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"Hey there im brand new to this forum and android in general i just switched from an iphone to the Lg G2x. I have to say the G2x is incredible but my battery life isn't i get on average 5 to 6 hrs of battery life (lose about 20% every hour) as others i have installed juice defender ultimate, setcpu, and watchdog. In addition to all these apps i uninstalled apps like T-mobile app pack and wifi calling because these apparently use up a lot of battery. So my question is if there any tips you guys can give me or setting for my phone or apps because maybe i have everything i need installed but with the wrong settings any help at all would be great thank you in advance
Info that might help:
As of now the juice defender app reports: 1.36x improvement"
That was me a few weeks ago and after all of the suggestions many of the users gave me i only saw maybe like a 20 to 30 minutes improvement of battery life which is not to great because im only getting 6hrs moderate usage out of my Lg G2x so my question is should i install the update because according to lg its supposed to fix my battery issue because from the looks of things ive tried everything i can (Factory restores. removing bloatware, turning off unnecessary things like bluetooth, gps, etc)
Id appreciate any advice or feedback from those who have updated to see if they can confirm they have better battery life in addition it might be helpful to know phone is rooted and unlocked
I admit I didn't read through your entire post, but I recommend updating to gingerbread, then flashing either weapon or eagle blood rom, and then flashing one of the themes by myself and kingdavid. You won't regret it.
You don't wanna know where this was sent from.
what changes will i get if i get those roms?
I recommend it! You'll get an updated baseband, which fixes GPS and Signal issues.
@FatalityBoyZahy
What about battery life? a lot of battery life ?
Mixalot213 said:
@FatalityBoyZahy
What about battery life? a lot of battery life ?
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Battery life is a bit better on gingerbread. If you're trying to get good battery life, I'd recommend flashing CM7, and using SetCPU profiles.
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ok well what about the camera ive heard bad things about it ?
btw will my phone remain rooted if i update?
Mixalot213 said:
ok well what about the camera ive heard bad things about it ?
btw will my phone remain rooted if i update?
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wont stay rooted. Need to flash a rom through cwm. camera is same as nexus gets, its stock camera
Batttery is amazing. Im heavy on the rom changing, had this phone two weeks from my Sensation and it still is stock with the screen animation, but no super user. stock doesnt have tv lock
Oh, im at 30% right now, from mainly stand by and heavy use since 6 pm. its 11:20 pm
@matistight wow thats a amazing battery life thats what im looking for and well thats what i wanted to avoid because im new to android phones so i dont know how to root them is it a big hassle because if it isn't ill go ahead and update and btw if i do update what should i do in preparation before the update?
also what did you mean by " stock doesnt have tv lock "
Just updated my phone to gingernread looks nice but im no longer rooted and dying to get rid of all that bloatware can someone help me root it?
How did you update to GB? I heard there were issues with LG/Tmobile update causing a brick?
I used the LG updater tool and had no issues at all. I used it with Windows 7.
And I definitely think its worth the update if only for the updated baseband. I get more consistent signal and much faster GPS locks now.
i was able to do it through the lg support tool without any trouble took about 8 mins
phburks said:
I used the LG updater tool and had no issues at all. I used it with Windows 7.
And I definitely think its worth the update if only for the updated baseband. I get more consistent signal and much faster GPS locks now.
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I agree and like the new look but can you help me root it because now that i updated it i have all the t-mobile bloatware and cant use things like cpu tuner
I guess after you update you gotta flash custom rom to get root?
Mixalot213 said:
I agree and like the new look but can you help me root it because now that i updated it i have all the t-mobile bloatware and cant use things like cpu tuner
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Use the nvflash tool from the dev section to flash cwm back to your phone and then flash whatever rom you want. If you want straight up rooted stock there's one in the dev section you can flash.
@phburks
Do you mean OneClickRecoveryFlasher.exe??? and how eactly do i do that because i opened "OneClickRecoveryFlasher.exe" but dnt know where to go from here and should i stick to the stock rom or are other custom ones better ? any you can recommend?
Mixalot213 said:
@phburks
Do you mean OneClickRecoveryFlasher.exe??? and how eactly do i do that because i opened "OneClickRecoveryFlasher.exe" but dnt know where to go from here and should i stick to the stock rom or are other custom ones better ? any you can recommend?
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Here's a good video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy9on64jAZs)
Obviously don't flash CM7 if you don't want to. The begining part tells you how to use nvflash (oneclickrecovery)
Mixalot213 said:
@phburks
Do you mean OneClickRecoveryFlasher.exe??? and how eactly do i do that because i opened "OneClickRecoveryFlasher.exe" but dnt know where to go from here and should i stick to the stock rom or are other custom ones better ? any you can recommend?
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Not sure what the file itself is called but its the one from the OP in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
Stock recovery won't allow you to flash custom roms. Flash clockworkmod recovery. Choose the internal option if you want clockworkmod to read files/roms and save backups to your internal memory. Choose the external option if you want it to use your external/removable sdcard. I personally use the external version. Its really up to your preference.
@Mister Hat Than you!!!
@phburks
btw the reason why i updated was in hopes of getting better battery life because im getting the same battery life i did before the updated (while rooted and getting rid of bloatware) ) but im wondering that maybe still having t-mobiles bloatware is not letting me experience the improvments but when i called lg recently they said that the update should have fixed my problem with battery life so im also thinking maybe its not the os but some other issue on the phone or the battery itself so do you think i should just send lg my phone so they can check it now so i dont have to unroot it and more later ? (however i didnt purchase it a lg retailer i bought on craigslist is that a problem? )
I sent my Galaxy S Vibrant through the dishwasher, which didn't turn out particularly well, and the insurance company sent me this G2X as a replacement.
Pleasantly surprised that wifi tethering works out of the box. That was the big point of rooting the Samsung and upgrading first to Bionic (which was awesome) and then to CM7 (which was a big wad of bugs).
Any particular advantage to rooting? LG seems to be much better than Samsung as keeping up with the joneses.
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I recently got my G2x and after following the instructions for installing nvflash and CM recovery I began flashing many different ROMs. I had never done it before and instantly became an addict. My girlfriend who got hers on the same day kept hers stock. Her camera seems to be brighter, mine is faster with a lot less bloat. I did overclock my CPU which so far seems to work well with this phone.
Bloat
yelvington said:
I sent my Galaxy S Vibrant through the dishwasher, which didn't turn out particularly well, and the insurance company sent me this G2X as a replacement.
Pleasantly surprised that wifi tethering works out of the box. That was the big point of rooting the Samsung and upgrading first to Bionic (which was awesome) and then to CM7 (which was a big wad of bugs).
Any particular advantage to rooting? LG seems to be much better than Samsung as keeping up with the joneses.
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It is worth rooting if for no other reason than to get all the bloat off. Try tsugi rom. It is super stable and lightning fast.
Just the ordinary stuff:
-adfree
-UV kernels
-set CPU
-battery calibration
Those alone are worth the root.
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After having it overnight I can see the advantage of rooting to clean some of the autostart junk out of /system. A couple of times I've had it essentially lock up and the list of processes shown by ATK (when I can get to run) is insane.
Rooting isn't really required or hardly used. I DO use root explorer to make system changes and rom Manager if you crack flash.
But everyday stuff... Maybe titanium backup but I never used it either. Best to restore apps manually.
Most phones require root to install clockwork mod recovery. With Tegra devices you only need to nvflash which doesn't require root. Once you have a custom recovery you can flash roms and custom stuff without root.
So root isn't really important on the G2x unless you want to use a root required app.
-sent from temp HTC Rezound waiting for Galaxy Nexus
I have my phone rooted and tight now only need root for two purposes: 1. I use App Quarantine to freeze unwanted system apps, and 2. I use SetCPU to underclock while the screen's off to save on battery use.
Subtle but important for my phone at least. It all depends on what you use your phone for. Rooting the G2x is pretty easy so it's simple enough to have it if you need it.
Got mine rooted and on CM7. Yes it depends on what you use it for and prefer. I like the custom options that CM7 provide like gestures and specific sound settings etc. In general you do get more freedom to do things and personalize, at the risk of messing it up if you are not careful.
yelvington said:
After having it overnight I can see the advantage of rooting to clean some of the autostart junk out of /system. A couple of times I've had it essentially lock up and the list of processes shown by ATK (when I can get to run) is insane.
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Why are you using Advanced Task Killer?
Rooting can bring many nice things.
Such as better battery life, better phone performance, opening your phone up for countless customization options.
And a great benefit: no more waiting months and months for new firmware from T-Mobile, get the latest and greatest right away.
And that's just what iI know, I'm sure.there's many other ways.
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Do CIQ-killer apps work? I think they just unload or kill the service/process........
Does anybody have this verified?
Yes, I know that can flash a ciq-free rom, but i feel that the stock rom (I am rooted, though) makes a difference to the screen performance, so I would like to be as close to stock.
Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Also wondering the same thing. Never heard of CIQ killer apps though
Most CIQ killers "freeze" the app, just like Titanium can freeze apps.
CIQ is really hard to remove because it's deeply integrated with so many apps and services.
I compared some anti-CIQ apps here. The best (only?) removal tool is the app from xda's own TrevE, to freeze CIQ your best (free) options are Anti Carrier IQ and Carrier IQ Process Killer.
It's possible to remove CIQ by hand, but it's really difficult and the instructions are not suitable for human consumption.
chappatti said:
Do CIQ-killer apps work? I think they just unload or kill the service/process........
Does anybody have this verified?
Yes, I know that can flash a ciq-free rom, but i feel that the stock rom (I am rooted, though) makes a difference to the screen performance, so I would like to be as close to stock.
Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance.
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You really should think about a custom ROM, particularly to have better battery life with all bloatware pre-removed. It makes a SUBSTANTIAL difference.
JRman said:
You really should think about a custom ROM, particularly to have better battery life with all bloatware pre-removed. It makes a SUBSTANTIAL difference.
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I agree. If you want to stay stock then flash Bonestock. Its smooth, not bloat and stock with no ciq. I can understand what you mean by performance. My gf has hers stock and there is just something a little extra smooth but I cant put my finger on it. I just cant stand the stock theme
I've been using this phone for a week now, and I think this has been the longest time I've kept a new phone non-rooted. One of the main advantages of rooting in the past was debloating, but I've been using the package disabler app and it has given me the ability to debloating and disable over 150 apps, and the battery life so far has been great! (Coming from N4). I know is a little early for a stable release of a stable custom rom but one of the main reasons for my Oscar the ability to use Samsung Pay. So far, the phone feels super fast, de bloated and a very strong battery life (around 5 to 6 hours of SOT). I don't think I will be rooting any time soon. Let's see down the road....
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I've been using this phone for a week now, and I think this has been the longest time I've kept a new phone non-rooted. One of the main advantages of rooting in the past was debloating, but I've been using the package disabler app and it has given me the ability to debloating and disable over 150 apps, and the battery life so far has been great! (Coming from N4). I know is a little early for a stable release of a stable custom rom but one of the main reasons for my Oscar the ability to use Samsung Pay. So far, the phone feels super fast, de bloated and a very strong battery life (around 5 to 6 hours of SOT). I don't think I will be rooting any time soon. Let's see down the road....
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I'm right there with you man. The only thing I was really missing was an adblocker but I found adguard and its been working great. Only irritating thing about that is the stupid VPN icon stays in the notification. So far this phone is crazy fast doing anything and GREAT battery life.
bebeloneovvl said:
I've been using this phone for a week now, and I think this has been the longest time I've kept a new phone non-rooted. One of the main advantages of rooting in the past was debloating, but I've been using the package disabler app and it has given me the ability to debloating and disable over 150 apps, and the battery life so far has been great! (Coming from N4). I know is a little early for a stable release of a stable custom rom but one of the main reasons for my Oscar the ability to use Samsung Pay. So far, the phone feels super fast, de bloated and a very strong battery life (around 5 to 6 hours of SOT). I don't think I will be rooting any time soon. Let's see down the road....
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Totally agree. I'm also using package disabler and it has given me amazing battery life and disabled the crap I normally remove when I'm rooted. With the theme engine on the phone, and the amazing performance I don't feel the need to root.
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I came from Sony, so I'm used to not being rooted for long periods of time :laugh:
You're wrong sir. Adblocker, supersu premium, and free pandora one on one page of my app screen.
Root is a must for me. I have adaway, Pandora which can be obtained without root, xposed apps, titanium backup, ability to remove crap from my phone.
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Root is a must for me. I have adaway, Pandora which can be obtained without root, xposed apps, titanium backup, ability to remove crap from my phone.
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Titanium Backup is good, but Helium served all my needs when I moved from my Z3 to the Note 5, without having to root. I disabled apps on my phone and hid the ones I couldn't disable, without root.
Undertaker is right about pandora one, but Cachemate is one of my faves. And you gotta have roots.
Bluetooth tethering is a must for me.
I agree with you guys.
I tried to root 4 times, it was either shooting down or wifi not working good.
I will wait until the root issue is resolved.
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I've been using this phone for a week now, and I think this has been the longest time I've kept a new phone non-rooted. One of the main advantages of rooting in the past was debloating, but I've been using the package disabler app and it has given me the ability to debloating and disable over 150 apps, and the battery life so far has been great! (Coming from N4). I know is a little early for a stable release of a stable custom rom but one of the main reasons for my Oscar the ability to use Samsung Pay. So far, the phone feels super fast, de bloated and a very strong battery life (around 5 to 6 hours of SOT). I don't think I will be rooting any time soon. Let's see down the road....
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What apps you have diabled?
Id not have access to my beloved Lucky Patcher though. I love installing modded apks over the play store ones and back again without having to uninstall lol
Elysian893 said:
Titanium Backup is good, but Helium served all my needs when I moved from my Z3 to the Note 5, without having to root. I disabled apps on my phone and hid the ones I couldn't disable, without root.
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Disabling is just hide the app from your drawer. Nothing special you have apps that are using your space
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Disabling is just hide the app from your drawer. Nothing special you have apps that are using your space
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Have you looked at the size of the things you disable? Most of them are tiny.
I also use to root and install custom roms because I wanted to increase performance and battery life to my device but with this phone is don't feel the need to. After disabling a few apps I've noticed memory consumption has gone down and as far as battery life. I use to get good battery life before so I'm expecting this to give me better battery life as well. I've also blocked all the ads and I'm very happy.
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Have you looked at the size of the things you disable? Most of them are tiny.
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rooting a must for me either way. If i can't delete whatsapp and install whatsapp plus then that's a problem.
If i don't want certain apps i should have ability to delete them not just disable them
the size may be small but it is still space on my device
sunnyo_ola said:
I agree with you guys.
I tried to root 4 times, it was either shooting down or wifi not working good.
I will wait until the root issue is resolved.
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Take it to a shop if you're having trouble. I can steer you in the right direction.
Or I'll hold your hand while you do it.
Only trouble I had on 1st try is that the team win recovery got overwritten by the phone once I had the custom kernel and before I had supersu. So I just reflashed the team win recovery and flashed supersu.
WiFi never better. We've done 100 so far.
ZackBanditMan said:
Id not have access to my beloved Lucky Patcher though. I love installing modded apks over the play store ones and back again without having to uninstall lol
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I'm with you on that! Had Lucky on my previous OnePlus One and it was great.
Hopefully soon we can have it on the Note 5.
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bebeloneovvl said:
I've been using this phone for a week now, and....
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Thanks for package disabler. I usually root as well. One thing that did jump out at me was, after I disabled all the things I normally freeze, my ram usage was the same. But I guess the main benefit is that the unused apps won't fire up and consume battery unnecessarily.
You should get a kick back from package disabler!
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This didn't need to be turned into a root vs unroot thread.
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As title says, which one ram/junk cleaners are the best?
I have HTC M8 and I know HTC have its own Boost+, is it worth using?
I like the Smart Booster Xposed module, but it's root/xposed only. When I don't have root, I use CCleaner, i've tried dozens of others and they all seem to include the same amount of extra bloatware, The apps that come from CM (clean master) all have some kind of cleaning utility at the cost of installing maybe a dozen more crapapps.
Maybe there are others that work well but I just use smart booster because all of my devices are rooted right now. If there is something better than CCleaner, that would be great
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Sharp852 said:
As title says, which one ram/junk cleaners are the best?
I have HTC M8 and I know HTC have its own Boost+, is it worth using?
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To be honest I never trust the stock version of anything. I much rather prefer to root, install a recovery and seek the best possible.
I am sure that the HTC stock boost is not bad and works, however it isn't the best for sure. Any app on the play store will provide about the same usefulness and will probably blast you with ads and other bloatware. I never tried the "Smart Booster Xposed module" but I will give it a try.
It may seem nice to see "RAM freed" but you can just close the apps yourself and free the RAM. I remain skeptical of how much these apps really do. For maximum performance I use greenify and amplify, two apps that extend battery life by limiting apps by hibernating them. However you need root and xposed framework installed.
Asiance said:
To be honest I never trust the stock version of anything. I much rather prefer to root, install a recovery and seek the best possible.
I am sure that the HTC stock boost is not bad and works, however it isn't the best for sure. Any app on the play store will provide about the same usefulness and will probably blast you with ads and other bloatware. I never tried the "Smart Booster Xposed module" but I will give it a try.
It may seem nice to see "RAM freed" but you can just close the apps yourself and free the RAM. I remain skeptical of how much these apps really do. For maximum performance I use greenify and amplify, two apps that extend battery life by limiting apps by hibernating them. However you need root and xposed framework installed.
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Well,i have already Greenify, that is must one ?...and what abiut those .zip flashing tweaks? Worth? Any recommendations?
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Sharp852 said:
Well,i have already Greenify, that is must one ?...and what abiut those .zip flashing tweaks? Worth? Any recommendations?
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I dont know, I never tried flashing tweaks.
Asiance said:
I dont know, I never tried flashing tweaks.
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The "official" TWRP app does it, and does it well. I was looking for one that did the same for CWM, but could not find one.
I have an upside-down TWRP installed into one of my devices, it was the only way to get a recovery installed. I downloaded the image from Needrom and use Carliv's Kitchen to apply the kernel info from my own Stock Recovery. The only problem (other than the GUI being upside down while the touches are rightside up) is, my Stock recovery is 6.5mb and the TWRP is about 13mb. So I don't know what problems that might cause. The Magic MTK TWRP installer won't work because the recovery that it creates is just 100mb bigger. I only use the recovery to root the device, because the slider is easy to figure out where to slide. Everything else is almost impossible to navigate, so the TWRP app comes in handy. I did wipe my Dalvik Cache from the recovery, I think you can do that as well from the app.
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Asiance said:
To be honest I never trust the stock version of anything. I much rather prefer to root, install a recovery and seek the best possible.
I am sure that the HTC stock boost is not bad and works, however it isn't the best for sure. Any app on the play store will provide about the same usefulness and will probably blast you with ads and other bloatware. I never tried the "Smart Booster Xposed module" but I will give it a try.
It may seem nice to see "RAM freed" but you can just close the apps yourself and free the RAM. I remain skeptical of how much these apps really do. For maximum performance I use greenify and amplify, two apps that extend battery life by limiting apps by hibernating them. However you need root and xposed framework installed.
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Smart Booster is handy because you can automate it, to clear running tasks and caches at various intervals. Without it, my devices are using about 90% of the RAM, Smart Booster brings that down to about an average 50-60% Depends on what apps you have installed though. You can also Hibernate apps in Smart Booster, so that they don't run until you actually need them, and then they shut down after you're done.
i never trust any cleaner or antivirus apps for phone. I doubt whether they work or not.
sometimes, they even make my phone more sluggish than usual. that's bad