I recently upgraded my Sprint Note 2 from stock 4.3 to stock 4.4.2. My battery life on my stock Gear used to be about a day. With 4.4.2 on the Note, my battery life has greatly diminished to just a few hours. Is this due to Kitkat 4.4.2? Can I downgrade if I want to Android 4.3?
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hoddy4 said:
I recently upgraded my Sprint Note 2 from stock 4.3 to stock 4.4.2. My battery life on my stock Gear used to be about a day. With 4.4.2 on the Note, my battery life has greatly diminished to just a few hours. Is this due to Kitkat 4.4.2? Can I downgrade if I want to Android 4.3?
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I uninstalled and then reinstalled the gear manager on the note 2 and the issue seems to have gone away. I have no idea why.
I'm currently on Sense 6 Kitkat rom with the 6.09.401.5 firmware. I am bored and fancy trying one of the 5.1 aosp or cm based roms for a while. I appreciate the rom will probably work with my current firmware, but for optimal battery and signal what firmware should I flash for this?
Thanks,.
maritimesbob said:
I'm currently on Sense 6 Kitkat rom with the 6.09.401.5 firmware. I am bored and fancy trying one of the 5.1 aosp or cm based roms for a while. I appreciate the rom will probably work with my current firmware, but for optimal battery and signal what firmware should I flash for this?
Thanks,.
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I was on the basically the same firmware when I first ran CM12. I used it for a while (~a week or two), then flashed to 7.17.1540.21. I didn't find that it gave me any noticeable improvement in battery or signal.
Hi All, I've previously unlocked bootloader, flashed stock kitkat & rooted my XT1068 (Moto G 2014).
I'm really loving this while 5.0.2 was really lagging & was consuming lots of battery, it's good on kitkat.
But would love to try out any rom if you could suggest me some that could be less battery consumers than the official android releases, may be based on either 4.4.4 or 5.1.1 Have seen lots of rom threads over here but am unable to get the idea regarding battery life
Cm is good in perfrmnce and features and almost stable but battery life will be ok not that great
I recently received a phone international version and Android 5.1 google plus latest version, but the battery does not hold much. I want to recommend a best custom rom with battery backup.
Hello,
I have 2 HTC M7 with slim rom 7.1.2. build.2.0 and GAPPS pico. One of them is S-OFF with GPE firmware (6.04.1700.19). Clean install via TWRP, no further apps installed, so far. Both phones lose about 1.5%/h battery in stand-by - thus more than twofold compared to stock firmware+rom, before.
Can anyone tell me, what are the reasons for this higher battery consumption? Forums on custom roms mostly give information that battery consumption will be improved with custom rom.
I think of installing a custom kernel to improve battery life. Where can I find a compatible kernel to my custom rom and different firmwares? Or would it be sufficient to install a kernel tweaking tool (eg. kernel toolkit) to adjust settings for the current kernel? In Slim Rom, kernel information is 3.4.113-g9776217([email protected]) (gcc version 4.9 20150123) prerelease).
Thank you very much.
There is only one custom kernel for N Roms and this one doesnt have any improvment for battery or kernel tweaks, there is no way to extend the battery life except for dont use gapps. You will get the best battery life with gpe rom and elementalx kernel, but this is android 5.1, but this is the only way to underclock the cpu/gpu with all adroid versions higher like 6.x undervolting allways caused system instability. If you want to have a bettter battery life with android 6.x or higher the only way is to use nanomod microg (or the new name of this magisk module "nanodroid") instead of gapps. It will replace everything what google services do for you with opensource programms, you will be able to use your google account as usuall and being able to use the play store but without the high battery drain gapps are causing. If you want to know more about this you can read everything here https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one/help/tips-standby-time-t3661814
Thank you, I will try it. As I have seen this should still allow for using paid apps from play store if needed.
Though I don't understand why battery consumption with custom rom nougat is that higher than with stock rom lollipop. I also tried clean installing custom rom without any GAPPS, but battery drain in standby and with flight mode was still considerably higher (0.9%/h) than in stock rom incl. Google services and no flight mode (0.5%/h)?
Hm, now I have
- 1 M7 S-off, GPE firmware, Slim rom 7.1.2 build 2.0 + microG
- 1 M7 S-on, HTC firmware, Slim rom 7.1.2 build 2.0 + Gapps pico,
- 1 M7 S-on, HTC firmware, HTC stock rom.
So far, no further apps running, GPS, NFC and bluetooth deactivated. Hourly battery drain in stand-by is almost identical on phones with slim rom (1.5% per hour) - and more than twofold compared to stock rom (0.6% per hour). Since I have tried several custom roms before, I noticed that other Android M+N roms (lineage, AICP, xenon, tesla) all have battery drain comparable to slim rom.
Seems to me that there is no way to get low standby battery consumption with a custom rom Android M/N. Within a 16 hour day I loose about 15 percent battery more than with stock rom Android L only due to standby. Am I the only one with this issue (or the only one interested in this)?
de_dueda said:
Hm, now I have
- 1 M7 S-off, GPE firmware, Slim rom 7.1.2 build 2.0 + microG
- 1 M7 S-on, HTC firmware, Slim rom 7.1.2 build 2.0 + Gapps pico,
- 1 M7 S-on, HTC firmware, HTC stock rom.
So far, no further apps running, GPS, NFC and bluetooth deactivated. Hourly battery drain in stand-by is almost identical on phones with slim rom (1.5% per hour) - and more than twofold compared to stock rom (0.6% per hour). Since I have tried several custom roms before, I noticed that other Android M+N roms (lineage, AICP, xenon, tesla) all have battery drain comparable to slim rom.
Seems to me that there is no way to get low standby battery consumption with a custom rom Android M/N. Within a 16 hour day I loose about 15 percent battery more than with stock rom Android L only due to standby. Am I the only one with this issue (or the only one interested in this)?
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If you have identical battery drain on both devices with slim rom (one with gapps one with microG) there is definitivly something wrong on your side. Every user i have ever read from using microG said the same about better battery (about 10% more at the end of a day compared to same rom with gapps). And for me it was the same, with aicp and gapps i had only 15% at the end of a day, with aicp and microG i had about 25% left.