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Root MIUI battery life vs CM7
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nope. 3G is always off unless im using it.....time without signal is....HOLY CRAP....61% thats why......
agentc13
Daleks Über Alles
Yep, huge battery killer there. It searches for a signal that whole time and eats your battery fast. I recommend carrying a charger (or extra battery) around if you normally have that much TWS.
munkymedic
Member
MIUI is based off of CM7 so their battery life should be extremely similar.
lifeblows10
Android Enthusiast
I have had better battery life on CM7, but the difference was very negligible.
Dark Spartan
Newbie
Do you have wireless at your home??
because if you do i suggest using that while around the house and switching to 3g when you are not at home... its what i have been doing for a while now. In the question of which rom offers better battery life they are (as stated) pretty much the same but if you were running standard android firmware then you would be losing alot more battery. Idk the reason for this though, could someone pls elaborate
because if you do i suggest using that while around the house and switching to 3g when you are not at home... its what i have been doing for a while now. In the question of which rom offers better battery life they are (as stated) pretty much the same but if you were running standard android firmware then you would be losing alot more battery. Idk the reason for this though, could someone pls elaborate
marc12868
Android Expert
I know one of the reasons that there is battery life with cm7 and miui is because of the upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3. Google added better battery life and smoother performance which probably means when we finally get cm9 on the Triumph the battery life is going to be even more improved. If someone wants to add to this please do. This is all I know about the differences of stock (2.2) to cm7/ miui (2.3).
Whyzor
Android Expert
Yes Wifi uses less power than 3G data. Stock ROM may just have more background stuff running & sucking up data with no way to turn them off. At least with CM7, I remove a lot of crapware I don't need and it gives me finer control on what to enable & disable.
Dark Spartan
Newbie
yes i find that when i turned background data off on the stock rom i get a moderate improvement in battery life... one time i put a full cellular block on my old motorola defy and i had a great improvement in battery life
Dark Spartan
Newbie
I know one of the reasons that there is battery life with cm7 and miui is because of the upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3. Google added better battery life and smoother performance which probably means when we finally get cm9 on the Triumph the battery life is going to be even more improved. If someone wants to add to this please do. This is all I know about the differences of stock (2.2) to cm7/ miui (2.3).
thank you for this new information... so basically with every update of the firmware we should find an improvement in battery life. Could the improvement be due to the changing of some programs or just making them run more efficently??
Whyzor
Android Expert
Usually yes, but I wouldn't put high hopes on future firmware updates from VM or Motorola. The OS & low level firmware can only do so much. The background data & sync settings only work assuming app developers follow guidelines. They can still write poor apps that use data in the background. Check out this guide I wrote for other ways to improve battery life:
http://androidforums.com/motorola-triumph/461571-guide-triumphant-battery-tips.html
3G is a battery killer for sure.
I use to "just deal" with bad battery life, but I discovered Juice Defender.
I normally dont like apps like that, along the lines of ATK and other battery saving stuff, I think there garbage and use more resources than they save, but JD actually is neat. It turns background 3G data off when the screen is off, and back on when you unlock the phone. you still get calls and texts. any push notifications like gmail arrive when you unlock the screen, which is great becuase if you unlock the phone its better to have something to do, rather than mindlessly play around with it and kill the battery (like I do. its a bad habit, pull out phone and flip around homescreens with nothing to do....)
it really extended my battery at least twofold.
Im still buying a spare battery and bring my charger with my everywhere, but I can rest easy when I listen to music and have the screen off, and not turn on the screen an hour later to find my phone at 4% from a full charge.
I use to "just deal" with bad battery life, but I discovered Juice Defender.
I normally dont like apps like that, along the lines of ATK and other battery saving stuff, I think there garbage and use more resources than they save, but JD actually is neat. It turns background 3G data off when the screen is off, and back on when you unlock the phone. you still get calls and texts. any push notifications like gmail arrive when you unlock the screen, which is great becuase if you unlock the phone its better to have something to do, rather than mindlessly play around with it and kill the battery (like I do. its a bad habit, pull out phone and flip around homescreens with nothing to do....)
it really extended my battery at least twofold.
Im still buying a spare battery and bring my charger with my everywhere, but I can rest easy when I listen to music and have the screen off, and not turn on the screen an hour later to find my phone at 4% from a full charge.
Dark Spartan
Newbie
So if you want more battery efficient apps, you should use the ones that are made for the latest firmware??? and is there anyway of telling how much background data they use because im pretty sure they don't specify this in the permissions before download in market??
Dark Spartan
Newbie
I'm not quite sure but i believe cm7 does this automatically... when i used have the stock rom running i couldnt just lock it and leave it in my bag all day but now before a class or when im not using it i just lock it and finf that after a 70 minute lecture it has lost maybe 1% of its total battery which is exceptional compared to the usual battery life
agentc13
Daleks Über Alles
CM7 does not disable wifi/3g when turning off the screen. It used to do that to wifi as a temporary fix to stop it from not waking up when the wifi was on.
Whyzor
Android Expert
Apps have no idea what phone firmware they're running, nor should they care, they just assume everything works. Firmware updates are to fix things that aren't working as designed on the phone.
Apps are only aware of which Android version is running (2.2.2 for stock, 2.3.7 for CM7/MIUI). And most apps are updated to run on the latest (4.0.1) with backward compatibility.
Dark Spartan
Newbie
thank you for clearing that up 