and it needs a bugreport from your device(to get it you need to run "bugreport > /sdcard/bugreport.txt or you can use the dedicated function into "Developer options")
SimoIanni said:
I had a similar problem and I found out that it was my WiFi signal too low.
I used "Battery Historian" to see that.
iI's a gui that helps you find what is draining your battery giving you a graph and very detailed stats.
You can also see the wakelocks that wake your device and how much you doze in screen off.
It's located in bathist.ef.lc and it needs a bugreport from your device(to get it you need to run "bugreport > /sdcard/bugreport.txt or you can use the dedicated function into "Developer options")
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okay thanks, ill look into it! my WiFi router is right outside my room, but i still get 3 bars so maybe that's the issue.. the wifi chip's dying or something similar.
mrgenie1 said:
Solid guide, similar to what i'm already doing but i use Uber as my ROM. Flash kernel is great, although for some reason i universally have a problem on my 6P where my android system usage is as high if not higher than my screen usage? Has anyone else had this issue regardless of their ROM etc? Tried multiples of combos, including stock/dark rom/Stock+ w/ different kernels. Any help would be appreciated!! Good guide none the less!
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It could be even ART JIT, since in 7.x apps aren't optimized at installation time, but at runtime. It may take a week to have everything ok.
Anyway thanks, the only difference I made here is the fact that I'm using wakeblock, a mod that I co-developed in the absence of xposed (and amplify)
Saves a ton of battery, so if you are wakelocking, check it out
Do you use adaptive brightness, set it manually, or what do you do?
HTC_Phone said:
Do you use adaptive brightness, set it manually, or what do you do?
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Adaptive/automatic, the bar is set just a little before the middle
Some updates on the average battery life
CappyT said:
Some updates on the average battery life
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Would you recommend using ForceDoze in place of Greenify/L Speed/NapTime?
I know ForceDoze works better with 6.0 since with stock Doze, it only works when the device is at a still position for at least 30 mins and ForceDoze has the ability to alleviate that, letting the device set into Doze mode regardless how much the device moves around, but with 7.0/7.1+, its like an improved Doze v2. So...
explorer-10 said:
Would you recommend using ForceDoze in place of Greenify/L Speed/NapTime?
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I personally use greenify and l speed for some additional tweaks.
Take in mind that you can use whatever you feel it's right, depending on your needs (greenify for example is selective, while the others aren't)
Anyway all of these will provide only a little bit of reduction of screen off drain, so the difference (for me, at least) it's pretty negligible.
The real deal in screen off performance is limiting the wakelocks, this way you can doze a lot more.
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.