Initially I discovered before switching to custom ROMs that there were some running processes that consumed battery, persistently reloaded, and were things I was not actively using. If I recall correctly they mainly were widgets that I guess could be considered bloatware widgets. Using the two custom ROMs these particular ones no longer are/were an issue. However other things have become an issue that previous were never running processes unless I opened the app myself. Firefox, readitlater, rate places (always loads), and sometimes, video player, music player, google books show up and reload after killing.
The frequency in which these show up vary but they always show as running processes even if they are never opened. And obviously there is no reason for them to be running and no benefit since they are consuming battery. I don't think I had an issue with all of these on syndicate ROM but there were a couple that were the same way but if they consumed battery it was not as significant. The stock ROM was the worse with needless running processes and I'm currently using ACE 2.0 ROM. I like the lock screen and even if it is not possible to take that with me going to another ROM I'm probably going to switch back to syndicate and hope that this problem doesn't carry over. I got 48 hours out of full charge on syndicate.
With the out of the box ROM I got 16 hours out of a full charge before doing anything to improve battery life. I gained an extra about 4 hours by using juicedefender free version and 4 more hours by killing all those processes that were needlessly persistent in running. Maintaining those practices with the upgrade to EC05 got me a tiny bit more maybe 2-3 hours. Then switching to syndicate ROM and maintaining the previous practices I then got 36 hours and finally the 48 hours by going to juicedefender ultimate in combination with other minor tweaks to save a little here and there. Getting only 24 hours out of a full charge on ACE 2.0 while having all of these power savings methods in practice is going backwards. And I'm confident that it is all this stuff that is persistently running that is causing the loss. Is it possible to simply keep anything other than what is absolutely necessary from ever running except when I open the app to be used? I'm also curious; why do some of these things persistently run on the stock ROM and on ACE ROM but were not on syndicate ROM?
The frequency in which these show up vary but they always show as running processes even if they are never opened. And obviously there is no reason for them to be running and no benefit since they are consuming battery. I don't think I had an issue with all of these on syndicate ROM but there were a couple that were the same way but if they consumed battery it was not as significant. The stock ROM was the worse with needless running processes and I'm currently using ACE 2.0 ROM. I like the lock screen and even if it is not possible to take that with me going to another ROM I'm probably going to switch back to syndicate and hope that this problem doesn't carry over. I got 48 hours out of full charge on syndicate.
With the out of the box ROM I got 16 hours out of a full charge before doing anything to improve battery life. I gained an extra about 4 hours by using juicedefender free version and 4 more hours by killing all those processes that were needlessly persistent in running. Maintaining those practices with the upgrade to EC05 got me a tiny bit more maybe 2-3 hours. Then switching to syndicate ROM and maintaining the previous practices I then got 36 hours and finally the 48 hours by going to juicedefender ultimate in combination with other minor tweaks to save a little here and there. Getting only 24 hours out of a full charge on ACE 2.0 while having all of these power savings methods in practice is going backwards. And I'm confident that it is all this stuff that is persistently running that is causing the loss. Is it possible to simply keep anything other than what is absolutely necessary from ever running except when I open the app to be used? I'm also curious; why do some of these things persistently run on the stock ROM and on ACE ROM but were not on syndicate ROM?