Heya,
Im a total phone n00b, but was sick of Sony's bloated updates so did some googling and successfully installed CM11 on my Xperia Z (went from Sony's official 4.3 build)
Im greatly prefering the nightly CM11 builds, they are more stable than Sony's 4.3 update :laugh: Before someone says, I do realise this isnt released as stable software, but Im fine with that, it works really well. Im just looking for ways work around some of the issues :fingers-crossed:
I am having a couple of problems, I would ask in the development forum but dont have the permission to do so, so hopefully someone can help me here.
#1 Im getting Music stuttering/artifacts when playing MP3's. It seems to be a common thing on the Z at the moment.. I did some playing and the only fix I have found is running Android Tuner with the CPU setting at performance, which plays smoothly without any issue. None of the other less power hungry settings seem to be able to play MP3's smoothly.
#2 Battery life sucks. I get about 6 hours of average use now. On the official 4.2 software Id get an easy 10 hours with the same use.
Im guessing my issues are very much one and the same thing. The sony builds come with "Stamina" the app that controls clock speeds etc and greatly increases battery life.
Ive downloaded Android Tuner, and DU Battery saver, in an effort to try and reproduce what Stamina was doing, but I cant find the combination of settings that work.
Does anyone have any ideas on what settings to run? A single app that does what Stamina does? Any other ideas on how to get my phone fast enough to play MP3s, without requiring a diesel generator towed behind it for the hourly recharge would be great
Thanks!
Not to diss cyanogenmod or anything but currently nightlies are a bit iffy, may work well for you but may I suggest for the time being you switch to beanstalk ROM you will get superior battery life, performance and a a lot more features it should also fix audio as I've experienced excellent audio quality with the ROM.
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Thanks, hadnt even heard of Beanstalk
Am installing it at the moment, hopefully it solves it.
Thanks again
Techpenguin5 said:
Not to diss cyanogenmod or anything but currently nightlies are a bit iffy, may work well for you but may I suggest for the time being you switch to beanstalk ROM you will get superior battery life, performance and a a lot more features it should also fix audio as I've experienced excellent audio quality with the ROM.
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A very got alternative to Stamina is Greenify. It hibernates apps when you don't use them. It is basically the same thing Stamina does. The only thing you won't have is that internet connection won't turn off when you switch off your screen. But with Tasker or Llama you can create a profile to change to 2G when turning off screen and switch back to 3G or even Lte when turning screen on.
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Because Xperia Z's CyanogenMod11 default CPU voltage is higher than the Sony official system, only to be saving by reducing the CPU voltage. But CyanogenMod11 kernel does not support CPU voltage drop, third-party kernel "MEOW-kernel.v1.12.17-kitkat" currently does not support the CPU voltage drop. To power saving can only wait "MEOW-kernel" support a voltage drop.
This is my Xperia Z with CM 11.0
Use the Snapdragon Battery Guru app. It's specially designed for Snapdragon processors by Qualcomm. It's does a pretty similar job to what Stamina Mode does.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
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Cheers people,
Have been running Beanstalk for a few days, its definetly less greedy than the Nightly CM11 and is playing music fine with no tweaking needed. Just installed snapdragon battery guru too.
Thanks heaps! :highfive:
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Hello people,
first of all I want to say that I know there are more questions like this one, but I couldn't find an up-to date one.
I'd prefer an ICS or later rom since.. well the GB roms are quite outdated, but if you know a rom which offers a great battery life don't hesitate to tell about it.
I'm corrently using CM10 unofficial from Pengus77:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2058231
Here is a screenshot of my current battery life with light use (no data, little wifi for whatsapp and sometimes checking my timetable screenshot) :
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Please let me know if you know a very battery-friendly rom.
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And it's not like I have an ancient battery or something ( +- half a year old).
Hello!
I'm using Paranoid Android and I like it a lot. Battery life is really great. I'm using my phone from morning till the night and almost always battery last long enough. I'm using it for surfing, listening music, phone calls, messages so I think that this is really nice rom.
AW: [Q] Good battery ROM
Got to confirm that! Using PA with Kowalski kernel 113, OC @ 1,3 GHz some small UV and a great app as recommended by pengus and tonyp which is greenify! Take a look at it
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ParanoidAndroid user here too. I think these few words will tell a lot: Best & only ROM I will have running on my phone.
Hope you find what you are looking for.
Over here!! Another proud PA user
Well ok PA then. Downloading it now and I'll report the results asap.
Thank you all for the quick reply's.:good:
Niel6s said:
Well ok PA then. Downloading it now and I'll report the results asap.
Thank you all for the quick reply's.:good:
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Wise choice.
Note: Don't judge the battery too fast. Wait till it have done a few cycle charges (meaning: plug charger in at a low battery percentage, keep it charching till its 100% - repeat few times.).
Custom40 said:
Wise choice.
Note: Don't judge the battery too fast. Wait till it have done a few cycle charges (meaning: plug charger in at a low battery percentage, keep it charching till its 100% - repeat few times.).
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Yes, I will (although a lot of people say you should only charge to 80/90% to not overcharge your battery)
What governor are you all using btw? just normal interactive?
Update: installed the rom, all my apps, filled in my preferences/personal customisation etc. and I lost about 25%
so everything seems to go quite well with this rom.
Just one question:
what is a good alternate theme instead of the xperia one?
Niel6s said:
Yes, I will (although a lot of people say you should only charge to 80/90% to not overcharge your battery)
What governor are you all using btw? just normal interactive?
Update: installed the rom, all my apps, filled in my preferences/personal customisation etc. and I lost about 25%
so everything seems to go quite well with this rom.
Just one question:
what is a good alternate theme instead of the xperia one?
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I always charge 100% and everything is great.
Default governor.
I'm using adw
Well, here are the results of the PA rom:
As you can see the battery life is MUUUCH better. This is at almost the same usage as seen on the other screenshot so It's a fair comparison.
Thank you for informing me about this great rom and as a token of my esteem I'll give you all a :good:.
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WIUI CM7 ...battery is good... :good:
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Nice new rom to play with.
Just a few errors in the OP, not sure if you noticed them yet...
New power mwnu from SlimRoms;
Lockscreen tragets and shortcuts from SlimRoms;
Lockascreen PIN key pad shuffler;
Regardless, it's great to see another ROM to play around with!
Ok will fix them., thanks mate.
In the other hand im having Internet issues and the upload got cancelled 3 times already for slow upload. Will do tomorrow if i dont get an update done before uploading with lots of more options to play with.
Op updated with download link
What doesn't work? lol
Downloading
Everything works that i know of.
Idk if this is a Google thing or we just have amazing devs. But I feel like it was SO much easier to make a stable 4.4 build then any other one.
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Soo... are you SVLan with a different name? I noticed SVLan is no longer the OP for PureSpeedX. Just curious. I'm running PureSpeedX and it is the fastest, best battery life ROM that has ever existed for the AHD, so if this is from the same guy, I can't wait to play with it. Can we expect that kind of speed? If we have that kind of speed and halfway comparable battery life along with customizations like you have here, this will be insane. I get easily 2 work days worth of medium use out of PSX. That's unheard of for any android really. Anyways, can't wait to test it out, especially the active notifications. Will be flashing ASAP.
Yes im the same guy.
About this rom, this version is not compare in speed and battery life as CM11 is know to drain battery faster the stock kitkat. But for the options and display animations this one have is very responsive. Will get way better on the coming update soon
The ROM looks good
Very nice customizations, smooth,can't say about battery life yet
I can finally use themes and halo
External SD is still not working on TiBu
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That will be fix on next release
Does it install clean without boot loops ? Lol
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Yes clean install
TecknoFreak said:
Yes im the same guy.
About this rom, this version is not compare in speed and battery life as CM11 is know to drain battery faster the stock kitkat. But for the options and display animations this one have is very responsive. Will get way better on the coming update soon
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Well, I figured that much. CM always uses more battery than AOSP, but when you get two days of battery life, I'd gladly sacrifice half that for customization lol. CM has never hit the battery enough to cause a problem, so if I can get two days out of PSX, surely I can get one day out of this easily. Still can't wait to try it out! Thanks!
Problems with keyboard with swipe and immediately closes with no error, problems with signal sometimes drops it all with no network. Airplane mode fixes it for a little. No vibration feedback anywhere except navigation bar.
Is it just me or is the gapps link not working??
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Try again I changed the link to direct download from pa thread instead
Wondering if anyone is working on a new rom now the sources have been released.
It does not seem like it. I have been looking a lot around the net. I am considering selling mine.
I already built some ROMs for other phones and tablets but you guys need to understand that this is not something that is done in a day !
With my ******* connection I am not even done with the download of the sources ! Then you need to make some adjustments, sync, gather all the sources and finally build which is a really heavy process and right now since I need my computer to work, I can't let him build and compile.
I'll definitely build some ROM for this device since I want to try new ROMs but I need more time
That sounds encouraging. Even if the performance were increased (less battery drain) on the existing Mokee and CM 12.1 Roms, we would be in a better place. I am currently on Mokee 14/03 and the battery drain makes it very difficult to use out and about.
bejam said:
That sounds encouraging. Even if the performance were increased (less battery drain) on the existing Mokee and CM 12.1 Roms, we would be in a better place. I am currently on Mokee 14/03 and the battery drain makes it very difficult to use out and about.
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I'm also on Mokee and the battery drain is pretty good ! At least far better than with MIUI
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I'm also on Mokee and the battery drain is pretty good ! At least far better than with MIUI
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Hi ectoplasma22, I hope you could build a nice rom for this phone, because the smartphone deserves it! Can you say me if you have found some bugs on the Mokee one? Is all working on it? I'm now on miui europe stable and the rom is good but I see some limitation of the Miui rom wich are a little annoying like errors converting user app in system app system and many, but however I found how to switch the 2k dispay resolution to 1080 and the battery life increased +30%, also if I'm getting error writing screenshots on sdcard and some apps see only a small area to work, and the cursor for those apps is blocked in a small space, like the app Nice Eyes which can't be placed on the eyes. Do you know a secure way to change resolution without get anu bugs?
ectoplasma22 said:
I'm also on Mokee and the battery drain is pretty good ! At least far better than with MIUI
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Lots of comments in the Mokee thread here on battery drain. http://en.miui.com/thread-228046-1-1.html
Great that it's working for you, but mine is way worse than miui for drain. Seems to be related to min cpu frequency being high during idle.
I also notice that the cm 12.1 thread has a known issue on needing to have two sims inserted and using the second for lte if you want to use lte. http://en.miui.com/thread-234339-1-1.html. I'm not sure if this impacts Mokee too or if related to battery drain (I have one sim only in sim 2). But my drain is a lot better when aeroplane mode is on.
Android 6 coming from nian, only sound is bugged..
Source: http://www.weibo.com/2219665624/Dnu...&mod=weibotime&type=comment#_rnd1459046541406
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I'm glad I asked now, things seem to happening slowly, Mokee is ok battery no great but passable, I needed to enter APN manually as some of the fields were missing causing crazy issues.
L Speed is a great system modification app that combines tweaks inside an intuitive application, the main goal of the tweaks is to improve performance, reduce stutters and lags, and expands battery life.
You can use predefined profiles (battery / balanced / performance) or you can apply your own customized settings.
I think that would be a good idea that Z5 users of L Speed share their customized settings and then we can discuss of the potential gains (in terms of battery life and performance).
So, I share my customized settings: my goal is to gain battery life without compromising performance and to gain performance without compromising battery life.
(Note that I don't use L Speed agressive doze, I prefer the agressive doze of Greenify).
Thanks to @Paget96 for his great app :good:
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Cool.. How many SOT do u get with these tweaks? And how is your usage?
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shehabskull said:
Cool.. How many SOT do u get with these tweaks? And how is your usage?
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I'm a rather "lite" user (not a gamer), I mainly use Music, Facebook and Chrome.
I've gained 20% of battery life and 12% of SOT (partly thanks to L Speed, partly thanks to N compared to MM)
I just discovered this app L speed. Do i have to flash a "overseer" zip file to get it working?
I will give a try on my z5 compact and my z3 tablet.
Thanks in advance for any reply.
Kind regards
Torben5247
torben5247 said:
I just discovered this app L speed. Do i have to flash a "overseer" zip file to get it working?
I will give a try on my z5 compact and my z3 tablet.
Thanks in advance for any reply.
Kind regards
Torben5247
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You just have to install the app, it is on the playstore. Obviously, root is needed.
nreuge said:
I'm a rather "lite" user (not a gamer), I mainly use Music, Facebook and Chrome.
I've gained 20% of battery life and 12% of SOT (partly thanks to L Speed, partly thanks to N compared to MM)
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I'm gonna try it, thanks for share
:good::good:
Great app. Save's my battery. Nougat is worse compared to MM.
Duvel999 said:
Great app. Save's my battery. Nougat is worse compared to MM.
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whats yur lspeed settings & sot please....
I use the settings of nreuge
I'm interested in this, currently running custom ROM.
Is anyone able to confirm if this can reduce light usage so I can save around 20 percent an hour currently my battery drains at a rate of around 1% per 5mins of usage. I just Snapchat, Facebook mostly screen on time for periods of around 2min at a time with 15s sleep timer I'm just looking to take advantage of the optimisations of the ROM and use this to improve it further.
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Any suggestion for samsung s4 value edition?
I'm using samsung s4 value edition, rooted, currently running resurrection remix 5.8.5, android 7.1.2
I prefer long lasting battery life and obviously reducing heat while using.
Any suggestion please.
Thank you
Download link?
Mhmd_Asif said:
Download link?
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Google Play store...
I'm going to give this phone to my grandpa, he's used to a flip phone, so 3++ days battery life and such.
He will be using it to call, send sms and GPS mostly.
What is the most stable and least battery draining kernel and rom available?
I was using AICP 12.1 ( 7.1.2) with stock kernel
This is my current battery life, it just dies at around 50%
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Fábio Ferreira said:
I'm going to give this phone to my grandpa, he's used to a flip phone, so 3++ days battery life and such.
He will be using it to call, send sms and GPS mostly.
What is the most stable and least battery draining kernel and rom available?
I was using AICP 12.1 ( 7.1.2) with stock kernel
This is my current battery life, it just dies at around 50%
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I think lineageos 14 is the best. Also, i am pretty sure this phone dosen't have a very good gps.
0000.0000.00 said:
I think lineageos 14 is the best.
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The image is below of battery stats for me
I suggest getting a new battery off your favorite site. Like fleabay or zamazon.
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The image is below of battery stats for me
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This seems like pretty good battery life on LG L90. I am still on my first stock rom (Kit Kat 4.4) , and battery life is bad. Even if not using phone, because I have a new one, battery drains by itself pretty much. If I use phone for internet surfing , it dies after maybe 3-4 hours of surfing.
Can you tell which ROM are you using?
I also want to change ROM and put some light OS with minimum features just to make phone lighter, more reponsable and to get better battery life.
I thought SLIM Os is the best out there for that.
Could you suggest better one ?
hercegovina said:
This seems like pretty good battery life on LG L90. I am still on my first stock rom (Kit Kat 4.4) , and battery life is bad. Even if not using phone, because I have a new one, battery drains by itself pretty much. If I use phone for internet surfing , it dies after maybe 3-4 hours of surfing.
Can you tell which ROM are you using?
I also want to change ROM and put some light OS with minimum features just to make phone lighter, more reponsable and to get better battery life.
I thought SLIM Os is the best out there for that.
Could you suggest better one ?
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I am using lineageos and I think it has very good battery life.
0000.0000.00 said:
I am using lineageos and I think it has very good battery life.
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I am totaly new in custom roms, can you tell me which on is better in your oppinion LieageOs or SlimOs?
hercegovina said:
I am totaly new in custom roms, can you tell me which on is better in your oppinion LieageOs or SlimOs?
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In my opinion Lineageos is better. Also im pretty sure its called slimrom not slimos but I have seen people that moved from slimrom to lineageos and said that the battery life on lineageos was better.
Using the pico or nano gapps also helps a little as they use less ram and CPU processes.(I use mini but I disable a few things). I get about a day an half when I'm using it constantly. Also make sure you don't install to many apps that run in the background and never use apps that free up ram ect as they are useless battery hogs. If you want free ram disable unused things.
Hi, i use a slimrom 7.1.2 without any custom kernel, and the battery life is very good and very fast also, i have hebf optimizer to tweak some phone parameters, and basicly i have everything tuned to performance mode, and with mixed use i have between 5 and half to 6 hours of screen on time
Whatever old rom u use, the battery drains come from Google play service and store, they auto update and u cant control this, the only way is freezing them and u will see the difference.
The best way to force people to buy new phone is overloading old ones without people realize that, the only ROMs with good Google services are the lastest.