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Best overclock kernel?

I'm still more or less a noob to the whole android customization, even though I tried out a lot of different roms on my saphire (MT3G). I recently upgraded to th MyTouch 4G, and immediately found a root method to install a custom rom. I tried several different roms for this device as well over the, last few weeks, and found that the ICE GLACIER 1.1.6 runs the most stable, and closest to the original. So my question is this: I have also been looking into overclock kernels as of late only to find that all the ones I try with my rom are either incompatible or cause frequent freezes, crashes, or restarts. Is there a kernel out here I have missed that will run smoothly with my rom? I have already looked trough some of the forums here and tried both versions of the faux kernel, and all the rest I have seen that aren't CM specific. Anyone can point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
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Gorilla's OC kernel that TeamSilence put in Ice-Glacier is a very strong and stable OC kernel. if I remember correctly that kernel will go up to 1708 or 1709 if you have SetCPU.

I am using set cpu, but even the kernel that comes with the rom freezes my phone up, or causes force closes and restarts out of the blue.
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powduh09 said:
I am using set cpu, but even the kernel that comes with the rom freezes my phone up, or causes force closes and restarts out of the blue.
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If you're OCing to 1.7GHz, that may not be the kernel's fault. Every CPU is different, some can't overclock as high as others. Here's a nifty thread on the subject.

Very true, just like the MT3G-Slide mine could go well into the 900's before it would lockup but my wife's can only hit 844 any higher and it locks

jdkoren said:
If you're OCing to 1.7GHz, that may not be the kernel's fault. Every CPU is different, some can't overclock as high as others. Here's a nifty thread on the subject.
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Thanks for the info. I love my MT4G as is, so overclocking isn't really a big issue, after reading this article, I am begining to wander if it is even a good idea. I was only curious to find out the problem because I never had such troubles overclocking my saphire (MT3G)
Edit: have reduced settings to 1497600mhz. Going to play around a little bit and see what my best settings are. As of now, this settings have outlasted all others. Thanks to those who responded. And HAIL to the devs who spend their time creating all these roms, so noobs like myself can easily make their devices unique!¡!¡!¡!¡!
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Try Faux's kernel with smartass gov. Set at default to 1.1ghz. He makes great kernels and is very active updating and making them better.
I've been flashing his kernels like crazy. As the famous tiger says......there grrrrrreat!
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Vinsane said:
Try Faux's kernel with smartass gov. Set at default to 1.1ghz. He makes great kernels and is very active updating and making them better.
I've been flashing his kernels like crazy. As the famous tiger says......there grrrrrreat!
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Does the kernel affect battery life given the same clock speed? What I mean is if I am using CM7 RC1 with whatever Kernel it came with... and I change to the Faux kernel and keep the same clock speed will I see diff. battery life?
Are there any kernels that are tuned for better battery life?
Thanks,
RA

Vinsane said:
Try Faux's kernel with smartass gov. Set at default to 1.1ghz. He makes great kernels and is very active updating and making them better.
I've been flashing his kernels like crazy. As the famous tiger says......there grrrrrreat!
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I'm running on the kernel that came with Ice Glacier now, thanks to a hard crash around midnight last night. I've been set at 1497mhz since I restored. No freezes, acceptable battery temps, and blazing response time. Now I only wander if one of the kernels allow a little better fine tuning, because if I try to change this one it only has two more setting, one in the 1600s and then max, both of which cause my phone to go crazy...
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radamo said:
Are there any kernels that are tuned for better battery life?
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I don't know for certain, but I would think it matters more if the kernel is undervolted or not. Assuming the same usage patterns and CPU clock settings/profiles, the kernel that utilizes less voltage would preserve more battery, would it not? (Anyone with experience on the subject wanna chime in?)

jdkoren said:
If you're OCing to 1.7GHz, that may not be the kernel's fault. Every CPU is different, some can't overclock as high as others. Here's a nifty thread on the subject.
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I would like to say thanks for your help on this, been set to 1497mhz for almost 24hrs now with no force closes freezes or out of the blue restarts
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overclocking

I have a droid incredible htc running skyrider rom, i red that i can make an overcloking for increase the speed, i would like to know what i have to do. How to do it. What i need. I search in you tube but i cant find anything for droid incredible. Thanks...

SetCPU is the most common CPU frequency changer.

overclock widget is another alternative
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dyetheskin said:
overclock widget is another alternative
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What is the best setting. I have overclock widget. Thanks.... guys....

so there no kernels to help oc, just use setcpu tor similar apps?
on other phones u need kernels to oc. just curious if this phone i different

The default kernel won't overclock, setcpu can perflock the stock HTC Sense based kernel and allow underclocking for better battery preservation.
You can download chad's incredikernel, lou's kernels or ziggy's for Sense-based kernels that can be overclocked.

I don't know about the widget but on setcpu I have mine set to the highest with performence settings.

wao im confused know,do i need a kernel.thanks...

A lot of kernels have oc capabilities, but you still need SetCPU to tell it what speeds to run at and such. CM7 has this functionality built right into the CM Settings.
It will depend on what ROM you're using, and what kernel you're using.

notwen said:
The default kernel won't overclock, setcpu can perflock the stock HTC Sense based kernel and allow underclocking for better battery preservation.
You can download chad's incredikernel, lou's kernels or ziggy's for Sense-based kernels that can be overclocked.
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will ziggys chad's incredikernel, lou's kernels or ziggy's kernels work for new sense 2.1 or 2.2?

Depending on what version they are. IDK what version the new kernels are but the sense 1 kernels are 2.6.32-17. IMO overclocking an incredible doesnt offer that much of a performance gain, it can only be bumped up by about 150-200mhz as compared to the other devices which can do 300-700mhz.

brando56894 said:
Depending on what version they are. IDK what version the new kernels are but the sense 1 kernels are 2.6.32-17. IMO overclocking an incredible doesnt offer that much of a performance gain, it can only be bumped up by about 150-200mhz as compared to the other devices which can do 300-700mhz.
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no that makes sense, im waiting in the mail for my phone so i dont know what new kernels numbers r, but if there the same they should work

I have a kernel version 2.6.3217-g9a2fc16
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Pithism said:
will ziggys chad's incredikernel, lou's kernels or ziggy's kernels work for new sense 2.1 or 2.2?
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All Froyo-based ROMs should be covered by those three kernel builders. Unfortunately those also are about the only active kernel devs that are supporting Sense-based kernels, the majority are AOSP.

Has anyone thought of tweaking with the voltages on the incredible kernels. I also own a Nook Color and they thought 1.1 was the max for us until dal messed with the voltages and a few other things under the hood. If it gets us gains with running features on newer roms (sense 3.0) it might be worth exploring the possibilities.

dont forget my post please. I need more information, thanks..

CM7 Kernel Recommendations?

Hello all!
Just upgraded my wife from the MyTouch 3G Slide to the G2 as she has to have a keyboard and we were on our 5th replacement Slide. So, as she is not the geek that I am, she will not be constantly flashing new ROMs and such. However, I am going to at least install the latest CM and I am looking for kernel suggestions. I already have root, s-off, new hboot, and all that, I'm just waiting for CM7 to finish downloading.
I started using Android with the G1 and constantly updating Radios, as well as ROMs and I currently use a Samsung Vibrant running a TeamWhiskey ROM. It's stable as anything, I like the theme, and CM7 still has some broken stuff on the Vibrant. I'm glad to see that Eugene recently picked up a G2 as he made some bad ass kernels and ROMs for the Vibrant.
So, let's here those kernel recommendations and why you recommend them.
Thanks!

Well am currently using mexdroidmod and their kernel is pretty awesome because its fast and stable. My best advice is to test the diffrent kernel and read through the tread, see what people say about it. All the kernels I have tried are all awesome so you should try them
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pershoot's kernel. great batt life and OCing

Umaro's kernel has been rock solid for me and has tons of features as well. You can OC all the way to 1.9 Ghz if you so please and it has smartass.

well considering your wife isn't much of a techie.. i say you should go with pershoots kernel because he's always releasing updates and i've never had a problem with any of them. the battery life is excellent if you use the right radio (.17 and .30 have been good to me), but you need to experiment with this though. the phone runs beautifully, just make sure you use superwipe+ to format/wipe so you don't end up with gps issues like many people have had, good luck!

I've run umaro, eugene, pershoot, flippy, pyro, etc etc... aaand I've decided that the provided kernel is pretty much good to go. yeah, there are some little trinkety things with a few of the above kernels that the standard CM7 kernel doesn't support... but honestly, they're worthless to a user who just wants to turn the phone on and have it work.
set her up with the stock kernel @ 245-1017 (I haven't found a reason yet to ditch the ondemand governor, it seems to work best with CM7) and a vanilla gingerbread launcher and she'll be blown away.. that's my $.02

Like said above, CM kernel is great. I've tried most or even all available kernels for CM and finaly decided to stick with original one. It's stable and supports OC (up to 1.5GHz) "out of box", so really, I see no single reason to use the other ones.
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AllWin said:
Like said above, CM kernel is great. I've tried most or even all available kernels for CM and finaly decided to stick with original one. It's stable and supports OC (up to 1.5GHz) "out of box", so really, I see no single reason to use the other ones.
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I'm also thinking about changing the kernal, but only for smartass. Does smartass offer that much of an increase on battery life or anything else? Also, when you OC, do you use SetCPU or just CyanogenMod Settings?

slapshot30 said:
I'm also thinking about changing the kernal, but only for smartass. Does smartass offer that much of an increase on battery life or anything else? Also, when you OC, do you use SetCPU or just CyanogenMod Settings?
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not at all pooping on any of the guys who swear by smartass/other governors, but the change in battery life is almost unnoticable for me.. the change in performance however can be pretty apparent.
here's my problem with "battery saving" governors:
in order to save battery, these governors are supposed to be more intelligent about which frequencies they select once a task is called... well, that's all well and dandy, but the problem is that the majority of battery-hogging apps (ie streaming music/video, gaming, browsing for a long time, being on the phone, etc) are still going to be battery hogs with or without a fancy governor. the governor isn't capable of making an app that needs a lot of processing power run well at a lower frequency, it can only try to be more selective about which frequencies it uses in order to attempt to save battery life.
additionally, most people use their phones like this: phone is idle (ie screen off), and a call arrives. call ends, phone is back to idle. texting a few people, back to idle. playing a game for 15 minutes, back to idle.
is it really logical to assume that these short bursts of activity are going to benefit at all from a fancy shmancy governor? I doubt it.
I still swear by ondemand or interactive (both work well for me) thru built-in settings if possible (ie cyanogen performance settings). second choice would be setcpu with no profiles (unless you're overclocking heavily, then you should at least have a temp warning profile). at this point, screen-off profiles don't do a damn bit of good, because pretty much every kernel we have for the vision is going to scale down during inactivity.

[Q] Only stock kernel works fully w/ Webtop?

I've done a bit of reading and don't seem to be able to identify a kernel that works fully with webtops.
There are 2 current issues:
1. Status bar on webtops do not work with popular kernels
2. CPU speed locks at 1ghz when in webtop
I know for a fact this is an issue with Faux's kernels and it is typically there on Clemsyn's kernels. Are there any kernels out right now that may provide some of the performance and battery life tweaks of Faux's codes w/ a working webtop?
I recently purchased the $50 lapdock and am interested in trying to get everything working. I may even give up Faux kernels to go back to stock =(

I have a stock ROM with Clemsyn's timing tweaked kernel. I have tried webtop with the multimedia dock (not the lapdock...backordered like most others), and I've noticed that both cores peg at the 1.4 GHz max and the phone could heat a small room. Like others have reported, after I quit webtop, the processors are still pegged at 1.4GHz, and almost 100% utilization. I get poor performance after that until I reboot the phone. Not very nice.
The main reason I wanted to go with an alternate kernel is more for UC and UV. Right now I have Battery Saver set to the max, which seems to UC me to 608 MHz most of the time and I don't really see any performance issues. I know stock doesn't give OC and I don't even think it does UV. Don't know about UC.
I haven't paid attention to the status bar issue...I've only used webtop so far just to check it out...but with the lapdock I plan to use it more (coupled with the full Ubuntu mod).

clenynsns uv better than any other lkernal
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You can use kholk's kernel, and i think it works perfectly with webtop
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Edit - Nevermind
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On my lapdock/webtop now and can confirm that everything appears to be working well with Kholk's kernel.
After seeing the suggestion here, I tried it and am both speedy and stable using the 1.5 GHz version with everything undervolted -75. Got some freezes in Webtop if I opened more than a few Firefox tabs when I UVed -100
Glad this kernel is webtop compatible. It helps a pretty good bit. Definitely makes being without MIUI/CM7 more tolerable.

never mind. I am dumb.

The latest faux kernel also works with webtop now.

Best kernel?

Somewhat new to the N7 and I would like to know what are the goods/bads of the kernels out there. I am currently on paranoid (latest) ROM and using the latest stable motley kernel. What kernel are you all rocking and what benefits can you share? Lets hear performance, tweaks, battery life, issues, stable vs experimental status, etc....
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Trinity or faux. I am running faux now, and its an enhanced stock veron. But there is another version wich has 520gpu and higher clock speeds.
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Obviously like roms, the suitability and performance of a kernel are highly opinionated and depend on what you do.
I use Faux's kernels, and I have for a while, because they are stable, and the es version offers good battery life. Faux's kernel, even though clocked at 'only' 1.2GHz for the es version, has very good performance and I have no lag. The gaming fix makes the kernel play significantly better IMO with some apps and games not suited to the tegra 3. With some other kernels I experienced low framerate on the homescreen, not with this one.