Extreme high iowait value makes tablet unusably slow - Acer Iconia A500

Hey everyone,
I have been using my A501 (not rootet, everything stock) quite some time now without any issues. But lately it has become unusably slow.
Logcat gives me lines like:
99% TOTAL: 2% user + 4% kernel + 92% iowait + 0.1% softirq
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Note the extremely high iowait value. Seems like the CPU is busy waiting for IO operations and unable to execute much else.
What might possibly be the cause of this and what can I do about it?
Any ideas?

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Quadrant results very inconsistent, going very lower

Hey guys, just want to check it out what is going wrong with my HD2. From the start, using mattc 1.5 wit zImage 384mb ram was able to hit at least a 1350 easily. Yesterday I switched the zImage to the fullram settings with the graphical fix, i had a quadrant of about 1392. However, since today morning, my quadrant hit super low of 900+, and now I keep getting values about 1000+. How come?
LittleMerc said:
Hey guys, just want to check it out what is going wrong with my HD2. From the start, using mattc 1.5 wit zImage 384mb ram was able to hit at least a 1350 easily. Yesterday I switched the zImage to the fullram settings with the graphical fix, i had a quadrant of about 1392. However, since today morning, my quadrant hit super low of 900+, and now I keep getting values about 1000+. How come?
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it cold be any of these things:
if youre using set cpu it may have enabled a profile with lower cpu speed
you could have something running in the background hogging up recousces
you may have just brought youre phone out of sleep so the cpu may not have scaled up completely yet
or it could be something that has nothing to do with any of these, ust throwing some ideas out there
what he^^^ said.
try disabling profiles, and setting 'main' governor to 'performance, in setcpu
this should illiminate low-speed setcpu profiles and prevent the need to run multiple tests to 'rev-up' the cpu.
if you still get low scores you can illiminate setcpu from the equation at look at background apps etc.
(re-enable profiles etc after testing)
LittleMerc said:
Hey guys, just want to check it out what is going wrong with my HD2. From the start, using mattc 1.5 wit zImage 384mb ram was able to hit at least a 1350 easily. Yesterday I switched the zImage to the fullram settings with the graphical fix, i had a quadrant of about 1392. However, since today morning, my quadrant hit super low of 900+, and now I keep getting values about 1000+. How come?
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WOO HOO! Yea, u guyz rock... After disabling the profiles and enable performance in setcpu, i scored 1436! But somehow its weird, cause before this I used to run the quadrant without disabling those settings...
* I just set it to performance mode, I noticed my device heat up very fast... 43.1 C...
LittleMerc said:
WOO HOO! Yea, u guyz rock... After disabling the profiles and enable performance in setcpu, i scored 1436! But somehow its weird, cause before this I used to run the quadrant without disabling those settings...
* I just set it to performance mode, I noticed my device heat up very fast... 43.1 C...
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Yeah probably best not to leave it on performance (constant 998Mhz) all the time.
Although Last night I ran quadrant on 'performance' for half an hour and topped out at 39 C
plus it seemed as if battery life was as good if not better than with 'on demand' setting.
Is it possible that the throttling and switching speeds actually uses more power than leaving a constant speed???
might be something to test long term but while keeping an eye on temperatures.
As for why you got low scores today:
JJbdoggg must have been correct when he said the profiles could be the cause (evidenced by the result you just got).
Now the question is... which profile was activated to give you the low scores? is your battery level below your set threshold?

Undervolting a Xoom - battery results included

I haven't been able to find any info on undervolting the Xoom, so have started this thread in the hope that some may find it beneficial.
What is undervolting?
It basically involves reducing the amount of electrical voltage running through the CPU. It does not affect the speed of the CPU at all, just the amount of power that it uses. The stock configuration of CPUs usually has a fairly high voltage, to cater for the fact that CPUs are not exactly identical.
Why undervolt?
Reduce power consumption, and therefore increase battery life.
Why not undervolt?
Can affect stability, and there is a small risk of damage to your device.
Disclaimer: Undervolting, like overclocking, does have the potential to damage your device. It's very rare, but not unheard of. I've never had a problem, but you may. Good luck, and don't blame me.
My config:
Model: MZ601 Xoom
Kernel: Tiamat Xoom v2.1.0
Undervolting software: SetCPU 2.2.4
My voltages before UV:
MHz mV
216 770
312 770
456 825
608 900
760 975
816 1000
912 1050
1000 1100
1200 1150
1408 1250
1504 1325
1600 1400
1704 1400​
So after doing a bit of testing, I've found that I can lower my voltages noticeably throughout the range, reducing the amount of power my Xoom uses, and prolonging my battery.
My UV voltages:
MHz mV
216 770
312 770
456 775
608 825
760 875
816 925
912 975
1000 1000
1200 1075
1408 1125
1504 1175
1600 1250
1704 1325​​
Notes:
It is not possible to UV any less than 770 mV (with the kernel I'm using anyway).
Given that the mV for the 456 CPU frequency is so similar to 216, I set my minimum clock frequency to 456, which makes the device more responsive.
So, you may want to try these voltages, and see how they work for you.
To test: (Instructions for SetCPU)
Set your min & max speeds to the same frequency, for example 456.
Set the voltage of the 456 frequency to an amount lower that the current amount, for example 775. (It's generally best to adjust your voltage down only 25mv at a time.)
Perform a "Stress Test", for at least about 5 seconds.
If the device locks up or reboots, the mV is too low - try a higher mV.
Once you've found the optimal voltage for that frequency, move onto the next one, for example 608, then 760, etc.
If your device locks up or freezes during testing, you can force a reboot by holding down the Volume Up button, and the Power button.
The voltages I've used above may work for you, or you may have to increase them a little on your device. You may also get better voltages than me - if so, please post your results.
Battery test results
Performed some battery performance testing by doing the following steps:
1. Set the screen to not turn off, and brightness to 10% (screen needs to be on to keep the stress test running, and brightness low to minimise the battery drain of the screen, as that's not what we're testing).
2. Disabled all network connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, Data, GPS) to minimise battery drain by other factors.
3. Closed all other apps, and did not use the Xoom at all during the tests.
4. Charged Xoom to 100%.
5. Set CPU speed to 1504mhz using SetCPU (both min & max frequencies the same for accurate testing).
6. Unplugged the Xoom.
7. Ran "Stress Test" for 2 hours (give or take 20 seconds).
I performed the above steps for both stock voltage, and undervolted voltage. Results as follows:
1. For stock voltage (1325mV on Tiamit Tachi kernel), battery life went down to 62%.
2. For undervolted voltage (1175mV, which is nice & stable for me), battery life went down to 72%.
Findings:
I was expecting battery savings, but not quite this much.
Standard voltage (at 1504mhz) at this CPU load, drains at about 19% per hour.
UV voltage at this CPU load, drains at about 14% per hour.
Standard voltage at this CPU load, the Xoom would drain battery entirely after about 5.26 hours.
UV voltage at this CPU load, the Xoom would drain battery entirely after about 7.14 hours.
In addition to the battery savings, the Xoom was only slightly warm after the UV tests, but very warm after the standard voltage tests. (Standard voltage test was performed first.)
Note: For general usage (email, browsing, basic apps & widgets), the CPU is not as heavily used. But in situations where the CPU is heavily used (such as intensive games), these results show there is significant potential for battery savings.
super nice tips. Tq very much
126-608 -175
Others -150
This is my settings... no prob at all.
Would I use setcpu app or just use the Moray(in settings) or does it matter
rayhodge02 said:
Would I use setcpu app or just use the Moray(in settings) or does it matter
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Not sure what the "Moray" is, but any tool capable of undervolting should be ok. I like and use SetCPU, but I've tried other tools on other devices in the past, and they did similar things.
nobody wants to share their result after trying?
Very good job, I try
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pls share ur best result
I try your results and they're unstable in function off the useful task, exemple impossible to play simple games.
That's all right just for basic tasks like navigation, music ...
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Hmm, your stress testing seems inaccurate.
I used your values and did a stress test at each frequency for around 10 seconds. No problem. But my xoom restarted just 5 mins later while I was surfing the net.
So I increased each frequency by 25-50 and it stayed stable since then.
for me i just underclock my xoom to 912mhz. it is almost as fast as 1ghz. and i save battery alot.
Gregus59 said:
I try your results and they're unstable in function off the useful task, exemple impossible to play simple games.
That's all right just for basic tasks like navigation, music ...
Sent from my Xoom using xda premium
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Try bumping up the voltages a little bit at a time, until you find a stable setting. The settings I listed are what are stable for my Xoom (even intensive 3D games), but CPUs vary. What I get, others may not, and others may get better than me.
musashiken said:
Hmm, your stress testing seems inaccurate.
I used your values and did a stress test at each frequency for around 10 seconds. No problem. But my xoom restarted just 5 mins later while I was surfing the net.
So I increased each frequency by 25-50 and it stayed stable since then.
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They're not 100%. The longer you stress test, the more likely the CPU is stable, but 10 seconds gives a general idea. If unstable, just do as you did, and increase by 25mv or so.
omnia1994 said:
126-608 -175
Others -150
This is my settings... no prob at all.
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Can you confirm your mV values? -175 sounds like a big saving. Surely your mV is not less than the minimum 770?
What kernel are you using?
do some proper tests to establish how much extra time you will get from a fully charged batt.
i would think its perhaps a tiny bit at most...
the screen would take a huge amount of the batt, the processor would use only a small percentage, so surely cutting a small fraction off a couple of steppings is fairly pointless?
baron von bubba said:
do some proper tests to establish how much extra time you will get from a fully charged batt.
i would think its perhaps a tiny bit at most...
the screen would take a huge amount of the batt, the processor would use only a small percentage, so surely cutting a small fraction off a couple of steppings is fairly pointless?
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1. It depends what you're using the device for. Games, for example, can use a lot of CPU, so undervolting in this instance, will definitely use noticeably less battery.
2. If CPU voltage throughput didn't make any difference, we'd all just run our devices at 1700mhz all the time.
3. With undervolting, I can run my Xoom at the same voltage at 456mhz, as it run at 216mhz. This means I set my minimum frequency to 456 instead, and for the same minimum battery consumption, my device is noticeably smoother.
If you want to know how much extra time you will get from a fully charged battery, YOU do some tests.
lindsaytheflint said:
Can you confirm your mV values? -175 sounds like a big saving. Surely your mV is not less than the minimum 770?
What kernel are you using?
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Yes i m sure. Has been using these settings till now.. no prob at all. Using tiamat stock gpu kernal with moray rom
i agree that during low intensity operation the power savings are probably nearly negligible, but during CPU-intense usage it could save a bit.
I myself am not willing to leave my Xoom on full bore for a series of tests lasting 7-10 hours each just to quantify how much power undervolting can save under super extraordinary circumstances.
But even if the energy savings is an arguable benefit, the reduction in CPU temperature is not. That alone makes this worth doing, IMO.
Agree.. after setting it my xoom now has lower temp when playing it

1704 OC, 6308 Quadrant Score :)

Guys, check out the new kernel here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1870259
It is written for the N8000 but I have run it on my 8013 without issues. The prior version of this caused flaky wifi but so far the newer version has been stable for me. If you do get a wifi crash, just turn wifi off then back on and it will reconnect easily. Up to you whether than small inconvenience is worth it for the extra speed.
Was able to use SetCPU to OC my SGN10.1 to 1704 at Performance and run some tests. Nailed a 6308 quadrant first try - wow!!! I have my SDcard OC'd to 4096 as well. Remember to always uncheck "Set at Boot" in SetCPU when testing out new speeds. You don't want to get stuck in a bootloop if you push things too far.
** One point. I found that OC to 1600 crashed my machine. Don't know why (dev bumped voltage to 1425 mv at 1704 - that's probably why), but for me anyway, 1704 seems stable for now.
I take no credit for this work (this is brieuwers doing) - simply passing the word along and letting 8013 owners no that, at least so far it has not melted my rig. Please do not thank me. Just passing along the word.
P.S., I got one bootloop after flashing with ODIN but then it booted fine.
** As always, if you brick your rig it's on you.
UPDATE - This is about 15% faster now and it feels it.
mitchellvii said:
UPDATE - This is about 15% faster now and it feels it.
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Does that mean it's 15% warmer?
TonyBigs said:
Does that mean it's 15% warmer?
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Honestly haven't noticed any heat increase.
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk 2
Battery life reduction?
TheWerewolf said:
Battery life reduction?
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Not that I've noticed but I typically use my tablet in my office where it is plugged in so hard to tell.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2
there will be a battery life decrease when using the tablet constantly at 100% cpu usage. bumping the voltage guarantees that. as for how much that is i can't tell you but under my normal use my tablet doesn't run full throttle all the time so the extra drain is negligible.
madsquabbles said:
there will be a battery life decrease when using the tablet constantly at 100% cpu usage. bumping the voltage guarantees that. as for how much that is i can't tell you but under my normal use my tablet doesn't run full throttle all the time so the extra drain is negligible.
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What one has to wonder is does the very act of the cpu constantly throttling up and down and measuring what speed is best actually burn more fuel than just remaining at a high constant overclock? Think of it as city stop and go driving vs cruising on the highway.
If we are talking hours of difference then you have a point. But if we are just talking an extra 20 to 30 minutes of battery I would rather just have the speed. YMMV.
mitchellvii said:
What one has to wonder is does the very act of the cpu constantly throttling up and down and measuring what speed is best actually burn more fuel than just remaining at a high constant overclock? Think of it as city stop and go driving vs cruising on the highway.
If we are talking hours of difference then you have a point. But if we are just talking an extra 20 to 30 minutes of battery I would rather just have the speed. YMMV.
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Well yeah,.going.faster means finishing quicker but generally you can expect higher levels of inefficiency at higher rigor... my somewhat educated opinion, without tossing around numbers, is that he effect on the battery life should be minimal.
Theres also the fact that with a 10 inch tablet, the screen takes up a clear majority of the current.. the processor, even while at 100% still pales in comparison.. and the processor is.not often at 100%.. you dont really flash the screen.on and off, you usually have it on for a block of time.. processor only really works during tasks and then idles.
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will underclock provide realy more battery and reduce heat ?

hy there,
im on latest sokp rom on my g2 (d802)
i want to get more juice from my battery, so I setup my core setings at 1036 mhz max and minimum 300 mhz.
wil this provide me a lot off battery in real life and will it also reduce heat ? even if i watch hd movie or play graphical games
In theory yes it should but not as much as you think cause it will be offset because it will have to keep a higher frequency for a higher period of time. Temperature should be reduced a lot but keep in mind games will lag if they need the extra power
drivenby said:
In theory yes it should but not as much as you think cause it will be offset because it will have to keep a higher frequency for a higher period of time. Temperature should be reduced a lot but keep in mind games will lag if they need the extra power
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hmm, well after i underclocked i played asphalt 8 for like 20 mins and game performance did not changed significantly. and i feel that the phone is now cooler then before when multitasking stuff.
is there also another way that can realy increase battery life besides underclocking.
abati said:
hmm, well after i underclocked i played asphalt 8 for like 20 mins and game performance did not changed significantly. and i feel that the phone is now cooler then before when multitasking stuff.
is there also another way that can realy increase battery life besides underclocking.
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you also can try custom governors
Hey there, you may be suffering a placebo effect, it can give you a little extra juice, but in my opinion you get most of your battery with these 4:
1. Reduce timeout to 15sec.
2. Adjust screen brightness to be as low as possible (lux helps with this)
3. Eliminate vibrations of any kind (haptic feedback, notications that make your phone vibrate ex. whatsapp) and so on...
4. Data (Use Wifi if possible, 2g when you are not using your phone and airplane mode in some cases extend your battery for a lot too)
Don't expect to get more than 30 min of extra use changing your kernel configurations. ALTHOUGH if you are a heavy user (let us say, in this case, a heavy gamer) there are some kernel configurations you should check.
Also remember, if a task takes you 30min but only consumes 1 % per 30 min compared to doing the exact same task in 30seconds consuming the same 1% which one is worth it?
Phones hardware is way above the software we have available at this time, underclocking and undervolting is an option and you won't feel the difference but, as I've stated before, those are not the main issues of the battery drain.
I hope I've helped you out!

best battery rom

What is the best battery rom and your best SOT?
in my experience ; the best battery rom is eui 5.8.019s
I tested miui and battery was very correct in my opinion.
small eui v3 beta its good at the moment.
irfancan18 said:
small eui v3 beta its good at the moment.
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How much sot?
zikam12 said:
How much sot?
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5-5.30. Gaming, social media etc
I am currently using Miui 10 pro global V8.9.20 + Illusion kernel V3 which is giving me 5:30 hrs of screen on time completely bugless.
You can get the Illusion kernel only in the Le 2 Telegram channel posting link for the same you go & download kernel from there.
1. Le 2 telegram channel link for Kernel
https://t.me/LeEco_Le2 (click this link in your phone after installing telegram make an account , use Chrome or Opera browser only other browser don't redirect this link).
2. Miui 10 pro Global for Le 2 link Gdrive
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gbspIBvM3EhBeapluGfZl-UECNB_fEeQ/view
Cannot get illusion kernel.
URL leads to error 500.
Could you share another link please ?
Thanks
Found here :
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=673791459329070680
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How much sot?
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I have never got this much screen on time on the leeco le 2 (SD version) so I just had to share this with somebody... anybody really. Whomever has done better please feel free to share your awesome le 2 battery life with smallEUI, stock,or any other rom (doubtful).
So I just got 8 hours and 30 minutes of sot running smallEUI version 3 with illusion kernel v2.5. (Note: I used v2.5 because v3 uses lazy plug for CPU hot plugging which IMHO has far more battery drain than the stock Qualcomm core control) but I digress...
Anyways, I am a heavy gamer and frequently play real racing 3 for more than 1.5 hours in some days Today I decided to cut back and only played it for 25 minutes.This reduced gaming time enabled me to subject my phone to a more mixed use pattern. When I started I wasn't even looking to break any screen on time records but at around 21% battery remaining, I was at 7 hours SOT so I decided to keep using the phone normally until I ran it down to empty.
Here's some background to this achievement...
First off, I don't run anything on stock settings. I use a slimmed down EUI rom, a custom kernel to boot, and minor tweaks to the build.prop. I have done major tweaks to the custom kernel, use greenify in elevated mode, and block the recommended wakelocks on kernel adiutor app. I have also improved thermal thresholds to minimize throttling. When CPU thermal throttles, it leads to more power consumption because it has to stay on longer and use more CPU cycles to finish tasks that it could have completed much faster with high clock speed at the expense of negligible heating. I looked at the stock smallEUI thermal config and was shocked to find that the CPU starts throttling when it reaches temperatures as low as 38 degrees Celsius. (That's too low). The big cores are allowed to hot plug at a measly 40 degrees and at 42 degrees the system is allowed to turn off three of them. Only CPU 4, which is the first big core that controls the other 3 is exempted from being turned off due to this insanely low threshold. However, it doesn't escape the overall thermal tolerance which is set at 38-70 degrees. At which point, it will be doing just 883MHz before getting completely shut down! We all know (I hope we do) that big cores are generally more efficient at higher clock speed but someone must have missed the memo here. (Big cores are set to throttle down to 998MHz at just 50 degrees! Crazy, right). @iaureeel should look into this.
For monitoring, I use better battery stats xda edition, gsam battery monitor, and kernel adiutor overview page. I don't have WiFi so all data comes through 4G (the signal is usually above average to excellent) -- this phone has better reception than any other I've ever used ??
The usage:
Here's a summary of the notable things I did. You may browse the screenshots to see more.
First off: Games...
I played real racing 3 for around 25 minutes
Tried out a newly downloaded (on this same charge cycle) 3D game called war wings -- Around 20 minutes. Spoiler alert: it's awesome?
Starting with full charge and hammering the battery to about 15%, I can play real racing 3 for 4 hours non-stop.
Others:
I watched some YouTube over 4G for 30 minutes
I used brave to browse the web for just over an hour.
Side note: surface flinger showed up on BBS probably because I speeded up scrolling in build.prop. It shouldn't be this active but the power draw is probably not too significant.
How I did it
Recap of what enabled me to have this sot figure:
1. Optimized custom EUI-based ROM (smallEUI)
2. Custom kernel (heavily customizable and tweaked to kingdom come)
3. Greenify
4. Higher thermal tolerance for the CPU (it doesn't even get hot enough to be uncomfortable even at highest load. The plus for the battery here is that the CPU completes tasks much faster and then goes into a quick race to idle (thanks to a tweak I've added to blu_active governor for big cores)
5. No automatic brightness! I often get by with minimum brightness but when I need more I manually bump it up to 10-25%. 50 % is enough for me to comfortably use the phone outside. And not in direct sunlight because who can compete with the sun? Not any phone's display. THAT'S FOR SURE!
6. Cherry-picked build.prop tweaks
7. No Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and other naughty social apps that put your phone in a wakelock chockhold until its precious juice is depleted.
Conclusion:
I have never been one to hunt screen-on-time records (and wasn't in this case) but today has showed me a side of this phone that I didn't know existed. That's really good battery backup. I didn't think it was this easy but leeco did some clever things too in order to make it possible. First is charging the battery to 4.4 volts which increases charge holding capacity to 110% of the reference design. I don't recommend that you charge to 100% because it will be at the expense of battery life span. (Unless leeco uses a military grade battery like they do in the Coolpad cool 1 dual and LeRee le 3).
Another thing that helps is the inclination of EUI towards power saving. SmallEUI is even better because it saves power without hindering user experience. Notifications come on time and there is no stuttering even on stock everything.
Full disclosure: My phone is brand new(ish) at just one month old.
That's all for now... Check out the screenshots. As they say, the proof is in the pudding ?. There's a limit to the number of files I can attach so I've put the rest in a .zip file
twistyplain said:
I have never got this much screen on time on the leeco le 2 (SD version) so I just had to share this with somebody... anybody really. Whomever has done better please feel free to share your awesome le 2 battery life with smallEUI, stock,or any other rom (doubtful).
So I just got 8 hours and 30 minutes of sot running smallEUI version 3 with illusion kernel v2.5. (Note: I used v2.5 because v3 uses lazy plug for CPU hot plugging which IMHO has far more battery drain than the stock Qualcomm core control) but I digress...
Anyways, I am a heavy gamer and frequently play real racing 3 for more than 1.5 hours in some days Today I decided to cut back and only played it for 25 minutes.This reduced gaming time enabled me to subject my phone to a more mixed use pattern. When I started I wasn't even looking to break any screen on time records but at around 21% battery remaining, I was at 7 hours SOT so I decided to keep using the phone normally until I ran it down to empty.
Here's some background to this achievement...
First off, I don't run anything on stock settings. I use a slimmed down EUI rom, a custom kernel to boot, and minor tweaks to the build.prop. I have done major tweaks to the custom kernel, use greenify in elevated mode, and block the recommended wakelocks on kernel adiutor app. I have also improved thermal thresholds to minimize throttling. When CPU thermal throttles, it leads to more power consumption because it has to stay on longer and use more CPU cycles to finish tasks that it could have completed much faster with high clock speed at the expense of negligible heating. I looked at the stock smallEUI thermal config and was shocked to find that the CPU starts throttling when it reaches temperatures as low as 38 degrees Celsius. (That's too low). The big cores are allowed to hot plug at a measly 40 degrees and at 42 degrees the system is allowed to turn off three of them. Only CPU 4, which is the first big core that controls the other 3 is exempted from being turned off due to this insanely low threshold. However, it doesn't escape the overall thermal tolerance which is set at 38-70 degrees. At which point, it will be doing just 883MHz before getting completely shut down! We all know (I hope we do) that big cores are generally more efficient at higher clock speed but someone must have missed the memo here. (Big cores are set to throttle down to 998MHz at just 50 degrees! Crazy, right). @iaureeel should look into this.
For monitoring, I use better battery stats xda edition, gsam battery monitor, and kernel adiutor overview page. I don't have WiFi so all data comes through 4G (the signal is usually above average to excellent) -- this phone has better reception than any other I've ever used ??
The usage:
Here's a summary of the notable things I did. You may browse the screenshots to see more.
First off: Games...
I played real racing 3 for around 25 minutes
Tried out a newly downloaded (on this same charge cycle) 3D game called war wings -- Around 20 minutes. Spoiler alert: it's awesome
Starting with full charge and hammering the battery to about 15%, I can play real racing 3 for 4 hours non-stop.
Others:
I watched some YouTube over 4G for 30 minutes
I used brave to browse the web for just over an hour.
Side note: surface flinger showed up on BBS probably because I speeded up scrolling in build.prop. It shouldn't be this active but the power draw is probably not too significant.
How I did it
Recap of what enabled me to have this sot figure:
1. Optimized custom EUI-based ROM (smallEUI)
2. Custom kernel (heavily customizable and tweaked to kingdom come)
3. Greenify
4. Higher thermal tolerance for the CPU (it doesn't even get hot enough to be uncomfortable even at highest load. The plus for the battery here is that the CPU completes tasks much faster and then goes into a quick race to idle (thanks to a tweak I've added to blu_active governor for big cores)
5. No automatic brightness! I often get by with minimum brightness but when I need more I manually bump it up to 10-25%. 50 % is enough for me to comfortably use the phone outside. And not in direct sunlight because who can compete with the sun? Not any phone's display. THAT'S FOR SURE!
6. Cherry-picked build.prop tweaks
7. No Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and other naughty social apps that put your phone in a wakelock chockhold until its precious juice is depleted.
Conclusion:
I have never been one to hunt screen-on-time records (and wasn't in this case) but today has showed me a side of this phone that I didn't know existed. That's really good battery backup. I didn't think it was this easy but leeco did some clever things too in order to make it possible. First is charging the battery to 4.4 volts which increases charge holding capacity to 110% of the reference design. I don't recommend that you charge to 100% because it will be at the expense of battery life span. (Unless leeco uses a military grade battery like they do in the Coolpad cool 1 dual and LeRee le 3).
Another thing that helps is the inclination of EUI towards power saving. SmallEUI is even better because it saves power without hindering user experience. Notifications come on time and there is no stuttering even on stock everything.
Full disclosure: My phone is brand new(ish) at just one month old.
That's all for now... Check out the screenshots. As they say, the proof is in the pudding . There's a limit to the number of files I can attach so I've put the rest in a .zip file
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could you pls share how did you custimize he kernel ? if you could pls upload your kernel auditor profile or photos.
yoguy said:
could you pls share how did you custimize he kernel ? if you could pls upload your kernel auditor profile or photos.
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Here's my kernel adiutor profile.
yoguy said:
could you pls share how did you custimize he kernel ? if you could pls upload your kernel auditor profile or photos.
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Could you please share me screenshots of ExKM or kernel aduitor and build.prop strings that you added. Btw, I want them for stock eui for 6 hrs SOT
sirnono said:
I tested miui and battery was very correct in my opinion.
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i never see a rom very bad with battery like the miui's rom on le 2 , version after version and this problem is not fixed
,i dont know why
what's version you talking about ?
stock battery life
mid95 said:
in my experience ; the best battery rom is eui 5.8.019s
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i am using it after installing custom rom on my phone but i am not getting same sot as i get before installing custom rom.
plz help me in this case, i locked bootloader of my phone too.
Hi
twistyplain said:
I have never got this much screen on time on the leeco le 2 (SD version) so I just had to share this with somebody... anybody really. Whomever has done better please feel free to share your awesome le 2 battery life with smallEUI, stock,or any other rom (doubtful).
So I just got 8 hours and 30 minutes of sot running smallEUI version 3 with illusion kernel v2.5. (Note: I used v2.5 because v3 uses lazy plug for CPU hot plugging which IMHO has far more battery drain than the stock Qualcomm core control) but I digress...
Anyways, I am a heavy gamer and frequently play real racing 3 for more than 1.5 hours in some days Today I decided to cut back and only played it for 25 minutes.This reduced gaming time enabled me to subject my phone to a more mixed use pattern. When I started I wasn't even looking to break any screen on time records but at around 21% battery remaining, I was at 7 hours SOT so I decided to keep using the phone normally until I ran it down to empty.
Here's some background to this achievement...
First off, I don't run anything on stock settings. I use a slimmed down EUI rom, a custom kernel to boot, and minor tweaks to the build.prop. I have done major tweaks to the custom kernel, use greenify in elevated mode, and block the recommended wakelocks on kernel adiutor app. I have also improved thermal thresholds to minimize throttling. When CPU thermal throttles, it leads to more power consumption because it has to stay on longer and use more CPU cycles to finish tasks that it could have completed much faster with high clock speed at the expense of negligible heating. I looked at the stock smallEUI thermal config and was shocked to find that the CPU starts throttling when it reaches temperatures as low as 38 degrees Celsius. (That's too low). The big cores are allowed to hot plug at a measly 40 degrees and at 42 degrees the system is allowed to turn off three of them. Only CPU 4, which is the first big core that controls the other 3 is exempted from being turned off due to this insanely low threshold. However, it doesn't escape the overall thermal tolerance which is set at 38-70 degrees. At which point, it will be doing just 883MHz before getting completely shut down! We all know (I hope we do) that big cores are generally more efficient at higher clock speed but someone must have missed the memo here. (Big cores are set to throttle down to 998MHz at just 50 degrees! Crazy, right). @iaureeel should look into this.
For monitoring, I use better battery stats xda edition, gsam battery monitor, and kernel adiutor overview page. I don't have WiFi so all data comes through 4G (the signal is usually above average to excellent) -- this phone has better reception than any other I've ever used ??
The usage:
Here's a summary of the notable things I did. You may browse the screenshots to see more.
First off: Games...
I played real racing 3 for around 25 minutes
Tried out a newly downloaded (on this same charge cycle) 3D game called war wings -- Around 20 minutes. Spoiler alert: it's awesome?
Starting with full charge and hammering the battery to about 15%, I can play real racing 3 for 4 hours non-stop.
Others:
I watched some YouTube over 4G for 30 minutes
I used brave to browse the web for just over an hour.
Side note: surface flinger showed up on BBS probably because I speeded up scrolling in build.prop. It shouldn't be this active but the power draw is probably not too significant.
How I did it
Recap of what enabled me to have this sot figure:
1. Optimized custom EUI-based ROM (smallEUI)
2. Custom kernel (heavily customizable and tweaked to kingdom come)
3. Greenify
4. Higher thermal tolerance for the CPU (it doesn't even get hot enough to be uncomfortable even at highest load. The plus for the battery here is that the CPU completes tasks much faster and then goes into a quick race to idle (thanks to a tweak I've added to blu_active governor for big cores)
5. No automatic brightness! I often get by with minimum brightness but when I need more I manually bump it up to 10-25%. 50 % is enough for me to comfortably use the phone outside. And not in direct sunlight because who can compete with the sun? Not any phone's display. THAT'S FOR SURE!
6. Cherry-picked build.prop tweaks
7. No Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and other naughty social apps that put your phone in a wakelock chockhold until its precious juice is depleted.
Conclusion:
I have never been one to hunt screen-on-time records (and wasn't in this case) but today has showed me a side of this phone that I didn't know existed. That's really good battery backup. I didn't think it was this easy but leeco did some clever things too in order to make it possible. First is charging the battery to 4.4 volts which increases charge holding capacity to 110% of the reference design. I don't recommend that you charge to 100% because it will be at the expense of battery life span. (Unless leeco uses a military grade battery like they do in the Coolpad cool 1 dual and LeRee le 3).
Another thing that helps is the inclination of EUI towards power saving. SmallEUI is even better because it saves power without hindering user experience. Notifications come on time and there is no stuttering even on stock everything.
Full disclosure: My phone is brand new(ish) at just one month old.
That's all for now... Check out the screenshots. As they say, the proof is in the pudding ?. There's a limit to the number of files I can attach so I've put the rest in a .zip file
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi. Good day, please how can you help me? I just bought this but it is consuming battery. So I decided to check online for solutions and I found this site. please help me I don't know so much about phone, I just want to enjoy the phone without having to worry about the battery or the high temperature (hot) problem. Thanks.
Hi. Good day, please how can you help me? I just bought this but it is consuming battery. So I decided to check online for solutions and I found this site. please help me I don't know so much about phone, I just want to enjoy the phone without having to worry about the battery or the high temperature (hot) problem. Thanks.
twistyplain said:
I have never got this much screen on time on the leeco le 2 (SD version) so I just had to share this with somebody... anybody really. Whomever has done better please feel free to share your awesome le 2 battery life with smallEUI, stock,or any other rom (doubtful).
So I just got 8 hours and 30 minutes of sot running smallEUI version 3 with illusion kernel v2.5. (Note: I used v2.5 because v3 uses lazy plug for CPU hot plugging which IMHO has far more battery drain than the stock Qualcomm core control) but I digress...
Anyways, I am a heavy gamer and frequently play real racing 3 for more than 1.5 hours in some days Today I decided to cut back and only played it for 25 minutes.This reduced gaming time enabled me to subject my phone to a more mixed use pattern. When I started I wasn't even looking to break any screen on time records but at around 21% battery remaining, I was at 7 hours SOT so I decided to keep using the phone normally until I ran it down to empty.
Here's some background to this achievement...
First off, I don't run anything on stock settings. I use a slimmed down EUI rom, a custom kernel to boot, and minor tweaks to the build.prop. I have done major tweaks to the custom kernel, use greenify in elevated mode, and block the recommended wakelocks on kernel adiutor app. I have also improved thermal thresholds to minimize throttling. When CPU thermal throttles, it leads to more power consumption because it has to stay on longer and use more CPU cycles to finish tasks that it could have completed much faster with high clock speed at the expense of negligible heating. I looked at the stock smallEUI thermal config and was shocked to find that the CPU starts throttling when it reaches temperatures as low as 38 degrees Celsius. (That's too low). The big cores are allowed to hot plug at a measly 40 degrees and at 42 degrees the system is allowed to turn off three of them. Only CPU 4, which is the first big core that controls the other 3 is exempted from being turned off due to this insanely low threshold. However, it doesn't escape the overall thermal tolerance which is set at 38-70 degrees. At which point, it will be doing just 883MHz before getting completely shut down! We all know (I hope we do) that big cores are generally more efficient at higher clock speed but someone must have missed the memo here. (Big cores are set to throttle down to 998MHz at just 50 degrees! Crazy, right). @iaureeel should look into this.
For monitoring, I use better battery stats xda edition, gsam battery monitor, and kernel adiutor overview page. I don't have WiFi so all data comes through 4G (the signal is usually above average to excellent) -- this phone has better reception than any other I've ever used ??
The usage:
Here's a summary of the notable things I did. You may browse the screenshots to see more.
First off: Games...
I played real racing 3 for around 25 minutes
Tried out a newly downloaded (on this same charge cycle) 3D game called war wings -- Around 20 minutes. Spoiler alert: it's awesome?
Starting with full charge and hammering the battery to about 15%, I can play real racing 3 for 4 hours non-stop.
Others:
I watched some YouTube over 4G for 30 minutes
I used brave to browse the web for just over an hour.
Side note: surface flinger showed up on BBS probably because I speeded up scrolling in build.prop. It shouldn't be this active but the power draw is probably not too significant.
How I did it
Recap of what enabled me to have this sot figure:
1. Optimized custom EUI-based ROM (smallEUI)
2. Custom kernel (heavily customizable and tweaked to kingdom come)
3. Greenify
4. Higher thermal tolerance for the CPU (it doesn't even get hot enough to be uncomfortable even at highest load. The plus for the battery here is that the CPU completes tasks much faster and then goes into a quick race to idle (thanks to a tweak I've added to blu_active governor for big cores)
5. No automatic brightness! I often get by with minimum brightness but when I need more I manually bump it up to 10-25%. 50 % is enough for me to comfortably use the phone outside. And not in direct sunlight because who can compete with the sun? Not any phone's display. THAT'S FOR SURE!
6. Cherry-picked build.prop tweaks
7. No Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and other naughty social apps that put your phone in a wakelock chockhold until its precious juice is depleted.
Conclusion:
I have never been one to hunt screen-on-time records (and wasn't in this case) but today has showed me a side of this phone that I didn't know existed. That's really good battery backup. I didn't think it was this easy but leeco did some clever things too in order to make it possible. First is charging the battery to 4.4 volts which increases charge holding capacity to 110% of the reference design. I don't recommend that you charge to 100% because it will be at the expense of battery life span. (Unless leeco uses a military grade battery like they do in the Coolpad cool 1 dual and LeRee le 3).
Another thing that helps is the inclination of EUI towards power saving. SmallEUI is even better because it saves power without hindering user experience. Notifications come on time and there is no stuttering even on stock everything.
Full disclosure: My phone is brand new(ish) at just one month old.
That's all for now... Check out the screenshots. As they say, the proof is in the pudding ?. There's a limit to the number of files I can attach so I've put the rest in a .zip file
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi. Good day, please how can you help me? I just bought this but it is consuming battery. So I decided to check online for solutions and I found this site. please help me I don't know so much about phone, I just want to enjoy the phone without having to worry about the battery or the high temperature (hot) problem. Thanks.
zikam12 said:
What is the best battery rom and your best SOT?
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Hi. Good day, please how can you help me? I just bought this but it is consuming battery. So I decided to check online for solutions and I found this site. please help me I don't know so much about phone, I just want to enjoy the phone without having to worry about the battery or the high temperature (hot) problem. Thanks.
irfancan18 said:
small eui v3 beta its good at the mome
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Hi. Good day, please how can you help me? I just bought this but it is consuming battery. So I decided to check online for solutions and I found this site. please help me I don't know so much about phone, I just want to enjoy the phone without having to worry about the battery or the high temperature (hot) problem. Thanks.
boyoo001 said:
Hi. Good day, please how can you help me? I just bought this but it is consuming battery. So I decided to check online for solutions and I found this site. please help me I don't know so much about phone, I just want to enjoy the phone without having to worry about the battery or the high temperature (hot) problem. Thanks.
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I have THE Answering for You and ALL other Le Membershipper`s...
If you have a Smartphone, You have to CHANGE your Battery between 12 to 18 Month`s. If you are working in Office and you Use the whole Day Wireless Lan? Then, you have to change the Battery between 12 Month`s and every Year behing the change!
And Dubble 3M Band for the Displayframe you have to Buy also. Oh, IF, you want to Change your Battery then you NEED a HOT Gun Pistol with Minimum 110 Degrees! Heat Up the Frameside about 5-10 Millimeters and DON`T Lift it UP in the Roundings of the Edges! They are Breaking!!

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