[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] ar2o:
FireKat V9 5 Day Summary Review/Conclusion (Advice Appreciated!)

Hey Mega & Everyone!

As I promised in my earlier post to drop a summarized review of FireKat v9 (ANK4)! Any advice is much appreciated!

Background Info

T-mobile Samsung galaxy note 4 with FIdo sim card (I live in Canada)

64 gb Sand disk external SD card

Base ANK4

-Before following exact OP 1 I chose to Factory reset the Note 4 through stock android recovery feature (not twrp) to have the cleanest flash

-I used odin v3.07+twrp 2.8.8.1 as the newer versions gave me errors

-I proceeded with all 10 instruction points from Mega's OP 1 as instructed beginning with Flashing ODIN stock ank4 base which I downloaded from here (https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=23209 thank you Mgbotoe!). Also I flashed FK v9 ROM from internal storage

-Once the ROM settled 15 minutes, I went through the mandatory set up phase, afterwards I formatted my ext SD card (I like a clean start!), downloaded ANTUTU stats and ran it receiving 49781

-Then I went through all 7 points of Mega's OP 2 optimization guide (only left out the CPU clocking performance guide until day 5)

-I made sure I had every option in the settings on and brightness on 100% 24 hrs/day for the next 5 days (~5 days to peak device as per OP 1) and all sync ON

Pre-Testing-Requisites:

wakelock detector, greenify, stock setting battery stats, setCPU (to monitor battery temp) ON and running in background at all times

Day 1

fast charge enabled (charged early morning)

antutu stats=49781

screen time=5.5 hr

total battery usage=1 day 15 hr

all day usage was composed of texting, browsing, reading ebooks/xda forums, calling

Day 3

fast charged disabled (charged early morning)

antutu stats=48923

screen time=5 hr

total battery usage=22 hr

all day usage was composed of texting, browsing, reading ebooks/xda forums, calling, youtube

Day 5

fast charge disabled (charged in the afternoon)

running performance guide for multicore controller and setCPU

antutu stats=49202

screen time=4 hr 7 min

total battery usage=12hr 22 min

all day usage was composed of texting, browsing, reading ebooks/xda forums, calling, youtube, all day picture taking

Findings:

-Device would drain during deep sleep (7Hr) 3-6% on LTE

-Device would drain during deep sleep (7 Hr) 1-3% on wifi (with or withour LTE enabled)

-during usage device would drain 1% per 3-4 minutes

-battery temp during charging (fast charge disabled) 26c-28c (78F-82F)

-battery temp during deep sleep 21-22c (60F-71F)

-battery temp during regular usage (talk, text, browse the net) 30c (86F)

-battery temp during multitasking between reading ebooks/xda forums, taking pictures, watching youtube would be from 30C-37C (86F-98F)

(I use a Spigen Tough Armour case which is very thick, can it have something to do with the phone retaining heat?)

My wifi calling does work I get an error (ER05- Invalid sim) ... have to find out if this is fixable

Conclusion:

-ROM is FAST, EFFICIENT!!! (thank you Mega)

-not sure what happened with my battery and temp stats? Are these temperatures normal? My device does not run cold to the touch, it warms up around the center usually after just 15-30 minutes of constant usage (xda, ebooks, youtube)

-Not sure what happened with the battery but i do use greenify, the apps i have are:

greenify, WLD, ghost commander, titanium backup, setCPU, Multicore controller, antutu, superSU, mega, xda free,speed test, whatsapp, wanam, exposed, zooper widget pro, youtube, my fitnesspal and banking app. I understand that you are not supposed to greenify root apps (apps installed thro xposed installer right?), system apps (apps running in "Android system" I suppose), and only the user apps, so I was only greenifying a few as I was confused which I should not use (any tips on which of these are safe to greenify are much appreciated, sorry for the newb question, I have a tough time distiguishing between the categories of these apps :confused:)

Overall thank you MEGA, I think maybe it was just a bad flash I did ... the ROM functions amazingly (performance/efficiency). If anyone has any advice/tips, please send it my way I too would like to enjoy these amazing battery benefits and cooler temps :)

I probably will follow all instructions OP 1 and flash v10 from external SD card this time, follow up by OP 2 optimization set up+ performance set up, then install my apps.

I have provided my Day 1 ANTUTU screen shot and the rest of the pictures are my Day 5 screen shots for some reference. Thanks again everyone, hopefully I provided some useful information, and if not then atleast a decent read! Any advice/tips is much appreciated :)