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Hello fellow Galaxy owners,
I have been installing various custom ROM´s for about 2 months now, so I guess you could still call me a beginner. Recently it has been difficult to keep up with all the latest and greatest advances in kernels and ROM´s. Being a father I don´t have as much time as I used to, to read through the mountain of information on the forums.
It is for this reason that I ask for some simple advice. I have found that Hamster, Instanity and DocRom ROM´s are all very fine pieces of work and they are blisteringly fast. The GPS is fast, the themes are epic but alas the battery life is pretty bad (well for me at least).
I must admit thought that I am obsessed with my phone and I use it constantly to read the news, check emails and stream internet radio while I am driving in my car on a daily basis.
I currently have DocRom slim V3 installed after having done a complete fresh installation. But despite being fast it seems to be very hungry on the power consumption.
Do I need to cycle it through some complete battery discharge cycles and fully charge it, then reset the battery stats in CWM recovery? Does it need some days to settle? Or should I flash different Kernels and see which one gives me the best life? If the latter then which kernel do you recommend for JPU?
Thanks in advance!
Same here
With 3g my I9000 die after 10 hours!
With 2g die after 14 hours!
With data network mode deactivated die after 30 hours!
I don't know if changing baseband or kernel will help or not!
BR
I'm having pretty good battery life without any network and LiveWallpapers turned off... just simple black screen it stayed ON for 4 days with some WiFi surfing, PDF reading and music listening player/online radio. So I guess network is draining the most.
DocRom V6.2
I just installed Doc´s ROM v6.2, and it has greatly increased my battery life.
drewmayte said:
I just installed Doc´s ROM v6.2, and it has greatly increased my battery life.
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Great to hear this!
I don't know if this is your case, I used to have the beautiful widgets weather widget on my home screen, and after soem time I realized this app was constantly refreshing and consuming LOTS of battery.
If you have it, removing it will increase your battery life too.
I have same problem,i do have the beautiful weather widget installed and think it looks nice on home screen,maybe this is the batt killer??
What other programs does the same? I like the watch and weather widget to be shown..?
Can anyone tell me what is the best ROM for battery life? Or best Kernal/Modem combo?
I dont mind a stripped down ROM.. dont use many features!
I've tried many ROMs life Darky Resurrection 10.2/Simplicity 0.31/Surface 3.1 & 3.2/Juicy 3.0 etc etc. but cant settle on one...
Battery lasts 18hours max.. (some calls/wifi use/fruit ninja for max 30 mins~1 hr)
Have tried recalibrating my battery too..
Currently on Surface 3.2 with Speedmod T24 kernal
thanks
hdaackda said:
Can anyone tell me what is the best ROM for battery life? Or best Kernal/Modem combo?
I dont mind a stripped down ROM.. dont use many features!
I've tried many ROMs life Darky Resurrection 10.2/Simplicity 0.31/Surface 3.1 & 3.2/Juicy 3.0 etc etc. but cant settle on one...
Battery lasts 18hours max.. (some calls/wifi use/fruit ninja for max 30 mins~1 hr)
Have tried recalibrating my battery too..
Currently on Surface 3.2 with Speedmod T24 kernal
thanks
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If you prefer Samsung roms, try Milkeys, very good battery life.
CM/Miui , actual Twooey III (Galnet) ist good, pure english actual version also really good battery life.
karbid
These threads are worthless. Each users battery usage is going to be COMPLETELY different. It all boils down to your configuration,personal usage, Wi-Fi usage, GPS usage, apps installed, Your settings,what you allow to run in the background, and hundreds of other variables. Plus there are about 62 threads in the forums asking this same exact question with at least 5xs as many different answers.
Anyways. Cm7 is what I use and get about a day and a half if I need to.
Bottom line, no 1 rom is any more spectacular over another one when it comes to battery. Find one you like and take steps to get your battery and usage in sync.
mrrick said:
These threads are worthless. Each users battery usage is going to be COMPLETELY different. It all boils down to your configuration,personal usage, Wi-Fi usage, GPS usage, apps installed, Your settings,what you allow to run in the background, and hundreds of other variables. Plus there are about 62 threads in the forums asking this same exact question with at least 5xs as many different answers.
Anyways. Cm7 is what I use and get about a day and a half if I need to.
Bottom line, no 1 rom is any more spectacular over another one when it comes to battery. Find one you like and take steps to get your battery and usage in sync.
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I have tried many many ROMs and cant figure it out.. sometimes suggestions help
My Wi-Fi usage is more, but dont use GPS much, No autosync or Data.. No autobrightness (keep it to a minimum), I try and disable autostarts of almost all apps
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Insanity cm032/platypus neo9 redux 5
My Bad.. someone pls move the thread to Q/A
Darky 10.1 + Semaphore 1.4.2 kernel are the best combination I've had so far.
also remember to do "Clear data" of "Media Storage" from "Settings->Applications->Manage Applications" after flashing any kernel or ROM. (to avoid system_server bug that waste CPU)
Surface JVQ
I have observed Surface JVQ goes well for battery life, try that.
Lets say battery life with just wifi always on and which rom last longer? 2days or more??
Best Battery life .. I'd Say FROYO. !
dont wana move back to Froyo.... let stick to Gingerbread
Darky's 10.2 RE here on JVQ, try replacing XXJVO modem with ZSJPG modem, I flashed it a week or so ago after awful battery life & I'm getting easily 2-3 days on same usage as you, you'll want to keep an eye on your 3G, coverage & GPS if you use it just to make sure signal strength in your location is as good as before though.
J 3 M said:
Darky's 10.2 RE here on JVQ, try replacing XXJVO modem with ZSJPG modem, I flashed it a week or so ago after awful battery life & I'm getting easily 2-3 days on same usage as you, you'll want to keep an eye on your 3G, coverage & GPS if you use it just to make sure signal strength in your location is as good as before though.
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I don't use 3g at all. Very very less gps.. Will try that, thank u
Also, can you give me a link to the zsjpg modem and howto install/flash. Hav installed darky resurrection..
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No worries, find it HERE & makes sure you read as much as you can.
My way to best batteries life is Juwe 5.1 jvq rom + Galaxian Kernel EE. Normal using ( callin, summary more than 3 hours, gaming 3-4 hours, sms, www 2-3 h) on one charging. Finnaly phone was active more than 40h.
The best solution:
1.Rom with dark colours theme, less colours less battery drain.
2.Proper kernel like Galaxian or Talon
3.Proper charging , bumpy charging method.
that's all
Moved to the ZSJPG modem, SpeedMod t24 kernal, a lighter ROM (Surface 3.2).. can already feel the difference!!!
Galaxian kernel seems to be juicing less batt source as compare to semaphore
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every rom off
Juwe's Smart Edition v5.3 XXJVR best battery life for me so far.
75% of Battery free after 18+ hours of use [10-12 calls/books 20+mins/wifi full time/video15+mins]
JUWE"S 5.2 JVQ + Talon 4.4.20-1200 + RFS + 119 sys apps + 60 user apps
I have a pic attached. Check this link
Ok...this is going to sound completely outrageous! It seems outrageous to me even I have never had this good of battery consumption ever! The phone was purchased 16/08/10 and has retained the standard battery all this time and had various Samsung ROMs on it. Mostly DarkyROMs that have improved battery quite considerably. It currently has its first stable ROM of ICS since I started flashing ICS from just prior to RC1. The ROM is a bit of a mix-matched frankenstein build of a ROM by me originated from MyICS and OneCosmis RC3.1. I have recently experienced allot of issues (including very poor battery drain) prior to this last flash and so have many of my users...actually most jumping **** (and I don't blame them).
My last ROM flash seemed to stable and go through perfectly, I was running with my own 2.0.1 and was about to release this ROM (that I'm currently on from a system dump) as a 2.2.0 version update for everyone else.....however I have held back because of the announcement of RC4.....so any of the improvements I haven't released. The install procedure backs up battery stats so as not to need re-calibration and has done so for the last 3 or 4 install. I am running the latest platypus kernel made for RC4 though
Anyway the last time I had my phone on any decent charge 22hours ago. It's currently 10.40pm EST and phone went on charge about 12.30pm lastnight. Since then I have had data left on (something I wouldn't normally do...I was used to renaming APN prior to ICS) and wifi on* (granted I have latest Juice defender ultimate)
*set to trained locations to auto-on within 250m of known wifi access point and disable 3G when wifi connected
I have gone the whole day today, with a small amount of internet (damn genie widget gets me every time with cool interesting things flashing up on the screen lol) and moderate phone usage; texting and a hand full of 10-15min phone calls....nothing out of the ordinary.
I plugged the phone to USB to transfer some things from work and it was plugged in for approximately 15-20seconds. I use multi-mount SD card app (I have included the lite version in my ROM) and allows for fast transactions and also to be able to use the phone whilst connected etc (read up about it). And I did the same here at home to transfer the things off again. It has remained sitting beside my PC untouched (unusual cause I like to fiddle) for the last 3 hours...and decided to pick it up and glaced at the battery 90%. Ok so I waited another hour and glanced again and STILL 90%.
Is there something weird going on here that I should know about? My phone has never been this good even if I left it completely on standby and in flight mode it would have eaten more than that! It seems almost stupidly impossible.
Fill me in on your take of this situation? Happy to do a complete system dump to try figure this sh!t out cause I made so many mods last ROM update I wouldn't know which one is contributing or if all or none?
edit: included more information
It's now 2:20am I am going to bed. My phone is 86%
A drop of only 4% in nearly 4hours. 1% per hour is not too bad
How do you handle synchronization, and why kind of tweaks do you perform with juicedefender?
heh i know what you mean
Im using as well icssgs rc4 (pulled) for 3 days, and right now i have 10% left after 29 hours of using my phone as wifi, downloading, sync, calls, sms and some music, all i can say is that rc4 +platypus kernel is the beast for the battery. my phone never lasted for such a long time, even on rc3.1 it used to die after 18 hours of being idle.
Reporting
7am 77%
10am 62%
10.55am - poor signal and market prompted to download an update for LinkedIn battery has plumited to 23%
36hours use and still 23% battery is pretty good. At least the resil
I will be making a deodexed version of RC4 sometime soon with a few extra bonuses ....however it won't be all that special as I have been giving away my secrets everywhere on the forum to help others on any ROM (not just my own) so anything included in my next release will be old news lol
Juice defender? Tweaks? I am not sure what you mean? You mean what are my settings?
Ok...wtf? Battery is climbing back up again now? That is something that has never happened before! Im on 26% again
realy ? ))
Offfical time of death 4.34pm EST. approximately 40hours after full charge. I am stoked with that.
Edit: I will be making a donation to Platypus Kernel right now
Can you tell which rom you had before flashing rc4 and another question are you experiencing any other problems with the rom like sd problems because im considering to go rc4 too.
dimon28 said:
Can you tell which rom you had before flashing rc4 and another question are you experiencing any other problems with the rom like sd problems because im considering to go rc4 too.
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I am still running RC3.1, I am just using the RC4 kernel
I am in the process of developing my own RC4 ROM based off this RC3.1 (my own version of it anyway) that is the first ROM I have that is stable. All versions of my ROMs prior to this have been very unstable. ROM is still odexed so that will be my first point of call and then repackage and get it up and running.
I am in the process of compiling some java code for wifi calling on vibrant though so I am too busy to even start on my ROM
Hello,
ICS is not working for me,I had the phone updated to stock V30a rom with lg service a couple of days ago.
There i discovered the phone has some warranty left.
Now i get:
Occasional resets (i can live with them),
GSM signal loss (had that with gingerbread as well but was hoping for a fix with ics)
LOUSY batt time of under 12 hours without using wifi,gps,3g or apps. (If i dare to turn wifi on im looking at 5hours batt time)
Lg service tells me V30b is not available for the 2X and roll back to gigngerbread is not possible.
I was wondering if there are any patches around to solve this without using a custom rom,or maybe a way to underclock the cpu.
Thank you for reading this.
Mystiv2 said:
Hello,
ICS is not working for me,I had the phone updated to stock V30a rom with lg service a couple of days ago.
There i discovered the phone has some warranty left.
Now i get:
Occasional resets (i can live with them),
GSM signal loss (had that with gingerbread as well but was hoping for a fix with ics)
LOUSY batt time of under 12 hours without using wifi,gps,3g or apps. (If i dare to turn wifi on im looking at 5hours batt time)
Lg service tells me V30b is not available for the 2X and roll back to gigngerbread is not possible.
I was wondering if there are any patches around to solve this without using a custom rom,or maybe a way to underclock the cpu.
Thank you for reading this.
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Check with all in one tool kit and a custom ROM...but be aware that you might not have the warranty....
But for your information......I went away to a custom ROM in three months after I bought this device.....we have better warranty here than lg......lol
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Try to set Wifi to never
Hi,
I have had the same 12h battery issue and tried out many things. E.g. flashing the Asian V30B did not help.
As I found out that only the too high power consumption by Wifi drains the battery that much, I found an easy workaround I can accept. You might want to give it a try:
1. Get into settings menu
2. Click Wifi
3. Click the most left of the 4 soft buttons to get in the context menu
4. Select never
Now Wifi every time will go off whenever the screen gets off. Battery lasts for 2.5 days in my case.
Good luck
Jo
Setting wifi to never worked like a charm.
I dont get it as wifi was turned off anyway but the batt will easily last a day now
From what im reading there are some pretty good cooked roms around but they
dont support hdmi out or radio.I really like both these features and i would hate to
loose them.
If there was a rom with a working hdmi i would propably try it.
Hi everyone, pretty much my first post on here (second in all honesty) after reading hundreds of post into flashing/installing a custom ROM. I have always ran stock Samsung but with root, but I wanted more and I was fed up with Samsung and other rogue apps causing wakelocks (kind of became an OCD thing trying to get rid of them). Was determined not to ask for help with so many threads saying the same thing, so I just too the plunge and thought fk it yolo and flashed CM10 onto my device.
Didn't really have a clue what I was doing but got there eventually. Used CWM and downloaded what I thought was the only stable version of CM. I scared myself at first as it was just stuck on the CM boot, did a bit of reading and forgot to do the factory reset and wipe, did that and it all ran smoothly.
After spending hours of fiddling last night, I'm now wondering if it's worth getting CM 11 or should I stick to 10? I barely use anything complicated on my phone, solitaire is about the only game that I play, main thing is just battery life and phone functionality and internet browsing. Also are there any settings that I should be looking into?
I always ran one power guard with stock rom, but after installing it onto CM I found it was causing the phone to never enter deep sleep, uninstalled it and it's pretty good now, has anyone else experienced this? Does CM have pretty good built in battery management or should I look at getting some kind of task killer/battery management software? Couldn't risk leaving it unplugged last night to check battery as my gf needed the alarm for this morning and didn't want to risk it going flat in the night and getting an earfull from her
Thanks in advance for any tips/help.
First of all, you need to know what causes the battery drain in our smart phone no matter what ROM to are in.
They are mainly 3things. 1. Data usage, 2. Screen brightness and 3. GPS. So if you turn off data, turn the brightness down and turn off GPS. You will get pretty good battery performance in all Roms.
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for the moment stay with stable CM10...in CM11 are a lot of bugs...today it's working nice...tomorrow it's unusable...
no need for 3rd party software for battery saving...all ROM's have ok battery life...but on stock is a noticeable difference.
Thanks for the replies. After leaving the phone idling for most of the morning I've noticed it's not sleeping. BBS is showing KWL is mdm_hsic_pm0
I've been trawling the net trying to figure out what it is, but everything I've read turns into a dead end. In the android battery stats it shows as Android OS. If i reboot the phone it seems to put it back in check, but obviously I don't want to be rebooting my phone all day!
Got very minimal apps running so it's really confuddling me.
Cheers in advance