Alot of people are unaware that set cpu can be used for profiles such as the screen off profile....With this profile you can make quite a positive change to battery life...Included are some pics below to help(You may have to play with gov. settings to see which is better with battery life with screen off).
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So from what I've beed reading setCpu profiles are un-usable on the epic? Id really like to use a screen off profile to save battery but almost every time I do my phone freezes and I have to pull the battery. Is there something that can be done about this?
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not that i've heard. i didnt have these issues using screen off and other profiles until recently. i used them on mixup kernel, baked snack kernel with no problems while others reported them. since switching to phoenix it seems the profiles give me the same issue you have. but if thats what you're using you hsouldnt need profiles as the interactive governor scales down much better (in theory) than conservative. you should also set min to 200 instead of 100. you should still get pretty great battery life without a screen off profile
I am running phoenix 1.49 and epic experience 1.2.04. Been running setCpu at 100-1200 interactive with no issues, just as soon as I enable profiles my phone freezes... so you're saying interactive removes the need for a screen off profile?
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yeah i'm on the same setup and that same thing happens if i enable profiles. in theory you shouldn't "need" screen off profiles with interactive because its better at scaling up and down when needed. it should scale itself down to save battery when phone is not in use and therefore the screen off profile should not be needed.
most governors do this really, but interactive is supposed to be better at it
what are some great overclocking profiles you have set with your setcpu? i tend to get great battery life when my phone screen is off, and i have the processor set just a above the minnimum for both the max and min. i was wondering what yall had in mind for great profiles? i want to have the speed, but dont wont the battery getting too hot either.
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what are some great overclocking profiles you have set with your setcpu? i tend to get great battery life when my phone screen is off, and i have the processor set just a above the minnimum for both the max and min. i was wondering what yall had in mind for great profiles? i want to have the speed, but dont wont the battery getting too hot either.
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This thread is only 2 threads below your thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819377
its apparent you dint even look!
I do realize. I apologize!
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So I have my phone running Ice Glacier 1.1.6 everything is fine but like I see a significant drop in battery from not much use. and it says display is taking most of the battery power. I have auto brightness on and not many widgets.. Any ideas ??
Do as I did change your blacklight settings and don't use auto bright. Then disable some service using 3rd party apps and trust me there is alot of them that you will never use or need so get rid of them from even starting and if it even restarts have it shutdown. I am also using IGv1.1.6 as I flashed it last night and normally comparing it with IGv1.1.5 its better. Also scale your mCPU with SetCPU and when idle underclock it normally its 800mhz on avg load. Don't waste your battery trying to OC it lol just so you can brag about benchmark. Do this 3 you will see improvement, most folks always talk about uptime but we talk about awake time as thats what really matters.
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Do as I did change your blacklight settings and don't use auto bright. Then disable some service using 3rd party apps and trust me there is alot of them that you will never use or need so get rid of them from even starting and if it even restarts have it shutdown. I am also using IGv1.1.6 as I flashed it last night and normally comparing it with IGv1.1.5 its better. Also scale your mCPU with SetCPU and when idle underclock it normally its 800mhz on avg load. Don't waste your battery trying to OC it lol just so you can brag about benchmark. Do this 3 you will see improvement, most folks always talk about uptime but we talk about awake time as thats what really matters.
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i dont understand the SetCPU stuff =/
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Set cpu is a program you can download that allows you to change the speed your cpu runs at. U can even make profiles so say when ur battery reaches a certain level it will under clock the cpu to run at a lower level to increase your battery life. It also allows you to overclock your phone to run faster but at a significant loss to your battery life.
Hope that helps.
Oh set cpu isn't free now but there are others on the market that do the same thing that are.
Kevin
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I have set CPU but I don't understand how to operate it
What most ppl do is set a profile to run at the minimum speed when the phone is turned off to increase batt life..also, use a reasonable on demand setting for all other usage..no need to do crazy overclocking if you dont need the power
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What u got yours set at?
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you mean using setcpu? i have it at 384mhz max powersaver
I am not using one at the moment, had issues with lag on waking up the phone since it takes a little while for Setcpu to undo the profile.
Don't think it makes that much difference anyway since all you are doing is changing the smartass maximum frequency, which it shouldn't be spending much time at anyway unless something is doing background work
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min 122mhz, max 3xxmhz.. interactive
Made a good bit of difference on my desire. Every bit of battery savin is a good thing
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since i use smartass, so not need for any off screen profile
I use On-Demand 460max / 245min and experience no wake lag at all
I'm not really sure that lowering too much the max freq in standby is good, did you really made tests ?
On Milestone, about UC/OC in standby, many had concluded that having the tasks taking more time to do their job (because of reduced freq) is worse than taking less time at higher freq...
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I'm not really sure that lowering too much the max freq in standby is good, did you really made tests ?
On Milestone, about UC/OC in standby, many had concluded that having the tasks taking more time to do their job (because of reduced freq) is worse than taking less time at higher freq...
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I see no noticeable negative affects from my screen off profile and I've been using it with the same settings since January. At 245/245 it was laggy on wake, but 460/245 seems perfect. Everything is fast and snappy and my battery life is very impressive. I check Partial Wake Use in Battery History regularly and there's nothing major going on when screen is off anyway.
nearly got the same. 425/255
Ye i use 460 245 no probs seems good
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Tired of watching your battery getting drained? Each morning you switch on your phone?
What if inatead of getting diacharged your battery gets magically charged ? Doesnt it sounds great xD
We'll now you cannn .... here just folllow the quick easy steps.
1.Purchase/Dowload-
Antutu CPU master app from market or some other source
.check on set on booot box.
2. Open The App and set the freq the way you want...
Than go to profiles..
3.check on set on booot box.
In profiles there'll be an option of Screen Off .
in screen off profile set the min and max freq as lowest as possible .for example - 128mhz in min and max both.
And set the scaling model to ondemand/powersaver mode.
Result: you'll actually be suprised the way it'll automatically
charge/save
your battery overnight or whenever youll keep your phone's screeen off
Enjoyyyyyyyyyyyy.
Dont forget to press THANKS BUTTON IM JUST A NEWBIE WITH THIS WEIRD TRICK ILL ADD MORE IF ILL GET TO KNOW SOME....
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It's very bad profile at my opinion. If you listening to music you'll get freeze and must to reboot the phone sometimes. Just let your phone get to deep sleep and you don't need any profile. You must only close all unused apps before you go to bed and your phone make better profile than min freq of CPU.
And as you said "Charge/save". That happens when your battery is cooling down after big effort. You can recover even 30% at night, thats normal ;]
I'm using screen off profile too but on 245-768 freqs(smartassV2) because im using DSP manager and beats+SRS mod and that addons need some power to work properly ;d
I think this help ;d
Useless thread and WRONG section.
Im using DonutHD rom and it charges overnight approximately 20% in deep sleep i also using doomkernel witho no overclock for unlocked bootloder
music works fine in mine .. :/
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XPERIA X10i 1800mAh battery lasts for over 5 days.
The OP was on the right track, but may not be considering the wider ramifications of the XPERIA X10i.
At best an off screen profile with a governor with modest MHz frequency increase steps and quick decrease is the best you can hope for.
I have a Mugen Power 1800mAh battery in my XPERIA X10i
I am using SetCPU with profiles enabled/configured, a stock GB ROM and DoomKernel v6 and a heavily modified build.prop file.
My default SetCPU profile is:
Max: 1113MHz
Min: 192Mhz
Governor: SmartAssv2
Scheduler: SIO
Using SetCPU I have a Screen Off profile.
Max: 756MHz
Min: 192Mhz
Governor: Powersave
Scheduler: SIO
If you attempt to use a CPU frequency of 128MHz there is every chance your phone will not come out of sleep or it will FC and/or reboot attempting to start a background process.
And here's a picture girls and boys.
The phone was generally left to idle with only modest to light use.
Can you share me your so called heavily modified build.prop?
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Can you share me your so called heavily modified build.prop?
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I can do that.
Even better, I can share a really good[in my view] XPERIA S home launcher install zip with all the XPERIA S(LT26i) apps which got lost in time for those on a stock (or derivative of) XPERIA X10i GB 2.3.3 build
Has the AccuWeather Widget, XPERIA music player with equalizer and apps of the XPERIA S when is was on GB 2.3
XPERIA S apps on stock V2 & BEATS
In the first page of this XPERIA S apps installation page there is the zip install to download, which would then be installed by xRecover.
If you open this zip on a PC and then navigate to /system folder you will see a build.prop file.
You can then just install the build.prop file (or even better the parts you feel have relevance to you) on your XPERIA X10i.
Remember, if you just install this overwriting your old build.prop. you will wipe ALL the settings you had previously in your build.prop file.
It's not a good idea to overwrite your existing build.prop file, so PLEASE use some common sense and at the VERY LEAST have a backup copy of your original build.prop file.
The few build.prop changes will probably have minimal impact on your battery life as even the collapse setting has minimal effect, but I leave it in as I like the look of it. The build.prop setting 'may' improve other part of the overall picture though.
pm.sleep_mode=1
ro.ril.disable.power.collapse=0
I culled all 'boatware' like Facebook, twitter, email.apk, gmail.apk, gtalk and etc until I was down to and beyond the minimum system apps found in DonutHD v2.3
The only background process I have is email (Kaiten mail...cause it has a red mail box), 3G watchdog pro and maybe Google Services, mobile data always disabled unless needed, think I still have WCDMA preferred. Sync as little as possible.
The big battery saver is SetCPU profiles and using specific governors and clocking to appropriately manage CPU use during different work loads.
AND least we forget. I HAVE A GOOD BATTERY!!!! I have a Mugen Power 1800mAh battery which is only one year old.
If you're not able to equal of better my battery life, you'll probably NEVER realize any 'amazing' improvements in line with what I get in pure battery life, if your battery is not up to snuff.
Running at 100% CPU my battery lasts for 3hrs 17mins with 19% battery life left as seen in AnTuTu tester
Mobile phone battery life is just a reflection of the usage of your phone, the quality of your battery and can at best, only be complemented by a few setting and configurations. It's more to do with the applications you're running and poor ROM CPU clock settings than anything. {Me thinks]
All in all she's a pretty big job and that's why it's bit of a black art as no two phones are setup the same once user apps are added and owners are let loose on their phones..
will try
I just want your build.prop file
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