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Droid Overclock [Pretty Sweet App]

Droid Overclock is an app I ran across on the Market today with all sorts of nice features.
It may have been out for awile, I just didnt see it.
It costs $1.50. Very Nice App

Looks like it does alot more then setcpu

Oh yeah, I bought this app when I had my d2. Wasn't sure if it supported the incredible though and I just use the built in overclocking in CM.
Its a sweet app though and jrummy did a nice job with the interface.
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I also used it on my Dx, sweet app..many features..
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Anyone know if there is anything like this for the Vibrant 4G?
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SetCPU?
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What exactly is overclocking and what does it do? Sorry for the noob question
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Juls317 said:
What exactly is overclocking and what does it do? Sorry for the noob question
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Makes your processor operate at a faster speed, speeding up your phone. It kills your battery faster though.
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SteveG12543 said:
Makes your processor operate at a faster speed, speeding up your phone. It kills your battery faster though.
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Actually (What effects screen brightness and OC CPU have on battery) speeding up your cpu doesn't effect that battery as much as you think its very minimal. So overclock all you want

Does it harm your phone in any way?
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This actually looks a lot better than SetCPU. I like it.

If you overclock too high, to a incompatible setting, the phone will just go into a loop mode. The setting won't be stable.. it errors itself and can't correct it. So you need to scale it back down. Sorry if I don't know all the terms and such.. dinc's are fast just to begin with. I oc'd so I could try and get better benchmark scores. It worked and the phone was stable to where i could use it all the time problem free. I managed to get scores I could be.. once that happened I stopped clocking up, and started scaling back. Undervolting the system with a different kernel / governer setting will yield you the best battery life..
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Set cpu 2.13 overclock

I can't seemed to overclock over 1000 ghz. Am I missing anything?
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moshe22 said:
I can't seemed to overclock over 1000 ghz. Am I missing anything?
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You have to have a kernel that allows overclocking.

moshe22 said:
I can't seemed to overclock over 1000 ghz. Am I missing anything?
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Are you using a custom kernel??
If you are use pimp my cpu to oc
G2X

Also, in case you didnt know.. Kernels may state 1.5Ghz and such but that doesnt mean YOUR phone will be able to go that high. Every device is different so every device's has a different max frequency.

Set CPU currently doesn't work with out kernels. You must install one of the OC/UV kernels from the development section and use the pimp my cpu app to overclock
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Ok, that makes sense I'm using the EB 1.04F trinity kernel +48 and was using pimp my cpu and I can overclock just fine there but I wanted to try out setcpu out.
I have it over clocked @ 1.2 -50 in all frequencies and scheduler is the default one. Force Min Frequency is checked as well.
Thanks
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On a side note, my g2x has been highly unstable after leaving it sit while using pimp my cpu. However, I created a .txt file with clock frequencies and I was able to use setcpu with little to no side effects. But after all, what is ocing even good for? Benchmarks... Mt4g, n1, g1, mt3g, hd2. Tried ocing on all of them and didn't see a noticeable day to day difference compared to stock frequency...
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crx4xharder said:
On a side note, my g2x has been highly unstable after leaving it sit while using pimp my cpu. However, I created a .txt file with clock frequencies and I was able to use setcpu with little to no side effects. But after all, what is ocing even good for? Benchmarks... Mt4g, n1, g1, mt3g, hd2. Tried ocing on all of them and didn't see a noticeable day to day difference compared to stock frequency...
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Over clock is good for overall performance.
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crx4xharder said:
On a side note, my g2x has been highly unstable after leaving it sit while using pimp my cpu. However, I created a .txt file with clock frequencies and I was able to use setcpu with little to no side effects. But after all, what is ocing even good for? Benchmarks... Mt4g, n1, g1, mt3g, hd2. Tried ocing on all of them and didn't see a noticeable day to day difference compared to stock frequency...
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On the mt4g I was able to play dungeon defenders OCed at 1.5 without much lag. Without it the game was almost unplayable because it would lag like crazy when the graphics got too intense. But on the downside it sucked my battery dry within hours
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UNderVolting, opinions, apps?

I'd just like to know your opinions on it, does it save battery, performance? What app do you use? Btw, i know that there is no best app, i am just asking for an opinion so dont flame...lol

It works well for me. Seems to extend battery life. I use oc/uv beater or incredicontrol depending on the ROM.
You have to try and find the lowest voltage where the ROM is still stable under load.

Undervolting saves battery by the pure fact that your CPU gets less power dissipation. How much battery - depends on the setup, the CPU isn't the only power-hungry device in the system. If you use a lot of screen, by reading, for example - undervolting won't help you much. On the other hand, it'll help your standby time, it'll somewhat reduce the heating of the phone and save the battery this way, etc.
OC/UV beater for me, too.

I'll try out oc uv beater. Is it on Google play? Can't seem to find it, otherwise I'll just get it off of a rom or something
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It's a not-under-development (old) app on XDA.

Yeah, found it, do you know if you can use it concurrently with setcpu?
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No reason to. It was meant to control kernel options, using the clock and voltage scalers built into kernels, and not to set the options in runtime like SetCPU.

Jack_R1 said:
No reason to. It was meant to control kernel options, using the clock and voltage scalers built into kernels, and not to set the options in runtime like SetCPU.
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Impressive smart smart man...
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...Awesome... said:
Impressive smart smart man...
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Awesome, i got a bone to pick with you, WHEN are you gonna email me a picture of the kernel instructions!?! Btw, thanks Jack, you da man!

THEindian said:
Yeah, found it, do you know if you can use it concurrently with setcpu?
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Use incredicontrol if you're set on using setcpu
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Yep, tried it, virtuous's sense 4.0 kernel doesn't seem to support it. Thanks for the help estallings

NsTools with SetCpu?

I have both nstools and setcpu running on my phone. Do I need both? I changed the Max to 1200 on nstools and set cpu changed to 1200. Should I just keep one or do they work off each other.
Thanks in advance
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robogoflow said:
I have both nstools and setcpu running on my phone. Do I need both? I changed the Max to 1200 on nstools and set cpu changed to 1200. Should I just keep one or do they work off each other.
Thanks in advance
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One of them is enough...i prefere NS-Tools because ther you can set a lot whit it..but it´s your decision..
the fact is only one is needed...

thanks. i just love the widget that gives me battery temps. but i guess i can do without it. If the back of my hand starts burning, i should probably stop what im doing.

robogoflow said:
thanks. i just love the widget that gives me battery temps. but i guess i can do without it. If the back of my hand starts burning, i should probably stop what im doing.
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better to use one apps...

[Poll] Favorite CPU App

I'm curious as to what everyone's favorite app for changing kernel frequencies is. I figured I'd do a poll thread to find out so that I wouldn't have to ask in different threads from time to time. If you want you can also list why in the comments.

I been using the built in CPU freq changers, works fine.. before that I use setcpu
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InflatedTitan said:
I been using the built in CPU freq changers, works fine.. before that I use setcpu
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I just started using Voltage Control. It seems pretty good. I heard some good things about setCPU and some bad. That's why I started this thread. I wanna know the difference between all of them cuz there's so many lol. Like, I don't know if some are the same app with just different names or if they are made and coded differently to handle things differenly.

I used setcpu before anything similar was integrated into ROMs, I bought it.after a while and haven't used it since. I don't overclock or anything because I don't use my phone for games, mainly media.
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Trickster mod is what I use
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Setcpu, sometimes NoFrIlls.
I also use CPUnotify to tell me if the phones cores are active via the status bar.
WR
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I mostly use the buil-in cpu tool. Together with some other tools (CPU-Spy) it's completely sufficient.

reblow said:
I mostly use the buil-in cpu tool. Together with some other tools (CPU-Spy) it's completely sufficient.
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I love the CPU Spy app. It's usually one of the first apps I install.
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absolutelygrim said:
I used setcpu before anything similar was integrated into ROMs, I bought it.after a while and haven't used it since. I don't overclock or anything because I don't use my phone for games, mainly media.
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I never thought about that. So is overclocking really meant mostly for gaming?
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SkizzMcNizz said:
I never thought about that. So is overclocking really meant mostly for gaming?
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I'd say so. But I use to have an aria which was a 600MHz single core. I clocked it up to 806MHz. And that was considered fast 2 years ago!
With a dual core at 1.5GHz, I'd say it's nothing more than a battery drain if you aren't gaming. What I do however, is underclock my hox while the screen is off.
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absolutelygrim said:
I'd say so. But I use to have an aria which was a 600MHz single core. I clocked it up to 806MHz. And that was considered fast 2 years ago!
With a dual core at 1.5GHz, I'd say it's nothing more than a battery drain if you aren't gaming. What I do however, is underclock my hox while the screen is off.
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Using profiles? What do you underclock it to? Whenever I would do that I would set up a profile for screen off and use max 384 and min 192 or 384 but that may be a little extreme.

SkizzMcNizz said:
Using profiles? What do you underclock it to? Whenever I would do that I would set up a profile for screen off and use max 384 and min 192 or 384 but that may be a little extreme.
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Governor powersave and max and min both at 205 MHz
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I use System Tuner Pro. It does CPU speed, voltage, I/O and so much more.

the_scotsman said:
I use System Tuner Pro. It does CPU speed, voltage, I/O and so much more.
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Same here....
I agree though, that there is rarely a real "need" to overclock unless you feel the rom is slow or you are an avid gamer..

I use SetCPU because it was the first app I came across, but I've stuck with it for the small features. I like being able to set notifications when individual profiles become active (useful for games), and seeing the "Time in State" pie chart lets me know if my CPU is being fussy when idling. Sure, other apps may have more features, but there's literally no reason for me to look for a new one

Rom toolbox pro works fantastic!
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Using No-Frills, not a whole lot of features but the most lightweight app I have found for handling OC, I like SetCPU but I would get wakelocks it seemed using profiles, so didn't add much benefit IMO.