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Favorite ROM for Stability and Battery Life

I realized there hasn't been a topic on this for the Skyrocket. After experiencing the bugs on ICS roms I needed to find a rom that will get be as stable as a rock. I am currently using NexusMoD GB 4.3 and I find it to be very good. My battery life on it has been OK not that great. It seems to me that the ICS roms where running just fine for the most part for me, even battery life was decent, but I had weird bugs where I wouldn't receive SMS or Calls, and my texts would say they sent but they wouldn't even actually send. This would happen at random times even though it worked most of the time. Any favorite stable roms guys?

I found the mhx superlight GB release works great and has good battery life.
for me stability and battery mod on status bar were my requirements and mhx achieves both.
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SKY ICS
For me it is the most stable. Great Battery. GPS works great. Camera is fantastic.

Sky ice works really well, the battery life for me was 60% better than stock. Running latest ics leak now, more stable but battery life is down (compared to sky ics).
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+1 on MHX-SUPERLITE 3.1 GB rom.... best battery life on any GB rom I've run... never had a S.O.D.... no FCs... very stable and fast. Average 6hr "screen on" time with 18-20hrs on battery time. This is with JD disabled.

Stock.
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For my money, Sky ICS has been extremely good.

I've been using the same ROM you are using. I've found that battery life has been pretty consistent among all the ROMs, which is to say sadly, not very good. It works pretty well overall with just a few hiccups here and there. I have had numerous issues with various ICS ROMs. I tried 3 of them (including SkyICS) and they either didn't run well, or in one case it just plain didn't work at all. That's why I went back to a GB Rom. YMMV but if I were you I'd stick with your ROM until ICS gets a formal release and see what the community does with that.

AOKP ALL DAY
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This belongs in q&a for 1 and 2 its been covered 5,000,000 times
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I don't know what's be best but SKI ICS when idling on wifi gives you easily 2 days+

See sig line
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SkyICS seems to be the preferred choice...

NickTsilo said:
Really? So many main functions are broken, how do you consider that stable?
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The only thing wrong, is camera is colored weird not useless. YouTube works fine colors are wack. I got the first R2 release. Not the second one that broke wifi. And really the rom is fairly stable considering it isn't meant for att sr
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I love me some Nexus mod gingerbread. I will probably go to ICS when the official kernel gets released.

Great question to be asked again even if for the 5,000,000th time. I am DJ ICS fan, hands down most "stable" and it is very fast with great battery for a 1.7ghz rom.
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ossito2012 said:
Great question to be asked again even if for the 5,000,000th time. I am DJ ICS fan, hands down most "stable" and it is very fast with great battery for a 1.7ghz rom.
Sent from a pay phone, and yes I DID search before posting, die troll die.
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I liked his from too. But I missed ics, can't wait till we get those clock speed 4.0.xxx"
Team~Kang

i use sky ics rc
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I've had my beloved skyrocket for about 5 months now and have flashed/used about 12 ROMs. Pretty much across the board, battery is god awful. The latest Sky ICS by SeanZ seems to improve battery by roughly 20% on my specific handset. Overall battery is pretty shabby.

Ginger bread vs sky pics battery life?

Reason for this question is because I'm currently on the lastest leak ucle2 and my battery life is horrible. I would just flash and try it out but not completely comfortable with flashing roms. Any input would be really appreciated. If this topic has already been brought up sorry. I searched maybe not enough.
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Sorry. Sky ics! Spell check always messes my words up.
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Battery life has been a present issue with the ICS leak so you are by far not the first one asking about this. My suggestion would be try out either CM9 or AOKP and see if your battery improves any because in my experience, I got much better battery life on CM9 and AOKP over any other ICS ROM. To flash is very easy just follow the directions in the OP and you will be rocking in no time at all

Great battery life on GB rom
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This is my battery life with Sky ICS 4.2E-6. Light usage, strong cell and wifi reception. Probably could've been better if I uninstalled Kik and Line (they seem to wake up the device very often).
Usually, it's much worse during the weekday when I'm at work, where my cell and wifi reception both suck.

I ended up flashing sky ics and I have to say battery life is definitely amazing over ics ucle2 leak.
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Which from do you get the best battery life??

I'm trying to hunt around for the best battery life so let me know your opinions. Thanks
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cjtulowiecki said:
I'm trying to hunt around for the best battery life so let me know your opinions. Thanks
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Best battery life would come from one of the debloated stock roms most likely...but it also keep in mind not every phone reacts the same way as others do to a Rom...one person may get amazing life on one...while another gets terrible life on that same exact one...
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So far my personal opinion would be more towards the RemICS Rom. Its pretty friggin sweet all around!
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I've been running legend rom for the past 2 weeks, been great.
before that I was running the unofficial cm9, that was awesome-only problem was no bluetooth.

that's what I was on before this. I am actually thinking of switching to something that has Bluetooth for the time being until they get a patch on RemICS. Its the only downfall!
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Although development had stopped, Zeus had the best battery life for me.

erytherm cisa).
Zues was pretty good,except I had SOD issues several times a day, wiped, reinstalled, re-downloaded, went back to stock, rooted again, reinstalled, nothing seemed to fix the issue

For me most of the bigger gb roms all had good battery life. (legend, aeon, zues, emacipation).
One of the best roms ive used as far as battery was actually dman's catyrom. With pretty heavy usage.
But ive found out that using better battery stats to track down battery hogs is a must for any rom.
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Best battery life ROM?

Which ROM do y'all think gives the best battery life? I'm on baked right now and right as I get out of school I'm down to 35% usually, thanks
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I use viper and it is giving me a good battery life. I don't know about aokp/cm. I think you should try everything and then you will chose whatever is good for your needs.
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How is the stock Rom with battery? Just wondering if it's worth rooting and putting a custom Rom on for battery
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cm10 has nice battery life ..m using dark jelly S v20 the battery is really good works almost a day for me with me almost connected for 14-16hrs of wifi connectivity and listening music and of course auto sync always on ! u should try all once before proceeding further

Energy ROM and of course.. other stock based ROMs have the best power management available, you know, engineered by HTC

NRGZ28 said:
Energy ROM and of course.. other stock based ROMs have the best power management available, you know, engineered by HTC
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For me, cm10 gives better battery life than stock Sense. I think it depends on how you use your phone.

I'm using Baked too, but for me battery life is just great! Actually on 57% with 8h 27m and almost 1.5h screen...

michaeldotson817 said:
How is the stock Rom with battery? Just wondering if it's worth rooting and putting a custom Rom on for battery
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Of course rooting for battery is a good idea. Undervolted & underclocked kernels, delete bloatware that's constantly running, etc. And as far as best battery life, baked has been very kind to my phone.
A typical day for me (7am on phone for 2-3 hours reading the news before work, music to/from work, light usage on breaks, then hotspot at home for internet, and all the calls/texts in between and countless downloads) will leave me with 20-30% battery when I go to bed around midnight
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[Q] Beanstalk and CM 10.1 Battery Life

Does anyone know the difference between beanstalk and CM 10.1's jelly bean battery life?? Because i just got beanstalk yesterday and it's been draining my battery pretty quick so I'm thinking about switching back to CM 10.1 to see if there are any differences in the battery life..

I don't think there are any differences to be honest.
Beanstalk is based on CM10.1 with some extra features.
But I still recommend to try as many as different ROMs possible because it might be ROM but it also could be your old battery.
My battery is new and it is still bad. So I can see if it's older and worn out battery, must be really bad.
By the way, ice cream sandwich and jellybean have worse battery life than gingerbread.
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I get better battery life on JB than I ever got on GB. And I'm still on my original battery.
I replied to your other post though with an app that could help. And by the way. After daily driving both cm10.1 and beanstalk, the battery life difference is not noticeable.
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Unofficial CM10.1
Goneeuro said:
I get better battery life on JB than I ever got on GB. And I'm still on my original battery.
I replied to your other post though with an app that could help. And by the way. After daily driving both cm10.1 and beanstalk, the battery life difference is not noticeable.
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How many hours of battery life are you getting on current Unofficial CM10.1 ? I flashed it last night and charged it to 100% and it has drained to 18% in 14hrs.

ashishrai90 said:
How many hours of battery life are you getting on current Unofficial CM10.1 ? I flashed it last night and charged it to 100% and it has drained to 18% in 14hrs.
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Thats insane Cause mines was loosing 1% every min

I don't notice any difference in battery life with any ROM.
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First couple of days on any new ROM or update always has worse battery life. ROM has to settle in

elbscorp said:
First couple of days on any new ROM or update always has worse battery life. ROM has to settle in
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how long did it take for yours to settle in

TokyoLee said:
how long did it take for yours to settle in
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I flashed last update Wed.night. Battery at 100% before flash,now on third battery cycle. This is about where battery life will level off till next update.Even on heavy use days it last till get home from work no problem,I plug in before bed. I undervolt,but allow 3 emails & facebook to have push notifications,using google now,and use a navigation app some.

elbscorp said:
I flashed last update Wed.night. Battery at 100% before flash,now on third battery cycle. This is about where battery life will level off till next update.Even on heavy use days it last till get home from work no problem,I plug in before bed. I undervolt,but allow 3 emails & facebook to have push notifications,using google now,and use a navigation app some.
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so what ROM are you using? Cause i just saw that bean stalk just got an update yesterday

TokyoLee said:
so what ROM are you using? Cause i just saw that bean stalk just got an update yesterday
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BeanStalk,I saw the update right after posted last night. Stayed up late and flashed it

I'll have a look at beanstalk if Carbon has the same battery life as PA. I can't get 8 hours out of it
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magnetboard said:
I'll have a look at beanstalk if Carbon has the same battery life as PA. I can't get 8 hours out of it
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let me know if you notice a difference in the 2 roms

I left Carbon because of the sizing differences between 260 and 190 DPI, and the home key did not work, although the battery seemed amazing even though it was just after a flash. I didn't have much of a chance to test as I had 38% battery. Ill try Beanstalk now, right after I clear some space

magnetboard said:
I left Carbon because of the sizing differences between 260 and 190 DPI, and the home key did not work, although the battery seemed amazing even though it was just after a flash. I didn't have much of a chance to test as I had 38% battery. Ill try Beanstalk now, right after I clear some space
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I'm on bean stalk right now and i'm gonna do what everyone is telling to do and thats let the rom settle in the phone for a few days and see if anything changes

Well let me know when it settles. Anything is better than PA at this point
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magnetboard said:
Well let me know when it settles. Anything is better than PA at this point
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Well Beanstalk is not dying as quick as Slim Bean and CM 10 cause i left it on charge all night while listening to music and it stayed at 100% for atleast 10 mins or longer but i'm gonna continue to do that till thursday

I get better battery when I turn off Google Location Access.

Which ROM is better in battery life CM10.1 or Beanstalk ? I have been using 10.1 from past 1 week but battery life is terrible.On 100% full charge i got around 18hrs wid limited internet access and phone calls nd brightness set to minimum.

ashishrai90 said:
Which ROM is better in battery life CM10.1 or Beanstalk ? I have been using 10.1 from past 1 week but battery life is terrible.On 100% full charge i got around 18hrs wid limited internet access and phone calls nd brightness set to minimum.
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Right now i'm using beanstalk and i used this app that disables the mediaserver so my battery on it is not so bad but not so good.. Everyone using Carbon is saying their battery is great so try Carbon at the development page :good: