Android: Rooting and custom Roms

[Shonky]

On the subject of battery usage, anyone tried underclocking? I've had my SGS2 at 800mhz for the last 12 hours and battery is only down to 65% which is the best I've ever seen from it, it has been a fairly light usage day and I'll give it a few days to evaluate usage but it looks promising so far.

[NeilPearson]

Interesting. might look into it.
I think i have found the reason for my battery issues

Words with friends.

its seriously bad on batteries. it uses more battery than the screen when its run.

[Santaria]

Interesting. might look into it.
I think i have found the reason for my battery issues

Words with friends.

its seriously bad on batteries. it uses more battery than the screen when its run.

Anything that accesses data while on idle will smash your battery. That's definitely 1 app that does that.

[Sarsippius]

All that and it was a bloody app haha.
AOSP roms will have better battery life, at least that's how it is on my Desire with Sense but it sounds like they have a little ways to go on the S2 just yet if they have camera issues etc.
I simply won't buy a new android phone in future that doesn't have a high quality aosp rom for it.

[NeilPearson]

I didnt even think about it being words with friends, but at tafe today a friendwith an sgs 2 whos beeen boasting about her battery life was playing for the first time and hers went to shit.
slightly annoying.

Makes sense for a rom to be better if its built using the sdi. Still a newish phone I guess.

[Santaria]

The HD2 was in development for a year before it started to shine. ROMs take time to be perfected.

Sent from my HTC HD2 - Hyperdroid.

[w00dsy]

i just installed this ROM, it's very nice, based on 2.3.5. It also has the new music player from Icecream Sandwich http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... ?t=1194765" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[NeilPearson]

oooh that does look nice. I think i might be done with ROMS for now. my battery life is still shit, even if i dont use Words with friends. so im leaving it stock.

[w00dsy]

i had my gps on yesterday and it drained the fuck out of the battery, is yours off?

[NeilPearson]

yeah.

I made it a point to turn everything off that I could to save battery. no notifications of anything. still crap.

[r8response]

Something must be going on with your phone, i can leave mine off charge with minimal usage for over a day and only loose 10-15% battery.

[Santaria]

yeah.

I made it a point to turn everything off that I could to save battery. no notifications of anything. still crap.

What's your signal quality like? Also, checking every 5 minutes to see if your battery is draining, drains your battery (if that's what you're doing). It's called new gadget syndrome!

Sent from my HTC HD2 - Typhoon CM7

[NeilPearson]

i dont keep checking it. San :P

I wonder if using it to play music kills the battery.

[Shonky]

Playing music and driving a set of headphones will drain the battery for sure, I'd guess probably 50-100ma of drain driving the phones.

[pixelboy]

if you don't use most of your battery each day your doing it wrong... use it enjoy it and charge it every night! easy!

[Shonky]

Hehe, just about to hit the sack and battery at 65% after 15 hours off the charger, must be doing something wrong. :-)

[Shaun]

That rom looks sweet, might have to give it a shot once i figure up how to back everything up lol

[pixelboy]

Go Launcher is the shizzle.. in fact all the GO stuff is tops..

[w00dsy]

Also i'm using Go launcher for the bottom launcher rather than the standard one, i much prefer it.

Launcher Pro is even better!

changed your mind?

[Cutter]

=1 for Go Lancher, even I, a late entrant into smart phone can make it work.

[pixelboy]

I did w00dsy.. once i had time to explore ti..

[Santaria]

Launcher Pro hasn't been updated in AGES! Go Launcher here too, it's very user friendly and loads of icons available. Can also use your Launcher Pro backgrounds etc.

[Sarsippius]

I'm a Go fanboy too for ages now, launcher, sms pro, contacts/dialer and weather apps and calendar, contact and message widgets

[KNAPPO]

Thanks for the tip on the GO launcher and additional apps. Amazing stuff!

Its now taken over form the stock Sence as much as it can for a launcher and not having to root the phone. Loving the customisation of the launcher and the unlocker.

[NeilPearson]

so I found something interesting yesterday.

my phone was dead by 1pm. So i turned off Data. it eventually died at 8:30pm that night. So there is a program thats just sucking my data. not sure what it is, i have turned everything i can possibly find to not check the internet every 5 seconds to never or once a day max.

today i had data off, but let the wifi on, and the battery went down again. So its obviously some app thats draining it. :|