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I'm curious, what do custom ROMs do exactly that improves battery life so immensely? Your situation would have been perfect for me, but I still can't get over the fact they couldn't achieve this stock.
Needless, thanks for the input guys.
The only battery-saving part of AOKP is the addition of tweaks for auto-brightness. It's not 100% working with the kernel I'm using, but it did allow me to adjust brightness settings a bit. The kernel is far more the important player... Based on my experience and my friend's experiments, I'm guessing around 5~10% better efficiency with the right kernel. I'm not sure what the kernels really do for power, but I'm happy knowing I get better performance.
Now, that said, a lot of phones end up benefiting from the lack of bloatware. It's not really an issue with the GNex, but it is for others so many phones tend to see better gains than I did with a custom ROM.