Best rom for battery life? - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello, I am currently using MIUI but it sucks for battery life. I want to flash a stable rom with long battery life, and nevr to forget about flashing (because I will sell my phone to a friend of mine very soon and he is noob in all of this things like roms). What would you recommend?
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I had amazing battery life with Pinnacle. 24+ hr easily with medium-heavy usage (very subjective, but 100x better than MIUI, CM7)

I flashed serendipity 6.4 on my mother in laws phone in july and I have yet to have to do anything with it except the things she messes up, like losing the app drawer icon. I also ran the rom on my phone and it had great battery life.
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Generally speaking native roms offer the best battery life over all (KH3, KI#, KJ#,KK#, etc). But like mentioned before very subjective. This thread will probably be closed due to the nature of it.

If you are giving it to a friend that is not into roms. Stock is your best bet. Don't want them to have to deal with the issues of a custom rom. Like drivers and app compatibility issues in AOSP roms like CM and roms like MIUI.

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[Q] ROM for best battery life?

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What is the ROM that you guys have experienced the best battery life on? I had great battery life on one of the Cognition betas right after DG started using Froyo, but I don't know which one .
I'm using Perception Build 7 and I get a strong full day of use, but I would love to get more. I usually keep certain battery-draining activities to a minimum (e.g. auto-updating apps) so I would like to see even better performance, battery-wise.
So what's your experience with battery life and different ROMs?
Any of the latest cognition roms were best for me. I find that the ported roms are never quite as good.. but im using them anyway for the speed.
I found the insanity rom with the cogkernel was a pretty good combo. The rom was minimal and the kernel was just uv and not oc. It was pretty good. It rivaled the battery I got with frankentwiz and the unhelpful uv combo,Which ill miss forever T.T
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i find the assonance ROMS have decent battery life
Axura with setiron 1.4.3. Tried with dgkernel and causes sleep death. Perception yields good life also
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Nick281051 said:
i find the assonance ROMS have decent battery life
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I just flashed 4.3, going to see how it does!

Is there any custom ROM out that doesn't eat away your battery in two hours?

I had to come back to the custom rom world as I tire of the boring theme layout on froyo. I'm staying FAR away from Darkys rom because it does my battery wicked. I went with Jim's rom and although it is better with battery life, it still drains.
Can anyone recommend a rom that is simple yet closer to stock battery life? It doesn't have to have a million features, just something that will allow me to change the theme.
I'm on 2.2.1 xxjpy Froyo. Any suggestions??
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Try one of the 'slim' ROMs, such as Insanity's. Removes a ton of the nevessary apps.
You won't get too much more out of the battery. Most roms eats the same juice while you're playing browsing, etc. The only difference is on idle battery drain. I use my phone on max. brightness since I bought it, and display uses min. 80% of the battery.
I'm using doc's customer ROM from kitchen with lagfix, and I usually charge battery once a day.
Thanks for your replies guys. I shall try out another rom until i find one that is manageable for my daily use
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If you think stock is better on battery why dont you just download a stock Deodexed rom from Here and just install what ever theme you want.
I'm staying FAR away from Darkys rom because it does my battery wicked.
If you been on a deadly rom then it needs a complete wipe from phone battery stats reset and it will take the new rom a couple of weeks to sort itself out battery wise . Multiple problem posts on his rom litter this board .
jje
I have good experience with criskelo's rom, but at the same time use a SuperPower application first of all for quick switching between 2g and 3g, saves a lot of battery.

[Q] Best ROM for holiday use?

Hello guys! On sunday, my gf and I are going on a trip to UK and France. I'll be able to use my phone to taking pictures, sending SMS's, connect to Wi-Fi, posting to Tumblr/Facebook and listen to music, but will probably not be able to charge the phone every night. Therefore, I think I've to change ROM from Galnet MIUI to a custom stock ROM to get a longer lasting battery. MIUI is a fantastic ROM, but I can't get the battery to last longer than 18 - 24 hours with semi-heavy use.
So which ROM would you choose on a holiday trip, where you want to connect to internet a few times every day, taking pictures, you name it, without being able to charge every night? Or, is there any CM7/MIUI -kernels that is very battery efficient?
Would appreciate answers.
If you don't matter going back to Froyo just take Darky's 9.5. In my opinion best Froyo-ROM and even better than Darky 10.1.
But I probably wouldn't use CM7 on holiday, it just drains too much battery (but it is one of the best ROMs) for SGS...
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Thank you for the answer.
I don't want to go back to Froyo, but how is Darky 10.1? Is it kind with the battery too?
I don't know, I tried 10.1 for only 2h, then I flashed CM7.
But for the things you'll need on holiday 9.5 would be perfect.
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just my opinion if froyo is an option:
use the last froyo based ultimate rom (8.2) by webstar and combine it with the last froyo kernel by damian (1.3 beta 3 i believe) This kernel also allows uv which saves some battery as well
I've used this combination for quite some time and I am still amazed by battery life and stability!
Again, thank you for answering! I don't like to think about a downgrade, but I shall think about using either Darky's or Ultimate. But, let us say that these Froyo ROMs doesn't exists, which Gingerbread ROM have the best battery life?
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Again, thank you for answering! I don't like to think about a downgrade, but I shall think about using either Darky's or Ultimate. But, let us say that these Froyo ROMs doesn't exists, which Gingerbread ROM have the best battery life?
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Try a jvp rom
Insanity cm 014/glitch
well problem is... if you go for a sammy gb rom you will have to flash gb bootloaders, then flash back to froyo when/if you return to MUIU or CM7
Bujv9. Stock with damiens beta 7 i think is the best real world battery life. I tried jvp with gto and went back to bujv9. Just my opinion though...whatever works for you.
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buy another battery from ebay, the 1930 mah for about £8 is almost as good as the stock samsung!
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Juwe's smart edition, very good battery life
Thank you for replying! Juwe's ROM looks interesting, maybe that will be my holiday ROM. Will install it later.
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Juwe's smart edition, very good battery life
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Yea i had good battery results too with juwes rom.
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I have tried CM7 before, it drained a lot battery on my phone. But I think any Rom will no-better than another battery from ebay.
Hey guys. I too am going on holiday next week.
I will be taking a lot of 720p videos and pictures.
Therefore, MIUI Galnet is not going to be the best rom for me to use.
Juwes rom as been mentioned in this thread. Can anyone else confirm that this is one of the best roms for excellent battery life, if not are there any others?
Yes, Juwe's ROM isn't bad - just try it.
jUsT2eXy said:
Hey guys. I too am going on holiday next week.
I will be taking a lot of 720p videos and pictures.
Therefore, MIUI Galnet is not going to be the best rom for me to use.
Juwes rom as been mentioned in this thread. Can anyone else confirm that this is one of the best roms for excellent battery life, if not are there any others?
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Juwe's ROM has great battery life. Best for me so far
jUsT2eXy said:
Hey guys. I too am going on holiday next week.
I will be taking a lot of 720p videos and pictures.
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when I'm going on holiday, I try not to replace the proper tools with the sgs. So for pics and video, I use a real photocamera... not the emergency microbic sensor normally mounted on smartphones, even our beloved sgs. Since you're planning to take videos and pics, you should also plan about the best way to take them!
cameras on smartphones... this should be matter for another thread really... as an example, I read here and there people worrying about focus bugs, but depth of field is a function of sensor size (size, not pixel count) and sgs sensor is SO small that DOF tend to be always infinite and the focus problem irrelevant.
My bottom line: don't waste juice and bring a real camera!
Cm7 and miui don,t Have fantastic battery life try jetpack it has very good battery life !
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Darky's 10.2 is best for me giving more battery life and performance.... My suggestion is to use Darky'sROM they have good support also.

[Q] Changing from CM 7.1

I've been on CM7 for a little while and really like the overall look and feel but am completely fed up with the absolute atrocious battery life. Even with the new 1800mAH battery I can barely make it through a work day (7:30am-6:30pm).
I was on Firefly 3.0 for a long time before trying CM7 and pretty much liked it a lot.
I havent decided if I want to go back to FF3.0 or should I try a different gingerbread based ROM. So I'm asking for some opinions and input. Whats the best ROM out there that has a great mix of good performance, good battery life, and good overall look and feel?
Thanks!
TBH, Froyo. I get crappy battery on all of them but when I run stock Froyo my battery last all day. Just my .02
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give a shot to IlluminatedOne...Its based on i897 GB...I am using from last week, it had good speed and my battery last 15-16 with heavy use and 3G on for more than 5 hrs...
Without 3G on (wifi only) I reach 20 hrs....
Fusion and Fasty is also good roms.....
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The 'best ROM' is subjective - and usually leads to unnecessary posts. Read through the various threads and make up your own mind.

Best ROM for battery life?

I am wondering if some ROMs perform better than others in terms of battery life. If you've noticed differences in battery life between ROMs, can you please let me know? I am currently on the latest PA nightly, using M-Kernel 37. Cheers!
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I run PA 3.0 and Faux Ultimate Kernel.. but I have it underclocked to 1ghz. I get great battery life out of this thing. Been 11 hours since I left the house, moderate use (nothing too heavy like games, just social media really) and I'm at 90%.
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I am wondering if some ROMs perform better than others in terms of battery life. If you've noticed differences in battery life between ROMs, can you please let me know? I am currently on the latest PA nightly, using M-Kernel 37. Cheers!
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"best" rom threads are not allowed on XDA for various reasons including the simple fact that there is no such thing as a "best rom". Its all opinionated and subjective. What is "best" for one person will not be "best" for somebody else.
The best way to find the "best" rom for you is to try them out and find out.
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