Best ROM for battery

Roketteere · November 30th, 2012, 09:46 PM

Hey whats everyones experience with battery life on ROMs.
I have black p. And its a super fast rom but fast battery drain.

Spec2nirvash · December 1st, 2012, 10:12 AM

Root with Stock ZVA gives best battery life. Use Root Explorer to delete all of the useless MetroPCS junkware. I've tried BOC and BP, found that BP slaughters any battery you feed it, and takes 8x longer to recharge. BOC is a great ROM, easy on the battery but I feel that the menus are very hard to read in daylight and PICO TTS has some issues. Otherwise great ROM.

I won't touch #2 ROM since it looks as there a few issues with it. The only ROM I will flash next would be something other than Gingerbread

Looks like Kanaida may help us with ICS....

viceless · December 1st, 2012, 01:40 PM

Rom #2 has been excellent since v1.3. Absolutely no problems, working Bluetooth and TTS, and I've experienced battery life of up to 32 hours with manual 4G/Bluetooth/GPS, WIFI Always-On.

On ROM #2 v1.5 I am typically down to around 20% by the time I go to sleep.

Roketteere · December 1st, 2012, 01:57 PM

I cant seem to find a link to stock rooted zva working on any of the posts. Im on my phone maybe thats why. Can some try posting a link here so i can try it out please. And thanks for the input

DirtAddsHP · December 1st, 2012, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by viceless

Rom #2 has been excellent since v1.3. Absolutely no problems, working Bluetooth and TTS, and I've experienced battery life of up to 32 hours with manual 4G/Bluetooth/GPS, WIFI Always-On.

On ROM #2 v1.5 I am typically down to around 20% by the time I go to sleep.

Wow i have experienced quite the opposite. I cannot pair my phone due to some issue in the settings.apk file stated by ldrifta. But no file or fix has been reported. And my battery rarely lasts past 12 hours.

I am looking forward to an ICS port.

viceless · December 1st, 2012, 02:43 PM

I couldn't get it to pair before 1.3 either. every version I would full wipe data/cache/factory reset. Finally 1.3 got me bluetooth and tts.

Totally looking forward to Shang ICS too.

Roketteere · December 1st, 2012, 06:01 PM

I thought that they had posted a fix for the Bluetooth?

Or maybe it was a different ROM. I had my BT broken and kept getting forcecloses on the BT menu. I downloaded a ZIP to fix that and it did.

I forget the ROM I was using. I flash ROMs all the time and change phones all the time lol.

Oh if you are wondering how I change phones so much its because I work at a cellphone store who buy used cellphones.

If anyone needs anything for your devices let me know maybe I can get it for you.

SegamanXero · December 2nd, 2012, 12:21 AM

Here is a tip that I can confirm for sure. If you purchase a LG Lucid OEM battery for your Connect you WILL get longer battery life. I bought one on amazon a few weeks ago and have been very happy with it. Technically, the LG Lucid battery isn't supposed to be compatible... But it works, unofficially speaking that is. I believe I have seen an extra 2-3hrs with this. Although I haven't done a thorough benchmark with it. I do know for sure, I do trust a LG Battery over say a Feipusi 1900mah fake battery. Those chinese extended batteries have been proven to lie about how much power they really have

Link to the LG Lucid OEM battery I bought on Amazon.

There is a fat extended battery for the Lucid I think that should work as well, just good luck making a back cover that will fit it. I will probably buy that next, and buy a spare LG Connect back and macgyver extended back from it. Or maybe buy one of those crappy fat chinese batteries that lie about their mah, just for the back. lol

Roketteere · December 2nd, 2012, 09:23 AM

Ok i flashed ROM #2 and so far its great with battery life and fast. Also i did order an extended battery and back for it last night.

I do have a few minor complaints about the theme on it. Some stuff is a bit too light and hard to read.

So a thumbs up for #2 from so far.

OrKo · December 2nd, 2012, 12:18 PM

This should be posted in the "root" forums where it'd get more attention from the right people. But yea ZVA is the way to go for battery usage problems

jprosek · December 3rd, 2012, 11:19 AM

I'm running rom #2 with a qcell 3850mah battery and I get 30+ hours of fairly heavy use (on and off the internet texting listening to music etc...). I get similar battery drain when playing 3d accelerated games like dead space although I havent yet had enough time to test gaming from full charge till discharge lol

Roketteere · December 3rd, 2012, 05:06 PM

I ordered an extended battery lets see what my life is now

armirol · December 8th, 2012, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Spec2nirvash

I won't touch #2 ROM since it looks as there a few issues with it.

I'm using #2 (v1.4) after trying all different ROMs and it is definitively the best one battery wise.... i get between 8h to 10h in a normal day usage (4G and WiFi always on) while i was more between 5-8h with any other ROM...and everything works and NO reboot!

myshkin · December 13th, 2012, 06:39 AM

I've tried every ROM and I can't believe how much better battery life I have with #2. No comparison as far as I'm concerned. (on battery life, I still love BP too)

Anna

Granite1 · December 17th, 2012, 06:56 PM

Hope everyone doesn't mind, I've moved this thread over to the All Thing Root Forum. Cheers, thanks!!