Has anyone else noticed this? My phone only goes to 245 mhz for idle speed. Android system info said that the cpu can go as low as 122mhz. I think it would save some battery life right?
yes we can... but you need root acces and setcpu
and you can underclock
PM me if you need more help
i suggest dont do that..
i ever do that, n phone become slowly ..
even to open setting..
it will become slow like symbian, and what ur friends think about it??
maybe they will thinking, android very slow :|
godfadger said:
Has anyone else noticed this? My phone only goes to 245 mhz for idle speed. Android system info said that the cpu can go as low as 122mhz. I think it would save some battery life right?
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what ROM are you using? I'm using racht's floyo 0.15 and when the screen goes off the cpu idles at 122 MHz well.
or maybe you checked cpu freq when screen is on? because it's not 'idle' state.
This sounds interesting - can you guys let me know if you manage to extend battery life with this... and how much by, daily charging is sucky!
I use setcpu with this configuration:
Max: 600000
Min: 122880
Scaling ondemand
check: set on Boot
I also create profile:
Screen Off
Max: 320000
Min: 122880
Scaling ondemand
Related
Hey Guys. I know there are posts about over clocking and that there are threads like this in the other device forums.. BUT
Now that the new CyanogenMOD CM6.1 is out I was wondering what everyone is doing for their SETCPU profiles.
Can it please be time for us to make a thread like this for the Aria?
To start out, I'm confused about the order of my profiles.
(sorry but i don't have screen capture on the aria yet. anyone have a suggestion on what to use, PM me.)
here is what i currently have going on, highest priority first
100) Temp >50"C = 122"F then.. max 600, min 245, ondemand
75) screen off = max 245, min 245, ondemand
50) charging/full = max 864, min 245, ondemand
40) batt < 10% = max 245, min 245, powersave
30) batt < 25% = max 480, min 245, ondemand
20) batt < 50% = max 600, min 245, ondemand
so my biggest concern is if the temp gets too hot.. scale back to the default max of 600mhz.
if the screen is off then i'm not using my phone so slow the roll
if the batt is full or charging and the screen is on then FULL SPEED AHEAD!!!
if the batt is less than 10%, slow down as much as possible
if the batt is less than 25%, take it easy to conserve power
if the batt is less than 50%, bring it back down to the default max of 600mhz
does that make sense?
Check out "screenshot" by Gik Soft, small and simple, shake to take a screenshot.
Your interpretation of the profiles looks fine to me. For screen off, powersave limits the CPU to the minimum speed anyway, so min=max is redundant.
I noticed quite a bit more battery drain when using profiles (because SetCPU is constantly monitoring your device) but results may vary. Personally, I only boost the CPU for games and documents, and SetCPU will typically bump your phone down to minimum when idle anyway (assuming you don't have intensive background apps running).
I noticed the same, using profiles seems to drain my battery faster. So I just manually toggle my clock speeds. If you set to on demand you dont really even need to worry about a screen off profile. And when my battery starts to get low I just scale down the speed. The only time I've ever come close to needing a temp profile was if overclocked to 825 and using my phone intensively while it was charging...i never go over 806 anymore so temp is never a problem.
I can however see profiles being useful if you keep your phone overclocked to the max all the time.
Hello together,
first of all i would say that im completely new to this rooting and flashing stuff so dont be too hard to me. Lets start with my story: last year ive buyed my wildfire and used it for 2 months without rooting it. fast i've seen that it would be much more easier for me if i start rooting and flashing it with a custom ROM. Wildpuzzle was the first ROM i've ever used on this phone and i didn't updated it for a long time because i thought i can do anything bad to my phone. 3 days ago i've felt very bored so i read myself once again through all of the tutorials and FAQs. I decided to search the forum for a new ROM without sense so i picked CyanogenMod 6.1 because i wanted a stable ROM which dont reboot 4 times a day(like my old Wildpuzzle one). Today I wanted to speed um my phone and read through some posts and found out that I can overclock my wildfire with SetCPU. I've never overclocked a phone or a pc so i dont know what setup is good for it or which is not.
And thats my question: HOW should i do this and with what cpu setup(min/max) for a stable working phone.
PS: as i've read through the overclock posts i've found out that my phone is already flashed with a overclocking kernel(2.6.32.21-HCDRJacob)
PPS: i'm excuse myself for my bad english and hope you all can understand what i mean
Depends on your preferences really. For me, on my SetCPU Normal Profile, I have set it as 614 MHz Max and 245 MHz on Min, Interactive Scaling. Apart from that, I have also set the following profiles:
1: Screen Off - Max 352, Min 245
2: Temp >46C - Max 352 Min 245
3: Battery <20% - Max 480 Min 245
I had set the minimum earlier to 122, while it gave me awesome battery life, the phone would hang whenever I got an incoming call / message (CPU too slow to handle it), hence, after several experiments, I have found it to be stable at 245. For Max, you can keep it upto 710 MHz, but, I wont recommend a speed beyond that for 24x7 usage. For short purposes (like playing a game, benchmarking etc.), you can go till 768, or the max your phone is stable at.
Amazingly my set up is nearly identical to 3xeno but my max in normal profile is 691 MHz
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Depends on your preferences really. For me, on my SetCPU Normal Profile, I have set it as 614 MHz Max and 245 MHz on Min, Interactive Scaling. Apart from that, I have also set the following profiles:
1: Screen Off - Max 352, Min 245
2: Temp >46C - Max 352 Min 245
3: Battery <20% - Max 480 Min 245
I had set the minimum earlier to 122, while it gave me awesome battery life, the phone would hang whenever I got an incoming call / message (CPU too slow to handle it), hence, after several experiments, I have found it to be stable at 245. For Max, you can keep it upto 710 MHz, but, I wont recommend a speed beyond that for 24x7 usage. For short purposes (like playing a game, benchmarking etc.), you can go till 768, or the max your phone is stable at.
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so what is exactly the interactive scaling ??
what is the difference between ondemand, userspace, performance, interactive...
while searching for the answer ... i also saw pple tlking about powersave and conservative scaling ... i dont have these options ... :s
Sorry to butt in but since we are on the subject of overclocking etc and I dont want to make another thread. Is that setcpu app from the market any use on my wildfire? its not rooted.
No you need rout access to change frequencies mate.
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Depends on your preferences really. For me, on my SetCPU Normal Profile, I have set it as 614 MHz Max and 245 MHz on Min, Interactive Scaling. Apart from that, I have also set the following profiles:
1: Screen Off - Max 352, Min 245
2: Temp >46C - Max 352 Min 245
3: Battery <20% - Max 480 Min 245
I had set the minimum earlier to 122, while it gave me awesome battery life, the phone would hang whenever I got an incoming call / message (CPU too slow to handle it), hence, after several experiments, I have found it to be stable at 245. For Max, you can keep it upto 710 MHz, but, I wont recommend a speed beyond that for 24x7 usage. For short purposes (like playing a game, benchmarking etc.), you can go till 768, or the max your phone is stable at.
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What, your settings are extractly like me, lol
are you referring to old wildpuzzle 8.0.11, i got freezes with that, but after changing to new wildpuzzle, i have not had one freeze or reboot with settings below.
set on performance
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Depends on your preferences really. For me, on my SetCPU Normal Profile, I have set it as 614 MHz Max and 245 MHz on Min, Interactive Scaling. Apart from that, I have also set the following profiles:
1: Screen Off - Max 352, Min 245
2: Temp >46C - Max 352 Min 245
3: Battery <20% - Max 480 Min 245
I had set the minimum earlier to 122, while it gave me awesome battery life, the phone would hang whenever I got an incoming call / message (CPU too slow to handle it), hence, after several experiments, I have found it to be stable at 245.
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Thank you for sharing this information, I changed mine to this too. Can I ask if you 'Set on Boot' on the main profile? I think you would, but I thought i better check!
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Thank you for sharing this information, I changed mine to this too. Can I ask if you 'Set on Boot' on the main profile? I think you would, but I thought i better check!
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Yes, I do have the 'Set At Boot' option enabled
3xeno said:
Depends on your preferences really. For me, on my SetCPU Normal Profile, I have set it as 614 MHz Max and 245 MHz on Min, Interactive Scaling. Apart from that, I have also set the following profiles:
1: Screen Off - Max 352, Min 245
2: Temp >46C - Max 352 Min 245
3: Battery <20% - Max 480 Min 245
I had set the minimum earlier to 122, while it gave me awesome battery life, the phone would hang whenever I got an incoming call / message (CPU too slow to handle it), hence, after several experiments, I have found it to be stable at 245. For Max, you can keep it upto 710 MHz, but, I wont recommend a speed beyond that for 24x7 usage. For short purposes (like playing a game, benchmarking etc.), you can go till 768, or the max your phone is stable at.
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I usually set my speed to Max 710, Min 480 Ondemand, no profile. I think it's interesting to try your setting. Thanks for sharing.
Does anyone do undervolting here? What kind of settings have you been able to use?
I myself have managed to use the following stable profiles:
I'm using fugumod beta kernel which has different sets of frequencies, in case you're wondering.
Quick guide for anyone wanting to use pimpmycpu
(I offer no warranty if something happens to your phone, but I can assure you, nothing will happen. Worst case scenario is that your phone hangs and you have to reboot it.)
1. Download PimpMyCpu (You must have a kernel that supports undervolting, eg. fugumod)
2. Open it, press on the max MHz frequency you use (for me it is 780mhz, I don't use higher then that)
3. Lower the voltage with 25-50mv steps
- If your phone hangs immediately upon saving, you have reached the max voltage for that frequency and have to use a higher one
- If you succesfully manage to change your voltage, do a stress test or use your phone for a while for eg. gaming
4. When you go to lower MHz (eg. 390MHz) frequencies, I suggest you open SetCPU and from there set the min\max to that frequency. Close and open SetCPU once to see if it hangs. You can also use PimpMyCpu to do this, but I myself use SetCPU. This should be done for all frequencies.
Notice that different phones can get different results, so don't get upset if your phone hangs at voltage X al thought your friend can reach it
Why undervolt?
- It can greatly improve your battery life. Especially if you use a 'screenoff' profile in setcpu. I myself have gained about 10 hours of additional battery life with medium usage.
I ventured into undervolting this week.
The results are simpy amazing. I get about double the battery life, to about 60hrs.
I'm using the standard 2.4b3 kernel with these voltages, from low to high all minus :
125 125 125 150 150
I still need to test more, but haven't taken the time to do it properly. Setting min/max to the same freq is a good tip. Why are you using setcpu for this ? You can do it PMCpu as well, no ?
Your profiles are not displaying though.
Yeah, thanks for pointing that out. Should be displaying now.
And yeah, you can use pimpmycpu for changing frequencies (added that to the guide now) but I personally use setcpu. Mainly cause I have a ScreenOff profile in setcpu for 195 max\156 min and I don't want it to conflict.
After I undervolted my PC for years I just started with my G3. I am using the prereleased FuguMod Ultra Kernel and it's running in conservative profile with 156-1366 MHz.
- for 1366 MHz my deepest working Voltage is -95 (1430 mv).
- for 156 MHz I am currently getting lower and lower. At this time a Stress test with -400 (600 mV) is running (for about 1 minute now).
- When the lowest working Voltage for 156 MHz is found I will analyze one between highest and lowest, and scale all the others equably.
I will post my working settings as soon as I found it.
-400Mv? How did you even get an option to get it that low (Thought PimpMyCpu goes only upto -250Mv. Also for me the stress test in pimpmycpu causes a crash to the program immediately upon trying to use it.
I myself use SmartAss scaling, which seems like a real nice option. Though I'm not entirely sure what's it about.
I'm using 800Mhz with 1125mv, Its stable sofar, but i cant save the Profile, it shows boot settings not saved, when i want to save as boot, It shows Save boot settings? but i cant decide between Yes or No...
can someone help me?
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-400Mv? How did you even get an option to get it that low (Thought PimpMyCpu goes only upto -250Mv.
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If you do undervolting in the latest version of SetCPU you can undervolt by up to 500 mv.
Alright, as promised here are my final settings. Its running smooth without crashes for two days now.
Code:
freq / mV relative/mV absolute
156 / -500 / 500
195 / -500 / 500
260 / -500 / 550
390 / -500 / 550
780 / -500 / 700
975 / -225 / 1275
1170 / -175 / 1350
1366 / -75 / 1450
While searching for the right Voltages I discovered that the Stresstest in SetCPU almost never made the Phone crash - even on Voltages that were really instable. The Phone mostly crashed right at the moment when I switched into the frequency. So I tested the Voltages by switching into the frequency, out again, in again, and so on. If it didn't crash for about a hundred times, I ran a 20 minute stresstest to be sure.
Hello,
I've flashed cyanogenmod 7.1 RC1 and immediately switched to using the smartass governor. However, I've noticed that the apps that can detect CPU speed (like SetCPU or OS Monitor) always detect frequency as 480 MHz. I've set the Max freq to 748 MHz and min to 245 MHz, but whatever I do, the frequency stays at 480 MHz. I've also seen in the messages section of OS Monitor errors about setting to 768000 from 480000, so I guess there is some kind of a problem there.
So is there a problem or does this governor work in a completely different way - if so, how? ;-)
Thanks a lot.
Cheers...
Smartass caps the frequency when screen on to 480 MHz to ensure responsiveness. This also helps with video playback being smooth, as it otherwise will begin to stutter when the frequency is lower than this.
OK, but how does it behave during screen off and battery low scenarios? Does it put the freq to to minimum value which is selected in the freq options of cyanogenmod setup?
I just want to understand if indeed the smartass governor can replace setcpu with profiles using the ondemand governor and keep the battery usage at optimal values.
Thanks...
When screen off smart ass governor sets the minimum CPU frequency to the value you entered (even below 480 which is to conserve the battery).
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I need suggestions to setup good config in SetCPU i have kyrilos rom 7.5 beta and Galaxy 3 phone of course. thanks
There is option to automatically detect optimized setting.You can create profiles and enable them.Setting speed to powersave mode while charging and while screen off saves lot of battery.You can still experiment and see what suits for you.By the way setting some extreme values might affect life of your phone so be careful.
It is strange but in setcpu on my galaxy 3 conservative mod is not working. So ichoose userspase
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Try latest version it works for me.Maybe you can try rebooting phone see if it works then.
Use 400Mhz-800Mhz on demand for battery.
Go to full 1300Mhz for performance but this will drain battery
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I need suggestions to setup good config in SetCPU i have kyrilos rom 7.5 beta and Galaxy 3 phone of course. thanks
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I have g3mod 2.0 OC kernel
My config its
Main 400-800 Mhz Ondemand Set on boot
Profiles
Temp >45°C 200-500 Mhz priority 100 Ondemand
time 2am-6am 83-83 Mhz priority 95 powesave
screen off 83-500 Mhz priority 90 Ondemand
Battery <20% 200-600 Mhz priority 80 Ondemand
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