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What the heck is this? Check your phm task manager!

Hi!
On my universal: I
* installed phm task manager (and some other applications)
* reset my universal
* startet phm task manager
* selected the processes tab
* scroll down to "Image Name": "device.exe"
* have a look at "threads" and see
permantly changing numbers about/between 127 and 130 Threads!
What the heck is this? :shock:
CPU Time is about 12 hours. O.k. this is not the one with the most CPU Time. (Maximum CPU Time of other "Image Name"s like "filesys" and "gwes" with about 11 threads is about 24 hours. And "services.exe" has about 8 hours and the next maximum of 24 threads.)
But still maybe the reason for this is also the reason why my universal often is painfully slow??? (Out of "resources" or something like that?) :?
Does everybody have this? Even with other devices than universal?

Device, gwes and services are files that help run the OS.
They may be loading a load of crap, that's OEM or user specific, but those three support files run the system and are supposed to be there. Don't close them.
V

Thx, V. Would never do that ;-)

BatteryMeter or OMAPClock

Hi Guys,
Pretty impressed with this site, the dedication and commitment everyone here has.
Just thought to pick minds....
Which is better of the 2 clocking apps : OMAP (of which I could only find ver 0.2) or BatteryMeter , gives the best overall performance vis installation file size and continous use ?
Your thoughts please
AD10

I think they are the same thing, BatteryMeter provides the nice user friendlier interface that invoke OMAP (or you mean OmapClock?). For small size, OMAP is a command line simple tweak etc, but maybe difficult to set up, esp if you want it to be still around after suspending your phone. So, probably for start, try the Bmeter.

Don't you mean BatteryStatus instead of BatteryMeter?
Anyway, BatteryStatus, despite the name, has also overclocking features and has the advantage that the settings remains if you perform a reset. As far as I know, Omapclock does not.

hanmin said:
I think they are the same thing, BatteryMeter provides the nice user friendlier interface that invoke OMAP (or you mean OmapClock?). For small size, OMAP is a command line simple tweak etc, but maybe difficult to set up, esp if you want it to be still around after suspending your phone. So, probably for start, try the Bmeter.
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here's the helper
http://www.nicque.com/PQz/OmapClockPlus.htm

Thanks guys,
Yes I meant BatteryStatus and OMAPClock.
I have tried both, and stuck to BatteryStatus - offers more information and seems to be constantly supported by Kai.

OmapClock and batteryStatus read different clocks
I used OMAPCLOCK to set the clock to 208 MHZ, however batterystaus, even not using its overclock function reads it as 221 MHZ instead.
Which one to trust???
Tks

I used OMAP for a while, but I was able to overclock max 246, now I use batterystatus and I OC to 286 without any problem. (Also BS has many more features over OMAP)

Processor speed change tool

Hello,
I'd like to introduce small tool which I designed for Wizard overlocking.
It is used for changing Wizard processor speed directly from PC via ActiveSync connection. It uses great OmapClock.exe for overlocking.
With this tool it is possible to change speed permanently and temporally.
Permanently means, that after SoftReset processor speed will be still overlocked,
Temporally means, that after SoftReset processor speed will be restored to default 195[MHz] - useful while testing high speeds
In both cases return from suspend mode keeps new (overlocked) speed.
link: http://www.mdsoft.pl/wizardautoclock/wizardautoclock.exe
Exe file contains all required tools (OmapClock.exe).
Originally tool was designed in polish, so sorry for eventually mistakes in translation
I hope it can be useful for You

Over clocking mda
Hi,
How do I know, this tool really worked.. I did a device info.. still i see the clock speed as 195mhz even after installing and fine tunning.

Hi
I tryed to install on my HTC S710 / WM6 but get a error message "Cannot read Programs Folder!".
Whats wrong?

A smartphone cannot run unsigned application unless changing security policy.

mdziedzic said:
Hello,
I'd like to introduce small tool which I designed for Wizard overlocking.
It is used for changing Wizard processor speed directly from PC via ActiveSync connection. It uses great OmapClock.exe for overlocking.
With this tool it is possible to change speed permanently and temporally.
Permanently means, that after SoftReset processor speed will be still overlocked,
Temporally means, that after SoftReset processor speed will be restored to default 195[MHz] - useful while testing high speeds
In both cases return from suspend mode keeps new (overlocked) speed.
link: http://www.mdsoft.pl/wizardautoclock/wizardautoclock.exe
Exe file contains all required tools (OmapClock.exe).
Originally tool was designed in polish, so sorry for eventually mistakes in translation
I hope it can be useful for You
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Are you not re-inventing the wheel ? Battery Status does exactly the same thing whithout the need for a PC plus it is a standard inclusion on most of the cooked ROM's.

sri said:
Hi,
How do I know, this tool really worked.. I did a device info.. still i see the clock speed as 195mhz even after installing and fine tunning.
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Come on now, how can using software to speed up the processor change the wording in device info? This is done by the mfg. The mfg. doesn't know if you're going to speed up your processor, only your device knows. The only way to tell if it's working is if you notice a change in the performance of your device like faster operation of the device. You can also tweak the registry for faster operation.

hjsaner said:
Hi
I tryed to install on my HTC S710 / WM6 but get a error message "Cannot read Programs Folder!".
Whats wrong?
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What was being installed when you got this message? Where was it being installed to?

Overclocking And Battery Status
Batt status has application overclocking which is great.
Phone and Camera need to stay at 195mhz. Over clocking overall system could eventually lead to some problems like glitches and being unstable resorting to frequent soft resets....

Overclock at 800mhz!?!?

i guess some supposably this developer no2chem overclocked the touch pro processor to 768mhz..i mean to me thats some bull but the hell do i know..so if this guy really did that...welll shouldnt it be possible to do it on our magics since they have the same processors? thats saying if this guy really did that
heres the link to the story
http://pocketnow.com/tweaks-hacks/htc-touch-pro-running-at-800mhz

This thread could turn out to be really interesting...

Yeah do that and cry about the battery draining in 4 hrs with hero roms LOL

Why would you want to? Apart from "because you can"....

With the winter coming, this are great news.. ahahahah
I'll never be cold again here with an overheated overclocked magic.. I hope it won't melt!

"Inspired by GSLEON3 I have started to investigate overclocking options of the ARM11 (runs OS) and ARM9 (runs radio). I disovered a few things which may be of interest, but so far no spectacular results. There is more research needed and I hope people like anton tomov, cmonex, olipro and pof can help out.
Here is a summary of my findings for the ARM11:
- it normally runs on 384MHz which is equal to a masterclock of 768MHz divided by 2
- the ARM11 clockspeed is 768/N MHz where N is a frequency divider (N=1..16)
- i haven't found an option for clock stepping. (If anyone has a MSM7x00 datasheet please share it with me so this can be investigated)
- i found ARM11 clock control code both in oemsbl and spl. The latter is great as it allows to control clock from WM
- there are two commands in a mfg spl to set ARM11 clock speed and to test it: "freq n" (n=0..6) and "test"
- "freq 6" sets the fastest speed: 384MHz and testing with "test" results in 436ms on my kaiser (MSM7200). Would be nice if someone tests this on a MSM7201 based kaiser
- i reverse engineered the "freq" command and found a table at 0x8c00e230 with 5 entries for each speed setting. For "freq 6" the settings are:
Code:
384000 ; equal to clockspeed/1000
1 ; determines which master clock to use (value is either 0 or 1)
1 ; master clock divider-1 (increasing it leads to slower test speeds)
96000 ; some other clock derived from from master clock
3 ; divider-1 for deriving the 2nd clock
- i hot patched these values with the "mw" command (e.g. mw 8C00E2A8 1 6D600) but could not establish any better result with "test"
- setting the divider to 0 (actually means divide 768MHz by 1) caused the device to freeze
- i didn't do any benchmarking in WM
- i haven't investigated ARM9
Okay, enough for now. I hope this triggers more interest and research for this topic."
That was another topic, but i was searching and i think that we could modify the /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpu_max_scaling_freq we could overclock easyly our devices...

well with tool like setcpu we could set lower speed when the phone is sleeping and the battery wont go down that bad ..hell if its possible im down to try it

no2chem (maker of nueROM) is a VERY well respected developer here on XDA who has done a ton of work on WM handsets. He's done quite a bit of low-level work on WM builds and created apps/drivers that even I (as an experienced Windows developer) can scarcely comprehend because it's low-level, hardware-related code. Months ago he did in fact develop a clock-speed app that does allow for over/under clocking of the TP (which I own and have tweaked with many of his apps).
I agree that 800MHz sounds a bit far-fetched, but so did overclocking my i7 920 from stock 2.66 to 4.00 on air, but it's done regularly (though not generally for long-term) on eVGA x58 motherboards (which I use). That said, I wouldn't dismiss the idea too quickly.
His blog and tools can be found here: http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/
Specific article is here: http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/post/2009/09/06/Touch-Pro-running-at-800MHZ.aspx
He's basically the Windows Mobile equivalent (if there is one) of Cyanogen.

bobdude5 said:
i guess some supposably this developer no2chem overclocked the touch pro processor to 768mhz..i mean to me thats some bull but the hell do i know..so if this guy really did that...welll shouldnt it be possible to do it on our magics since they have the same processors? thats saying if this guy really did that
heres the link to the story
http://pocketnow.com/tweaks-hacks/htc-touch-pro-running-at-800mhz
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interesting work.
i wonder if it will works on others phone. let me try it with my htc fuze. will post result later.

Maybe a solution for changing the cpu max_freq value it's inserting it to the source code when we compile a rom... I think that modding this file are the first step:
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=ke...3;hb=ebea985a6ec461a59afb86f0068cc1d79d7c8bf1
227 CONFIG_MSM_CPU_FREQ_ONDEMAND_MAX=384000
228 CONFIG_MSM_CPU_FREQ_ONDEMAND_MIN=245760
I think that if we change the line 227 we can overclock, but the problem is that we have to make a rom for testing it.
It's only my opinion!

When i had my blackstone no2chem supposedly oc'd that to some stupid amount but the software he delvelops wouldnt do it. All it would do is the same as set cpu?

Yes, it seems to be the same CPU, if someone can ask no2chem...

hi,
no clue about nix platforms, but you should be able to access A11S_CSR_BASE, follow these steps:
A11S_CLK_CNTL (A11S_CSR_BASE+0x100)
[6:4] = 1 ;Global PLL
[3:0] = 0 ;Divider Ratio 1:1
A11S_CLK_SEL (A11S_CSR_BASE+0x104)
[2:1] = 3 ;Divide AHB Clock by 4
[0] = 1 ;Select Clock Source 1
oh,and A11S_CSR_BASE is at phys 0xC0100000.
See latest post
http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/post/2009/09/08/Yet-more-notes-on-overclocking.aspx
for more information.

no2chem said:
hi,
no clue about nix platforms, but you should be able to access A11S_CSR_BASE, follow these steps:
A11S_CLK_CNTL (A11S_CSR_BASE+0x100)
[6:4] = 1 ;Global PLL
[3:0] = 0 ;Divider Ratio 1:1
A11S_CLK_SEL (A11S_CSR_BASE+0x104)
[2:1] = 3 ;Divide AHB Clock by 4
[0] = 1 ;Select Clock Source 1
oh,and A11S_CSR_BASE is at phys 0xC0100000.
See latest post
http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/post/2009/09/08/Yet-more-notes-on-overclocking.aspx
for more information.
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oh i didnt know you were on xda lol so it is possible then on our magics??
by the way greatjob on finding this out

But i think that Android SO, doesn't allow accessing to this memory address, it should be out from the user ring... But if the memory address is stored always in the same address (in any platform) we should modify the android source code to allow accessing to this memory address. Otherwise, it seems to be dangerous, because you're writing directly in the CPU registers... a wrong value can fry our cpu...
Now we have a expert low level coder followin this topic... now.. we need a kernel expert for asking about how we can modify this memory adress.

anyone heard any update on this? seems like it just has died, no news from no2chem at all

ricardomega said:
With the winter coming, this are great news.. ahahahah
I'll never be cold again here with an overheated overclocked magic.. I hope it won't melt!
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i honestly had to laugh out loud when i read that

[APP][O/C] WiMoSpeed: Hopefully soon on Diamond!!!

Have you ever heard about this? Awesome! Processor up to 750Mhz and stable!
Here is the 1st post:
iwfratz said:
CAUTION !!!
- USE THIS TOOL AT YOUR OWN RISK !!
- Overclocking your cpu may damage your device.
- Before autostarting the app be sure that your device will not hang.
- backup is always recommended !!​
DESCRIPTION :
WiMoSpeed lets you change the CPU-speed. In opposite to other tools, even to the predecessor OverClockTool (OCT), it manipulates the values WM uses for clock control. So it works reliable on battery and AC without any scripting or active components.​
USAGE :
- Download and install the CAB
- Start WiMoSpeed.exe. If it reports that it cannot identify your ROM: post here
- Select Speed
- Set Speed
- If desired create link (in installation directory) with actual settings
- Exit WiMoSpeed.exe
- Your device still runs with speed you set​
LIMITATIONS
I am working on this in my spare time, beside my job, my mate and some other interest. I own a Rhodium-device only, so I can not reproduce errors on other devices and debugging is very difficult and time-consuming. Be patient.
WiMoSpeed supports Qualcomm MSM7200 (and compatible) and is actually limited to ROMs of
Rhodium,
RhodiumW
Topaz
Blackstone
Whitestone / Imagio
I took all shipped roms I could get and included the information into WiMoSpeed.
!!! If you have a device listed above and WiMoSpeed could not identify your ROM please post here what part of your ROM WiMoSpeed couldn't identify (OEMXIP and / or RADIO-ROM) and include a download-link of your ROM (OS, RADIO) !!! Otherwise I will ignore your post. Thank you.​
TECHNIQUE
Basically WiMoSpeed is hardware-independent, because it lets WM change clock speed. But I couldn't get WM to switch the clock reliable on request so WiMoSpeed had to switch the clock registers itself on setting a new speed.
Therefore WiMoSpeed depends on CPU-hardware, RADIO- and OS-ROM.
Raising or lowering cpu speed didn't change battery drain or device temperature noticeable. So there isn't dynamic clocking in WiMoSpeed, but WM is still controlling and changing cpu-speed on battery.​
thanks to
-all donators for the support
-eboelzner for Sense UI SDK
-dmvandijk for the icon
-the internet ​
TODO-LIST
support for Raphael / Fuze
support for Diamond
Support for
non-HTC MSM7200/7201
non-MSM7200/7201
devices is uncertain.​
Please do not mirror WiMoSpeed !
Version 1.03
- blackstone problem (speed cut in half after sleep) should be solved
- added support for more ROMs
- changes in GUI (you have to create your links again; old ones starts the GUI only)
Version 1.02
- added support for more devices
- added support for more ROMs
Version 1.01
- added support for more OS-ROMs
- added support for more radio-ROM
- new function: restore default speed (528 MHz)
Version 1.00
- Initial release
- Rhodium, RhodiumW
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Tortel said:
Have you ever heard about this? Awesome! Processor up to 750Mhz and stable!
==> WiMoSpeed: Hopefully soon on Diamond...If there is enough demand! So go do some lobbying!
Here is the 1st post:
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yeah, we all want that. but our devices have a 900mah battery. that means the battery will have lesser life than usual.