GPE Conversion: Battery Life is Excellent

[Benjamin_NYC]

Converted to my M8 to GPE this weekend and have been impressed with battery life since.

Today I tested, and the results are excellent. And this even with bad signal, since GPE radio not very good on T-Mobile.

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[whitelunchbag]

Yuck, why would you install that hideous OS on the beautiful M8???

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My M8 posted this

 

[Benjamin_NYC]

My M8 posted this

Right. That was about CM, which is hideous. Stock GPE is beautiful. What's your point?

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[allroy75]

Looks good. About what I'm getting with Viper 2.5 and elemental x. I do however wish my signal meter looked even half that good.......

 

[TarekElsakka]

That's pretty impressive. I have always used Viper but I never got such stats before. I may give GPE a try but probably using MultiROM. You are running completely stock GPE with no root, correct?

 

[whitelunchbag]

Right. That was about CM, which is hideous. Stock GPE is beautiful. What's your point?

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They're almost identical, since they're both close to stock AOSP Android

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[Benjamin_NYC]

That's pretty impressive. I have always used Viper but I never got such stats before. I may give GPE a try but probably using MultiROM. You are running completely stock GPE with no root, correct?

Correct. 100% stock. No root.

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[neo905]

That actually doesn't look very good. I get 4 hours on screen time with a stock carrier version M7. 5-7 hours on screen time is what I would want out of an M8.
This is what I got yesterday.

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[aleprott]

I'm a bit ignorant to all of this. How to you convert to GPE without rooting?

 

[Benjamin_NYC]

I'm a bit ignorant to all of this. How to you convert to GPE without rooting?

You don't.

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[Benjamin_NYC]

That actually doesn't look very good. I get 4 hours on screen time with a stock carrier version M7. 5-7 hours on screen time is what I would want out of an M8.
This is what I got yesterday.

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Huh? Your screenshot says less than three hours screen time and you used 80%. That's about where I would have been at 80%.

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[neo905]

Look below that. I average 4 hours on screen time and the most I ever got was over 7 hours and that is from a previous generation phone with a smaller battery running a stock OS carrier version. You are basically getting what I am. M8's with excellent battery life are getting 6-7 screen on hours on average GPE version or not.

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[TarekElsakka]

@neo905 screen on time is not the only factor, however, because sync, GPS, data, etc. also contribute a huge amount to either a good or a bad battery life, so both of you are getting great battery lives, in my honest opinion. I never used a GPE ROM long enough in order to determine which system gave me a better battery life, but I always had a feeling Sense did. Maybe I should use GPE for a week and see.

 

[Benjamin_NYC]

Look below that. I average 4 hours on screen time and the most I ever got was over 7 hours and that is from a previous generation phone with a smaller battery running a stock OS carrier version. You are basically getting what I am. M8's with excellent battery life are getting 6-7 screen on hours on average GPE version or not.

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You write as if screen on time is the only measure.

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[allroy75]

Screen time is a pretty good measurement. Anyone can turn everything off and let the phone sit for 2 days and tout that. It's a pretty good indicator of real life useage. Then again, you could disable everything and sit in a darkened room with the screen all the way down and claim that too. My Verizon m8 is rooted, s-off, running viper 2.5, elementalx kernel and I'm getting around 5 hours a charge with normal use (text, surfing, fb,blinkfeed, location on, etc)