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.
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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.
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Impressive smart smart man...
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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!
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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
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I have a friend on an Android phone. Long story short, he needs to start having better battery life.
I know that having custom kernals allows for overclocking, but all he needs is the underclocking.
If I root his phone, set his profiles up without a custom kermal, would that still help his battery when setting up his max and min settings?
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Yes, SetCPU should lower battery consumption. Configure your screen off profile to underclock the CPU when the screen is shut off. You will need to have your phone rooted for this.
you should notice a significant gain of battery life. This thread should provide some more information.
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If I root his phone, set his profiles up without a custom kermal, would that still help his battery when setting up his max and min settings?
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Not necessarily. Underclocking can sometimes use more battery when your phone is active. With less power the process takes more time to activate and that means more juice. Search in threads for "underclock", you'll find more infos on the subject.
Hey guys, what I'm asking is does he specifically need a kernal? Or, can he rootv and JUST use Set CPU?
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Imo, he would get better uc/oc results with a modified kernel.
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Hey guys, what I'm asking is does he specifically need a kernal? Or, can he rootv and JUST use Set CPU?
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to answer you, no he can use just root and setCPU.
custom kernels help alot. but its not required.
Firstly: What phone does your friend have? Make and model, Android OS version, etc.
Secondly: If your friend wants to seriously underclock his phone, tell him to look into low-voltage kernels. He would probably just be better off with a custom ROM and such. If he has a question, tell him to type it into Google and the answer will most likely pop up.
Thirdly: SetCPU will always help with performance/battery consumption, you just have to be rooted for it to work and learn how to set up profiles properly. Once again, Google is your friend.
My friend tells me that on demand is the best setting for setCPU, but I keep reading that smart ass 2 is the best.
What do you guys suggest?
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My friend tells me that on demand is the best setting for setCPU, but I keep reading that smart ass 2 is the best.
What do you guys suggest?
I am using cm7 stable with the Tiamat Kernel.
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I use ONDEMAND for wake and SMARTASS for sleep. Works for me,
Thank you! Anyone else care to comment?
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My friend tells me that on demand is the best setting for setCPU, but I keep reading that smart ass 2 is the best.
What do you guys suggest?
I am using cm7 stable with the Tiamat Kernel.
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I use smartass for wake and powersave for screen off.
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LOL two completely opposite opinions.
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I use conservative and I see no difference from On Demand except when my phone wakes from the screen being off for a good while.
Edit: It's probably because I use powersave while it's off, so it'd probably be a bit better if I changed the governor while the screen with off, but it's fine for me.
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I just use on demand but I'm not overclocking or underclocking. I'm just using it as a battery saver, with profiles set up for different things. Gained me an extra 6 hrs almost of battery so I'm pretty content with it.
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I think ill just use on demand
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On demand isn't even an option. I just went with smart ass until someone tells me something different.
Shoot I thought I was supposed to use smart ass 2. I didn't see that option either.
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seh6183 said:
On demand isn't even an option. I just went with smart ass until someone tells me something different.
Shoot I thought I was supposed to use smart ass 2. I didn't see that option either.
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You want to use smartass. Its another version of interactive. Smartass will auto underclock to 245mhz with screen off as well.
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You want to use smartass. Its another version of interactive. Smartass will auto underclock to 245mhz with screen off as well.
Ondemand is good for performance but it won't help your battery life like smartass will.
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Hello!
You probably already heard about the OC module by coolbho3000. It's really nice and most of the credits should go to him.
Last night I was checking the module's code and tweaking it, and today I want to release the changes I've made to it.
Basically, the changes are the following:
- Overclock up to 1.9GHz
- It also supports the following speeds: 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8 GHz (with a voltage lower than 1300000uV)
- Code improved a little.
I've attached a ZIP file with the compiled module, a modified thermald.conf, and the source code.
Enjoy it!
Got a guide to install?
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You can find a guide to install it in the original thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1665470
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You can find a guide to install it in the original thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1665470
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How about you post instructions in the OP then?
This is good but you should add a link to original thread.
and like Reviewers said put the instructions in there
look forward to trying it
Does this Undervolt the stock cpu speeds? anyone got a module that only does just that, undervolts with no overclocks. I personally think the phone is snappy enough at the stock speeds and have no desire to overclock. but If i could undervolt it for more batt life at stock speeds i'd be all for it.
How is this working for everyone?
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Does this work on all ROMs?
Works fine mostly stable, some apps force close or just don't open at the max freq.
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Does this Undervolt the stock cpu speeds? anyone got a module that only does just that, undervolts with no overclocks. I personally think the phone is snappy enough at the stock speeds and have no desire to overclock. but If i could undervolt it for more batt life at stock speeds i'd be all for it.
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The battery scripts in most of the custom roms out right now already include under clocking scripts, I thought. Noob here though.
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The battery scripts in most of the custom roms out right now already include under clocking scripts, I thought. Noob here though.
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underclocking and undervolting are two entirely different things. also I haven't heard of a ROM that underclocks as that would affect performance (read: speed)
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The Famous Waninkoko. Nice work with the mod. I hope you tackle other mods for the One S.
And kind of unrelated, but HUGE thanks for all your work on cIOS back in the day.
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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
I'm on viper xl with elementalx default overclocked to 1.7. Venom tweaks can be a little mindboggling. Anyone wanna share their settings that provide no lag and good battery life? Which I/o scheduler and how much read ahead size? Which governor? And should I undervolt the global voltage or mess with the seperate voltages? Thanks you n advance if you have any advice
And what dpi do you guys like?
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roguly said:
I'm on viper xl with elementalx default overclocked to 1.7. Venom tweaks can be a little mindboggling. Anyone wanna share their settings that provide no lag and good battery life? Which I/o scheduler and how much read ahead size? Which governor? And should I undervolt the global voltage or mess with the seperate voltages? Thanks you n advance if you have any advice
And what dpi do you guys like?
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All phones will react differently so this information will not help you. Google each setting to see how if it will affect your phone and then change it to achieve what it is you desire. Then test, if you get reboots/bugginess, change settings and test again till things are optimized to your liking. Good luck, have fun. If this seems too much for you, my advice is don't touch those settings.
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All phones will react differently so this information will not help you. Google each setting to see how if it will affect your phone and then change it to achieve what it is you desire. Then test, if you get reboots/bugginess, change settings and test again till things are optimized to your liking. Good luck, have fun. If this seems too much for you, my advice is don't touch those settings.
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I'd like to know how all phones will react different if we all have the same phone 0.0
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I'd like to know how all phones will react different if we all have the same phone 0.0
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Each chipset doesn't leave the factory the exact same that'd be impossible... Not all chips are clocked to 1.5 think of that as an average...having saying that..each phone will react differently to different voltages and cpu settings
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