All aboiut OVERCLOCKING thread. - Galaxy S III General

I wonder if we really "need" to overclock this beastly CPU of ours? Hell, even if i underclock to 1Ghz, most task if not all are done fast, really fast. Talking about games? Modern FPS games are driven by both CPU and GPU and thus doesnt require much of horsepower of the CPU. Im confuse why numbers of people here are crying "why they are not stable @ 1.8Ghz"? ... Even if you set it @ 1.8Ghz max, our phone will barely reach this clockspeed because other cores will kick-in in less than maximum speed of the primary core (if im right?) ... Is it just for Benchmark figures? Good figures doesnt equates to good performance and we all know that... Can you really sacrifice "Stability" for the sake of some "Ego-driven faaassssstttt BM"?

I swear, some people are just so dense. Why don't we all drive Honda civics? Do we really need a car with over 200hp and can top out at 150mph when most speed limits are 65mph? Why do we bother eating at expensive restaurants when we could save a ton and eat at mcdonalds? People have preferences...it's what makes the world go 'round. If people want to overclock, let them have it.

lude219 said:
I swear, some people are just so dense. Why don't we all drive Honda civics? Do we really need a car with over 200hp and can top out at 150mph when most speed limits are 65mph? Why do we bother eating at expensive restaurants when we could save a ton and eat at mcdonalds? People have preferences...it's what makes the world go 'round. If people want to overclock, let them have it.
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Haha good one.
I drive a v8 6.0L lumina SS, my pc is o/c'd from 2.6Ghz to 3.8Ghz Quad core, ram is overclocked to 1700mhz, have crossfired 2 5870s and tested them at 900mhz, my SIII is overclocked to 1800mhz, my LG O3D is oc @ 1350mhz (1ghz original) I guess i like fast things Maybe the OP is just a laid back happy go lucky fella and if everyone is like him we would be all driving steam powered cars and flying in propeller planes

Ok, you got me Guys .. But what pissed me is that this people all points their finger to the Kernel or Dev when they have reboots and heat-ups which is obviously the effect of their Overclocking... i can remmber a post; "damn, why i cant reach 1.8Ghz without random reboot, please fix"...

I actually agree with the op personally and I have been developing on android for four years since the g1, I don't see the need to over clock this phone as it runs really well all of the time,I too had the optimus 3d and that definitely needed overclocking as that was so painstakingly sluggish without it. the only reason I would overclock is for benchmark results other than that its just another drain on the battery for no real world performance gain
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jaytana said:
Ok, you got me Guys .. But what pissed me is that this people all points their finger to the Kernel or Dev when they have reboots and heat-ups which is obviously the effect of their Overclocking... i can remmber a post; "damn, why i cant reach 1.8Ghz without random reboot, please fix"...
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you just can't fix ignorance. if someone doesn't understand the concept and risks of overclocking, let them figure it out. sometimes it irks me to encounter posts like that as well.

androidfanboi said:
I actually agree with the op personally and I have been developing on android for four years since the g1, I don't see the need to over clock this phone as it runs really well all of the time,I too had the optimus 3d and that definitely needed overclocking as that was so painstakingly sluggish without it. the only reason I would overclock is for benchmark results other than that its just another drain on the battery for no real world performance gain
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Off topic: Optimus3D ROM is one of the most poorly optimize in modern Android flagships... I too had one, running it with AOSP is buttery smooth but also have some compromises...

I am sure you are missing the main idea of overclocking. First of all people normally do it to achieve better results in benchmark. But more and more are starting to do it for better performance and so. Overclocking a phone is useful for the first mainly, I doubt that anyone would overclock their phone in order to play games with better fps for instance. The whole idea is bad, there is a large difference between a phone with minimal cooling and a big ass desktop with 50 fans. If we want our devices to last longer we needn't touch them to make them "faster".

When I can overclock to 1.6gh AND under volt to 50mv below the stock voltage for 1.4GHZ it's pretty much a no-brainer
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Desire z processor is not that power

All people calming that desire z processor @800mhz scores better in benchmarks than overlooked snapdragon ,this is not true when Iam on desire z Rom I underclocked my hd2 to 806.4 mhz (same as dz) and I got 1512 score from the first time same as Dz with its perfect GPU , SO OUR CPU PERFORMS BETTER ( you can try it yourself ) Iam not a liar ,I think the improved performance is in THE ROM itself not in the processor
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You have to remember that the benchmarks (quadrant, linpack etc) are all synthetic, like 3dmark back in the day for pc graphics cards. There are so many things that can affect your scores both adversely and positively that they should only be used as a very rough guideline and nothing more. Direct comparisons are all but pointless.
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You have to remember that the benchmarks (quadrant, linpack etc) are all synthetic, like 3dmark back in the day for pc graphics cards. There are so many things that can affect your scores both adversely and positively that they should only be used as a very rough guideline and nothing more. Direct comparisons are all but pointless.
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Iam talking to people who take quadrant as a prove for performance , I know that its results are not accurate
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I think you should use Quadrant Advanced to compare cpu scores, I know I/O scores help our HD2 a lot.
Even software affects quadrant cpu scores so it is not reliable. Quadrant benchmarks h264 decoding performance as part of cpu benchmark and for example having stagefright driver enabled inflates cpu score by double! Disable stagefright and your cpu will score 400 instead of 800. (in quadrant "advanced") if you use better software decoder it will affect cpu score by large amount. And rebenchmarking produces higher results because of caching. Mips calculating benchmarks are better (like the one in setcpu)
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That might be true but the Desire Z/G2 has a co-processor for apps that we don't have.
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psykick5 said:
That might be true but the Desire Z/G2 has a co-processor for apps that we don't have.
what is the coprocessor , desire z have same scorpion core like hd2 only with 45n.m tech
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I'd say it has a better processor... it just got overclocked to 1.4 Ghz.
http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mobile-g2-overclock-gets-even-better-and-released
wow that makes me want it
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I'd say it has a better processor... it just got overclocked to 1.4 Ghz.
http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mobile-g2-overclock-gets-even-better-and-released
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Your battey will say thank you. Your chipset too. This phone is not made for such things. That won't last very long I think. But it is quite impressive, seems to be veeeeery fast
JanssoN said:
Your battey will say thank you. Your chipset too. This phone is not made for such things. That won't last very long I think. But it is quite impressive, seems to be veeeeery fast
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+1.. imagine, a 75% overclock?? i wonder if the carpet has any burn marks on them when he lifts the phone up, or if his face has any burn marks that's why he's not showing it up on the cam.. lol.. because a 75% OC on a very small device where there is not enough room to breathe, the whole phone would be like a big heatsink if used for a period of time.. and i guess that's also the reason why HTC slapped the 800mhz cpu instead of the 1ghz.. i'm our HD2 can achieve such high of an OC, but it wouldn't be adviceable as it would melt/crack the solder joints on the GPU and/or processor of the phone at that kind of heat.. and i believe that the GPU and apllication coprocessor that they're talking about on the G2 is just a marketing ploy to justify it's price tag.. maybe to cope up with the build price since there are moving parts (hinge) and the hard keyboard.. even the guy at the tmobile store told me that the G2 isn't fast at all.. he said it's nothing close to evo or the nexus one as some people and websites claims.. funny when he asked my what kind of phone do i have.. i pulled my HD2 and showed it to him.. he was surprised to see Android on it and asked me if he could play with it.. so i let him.. and after playing with it for a while, he advised me to wait for the new phone device that's supposed to come out before the end of the year.. he even told me that getting a G2 would be the same as downgrading as he feels that my HD2 is way way faster than the G2.. i told him i'm thinking about getting the vibrant because the port for our HD2 is nothing close to being perfect and that it's still running from the SD card.. again he discouraged me and told me to wait for the next phone device to come.. so i guess that's what i will do..
I'm surprised that you were in store and didn't test drive G2 for yourself, are you sure he is sale person?, he didn't sound like one.
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I'm surprised that you were in store and didn't test drive G2 for yourself, are you sure he is sale person?, he didn't sound like one.
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as a matter of fact i did.. that's actually one of the main reason why i went to the store, as i've been reading a lot of good things on G2.. i went there to compare the G2 with the samsung vibrant.. but through the end, i didn't like the G2's performance despite the fact that it's the only phone right now on TMo that supports the HSPA+.. and yes he's a sales person.. i was surprised as well when he told me about the upcoming desire HD.. but that didn't happen until i showed my HD2 to him and let him play with it for a while.. maybe he knows that i'm a phone enthusiast and that i might just end up returning the phone within the 30 days period after playing with the G2.. who knows?? i think the G2 is wayyy overrated.. it performs within it's specs, nothing special..
RobertsDF said:
I'd say it has a better processor... it just got overclocked to 1.4 Ghz.
http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mobile-g2-overclock-gets-even-better-and-released
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Desire Z overclocks to exactly same speeds. Record OC is 1470MHz.
So they are same CPUs, clocked at different speeds. Bigger screen = higher clock to handle bigger screen.
EDIT: Desire Z overclocks to 1.7GHz at 1400mv
EDIT: Desire Z overclocks to 1.9GHz at 1500mv

Anyway the hummingbird will catch up to g2 processor

I know we have gotten to as high as 1.3 ghz but can our processors reach 1.4 or 1.5 ghz I know battery life would suck...but sometimes its cool to not have these other phones kick the crap out of us...haha
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Aye aye aye....
Unless the G2 was running Android 2.1 (which it never has been) it's virtually impossible to compare the two. Ghz mean nothing...
Wait until the Epic is running Froyo and see who needs to catchup to whom.
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I know we have gotten to as high as 1.3 ghz but can our processors reach 1.4 or 1.5 ghz I know battery life would suck...but sometimes its cool to not have these other phones kick the crap out of us...haha
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There was a 1.4ghz kernel but it want very stable. The extra 1ghz ain't much and is not needed unless your worried about how big your phones **** is
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Lol that was a good one.
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Not to mention that not all g2s can even handle over 1ghz, they've got a much weaker gpu and the hummingbird has been successfully rooted up to 1.6ghz, but its nowhere near ready for prime time
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The hummingbird can be clocked to 1.6hz and the gpu can achieve 75+fps on both neocore and nenamark (after having the fps cap removed.)
Is this not enough for you? We are still in 2010...
Team Whiskey has put out a Vibrant kernel (alpha) than can hit 1.6Ghz, and they're working on 1.8 and 2.0. Once they release the code (which should be soon), it shouldn't take long for an Epic version to surface.
Is stability not a problem with these high overclocks? I don't understand how someone can just put out a Xghz kernel for everyone to use. Aren't there hardware limits, ones that will be arbitrary device to device?
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Is stability not a problem with these high overclocks? I don't understand how someone can just put out a Xghz kernel for everyone to use. Aren't there hardware limits, ones that will be arbitrary device to device?
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Pretty much. Not everyone's phone can overclock. Just the luck of the draw.
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Pretty much. Not everyone's phone can overclock. Just the luck of the draw.
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Not unlike desktop CPU overclocking then.
Well yes and no...every one can be overclocked...it boils down to how much..and how well of an over-clocker a chip is..then obviously it boils down to manufacture quality aka luck of the draw.
For example...the 1st gen snapdragon is a sub par overclocker...while the 550mhz chip in the original droid is an awesome overclocker....
It kinda boils down to the manufacturer limiting the frequency to a certain amount..sometimes for stability..but often times to charge you extra for more mhz...Intel has been doing it for years selling the same chip in 3 different clocks when in reality it is exactly the same chip.
I mean if samsung wanted to they could have easily released it at 1.3ghz..they just had no reason to...
just wait till the Epic is running 2.2 and u will see who the real winner is
the biggest issues for smartphone ocing are heat n battery, cuz unlike a desktop were u can keep uping the volts n if it gets to hot just add more cooling, a smartphone is all passive so you cant go much above stock voltage or it'll melt, plus wht good is 2ghz if u can only run it for an hour b4 ur battery dies
So then why is it such a big deal to make a ROM capable of a high clock? Someone could make a 5ghz ROM, but it would never work. If Hummingbird CAN go to 1.8ghz, I don't see why the current overclocked kernel's don't already reflect that.
In other words, I think we shouldn't hope for much over 1.2ghz, which is already pretty good.
Any stability testing programs for Android? Or is everyone saying "no crash = must be stable"?

[Q] Benchmark extremely low?

No matter how i try i usually get 12k on AnTuTu
my highest was 14k
Im lower than HoX and in the chart Nexus 4 shows 18k...
Anyone knows why mine is that much lower?
Is this a defect or what?
Some guy says ignore it benchmarks mean nothing but its not like im just a little bit lower...
It is 4-6k difference :S
Isn't that strange considering other people with the same device score 18k?
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No matter how i try i usually get 12k on AnTuTu
my highest was 14k
Im lower than HoX and in the chart Nexus 4 shows 18k...
Anyone knows why mine is that much lower?
Is this a defect or what?
Some guy says ignore it benchmarks mean nothing but its not like im just a little bit lower...
It is 4-6k difference :S
Isn't that strange considering other people with the same device score 18k?
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Is your phone laging, running slower other then the benchmarks? Also we need more info like what kernel/rom are you running.
What ROM/kernel are you running, what temperature was your phone at? Is there any apps running in background?
If a freshly installed stock ROM, with only AnTuTu installed, and you score 30% less than other Nexus 4 in benchmarking, then yes, there is a reason to worry about
Edit: for the record, I tried AnTuTu when I just got my N4, and always scored lower than their reference N4.
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I tried on these setups:
Stock with stock kernel
Stock with faux kernel
AOKP with included kernel
i just tried again with a fresh install of stock and scored 14,5k
well its still 3,5k difference what can I do about that any idea?
edit: basically what im worried about is that the only scores i see around my score are people with severely underclocked devices (600 MHz, 700 MHz)
seems like im the only one :S
Benchmarks mean nothing. Don't bother looking at them.
zephiK said:
Benchmarks mean nothing. Don't bother looking at them.
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if they dont mean anything then why do they exist?
I'm not worried about scoring low, I'm worried about scoring considerably lower than the exact same device.
There must somehow be a reason for it I guess?
Meh nvm I'm just sad that mine is possibly the weakest Nexus 4 on the planet get only 18 fps in that lighning 3d test with the 2 characters fighting...
e: please close this thread it was a stupid question to ask I guess I'm sorry
OP:
I am sorry to hear your frustration. Did you check your CPU binning yet? I can't recall how my phone perform on the AnTuTu test, but maybe you can try to measure fps when you play *actual* game?
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Benchmarks mean nothing. Don't bother looking at them.
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Even Chainfire makes benchmark app. I would love to see how you tell Chainfire that his app means nothing. That would make a really interesting conversation with lots of good stuffs to learn
From my point of view, benchmark does not tell real world performance, however it is a wildly used, totally valid tool to compare *hardware* performance. After all, benchmarking (or hardware profilling, to be precise) is what separate a 1.2GHz CPU from a 1.5GHz CPU of identical architecture, isn't it? I'll take the 1.5GHz one even if it means nothing from your point of view
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I always get around mid to high 17k, sometimes 18... bone stock... Your situation is interesting to say the least...
I see the note II with 24k despite the fact it has quad A9s... This is why you should ignore the benchmarks.
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Sounds like you may be thermal throttling. As a test, out your phone in a zip lock bag in the freezer for 10 minutes and then repeat the benchmark.
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Sounds like you may be thermal throttling. As a test, out your phone in a zip lock bag in the freezer for 10 minutes and then repeat the benchmark.
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wow i knew of thermal throttling but didn't think it kicks in in only 1 benchmark!
yes thats it! i tried the benchmark while putting the phone on a very cool surface (glass desk)
and it scored 17k the 1k difference left is redundant i think^^
KyraOfFire said:
OP:
I am sorry to hear your frustration. Did you check your CPU binning yet? I can't recall how my phone perform on the AnTuTu test, but maybe you can try to measure fps when you play *actual* game?
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i don't usually do gaming but i tried dead trigger just for testing
it does have some fps drops sometimes but it is totally playable
but wow now i know this device can get EXTREMELY hot, good thing im not a gamer cause i like the feeling of cold class^^
well thanks all guess its normal then!

[Q] safe gpu and cpu voltages!?

Hello i have been searching but cant find the max safe voltages for the CPU or GPU thanks if you can link me or help
Every device is different, there is no voltage that is perfect for every device.
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FitAmp said:
Every device is different, there is no voltage that is perfect for every device.
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I know that, thanks for responding. I mean the nvidia specific safe voltage chart so i don't fry my device when overclocking like i did before
Nexus7<3 said:
I know that, thanks for responding. I mean the nvidia specific safe voltage chart so i don't fry my device when overclocking like i did before
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That is called Stock behavior.
What, you think that Nvidia/Google/Asus sat around in a meeting and said to each other,
"Hey, look, we really could run this thing at 200% of our current maximums without any risks at all, but let's not do that because this tablet market isn't very competitive and nobody will care if our performance is crappy compared to other devices. Let's decide to operate it at only one-half or one-third of it's safe capabilities - for no apparent reason whatsoever - just so we can."
Just let everything as it is on default bro
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That is called Stock behavior.
What, you think that Nvidia/Google/Asus sat around in a meeting and said to each other,
"Hey, look, we really could run this thing at 200% of our current maximums without any risks at all, but let's not do that because this tablet market isn't very competitive and nobody will care if our performance is crappy compared to other devices. Let's decide to operate it at only one-half or one-third of it's safe capabilities - for no apparent reason whatsoever - just so we can."
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Dude there is a "/official nividia voltage chart for tegra 3 somewhere all Tue devas talk about one." Thanks for answering. Yeah they could actually look at the new tegra 3 game console it is at 2.3 GHz and also the one in nexus 7 is under clocked to 1.3 to conserve battery life as it is vey stable to 1.5/1.6 ghZ
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Just let everything as it is on default bro
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There is no default for the gpu on m kernel. Over clocking while theoredicly killing your prossesor faster actually can add life to our tablets becuase they will be able to run more recent things when tegra 3 becomes obsolete and we get better games and a newer os in a few major updates. I benchmark in 3dmark a good 3xs stock when in the 600mhz GPU range and 1.7 prossesor clock so i know this will help us run recent stiff. Just wanted to know is there is a nvidia specific """"chart"""" of some kind or manufacturer's guide to safe voltages and clock speed as some dev said" the voltages are high although within nvidia limits" do you know the limits is what I'm asking...
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That is called Stock behavior.
What, you think that Nvidia/Google/Asus sat around in a meeting and said to each other,
"Hey, look, we really could run this thing at 200% of our current maximums without any risks at all, but let's not do that because this tablet market isn't very competitive and nobody will care if our performance is crappy compared to other devices. Let's decide to operate it at only one-half or one-third of it's safe capabilities - for no apparent reason whatsoever - just so we can."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
Not saying this is the case specifically for the N7, but there are many corporations out there who would do this type of thing (*cough* intel *cough*).
The game console nvidia shield has an tegra 4i which is far more powerful and can be clocked very high, theres no tegra 3 game console.
Safe OC goes up to 1.5 GHz, but look at one x+ still stable @1.7 ghz and 520 mhz gpu.
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Dude there is a "/official nividia voltage chart for tegra 3 somewhere all Tue devas talk about one." Thanks for answering. Yeah they could actually look at the new tegra 3 game console it is at 2.3 GHz and also the one in nexus 7 is under clocked to 1.3 to conserve battery life as it is vey stable to 1.5/1.6 ghZ
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All semi houses sell their parts in different speed bins, and a price premium is demanded for the high performance bins. So the OEM gets to decide what the performance range will be - constrained by the price target of their design. The fact that a 2.3Ghz Tegra3 speed bin exists does not mean that all parts have that capability.
In any event the "voltage table" you are looking for is published in the stock kernel source code.
The N7, priced @ $200 never was a premium product. A damn fine value for the money, though IMO.
Hard to believe in the planned obsolescence hypothesis (in this case), as it appears that Google is selling the N7 at a loss. Usually planned obsolescence occurs hand-in-hand with a profit motive.
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All semi houses sell their parts in different speed bins, and a price premium is demanded for the high performance bins. So the OEM gets to decide what the performance range will be - constrained by the price target of their design. The fact that a 2.3Ghz Tegra3 speed bin exists does not mean that all parts have that capability.
In any event the "voltage table" you are looking for is published in the stock kernel source code.
The N7, priced @ $200 never was a premium product. A damn fine value for the money, though IMO.
Hard to believe in the planned obsolescence hypothesis (in this case), as it appears that Google is selling the N7 at a loss. Usually planned obsolescence occurs hand-in-hand with a profit motive.
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Back to the topic.... Could someone help me find the sourse code for tegra 3 so i know and others how to over volt to achieve certain clock speeDs

This phone is a scam.

I bought this phone because of the quad core 1.9Ghz processor, but as a matter of fact, this phone is a quad core 19ghz processor only for 5 or so minutes at a time, then it's just a 1.2Ghz quad core processor.
I don't know what's the reason for this, but I suspect overheating or Scamsung being shady and still cheating the benchmarks.
Anyway, try this: download Antutu Benchmark (or any other benchmark really) and run a full test: if the phone is "fresh" you'll get 29000 or so points. Good. Now run it again, you'll get less, and if you run it again, you'll get even less.
What do you think is the reason for this? This phone is unable to keep it's maximum frequency for more than 5 minutes at a time, and so it underclocks itself to 1.2Ghz (check it with CPU Z or anything, it will never go to 1.9 ever again after you get the lowered score in Antutu) and stays there for hours before it goes back to 1.9 again.
Check out these screenshots, and look at the time I ran the benchmarks. It only took 3 minutes to go from 29000 to 26000, then I ran it 2 more times and it went as low as 22000 with massive performance losses in 3D graphics (OpenGL test runs at around 30-40fps the first time then 15-24, basically half speed).
If this isn't a scam I don't know what it is. They should have advertised this as having a quad core mode for 5 minutes every now and then, or being a real quad core only in winter, because as a matter of fact it runs like a mid tier dual core most of the time. No wonder the UI lags like crazy all the time after you browse the internet a while or play a 3D game.
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This is not scam. This is **** done by samsung in 4.4.2 update. They enabled something called dynamic voltage and frequency scaling.
There is a xposed module to disable it.
See this thread for more info - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2674928
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This is not scam. This is **** done by samsung in 4.4.2 update. They enabled something called dynamic voltage and frequency scaling.
There is a xposed module to disable it.
See this thread for more info - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2674928
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Really now. I need to try this, because right now I'm MAD. I had a similar problem with the Xperia S that happened only when playing and charging at the same time, and you can't believe how angry I was at that.
Since I bought the phone just recently and it was already on KitKat, and I did some googling for i9505 and overheating and all sorts of related keywords and found nothing, I expected this behavior to be pretty much undiscovered. I'll try the exposed module and report back.
Anyway, since you need root, and mods, the phone is still a scam because the average user wil NEVER EVER figure this out on his own. It's advertised as a 1.9Ghz quad core when in reality it never runs at that speed.
I confirm that it was caused by the DVFS. What were they thinking when they implemented such a thing on the phone?
Facepalm.
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Really now. I need to try this, because right now I'm MAD. I had a similar problem with the Xperia S that happened only when playing and charging at the same time, and you can't believe how angry I was at that.
Since I bought the phone just recently and it was already on KitKat, and I did some googling for i9505 and overheating and all sorts of related keywords and found nothing, I expected this behavior to be pretty much undiscovered. I'll try the exposed module and report back.
Anyway, since you need root, and mods, the phone is still a scam because the average user wil NEVER EVER figure this out on his own. It's advertised as a 1.9Ghz quad core when in reality it never runs at that speed.
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1.9 ghz is it's max speed which it does achieve for first few minutes when a game runs and hence it is not a scam. No mobile processor runs at it's max frequency 24/7 or else you would have to keep charging the phone every hour and the phone would probably die in a day due to overheating -_-
Samsung did this to increase battery life but the move backfired
The only way you can do something about is by rooting the mobile which infact will void ur warranty.
Press the thanks button if helped you
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maxsam4 said:
1.9 ghz is it's max speed which it does achieve for first few minutes when a game runs and hence it is not a scam. No mobile processor runs at it's max frequency 24/7 or else you would have to keep charging the phone every hour and the phone would probably die in a day due to overheating -_-
Samsung did this to increase battery life but the move backfired
The only way you can do something about is by rooting the mobile which infact will void ur warranty.
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It should run max speed when needed, of course it won't run at full speed all the times, but if it runs at 1200mhz when I'm running a game or the browser and it's lagging like crazy then there's a problem.
I already rooted, voided my warranty, tripped my know, and fixed this issue with the xposed module the other user recommended.
Bottom line, unless you void your warranty and install user made mods this phone is a scam, because as soon as it get slightly warm it underclocks like crazy causing lag and horrible performances. There should be lawsuits up the ass about this. Users shouldn't accept having their phone arbitrarily underclocked for no reason like this.
What a retard.
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MarkMRL said:
It should run max speed when needed, of course it won't run at full speed all the times, but if it runs at 1200mhz when I'm running a game or the browser and it's lagging like crazy then there's a problem.
I already rooted, voided my warranty, tripped my know, and fixed this issue with the xposed module the other user recommended.
Bottom line, unless you void your warranty and install user made mods this phone is a scam, because as soon as it get slightly warm it underclocks like crazy causing lag and horrible performances. There should be lawsuits up the ass about this. Users shouldn't accept having their phone arbitrarily underclocked for no reason like this.
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Sorry to say but I only play cards game so I am not any concerned or bored by this issue.
I bought this phone as a phone not as a playstation 9.
lolo9393 said:
Sorry to say but I only play cards game so I am not any concerned or bored by this issue.
I bought this phone as a phone not as a playstation 9.
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You bought a 500 bucks, flagship, quad core, 1080p, multimedia focused smartphone to use as a "phone"? Maybe a Nokia 3310 and a deck of cards would have been a better investment for you.
MarkMRL said:
You bought a 500 bucks, flagship, quad core, 1080p, multimedia focused smartphone to use as a "phone"? Maybe a Nokia 3310 and a deck of cards would have been a better investment for you.
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I got all that already from long ago but I wanted to test something more uptodate!!!!
I have decrease the cpu speed to 20 Mhz with success and my battery last more than expected with my old 3310.
I am happy.
Chjeers
PS: I paid 600 Euros not 500 bucks that's a difference!!!!!!
Just stop fighting. Everyone uses his mobile differently and has different needs/expectations -_-
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