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This might be just my imagination playing tricks on me, but after rooting/Soff/Flashing my Inspire, I seem to notice that the interface is not quite so snappy as it was with the stock AT&T ROM. I've observed it with both the rooted base stock ROM from Bubby and with the RCMiXHD_v5.1 Gingerbread ROM.
I just rooted mine last night, and it seemed a tad slow (Milliseconds ) until I restarted it, now, theres not enough difference for me to care.
Wait, scratch that, my slowness was caused by a messed up set cpu setting, my phone was fine last night and today under normal circumstances.
Hmmm... ok, so how does one change the CPU setting?
BillTheCat said:
This might be just my imagination playing tricks on me, but after rooting/Soff/Flashing my Inspire, I seem to notice that the interface is not quite so snappy as it was with the stock AT&T ROM. I've observed it with both the rooted base stock ROM from Bubby and with the RCMiXHD_v5.1 Gingerbread ROM.
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Most gingerbread roms are going to be a little laggy for the simple fact that the base is a leaked version of gingerbread. Until they get a fully operational version with source released or port the Desire Z rom it will continue to run a little slow.
Try flashing ClearDroid or TCP stock, you will be able to tell a difference in speed.
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Hmmm... ok, so how does one change the CPU setting?
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you will need to download "setcpu" to allow for overclock.
I got my HTC Desire S yesterday and updated it to the latest stock ROM OTA.
Now I'm just wondering if I want to flash CM7, the phone feels very fast and snappy as it is on a custom ROM, will I really notice many differences if I flash CM7?
Cheers
You like sense?
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That's the good thing about a rooted phone. Do a Nandroid backup of your existing ROM, and give it a try. We all have different tastes and preferences.
CM9 is also round the corner.
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cined said:
I got my HTC Desire S yesterday and updated it to the latest stock ROM OTA.
Now I'm just wondering if I want to flash CM7, the phone feels very fast and snappy as it is on a custom ROM, will I really notice many differences if I flash CM7?
Cheers
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Only you can answer that question as snappy is one of those perception issues like battery life. As the previous poster suggested, do a nandroid backup of your current stock ROM setup and start flashing. If you don't like it restore your nandroid backup and you will be back in business.
When I switched from stock rom to cm7 a few months ago, I thought I had a new phone considering the speed advantage I noticed. To me a very important feature of cm7 is the control of application rights. E.g. if you don't like a torch-app to access your personal data you can search an alternative torch app or you can just deny the app the permission you don't want to give (and hope the app will still work).
Battery life improved greatly going from sense to CM7 for me. Overall the experience was much smoother. I felt like I had a new phone again.
Hi guys, I don't like HTC Sense and I wanted better battery life. I have now CM7, but my battery life is not better. I have CyanogenMOD 7.1 (stable version).
I charged my phone on 100% and then I wipe battery status, but battery life is wrong. What can I do for better battery life? Change radio or what?
Thanks for answers...
spajdo said:
Hi guys, I don't like HTC Sense and I wanted better battery life. I have now CM7, but my battery life is not better. I have CyanogenMOD 7.1 (stable version).
I charged my phone on 100% and then I wipe battery status, but battery life is wrong. What can I do for better battery life? Change radio or what?
Thanks for answers...
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Check for some apps that can drain battery.
With the same version installed and only some Gapps from the package, with Tiamat kernel /smartassv2 governor at max ~900 MHz I had up to 5 days running time between charges.
How do I know which application drain battery?
I charge battery every day...
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How do I know which application drain battery?
I charge battery every day...
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Have you seen this?
Apps that can drain battery are those that all the time are trying to access a network, or GPS service or syncing etc.
Hell yes!
I love CM7! I like AOSP. I have been using Sense since I got the phone, but now decided to give CM ago..
The speed is incredible. Its much faster than Sense. I love the simplicity in some aspects too.
However, I miss some sense features.
Examples: hibernate, clock app, some Widgets etc
Sent from my HTC Desire S
CM7 was a great upgrade.
I should have done it long ago.
Love CM7 here, I switched mainly for battery life n customisation options
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cined said:
I got my HTC Desire S yesterday and updated it to the latest stock ROM OTA.
Now I'm just wondering if I want to flash CM7, the phone feels very fast and snappy as it is on a custom ROM, will I really notice many differences if I flash CM7?
Cheers
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I think if you are happy with your ROM, why change it? You can change it in the future anyway, if you realize, that stock ROM is not good enough any more.
In my case, I also tried CM7 and I do not like it. Do not take me wrong, I believe it is a very good ROM, but I just cannot be without HTC Sense, that's all. So my last stock ROM was 2.3.5 and after long research for custom ROMs, I found one, Endymion. It is great ROM and with Sense 3.5.
The only reason for another one in the future is this one is not going to be with ICS.
The great thing about Sense imo is that it is an all-in one package. For example the weather widget, calendar widget and many more. Whereas CM7 is more customizable to your liking, but with increased performance and better battery life.
What ROM/Kernel setup are you guys using that you've found good stability with?
Any suggestions?
Skyrocketeer with flashed Rogers radio. It's very stable, had some slight issues with the sms timestamps but with the help of SMStimeFIX from market it was solved. Also still looking to confirm if i obtain full 50mb/s LTE speed but until i got back to that spot where i always get it, i wont be able to confirm. It's a nice looking rom, snappy, fast, good battery life, nice emprovements
Stock rom. I've tried a few, including sky ics. Good rom but I still found stock more stable. But it depends on the user. I don't like to search as to why apps keep fcing. I just like it when I use my phone that it runs smooth. The rogers stock is good. Isn't any bloaware to slow it down. However I did get rid of the odd app and widget installed
hey i tried some roms soo far. the roms/kernel id recommend is either use sky/tpc/rocketeer. kernel wise id stay away from all kernels i mean no offence given devs work hard on kernel, but unless you rogers folks wanted a heat around camera area for everyday i know i don't use stock rogers kernel its snappy @ 1.5ghz + no lags + my heavy day to day lasts me 1 and 1/2 day with full use of wifi,bt,browser and games. just remove all the bloatware and u'll see.
Stock Rom for me, although I have started to play with Go Launcher to spice things up a little bit. Waiting for ICS my self.
Stock here as well, tried a few roms, and aside from over or under clocking, which I love, there haven't been any roms or kernels as stable so far. If someone comes up with a great way to 'clock let's hear it!
Also, anyone have a comprehensive list of bloatware on the 727R yet? That's a post I'd love to see!
Sent from my rooted SGS2 I727R using stock, until something really stable comes along
Runnin skyicecream sandwich jugglin between faux and romracer kernel cant get the romracer to deepsleep. Running faux at 1.5gz max with setcpu and its pretty stable no fc or sod. Smooth and fast.
rooted using sky ICS
tried cyanogen for a bit and liked it but sky ics just looks so nice. i get a few fcs but it doesnt bother me cause it reboots the program real fast
really good battery life on it, 15 hours at 70%
I've been on Android for over 3 years now..
Had so many different roms on my devices. This one I've used syrocketeer, was nice, smooth stable, not many issues.
Tried SkyIce Cream Sandwich rom. Was pissed off it was just a theme of ICS on 2.3.6 IMO name is very misleading, but whatever, to each his own. Was a good stable rom if you want a nice overlay of ICS, had a few issues with FC but the dev gives pretty good instructions on how to fix it.
Most of these I was running primarily until Cyanogen team came out with something stable enough to put on my phone. As I've always found CM to be the best thing you can run.
Newest build for me has been very stable - running Da_G kernel. No issues except for the call issue posted in their forums. I think that was supposed to be fixed in the latest update, however I haven't gotten around to updating. Turning GPS on seemed to work to fix the issue tho. I would never change to anything else (unless real ICS rom came out, then would only stay on that till CM9 came out with a stable enough release)
I have confirmed in most parts of Toronto where reception is decent enough I'm getting an average of 30+ mbps. Closer to downtown core upwards of 40mbps and in a few cases up to 58mbps. So LTE works great on that ROM as well.
i use Bouyancy 1.2.1 with 360 launcher doesn't change baseband smooth and snappy
SkyRocket ICS 2.9.2
faux kernal 2.6.35.14......
max clock 1.296
min clock 384
screen off max 384
screen off min 192
runs smooth as hell, great battery life
not one issue with ANYTHING!!!
Sky is very smooth and nice with faux kernel no problems here
TPC V3 with Da_g 0.43 kernel. No issue at all. Very stable.
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using sky ics for a few weeks now with no fc's on either faux or rom racer kernal.
Rooted, stock rom & kernel, ADW launcher.
I was loving Darkyy on my SGS but even though I played with a couple ROMS and kernels on the SII LTE I went back to stock. Solid, fast, and good battery life.
I did freeze and uninstall most of what I could identify as bloatware and the horrid touchwiz slowpoke. I picked up ADW EX when it was on the 10 for 0.10 sale, and like it better (landscape mode and the ability to customize the dock easily is a big bonus).
Jamie
Using the Stock rom. Haven't had one issue with it and since I'm coming from a Touch pro 2 running WM 6.1 this thing is fast enough as is......For now.
Stock myself, played around with a few ROMs but ended up liking the reliability of the stock. Eagerly awaiting ICS and CM 9.
I have flashed almost all of the ROMs on here and in my opinion the snappiest one was the Quikwiz 1.0.3 and skyrocketeer was pretty quick as well. Right now im running stock though because as almost everybody said it is the most stable build for Rogers rightnow. I am trying to get the stock-ish kernel by romracer on my phone right now. If anybody has flashed that i would like to know how the battery and speed were? Thanks
Stock Rom for me, i tried Da_G's Kernel but got alot of SOD's. There were a few fixes such as deleting modules etc but none of those ever fixed it. Sadly I'm getting poor battery life on my Samsung Galaxy S2 LTE even with JuiceDefender Ultimate installed. Before JuiceDefender I was about to take the phone back, now it's just sub par battery life. As for now I'm done with messing around on flashing the phone , at least until we get our stock ICS ROM. It should be coming out soon, that's my hope.
I've flashed Sky and TPC. Both are fairly stable, but I'm not getting any where close to the battery life some of these AT&T guys are getting.
I'm a fairly heavy user—LTE on all day, but I have wifi on at work and home.
I personally don't feel that flashing a new ROM has done anything for my battery life, however it HAS improved my usability factor (both Sky and TPC have been able to grant me a sizeable performance increase).
Thought id share, just gone back to GB from ICS 4.0.3 unroll HTC push the stable ota out and I must say, sooooo much better battery, speed and performance. I missed my phone being this fast lol
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What ICS were you using and what GB are you on? If anything I personally found that ICS was a bit faster and better battery.
Went from insert coin to mikes android rev. I found ics so laggy and battery wasn't lasting 16 hours with same usuage. I am getting bored of the selection of sensations Roms they are mostly all same sense roms or new roms that all have bugs and things not working. Miui for example camera still don't work (recording). Bluetooth or camera on cm9 due to kernel and so on just seems theres always something to prevent a fully working pyramid rom So to gett all things I need working I'm stuck with a sense Rom
Going to switch to a new phone but not sure what to get Any suggestions?;
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I too think gb is faster but battery was better with ICS I reverted to gb before and after a while flashed ics again cuz of the battery and cm9. I still kind of want to go back to gb but don't want to have to flash the FW again and risk bricking.
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leejames55 said:
Went from insert coin to mikes android rev. I found ics so laggy and battery wasn't lasting 16 hours with same usuage. I am getting bored of the selection of sensations Roms they are mostly all same sense roms or new roms that all have bugs and things not working. Miui for example camera still don't work (recording). Bluetooth or camera on cm9 due to kernel and so on just seems theres always something to prevent a fully working pyramid rom So to gett all things I need working I'm stuck with a sense Rom
Going to switch to a new phone but not sure what to get Any suggestions?;
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thats your problem.. all the sense based roms are bloated and slow (insertcoin and ARHD)... try virtuous inquisition... it gets me better battery life and performance than ANY GB rom and ANY sense based ICS rom
norazi said:
thats your problem.. all the sense based roms are bloated and slow (insertcoin and ARHD)... try virtuous inquisition... it gets me better battery life and performance than ANY GB rom and ANY sense based ICS rom
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I'm on miui 2.2.3 at the moment pretty dammn fast
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leejames55 said:
Thought id share, just gone back to GB from ICS 4.0.3 unroll HTC push the stable ota out and I must say, sooooo much better battery, speed and performance. I missed my phone being this fast lol
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Have you looked at upgrading your batter? I just got the Anker one and the difference is significant.
im on the blitz 5 ics rom and its far better than virtuous, in terms of battery life and stability.
Strange, I find InsertCoin ICS to be faster and have better battery life than GB.
It must be my battery then lol
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I have tried several of the ICS flavors from different ROM builders.
I keep coming back to ARDH 3.6.x.
I gotta have WiFi calling stability and the call quality when outside is bad (Lack of noise cancellation).
I too, had worse battery life on any of the ICS builds. However, performance, as measured by seat of the pants and benchmarks...was better.
I'm very appreciative of the Dev work on these...don't get me wrong.
I've found I like Sense 3.5 or 3.6 more than ICS at this point in time...the widgets and folder/app organization is superior to 3.0.
Can't wait for an OEM release so these devs can really nail it.
I installed an insertcoin rom but not glad to install 4.0.3. Colors seem to be sober.. I don't know why but i'm pretty sure that there's a problem with the colors. I saw a topic about it and i think it had a patch to fix it. But i can't find it.. Anyone knows? If no, i will go back to gingerbread, too until the official sensation ics release comes =(
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Strange, I find InsertCoin ICS to be faster and have better battery life than GB.
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+1. No lag at all and battery is best I've had since getting the phone. Only downside for me is waiting for apps to be updated for Ics.
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Ics is definitely faster than gingerbread. Needed to run cm7 to feel like I was actually using a dual core phone, but sense ics feels much faster than gb sense. Fast enough that I can tolerate sense now. Battery life hasn't been that exciting on ics for me though. It seems about the same maybe a bit worse but then I haven't bothered to calibrate the battery yet.
All in all, I won't ever go back to gingerbread.
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i have just installed insert coin ics 2 days ago and very much happy with the smoothness, stability, and speed of it. not really a rom addict but i tried only two other roms before and stayed loyal on each of them. but i think i have my new rom now and will definitely stay with baadnewz rom. battery have never been an issue of mine since its always usb plugged.
in comparison with gingerbread, there really is no contest.
Ran LeeDroid, ARHD, and AndroidME ICS roms,and so far liking the AndroidME the most. May try InsertCoin next week and see what the hype is about.
ICS is already faster than GB with the stock kernel, and I can imagine it only getting faster once kernel devs improve their work. This is coming from someone running Pyramid3D 12 hours prior @ 1.512g overclocking kernel.
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I've tried CM7, ARHD 3.6 (GB), 5.2, 6.0 and 6.2 (ICS), so my experience is somewhat limited.
But I've noticed that ICS is faster than GB right after superwiping and flashing the ROM. As time passes it gets slower and slower. Shutting down and restarting helps a bit, but the performance never fully improves. This is just the feel of the phone, menu lags, scrolling stuttering, etc.
In comparison GB is slower, but more consistent. The way it feels right after a new flash is the same way it feels after 1-2 weeks uptime. And it has fewer bugs, like the green Skype video.
still baking
I was flashing a dozen similar Sense 3.6 roms and then realized I had a problem. No consistency, flashing addict. I even considered un-rooting to rehab myself. I really liked Virtuous Quattro Alpha 3 and TripNRaver's CM9 but not having Bluetooth and video recording was a deal breaker.
Two months ago, I was having issues with Gingerbread and my device freezing. But after learning about firmwares, I think I made my device even more reliable than stock. I went back to Sense-o-maniac v1.5.3 with the Amaze camera. For me, this rom has almost everything I need from Android: Amazing camera, CRT animations, screen shots, and a working Hulu+ app.
Sense is okay but I love the improvements of Android 4.0. The new lock screen, new menus, calendar, and the keyboard works great. Hopefully by March, some of these great devs will have perfected CM9.
pro setup includes. Virtuous inquisition ics 4.0.3 on the sensation is fantastic. Quite possibly the best phone/rom combo ive used. 30+ hrs battery. Its fast. Everything works. Cant ask for more at this point. U should try virtuous inquisition before deciding to stick with gingerbread. I was reluctant to take the plunge up to ics but glad i did. This is coming from someone who is extremely picky with their device and how well it works.
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I have galaxy skyrocket with 2.3.5 and pretty happy with it. A friend installed ICS on his and on a quick glance I have not noticed any major benefits.
In general I am all for using latest software, but this is my primary phone and my life almost depends on it. I had some bad experience with experimental ROMs on my previous phone (it started hanging up and battery life decreased significantly) and this time I am cautious to upgrade and weighting pros and cons.
So, my question is: what are the major benefits on ICS compared to 2.3.5?
What major features I will get which would make it worth updating?
Thanks!
Pro:
Cooler apps
More aesthetically pleasing UX
ICS!!!
Con:
Terrible battery if you keep bloat
Not too much kernel modding
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I'll chime in. The GB rom's are MUCH better right now. ICS leak is slow, and tons of bugs. None of the devs are able to fix the bugs so the custom roms are simply themed, packages added/removed, etc, and all the ICS bugs remain. The only thing ICS really brings right now is a better launcher and the ability to run the few ICS apps out there. When I switched back to GB I couldn't believe how fast my phone was.
I tried the leak and was less than impressed by the difference.
I have been back on Gingerbread ever since.
Sky ICS speed, faux 010u.
Super stable and very modder friendly.
I was loving the nexusmod GB rom but i took the leap yesterday to jump up to ICS. i flashed the UCLA4 modem followed by superlite 5 and honestly, i'm loving it. its much more aesthetically pleasing, and zippy as hell. On top of that, add supercharger and the build.prop tweaks mentioned earlier in the general section and you have a blazing fast UI.
I haven't noticed any battery drain yet, i think that might've been fixed in this latest version. It's honestly draining the same rate as it did on nexusmod. I get through a day with about 20-30% while listening to music, texting my gf regularly, and connected to wifi to play words with friends/draw something.
My vote : get yourself up to superlite
I tried the ICS leak stock (rooted and debloated).
The negatives out weighed the positives I get. In particular the battery life was worse. I got 4-6 hours less life from each charge.
Also some of the bugs, such as losing root and restart/reboot lock ups did not show up for a few days after I installed ICS.
I am back to 2.3.5.
It works well for me, YMMV.