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[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] armsel:
Thanks for taking interest...

I think did try all the tricks - UC browser with pitch black background (builtin addblocking etc), I did cut the CPU to 866Mhz, GPU on 250 (don't remember exactly) and using powersave govenor. Screen brightness set to MIN - the same time. Only twice I managed to get 15% drop per 1 hour browsing (in efficiency mode and no Kernel restrictions) - most of the time it is 20+. On average I am loosing 1% every 3 minutes (normal battery pack).

With power saving mode enabled it is bit better - but I don't like this option since background sync is off and I am not receiving emails and Whatsapps.

I am also using only 1 SIM - the other slot stays empty.

I will try the stock browsers night mode (haven't tried that) and report.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] armsel:
I am unable to find night mode in the stock CM13 browser (on app info it says only 6.0.1).

I found option to invert colors (that seems is not working) - attached screenshots.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] SilentEYE:
[MENTION=6297962]armsel[/MENTION]

It is on the Settings menu on the first page.

There is the section Interfarce. There is the Night mode toggle (invert colors)

Another thing:

If you say

That means that you can surf 5 hours! Thats quite good for the standard battery pack.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] armsel:
I tested the new browser that is coming to CM (Gello):

http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-gello-browser-t3384782

I used it in night mode and with power saver option - ON. I am again loosing 1% every 3 minutes.:(

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Well, in theory yes - I have been close to 4h before I needed to plug a charger and there were some few hours of standby as well.

Still my old iPhone4 and now my wife's iPhoneSE - drop 10% per hour of web browsing without any trickery (inverting colors or power saving of any kind).

And I am not saying this because I am iPhone fan - I am not. I cannot give away the dual sim, Wireless charging and openness of Android in general.

Although - once iOS is jailbroken - the sky is (was) the limit (haven't used iPhone for more then 3 years now)!

I guess I need to learn to live with it and/or look for another phone with a better web browsing battery consumption.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] SilentEYE:
[MENTION=6297962]armsel[/MENTION]

I would say your have to test a hole day with the settings. Battery percentage is not really correct, especially if you look at the first drops from 100-90%.

The highest battery usage is caused by GPU in my opinion.

How do you know your battery usage on Iphone 4 was better, if the system doesn't provides the stats Screen on time?

Compared to Iphone 5s, the Samsung S5 has nearly the same battery life.

Iphone SE is a latest gen Smartphone which even outperformes Iphone 6s on battery life, due to low resolution, etc.

I cannot say that a jailbroken IOS is recomandable due to instabilities. A rooted Android is performing much better on daily usage.

PS: I hope that you dont have any reception problems?
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] bogdanpop74:
Hi, nightly from 11.06 won't boot my phone.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] armsel:
I had my iPhone4 for 2.5 years, after that my wife used it for another year - since I browse a lot on my phones - believe me - it was loosing exactly 10% per hour - you can set your watch with it! ;)

Of course it had quirks - the worst - on certain mobile networks (Orange Botswana from where to phone was bought on contract) it was not receiving incoming calls at all if you are browsing on 3G at the same time (or syncing email, etc. in the background) - it was giving available signal on the other end, but you had no clue that someone is trying to reach you - people were asking me why I am not answering their calls?!

On 2G - all was working as expected! All this before it was jailbroken and I tested on 2 different devices (me and my colleagues). After few months I relocated to another country and not such issues were present on that network (Vodacom).

Other issues - terrible battery life on 3G (even on standby), terrible battery life using GPS.

I had no major issues after jailbreak (it was jailbroken for most of the 3.5 years we had this phone). Most of the customizations were working quite well and stable (I guess because they were written for few devices only). The biggest pain in the ass was the iOS upgrade - basically you have to reinstall your phone from scratch going trough the jailbreak process and all customizations again.

I don't know much about the iPhoneSE - it is full stock now and my wife is quite happy with it - it has wonderful battery life - lasting 4 days (very light use).

It is not all great - I wanted to install a missed call reminder - the only 2 options available on the istore are paid - in comparison - Android has many free such apps.

Other thing I miss from the iOS - it was keeping applications in the background for forever! On android my offline navigation (Sygic) can be killed anytime and there is no way to tell Android not to kill it!

Long story short - the ideal phone for me would be jailbroken iPhone with 2 simcards and Qi Charging, or if Android and android apps were written and optimized for only very few devices (like iOS is). At this stage I still like Android more then iOS.

Reception problems on the S5 with CM13? Non so far.

Rooted Android is better the jailbroken iOS? - well, depends - I first rooted and installed custom S5 duos rom (GERISROM.LP.DUOS_V5.4) that allowed exposed to be installed - very few exposed mods worked quite as expected until I installed CM13. Samsung ROMs are notoriously incompatible with Exposed (bootloops, etc.) :(

Apologies that my post became too long and bit off topic...

To get back to browsing battery life - I am bit annoyed that going trough all the trouble - dimmed screen, black-background browser, underclocked CPU/GPU, govenors makes almost no impact on web-browsing battery life...
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] SilentEYE:
If I understood you right, then you are using xposed! It caused a lot of high cpu usage on my s5 duos last week and I just used one module in it!
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] armsel:
Correct, I am using exposed.

Thanks, I might test by uninstalling it, but I doubt it is affecting the web browsing battery life because I previously used CM12.1 for a week without xposed and the battery drop was exactly the same.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] DroidCWB:
Wifi 5GHz stop working using 16.6.2016 nightly

After recent update my wifi stop working in "5GHz Mode". I have two wireless networks at home, 2.4 and 5GHz and always use 5GHz, but now (using 16.6.2016 nightly) I can see just 2.4GHz network, NO 5GHz anymore!

Any idea?
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] eeansa:
Is there any place to get twrp 3.0.0. The oldest that I can find from their site is 3.0.1-0 and I suspect that it doesn't wipe properly either. I tried to install mokee ROM, but only got to the boot loop (tried several times). I had to flash back to latest CM13 nightly, but even after erasing everything before flashing (including data and system) and doing factory reset after flashing the CM13 was still missing microSD card which I had set up as adoptable storage. I did have to go through setting the phone as a new device though. Help is highly appreciated.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] bogdanpop74:
Update TWRP to 3.0.2-2 , worked for me for same problem, now i can acces SDCARD

And If the problem persist make a format în fat32 from windows
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] eeansa:
Thanks for the suggestions. I went through all klteduos versions, of which none worked. Then tried 3.0.2-2 klte version, didn't work either. Then updated 3.0.0-0 klte version. It seems to be working, at least it's taking longer to wipe than any other version (not 3-5 minutes though which was mentioned somewhere). Still couldn't get latest Mokee nightly to boot, have to revert to CM13, which seems to work.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] bogdanpop74:
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[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] eeansa:
Don't know why replies were deleted, but I got good information from at least one of those. I had the exact problems described (BT problems, cellular disconnects, device heating & huge battery consumption, etc.). Phone was just overall unusable. I came to CM13 from official 6.0.1 based stock ROM. After reflashing 5.0 based ROM and back to CM13 all off the problems were gone. I hadn't known this before and it wasn't mentioned on CM13 installation wiki page. I reported that t should be found from there. We'll see if it will be added.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] bogdanpop74:
I deleted my post because neither the 5.0 firmware helped me. I think that u are lucky :) , now i can't install CM13, i have bootloop... stuck with stock and that sucks...

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What is the firmware that u flash? I used United Arab Emirates
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] eeansa:
I used Caucasus countries ROM (G900FDXXU1BOF1) as the base. That's not even the newest one. I also used TWRP version 3.0.0-0 (for klte, not klteduos) as suggested in first post. Erasing seems to work better with that one.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] bogdanpop74:
Thank you !
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] bogdanpop74:
worked like a charm, Caucasus 5.0 firmware and S5 KLTE 3.0.0-0 TWRP .

My phone is back to life ( kinda samsung firmware sucks big time)

I can use again LG G Watch because bluetooth work ok .

Thank You!!:good:
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] eeansa:
Great to hear, glad to help! I forgot to say, that I also did factory reset with stock recovery after flashing back to stock rom and then again with TWRP after flashing CM13. Don't know if they are mandatory though. I was in the same situation, I had LG G watch R, which didn't work at all before this.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] bogdanpop74:
For Samsung firwares it's mandatory to factory reset in stock recovery , done that.

I can rest now afther crazy flashing days.

I have some experience în flashing ,the problem was that i used twrp for klteduos and firmware from Arab countries :( , not always the latest updates în firmware and twrp helps :)
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] bogdanpop74:
With this modem i have stronger 4G signal[emoji6]
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] JazonX:
I've got mixed replies reading the thread, Therefore I'm asking to clarify, Please help me out on this.

Is the CM13 stable enough to be used as a daily driver on S5 Duos ?

Just asking, because I'm about to buy a device specifically for CM13,

(Because S5 G900FD is the only device that is compatible with CM13 which has -> Dedicated MicroSD, Fingerprint and 2 Sim slots)

I read about BT, WIFI issues and Reboots. Hence asking, to clarify from actual users ...

Any help is much appreciated.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] armsel:
Hello JazonX, I am using the last stable version (released 28 April) from the beginning of May. So far:

* Reboot issues - maybe twice, but I wouldn't call it issue

* Bluetooth - useless when streaming MP3, bit better when streaming online radio - but still stutters from time to time. Also - sometimes when connects to my handsfree it will give high pitch noise until I disconnect/connect it again (annoying when at work...).

* Fingerprint - worse than the original ROM (I never got it right on the original ROM as well - my fingerprints are not good ;) ), so I don't use it

* There is no option to switch off one of the SIM slots (unlike the original ROM) - but that is the native android approach

* Sometimes it takes longer to connect to WiFi (compared to the original ROM), sometimes not... not sure what the reason can be...

Else, it is quite stable and usable as a daily ROM.

Btw, has someone found third party application to manage the SIM cards (on/off)?
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] JazonX:
First of all, Thank you for sparing the time to write all this. Your post is so far the most helpful post in this thread as I read the thread a few times back and forth.

* Bluetooth is crucial, as I use BT headphones a lot. Have a you tried an alternative kernel to resolve it ?

* Fingerprint - Had my doubts on this as CM was buggy in this area. Can live with that. Invisible Pattern it is then.

* Switching off 1 SIM, Didn't have such a situation where I had to kill one sim. So lets hope this will not bother.

-- But, How does the two sims handle SMS, and Mobile Data ? (My Question here is does it smoothly shift between SMS service centers and Mobile Data APN's ? )

* - WIFI issue, Might be resolved by changing the kernel. Gotta check that too.

Thank you so much for your support Mate, I will head off to buy a S5.

Problem is finding a reliable one nowadays.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] bogdanpop74:
Hi,

I use BT just for my watch and is ok, no WIFI issues, no reboots, i have bootloader firmware from 5.0 , if u phone updated to original 6.0.1 do a downgrade .The 5.0 bootloader and modem is way much stable with CM. And use TWRP 3.0.0 for S5 Qualcomm klte, not that for S5 duos- klteduos, I had problems with factory reset and phone was in bootloop .
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] JazonX:
Thanks a lot! Gonna follow the exact same procedure!

EDIT: I just Happen to notice MOKEE in your signature. What's this ?

Is it a better alternative CM ?
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] bogdanpop74:
Try it, they have some tweaks, overall is same like CM.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] ottili81:
I use this ROM since 4 month on my DUOS. For me its worth the daily usage, but it has some things u have to keep in mind before switching to CM 13.

First of all, I have no reboot or WIFI-issues and I update the Nightlies from week to week with dirty flashs. Everyone is advised to do so. Many changes happened since April f.e.!

BT-issue is persistent. In my car BT-audio playback is stuttering from time to time, but works okay. BT-telephony works perfect/flawless. I do not use BT-headphones or wearables.

I do not use Fingerprint as well, coz the performance on TouchWiz was awful and CM13 havent had that option when I was switching from TW.

So for me...all in all CM13 has everything I need and lots of advantages over TW. Especially the user profiles (automatic change of volume, display brightness, location settings a. s. o.) which save so much time. At least the Design and possibility to theme everything is a great feature that is missing completely on TW.

hope this helped a bit. Happy flashing!
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] ottili81:
* Switching off 1 SIM, Didn't have such a situation where I had to kill one sim. So lets hope this will not bother.

-- But, How does the two sims handle SMS, and Mobile Data ? (My Question here is does it smoothly shift between SMS service centers and Mobile Data APN's ? )

* - WIFI issue, Might be resolved by changing the kernel. Gotta check that too.

1: when u set SIMs on "always ask" before action you'll have a clean handling on Telephony, SMS, Video calls. No need to shift between services, coz both are online simultaniously (normal DUAL-SIM). Mobile Data switch is a bit more complicated, because only one SIM can use LTE network while the other must be in 2G. You'll have to switch this manually in SIM-Settings. But this happens just once in 3-4 months for me, when I spent my complete data-volume.

2. I'm wondering, which WIFI-issue you guys are talking about?! All I can say is, that there is no Custom Kernel available for our DUOS.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] JazonX:
Thanks a lot for the time you've spent on responding my queries!
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] ottili81:
Hey guys,

can anyone plz confirm that vibration intensity is back and working in latest nightly from 17th of July. Its lost since all nightlies after 10th of July.

plz look it up at settings-->sounds-->vibration intensity

LiveDisplay functionality and tile are missing, too.

Thx a lot!
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] meiser:
[MENTION=3966024]ottili81[/MENTION]: it's not back in nightly 20160716.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] ottili81:
Thx for the feedback. it's annoying. Will not update til this works again! System vibro in CM13 is way to intensive for me! when phone lies on a desk u think smthn is being damaged when a message comes in.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] ottili81:
vibration intensity and ambient display confirmed working on Nightly 21st of July

the changelog announces a Bluetooth Fix for stuttering audio!!!

This should solve one of the most annoying points of CM13.

Hope to get your reports!
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Saiyajin:
Hey guys,

I'm getting startet to be annoyed by the bad battery life of the stock ROM and now considering to move to CM13. Before I switch to CM13 I wanted to know, if there are still any technical limitations like missing features, or severe bugs. I couldn't find any list of "work in progress" items in this thread so I thought I'd ask about that.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] ottili81:
The Official CM13 Nightlies are worth everyday use. Since CM11 the battery life is great when screen off or in standby. Yesterday I just took my phone with me, checked a few mails and used whatsapp for 30 minutes and had 85% battery (that means 15% loss in about 12 hours) in the evening. But on heavy use f.e. gaming, it is possible to have a drop of 60% in 90 minutes. In this case, the Snapdragon works like a heatpipe and you'll get temperatures round 70°C on it. But I think this is common to TW-based ROMS and an issue that's CPU-related. Since one or two month I think this is much more under control, but this can be a subjective impression.

Limitation over TW-based ROMS that comes in mind, are the SIM-card management and camera performance. No possibility to switch SIM on or off, manually switch between data from one SIM to another and manually switch from LTE to 2G and back between SIMS. TW-Camera uses the system properties much better and is a bit faster on focus and snapshot. But the CM-Camera made a big progress and is almost as fast as Samsung based Cam. There are free alternatives like snap camera or ABC

Another Android MM related bug could be the SD-Card reading. Some users report that SD-Cards cannot be read by several apps.

When u check the changelog you'll see heavy progress on SD-card fixes. So CM13 gets better and better with every Nightly.

Keep in mind that Samsung developed apps like Allshare and S Health are not (fully) working on CM13

Before flashing I recommend to do a full nandroid backup in TWRP or similar. If anything goes wrong u can go back later to your original version.

Happy flashing.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Saiyajin:
Thanks for your summary. My battery life is horrible at the moment. I'm left with 5 % battery before I go to bed and I'm not even using it so often during the day (maybe an hour usage per day). Unfortunately without the possibility to switch data from one SIM to another, this ROM is useless for me. :( I'm living at the border to two countries, with a SIM card for each. Therefore I'm switching between the SIMs frequently.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] ottili81:
you got me wrong. you CAN switch data from one sim to the other,but u have to do this manually. Just give it a try.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Saiyajin:
So whats the difference to the stock ROM? I also have to switch it manually in the setting from one SIM to the other in the stock ROM. I'm fine with that as long as I can switch it and activate 4G on the SIM I want to use.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] ottili81:
what works automatical in stock: when u are on sim 1 with LTE, sim2 has 2G. when u switch SIMS you'll get a warning, that only one sim can use LTE. TW manages it and switch sim 1 to 2G and sim2 to LTE.

thats what u have to do manually in CM13
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Saiyajin:
Ah ok - now I get it. Well that can be fixed with a custom Task in Tasker or something. That's no issue then.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] philip64:
Been using the nightly, currently on 13.0 -20160730 klteduos, from the end of June. Absolutely love the change it made to my s5 duos. I have one issue though and that's the problem with line 2. The line works sometimes especially after an update, but then for some reason, i am unable to make calls from line 2. I receive calls, but i cant hear the caller nor can they hear me. The radio displays for both the sims are showing up fine in the notification area. This has happened to me over many updates. It worked fine on the originam ROM and even on the first nightly, (17th july). Anyone ever had this issue? I hope this gets resolved or else I'll have to revert back to the official SIM.

regards

Philip
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] ottili81:
This could have multiple reasons.

1. which carriers do u use?

2. CDMA or GSM-SIMcards, or both?

3. Is the issue gone after reboot?

4. Do you recognize when the issue shows up? Can u reproduce it?
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] philip64:
Thanks for responding.

1. Am based in Saudi Arabia and using the Local Carrier STC

2. Both are GSM cards

3. The issue remains after reboot.

4. Not sure when it shows up.

I even tried clearing the caches from TWRP boot.

:):)
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] ottili81:
What is your BASEBAND / Modem version?

plz look it up in settings---> about phone
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] philip64:
My Baseband version is G900FDXXU1CPB4:)
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Saiyajin:
Is there a method on how to install CM13 on the G900FD without tripping knox? I've been reading a few guys and at least for the G900F it seems to be possible by downgrading to a original kitkat ROM.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] ottili81:
I'm not sure if this will work, since I dont have issues with SIMs since the start (my Baseband is G900FDXXU1BOC2). But I think updating the Modem to latest version could work.

Download latest Baseband-version from here (CP_G900FDXXU1BOE2.tar.md5) and flash modem twice with Odin.

Make sure that u have ur original baseband version as a .tar-file (should be found on sam download page) if anything goes wrong.

Hope this helps. Good luck mate.
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] ottili81:
I think its not possible, when u flash CM13 since it uses a different Kernel. The kernel in CM13 is not SElinux strict and will trip Knox Counter to 0x1. This has no effect to the phone.

As long as u stay TouchWiz-based it should be possible to keep 0x0 when u flash via Towelroot.

But why would u like to keep Knox 0x0? Knox is a whole Samsung thing and will not be available in CM13. As long as u dont possess ur warranty or hand back the phone to the manufacturer for warranty reasons, its not necessary to keep Knox 0x0.

My Knox Counter shows 0x4, phone works great, the thing doesnt bother me. :eek::o:o
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] philip64:
Thanks Ottili.

Just a quick question. The link shows CP_G900FDXXU1BOE2.tar.md5 dated as Jun 27, 2015 and CP_G900FDXXU1CPB4.tar.md5, which is what I have, dated as May 16, 2016. Am a little confused, seeing the second link seems to be "newer".

regards
[Galaxy S 5 Android Development (Snapdragon)] ottili81:
Damn...ur right. I'm sorry. BOE2 is 3 versions higher than mine...give it a try, I think.