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Hey guys. I know there are numerous threads about setcpu but there isn't one specifically for different settings people are running on their phone.
This is to help others have an idea of how to prolong their battery daily...
Here is mine..
Rom: cm6 froyo
Kernel: cm6 snap 3
Launcher: adw
Setcpu...
1. Charging/full - 998/245
2. Screen off - 245/245
3. Battery < 70% - 883/245
4. Battery < 50% - 768/245
5. Battery < 25% - 537/245
6. Temp > 50° - 576/245
1. Ondemand
2-5. Powersave
6. Conservative
I'm down to 40% after 12 hours of usage... Texting, browsing, emails, and an hour of slingbox!
Lets see what others are using and their settings.
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Rom: cm6 froyo
Kernel: cm6 snap 3
Launcher: adw
Setcpu...
Temp > 40 ...... 768/245 ondemand
Battery < 20%.. 499/245 powersave
Battery < 30%.. 576/245 powersave
Battery < 40%.. 768/245 powersave
Battery < 50%.. 998/245 ondemand
Screen Off ....... 348/128 powersave
Charging ......... 768/245 ondemand
I get about 18-24 hours per charge. I am overclocked to 1.15. I actually use the phone and would consider myself a moderate user.
spiicytuna said:
Rom: cm6 froyo
Kernel: cm6 snap 3
Launcher: adw
Setcpu...
Temp > 40 ...... 768/245 ondemand
Battery < 20%.. 499/245 powersave
Battery < 30%.. 576/245 powersave
Battery < 40%.. 768/245 powersave
Battery < 50%.. 998/245 ondemand
Screen Off ....... 348/128 powersave
Charging ......... 768/245 ondemand
I get about 18-24 hours per charge. I am overclocked to 1.15. I actually use the phone and would consider myself a moderate user.
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Where is powersave?
spiicytuna said:
Rom: cm6 froyo
Kernel: cm6 snap 3
Launcher: adw
Setcpu...
Temp > 40 ...... 768/245 ondemand
Battery < 20%.. 499/245 powersave
Battery < 30%.. 576/245 powersave
Battery < 40%.. 768/245 powersave
Battery < 50%.. 998/245 ondemand
Screen Off ....... 348/128 powersave
Charging ......... 768/245 ondemand
I get about 18-24 hours per charge. I am overclocked to 1.15. I actually use the phone and would consider myself a moderate user.
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do you overclock it under the charging profile? because you have that listed at 769max.
do you find the min 128 for your screen off profile to lag trying to turn the screen back on?
I have no powersave. Only userspace,ondemand,performance options.
^ same i think that is only an option in froyo?
trixr750 said:
do you overclock it under the charging profile? because you have that listed at 769max.
do you find the min 128 for your screen off profile to lag trying to turn the screen back on?
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i notice a lag at 128, i keep mine at 245
ROM: CyanogenMod 6 (07/30 Nightly)
Kernel: CMSnapUV0.1d
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SetCPU:
Min: 1.228Ghz
Max: 1.344Ghz
Scaling: ondemand
Sampling Rate: 40000
Up Threshold: 40%
Ignore Nice Load: 0
Powersave Bias: 0
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I've played around a lot and found this to be the most stable for my EVO.
~Jasecloud4
jasecloud4 said:
ROM: CyanogenMod 6 (07/30 Nightly)
Kernel: CMSnapUV0.1d
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SetCPU:
Min: 1.228Ghz
Max: 1.344Ghz
Scaling: ondemand
Sampling Rate: 40000
Up Threshold: 40%
Ignore Nice Load: 0
Powersave Bias: 0
_________
I've played around a lot and found this to be the most stable for my EVO.
~Jasecloud4
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What's the idea for changing sampling rate and threshold? I would like to know if that helps with the performance and battery life.
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And jase. How long does your phone battery last?
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trixr750 said:
What's the idea for changing sampling rate and threshold? I would like to know if that helps with the performance and battery life.
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Sampling Rate is akin to reaction time to change, judged in microseconds. Up threshold is the load point at which the processor increases it's speed from min to max. (I know, I know, it's a lot more technical but for simplicity's sake).
Setting sampling and up threshold low means that at the slightest increase in load, the processor will try to increase its speed. This is helpful with performance, but may impact battery life as the chance of you running at higher speed is greater.
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Battery life at 1.344Ghz isn't that bad, as 1.267, 1.305, and 1.344 all run at the max of 1350mv (which so far is the max that the Snapdragon can handle). So, at my current settings (with my standard battery), I get probably 3.5 hours of non-stop use, and maybe 24 hours of standby if I'm lucky. But...I've got some pretty sweet Quadrant and Neocore scores.
________
~Jasecloud4
What good is underclocking at power levels that are greater than 15%? I like to use my phone as a SMARTPHONE as long as I can... 1115 mhz peak for ALL except screen off and under 15%.... when its plugged in (either charging or charged) I bump the minimum speed up to 512 or 768... Everything is real smooth!
I still get a full 8 hour day of Shoutcast streaming at work with those setting (along with texting, facebook, twitter, etc.)
I'm using the EViO Series Rom. I have been unplugged since 330am. I'm going on 10 hours of being unplugged and still I got 61% battery left and according to my "Battery Left Widget" that breaks down to about 10hrs and 46 minutes left. which totals to be somewhere between 19-21 hours of battery total since i unplugged my phone at 330am.
My SetCpu settings are:
1152000/245760
charging AC/FULL 998/537
CHARGING USB/FULL 998/537
BATERRY <50 883/245
TEMP > 50 652/245
BATTERY < 25 499/245
SCREEN OFF 384/245
i just loaded this up because it seemed that my Fresh ROM was a battery killer, not sure that it was the ROM, but whatever the combination i had going, i could only get about 5 hours per charge. What kernel are you using and what are you usage amount and battery life for these settings?
plmiller0905 said:
I'm using the EViO Series Rom. I have been unplugged since 330am. I'm going on 10 hours of being unplugged and still I got 61% battery left and according to my "Battery Left Widget" that breaks down to about 10hrs and 46 minutes left. which totals to be somewhere between 19-21 hours of battery total since i unplugged my phone at 330am.
My SetCpu settings are:
1152000/245760
charging AC/FULL 998/537
CHARGING USB/FULL 998/537
BATERRY <50 883/245
TEMP > 50 652/245
BATTERY < 25 499/245
SCREEN OFF 384/245
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xlGmanlx said:
i just loaded this up because it seemed that my Fresh ROM was a battery killer, not sure that it was the ROM, but whatever the combination i had going, i could only get about 5 hours per charge. What kernel are you using and what are you usage amount and battery life for these settings?
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I just installed the rom and that was it...plus my apps from titanium backup. I think the rom have the Netarchy Kernalalready built into it. Here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=736810
I am somewhat a heavy user...I stream Pandora, check the net almost constantly, check emails, text messaging a lot, check FB & Twitter and a call every now and then.
Just to give you an idea..from the last time I posted which was at 1220...my battery is now at 52% and the "battery Widget" says I have 9hrs and 44mins left of battery usage.
lafrad said:
What good is underclocking at power levels that are greater than 15%? I like to use my phone as a SMARTPHONE as long as I can... 1115 mhz peak for ALL except screen off and under 15%.... when its plugged in (either charging or charged) I bump the minimum speed up to 512 or 768... Everything is real smooth!
I still get a full 8 hour day of Shoutcast streaming at work with those setting (along with texting, facebook, twitter, etc.)
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I also like to USE my phone, hence wanting my battery to last as long as possible. I use 1.15 from 50% - 100% then I switch back to the stock speeds to start to conserve power. I found for me I am usually flashing something (also meaning indirectly charging) or fooling around before I even get to 50%. So 90% of the time I am always at 1.15. That being said the times my battery has gotten < 30% and I was at 768. I didn't notice as large of a difference as you'd think unless I was playing a 3D game. *shrug* it's all personal preference. I have a full SMARTPHONE experience and utilize my phone to its fullest.....
With Fresh 1.0.1 and netarchy 3.7.3c, in order of priority:
Screen off: 245/245
Charging/Full: 768/1152
Battery < 25%: 245/768
Battery < 100%: 576/998
Just set those, we'll see how they work. I read it was a bad idea to set mins lower than 245, so I'm playing it safe there. I never really noticed problems with having 245 mins across the board, but I'm giving it a bump for normal < 100% usage. My screen is off most of the time anyway.
I use my phone constantly as well so I'm trying to find a good medium for battery and performance. I'm gonna try to scale mine to 1.1 until the 75% mark and see how that goes.
Running a custom rom plus a custom kernel does help for me so far.
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Rom:Baked Snack 9.6
Kernel: hero baked 8
LauncherPro
setcpu
temp > 50 499/245
screen off 245/245
charging/full 998/245
battery < 25 460/245
battery <100 998/245
I just moved to baked snack this morning, so I can't really give a good battery usage.
What are you guys getting in the new rooted 2.2 rom.
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I'm looking to improve my phone's battery life and was curious to know what some of y'alls SetCPU profile settings were.
I don't currently have any set up right now, I just simply have been using Max 1000 Min 800.
Thanks for the help.
wad3g said:
I'm looking to improve my phone's battery life and was curious to know what some of y'alls SetCPU profile settings were.
I don't currently have any set up right now, I just simply have been using Max 1000 Min 800.
Thanks for the help.
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I have a few thing set up. My main settings are 1000 Max, 300 Min. When the screen's off, I have it at 600 max, 300 min. And when battery life gets below 35%, it's 600 Max, 300 Min. I haven't done any testing to see how well it works, but I think it helps.
Alright thanks, I'm going to give these profiles a try.
I've been using Max 1000 and Min 800 only, with about ~15 hours of battery life. (This is without talking on the phone very much, but texting, twitter, and web browsing)
These profiles you shared with me have worked great on my phone. I've been talking on the phone more and just using my phone more often in general as well - with longer battery life.
I've gone from ~15 hour for a full battery to 24+ hours.
Thanks for sharing.
If u install overclock.lo and set scaling u can run 1GHZ at 34 volts instead of the stock 66
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Cool. Glad I could help.
Was wondering what type of profiles people got setup on setcpu for some good battery durations oc'ed.
I'm currently running at 1417MHZ and only profile I have setup is screen off. 275 / 275 conservative. Priority is at 100.
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I'm running at 1305MHz.
Screen off 245min/245max
Temp > 38.2 C 245min/768max
Battery < 15% 245min/768max
Mines going at 200 mhz to 1000 mhz, on demand governor, and a powersave bias of 20%. No profiles. Why? Because to implement the profiles setcpu has to remain in memory. It does not feel slow at all and I'm getting terrific battery life.
Sent from my G2.
mejorguille said:
Mines going at 200 mhz to 1000 mhz, on demand governor, and a powersave bias of 20%. No profiles. Why? Because to implement the profiles setcpu has to remain in memory. It does not feel slow at all and I'm getting terrific battery life.
Sent from my G2.
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sorry im a newbie, how do you set the "on demand governor?" .and powersave bias, u get that from the advanced tab where it says "powersave bias (1-1000)" and just put 20?
donaliar said:
sorry im a newbie, how do you set the "on demand governor?" .and powersave bias, u get that from the advanced tab where it says "powersave bias (1-1000)" and just put 20?
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Well the scaling governor is on the main page, right under the minimum frequency slider. You are only half right on the powersave bias: 20 would be 2%. So to do 20%, you need 200. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
Sent from my G2.
mejorguille said:
Well the scaling governor is on the main page, right under the minimum frequency slider. You are only half right on the powersave bias: 20 would be 2%. So to do 20%, you need 200. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
Sent from my G2.
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Oh alright. my sampling rate is 50000. up threshold 95. ignore nice load 0. and powersave bias 200. does that sound about right? or should i change somehthing else? Thanks for the help!
Got my profiles at:
Screen off 245/245 priority 100
Temp > 102F 245/768 priority 80
Battery < 10% 245/245 priority 70
Battery <15% 245/368 priority 65
Battery <25% 245/768 priority 60
Charging/full 245/1459 priority 50
I just set these up so ill report back with how it turned out
mejorguille said:
Mines going at 200 mhz to 1000 mhz, on demand governor, and a powersave bias of 20%. No profiles. Why? Because to implement the profiles setcpu has to remain in memory. It does not feel slow at all and I'm getting terrific battery life.
Sent from my G2.
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Questions:
Did you notice battery drain with setcpu in memory?
How is the battery temp?
Does the powersave bias mean that you will never scale to the peak value?
Had the phone off the charger since 11am.
Moderate call usage
Heavy texting
Moderate internet usage
Music for roughly 3hours straight
Wireless tethering on Xbox live for roughly an hour
At 9:15pm I have exactly 40% with my profiles from my post above
what does 245/768 mean?
nvm i got it
potentdro said:
what does 245/768 mean?
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245 min, 768 max
So its a bit after 1am and just over 14hrs after a full charge. While using my profiles and info as posted in my above 2 posts along with 2hrs of GPS usage, light phone call usage, and heavy internet usage my phone finally died 14hrs later with the Gov module on conservative with posted profiles and OC'd at 1459.
Although abought 10min prior to it dieing I did attempt to submit this post from the phone but near the end of the post it froze up, showed the desktop and my battery notification showed 0% and the phone then rebooted itself but I got a bootloop on the "g2" screen and had to pull the battery to fix it.
After 10% battery level I was experiencing lagging and slowness while online so I'm assuming because of my profile setting of 245/245 at that battery level and what probably caused my bootloop.
*Edit: I must say I'm pretty impressed. I had my Nexus one alot more heavily modified than my g2 and only OC'd to 1113 with similar daily usage and I would have to charge it one time at some point during the day to last me throughout the night.
SRT102JZ said:
Got my profiles at:
Screen off 245/245 priority 100
Temp > 102F 245/768 priority 80
Battery < 10% 245/245 priority 70
Battery <15% 245/368 priority 65
Battery <25% 245/768 priority 60
Charging/full 245/1459 priority 50
I just set these up so ill report back with how it turned out
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What do you have set up in "Main" tab?
Thanks. I'm going to try your settings.Battery life is disappointing...
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Okay, so I got my G2 about two weeks ago, and have been running set CPU with these settings since then.
Main profile: 1478 max / 245 min
Screen Off: 245/245, Priority 100
Temp > 100.4 F: 368/245 Priority 97
Temp > 96.8 F: 768/245 Priority 95
Battery < 20%: 245/245 Priority: 82
Battery < 30%: 368/245 Priority: 81
Battery < 40%: 768/245 Priority: 80
Charging/Full: 1478/245 Priority 60
Charging USB/Full: 768/245 Priority 55
Charging AC/Full: 1478/245 Priority 50
On light use I've gotten almost two days, by light use I mean only a few phone calls or text messages and data turned off. On Normal use I've been averaging around 16 hours, and on heavy use I've been getting around 10 hours. Pretty good battery life, I'm pleased with it being my first Android phone, was a black berry user before this.
I have SetCPU set with all of these profiles, other then charging profiles and it seems that the "Screen Off" profile isn't working. I have it set to 245/245 and it still seems to be at 1497/245 because the battery gets hot and drains very fast (about 8 hours with literally zero use). It shows idle Cell Standby and Phone Idle taking up most of the battery (a combined total of about 85%) anyone know why it wouldn't be working properly?
SetCPU has SU permissions and profiles are enabled... Anything else?
Is SetCPU a lot better then the free CPU tuner? I know it's only 1.99, but I'm feeling cheap at the moment.
ScottRTL said:
I have SetCPU set with all of these profiles, other then charging profiles and it seems that the "Screen Off" profile isn't working. I have it set to 245/245 and it still seems to be at 1497/245 because the battery gets hot and drains very fast (about 8 hours with literally zero use). It shows idle Cell Standby and Phone Idle taking up most of the battery (a combined total of about 85%) anyone know why it wouldn't be working properly?
SetCPU has SU permissions and profiles are enabled... Anything else?
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you have to make sure the priority is at a higher level than all the others...like 100
abenco said:
Is SetCPU a lot better then the free CPU tuner? I know it's only 1.99, but I'm feeling cheap at the moment.
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You can get the full version on xda for free. It's nice to donate though.
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need some help
my htc wont show any clock speeds past the 806mhz. ...any ideas? i tried to perflock disable and it says it is already..and in custom profiles it shows still only max up to 806
edt** read a custom kernal may be required...im on stock. thats probably why
What is this nonsense people are saying about 4 or 5 hours with screen on and their phone is still at 20%? GTFO.... Usually I would say about 3 hours of screen on and i'm dead. I can get like 18 hrs or so lightly, and by lightly, I mean only using it for a few text and check email, maybe some fb just to check inbox and such, lightly, using the phone (with my reception).
I know the Fascinate is better hardware, and I switched for the GPU among other reasons (2 of em for free...=P) but, on my nexus, I still find that the interactive governor ramped up to the max freq. (1113Mhz) less. Of course, I am using the 1150 nonvoodoo from geeknik, but I doubt I will make it 4 or 5 hours of screen on time.w
How can you use the phone, with the screen on, and not do anything that uses the battery. I mean, without cyanogen, it was cool that I can make it through my day, easy, close to out of box (getting to superclean dj05 is about 100 less flashes that I made it through with the n1/sense/cyan nightlys/test roms/etc.).
But now I want more, the price I have to pay I guess for the .3 inches of gained screen is not using the phone heavily in order to save battery!? That sucks. I used to hammer my iPhone and I rarely made it through the day, but I hammered it with atleast 4 or 5 hrs of screen on time sometimes, and it would make it atleast 8 hours... that thing would idle wayyyy better on GSM Edge than CDMA I guess, as with my T-Mobile N1, it idled wayy better, than this CDMA phone. Is there a way to put it on 1x instead of having it always on 3g? There isnt a setting to uncheck, and you cant get in *#*#4636#*#* on CDMA. I tried that immediately after unboxing to get off 3g when I wasnt using net apps, and usually that gave better signal on GSM, saving battery.
Check out my interactive battery test on my N1 that I did, the interactive setting eventually fell out of favor because it ramps up to the max... instead of ramping up accordingly like OnDemand, and not too slowly like Conservative. Again, why does Fascinate use conservative?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7370179 thats my Interactive Governor Battery Test on my N1 I did in the summer time...
I just wanted to start this thread so we can get a consensus on what works best, and for charging this battery. I used to charge my N1 an extra 1.5 hrs with it off after android says it was at 100. That way it idled on 100 instead of immediate drain. An extra 3 or so hours of battery life if you use it right.
CPU governors control exactly how the CPU scales between your "max" and "min" set frequencies. Most kernels have "ondemand" and "performance." The availability
********I want to be able to choose between ondemand and powersave when my battery gets low. On this phone, as I did with the N1.
ondemand - Available in most kernels, and the default governor in most kernels. When the CPU load reaches a certain point (see "up threshold" in Advanced Settings), ondemand will rapidly scale the CPU up to meet demand, then gradually scale the CPU down when it isn't needed.
conservative - Available in some kernels. It is similar to the ondemand governor, but will scale the CPU up more gradually to better fit demand. Conservative provides a less responsive experience than ondemand, but can save battery.
performance - Available in most kernels. It will keep the CPU running at the "max" set value at all times. This is a bit more efficient than simply setting "max" and "min" to the same value and using ondemand because the system will not waste resources scanning for the CPU load. This governor is recommended for stable benchmarking.
powersave - Available in some kernels. It will keep the CPU running at the "min" set value at all times.
userspace- A method for controlling the CPU speed that isn't currently used by SetCPU. For best results, do not use the userspace governor.
akaine2001 said:
What is this nonsense people are saying about 4 or 5 hours with screen on and their phone is still at 20%? GTFO.... Usually I would say about 3 hours of screen on and i'm dead. I can get like 18 hrs or so lightly, and by lightly, I mean only using it for a few text and check email, maybe some fb just to check inbox and such, lightly, using the phone (with my reception).
I know the Fascinate is better hardware, and I switched for the GPU among other reasons (2 of em for free...=P) but, on my nexus, I still find that the interactive governor ramped up to the max freq. (1113Mhz) less. Of course, I am using the 1150 nonvoodoo from geeknik, but I doubt I will make it 4 or 5 hours of screen on time.w
How can you use the phone, with the screen on, and not do anything that uses the battery. I mean, without cyanogen, it was cool that I can make it through my day, easy, close to out of box (getting to superclean dj05 is about 100 less flashes that I made it through with the n1/sense/cyan nightlys/test roms/etc.).
But now I want more, the price I have to pay I guess for the .3 inches of gained screen is not using the phone heavily in order to save battery!? That sucks. I used to hammer my iPhone and I rarely made it through the day, but I hammered it with atleast 4 or 5 hrs of screen on time sometimes, and it would make it atleast 8 hours... that thing would idle wayyyy better on GSM Edge than CDMA I guess, as with my T-Mobile N1, it idled wayy better, than this CDMA phone. Is there a way to put it on 1x instead of having it always on 3g? There isnt a setting to uncheck, and you cant get in *#*#4636#*#* on CDMA. I tried that immediately after unboxing to get off 3g when I wasnt using net apps, and usually that gave better signal on GSM, saving battery.
Check out my interactive battery test on my N1 that I did, the interactive setting eventually fell out of favor because it ramps up to the max... instead of ramping up accordingly like OnDemand, and not too slowly like Conservative. Again, why does Fascinate use conservative?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7370179 thats my Interactive Governor Battery Test on my N1 I did in the summer time...
I just wanted to start this thread so we can get a consensus on what works best, and for charging this battery. I used to charge my N1 an extra 1.5 hrs with it off after android says it was at 100. That way it idled on 100 instead of immediate drain. An extra 3 or so hours of battery life if you use it right.
CPU governors control exactly how the CPU scales between your "max" and "min" set frequencies. Most kernels have "ondemand" and "performance." The availability
********I want to be able to choose between ondemand and powersave when my battery gets low. On this phone, as I did with the N1.
ondemand - Available in most kernels, and the default governor in most kernels. When the CPU load reaches a certain point (see "up threshold" in Advanced Settings), ondemand will rapidly scale the CPU up to meet demand, then gradually scale the CPU down when it isn't needed.
conservative - Available in some kernels. It is similar to the ondemand governor, but will scale the CPU up more gradually to better fit demand. Conservative provides a less responsive experience than ondemand, but can save battery.
performance - Available in most kernels. It will keep the CPU running at the "max" set value at all times. This is a bit more efficient than simply setting "max" and "min" to the same value and using ondemand because the system will not waste resources scanning for the CPU load. This governor is recommended for stable benchmarking.
powersave - Available in some kernels. It will keep the CPU running at the "min" set value at all times.
userspace- A method for controlling the CPU speed that isn't currently used by SetCPU. For best results, do not use the userspace governor.
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Thank Samsung for breaking ondemand on every sgs phone.
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Well what else can you contribute to this thread? Thanks for letting me know that the ondemand is just broken on galaxy s phones. So basically its interactive ... or laggy UI experience. And if you've never used a ondemand kernel, you wouldn't notice the difference but i certainly do. It just takes too long sometimes for it to wake and other things. I have my screen off at 400 mhz but still that is higher than the 256 i was using on the nexus one and it used to wake immediately.
I was reading today and I found that ondemand is pretty much the way to go so i wonder if we could bounty up enough would somebody unbreak it...
akaine2001 said:
Well what else can you contribute to this thread? Thanks for letting me know that the ondemand is just broken on galaxy s phones. So basically its interactive ... or laggy UI experience. And if you've never used a ondemand kernel, you wouldn't notice the difference but i certainly do. It just takes too long sometimes for it to wake and other things. I have my screen off at 400 mhz but still that is higher than the 256 i was using on the nexus one and it used to wake immediately.
I was reading today and I found that ondemand is pretty much the way to go so i wonder if we could bounty up enough would somebody unbreak it...
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You are doing something wrong. Conservative is not choppy on my device and the CPU will always ramp up faster than a human being can judge the response time.
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My phone makes it the entire day with heavy use, this means about 20 - 10 min phone calls one or two lasting 30 min, texting my wife all day at work, checking emails, and angry birds for at least 1 hour a day i love that game but I suck at it lol. Something that I found is that the phone will last almost an hour of being on the phone after it hits 0%. In my pocket it lasted 4 hours at 0% the day before yesterday. I thought maybe this is on purpose so you have more then enough time to make it to a charger. When I first downloaded angry birds I played it for three hours straight with the screen at full brightness (i always keep it at full brightness, looks prettier that way) I know it was three hourse because it was while i was waiting at the hospital I got there a little before 7 and wasnt called until 10. Overall I am very pleased with the battery life of this phone not so much with other aspects but battery life and lag never came into my mind as a complaint for this phone, except with all the stock touchwiz stuff.
As adrynalyne said, CPU's scaling changes faster than human's perception. It's your phone or setting that's having an issue.
4 hours at 0%?
The little graphic samsung gives you in the stock battery is misleading.
In my brief experience with it, I got the following impression.
full battery graphic: you have between 100% and 75% left.
<full battery: 75%-50%
Half battery: 50%-25%
low battery: 25%-15%
empty: 15%-0%
This may not be quite right, but you get the idea. It has been a while, but stock battery is pretty misleading. Samsung reports [more than] half empty [always] as being half full!
Want a more trailer indicator? You can get an accurate battery mod (via a theme for instance) or you can download an app to check current battery % left (i use osmanager - do not leave this app running in the background! )
Assuming your phone lasts 27 hours or so unplugged with no use at all, I would say 4 hours at "zero" battery makes sense.
For my phone, the display uses an average of 3.5x as much power as the rest of its functionality (total of 1/4.5x lifespan in active use vs. pocket)
Swyped w/ XDA App. When in doubt, mumble.
I meant "reliable" not trailer.
I get about 5 hours of screen time with little voice calls on wifi.
I don't know if I am just one of the lucky ones but my phone gets between 30 and 36 hours on a single charge, having even made it to 44 hours on a very rare occasion and that's without setcpu profiles even set.
Wtf... my phone is brand spanking new and I get about 4ish hours of screen time on a full charge, with the lowest brightness + screen filter app set at 50.6% reduced light. I get like 3 hours without screen filter on.... wtf. This is running on conservative or interactive the whole time..... wtf!!! With wifi on and 0 extra screens or Widgets using launcher pro without animations... wtf!!!
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+1... stock battery indicator is not accurate. Get the accurate battery mod.
soba49 said:
4 hours at 0%?
The little graphic samsung gives you in the stock battery is misleading.
In my brief experience with it, I got the following impression.
full battery graphic: you have between 100% and 75% left.
<full battery: 75%-50%
Half battery: 50%-25%
low battery: 25%-15%
empty: 15%-0%
This may not be quite right, but you get the idea. It has been a while, but stock battery is pretty misleading. Samsung reports [more than] half empty [always] as being half full!
Want a more trailer indicator? You can get an accurate battery mod (via a theme for instance) or you can download an app to check current battery % left (i use osmanager - do not leave this app running in the background! )
Assuming your phone lasts 27 hours or so unplugged with no use at all, I would say 4 hours at "zero" battery makes sense.
For my phone, the display uses an average of 3.5x as much power as the rest of its functionality (total of 1/4.5x lifespan in active use vs. pocket)
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Terror_1 said:
I don't know if I am just one of the lucky ones but my phone gets between 30 and 36 hours on a single charge...
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That's because you don't use your phone.
Go play NFS for 3 hours and get back to us.
MoShiBa said:
...screen filter app set at 50.6% reduced light. I get like 3 hours without screen filter on...conservative or interactive the whole time...
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What's the screen filter app? Conservative and interactive? That's SetCPU?
I wouldn't worry about these guys coming in here saying they're getting 2 days of use either. They're not using the phone anywhere near as much as you. I've had 3 of these things and know 2 guys with them. They all got the same battery life. You don't see anyone posting any screenshots, do you?
Me and my gfs fascinate gets about same battery life in our apt and hers is still DI01 and i'm on DJ05... she has jts 11/16 kernel and i have the 12/21 voodoo5 and we get about the same battery life... dependent on how much we use the phone. .... so just use your phone, and charge it as necessary... its better for the type of battery we use anyways in our phones... **************************************************************************************closed.**************************************************************************************
I have been tweaking my G2 ever since I got it and it seems I found a pretty good configuration that gives me awesome battery life of 30 hours on medium light use and stock battery. Now I wonder if I can make it any better.
Ill post my configuration and hope that other will do the same to see if we can squeeze more battery life out of our phones!
CONFIG
SetCPU
screen on - 1000 Max, 122 Min, conservative
screen off - 245 Max, 122 Min, conservative
JuiceDefender/Setting Profiles
wifi on at home and work only
data off when wifi on
data off when screen off, toggle on for 1m every 30m
Home screen
three widgets
beautiful widets @ 4 hr refresh
genie widget @ 4 hr refresh
agenda widget
System
MIUI rom 1.7.22 www.miui.us
streamline5 kernel http://forum.androidspin.com/showthread.php/6555-Streamline5-Nightly-CM7-Test-Kernel-2.6.35.13
darkyy's memory boost script http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=998976
radio 26.0.03.26 with rmk's ril matcher http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1021463
USAGE - medium light
< 10 calls approx 20 min total
< 50 text
< 15 emails
30 min navigation
45 min slacker radio
15-30 min gaming
30 min genie widget + browser on news
SCREEN - @28 HRS
If you can get more, post a screen, your config and usage. Sense hibernate doesnt count!
Pershoots kernel is the ultimate secret. And not to OC past 1.2 cause there is no noticeable difference once you go past that point.
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For me it's called rmk40's virtuous g-lite v1.0.2. lol I regularly get 2~ish days without any special tweaking.
xsteven77x is right too, pershoot's kernel is by far the most efficient and nothing above 1.2 Ghz as the voltage requirements increase a lot i believe.
the secret to great battery life: don't use your phone.
xsteven77x said:
Pershoots kernel is the ultimate secret. And not to OC past 1.2 cause there is no noticeable difference once you go past that point.
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If you are using pershoot's kernal, what governer are you setting it to to max battery life? On demand?
Thanks
ill give pershoot a try
crevis24 said:
If you are using pershoot's kernal, what governer are you setting it to to max battery life? On demand?
Thanks
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His only has on demand, performance, and user space (which I don't even know what that one does). I leave it on demand because performance keeps the CPU ramped up too often for good battery life with no noticeable improvement in actual performance lol.
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Pershoot impressions @250min 1010max:
1) The ondemand has obviously been tweaked by pershoot to be VERY favourable to the 250mhz. This unfortunately makes the phone just very slight make a stutter step before ramping up to do a CPU intensive task.
2) The kernel is great when the phone is not regularily used, but seems to draw more power than Streamline5 when something is actually running but not requiring full CPU time as Streamline does provide other governors.
3) The kernel seems to take its time going into "deep sleep" 1 2 day uptime and only 17 hours of deep sleep.
Will continue the testing but seem like if you use the phone in a "medium light" usage, Streamline seems to be the better choice.
UPDATE: I am sitting at 64% @ 9h with pershoot...
im using a power sucking rom, virtuous unity. i just set my phone up so it will at least last a day with a little bit of battery left over. Here are my settings
Wake min: 245mhz Wake max: 1516mhz Governer:Ondemand
Sleep min: 245mhz sleep max: 356mhz Governer: conservative
also use juice defender with advanced settings and a auto memory killer with system tweaks for optimal battery life. i get about 12 to 13 hours.
evilcuber said:
im using a power sucking rom, virtuous unity. i just set my phone up so it will at least last a day with a little bit of battery left over. Here are my settings
Wake min: 245mhz Wake max: 1516mhz Governer:Ondemand
Sleep min: 245mhz sleep max: 356mhz Governer: conservative
also use juice defender with advanced settings and a auto memory killer with system tweaks for optimal battery life. i get about 12 to 13 hours.
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i noticed you are with rogers as i am too, try "3g only" i had similar setup on a sense rom before and can get a few more hours out of it
i remember with sense i was getting 18 hours max. with the same usage outlined in op
lalalandrus said:
i noticed you are with rogers as i am too, try "3g only" i had similar setup on a sense rom before and can get a few more hours out of it
i remember with sense i was getting 18 hours max. with the same usage outlined in op
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How do you set 3g only? If i set gsm only in settings, i only get edge networks
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evilcuber said:
How do you set 3g only? If i set gsm only in settings, i only get edge networks
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in sense roms, two ways, gsm = 2g that explains why you only get 2g. 3g is wcdma
1) dailer -> *#*#4636#*#* -> phone info -> scroll to btm -> WCDMA ONLY -> reboot
2) menu-> settings -> mobile network settings -> network type selection -> 3g only
seems like i found another way to squeeze more battery life out, i extracted the virtuous rom's o/c daemon and uninstalled setcpu. will report with more data but so far everything is working better than setcpu (might be placebo effect)
I update the new radio 26.10.04.12
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970809
and matched rils
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16489050&postcount=807
and extracted from virtuous unity the performance tweak script for memory from /system/etc/init.d/10-virtuous_performance and the virtuous_oc from /system/xbin
went back to streamline 5 and install daemon tweaker
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16015003&postcount=43194
RESULT = 40 hours of battery! (same usage as first post of not more)
I don't know what's wrong with my battery...
I use CyanogenMod 7.1.0 RC1 with cpu OnDemand 245-1209 MhZ, just a few widgets (tajm, battstatt, desktop visualizer), no wlan and average usage. With this setup some people reported they got a battery life of 16-18 hours. I have to charge after 8 hours...with a brand new stock battery :/
lalalandrus said:
USAGE - medium light
< 10 calls approx 20 min total
< 50 text
< 15 emails
30 min navigation
45 min slacker radio
15-30 min gaming
30 min genie widget + browser on news
SCREEN - @28 HRS
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In your screenshot, "Display" shows as only 1%. In my experience, unless you never actually turn on the screen, the display will tend to be the biggest power consumer. What brightness level do you have it set to? Can you please tap on "Display" and post a screenshot of that? I want to see how long your screen has been on during those 28 hours.
Even at the dimmest setting, an idle CPU @ 245 MHz, and in airplane mode, my phone draws 90 mA. About 60 mA of that is the display and G sensor. At full brightness, the phone draws a total of 220 mA, or 190 mA for the display.
On a stock 1300 mAh battery, 16% remaining is 208 mAh, meaning 1092 mAh has been consumed. 1% of that is about 11 mAh. At minimum brightness, that will run the display for 11 minutes (11 mAh / 60 mA = 0.183 h). At maximum brightness, only 3.5 minutes.
It looks like you had the display on for at least 90 minutes (only nav, gaming, browser), which means your display is only drawing about 7.3 mA, which I do not believe is possible, given the LCD panel in the DZ. That works out to only 27 mW (at 3.7 volts), which is roughly one-tenth the power draw of similar displays where I could find the specs.
So are you just leaving the screen turned off the whole time?
Longest time off charger for me is 2 days and 7 hours. My secret? MIUI with 1800mAh battery. 'Nuff said.
How long battery life do the people with those giant 3600mah batterys have? Just wonderin
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Pershoot sounds intresting.
How can I backup my current kernel just in case? NAND backup?
taob said:
In your screenshot, "Display" shows as only 1%. In my experience, unless you never actually turn on the screen, the display will tend to be the biggest power consumer. What brightness level do you have it set to? Can you please tap on "Display" and post a screenshot of that? I want to see how long your screen has been on during those 28 hours.
So are you just leaving the screen turned off the whole time?
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most battery life brags come from people who dont really use their phones...
ill see if i can get actual screen on time. The point is not to brag rather to find the best config when people actually use their phones. That said 16 hours i was sleeping...