Do you overclock or underclock? If so, to what point? If not, why not? What clocking profiles/situations do you have set up? Share your thoughts and experiences.
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Below is the setup that has worked best for me, in terms of performance and battery life. I seem to have found a good balance.
1.2 GHz/245 MHz (Conservative)
Profiles
Screen Off - 768/245 MHz (Conservative)
Charging - 1.2 GHz/245 MHz (On Demand)
In Call - 1 GHz/245 MHz (Conservative)
*Profiles are ordered in terms of priority (e.g., if I am on a phone call and my phone is charging, the charging profile is activated).
*I'm also undervolted.
I keep my phone at ~.7GHz (underclocked) when on battery, 1GHz when on charger, and have profiles for medium (~1.3GHz) and max OC (~1.7GHz), as the kernel will allow, in case I need the extra power for something (like FPSe, chainfire, etc).
I keep mine at 500Mhz...gingerbeast is so beastly it can run decently even at about 200Mhz, I only use maximum...1900Mhz when I am showing off.
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ThEiiNoCeNT said:
I keep mine at 500Mhz...gingerbeast is so beastly it can run decently even at about 200Mhz, I only use maximum...1900Mhz when I am showing off.
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Damn if it doesn't. Never tried it but since you said it I figured I'd test it. Typing this this at 245mhz, and it actually functions decently, even scrolling this page. I tried this with my captivate and it wouldn't even swipe screens. I'm kinda amazed right now.
ThEiiNoCeNT said:
I keep mine at 500Mhz...gingerbeast is so beastly it can run decently even at about 200Mhz, I only use maximum...1900Mhz when I am showing off.
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Wow! If that's the case, I may have to give Gingerbeast a shot
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I keep mine at 768 Mhz when on battery. Just to save some power. But i could even go down to 368 Mhz (which i have <50% battery) and it runs decently. I'm using CM7.
what is this overclocking? and how do i check speeds?
2nr808 said:
what is this overclocking? and how do i check speeds?
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Just make sure you have root and use setcpu from market
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i use LeeDroid's GB rom setting smartass setcpu at 245-1036 MHZ
battery can last long time
is there a free version because the only one i see a paid version
Im at 1344mhz daily with absurdly outstanding battery life on leedroid 3.1.1. And I'm using antutu CPU master cause setcpu wouldn't let me adjust the slider. No problems whatsoever.
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Before my phone got jacked "another on the way" i run TPGB with ~1.5ghz top and .232ghz low. Smartass govener, and i use my phone alot. I easily got over a day. Thats with tethering-games-email-calls-messaging,
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I was running at max OC (1.8Ghz with LeeDroid's kernel) for a little bit, but realized I didn't need the speed. Since I'm a PC overclocker as well, I couldn't just let things be at stock, so now I'm at 1.267Mhz max, and .245Mhz min. I'm doing my best not to bump it up more, and going to see how much I get out of my phone. I'm a very light user most of the time, so it's sometimes hard to gauge.
I overclocked for the same reason I OC'd my PC, because I could. That said, I'm running MDJ's kernel on Inspired Ace with the smarta** governor set at 245 min and 1400 max.
Seeing several people using smartass governor. I've been using ondemand....I'm gonna run smartass today and see what happens....
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Mine is at 768 all time, with just one profile that kicks when battery heat crosses 46 C that sets max speed at 537.
Adjusted both to 614 and 384 respectively after looking at above posts.
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using setCPU and being on CM7, i overclock to 1.7 ghz while the screen is on, using the interactive gov. i also set up a "screen off" profile that is underclocked to 247? mhz so that while my phone sits in my pocket for the majority of the day or on my desk, etc, etc.... it conserves quite a bit of power.
ive been using this set up since i got my inspire on cm7 (whenever that had its first RC) and im getting anywhere from 48-60 hours of usage.
my daily usage includes: tethering, streaming audiogalaxy, ghosttown, pandora. camera stuffs, calls, texts, 2 email accounts syncing, twitter, facebook, calendar, palmary weather updates, and much more stuff. so im going to stick to this set up until someone says they can get more usage with all that going on.
I run min(250 IIRC) and max(1.5) using on-demand.
I was overclocked at 1800 but my phone would freeze sometimes to where i had to pull my battery. So I tried 1000 but 2 days and then 1500. I noticed little difference in battery us and speed. I stuck with 1500 but after reading this thread i am gonna try 750. I never used any battery monitoring widgets. Im gonna try that. I use Leedroid GB btw.
I'm running at 1.2ghz with Coredroid and am happy.
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"Third -(Root Needed) Set CPU. Have had this on my G1 and N1 and it does nothing but save battery. I currently have it set on 216 - 1000 for when the screen is on and the only profile i have is for when the screen is off and it is at 216-216.
(Alternative) Pimp My CPU. I now am using this for my G2x because I am running custom kernal. Personally I like Set CPU better, but do to the fact that Set CPU can't get past 1000 MHz makes it kinda useless for the G2x Tegra 2. "
This is for the thread "Twenty Hour Of Battery Life" When he says he currently has it set on 216-1000, is he using the "Pimp My CPU"? Also where is that set at exactly? Is it set on the "Main-Scaling Driver" When you open up SetCpu? My "Scaling" is greyed out, I can not set it to "OnDemand" or anything, and yes my phone is rooted, it was the first step in that thread. Both Min, and Max go from 122, 128,245, and 528mHZ, so I am confused on this 216-1000? Also When I go to create a profile, and choose "Screen Off", I have the same issue as above, 216-216? What is that??? Be specific, and I am not a stranger to rooting, etc, so help me out, so I can on to the next step and install "Battery Calabration"
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"Third -(Root Needed) Set CPU. Have had this on my G1 and N1 and it does nothing but save battery. I currently have it set on 216 - 1000 for when the screen is on and the only profile i have is for when the screen is off and it is at 216-216.
(Alternative) Pimp My CPU. I now am using this for my G2x because I am running custom kernal. Personally I like Set CPU better, but do to the fact that Set CPU can't get past 1000 MHz makes it kinda useless for the G2x Tegra 2. "
This is for the thread "Twenty Hour Of Battery Life" When he says he currently has it set on 216-1000, is he using the "Pimp My CPU"? Also where is that set at exactly? Is it set on the "Main-Scaling Driver" When you open up SetCpu? My "Scaling" is greyed out, I can not set it to "OnDemand" or anything, and yes my phone is rooted, it was the first step in that thread. Both Min, and Max go from 122, 128,245, and 528mHZ, so I am confused on this 216-1000? Also When I go to create a profile, and choose "Screen Off", I have the same issue as above, 216-216? What is that??? Be specific, and I am not a stranger to rooting, etc, so help me out, so I can on to the next step and install "Battery Calabration"
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20 Views and no response, great...
20 views and no response because no one can understand what you typed
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20 views and no response because no one can understand what you typed
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Haha What typed is pretty simple to understand. I have the app SetCpu and when you open up, you are at the "Main" Tab, "Scaling" is greyed/blacked out, I can not set it to On Demand or Conservative. My phone is rooted, and SetCpu has Root Access.
Now how come scaling is disabled? Also, when the person who created the thread "Twenty Hour Battery Life" said he currently has it set to 216-1000, what does that mean? how do I set it to that? He also mentioned that he created profile for when the screen is off, and set it to "216-216", I do not understand what that means, and how to set it like that? I created a profile "Screen Off", but I am stuck at how to put it to "216-216"?
Ummmm. Iirc set CPU does not work on the g2x yet. Pimp my CPU should.
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Setcpu works fine he needs a custom kernel.. Like mordic or faux..
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On my Nexus One here the only thing I have Setcpu do is when the screen is off it goes to min245 max 384. While using your phone Android regulates your processing power based off of what it needs. While Android does that when the phone sleeps I don't want it going above 384. With my Nexus One I usually get around 18hours + of battery life w/ medium usage. I didn't have my G2x long enough to try out Setcpu but IMO only have setcpu regulate your sleepmode
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Ummmm. Iirc set CPU does not work on the g2x yet. Pimp my CPU should.
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Why do people keep saying this? I guess the author of the app is lying when he says it is compatible and all the people running it successfully are lying also.
SetCpu supports Terga 2 starting with version 2.1.1a
I have no idea where you are getting you info, but you are wrong.
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Why do people keep saying this? I guess the author of the app is lying when he says it is compatible and all the people running it successfully are lying also.
SetCpu supports Terga 2 starting with version 2.1.1a
I have no idea where you are getting you info, but you are wrong.
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I recall reading it here on xda. But that was over a week ago. Like I said iirc does not mean I'm 100% right.
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SetCPU does work with the tegra2 but I am not sure if it is playing nice with the custom kernels made by Faux and Morfic, that is why everyone is using Pimp My CPU
SetCPU works for scaling but not overclocking.
A great free app that DOES work with both of those kernels is CPU Master - find it on the market.
Thanks for clearing that up. I knew something wasn't right with set CPU onthis phone
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What are your settings for CPU Master for the Tmobile G2X? I want to get 20+hours at least, I am using Battery Calabaration from the Market and I charged the phone to 100%, opened up the app which required root access, tapped battery calaberate, then unplugged it, that was at 130 or 1:40, it is now 5:35pm, and it is at 76%, not lasting at all
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I used Titanium Back up to remove the extra apps that take up space and consume battery
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Gv2004 said:
What are your settings for CPU Master for the Tmobile G2X? I want to get 20+hours at least, I am using Battery Calabaration from the Market and I charged the phone to 100%, opened up the app which required root access, tapped battery calaberate, then unplugged it, that was at 130 or 1:40, it is now 5:35pm, and it is at 76%, not lasting at all
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That's great battery life considering its a dual core tegra 2 phone which will always suck alot of battery juice . If you want a 20+ hour device then get a blackberry.
Android phones are known battery leeches. Look into a portable battery charger
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Setcpu does support tegra in G2X but currently does not support oc'ing. The scaling is greyed out on mine to but doesn't affect it sd i have seen.
So if your looking for settings use these for setcpu
Profile battery < 25%
Max 500
Min lowest
Reason: save battery amd extend phone usage
Profile sceen off
Max 1ghz
Min lowest
Reason: will drop to 216 if not using and is in idle but will jumo up if processing power is needed
Profile general (main screen)
Max 1ghz
Min 1ghz
Reason: makes cpu run full steam when using
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SetCPU master coolbho3000 has updated his app to include support for the Tegra 2. It's available at all the familiar places.
2.2.0 - Added an "In Call" profile. Improved the Set on Boot safemode function by including a flashable zip that toggles SetCPU's safemode. Press menu on the main tab for more details. Added autodetect support for all Tegra 2 fakeShmoo kernels (ie. G2x). Added a "Voltage" tab for undervolting the CPU on fakeShmoo kernels, some custom Galaxy S kernels, and some Nexus S kernels. This is a full-fledged interface for undervolting these devices, and includes backing up and restoring and a Set on Boot checkbox. Improved the way SetCPU initially requests root. Various miscellaneous bugfixes.
Undervolting in SetCPU, now that's fantastic. By far the best purchase I've made on the market.
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Undervolting in SetCPU, now that's fantastic. By far the best purchase I've made on the market.
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Also has a cool feature that allows you to extract a zip file to your sdcard in case you've set it to 1.5/1.5 and your phone freaks out. You can just boot into recovery, flash the zip and it resets setcpu.
I must say, SetCPU 2.20 is quite amazing... worth every penny
Note to ppl who upgraded from existing setcpu...re-detect your cpu speeds from the main screen. Otherwise, voltage tab will force close on you.
What would you set "in-call" to?
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What would you set "in-call" to?
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I have 400/400 for screen off. I set in call to slightly higher at 400/500.
I'll need to test it tomorrow during calls and see if the screen wakes up quicker after a call ends.
For benching, I set it at 1500/1500 at 1300mV with no profile set for maximum power, and I'm getting much lower benchmarks in Smartbench 2011, than I was with pimpmycpu. Why do you think that would be?
pimpmycpu: 4400-4700
setcpu: 3700-4000
Wow very nice.
yes nice news ! Im happy to see old school
Great news. Just re-downloaded this and uninstalled pimp my cpu.
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Epiccccc. Bye bye pimp my CPU.
I love setcpu profiles
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I'm so pissed off by this. I legit bought cpu master at like noon on the 20th. Then I come home from work too setcpu being updated. dammit I want my two dollars back, I'm broke enough, and that could be bus money lol.
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McFroger3 said:
I'm so pissed off by this. I legit bought cpu master at like noon on the 20th. Then I come home from work too setcpu being updated. dammit I want my two dollars back, I'm broke enough, and that could be bus money lol.
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womp womp. Broke but have a G2x! legit! lol. theres nothing that can come inbetween a man and his phone and car lol!
I didn't pay anything for the phone lol.
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New setcpu is working like a champ. OP, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
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Great news. Just re-downloaded this and uninstalled pimp my cpu.
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I did the same, but unfroze SETCPU and FROZE pimpmycpu.
In the transition, the battery got drained quite a bit over a few minutes, and heated up pretty fast when initially recharging. I had rebooted in between, but there may still have been some residual conflicts between the apps.
It froze at one point, but after a battery pull, it settled down. Overnight battery drain (with screen-off profile set pretty low) was only 4% over 8 hours. This is on EB 1.0.2 and faux stock kernel. Quadrent "only" around 4000, but everything works and this has apparently improved battery life.
A note on pimpmycpu - I thought scaling to min had stuck, but apparently not. Battery consumption was 12-15 % overnight compared to the above.
Thanks OP! I severely dislike pimpmycpu...
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So am I the only one that is getting significantly lower smartbench 2011 results with this updated setcpu as opposed to pimpmycpu?
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So am I the only one that is getting significantly lower smartbench 2011 results with this updated setcpu as opposed to pimpmycpu?
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I have not seen that, although compared to Quadrent, I had not seen the very high scores that some had. I doubt SETCPU would impact you OC'd performance at max setting (although pimp had scheduler settings and SETCPU does not).
I'm having an issue with my phone not being responsive if I set the CPU to 400Mhz. I first found this problem using Juice Defender then I uninstalled that and did it under SetCPU and it still did the same thing. The phone pretty much doesn't wake up after a while. I have to do a reboot in order for it to work again.
Don't get mad at me but IMHO overclocking and messing with a phones core features (what makes it run, processor, ram, etc.) is unsafe and can cause instability. And no I have no scientific research to back this up but it's just my two cents.
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Lol I'm not mad. I don't really like to over clock. I just figured under clocking would work better. But nooooo lol
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It does that under 800 mhz I forget why but I've read that in a couple places
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underclocking that much is using less than 1/3rd of your true processor power.
your processor simply is not able to draw enough power to perform its background tasks - even when the phone is idle - when you underclock to such an extreme extent. therefore, it freezes trying to complete these processes.
if you're going to underclock, i'd say that 800 MHz is the lowest you can go if you are expecting your phone to do everything it is supposed to do. although it isn't going to save you THAT much battery life anyway, so you might as well just run it at the stock setting of 1200 MHz.
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Lol I'm not mad. I don't really like to over clock. I just figured under clocking would work better. But nooooo lol
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I understand LOL. And he's right underclocking honestly doesn't
Save much battery.
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There's a known issue with setting CPU profiles to less than 800 MHz. A fix exists but some kernels don't have it.
Many of our Gingerbread kernels fix it, Infusion-GB is one of the few that hasn't pulled in the fix yet. (Although version 1.1 may have pulled it in, haven't checked github lately.)
None of the Froyo kernels have an explicit fix, but I'm not sure if the flaw even applies to our Froyo kernels as the clocking architecture is VERY different.
Hi, Rogers stock 2.3.3
It's using up 60% battery over night. Most likely I should turn off Wi-Fi.
I have underclocked to 100, 200, and 400 and it's stable --- minus the delay/lag at 100 and 200 . Sorry to seem like a troll.
I find that by default this phone either runs at 100mhz or 1200 on average, and 200 400 800 under 10%
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ierdna said:
Hi, Rogers stock 2.3.3
It's using up 60% battery over night. Most likely I should turn off Wi-Fi.
I have underclocked to 100, 200, and 400 and it's stable --- minus the delay/lag at 100 and 200 . Sorry to seem like a troll.
I find that by default this phone either runs at 100mhz or 1200 on average, and 200 400 800 under 10%
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Bumping from 100 to 1200 is classic ondemand governor behavior.
Also, some people never had problems even without netarchy's sleep patch running the CPU capped to 400 - but others have. I don't think anyone has had a problem with a patched kernel.
My Nexus S 4G seems to heat up very quickly. While I was expecting this behavior during excessive 3g/4g use, I was NOT expecting it while reading PDFs on my phone. I am using the built-in ThinkOffice to read the PDFs, but the phone always heats up after 10-15 minutes of use. Has this happened to anyone else before? If so, what is the solution?
Currently, my phone is rooted, with 2.3.7 stock ROM w/ Apoc-Talon v 2.1 kernel, overclocked to 1440 Mhz w/ Smartass v2. The heat problem has also happened while my phone was running a stock 2.3.4 ROM on the Netarchy kernel.
Its your kernel. I'm running cm7 at 1440 too and my phone never gets past 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Even while tethering which surprised me. When I tethered on my epic it would get hot enough to fry eggs. Even when downclocking to reduce heat. Just a hunch
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You are overclocking your phone.... You do understand that with increased voltages comes heat?
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Even from just reading PDFs?
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You are overclocking your phone.... You do understand that with increased voltages comes heat?
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Even if your overclocked it doesn't mean your gonna overheat. The CPU scales. Remember that. Its not like its running at 1440 all the time. Ive been running at 1440 ever since 7.1.0 came out with absolutely no overheating or lock ups.
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Even if your overclocked it doesn't mean your gonna overheat. The CPU scales. Remember that. Its not like its running at 1440 all the time. Ive been running at 1440 ever since 7.1.0 came out with absolutely no overheating or lock ups.
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You can't dispute what I said. Because you are able to overclock to 1.4 without issues he should automatically be able to? Are all cpu's equal? Take some time to think about it.
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You can't dispute what I said. Because you are able to overclock to 1.4 without issues he should automatically be able to? Are all cpu's equal? Take some time to think about it.
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Of course. But that wasn't wwhat you said. You said overclocking needs higher voltages. Understood. I was only saying that the chances of his phone overheating because of ocing is slim. As far as I know only benchmarks and a few gpu intensive games will push the phone to run at 1.440 ghz. The CPU scales and barely even touches 1.2 ghz. Floats around 200 and 800mhz for the most part. I'm deducing this from my own usage and keeping an eye on the CPU with cpuspy. My point was that ocing wont do this unless he's actually pushing the CPU that far or setting the governor to performance. Which from the looks of it isn't the case
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Now that I measured it with a battery app, the temperature only goes up to 107.6 degrees...guess it just seemed really hot to me.
I guess you can consider this thread part survey and part for my knowledge so I know how far I can push this phone. I am at 1728MHz max with the interactive governor and cfq scheduler. Not sure if I'm going to do any undervolting, I can get through the day with about 40% remaining, and I have profiles set up for low battery and such. I am running CM10 with the 747 (I think that's what its called..) kernel and can push it to 2.1GHz. Is it stable at that high of a clockspeed? I can assume it turns your pretty Galaxy S3 into a convenient portable stove
By the way, sorry if this is the wrong section.
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It really depends on your phone, I had mine at 2100 and it was stable. However it can very I had,a, Droid charge that ran the 1440 no problem, had it replaced and the new one could go above 1300 without hot boots. Some phones just hold up better
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It really depends on your phone, I had mine at 2100 and it was stable. However it can very I had,a, Droid charge that ran the 1440 no problem, had it replaced and the new one could go above 1300 without hot boots. Some phones just hold up better
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Stock. I've had it clocked to 1.9. But can't tell a difference with real day to day function except for worse battery drain and phone hotter.
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I have run the KT747 AOSP kernel at 2.1 ghz for a day or more and had no noticeable increase in heat, or decrease in battery life. (lulzactive or smartass v2 with either cfq or sio scheduler, no voltage changes in KT tweaker) I also saw very little or no gain in real world performance increase, and the benchmarking apps seemed to back that up. Typically run mine at 1.809 currently. Every phone cpu is different in terms of top speed, and voltage settings. Best thing to do, is to test them and see what works best for you. These 2 links, courtesy of the Ktoonez thread, provide some great info on kernel governor and scheduler settings. Given the number of options in KT Tweaker, these helped me a great deal in terms of making changes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1687578
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1369817
I've tried 1998MHz and as you said, it didn't yield much. I think I screwed something up, because now oc settings refuse to stick (resets itself to 1512) and short/long benches are not as great.
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I've tried 1998MHz and as you said, it didn't yield much. I think I screwed something up, because now oc settings refuse to stick (resets itself to 1512) and short/long benches are not as great.
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Are you on CleanKernel by chance?