Just got this phone - what ROM should I run? - Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Currently running Beanstalk 4.4, which seems nice, but it's not as smooth as I'd like and the battery life doesn't seem great. What would you guys suggest? 4.3 or 4.4; either is fine. Would prefer AOSP, and I need my power toggles.

Try them for yourself. Thats the beauty of having so many ROMs. Try them and pick your favorite.
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bor3d2damax said:
Try them for yourself. Thats the beauty of having so many ROMs. Try them and pick your favorite.
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I'm going to try a few, but I'd just like some suggestions.

CustardNOM said:
I'm going to try a few, but I'd just like some suggestions.
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Try the existenz rom its really smooth nd i hv been gtin good battery life..it lasts a day with about 4 hours on screen time

Rzr92 said:
Try the existenz rom its really smooth nd i hv been gtin good battery life..it lasts a day with about 4 hours on screen time
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I installed MEOW kernel over Beanstalk and my battery life doubled... Sitting right now at 25% battery after 18.5 hours and 3 hours 12 minutes screen on time. Awesome.

CustardNOM said:
I installed MEOW kernel over Beanstalk and my battery life doubled... Sitting right now at 25% battery after 18.5 hours and 3 hours 12 minutes screen on time. Awesome.
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If you want a kk ROM I'd suggest Nameless Rom under the original android development forums. Not as many features as 4.3 or beanstalk ROM but super smooth and stable with decent battery life. If you like flashing or updating often, mokee is another great rom with ota nightlies that you can flash daily.

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Hi all,
I have been flashing each n every rom which is released here.. All r gud n unique.
But m looking for a rom which gives the best battery life.
I use Internet a lot... I mean a lot... Over 3g as well as wifi... I get some 10 calls a day... Online video and audio streaming of two hours. Auto sync is active always.. What's app, LinkedIn and Facebook... All together say two hours a day..
Suggest a rom which can handle all these usage.
Currently using cm10 dla..
I charge thrice a day.. Battery drains like butter..
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I think cm7 and ARHD are the best for battery life but they are probably not enough for your use. If you prefer jelly bean I would suggest one of the cm10.1 since they are a little better than cm10 in terms of battery life
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milan.gadakari said:
Hi all,
I have been flashing each n every rom which is released here.. All r gud n unique.
But m looking for a rom which gives the best battery life.
I use Internet a lot... I mean a lot... Over 3g as well as wifi... I get some 10 calls a day... Online video and audio streaming of two hours. Auto sync is active always.. What's app, LinkedIn and Facebook... All together say two hours a day..
Suggest a rom which can handle all these usage.
Currently using cm10 dla..
I charge thrice a day.. Battery drains like butter..
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You should try ARHD 5.0... Its looks like Stock rom bt its awsm for battery life...
Cm7 would be too out dated... Anything advance.. I like sense and cm both.. Will give a try to arhd... Can anyone post a video link of arhd.. But i feel arhd is still old... Its sense 3.6 where as we have roms with 4.1 now.. Guys suggest more roms..
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milan.gadakari said:
Cm7 would be too out dated... Anything advance.. I like sense and cm both.. Will give a try to arhd... Can anyone post a video link of arhd.. But i feel arhd is still old... Its sense 3.6 where as we have roms with 4.1 now.. Guys suggest more roms..
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Sabsa prime was good for me. Sense 4 lite.
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CM 10.1 Jelly time
I'm using CM 10.1 jelly time, battery performance is not that good, other than that, it works fine...
Regarding, battery, I'm not sure whether it's because of google now function...
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I found that if you enabled GPS, then GPS seems always working there even after you closed the map app and switch off the GPS signal, and drains a lot of juice of battery..
did you guys found similar problem?
i think Packman 20 will be good option
Try some battery saving measures in a CM10 build. Disabling Google Now and location reporting should increase battery by a lot.
milan.gadakari said:
Cm7 would be too out dated... Anything advance.. I like sense and cm both.. Will give a try to arhd... Can anyone post a video link of arhd.. But i feel arhd is still old... Its sense 3.6 where as we have roms with 4.1 now.. Guys suggest more roms..
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Sense 4.1 ROMs are slow on the incredible s. Use ARHD, it's a great ROM which I have been using for the last few months. CM7 is also great, even though it's a little old, CM7 gives the best battery over anything.
TaLEntZ96 said:
Sense 4.1 ROMs are slow on the incredible s. Use ARHD, it's a great ROM which I have been using for the last few months. CM7 is also great, even though it's a little old, CM7 gives the best battery over anything.
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But with Cm7 there will be lot of compatibility issues... Its gb after all..there are whole lot of apps which doesn't even work on gb... Howz arhd... Can someone post a video link..
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Dude, just try arhd for yourself. Its a great ROM and everything works on it
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ARHD would be a good choice.. for JB ROMs, the battery drainage is at a higher side..
milan.gadakari said:
But with Cm7 there will be lot of compatibility issues... Its gb after all..there are whole lot of apps which doesn't even work on gb... Howz arhd... Can someone post a video link..
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Just look at the LARGE amount of thanks Mike has received from developping ARHD. There isnt a need for words to describe how great it is
But back for real, ARHD is fully stock with speed tweaks here and there. If you remember your experience (if u had one) on ICS with Sense 3.6, just look back at that, and then imagine it being about 3 or 4 times smoother
Sabsa Prime is a fantastic rom.
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Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2106654
Try this ROM it absolutely matched your requirements.
I've been using this for quite some time (2months to be precise) and it works great.
Stock Sense 4.1 Full.
Cheetah74 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2106654
Try this ROM it absolutely matched your requirements.
I've been using this for quite some time (2months to be precise) and it works great.
Stock Sense 4.1 Full.
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I'm using this ROM from 6 months.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2151925
My battery life is 2 days.
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As you can tell, everyone is going to have a different opinion on this, so we generally close these types of threads before the conversations devolve. Please try all the ROMs and choose the one you like best. I personally change between different ROMs at different times as no one ROM is "best" all the time since they all evolve over time with different features and their associated problems. Purchasing Titanium Backup along with doing regular nandroid backups has proved very beneficial to make the changeovers fairly painfree and ensure I don't lose anything.
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Plz recommend a stable and battery friendly customs rom

Hi everyone!
My Girlferind has a s3 mini. I rooted her phone and installed DmodV3N custom Rom 3~4 months ago. Everything is going well except the extraordinary battery consumption problem. She used the great app 'greenify' and day to day operation is very smooth. But battery won't last 8 hr even under normal to light use. So, I finally decided to flash a new Rom to her phone. Can anyone recommend me a stable and performance oriented custom Rom with least battery consumption? Better not based on stock Rom, and no touchwiz UI.
thanks in advance!!
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I use dmod V6.. its stable and i have like 24 to 30 hours in battery autonomy with medium use.. social networking WhatsApp and internet...
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DUGUSO1983 said:
I use dmod V6.. its stable and i have like 24 to 30 hours in battery autonomy with medium use.. social networking WhatsApp and internet...
Cheers
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Thz I m now confused between AOKP, Dmod and CM
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Dmod direct injected with cpu tuner
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how much battery time are you looking for?
efaustino84 said:
how much battery time are you looking for?
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under normal usages, (Facebook+Messaging+Short times gaming) about 16~20hrs..
DUGUSO1983 said:
Dmod direct injected with cpu tuner
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But, Dmod seems more like a stock Rom than AOKP and CM. and AOKP is only about 160mbs, CM ~400mbs. why Dmod is over 600mbs? and I can install no frills cpu after.
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under normal usages, (Facebook+Messaging+Short times gaming) about 16~20hrs..
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i will try upload my ROM that i am currently using if you want it
i get about 1 day and 15 hours on normal usage (email, messaging, gaming, calls)
it's based off of stock AMG1 ROM
just cleaned bloatware, added a few tweaks, and changed launcher
was going to share it with everyone but i haven't had time to put in some other features
efaustino84 said:
i will try upload my ROM that i am currently using if you want it
i get about 1 day and 15 hours on normal usage (email, messaging, gaming, calls)
it's based off of stock AMG1 ROM
just cleaned bloatware, added a few tweaks, and changed launcher
was going to share it with everyone but i haven't had time to put in some other features
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I will try Maclaw AOKP first coz it looks like the newest version available if it doens't work, I will take ur rom
Cheers
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[email protected] said:
I will try Maclaw AOKP first coz it looks like the newest version available if it doens't work, I will take ur rom
Cheers
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cool, no problem
let us know how it goes
Ok, I will try 2morrow and will let u know it is good or not.
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Hi everyone!
My Girlferind has a s3 mini. I rooted her phone and installed DmodV3N custom Rom 3~4 months ago. Everything is going well except the extraordinary battery consumption problem. She used the great app 'greenify' and day to day operation is very smooth. But battery won't last 8 hr even under normal to light use. So, I finally decided to flash a new Rom to her phone. Can anyone recommend me a stable and performance oriented custom Rom with least battery consumption? Better not based on stock Rom, and no touchwiz UI.
thanks in advance!!
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It is a really subjective question, it depends on how you use your device, but stock rom may have better battery life
AssToast said:
It is a really subjective question, it depends on how you use your device, but stock rom may have better battery life
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So, stock Rom has best battery life? But, My GF doesn't like Touchwiz UI and I can't possibly afford to buy a new HTC one or Xperia Z Ultra for her right now She use Nova Prime, but I m abit suspicious that it drains battery.
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Use Maclaw's AOKP, u get 2 days of battery life with normal usage like with BenzROM.
Benzonat0r said:
Use Maclaw's AOKP, u get 2 days of battery life with normal usage like with BenzROM.
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I M also planinng to use this one . It is based on 4.2.2 after all.
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efaustino84 said:
cool, no problem
let us know how it goes
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I just flashed Maclaw AOKP and I have to say i m impressed. The display look crispier and it generally has no serious bugs, All connectivity works! The operation is smooth and quick. I will check the battery life later By the first look, it seems like a really nice ROM which is running on 4.2.2. Now my S3mini Looks like a Nexus4mini
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My sister has just bought an S III Mini, but it is marked by Vodafone with all Vodafone's stuff pre-installed. Which ROM (light, fast and stable) do you advice me to replace the Vodafone one? On my S Advance I'm using HarshJelly 2.0 and it works great, is there something like that?
Sigur Rós said:
My sister has just bought an S III Mini, but it is marked by Vodafone with all Vodafone's stuff pre-installed. Which ROM (light, fast and stable) do you advice me to replace the Vodafone one? On my S Advance I'm using HarshJelly 2.0 and it works great, is there something like that?
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have you gone through what is available?
efaustino84 said:
have you gone through what is available?
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I don't understand, ROMS in Galaxy S III Mini Android Development section aren't for S III Mini?
Sigur Rós said:
I don't understand, ROMS in Galaxy S III Mini Android Development section aren't for S III Mini?
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this is the SIII mini forum
all ROM's posted here are for the SIII mini
before you posted your question did you go through the forums to see what is available?
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this is the SIII mini forum
all ROM's posted here are for the SIII mini
before you posted your question did you go through the forums to see what is available?
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Yes, I checked some threads but I don't know which ROM may be good, I was looking for a light and fast one. I wanted a simple tip from who has already tried and installed.

Best ROM for battery life w/o sacrificing stability and performance

Title says it all: Best ROM for battery life w/o sacrificing stability and performance
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Stock ROM and arrrrghh's kernel. I drain the battery a lot, but it lasts me 10h oc'd to 1.8
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I've haven't tried any other custom roms beside CM 10.1.3 stable: no bloatware, better than stock battery life, and tons of customization. I wouldn't want to try anything else.
Update#1: I've been experiencing frequent reboots through out the day. Seems to happen randomly or before and after being plug in to charge.
Update#2: Too many crashes/reboots on the CM10.1.3 stable. I couldn't take it anymore so I flash CM10.2..latest nightly. Amazing! No reboots, far stable than 10.1. Gonna stick with 10.2 for a week or two then try custom roms as ProBam and Carbon.
Update#3: So 10.2 does crash and restarts. It will happen while it is plugged in "Charging". GAPPS would crash i noticed. wth
HoloBlur, Carbon, or CyanogenMod hands down.
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4.2 ROMs (especially AOKP): +++battery, -stability.
4.3 ROMs (LiquidSmooth 2.10, Carbon): -battery, +stability.
There is no golden middle choice. However, 4.3 roms provide much more features and the battery life is compared to stock (but still worse), so, not a bad choice to try.
Tried all everything you guys have said and I've come to the conclusion that either my battery is defective or this phone just sucks when it comes to battery life regardless or ROM or kernel. Thanks anyways
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What kind of Battery life are you getting? I get anywhere from 6-8 hours with heavy use to 16 hours with light use... Stock battery btw
One time I was playing gangstar Vegas on medium settings with lowest brightness for like 30min and the battery went all the way down to 25%. I started out with 100%. Also even on standby the battery goes down like 15% with WiFi and everything off and airplane mode on. I just don't get it. It pisses me off. The battery lasts me like let's say 8hrs with VERY VERY low usage. Like I'm talking like only maybe 25-50min screen time at like 25 percent brightness.
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The Android Attorney said:
One time I was playing gangstar Vegas on medium settings with lowest brightness for like 30min and the battery went all the way down to 25%. I started out with 100%. Also even on standby the battery goes down like 15% with WiFi and everything off and airplane mode on. I just don't get it. It pisses me off. The battery lasts me like let's say 8hrs with VERY VERY low usage. Like I'm talking like only maybe 25-50min screen time at like 25 percent brightness.
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Sounds like you need the MAXX battery mod. My battery will last in excess of 30 hours on one charge. The battery isn't that cheap, but imo, it was totally worth it.
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Best Rom
in my opinion, holoblur 0.9 tuned edition or x 0.9 Pure performance edition, are the most stable and less battery consumption, the other roms left out of the ADH standard features like HDMI mirror. The other functions that handle the other ROMS are esthetic and user support that we like to be playing with our phones giving better appearance.
Hey guys. So went back to stock 4.1.1 and its been great. I'm using the stock kernel. I'll get the maxx battery soon or on black Friday but overall in terms of battery life, stock has it.
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The Android Attorney said:
Hey guys. So went back to stock 4.1.1 and its been great. I'm using the stock kernel. I'll get the maxx battery soon or on black Friday but overall in terms of battery life, stock has it.
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So you're not running rocking the "HoloBlur-X ROM PurePerformance™ Edition" anymore?
There is no best ROM/Kernel, try them all and see which "best" suits you.
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[Q] Optimus 2x battery kernel

Hello.
I'm looking for really good kernel for my phone. I've 2.6.39.4 kowalski-exp and battery life was horrible. I used my phone for 4h and now it's on 19%. Can someone tell me some really good kernel that supports Jelly bean and good battery life? Please help
Can you post your battery usage screen shot or if you have BBS installed please screenshot of BBS? That 4 hours phone usage that you are mentioning, is that 4 hours of voice call or 4 hours browsing? or what? If it is 4 hours with screen on with WIFI or 3G on all the time I think that is reasonable. I am using kowalski kernel and I have reasonable battery life.
luka.kopricanec said:
Hello.
I'm looking for really good kernel for my phone. I've 2.6.39.4 kowalski-exp and battery life was horrible. I used my phone for 4h and now it's on 19%. Can someone tell me some really good kernel that supports Jelly bean and good battery life? Please help
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stv0309 said:
Can you post your battery usage screen shot or if you have BBS installed please screenshot of BBS? That 4 hours phone usage that you are mentioning, is that 4 hours of voice call or 4 hours browsing? or what? If it is 4 hours with screen on with WIFI or 3G on all the time I think that is reasonable. I am using kowalski kernel and I have reasonable battery life.
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I used wifi for about 1h. Maybe less, don't know. I played a game for maybe 2h. On original rom battery was way better, but ICS on Optimus 2x really sucks. So much lag, can't even open facebook in less than 10 sec.
luka.kopricanec said:
I used wifi for about 1h. Maybe less, don't know. I played a game for maybe 2h. On original rom battery was way better, but ICS on Optimus 2x really sucks. So much lag, can't even open facebook in less than 10 sec.
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if you play games 2h that is not horrible battery life...i recommend you latest tonyp build cm11 from 20. 01.2014 and latest penguss77 alpha 31...for me that is best combination ever...no such cm10.2, simply the best,forget about ICS and JB, kitkat is miles away better than them,in almost every segment, it has very low memory usage and good optimization...thats my opinion.bye
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if you play games 2h that is not horrible battery life...i recommend you latest tonyp build cm11 from 20. 01.2014 and latest penguss77 alpha 31...for me that is best combination ever...no such cm10.2, simply the best,forget about ICS and JB, kitkat is miles away better than them,in almost every segment, it has very low memory usage and good optimization...thats my opinion.bye
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Thanks for advice) I'll try CM11. Hope it will work better
We are all here to help each other...try and tell results
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xperia u20i said:
We are all here to help each other...try and tell results
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I've installed KK rom but I can't find working gapps for it. Do you've link for yours?
Mini gapps are in the ROM,i didn't install gapps after i installed ROM...just make full wipe install ROM then kernel wait to boot,wait aprox 5 min then restart again and you are ready to go :thumbup:
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Battery life

Hey Guys,
I have a big problem and I hope that you can help me.
My problem is about my battery life.
I can use my phone one day, 8 hours- 17 hours but after, my battery is dead.
I don't use a lots my phone just snapchat, twitter, facebook, google, sms...
Two mounth ago, I hold 2 day and my utilisation don't change.
I use greenify, ds battery saver but no result.
I'me really disappointed and I hope you can help me.
I hope my batterie is not dead because I don't want to buy a new battery on internet and my operator don't want to send me a new battery.
I have a samsung galaxy s advance (i9070) and I test lots rom (cm 10, cm 10.1, cm 10.2, cm 11, stock + kernel, etc...)
I'm actually on cm 11.
Thanks a lots and sorry for my very bad english.
Check deepest sleep state. Also check CPU settings - set min to 200 with governor ondemandq+ scheduler cfq.
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Yes
I have already test all of this but dont make anything.
I'm verry disappointed.
I have cm 11.
Can you give me the rom Who have the better battery life ?
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lehrqt said:
Yes
I have already test all of this but dont make anything.
I'm verry disappointed.
I have cm 11.
Can you give me the rom Who have the better battery life ?
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Stock or CM10.1.
lehrqt said:
Yes
I have already test all of this but dont make anything.
I'm verry disappointed.
I have cm 11.
Can you give me the rom Who have the better battery life ?
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Try carbon 4.4.2
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lehrqt said:
Yes
I have already test all of this but dont make anything.
I'm verry disappointed.
I have cm 11.
Can you give me the rom Who have the better battery life ?
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Try stock, deodexed, zipaligned, with cocafe's 8.8 and deepsleep set to 4, pegasusq and sioplus... works best for me
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deodexed, zipaligned,
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Sorry but what dou you mean by deodexed, zipaligned?
lehrqt said:
Sorry but what dou you mean by deodexed, zipaligned?
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lots of stock roms are available deodexed. Read this thread by member @R_a_z_v_a_n which explains it very well, then use search to find the deodexed ones. Search remember is your friend
I haven't seen any notable difference in battery life on any 4.3 or 4.4 rom. Surfing the web over wifi and brightness set manually to medium i lost about 12-13% charge in 30 minutes.
Higher battery drain can be a placebo effect too. You installed a new rom and expect at least as good battery life as on stock, let's say. Then on your new rom you keep eye on the battery, waking your phone more often and checking the battery status and stats, thus draining the battery little more overall. I won't tell that's the case right now, it's just one possible reason people see their batteries dying sooner. Now i'm currently on fresh CM 10.1 (build 1117) and will find out if there is any difference in battery life compared to CM 11.
hannez_r said:
I haven't seen any notable difference in battery life on any 4.3 or 4.4 rom. Surfing the web over wifi and brightness set manually to medium i lost about 12-13% charge in 30 minutes.
Higher battery drain can be a placebo effect too. You installed a new rom and expect at least as good battery life as on stock, let's say. Then on your new rom you keep eye on the battery, waking your phone more often and checking the battery status and stats, thus draining the battery little more overall. I won't tell that's the case right now, it's just one possible reason people see their batteries dying sooner. Now i'm currently on fresh CM 10.1 (build 1117) and will find out if there is any difference in battery life compared to CM 11.
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Right! I solved my battery problem hiding the battery icon on the statusbar lol
on cm11 05\03 with pegasusq + sioplus, one day with medium usage (3g activated when needed and some vg)
Well CM 10.1 doesn't give me more battery life than kitkat. With my usage pattern and settings it's draining about 26% per hour.
Hey, I flash harshjelly and after one Day of utilisation, my Juice is 26 % now... My client service don't want to help me...
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