Looking for a HTC Desire ROM purly for battery life

elrasho

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I searched the forum but couldn't find a thread purley about battery life. I rooted my HTC Desire and have been looking for a ROM to put on it. CyanogenMod 7.0 seems to be the most popular but I've read on their forum some people having terrible battery life with it.

I use my phone mainly for talking and texting. The odd web browsing but a lot of streaming youtube and iplayer. Can anyone recommend a ROM that uses the least battery? My curret stock ROM lasts a day with about 30% battery at the end. Oh and I also use Navigon 3.2 Satnav but I have my phone plugged in the car charger when I'm using this.
 
Or try MIUI. I was getting about a days use out of a gingerbread sense custom rom and with MIUI I get easily 2 days use,sometimes 3. Plus MIUI has a lot of cool features like loads of themes,custom lock screens/boot animations. Only bad thing is it's launcher so i've got Go Launcher EX on instead(which basically lets you have all the cool sense widgets).
 
The rom isn't the main thing that affects battery life. I imagine that between the top roms, differences in battery life will be small at best.

There's a lot of things that do use up battery though. Make sure none of your apps are drawing more juice than needed.

You might want to underclock or use a different governor.

Getting a good kernel is also vital, and there may be some undervolting scripts that you could try for awesome battery life. You also need a good radio, as some are dodgy and drain battery and give bad signal.

Also, check out your settings, if you have push email enabled or something, then your battery will naturally drain a lot anyway.

That said, I'd take a non sense rom over a sense rom anyday. Sense takes extra juice to run.
 
TheCenturion said:
That said, I'd take a non sense rom over a sense rom anyday. Sense takes extra juice to run.
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Any recommendations? Im still on stock 2.2 ROM and after moving all apps to SD Card my battery life has increased a lot. Wonder if I put on Oxygen rom on I'll get even more? Does GPS work OK on that ROM as I use Navigon a lot.
 
elrasho said:
Any recommendations? Im still on stock 2.2 ROM and after moving all apps to SD Card my battery life has increased a lot. Wonder if I put on Oxygen rom on I'll get even more? Does GPS work OK on that ROM as I use Navigon a lot.
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Sorry mate, I have a desire hd so I've never used oxygen. I can recommend Cyanogenmod though, great rom.

Your best bet is to back everything up and try a few different roms to see which you like best :)
 
I had a HTC Touch Pro and used many custom ROMS on it. All of them had different niggles which were annoying, I don't want the same to happen to my HTC Desire. All I want really is a ROM like stock ROM but with no Sense and uses less battery.
 
Played around with Juice Defender. Had a look at the customization settings and all it does is disable wireless and data connection to save juice.. well I have them off anyway. Does it do anything else?
 
I put CM7.1 on my girlfriends Desire, checked it recently and she's getting 12+ hours and being a girl she's constantly on her phone :p
 
My battery was on 100% last night, woke up this morning and its only down to 98% :) I used task killer to kill everything but the alarm clock before I went to bed to ensure there wasn't anything unessential running in the background.

I have another question though, would it be worthwhile installing another 'radio'? I find my reception at work has gone, but it was always poor before. Would installing a different radio help here?
 
Radios can help but the difference is going to be potentially harder to see unless you have access to the HTC engineer app that comes on their tester phones with all the signal levels. If you're happy changing them it certainly wouldn't help but at most I've seen a radio get about a 9-12% better signal. The biggest killers are lots of push connections, low signal (3g especially), wifi, the screen - not in that order.
 
Myshra said:
Radios can help but the difference is going to be potentially harder to see unless you have access to the HTC engineer app that comes on their tester phones with all the signal levels. If you're happy changing them it certainly wouldn't help but at most I've seen a radio get about a 9-12% better signal. The biggest killers are lots of push connections, low signal (3g especially), wifi, the screen - not in that order.
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I don't have any push connections but my signal is low. Can you recommend a radio? Also how do I find what my current radio is so I can revert back to is just in case the new radio is worse.
 
My battery is on 61% after 2 days of usage! I've been using my phone as usual talking,m texting, youtube and checking the odd email.

Really happy with the Oxygen ROM :) It's really clean and fast, best thing is how you can hold the back button to kill any app your in. Task killer shows I have 263MB available ram, thats the highest I've ever seen! I'm also using Titanium Backup to move any apps I download to the SD card.
 
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