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[Q] Overclocking on Glitterballs' Kernel

I just installed Serendipity 2.0 w/ Glitterballs' latest kernel, which supports OC up t 1.2 GHz, and I wanted to know, is it possible to stably overclock my phone to 1.2 GHz without variable frequency or UV?
If so, how would I go about OCing my phone?
Also, will OCing affect the health of my CPU and lead to increased wear and tear in the long run?
Thanks in advance

If all you want is to overclock, you don't have to change anything.
Unless you plan on keeping your phone for 5 years OC won't do any harm.
Sent from my Captivate.

Thanks MikeyMike01! Looks like I'm going to OC then. And btw, I'm a huge fan of your ROMs

[Kernel] [GPL] Sense 2.6.32.21 OC/UV 1.51GHZ (CFS-Smartass-TUN)

This kernel is created specifically for sense roms It will more then likely not work in it current state on any AOSP based rom
Features
Overclocked to 1.51ghz and stable as ever (for most)
added in smartass and interactive cpu freq govs
added in TUN support
compiled v4l2 as modules
many more....
for a full list of changes check the commit log here
Quirks
Smartass wont scaled below 768mhz atm im looking into it stick with interactive for the best overall experience for now.
Source
Downloads:
Build 4​

Awesome! I'll give my feedback as to how it is working.
I did notice once a governor is selected you have to reset your Mhz or it will stay on 806 max. Also this kernel doesnt want to work with OC widget at all but works fine with SetCPU. I've always liked OC widget a little more as it uses less battery than SetCPU.
Great work so far BC your the man. Been running this bad boy and havn't had a single reboot @ 1.5ghz. Though my battery is going quick for some reason, dont know why

This'll work on the stock Sense?
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jesusice said:
This'll work on the stock Sense?
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yes it shall took me a bit but i found out the issue

i'm going to assume this works for stock rooted roms?

d1msum4lyfe said:
i'm going to assume this works for stock rooted roms?
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Looks like it should, yes

Thank you very much for this. I can confirm that this is running well on stock.

cloverdale said:
Thank you very much for this. I can confirm that this is running well on stock.
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^ Ditto
Now, coming from the Moment I've never used an OC kernel... anything I should know? Any tips?
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jesusice said:
^ Ditto
Now, coming from the Moment I've never used an OC kernel... anything I should know? Any tips?
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If you get random reboots, it means it's OCed a bit too high; just scale it back a bit and you'll be fine if that ever happens

Is this running at 1.5 all the time or does it throttle between ranges?
What is the default range?
Does the user have to do anything to enable or set the throttling?

zeropants said:
Is this running at 1.5 all the time or does it throttle between ranges?
What is the default range?
Does the user have to do anything to enable or set the throttling?
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As noted above, I'm new to OC'ing but I'm pretty sure you have to set it to the ranges you want via something like SetCPU or OS Monitor. I believe default is gonna stop at 800mhz unless you scale it up.
EDIT: And thanks Impaler for the help!
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zeropants said:
Is this running at 1.5 all the time or does it throttle between ranges?
What is the default range?
Does the user have to do anything to enable or set the throttling?
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Use SetCPU and select the Mhz/governor you want to use. Each Governor "Throttles differently"

jesusice said:
As noted above, I'm new to OC'ing but I'm pretty sure you have to set it to the ranges you want via something like SetCPU or OS Monitor. I believe default is gonna stop at 800mhz unless you scale it up.
EDIT: And thanks Impaler for the help!
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No problem, I'm here if you need anything else

What are some good range options?

I'm using 800 min 1.5ghz max interactive. Profiles I have setup: charging 1.5ghz performance, screen off 800 max 245 min
Bumped it up 1.1ghz min 1.5ghz max interactive, going to see how much that affects my battery life
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Dread 7us said:
I'm using 800 min 1.5ghz max interactive. Profiles I have setup: charging 1.5ghz performance, screen off 800 max 245 min
Bumped it up 1.1ghz min 1.5ghz max interactive, going to see how much that affects my battery life
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I have mine set to 768 min and 1.4GHz max interactive
Charging is 1.4 performance
screen off 245 min and 800 max interactive.
I don't want to push up around 1.5 until I'm sure this is more stable on my phone.

Dread 7us said:
I'm using 800 min 1.5ghz max interactive. Profiles I have setup: charging 1.5ghz performance, screen off 800 max 245 min
Bumped it up 1.1ghz min 1.5ghz max interactive, going to see how much that affects my battery life
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there no real need to have it running at such high freqs all the time mine is set at 245 min 1.31 max usually n got no lag what so ever
the higher speeds are more for gaming and cpu intensive applications

todAY HAS been a good day for HTC EVO SHIFT 4g android development. downloading kernal now! thanks for the hard work

BC you need to set your Donation link up like Impaler. I dont have paypal and it says you have to log in. Impaler's lets you pay with just a credit card. I will send a donation if I can do it without a paypal account.

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BC you need to set your Donation link up like Impaler. I dont have paypal and it says you have to log in. Impaler's lets you pay with just a credit card. I will send a donation if I can do it without a paypal account.
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Stable Overclocking Kernel?

Hi Guys, what is the most stable overclocking kernel for the Asus TF 101

I have been using netformer with Prime 1.5 and have not had a single issue. Clocked at 1.6 with set CPU on interactive mode and a screen-off profile to down clock to 500 mhz.

Clemsyn-Blades.. just try the kernels out yourself and figure out yourself. It varies between devices.

Clemsyn-Blades installed, running like a lamborghini, awsome! Thanks.

phree1 said:
I have been using netformer with Prime 1.5 and have not had a single issue. Clocked at 1.6 with set CPU on interactive mode and a screen-off profile to down clock to 500 mhz.
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Same here. Had a couple random reboots at 1.6 but all is well at 1.4.

[Q] Set CPU suggestions for Droid Charge

Can you experienced doods, help out a noob? I have recently rooted my phone (after MUCH research and reading) and just installed Set CPU app. I have been reading about the different settings for Set CPU, and it appears to be device specific, so I wanted to know if any can suggest some stable and useful settings and profiles I can use.
My goal would be to extend battery life and increase erformance while the phone is being used. I kinda guess this is most peoples reason for using this app. Slow the CPU down while the screen is off, and increase it a bit when the screen is on. I am not totally sure why you adjust it while it is charging. And wold this fi into the screen is off profile.
Ok enough rambling, and thanks for any assistance!

Forget SETCPU. Voltage Control is the way to go. For battery life, I would underclock to 100-800mhz and have -100mv all through the range. For performance, 100-1400 mhz (1.5 & 1.6 ghz are heavily overvolted) and have -100mv from 100-1000 mhz and -75 for 1100-1400. Leave the governers and io schedulers where they are.
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1

kvswim said:
Forget SETCPU. Voltage Control is the way to go. For battery life, I would underclock to 100-800mhz and have -100mv all through the range. For performance, 100-1400 mhz (1.5 & 1.6 ghz are heavily overvolted) and have -100mv from 100-1000 mhz and -75 for 1100-1400. Leave the governers and io schedulers where they are.
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
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Using the voltage control within SetCPU or a voltage control app?
Thanks
Edit: after installing set CPU my phone seems to be running slower than usual. So, I ran a quadrant benchmark and it is coming up with much lower scores than it did before. Is there any way to set it back to the original cpu speeds with out deleting the app?

Delete setcpu and get voltage control from the market.
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sneakysolidbake said:
Delete setcpu and get voltage control from the market.
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+1 for this
running Imoseyon's OC/UV test kernel:
100-1000mhz uv -75
1200-1400 uv -50
IO: deadline and Governor: conservative
smooth as butter and fast when it needs to be, getting a little over 2200 in quadrant

anoninja118 said:
+1 for this
running Imoseyon's OC/UV test kernel:
100-1000mhz uv -75
1200-1400 uv -50
IO: deadline and Governor: conservative
smooth as butter and fast when it needs to be, getting a little over 2200 in quadrant
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Thanks, can I use this with imnuts OTB kernal?

gdubya34 said:
Thanks, can I use this with imnuts OTB kernal?
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you should be able to yeah.. try a different set of settings every day to find whats the most fast and stable on your phone, what works on mine may not necessarily work on yours or someone elses
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G

anoninja118 said:
+1 for this
running Imoseyon's OC/UV test kernel:
100-1000mhz uv -75
1200-1400 uv -50
IO: deadline and Governor: conservative
smooth as butter and fast when it needs to be, getting a little over 2200 in quadrant
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Tried those settings and my phone froze a few times so I upped the voltage to get it to work for me. This is my first time overclocking a phone. Do any of these settings look strange using voltage control?
100-400mhz uv-75
800-1000mhz uv-50
1200-1300mhz uv-25
I haven't froze yet, although I noticed my battery drains a little faster then normal (that was expected).

hmmm.... The GummyCharged GBE 1.9RC1 8/13/11 kernel is not incompatible with the Voltage control free app.
Error message "Unsupported kernel detected. The kernel your device is running is incompatible with Voltage control."

praveen1789 said:
hmmm.... The GummyCharged GBE 1.9RC1 8/13/11 kernel is not incompatible with the Voltage control free app.
Error message "Unsupported kernel detected. The kernel your device is running is incompatible with Voltage control."
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GummyCharge GBE is gingerbread which means stock kernel, no voodoo and therefore no changing of voltage settings
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G

Gotcha! Thanks to that.
Now I have a crazy question below. (trust me there are even more questions all over my mind now)
When they say "ROM", I'm assuming that its collective of Kernel, all the apps and the radio.... Can't we just downgrade the kernel of "GummyCharge GBE" Rom?

anoninja118 said:
+1 for this
running Imoseyon's OC/UV test kernel:
100-1000mhz uv -75
1200-1400 uv -50
IO: deadline and Governor: conservative
smooth as butter and fast when it needs to be, getting a little over 2200 in quadrant
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These gave me a reboot watching netflix on wifi. Will try -25 @ 1300 and see what happens. Thanks for the post though. Its a great starting place for me.
running humble 1.51

Khanusma said:
These gave me a reboot watching netflix on wifi. Will try -25 @ 1300 and see what happens. Thanks for the post though. Its a great starting place for me.
running humble 1.51
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Yeah those are kinda high 'performance' settings, not all phones like being overclocked or undervolted much less both lol.. Start with it just overclocked for a day or two and see how it runs, however there's gonna be some serious battery drain obviously. Then move on to undervolting slowly like maybe -25 across the board and leave 1400 alone for another day or two... just experiment like this until you have the right balance of speed, stability and battery life. As a matter of fact I toned mine down a bit afterwards and it worked nice:
Overclocked to 1.2ghz (1200mhz),
took out 600mhz frequency and set 100 to -75, then 200-800 at -50, 1000 and 1200 at -25
or if you want battery life and don't mind sacrificing a little performance you can underclock to 800mhz and set all to maybe -75... its a lot of testing to find what works for your phone, if it reboots freezes or lags too much its either overclocked too much or undervolted too much
edit: I also use the free voltage control app from the market, it lets you set min. and max. clock speeds as well as voltage so thats all I need lol
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G

praveen1789 said:
Gotcha! Thanks to that.
Now I have a crazy question below. (trust me there are even more questions all over my mind now)
When they say "ROM", I'm assuming that its collective of Kernel, all the apps and the radio.... Can't we just downgrade the kernel of "GummyCharge GBE" Rom?
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Roms are not always all inclusive with a kernel and whatnot.. Most are custom apps, themes, and build/framework remakes to operate on top of the stock roms and will use stock radio and kernel to operate unless a custom radio/kernel is flashed. While most radios and apps will work well with different roms, kernels (being basically the 'engine' for the android OS i believe) are dependant on baseband and will not work by switching them around or flashing one over the other. This is the way I understand it to be anyway, I just know kernels are not compatible between 2.2 and 2.3
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G

anoninja118 said:
Roms are not always all inclusive with a kernel and whatnot.. Most are custom apps, themes, and build/framework remakes to operate on top of the stock roms and will use stock radio and kernel to operate unless a custom radio/kernel is flashed. While most radios and apps will work well with different roms, kernels (being basically the 'engine' for the android OS i believe) are dependant on baseband and will not work by switching them around or flashing one over the other. This is the way I understand it to be anyway, I just know kernels are not compatible between 2.2 and 2.3
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G
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Makes sense. I'm sure the apps and radio are dependent on the kernel as it is the core. (like an Operating system that provides the platform for applications to work.)
I'm sure the developers thoroughly test these combinations before releasing any ROM, .
However I want to have some fun updating the kernel on the GC GBE 1.9 that I currently have on my charge with couple other kernels out there....
Will see if I create some magic

praveen1789 said:
Makes sense. I'm sure the apps and radio are dependent on the kernel as it is the core. (like an Operating system that provides the platform for applications to work.)
I'm sure the developers thoroughly test these combinations before releasing any ROM, .
However I want to have some fun updating the kernel on the GC GBE 1.9 that I currently have on my charge with couple other kernels out there....
Will see if I create some magic
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don't use froyo kernels with GB (as of right now there's only one custom GB kernel, navenedrobs nameless ext4 one), it will just lead to a soft bricked phone... i could be wrong but i think imnuts and imoseyon from team gummy are working on some GB kernel awesomeness
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G

What about the noop, fifo, bfq, vr options? What do these mean?
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gdubya34 said:
What about the noop, fifo, bfq, vr options? What do these mean?
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Don't touch them. They will either make your phone crawl or have FCs. It hasn't been implemented in the kernel yet.
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1

kvswim said:
Don't touch them. They will either make your phone crawl or have FCs. It hasn't been implemented in the kernel yet.
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
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Oh crap, I am not sure what one it was on when I installed it. I think I changed it by accident. right now it is on the vr setting.
Are there any setting s to avoid when messing with the voltage control, and if I delete the app does go back to the default settings?

gdubya34 said:
Oh crap, I am not sure what one it was on when I installed it. I think I changed it by accident. right now it is on the vr setting.
Are there any setting s to avoid when messing with the voltage control, and if I delete the app does go back to the default settings?
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To avoid: IO schedulers, overvolting (only done in Extreme), and going above 1400 mhz, as 1500 & 1600 are HEAVILY overvolted. Toasted processors=bad magic.
However, you can switch the governers from conservative to performance, but its kind of useless.
If you delete the app it will NOT go back to default...I think. The default io scheduler for imoseyon's kernel is deadline, I forgot what PBJ's is. If you switched it and its still working, don't worry about it.
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1

AntonX's kernel and setcpu

Good evening all,
I am currently running vb with the latest above kernel and xda-edition of setcpu...
My question, has anyone found voltages that are stable?
I have always/only used tegrak, when adjusting the voltages I am able to adjust "internal" as well as "core" voltages, as you may know setcpu only allows the adjustment of one voltage. So, I set all levels to the "internal" voltages that worked for me on tegrak(scaling set to smartass), everything was working fine until I rebooted the phone... At that point the phone would boot then freeze after the third media scan, I had to flash back to the b1 kernel to get back up and running.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
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You're trying to undervolt? Anton's b5 in undervolted. I'd stick with his recommended values.

How do you actually implement these voltages? I've only used Tegrak so this is new
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QUIETLYloud , I dont't have paid Tegrak so I cannot make a thorough test.
I tried using very old Ultimate version available someplace on the web, and it does in fact seem to mess the phone up. I didn't need to reflash, but had to uninstall Tegrak, reboot, clear caches, and rescan SD for errors. Google says that there were issues with Tegrak module and custom kernels, but they were supposedly fixed around version 1.4.
I tied the new free version 1.6.7 from Market. It doesn't let me do much (like setting on boot), but at least it seems to work correctly with frequencies.
The setup with OC kernel is a little different. Before, if you wanted to OC, you would go and enable CPU Max Frequency, which would replace 1 GHz. Do not go there! The kernel already has all overclocking frequencies available. Instead set the Scaling to the highest frequency you want to use (let's say 1.2 Ghz, which is CPU Level 2). Then go to Optimization and set desired voltages for the frequencies you chose. No need to change anything for frequencies above you max scaling, the CPU will not go there anyway. Maybe it's a good idea to completely clear Tegrak data and start setting it up form scratch.
Let me know if you succeed.
Btw common Google knowledge doesn't seem to recommend lowering internal voltages. You will not gain much, there is just not a lot of current draw there. It's the core that draws a lot of current.
EDIT: Hmm... Tegrak seems to have a problem with smartassV2 governor. If the scaling in Tegrak is set to use anything but all frequencies, including 1.4 Ghz, the governor will never lower the frequency from the highest selected. The kernel itself (with SetCPU or without) doesn't have this problem, it's only when proprietary Tegrak module is loaded.

AntonX...
I decided to scrap tegrak for the time being and use what you recommended with setcpu and left voltages alone until I have a better understanding, since doing so haven't had any problems
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Btw I said before I set the default voltages kind of safe, even if they are slightly undervolted. I'm running the kernel UV-ed a little more with SetCPU for second day without any issues. Here are my numbers right now:
1.4 - 1350
1.3 - 1300
1.2 - 1275
1.0 - 1250
800 - 1175
400 - 1025
200 - 925
100 - 900

Hi guys
I apologize for some noobness coming this way, but I don't understand. Kernel beta5 is oc/uv - what does it mean if I don't use setcpu/tegrak?
Will kernel behave other than prior versions?
And if I decide to do use setcpu? What good does it make if uv makes no change (according to Antonx) and oc will only drain the battery even more, I mean, phone is pretty much fast, so why bother oc it?
Thanks!
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