yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate General] randyyy:
I'm exactly in the same situation XD!

Eventualy I'm gonna give it a try, though.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
You will notice I posted results for phoenix instead of cognition. For some reason I could not get hspda to disable from the hidden menu. So until I can figure that out, cognition will be held off from testing.
[Captivate General] noside12123:
If you have any spare time could you try with different kernels like Suckerpunch and Onix???? you dont have to but just saying. Thanks
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Added Paragon results and added Juiced to be tested as well
[Captivate General] watsa:
You may want to rename twinger to ApeX now, and u r on 5.2?
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Havent flashed it yet and its now called Apex? Explains why it hasnt been updated in a bit thanks
[Captivate General] swedishcancerboi:
I don't know if this has been mentioned, but you are also in a position to test out another theory: which is better on battery, 3g or wifi? I'd be very interested to see the same rom tested on 3g and then on wifi just to see the difference. I'm sure many others would agree with me. I use Y5 and am constantly on wifi with a very active Exchange account. There is always an argument either way.

Again, I would LOVE to see this done. It'll also allow you to try out a Rom for more than a day :)

Sent from my Apple Slicer.
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
Still winning. ;)

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate General] tkjeeper:
What can I say, tried FF and am loving it too, no probs with Serendipity just wanted to explore. Seems more customization on FF, much faster for me too because I use a Paragon kernel oc'd to 1400. Love both roms. Very similar performance.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
I'll be starting test back up next week been working late hours past week.
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
So much for all those dummies that were claiming stock rom had better battery.

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate General] bugity:
Noticed my battery life centered rom isnt on here Juiced....
[Captivate General] diablo009:
In terms of power usage: 3G >> WiFi
[Captivate General] ryude:
You should ***** at jivy until he tests it.
[Captivate General] Vivified:
I second this motion
[Captivate General] BaDaB!ng505:
...New rom for you to test buddy..Speed N Looks LimeL!ght
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
I would enjoy seeing it tested.
[Captivate General] splitnail:
Thanks for all the hard work. Currently using MIUI 1.4.8
[Captivate General] aasheet:
id like to know the battery drain for the miui rom

as in whts the differnce btwn miui and a 2.2 rom when , screen is off the whole time

like i get 2% battery drain with a few txts and calls ie minimum usage

wht will it b like for miui

and also the differnce btwn it with heavy usage [arnd 400+ txts and alot of calls]

thnx
[Captivate General] Vivified:
I think he is waiting for MIUI and CM7 to hit "official" releases before testing them to be sure all of the bugs are worked out. I could be wrong though.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Yea miui and cm7 aren't stable enough for me to start testing them. I've tried both roms and they are nice but alot of work to be done. Once they get out of beta I'll gladly test them.

I'll add juiced as well as speed and looks to the test. Work is slowing back down so I'll start testing tomorrow night.
[Captivate General] solinar:
Battery on CM7 seems to be pretty horrid for me anyway (8-10 hours of standby/very light use), even with stock speed and undervolted. I've tried all three compatible kernels (stock, le kernel de jour, and platypus).
[Captivate General] Kribby:
Currently on FireFly 2.8 running the onix kernel, loving the battery life
[Captivate General] askpcguy:
What? I am on miui rc4-c right now.

Seems pretty stable to me.

What specific apps or demands would you place on a rom for battery life testing?

Sent from the miui matrix SGH-i897
[Captivate General] splitnail:
Gingerbread roms... the battery eaters...

Although I can squeeze out a work day with MIUI, Serendipity and Firefly have destroyed MIUI as far as battery life. I'm going to stick with it for a few more days just because of how unique it is... Then going to flash 6.4 :D Looking forward to enjoying your work again Mikey!
[Captivate General] BaDaB!ng505:
Lol....that' s a good one buddy

Edit::: im also very curious how just streaming video can justify whether a rom has good battery life or not...if a rom produce more juice output, wouldnt you get less time???? there different aspects of tweaks as for standby and usage or just plain web browsing not to mention apps with battery drain... how can you justify that and what other test are you doing to determine your result??? im just wondering
[Captivate General] jivy26:
The reason is I've ran both and neither have the battery life that must expect from custom roms atm.
[Captivate General] ChillyWilly72:
No testing just a personal experience, my best battery life so far is serendipity (started with 6.2 and now on 6.4<--did have to reinstall launcher pro but other than that no issues). I can go all day. I wake up at 7am and don't have to plug in until 11pm or midnite. This is while playing games on my phone for 2-4 hours, depending on how slow it is at work (nothing intense drisk, mahjong, angry birds or guerilla bob), 30min to 1.5 talk time and everything else light usage. Again just my personal experience, try it out for yourself and see if it works for you because it does work for me.
[Captivate General] stangri:
Can we get a stock AT&T 2.2 rom in the chart? Or the pre-rooted/bloatware-removed one to see how it compares to more customized ROMs?

thanks!
[Captivate General] Vivified:
Look at post #2
[Captivate General] diablo009:
loud lol @ that (still trying to control myself) :)
[Captivate General] cpk86:
Very much looking forward to these results!

You should throw Cognition in there too...
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Finished Paragon onto Precision.

@diablo i figured you would get a laugh out of it.
[Captivate General] Soccer_Dad:
Maybe I'll catch you early here, before you get too far along.

The closer you can keep the tests similar, the better. I would suggest something like leaving the phone alone, with the screen always on, and playing a 3-hour movie. It will use the processor and the display. Maybe if you played it "all-share/dlna" style over your home network you could add the networking to the test, since you are trying to test the whole of the ROM.

I routinely leave my phone in various conditions overnight to check battery drain. Today, I'm checking drain of some GPS apps. But I need to test under the same conditions - no data (so I don't get odd results from going in and out of cell/wifi coverage), recording the track, etc.

The rule of experimentation is to test as nearly similarly as possible.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
I was thinking of doing that initially overnight, but I will have to run a logger to capture the stats before it turns off. Hmm, makes more sense this way too dammit. Again I start over lol! I really want to make sure that this is as accurate as possible so here we go again. Also as per another smart persons suggestion I am running every rom out of the box, so to speak. So however it was cooked is how I will run it because some kernels might perform better on other roms and the roms creator knows best for his/her rom.
[Captivate General] axis01:
No love for Andro?? :D
[Captivate General] chase10784:
Just curious if this is still an ongoing process? I am actually very interested in seeing your results.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Yes been testing a battery widget that logs stats before I start since I will be streaming a long ass video overnight to drain battery. The logger logs every 60 seconds which is what I needed. Results for first rom be up tomorrow morning. Then each day a new rom. I've just had to make sure I.took in great suggestions as to how to do this as well as rethought a few things. So that way I'm not restarting every day and also can compare roms regardless modern, kernel, etc....
[Captivate General] chase10784:
sounds good to me. This was a fantastic idea...because battery is probly one of my top features as it is with a lot of people i am assuming.

I am running paragon rc6 with paragon kernel modem jk4 and get pretty good life on it.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Paragon is a very nice rom im running continuum and it's has a great gui. I'm still in recovery from mardi gras but alas I will post results on continuum first thing in morning after I test it.
[Captivate General] ryude:
Current Widget lets you log mA draw every so many seconds (customizable), it doesn't draw any power either (less than 1mA).
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Yea wish u would have been here 3 days ago lol. That's what I'm actually using.
[Captivate General] comdei:
mfw I got 1day 18h from pheonix 4.5 and 1d 17h from 5.0 phoenix and 1d 15h from serenditpity.

mfw when i has no face
[Captivate General] jivy26:
LMAO at the no face
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Just posted continuum results. I decided to remove the pictures because they just clutter things up. I'm glad that I took suggestions and this way in now able to give the exact same usage to each rom. Onto serendipity!
[Captivate General] ryude:
Also when you're charging, charge until current widget displays 0mA. If it says 100% but current widget is still showing a mA charge, then the battery is not full yet.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Yup already did that....in my quest to find a logger I read that lol if you guys make anymore great suggestions that I'm not already doing kitties will die lmao.
[Captivate General] chase10784:
From the sounds of things it seems like your testing is pretty fair. So what you are testing is the out of the box rom performance and not getting other variables in the way. Well done.

I would like to see what paragon would do as well...if you dont mind adding that one little one to your list eventually to see how it stacks up to these other big roms
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Yea my goal is to eventually hit every rom. Paragon will definitely be tested. I'm really interested to see if there is a real battery disperity between roms. Because honestly I don't think there will be over an hour of difference between any roms but I could be wrong.
[Captivate General] JSKershaw:
I'm currently on the Firefly 2.4 ROM and loving it!

I'm fairly new at flashing ROMs on my Cappy, but I really like various ROMs available, and will try most of the ROMs when time permits
[Captivate General] shad0wpriest:
Captivate running Firefly / Serendipity

So I've played around with numerous ROMs(I think I've tried a version of all the ones mentioned here and a few custom ones I built using the Kitchen before it "closed"). What can I say - I have no life.

Been testing battery life, reading various threads, quadrant/linpack scores, etc.

I've found that Firefly(current 2.9) and Serendipity(current 6.4) seem to be the best ROMs for my daily use. I use a lot of data transfer and talk time, very few games. For me, I think Serendipity gets slightly better battery life(maybe 30-45 minutes), but I like some of the features of Firefly a little better(custom management app and OTA updates).

I can get almost 24 hours out of each(like I said - I use it a lot).

Love both ROMS though - I keep re-flashing every few days but still can't decide.

I've also swapped out kernels and modems looking for the best combo. Thus far, the Onix 2.0.4/5 and SpeedMod K13D/E have been stable and given me comparable results. I've run all four of these on both ROMs and haven't seen any real problems. Quadrant and linpack scores for each have been well over the stock ROM scores(that does include lagfix/fs conversion).

Tried oc/uv but ran into issues with freezing when I got above 11200 MHz even with -50 set on each - so I decided not to overclock.

I've stuck with the JK4 modem(for the most part) after testing a number of the i9000 based - that one seems to suite my locations well.

Just FYI for anyone looking for others experiences.
[Captivate General] ryude:
Torch has been updated to 2.03, I predict battery life will be much better than 1.5. If you get a chance could you test it?
[Captivate General] tercenary:
I get excellent battery life running Dragon ROM RC6 with the latest speedmod kernel (K13E). Each new release seems to get better and better.
[Captivate General] ktmanxda:
Please don't forget Adomeda3 off any future testing,,, getting fantastic time with my initial test of minimal use mainly in standby. Running wifi about 80% of time am at over 38 hours/40% battery use on first full charge. That's making one call for a few minutes, a text, autochecking of email with k9, a couple checks of facebook, and about 10 minutes of web browsing... I'm stoked to say the least!!
[Captivate General] stangri:
can't wait to see GB roms tested.
[Captivate General] Mauijpm:
I want to see Mosaic II on this list when GB ROMs are tested.
[Captivate General] jahanz:
Awesome work, thank you so much
[Captivate General] bigsmitty64:
Safe to say this testing is over? Last post by OP 14th April.
[Captivate General] AdamOutler:
Why were you testing Andromeda 1.2? Andromeda3 was available a long time before this thread
[Captivate General] jivy26:
No not done testing I'm about to start up gb rom testing. I've just been waiting for them to get the kinks worked out so numbers for the battery life aren't to bad.
[Captivate General] creepyncrawly:
But you didn't answer Adam's question. Inquiring minds would like to know.
[Captivate General] Picard_8525:
Hey you guys this as far as my battery goes on Andromeda 3:

100-4% - 3days 21 hours 26 mins light usage

This is after a battery recalibration (app)

Andromeda 3

Standby active program: Lookout

Network set to GSM ONLY

3G data: OFF

WIFI: ON (with policies) connected both on home and work WLAN.

Auto orientation: OFF

GPS, Bluetooth: OFF

Auto Brightness: OFF (brightness fixed @ 40%)

Vibration: ON

Wifi vs 3G debate goes on for battery. Believe me you will save battery more on Wifi than 3G.
[Captivate General] noma_pride:
Has anyone tested Fasty 1.5 along these parameters?
[Captivate General] halfsoul:
Display on time?
[Captivate General] Coolman4now:
Please include a non photoshop ROMs like CM7 and MIUI.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Im about to start testing gb roms. I needed a break to enjoy the phone before I went flash happy every day got two weeks lol. As far as non photoshop im assuming you mean unthemed roms?

Posted from my captivate running Miui 1.7.15 w/ neo core10
[Captivate General] poolemit:
here's a cappy that was just sitting on standby for a few days:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-.../20NXEN9t9ro/s912/2011-07-22%252006.26.07.jpg

running the leaked 2.3.3 kf1. @ 7% battery. probably has another 24hr in it =)
[Captivate General] cappysw10:
Funny, some people use this as a phone and not a paperweight. :eek:
[Captivate General] durangatang:
Great thread!

Sent from my stock voodoo injected I896
[Captivate General] HooeyBooey:
Time to start tweaking my batt. usage. I thought I was doing good with 30+ hrs.
[Captivate General] wareagleben:
Has anyone tested Juiced? It hasn't been updated in a while, but I remember my cappy lasting forever on it (alternatively, it could have been because I switched to the cm7 nightlies after that, which don't seem to notice you aren't tethered to a wall plug ;-) )
[Captivate General] Captain Zero:
More voting. Less birching.

No longer sent from my BlackBerry.
[Captivate General] Gatech:
Hellooo..

Is someone still there?.

I'm looking of battery life results of Captivate with JB ROMS. I'm working with Slim Bean Stable.

Regards.
[Captivate General] BWolf56:
This thread has been dead since the froyo days.

Battery life is highly user dependent now and 90% of it will come from your settings, apps and the way you use your phone. Therefor, you'll have to test them by yourself.
[Captivate General] chase10784:
I think I agree with you...but if there is like a 45 min disperity between roms with playing video continuously just imagine what that equates to in standbye time? I mean i think thats pretty significant.

Thats a lot of roms tho, your battery may rebel lol.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Lol I'm watching the battery health I already ordered a new one just in case. China needs to go ahead and make there first nuclear powered battery for phones open to the public so I can have infinite battery life with the added risk of death lol.
[Captivate General] ryude:
Unfortunately the biggest battery hog is the display, so the ROM can only do so much about that.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Ryude your air force?
[Captivate General] ryude:
Yeah, why?
[Captivate General] jivy26:
I'm navy son! Lol what r u doing in louisiana? only reason I came up with is reserves?
[Captivate General] ryude:
I'm reserves, what about you?
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Ahh in active duty navy recruiter work out of cortana mall in br. U should definitely get off your butt and go downtown NO crazy down here...I'm eating recovery food lol
[Captivate General] ryude:
Been there done that :)

King cake is my recovery food.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Lol yea anything heavy and sweet has a praline king cake yesterday thing was a beast. You should read the first page under specs I dropped a funny in there for u lol
[Captivate General] ryude:
Yea I saw that, just for your info I get a chubby everytime I come to XDA :)
[Captivate General] jivy26:
I just hope I'm sober enough to remember to start test tonight for serendipity lol.
[Captivate General] ryude:
Now I know not to trust your results! Precision is the best, no point in testing all of these roms :)
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Lol trust away was at 0mV and did it with precision :p as soon as I setup and hit play I unplug :p want me to post current widget logs lol
[Captivate General] zerojay:
I'm not sure there's any point to benchmarking CM7 since it's not even in beta phase and has a lot of debugging features and bugs at the moment that directly impact battery life.

At least call it CM7 alpha so that people don't get the wrong idea about the finished version later on.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
I'll change it to show alpha so there is no misunderstanding. Also lillove from bourbon street for my xda community
[Captivate General] ryude:
Bourbon street in the daytime = lame

It's way better 12am to 6am.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Lol I haven't went to bed

Edit: except to do the battery test at hotel
[Captivate General] raenye:
Great initiative!

Could you please add to the table the exact version tested for each rom?

(and maybe specify also the kernel/modem it uses)

Thanks.
[Captivate General] diablo009:
dilli's 7.0 with the kernel it came with

Here are my stats at the end of little over a day since pulling out of charger at 99%.

I got another 45 mins display (with active data on wifi) before the battery reached 5%.

Nope, no movies whatsoever. The full 3 hours 20 mins display is for text messages and browsing.

Entire duration of calls was on bluetooth.

------

Overall stats from battery at 99% to 5%:

~ 1 day 3 hours standby

3 hours 20 mins display on -- display at 0% -- for gvoice texting and XDA throughout the day

52 mins 23 secs phone calls -- on bluetooth

~3 hours of wifi on

auto rotation off

gps off
[Captivate General] Phoenix-Lead:
So no phoenix or super nova?? Don't you want to see excellent results at their finest?
[Captivate General] jivy26:
What rom is that because I've never seen that gui

@ Adam the list will grow just have to get through the ones I have listed yours are definitely are in the mix.
[Captivate General] diablo009:
Who was that question directed to? If me, its dilli's 7.0. Rom link in my signature.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
O haven't tried 7.0 looks nice
[Captivate General] geokilla:
posting for the thread subscription as I know I'm going yip forget about it when I go home
[Captivate General] diablo009:
7.0 has been good on battery too. Plus its snappy.
[Captivate General] bames:
supernova, firefly, or phoenix with speedmod kernel
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Who is that question for?
[Captivate General] bames:
sorry

not a question

suggestions for the OP to run his test with
[Captivate General] diablo009:
From OP

[Specs]

*Every rom will run "out of the box" meaning Kernel, Modem, Settings all default to how it was cooked*

Based on OP, he is testing the ROMs the way they are distributed with no modifications whatsoever.
[Captivate General] bames:
i think they all have speedmod by default
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Nah its dependent upon what the creator put in it so could be any kernel.
[Captivate General] ryude:
But my rom was designed to be run underclocked and undervolted, if you do neither the kernel I used is not ideal.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Yea but most aren't so to be fair I am running at default 1000mhz and I've ran precision that bad boy will do just fine the wife is still using it on her phone
[Captivate General] Vivified:
I had the best battery I've ever experienced while running Precision v3.5 with both the speedmod and voodoo incarnations of SuckerPunch.

Edit: Just needed to mention that I always run stock cpu/voltage.
[Captivate General] diablo009:
+1 The rom I use now is distributed with its own kernel. So do many other ROMs out there. Some ROMs may not work well on some kernels, so using the distributed kernels levels the fields. If the ROM is distributed with a kernel that does not support UC or UV, well, tough luck (mine doesn't either).

The details I posted in one of the earlier posts with 3.5+ hours display, etc, etc is without any UC or UV.

Edit: Even for a ROM with a kernel that has UV/UC support, OP is considering only as distributed. He is not doing any UC or UV.
[Captivate General] shoman94:
I like the idea behind this thread.... I'll be following....
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Finished Serendipity and the results are very different from what I had experienced with Continuum. Loved the rom but battery life was over 2 hrs less than I got with Continuum.
[Captivate General] ryude:
Wow, didn't expect to see that much of a variance.

Edit: Also remember that Precision comes with JIT disabled, if you want to make it same as the other ROMs I do provide a CWM zip to enable JIT on the 2nd post of the thread.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Thanks for reminder I think I still have the JIT file downloaded
[Captivate General] chase10784:
wow....those results so far are shocking. That is quite a difference. I am very interested to see if other roms have an even bigger variance.
[Captivate General] Vivified:
Please add Twingerbread to the list. I'd like to see how it ranks against the others. I'm running it now, after running Continuum and Precision. I have to say that I do like it quite a bit.
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Just finished updating Precision Results and I am going to keep pushing through to the next ROM. With that in mind if every other result is around 4h-5h mark besides continuum then I will revisit that bad boy and retest just to confirm the results. I have went through each log for every rom so far and the results are accurate to what was reported by current widget. Doing my 100% charge now and we shall see what the next rom brings us
[Captivate General] chase10784:
What were the results for precision? I cant see it because my work computer for some reason wont display your chart. Its a old pentium 4 with like 512 mb of ram lol....you would think honda would be up on tech...its too bad they are complete penny pinchers.
[Captivate General] diablo009:
4h 37m
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Precision was 4h37m, like I said if continuum is so far ahead as I continue I will just rerun continuum to confirm
[Captivate General] chase10784:
thanks, hmm wow so continuum has 3 hours on precision. Yea def would be a good idea to recheck after is all said and done if continuum has that big a gap just to make sure it wasnt outside variables that caused it. I dont see what would cause such a big gap because the only thing changing is the rom, correct? I mean, same video, same phone, same location....
[Captivate General] jivy26:
Yea same video, same vlc program, same location, only thing changing is rom and start time but time of day shouldn't matter that much if all.