What kind of battery savings have you experienced from undervolting?
I am interested in keeping the cpu at or near stock frequency (1000-1100MHz), and your experience with undervolting with maximum stability.
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Surely it makes little difference on a processor with dynamic clk freq scaling?
Assuming its always clocking at its slowest during idle, which your phone is by default, then reducing the max clock speed during activity just extends the time its chugging away at max speed.
Only way to improve battery life is to reduce the amount of work you ask of your phone, not the speed at which it gets on with it.
For example, if my Desire has to process an image, it can either do that in 1ms at 1GHz, or 2ms at 500MHz, using the same amount of battery, no? At all other times its idling at the same 250MHz.
So the way forward is to reduce tasks, not underclock? And if anything the profile conditions in SetCpu are just one more thread.
Anyone actually noticed better battery performance from SetCpu?
I noticed bader Battery Life! So i dont use it anymore!
I don't think it will give you more battery life to reduce the cpu speed. more important i think is to watch the tasks that run on the background. some apps can drain you battery really fast. i just use advanced task killer and set it to kill apps when i turn my screen off, for me it helps more then lower the cpu speed.
Those apps drain battery by not letting the cpu idle, hence lowering max speed could improve battery life.
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How about battery life in Overclocked phones?
Depending on how its clocked, if your needs are speed and usability it lowers the battery life.
Though you can clock it moderate and set the "min" clock frequency down and save battery while its in your pocket.
benjamin336 said:
Depending on how its clocked, if your needs are speed and usability it lowers the battery life.
Though you can clock it moderate and set the "min" clock frequency down and save battery while its in your pocket.
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benjamin336 is absolutely right. I've also found that you have to adjust the settings differently depending on the phone.
There are threads pertaining to adjusting voltages and clocking where people describe what combinations have worked best for them.
99% of the time if you're looking to overclock you're looking for performance meaning 99% of the time you are going to have crappier battery life.
So recently I've become too lazy to constantly charge my Captivate and began to experiment with undervolting/underclocking it. Has anyone found optimal voltage for battery life? I've currently got every step of 200mhz down 100 volts and underclocked to a max of 800mhz. I'm on Semaphore kernel 2.9.5sc.
freshlimes said:
So recently I've become too lazy to constantly charge my Captivate and began to experiment with undervolting/underclocking it. Has anyone found optimal voltage for battery life? I've currently got every step of 200mhz down 100 volts and underclocked to a max of 800mhz. I'm on Semaphore kernel 2.9.5sc.
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There isn't a optimal setting as all phones act different. Testing is the best you can do.
which cpu governor are you running? that may have more effect than underclocking/undervolting on battery life.
user Stempox has a nice post on cpu governors here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28647926
the screen on time and data/gps traffic, and apps that keep the phone awake, do more to effect power drain than other factors. so, if you manage those, and choose the governor that suits you preferences, then undervolting and underclocking aren't needed, IMHO.
you can tweak the governor settings with Semaphore manager, if you really want to do that too.
the thing is, you may end up keeping the screen on longer than you would at higher cpu speeds, which would counter any battery savings. also, undervolting can increase the error rate, which means further delays while phone is awake.
hope this is helpful in your pursuit of fewer charging cycles.
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Hello guys if you have note 3 (sm-n900) with Kernel -halaszk-UNIVERSAL5420- and want to undervolt your CPU I have found a stable voltage for undervolting, Use SetCpu, first of all set your CPU when you are playing huge games to avoid overheating to min.200 max1300Ghz.
200Mhz-700mv
250-750
300-775
350-825
400-850
450-875
500-925
550-975
600-1025
650-1075
800-750
900-800
1000-825
1100-850
1200-875
1300-950 or 975
If your device overheats after undervolting I recommend to use DVFS disabler.
Do keep in mind, that there are not 2 exactly same devices. There is no stable voltage, which works for all phones with that model number.
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I am using N-900 running Lollipop stock rom 5.0
I wanna do undervolting the cpu for long lasting battery life without flashing new mod rom.
Please give me some advice or recommended kernel for stock rom supporting an undervolt method.
Thank you in advance.
are there tests for battery life gained vs performance lost? would be interesting
bekasulaberidze said:
Hello guys if you have note 3 (sm-n900) with Kernel -halaszk-UNIVERSAL5420- and want to undervolt your CPU I have found a stable voltage for undervolting, Use SetCpu, first of all set your CPU when you are playing huge games to avoid overheating to min.200 max1300Ghz.
200Mhz-700mv
250-750
300-775
350-825
400-850
450-875
500-925
550-975
600-1025
650-1075
800-750
900-800
1000-825
1100-850
1200-875
1300-950 or 975
If your device overheats after undervolting I recommend to use DVFS disabler.
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1) What is DVFS?
2) Underclock to 200mhz is NOT POSSIBLE!
3) There no undervolting, because my phone stock volt for 300Mhz is 775Mhz, which i use for 300Mhz is 700Mhz and no reboot, nothing. Just bit longer battery life.
4) Setting for 300Mhz-1300Mhz for gaming isn't recommend i. Just enabler Samsung Stock Power Saving. It's limited CPU to 1700Mhz with MCPS (Multi-core Power Saving) with Bettery thermal options and GPU framerates limits to 30FPS for slightly save power and slightly reduce overheating.
Thanks
Wondering if someone know any kernel that has energy "savings" parameters such as underclocking cpu(phone is quite fast itself and to be honest as a daily driver some users rarely use more than 30% of it's actual power), energy saving profil, underclocking gpu
Surely you can underclock stuff for yourself and after a restart an app to force those lower clocks but why not having a kernel that has all these so you'll have better battery life and be done with tweaking?
What are your thoughts people?