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[Q] SetCPU vs. Voltage Control, and what are some recommended settings?

My understanding is most people prefer Voltage Control, but SetCPU allows for specific under/overclocking profiles that can increase performance without killing battery life.
If someone could direct me to popular, trusted settings, I'd appreciate it. I'm not a heavy user or power user, so I'm looking for something that just works well. I don't care about benchmarks and things of that nature.
I'm sure this has been discussed, but I was unable to find posts that didn't concern user-specific issues.
Thanks,
Wyatt
EDIT: 53 views and no replies. I guess I'll experiment for myself. Wish me luck!

gnarlynewport said:
EDIT: 53 views and no replies. I guess I'll experiment for myself. Wish me luck!
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That's really all it comes down too...experimenting and finding out what works best on YOUR phone with YOUR configuration...
GOOD LUCK!
ps... have been very stable with OC'd to 1.4
-25 down too 200
-100 on 100
bfq and conservative

I use VControl myself...i like the UI.
For Performance: 100-1.4GHZ (1.5 works too, but is WAY overvolted, and 1.6 is extremely unstable), -100mV from 100-1000 MHZ, -75 for 1.1-1.4GHZ.
For "Battery Life": (i really don't see a difference...) 100-800 MHZ (anything below 800 is painfully slow), -100mV across the board.
I leave schedulers and governors at their stock settings, the only time I change anything is to set the gov. to Performance on Performance for max Quadrant scores.

kvswim said:
I use VControl myself...i like the UI.
For Performance: 100-1.4GHZ (1.5 works too, but is WAY overvolted, and 1.6 is extremely unstable), -100mV from 100-1000 MHZ, -75 for 1.1-1.4GHZ.
For "Battery Life": (i really don't see a difference...) 100-800 MHZ (anything below 800 is painfully slow), -100mV across the board.
I leave schedulers and governors at their stock settings, the only time I change anything is to set the gov. to Performance on Performance for max Quadrant scores.
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How many Mhz levels are you selecting? In my experience anything above 5 and it WILL NOT clock up to the higher settings. Maybe thats why you notice no difference in battery life?
For instance if you had say 100, 200, 400, 800, 1000 and 1400 you will reace 1000mhz only
if you had 100, 200, 400, 800, 1400 you would reach the 1400mhz. ive tried many combos and 5 or less was the max it would use (voltage control app, im sure setcpu would most likely be the same)

How many slots does the imnuts kernel support?
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I started using SetCPU, and I think I prefer it.
Quick question, it seems like rebooting is unnecessary for the changes to take effect, is that true?
Overclocking definitely worked. I got 1853 @ 1200mhz in Quadrant, up from 1600.
Edit: now 2025 @ 1300mhz / 1300mhv
2nd Edit: Late last night, I was using a stability test in one of the apps, but I can't for the life of me remember which app or how I found it. Now I'm using StabilityTest from the market. What's a safe cpu temp for these phones? I'm getting 32 degrees under full load in an air conditioned environment.

gnarlynewport said:
I started using SetCPU, and I think I prefer it.
Quick question, it seems like rebooting is unnecessary for the changes to take effect, is that true?
Overclocking definitely worked. I got 1853 @ 1200mhz in Quadrant, up from 1600.
Edit: now 2025 @ 1300mhz / 1300mhv
2nd Edit: Late last night, I was using a stability test in one of the apps, but I can't for the life of me remember which app or how I found it. Now I'm using StabilityTest from the market. What's a safe cpu temp for these phones? I'm getting 32 degrees under full load in an air conditioned environment.
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I just switched over to Setcpu as well. It seems to work better for me also. I can now select 6 levels instead of the 5 before in voltage control and I also noticed that the set on boot on voltage control did NOT work but it DOES work in setcpu!! Im happy!

Haven't tried Setcpu yet, but I preferred Pimp my CPU over VC when I was using Miui on the Fascinate.
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Let's OC

It's time to Overclock our Phone...
DISCLAIMER: OVERCLOCK IS DANGEROUS FOR OUR PHONES
How to:
1. Now download r151 from Here
2. Put the files of r151 in the root of SD, run HARET.
3. Download SetCPU from Here and install It.
4. Now open SetCPU, And choice "Autodetect Speeds Reccomanded".
5. Allow Root.
6. Press Windows button and choice "Perflock Disabler" and "Attemp to Disable Perflock" and Check "Set on Boot".
7. Now, close the windows and OC our Phone.
My phone under USB and AC run at 825 MHz without Crash, i had tryed to run it at 864 MHz but System Crash everytime. Without USB and AC my phone run at 787 MHz. I Post 2 Images 1. = Normal Clock 2. = 825 MHz Clock.
To Made Benchmark i Use BenchmarkPi.
1. Screen Normal Clock
2. Screen 825MHz
For Other Question:
1. SetCPU
2. -r0bin-'s Post

I did it, it works perferctly !
Upscaled to 825 and min 128
Downscaled to 245 while charging and screen off
Thanks !

doublej4473 said:
I did it, it works perferctly !
Upscaled to 825 and min 128
Downscaled to 245 while charging and screen off
Thanks !
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My Profiles:
1. Screen Off Min: 19 MHz Max: 245 MHz
2. In Call: Min: 128 MHz Max: 600 MHz
3. Charging AC: Min: 19 MHz Max: 825 MHz
4. Charging USb: Min: 19 MHz Max: 825 MHz
5. Main Profile: Min: 19 MHz Max: 787 MHz
...

Tell me please, does it helps to save the battery in last releace (r163)? I`m asking becouse i try to use Master CPU, and it seems to me that it don`t helps to save energy... But I don`t use profiles, only ondemand settings from 120-600 mHz.
Thanks!

@HTCxxxx
what is the percentage priority by profile?

puxus said:
Tell me please, does it helps to save the battery in last releace (r163)? I`m asking becouse i try to use Master CPU, and it seems to me that it don`t helps to save energy... But I don`t use profiles, only ondemand settings from 120-600 mHz.
Thanks!
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To PowerSave try 19-480 MHz if Don't need Performance or 19-600 MHz Im Sorry But i Don't Know Master Cpu

doublej4473 said:
@HTCxxxx
what is the percentage priority by profile?
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In Call is 100
And Screen Off 100 too.

19 Mhz does not work for me. Phone gets unusable slow and dont come back :/
Beside that, underclocking do not have a big influence on the battery consumtion.
Undervolting would be more interesting.

codiak said:
19 Mhz does not work for me. Phone gets unusable slow and dont come back :/
Beside that, underclocking do not have a big influence on the battery consumtion.
Undervolting would be more interesting.
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Why Unusable??? Yhea, Undervolting can be an Interesting Thing, but i Think if the Volting is too low phone Freeze, and if is too high cpu can have an High temperature if you're stressing cpu and phone can freeze too. But i've noted, when i use a low "screen off" profile battery consumaption is high? why? is a problem of kernel? or is nomal?

codiak said:
19 Mhz does not work for me. Phone gets unusable slow and dont come back :/
Beside that, underclocking do not have a big influence on the battery consumtion.
Undervolting would be more interesting.
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you are right,i also experienced that 19 Mhz makes phone lazy
i'm also agree about 2nd part..i read the same
HTCxxxx said:
Why Unusable??? Yhea, Undervolting can be an Interesting Thing, but i Think if the Volting is too low phone Freeze, and if is too high cpu can have an High temperature if you're stressing cpu and phone can freeze too. But i've noted, when i use a low "screen off" profile battery consumaption is high? why? is a problem of kernel? or is nomal?
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you don't need to undervolt it too low,you just need to find the right voltage
try last kernel from r0bin and you will not have high battery consumption anymore

Low Mhz does not lead automaticly to low consumtion.
If you phone has something todo (update something for example) it will get the job done faster with high Mhz and is going fastert to sleep after that.
With low Mhz it takes longer and so can have higher consumtion.
On my HD2 I dont use profiles (like screen off) and it has a very low consumtion on standby/sleep.

If you set a minimum speed when screen is off a11 is not able to go to suspend, maybe

just a quick feedback on power consumption:
it never been so good with r167+drain fix without SetCPU
when I set profiles with low frequency (19 or 128Mhz) it keeps on consuming battery up to 100mA. when i switch SetCPU profiles off, i go to 9mA in suspend mode.
true story
there must be a way to setup SetCPU in a way it doesnt affect too much battery drain in suspend mode, but for the time being i just deactivated it.

tzacapaca said:
you are right,i also experienced that 19 Mhz makes phone lazy
i'm also agree about 2nd part..i read the same
you don't need to undervolt it too low,you just need to find the right voltage
try last kernel from r0bin and you will not have high battery consumption anymore
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yes i see some improvement, and im happy for it...

(I THINK)
Hi All,
I've understood why CPU doesn't run @ 19MHz or @ 128 MHz...
Go to /sys/acpucloclock and look acpuclk_tbl...In It there are write all frequencies CPU can Run:
245760,400000,480000,600000,768000,787200,806400,825600,844800,864000....
but no Under 245 MHz so if You use a Profile for Screen off From 19MHz to 254MHz, cpu Run everytime @ 245MHz...so there is an high consummation of energy
bye

HTCxxxx said:
(I THINK)
Hi All,
I've understood why CPU doesn't run @ 19MHz or @ 128 MHz...
Go to /sys/acpucloclock and look acpuclk_tbl...In It there are write all frequencies CPU can Run:
245760,400000,480000,600000,768000,787200,806400,825600,844800,864000....
but no Under 245 MHz so if You use a Profile for Screen off From 19MHz to 254MHz, cpu Run everytime @ 245MHz...so there is an high consummation of energy
bye
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hi
as codiak said earlier lowering CPU(underclocking) doesn't have so much impact on battery life..he also explained you why..if you want i will explain you too
explanation:run CPU at low voltage,open an app or downloading an email,etc= CPU will take time to get to the level app needs,display will stay longer while it CPU will get done the job= worse battery life
Undervolting will have impact on battery life
explanation:run same CPU clock at lower Voltage= CPU will use less power=better battery life
hope it's clear enough for you now,and if anyone else thinks i'm wrong feel free to prove me i'm wrong
P.S. Anyway i asked devs and they will lower CPU to run @ less than 245 Mhz.
Enjoy

tzacapaca said:
hi
as codiak said earlier lowering CPU(underclocking) doesn't have so much impact on battery life..he also explained you why..if you want i will explain you too
explanation:run CPU at low voltage,open an app or downloading an email,etc= CPU will take time to get to the level app needs,display will stay longer while it CPU will get done the job= worse battery life
Undervolting will have impact on battery life
explanation:run same CPU clock at lower Voltage= CPU will use less power=better battery life
hope it's clear enough for you now,and if anyone else thinks i'm wrong feel free to prove me i'm wrong
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Ok thank you very much!!!

[Q] Overlocking Values in SetCPU?

I have at max: 1200 MHz ,at min 83 and in typeerformance, are these values corecct or wrong for a custom rom?
-Greeting-
PD:Andro's Rom (3 days for release)

Yes, or no, because you need a screen off profile or your battery life will be damn short.

I think this should be in the general section and i recommend using the conservative governor over the performance since conservative goes to the minimum frequency when phone is not being used i.e. when screen is off. This is best for performance since it automatically goes to the maximum frequency when screen is on and when screen is off it goes to the minimum which is good for battery.

1200 is too high....
It will damage your battery....
I use 100 MHz to 800 MHz....
Its average and most of the users use the same....

[email protected] said:
1200 is too high....
It will damage your battery....
I use 100 MHz to 800 MHz....
Its average and most of the users use the same....
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I think that is a very wise thing to do. I shall see how my phone runs at that speed.

Oks.thx.
Now:
MAX:800
MIN:83
Type: Conservative.
Are these values correctly now?
-Greettings-

AndroKite said:
Oks.thx.
Now:
MAX:800
MIN:83
Type: Conservative.
Are these values correctly now?
-Greettings-
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Yeah its good.... ^_^
Happy to help..... ^_^

My batery temp is 27º - 28º celcius,is a good temp or maybe it can be danger for my battery?
-Grettings-

AndroKite said:
My batery temp is 27º - 28º celcius,is a good temp or maybe it can be danger for my battery?
-Grettings-
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Aslong as its not 35+ degrees you are ok
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Lol! Did you make a mistake by posting this question in the development section? Suppose to put at general section.
Accidentally sent from my ultra speedy SG3 phone using tapatalk.
P.S If my post have helped you, don't feel shy to click the thanks button

That frecuency will eat your battery.
I use my SetCPU at frecuencies 400-800Mhz, and use profiles for screen off (83-400Mhz), battery <20% (200-600Mhz), time (2am-6am) (83-83Mhz powersave)
always on demand (except time profile)
Greetings

My config is
Main 400-800 Mhz Ondemand Set on boot
Profiles
Temp >45°C 200-500 Mhz priority 100 Ondemand
time 2am-6am 83-83 Mhz priority 95 powesave
screen off 83-500 Mhz priority 90 Ondemand
Battery <20% 200-600 Mhz priority 80 Ondemand
I have g3mod 2.0 OC kernel
Greetings

I just use basic settings, no profiles or anything. Look in my signature.
I may add a few profiles after my lil bro is finished playing games on my phone.

My battery temp is 39 degrees Celsius is it that a good tempeture?

anything between 83 and 800 would work like charm and enough for day to day tasks..use conservative governor..set profile for screen off and on call..

[Q] Set cpu settings tips.

I am using:
Rom: Insertcoin
Kernel: Bricked 1.5
Could you give me some tips to setup the best way setcpu.
I've seen some guys mentioning setting lowest frequency to around 400 and etc. and I don't know why. Could you give me some advice on setting up the program correctly.

Hi, I personally set the lowest frequency to somewhere around the 500mhz and smaller and set the govenor to ondemand as this will only use the the speed of your kernel when its needed thus, will use less battery.

Why around 500mhz and not 194. And will 5 sec refresh on the widget drain much battery? It's now on passive because I don't want to loose battery on bull****.

SsBloodY said:
Why around 500mhz and not 194. And will 5 sec refresh on the widget drain much battery? It's now on passive because I don't want to loose battery on bull****.
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I put at 500mhz because sometimes the phone may slow down on its own and I don't think that setting the refresh rate to 5sec will steal much battery because its only a small widget

Any more opinions? Would be nice

Don't set it to 500 minimum. This will lock the phone to at least 500 mhz at all times and will cause substantial battery drain.
Go with 192 minimum or the next step up.

Sdobron said:
Don't set it to 500 minimum. This will lock the phone to at least 500 mhz at all times and will cause substantial battery drain.
Go with 192 minimum or the next step up.
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+1 on that.
My personal settings (most of the time) are:
Screen On 192/648
Screen Off 192/384
Governer OnDemand
Sometimes I up the frequency if I need to run something heavy, not all that often though.

agreed 192 minimum is much better. if you are having issues with the phone being slow then get rid of sense...

Just wanted to say thanks to the three users above this post as I tried 192mhz and it is in fact a lot better now (please realise I've only just turned 17 and play a lot of games hence 500mhz)

[Q] SETCPU?

i aleary set cpu to max 1.8ghz and min 1.6ghz how to st it?? i did try to set it too 1.8mina nd max but my phone hangs and powerd-off!!! how to set it?!

Hey. I wouldnt recommend your current srtup at all unless you want horrible battery life and massive amounts of heat however i sont have an answer for your predicament, try using another app with the same function?
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA

listen to me. set it like I say:
max frequency 1512
min frequency 384
governor interactive
go to profiles and create a new profile. set:
screen off
max 432
min 192
governor conservative
priority 100
this way you have a good performing phone and with screen off a power saving profile. with this configuration I have 15 hours battery (enough for a day) of mid use...with data activated and live wallpaper

Nice stats ! I'm going to try that!
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Some phones can handle higher frequency then others if your phone can't go over 1.8 well there is nothing you can do..
Swyped From My Sensation.

I SET IT TO this But anyway i don't care battery life

Dont OC much
dude that's friggin gih frequency's. Dont push it too hard, it'll do no good to the processor. Besides, what do you need that kind of power for ? Runing Crysis ?