Root Which ROM do you prefer? MOTO Droid

[woogyboogy]

I'm currently trying to figure out which ROM is the best for battery life, speed, and performance. I plan on buying the Droid Bionic when it is released, but until then I am just experimenting. I'm wondering what is the best ROM you guys prefer. Right now I'm running Bugless Beast 0.6.1. Before I switched to BB I had Cyanogen and I was told BB was better, But I have noticed the battery life isn't as great. BB has a built in Setcpu and I have mine at MAX: 800, and MIN: 550, on demand.

If anyone can give me their opinions, that would be great! Thanks!!!

 

[twistedlim]

Set you min to 125 and your gov. to interactive. It should help a lot with the battery. I really have not noticed any better or worse battery life with any rom provided they were installed correctly.

 

[shadowdude777]

Yeah, you need to set the settings twistedlim said in SetCPU. Also, I would have a profile for when your display is turned off and have it go up to a max of 400 or so and a min of 125.

By the way CyanogenMod is my favorite ROM. No ROM can be considered "the best", but I like its combination of features and quick updates.

 

[skilaufen]

I'm currently trying to figure out which ROM is the best for battery life, speed, and performance. I plan on buying the Droid Bionic when it is released, but until then I am just experimenting. I'm wondering what is the best ROM you guys prefer. Right now I'm running Bugless Beast 0.6.1. Before I switched to BB I had Cyanogen and I was told BB was better, But I have noticed the battery life isn't as great. BB has a built in Setcpu and I have mine at MAX: 800, and MIN: 550, on demand.

If anyone can give me their opinions, that would be great! Thanks!!!

You can also try installing BB .6.2.1 to see if that improves the battery life. But tiwstedlim has probably given the best advice by slowing down your minimum setting to 125.

 

[Rodeojones]

BB has a built in Setcpu and I have mine at MAX: 800, and MIN: 550, on demand.

So you're using the built-in CPU governor or SetCPU? As far as I know, these are two different things. I've always preferred using SetCPU because of the option to create profiles and the ability to underclock (something many ROMs with built-in governors don't allow). You may run into problems setting your minimum to 125 (mine doesn't like being that slow). But setting your minimum to 250 does save battery life. I also underclock when the screen is off and I have it set to slow down as the battery drains.

But to answer your initial question, I'd suggest you give UltimateDroid 2.5 a try. I get AMAZING battery life with the ROM. I just use the stock kernel and in addition to wonderful battery life I never have heat issues or lag. My phone has been off the charger for 11 hours and, with moderate use, I'm still at 80% at this moment.

 

[woogyboogy]

So you're using the built-in CPU governor or SetCPU? As far as I know, these are two different things. I've always preferred using SetCPU because of the option to create profiles and the ability to underclock (something many ROMs with built-in governors don't allow). You may run into problems setting your minimum to 125 (mine doesn't like being that slow). But setting your minimum to 250 does save battery life. I also underclock when the screen is off and I have it set to slow down as the battery drains.

But to answer your initial question, I'd suggest you give UltimateDroid 2.5 a try. I get AMAZING battery life with the ROM. I just use the stock kernel and in addition to wonderful battery life I never have heat issues or lag. My phone has been off the charger for 11 hours and, with moderate use, I'm still at 80% at this moment.

Where do you get UD 2.5? I've looked in Rom Manager and they don't have it. Thanks!

 

[lbaxter]

Rom Mgr does not support UD roms anymore (they still host a few older ones). You can d/l them from Theultimatedroid.com or somewhere in the forums here. I've tried it and it flies with low battery use. Right now I'm on UD 3.0 beta. Love the speed, look, etc., but battery life is no better than CM or BB versions. The price for Gingerbread, I suppose. When it's finalized, I'll be content, I believe.

I'll probably switch back to UD 2.5 if I can find the right theme (and get it to work) until 3.0 is finalized.

 

[woogyboogy]

I believe I'm going to use SS 4.96. I plan on doing it soon, so we shall see. Thanks for the input everyone I'll be back with feedback.

 

[publicanimal]

For my money no ROM comes even close to touching the superiority of MIUI. Also I refuse to use SetCPU I overclock by editing init.d values to set max/min scaling values at boot and I let the system handle CPU scaling. Perceived benefits of SetCPU profiles are merely a placebo effect.

 

[twistedlim]

Project Elite 4.2 is the rom de jour for me.

 

[supasizefries]

I'm also a huge fan of PEv4.2 as of now. My phone seems to really love this ROM and performs so well. I previously used CM which was also great, but my phone seems to run better with PE.

 

[tanpatnode]

You should try out CynogenMod 7. It's the new Gingerbread and the battery life is AMAZING. It's on ROM Manager under Nightflies. Oh and there is a new updates daily so everything gets better!