SGS2 LPB Update

It’s almost like Samsung is officially leaking out ROMs when the date of the next leak can be so accurately forecasted on the XDA forums. I’m not complaining, of course. The previous LP6 ROM was pretty good, mostly working, just some show stoppers for me. I was expecting that LPB would work out pretty well. So when the links to the LPB download started showing up, I quickly got my hands on the files and flashed into my SGS2 in no time. The flashing routine has become quite familiar, after all.

GPS works perfectly with LPB. Even though there was a fix with the broken GPS on LP6, it some how did not work for me. So LPB’s working GPS removed the big show-stopper for me.

Battery consumption under LPB is still not impressive. In fact, battery consumption on LP6 wasn’t good either. It’s another reason why I decided to revert.

However, after I returned back to my old ROM (KI3, the officially released Gingerbread stock ROM for Singapore), my battery life seem to be improved. Not by a huge margin, but significant enough to be noticed. Then, I realized, although the ROM is KI3, the modem was still at LP6. It’s not unexpected, since my Nandroid restore would not put back the old modem. So there was something nice about the KI3 code with LP6 modem though. That’s a good sign that, in principle, the LP6 modem is doing something very well.

I was hoping that LPB would be great too, in terms of battery longevity. But alas, it is still not impressive. I’m not sure if perhaps a battery calibration is needed. I’ll know it over the weekend when I get the opportunity to do a full drain and full charge. At this time, I even feel that the phone gets a little warm with some use, more so than what I’d have expected when I was still on KI3.