Brightness settings for rooted GB roms.

[Mrdroid921]

I have Chevy's SS rom on my Droid, and I had the phone charged all the way to 100%, and it dropped to 90% in no time. I checked to see what was killing the battery, and it said 56% the display. First I had it all the way down, then I set it to auto. Which is the best settings for this?? Because it seems like that's what is draining my battery so fast.

 

[johnlgalt]

Got a certified brand new battery? If not, then with the high resource usage of GB plus the age of the battery, you're going to have to live with that pretty much, as GB is much more resource intensive than FroYo and esp. Eclair were. Coupled with that is the processor requirements - 800 MHz is damned near a 50% overclock of the original stock clock of the Eclair stock ROMs and a 33% OC from the upped 600 MHz setting for FroYo.

So, yes, your display may be eating your battery - but partly b/c the resources that GB consumes when the display is on and partly because of the increased clock cycles that the ROM requires you to have in order to run it.

now that that is said, your best bet is to turn off the display whenever it is not in use, and set the timeout to a ridiculously low level (like 15 or 30 seconds).

 

[Sportster]

I'm using SS as well and noticed issues with the auto brightness not working right. So I'm setting it individually and not auto till its fixed in updates.

 

[Gunner]

I've yet to use a GB ROM that has auto-brightness working properly. When set to Auto my brightness is always abruptly jumping from dim to full bright and back to dim, w/ no steps in between and does it too erratically to be useful.