[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] BluesRulez:
THIS THREAD IS BASED ON HANDS ON USE

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This thread is now CHANGED to everything battery related on new roms. Thread used to be called "BEST ROM FOR EPIC 4G TOUCH"

but due to recent flood of posts about bad battery life on various roms especially Jelly Bean roms

, I have decided to change this into a thread about battery performance. Users can still post their pictures about how they got their battery to perform.

I will and I am sure others will too try their best to help with any battery related issues or questions you might have. To get proper advise, please post screen shots of battery usage along with screen on time. Also try to get an app such as Better Battery Stats or Gsam Battery monitor and provide screen shots of your kernel wake locks and parital wake locks from Bettery Battery Stats. Do not worry if you can't figure out the information. We will try to help you figure it out :)

The goal is to achieve maximum battery life possible by using various resources already available such as "PROJECT:PLACEBO" - For E4GT Optimization along with other tips from members who have been with this phone for a long time.

If you don't care about what happened in this thread prior to the change jump to this

page

directly.

POST 2 will be modified accordingly.

In order to give new flashers, or those new to the E4GT, a better answer when it comes to which rom runs the smoothest, (or at the very least, has better battery life) these roms for the E4GT have been tested for at least 90-95% of battery, each.

There are far too many subjective opinions as to which runs the best. THIS THREAD IS BASED ON HANDS ON EXPERIENCE WITH THESE ROMS.

This is an opportunity to lay to rest preferences based on single rom testing. The sole purpose of the thread is to help the E4GT community.

The objective here is based on peoples

EXPERIENCE

with these roms. This will help determine:

-which has better battery life

-which experiences/doesn't experience LoS, force close, freeze...

-Name of each rom as it is being tested

-Four screen shots per rom.

1. About phone (displaying build number)

2. Battery at 98-100%

3. Display time (1-8%)

4. Battery duration (5-10%)

-No charge on device.

These roms were chosen based on tests and regular maintenance, and will be updated as the roms are updated.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO LIST (IF ANY) WHAT THEME AND TWEAKS YOU ARE USING

I will be running all ROMs stock as published by DEV. May be some visual mods but nothing more such as battery tweaks etc.

AS ALWAYS. FLASH AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! DON'T FORGET TO THANK THESE DEVELOPERS, THEMERS, MODS, AND CONTRIBUTERS!!!

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*ICS ROMS*

AnaKonda ~ Review

AOKP ~ Review

[ROM][COALITION][TN&TR]"Black"

BLEND ICS ~ Review

Blu Kuban ~ Review

BOA VeNuM's Own ~ Review

Calkulin's ~ Review

CaLk N vEnUm TwEaKeD sToCk

Celstial Body

Cerberus

CleanBlue

This rom is the closest to aosp as touchwiz rom can get as far as theming goes. Very nice job in theming this rom with ICS blue. As you can see battery was amazing. No other issues what so ever.

CodeName ~ Review

CyanogenMod 9

EpicTouchAOSPICSmod ~ Review

ET4G s5 v0.8

For some reason phone was not going into deep sleep half of the time. Stayed at 200MHz. My guess is thats why battery performance was poor. I am sure messing with governors and other things could have achieved deep sleep. But out of box, very smooth, nice gs3 launcher etc. Oh yeah and advanced data restore from nand is not best option for this rom. It will mess up widgets and launcher.

Frankenstein's Ego--Review

FTW Annihilation

GamerMod V1.1

HoOliGaN

HTC Sense 4.0

Kobridge's Tweaked Stock FI03 ROM

First of all, I installed this rom using method 1 in the op of the rom and it didn't work out so well. Sprint id continues to force close. And as you can see from screen shots for some reason android os % was high and stay awake for 6 hours. In short don't follow this method to install. My guess is since this is complete stock rom with just added few tweaks, it is missing some things which is removed by most custom roms. Overall it was smooth if you ignore sprint id fc. 4g indeed is fast. Sorry that I forgot to grab the setup screenshot.

LightWeight v0.5 ~

M'ICS ~ Review

Deep sleeps like a baby. Kernel is awesome. Nice theming. Very smooth. Everything works.

MIUI ~ Review

PARANOIDANDROID

Phantom's Blazer Rom ~ Review

Surprised to see stock kernel give such an awesome battery life. No issues with rom. No fcs, reboots, los etc. Everything works!

Purple Galaxy

RE-CALKED

Very stable. On latest ics leak available as of 9/18. Check out all the mods. There are tons! Some say FI03 gives faster 4g. But no issues, no fcs, los, reboots.

ReTurN oF ThE LivinG ReJeCTz(rom)FI03 DREAM TEAM

STAR POWER ~ Review

STd

Super Galaxy

Very smooth. The font looks extra clean. Nice S3 themeing. No Fcs. No los. Comes in 2 versions. Debloated version is the one tested.

SuperNovA ROM v.2.0

TERMINUS

Tersus Satus

tFF18 with FF18 repack with AGAT recovery 0.2.1

*TheCollective*AoCP - CP2

Something new with OTA update in the settings on AOSP based type of rom. Couple of bugs such as no video recording. But overall very smooth. No los or fcs

The Universe

Touched by a SGSIII

Toxic Stock

VeNuM ICE

Wicked Sensations ~ Review

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BOOST

FG20 Stock, Rooted, Deodexed (ICS / 4.0.4 / Boost)

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*JB ROMS*

Links:​

AOKP JB

Stable. No los, reboots, Fcs. Nice JB animations. Google Now works. Only major issue was 4g was not going over 1mbps. I get around 4-6mbps. Others have reported this in the rom thread too. Camera can do burst shots!

AOKP JB 4.2.1 Magical Unicorn E4GT

AOSP JellyBean 4.1.1 ~ How to ~ Review

AOSP JB 4.2.1

[ROM] [4.2.2] [unofficial] BAKED blackbean-9 [5/6/13]

JB Black Bean with Jelly"FK23 Themed Modded Solid!

[ROM] [TeaM VeNuM] The Blu Kuban JB GB27 Odexed

[ROM]ChameleonOS JB 4.2.2 (5/04/13)stock/AOSP hybrid[Unofficial] for now

CM10 Beta2

Beta 2 is extremely smooth. There are some minor issues like low audio with headphones. Battery life is very good. Everything else works. Gps, 3g, 4g etc. Compass is wonky but it can be fixed easily with the JB tweaks.

CNA-3.6.0-Jelly-4.1.1 (JoyRide)

Buttery smooth. No fcs, los, reboots. Update profile/prl before installing rom or 4g will be slow. Gps works. Definitely different then AOKP/CM10. But has most features of those 2 roms.

CyanogenMod 10.1 - WILD FOR THE NIGHT

[ROM] Evervolv | 3.2.0p4 [AOSP 4.2.2]

[ROM][4.2.2] Extend ROM Series (Updated 4/24/13) [AOKP][ChaOS][SN][AOCP]

[FK23 TW JB]Kobridge's Stock ROM

{ROM}{JB}{4.1.2}{Shadow God}Jellyverse v3.0{GB27}

Pegasusq 200-1000. Greenify. Forgot to take a screenie when it was 100%.. Just like ICS JV, this is super smooth. Nice themeing. Awesome mods and support. No other issues.

[ROM]AOKP JB [5/6/13]4.2.2 Magical Unicorn E4GT Unofficial. DD here!

MIJJz JB GOODNESS JB 4.1.2

MIUI v5 2.9.7

PACman

PARANOIDANDROID

Buttery smooth. No fcs, los, reboots. Update profile/prl before installing rom or 4g will be slow. Gps works. Table/phablet UI is awesome. Running pegasusq governor with 1000-200 cpu freq. Battery on Jelly bean roms is kinda wonky. They will drain somewhat fast but climb back up.

[AOSPA 4.2.1][01/25] PARANOIDANDROID 2.99 betaNINE

[ROM][4.2.2] Quattro v3 - SGS4ified AOSP [BBB8]

[ROM][OFFICIAL][JB 4.2.2][AOKP/CM10.1/PA] ReVolt JB D710 [UPDATE!!5/03!!!]

[ROM]Unofficial Slim Bean[5/3/13]Build5[ JB 4.2][Light&Fast]E4GT SPH-D710

[FK23 TW JB]Touched By SGSIII

[ROM]AoCP The COLECTIVE JB 4.2.2(Unofficial)5/6/13

[Team ScarLick] [FL16] The Dark Angel Rises

{Team Rejectz}Presentz UniverseJB aka Jellyverse

[ROM][4.2.2][AOKP/CM] Vanilla RootBox [5/4/13][v3.9.1][Per-App-DPI][PIE]

[ROM][TW][4/19/13] White Out Rom V.3 + ComaDose v 1.3 ---Goddly

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Special thanks to 1brainsurgeon who was the original creator of the thread.