Battery Life

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hey I've been looking around for the answer with no luck can anyone help.. which rom is currently easiest on the battery as in consumes the least amount of energy/resources.

thanks

Aaron,

For the most part, a lot of these roms are based off of the base version and then tweaked for optimal performance. While there are some that are feature laden (ie. loaded to the kills with tweaks and background processes) and some that are fairly basic (a few features, stripped down ROMs), battery usage all depends on how you setup your phone.

I've got the Pegasus series ROM on my touch diamond and it works fine (battery life still to be tested) and I haven't noticed a serious detriment to my battery life yet as there are tweaks in place to maximize power savings.

Even with the stock ROM (Bell in my case) battery life maximization has always been an issue.

Here are a few tips to maximize battery life (applies to pretty any rom, stock or not):

1. If you don't need that fancy 3D interface, kill it and go with the basic home screen.
2. Make sure to turn off your data connection when not in use (will go into an on-demand mode if you have anything that runs in the background to get updates once in a while). Make sure WiFi is shut off as well (serious battery drain) and the same goes for bluetooth when not in use.
3. Dim your screen to the point so that's still usable (brighter screen = more power usage).
4. Put your phone to sleep when it's in your pocket instead of waiting for the default time out (press and release the power button to sleep it, do the same to wake). It might only be a 30 second difference, but it adds up a bit.
5. Reduce the number of background running applications to essential ones (ie. e-mail is essential, MSN not so much). Kill any widgets that don't really need to be active (twitter and facebook ones are notorious for sucking up battery life).

That's all I can really offer for now, the more seasoned members can help you out on what ROM is more battery friendly. I've been lurking for a bit, it's time that I start contributing.

thanks alot for your advice, but perhaps offering further explanation may help and others who may consider providing a response..

I am running a Culkins rom and dual booting an Android rom. What I am looking for is a rom I could run on my phone that would not consume much resources or battery life in addition to the resource intensive Android rom.

Thanks again..

Okay, that helps a bit. The culkins rom isn't so bad when it comes to power management. Check out the diamontweaks app to help configure some options. He doesn't have a lot of running processes in the background (a few too many apps than anything else if you ask me).

My ROM (on PPCG) isn't bad at all. Lemme release an update soon.

thanks for the help both of you.. with respect to your post MrObvious I look forward to using your rom when its released do you know of any "skeleton" type roms where its just the bare minimum required to run that rom?