Install a Rom or not?

[juancruz0710]

Hello there. I have this phone since last year, and it's a nice model. Not the best because, first, my battery life has been drained a few since I've bought it (I can't reach a day with battery). Obviously, no words after the camera design, after 6 months with no falls and a nice caring, the camera started scratching. Well the thing is that I'm in doubt about changing my system to a ROM. I've done this before, but when I've installed the firmware again and updated by OTA, the phone bricked down. So I'm a little scared of doing this again. I've already learned that one time that you come from a ROM to a Firmware, you can't update by OTA. That's not the only reason. I'm waiting Oreo for too long in my phone (Motorola/Lenovo said that it will come out for our phones) so I don't know if I'll wait, or try, for example, the Resurrection Remix Oreo.
I want to know some things before doing anything of that: Can it increase the battery life? Can it get a better performance? (comparing it with the original)

Thanks.

 

[strongst]

Hello there. I have this phone since last year, and it's a nice model. Not the best because, first, my battery life has been drained a few since I've bought it (I can't reach a day with battery). Obviously, no words after the camera design, after 6 months with no falls and a nice caring, the camera started scratching. Well the thing is that I'm in doubt about changing my system to a ROM. I've done this before, but when I've installed the firmware again and updated by OTA, the phone bricked down. So I'm a little scared of doing this again. I've already learned that one time that you come from a ROM to a Firmware, you can't update by OTA. That's not the only reason. I'm waiting Oreo for too long in my phone (Motorola/Lenovo said that it will come out for our phones) so I don't know if I'll wait, or try, for example, the Resurrection Remix Oreo.
I want to know some things before doing anything of that: Can it increase the battery life? Can it get a better performance? (comparing it with the original)

Thanks.

Well the stock rom is by far the best balanced among all roms. But you must decide for your own if you need special features or something else the stock rom won't give you.

Here are some of the treads covering your questions and will help you with your decision, especially thread 4:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/help/best-rom-moto-g4-plus-t3703836

https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/help/rom-using-t3691454

https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/how-to/rom-benchmarks-t3575807

https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/how-to/coming-circle-t3739850

https://forum.xda-developers.com/mo...reme-battery-life-moto-g4-plusathene-t3740307

https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/how-to/8-hrs-massive-sot-rr-o-32bit-loony-t3802164

https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/how-to/6-hrs-sot-1-12-year-battery-rr-oreo-64-t3791193

 

[SayanChakroborty]

All current oreo roms for athene are in beta stage, none of them is stable. This is because of the lack of necessary drivers and blobs of oreo for athene which will be in the first official stock oreo release from Lenovorola.

About battery and performance, honestly no oreo custom rom can beat latest rooted stock nougat firmware. You can test the latest oreo 8.1 build (both 32-bit and 64-bit) roms and help developers by providing log cat but my suggestion is to stick to stock 7.0 for now as daily driver.

Root 7.0, use a custom kernel of your choice, tweak your rom using a kernel manager of your choice, and you'll get more than one day of battery life (if optimized) and best performance out of your hardware by overclocking and changing cpu and gpu governers.