Switching from Oxygen OS to CyanogenMod 13, Day 1.

I have been using my OnePlus 2 for about an year now. Even though the OnePlus 2 is powered by a 3300 mAh battery the battery performance has never been very impressive. Initially after buying the phone when I was using Oxygen OS 2.* the battery performance was decent and I used to get around 5 hours screen on time but those were the days when I used a single SIM on my phone and no 4G.

In January 2016 I filled the 2nd SIM slot with Airtel 4g and that’s when it all started going down the drain. I used my Airtel sim in LTE only mode and data used to be on most of the time. I don’t remember exactly which version of Oxygen OS was I using at that time but I was getting a screen on time of about 3.5 hours to 4 hours which was really bad. My phone used to heat a lot and always had to carry my power bank.

Then came the Marshmallow upgrade somewhere in June/July and it just took my life. I started getting screen on time of 2.5 hours to 3.5 hours. I had to charge up my phone twice everyday. Initially I thought it was maybe because my battery was dying but after monitoring the battery usage I found out that Android System used to consume more than 30% battery. That’s when I decided to contact OnePlus customer support and they helped me flash my phone with some patched version. It indeed fixed my problem for a few days (Maybe 15-20) days. After flashing, I was getting around 4.5 to 5 hours screen on time with dual sim and LTE on almost all the time.

But sadly this didn’t last for long. After a week my system started to heat up again and the same battery woes. So that’s when I gave up and decided to root my phone to install CM 13.

Unfortunately I don’t have any screenshots of my Oxygen OS battery performance as I forgot to backup my screenshots and cleared my whole phone but the day 1 results have been very impressive and I hope that it stays the same.

Here are some screenshots of my battery usage after I switched to CM 13. Please note that either my Data or my Wifi is always on. I always keep my location setting in high accuracy mode. So considering all those things this performance is more than decent.

NOTE: These screenshots are not in correct time order. Notice the time on mobile to infer.

Screenshot_20160907-172903      Screenshot_20160908-004453          Screenshot_20160908-005714

Screenshot_20160908-010437         Screenshot_20160908-010725

Screenshot_20160908-011019          Screenshot_20160908-011026

Screenshot_20160908-011035         Screenshot_20160908-011412

Screenshot_20160908-011417         Screenshot_20160908-011423

If you also want to root your OnePlus2 or any other android phone then this might help

Rooting OnePlus2 using Ubuntu.

UPDATE:

After a month I switched back to OP2  ROM since I was facing some issues with my GPS in Cyanogenmod and I rely a lot on my GPS.

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