I've been searching around for a bit and cant find a definitive answer on the affects of performance mode on the infinity (Not rooted, running stock). I wanted to get everyone's opinion on how exactly it affects the OVERALL performance of the infinity.
Is the trade off worth the decreased battery life? Does it alleviate some of the lag we sometimes see in battery saving and balanced mode? What areas ( browsing, app draw animation, switching between home screens etc...) do you see the greatest increase in performance?
Also i don't really care about the different benchmark scores that are out there. I want opinions on EVERYDAY USAGE, not benchmark results. Thanks in advance guys!
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running stock deodexed rom in performance mode,
set cpu with on demand governor and minimum clock bumped up to around 240,
browser to ram installed along with system tuner tweeks I couldn't be happier.
Battery life is still great and I get really good performance with Dolphin and good performance with Chrome.
lafester said:
running stock deodexed rom in performance mode,
set cpu with on demand governor and minimum clock bumped up to around 240,
browser to ram installed along with system tuner tweeks I couldn't be happier.
Battery life is still great and I get really good performance with Dolphin and good performance with Chrome.
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Like i said, looking for info on COMPLETE stock, not rooted... running the performance mode option on the inifinity.
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Good question...
I don't see much difference tween performance and balanced.
Gaming is a tad better in performance maybe because it pushes the GPU a bit.
As far as everyday use and battery life not much more speed in performance.
Just another button to push versus a root tweak.
Hmmm, OP - why not just try it yourself and see?? Who would be a better judge than you, on your own device, using the apps that you use??
Everyone uses these tablets differently and just because someone else gets better results with their setup, doesn't mean that you would see the same results...
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I use Power Saving for everything except Gaming, works nicely with upto 9 hours of screen time.
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Hmmm, OP - why not just try it yourself and see?? Who would be a better judge than you, on your own device, using the apps that you use??
Everyone uses these tablets differently and just because someone else gets better results with their setup, doesn't mean that you would see the same results...
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I have tried it, but obviously im not the only one who owns a tf700, nor is my use of the tablet the same as everyone else. Also there have been obvious differences in individual tablet performance regardless of performance mode. Hence why im asking everyone's opinion. That way i can compare my results to those of everyone else and see if there is a correlation. Cant do that by just looking at my own individual results
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I use Power Saving for everything except Gaming, works nicely with upto 9 hours of screen time.
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ok...but how does your tab perform in performance mode as compared to battery saving? Not really getting alot of info from that post. Thanks for responding though!
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I have tried it, but obviously im not the only one who owns a tf700, nor is my use of the tablet the same as everyone else. Also there have been obvious differences in individual tablet performance regardless of performance mode. Hence why im asking everyone's opinion. That way i can compare my results to those of everyone else and see if there is a correlation. Cant do that by just looking at my own individual results
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I guess I misunderstood your post - I thought you were trying to determine if you should use performance mode or not...
So, what were your conclusions when you tried it?
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I guess I misunderstood your post - I thought you were trying to determine if you should use performance mode or not...
So, what were your conclusions when you tried it?
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Honestly no real difference. Seems like a lot of wasted power for no gain and decreased battery life. But i might be wrong.
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Like i said, looking for info on COMPLETE stock, not rooted... running the performance mode option on the inifinity.
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If you want good performance you need to at least root your device.
as far as cpu speed goes, all performance mode does is kick up the max from 1.5GHz to 1.7GHz. in power saving mode the max is 1GHz. not sure about gpu changes.
i tend to use power saving mode unless im playing a resource intensive game, which honestly doesn't happen all that often. i don't really see a difference between the modes as far as changing between home screens, launcher drawer, etc.
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If you want good performance you need to at least root your device.
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Understandable, but that's not what im asking. If i wanted to know the what rom to use and how that specific rom performed on performance mode, then i would ask that. But im not asking that. Thanks anyways.
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as far as cpu speed goes, all performance mode does is kick up the max from 1.5GHz to 1.7GHz. in power saving mode the max is 1GHz. not sure about gpu changes.
i tend to use power saving mode unless im playing a resource intensive game, which honestly doesn't happen all that often. i don't really see a difference between the modes as far as changing between home screens, launcher drawer, etc.
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I appreciate the response. Very informative. What do you usually use your tab for?
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If its like the 201 which I assume it is then:
Performance mode has higher maximum speed and is more aggressive with powergating. It also has higher contrast and I think faster bus link speed. 3d speed is best at this setting.
Balanced will scale to quad core but will be more hesitant to hit high speed and ungate cores compared to performance mode. The net is a slight stutter. The contrast is lower. 2d balanced performance is the same as performance and powersave is about half the 2d speed.
Powersave is more conservative with speeds and gating. Is good for video playback if you can get over the dynamic contrast which is higher in this mode.
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If its like the 201 which I assume it is then:
Performance mode has higher maximum speed and is more aggressive with powergating. It also has higher contrast and I think faster bus link speed. 3d speed is best at this setting.
Balanced will scale to quad core but will be more hesitant to hit high speed and ungate cores compared to performance mode. The net is a slight stutter. The contrast is lower. 2d balanced performance is the same as performance and powersave is about half the 2d speed.
Powersave is more conservative with speeds and gating. Is good for video playback if you can get over the dynamic contrast which is higher in this mode.
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Great post thanks man
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hiemanshu said:
I use Power Saving for everything except Gaming, works nicely with upto 9 hours of screen time.
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Really? My Infinity is incredibly slow in PS Mode. Running stock ROM, not rooted.
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Honestly no real difference. Seems like a lot of wasted power for no gain and decreased battery life. But i might be wrong.
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I've had noticeable lag in balanced mode while watching 1080P video. I get zero lag with performance mode. I also notice the graphics frame rate is smoother and higher on performance mode as well. Especially when you play games that totally utilize the tegra 3 chip set.
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I appreciate the response. Very informative. What do you usually use your tab for?
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Most of the time I've spent with the tablet so far has been flashing roms (stock based and cm10 testing which tends to be very time consuming lol) and tweaking stuff. When I do actually USE it, it has been for media consumption most of the time (displaying photos for friends that are over, reading ebooks, looking up something on the web, reading XDA, etc). Nothing really resource intensive.
Stock, non-rooted, not unlocked, no tweaks, turned off most bloatware. Running a Live Wallpaper (Steampunk Droid). Have had it since about a week before the release. (yes yes, the store cheated.)
My everyday use is mainly: checking mail, typing documents (books), watching videos (tvshows, films), working in Photoshop Painter and Sketchbook, reading pdf magazines, playing (non-casual) games, reading 9gag, vlc remote, design presentations, playing music, webtesting layouts.
From what I've noticed:
Power Saving:
Delay in loading apps, changing screens, scrolling and swiping (4-5 seconds to load the icons on homescreen). Typing (120wpm) on the dock keyboard drives it completely insane, I have to wait about two minutes for it to finish catching up, and it usually ends up as complete gibberish; Highly amusing, but not very useful. Videos of any size pretty much won't render properly at all. Websites take quite a while to load. Saves the most battery in sleep mode (+-1% loss over 10h wifi off)
Balanced:
Smooth screen transition, appscreen loads (almost) instantly. Lags slightly during intensive use (typing with keyboard, video loading, heavy games, multiple browsing tabs). Videos work alright, anything over 720p won't work properly, Tegra3 games lag (fps of about 5). Ordinary games run fine.
Performance:
Bit more snap-responsive than Balanced, by a fraction of a second. Not vital, still noticable if you're looking for it. Blurays run (more or less) smoothly (ICS isn't designed for it) (tested with Timescapes 4K bluray 1080p mp4 in VLC Béta, it ran the video for 8 hours on high brightness&ips+ with dock connected.). Heavy games (MW3, NOVA3) run fine. No delay between swiping, switching screens or launching apps.
There is no difference in screen contrast or brightness between Balanced and Perfomance as far as I can see.
Personally, I use Battery Saving when I put the device to sleep or on idle (the occasional email it can handle just fine). For normal use, I go for Balanced mode. If I notice it is a bit sluggish in games and videos, I switch to performance for the duration and then just swap back once I'm done. Using performance for anything other than when it has trouble rendering is a waste of battery and power.
Hope this helps.
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I am considering using a custom ROM on the transformer, but is it worth it, I am mainly after performance increases. I see on a few that there are higher benchmark results, but does this actually translate into a real world speed increase?
I remember some custom ROMs for the original i9000 Galaxy S doubled the benchmark performance, but that was more down to "cheating" the benchmark than anything else, although it certainly was noticeable at times.
One of the slight criticisms I have of the TF101 is a slight amount of lag / lack of responsiveness occasionally - not a deal breaker, but if it can be improved then why not? Obviously not at the cost of stability though.
I think the SGS2 has spoiled me a bit here!
apparently there is a big increase (mostly from overclocking). i had the standard firmware for 3 days only, so I can't really tell, but one of my co-workers has a locked B70 and was wow-ed by my TF, the smoothness and speed of it.
Yes, I'm waiting too, to root it and put a cutom ROM on. I read, heard and saw the performance difference. Mainly from the overclock, but also thanks to kernel tweaks and stuff. So If you can root, do it
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I've never been that keen on the idea of overclocking, as I prefer to have a bit of headroom, but I guess if it is safe and makes a big difference, then I would give it a shot. What would be a good middle ground for stability / speed ?
1.4 IMO is very stable and doesn't increase heat or use more battery but the real world performance is noticable. I have never run a benchmark so I can't give you any numbers. Just my normal use.
Cheers for the reply.
Is there any one ROM that stands out as being the best performing?
Contrary to what people think they all perform about the same. There is no source so everyone is building of the same stock rom. If you want the same look then go with Revolution. If you want a little tweaked then go with Prime (What I'm on). If you want the tweaks and a nice tools package then go with Revolver (What I was just running). All 3 devs are really responsive to problems
If you start from a clean base and don't restore any system data from other builds then they will all be fast. The real speed difference is in the kernel and those can be flashed seperately from the rom. Clemsyn is really putting out kernels this week. Some good. Some not so good. Go with whats right for you.
EDIT: I have actually installed all 3 roms in the last week and run them at stock and at 1.4 Ghz. They all performed exactly the same for me. They were all equally stable. I don't use benchmarks because they can be fudged.
I've used all three too. I notice huge improvements with webpage rendering. It's almost as fast as my laptop, where as before I avoided using the browser if possible. The ability to hide the status bar is a really nice addition to the latest version of revolver.
Edit: autorotate is also alot faster.
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What would be a good middle ground for stability / speed ?
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There is no such thing as an overclocking "middle ground" when dealing with mobile chipsets such as the Tegra. It's not like overclocking a desktop computer where the CPU will constantly run at the specified speed; mobile chipsets are pre-configured to utilize only as much power as necessary. For that reason I always ramp up my tablet to the max clock speed it can reliably handle, because then the governor will handle balancing between speed, stability, and battery life. My clock speed can range from 216Mhz to 1624Mhz, and on the interactive governor I can still achieve a good 8 hours of battery life from a single charge.
Of course that's not to say that you couldn't constantly run at 1624Mhz all the time, and I do sometimes lock it to that speed for games. But for much of the OS interaction, it's not necessary to run at full speed all the time, and you won't notice a difference even if it is locked at full speed. It just comes in handy every once in a while for things like loading apps, loading web pages, and playing games.
I am pretty sure this is known, but I have seen some people talk about lag or speed issues. Try going under setting > development > Force GPU
I am running the flashable rogers zip and don't have a single issue with speed so far. The thing runs like a bullet with force gpu on. It basically lets the gpu take over all 2d rendering which helps a lot.
does it affect the battery life though?
I would assume a little bit, but not much.
We seem to find the battery life improvements on our transformer and transformer prime seemed to even out pretty good.
Just wanted to get a quick poll from all Infinity users, as to which CPU mode/setting you've found yourself using the most?
Back and forth between on demand and interactive. Usually on demand though.
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Since this is my game and multimedia tab, performance of course! If ac is available so much the better. It cuts through a full hd 1080p movie like butter, this buffalo linkstation NAS is really what will make the 700 shine. Wish Asus upgraded to a dual band wifi though, it's worth it.
Oh yeah, 64g is going to provide that much needed storage space for the next gen of games for the Tegra3.
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Back and forth between on demand and interactive. Usually on demand though.
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I think you're confusing ASUS's power scheme and CPU governors here. The question was about the former.
The powersaving mode makes the CPU run at 500MHz max., balanced - 1500MHz max., performance - 1700MHz max. What governs the actual speeds, however, is the CPU governor.
The governors are a different thing then. Interactive is there by default, performance makes CPU run at the highest clock speed all the time, etc. So you can be in powersaving mode and on the performance governor. You need to be rooted to change the governor.
I think there are some tweaks and settings apart from that, as the difference between 1,5 and 1,7GHz is not that huge, but many benchmark results tend to be considerably higher in performance mode (although some have reported getting higher results on balanced), but I don't know the details.
Going back to OP's question - I think balanced is OK most of the time, as it gives you a good performance:battery life balance.
d14b0ll0s said:
I think you're confusing ASUS's power scheme and CPU governors here. The question was about the former.
The powersaving mode makes the CPU run at 500MHz max., balanced - 1500MHz max., performance - 1700MHz max. What governs the actual speeds, however, is the CPU governor.
The governors are a different thing then. Interactive is there by default, performance makes CPU run at the highest clock speed all the time, etc. So you can be in powersaving mode and on the performance governor. You need to be rooted to change the governor.
I think there are some tweaks and settings apart from that, as the difference between 1,5 and 1,7GHz is not that huge, but many benchmark results tend to be considerably higher in performance mode (although some have reported getting higher results on balanced), but I don't know the details.
Going back to OP's question - I think balanced is OK most of the time, as it gives you a good performance:battery life balance.
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Actually power save mode limits one core to 1 ghz ( on the prime so prolly 1.2 on the infinity and also caps speeds when certain amounts of cores are active. You can still play many games on powersave without a drop in performance though.
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It limits it to 500MHz on my Infinity, so are you guessing or you know it for sure?
Most of the time it's on Balanced, but when I do games or other CPU intensive things I switch it to Performance.
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It limits it to 500MHz on my Infinity, so are you guessing or you know it for sure?
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cpu spy shows 910 for me while running Jelly Defense in power savings mode. I believe it can go higher than that but I'm not certain for sure.
On balanced usually. I noticed on energy saving mode the colors are different? Or maybe the contrast? Colors on balanced and performance are fine. In fact, I think 1080p movies can be played in power saving mode. For games I use performance mode.
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I use power-saving. Because then I don't need to recharge the pad more than once a week (After 7 days of light usage, the tab had almost 50% battery left and the dock was empty. Awesome!). If I need more oomp, performance mode is dead easy to activate.
This pad is fast anyway
Wow I use the tablet alot more than you, I sometimes charge it twice a day.
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Wow I use the tablet alot more than you, I sometimes charge it twice a day.
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I use it all day. I'm also near a outlet st all times, so I'm always plugged in.
Same here 2 charges a day. Now that I turned on the haptic feedback maybe 3 times a day lmaoo.
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Me on balanced usually.
Seems as though it's good for most common uses.
Haha yeah, but what worries me is that charging a lot won't it degrade the battery quicker?
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Mostly balanced.
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I use Performance Mode here's why:http://mark-tech.blogspot.com/2012/09/tegra-3-performance-modes-tf700t-tf300t.html
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I use Performance Mode here's why:http://mark-tech.blogspot.com/2012/09/tegra-3-performance-modes-tf700t-tf300t.html
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Good read, thanks.
80% of the time that I'm just taking care of email, browsing the web, installing/updating apps, watching non-hd videos, and the other such, I keep it on balanced.
Gaming, watching HD videos, and other such, I pump it up to performance.
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I use Performance Mode here's why:http://mark-tech.blogspot.com/2012/09/tegra-3-performance-modes-tf700t-tf300t.html
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K...after reading that...I'm switching to perf mode and I'm staying on perf in System tuner also...
Not too worried about warming the CPU up a little.
The tablet runs like a 440 hemi with a triple on top in these modes! :fingers-crossed:
Hi guys, I asked my dad to buy the TF700 (this would be my first tablet) in my home country because the model hasn't been released in the UK (it should be today) and it's cheaper there. A friend of mine will be bringing it to me when he comes back from summer holidays.
So I've had him do the proper inspection on my tablet (according to this thread) by alienedd), and so far the tablet has passed most of the tests. But just now he noted that the tablet feels a bit warm (in particular at one of the corners of the tablet), considerably warmer than the iPad (he has been reading blogs and watching youtube HD videos using the tablet).
I wonder what kind of normal temperature should I expect for this tablet? and whether I should be concerned with what my dad noted.
Thanks in advance!!
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Hi guys, I asked my dad to buy the TF700 (this would be my first tablet) in my home country because the model hasn't been released in the UK (it should be today) and it's cheaper there. A friend of mine will be bringing it to me when he comes back from summer holidays.
So I've had him do the proper inspection on my tablet (according to this thread) by alienedd), and so far the tablet has passed most of the tests. But just now he noted that the tablet feels a bit warm (in particular at one of the corners of the tablet), considerably warmer than the iPad (he has been reading blogs and watching youtube HD videos using the tablet).
I wonder what kind of normal temperature should I expect for this tablet? and whether I should be concerned with what my dad noted.
Thanks in advance!!
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What sort of tests was he running? High performance activities like certain games will push the temperature up. it could feel pretty warm, but will cool off before damage is done.
Just web surfing, and typing this, my TF700 is running at 25C.
My top left corner of the tablet (where the power button is) gets a bit warmer than other spots while watching youtube videos.
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Hi guys, I asked my dad to buy the TF700 (this would be my first tablet) in my home country because the model hasn't been released in the UK (it should be today) and it's cheaper there. A friend of mine will be bringing it to me when he comes back from summer holidays.
So I've had him do the proper inspection on my tablet (according to this thread) by alienedd), and so far the tablet has passed most of the tests. But just now he noted that the tablet feels a bit warm (in particular at one of the corners of the tablet), considerably warmer than the iPad (he has been reading blogs and watching youtube HD videos using the tablet).
I wonder what kind of normal temperature should I expect for this tablet? and whether I should be concerned with what my dad noted.
Thanks in advance!!
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Just have him install Cool Tool @ playstore. You can set it as a floating widget. It monitors everything that you choose it to monitor. I have it monitoring battery temp. CPU speeds and WiFi signal strengths. This will help you determine much more accurately if your temp is getting to extreme. On my daily use with my Infinity, my temps never go above 100 degrees unless I'm pushing it with heavy gaming.
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With brightness set to ~20-30%, I normally see room temperature + a few degrees, basically 24-27*C, sometimes more, sometimes less.
With brightness set to max. and in some sunrays at it, I was getting as high as 41-47*C.
Edit: I meant the battery temperature, as this is what I have monitored in the tray.
The tab I have shows 120.07F degrees right out of sleep.
Then after browsing it ramps to 140.00F degrees in balanced mode with nothing forced.
Never seen the temp above 140.00F
I use system tuner to look at the CPU temperature.
I guess SysTune is accurate...I wouldn't know if it was lying anyhoo.
My previous Acer tablet was returned because it was showing temperatures in the 195F-225F degree range with below normal use.
That thing started crashing all over the place.
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The tab I have shows 120.07F degrees right out of sleep.
Then after browsing it ramps to 140.00F degrees in balanced mode with nothing forced.
Never seen the temp above 140.00F
I use system tuner to look at the CPU temperature.
I guess SysTune is accurate...I wouldn't know if it was lying anyhoo.
My previous Acer tablet was returned because it was showing temperatures in the 195F-225F degree range with below normal use.
That thing started crashing all over the place.
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Holy what? That's insane. My computer doesn't even hit 100F.
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Holy what? That's insane. My computer doesn't even hit 100F.
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Sooo if my tablet is at 102F right now just from browsing websites (5 tabs open) do you guys think i should try to exchange it for another? It got pretty hot yesterday when i played zenbound 2 for maybe 15 min. Brightness on about 2,% performance mode to get it to stop altering screen brightness ( auto is off).
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Sooo if my tablet is at 102F right now just from browsing websites (5 tabs open) do you guys think i should try to exchange it for another? It got pretty hot yesterday when i played zenbound 2 for maybe 15 min. Brightness on about 2,% performance mode to get it to stop altering screen brightness ( auto is off).
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I just played ShadowGun for 10 minutes then quickly checked temp and found it was only 93F in ~80F ambient temp. Highest I've seen on my tab (outdoor use) is 118F during the hottest part of Midwest summer when it was 100+F for days on end. Based on my experiences, anything above 120F would seem a bit abnormal.
Just checked mine using System Tuner and it was at 120F after short use of Tapatalk, etc... I believe this is completely normal - its not even warm to the touch on the outside...
For those that say it theirs never even reaches 100 degree F, what are you using to check the temperature?
EDIT: Ha! Cool Tool reports 95F while System Tuner reports 127F! Obviously, one of them is wrong - or one is monitoring CPU temp and the other is battery temp. Guess we need to clarify which tool is reporting which temp...
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The tab I have shows 120.07F degrees right out of sleep.
Then after browsing it ramps to 140.00F degrees in balanced mode with nothing forced.
Never seen the temp above 140.00F
I use system tuner to look at the CPU temperature.
I guess SysTune is accurate...I wouldn't know if it was lying anyhoo.
My previous Acer tablet was returned because it was showing temperatures in the 195F-225F degree range with below normal use.
That thing started crashing all over the place.
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That doesn't sound right. Your tablet would literally be smoking and smelling if it were that high wouldn't it?! Having it functioning alone with such high temps shouldn't be possible. It will literally be too hot to touch and would definitly fry your cores? Mine when it reached 104 degrees F. It was hard to hold due to the amount of heat. I can't imagine temps going 140 and above!
Edit: using Cool Tool.
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That doesn't sound right. Your tablet would literally be smoking and smelling if it were that high wouldn't it?! Having it functioning alone with such high temps shouldn't be possible. It will literally be too hot to touch and would definitly fry your cores? Mine when it reached 104 degrees F. It was hard to hold due to the amount of heat. I can't imagine temps going 140 and above!
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I don't know what to tell ya...
It's hit a 140 a few times as reported by Sys Tuner.
I've done some resetting in System Tuner and have gotten the temps back down.
Out of sleep I'm seeing 103 degrees now.
It still hits 140 occasionally.
I can tell when it's cooking because the area under the back camera gets warm.
Like I said in my original post I wouldn't know if Sys Tuner is lying to me or not.
Yeah, I think Sys Tuner is reporting the temperature wrong - like I said, when SysTuner reports 127F, Cool Tool reports 95F, so something is way off - probably Sys Tuner is wrong is my guess...
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BxMxK said:
I just played ShadowGun for 10 minutes then quickly checked temp and found it was only 93F in ~80F ambient temp. Highest I've seen on my tab (outdoor use) is 118F during the hottest part of Midwest summer when it was 100+F for days on end. Based on my experiences, anything above 120F would seem a bit abnormal.
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Blah guess this one is going back to best buy.. I was using Cool Tool. The back was burning hot and during the middle of me editing my last post to say I was using Cool Tool the tablet crashed and went through a few boot loops until it finally loaded back up.. The 102F temp was just from have 5 tabs opened on browser, using the tablet indoors, almost full battery (just turned on), 20% brightness. I switched it back down to power saving mode just to see and the past few hours it's been at 93-98F from just 2 tabs opened on browser. No games being played since then. I also had it fully off for a few hours in between.
P.S. Do you guys know what serial number your units start with? Mine is C7. At the best buy besides the other C7 I opened the day before (had scratches) the rest of them were C6. Wondering if the batch makes a difference.
I don't think 100F is out of bounds for this device - like I said, mine was at 95F just using tapatalk. Having 5 tabs going in a browser would certainly make it run hotter than Tapatalk...
EDIT: Just out of curiosity, try loading Dual Battery Widget and see what temp is reports...
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jtrosky said:
I don't think 100F is out of bounds for this device - like I said, mine was at 95F just using tapatalk. Having 5 tabs going in a browser would certainly make it run hotter than Tapatalk...
EDIT: Just out of curiosity, try loading Dual Battery Widget and see what temp is reports...
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makes me miss my original prime. I could have 2 browsers with multiple tabs up, checking gmail, playing games, on performance mode (to get away from screen changing brightness even though auto brightness off) and it would only get warm. Now if their updates didn't break my gps and make my screen bug out all the time..
What does dual battery widget do besides monitor battery? I installed it but it just logs battery right? CoolTemp is still at 91F right now. 100F was whatever for a powerful tablet since my laptop burns my legs normall, but once it got to 102+ it started going through boot loops from overheating.
Misera said:
makes me miss my original prime. I could have 2 browsers with multiple tabs up, checking gmail, playing games, on performance mode (to get away from screen changing brightness even though auto brightness off) and it would only get warm. Now if their updates didn't break my gps and make my screen bug out all the time..
What does dual battery widget do besides monitor battery? I installed it but it just logs battery right? CoolTemp is still at 91F right now. 100F was whatever for a powerful tablet since my laptop burns my legs normall, but once it got to 102+ it started going through boot loops from overheating.
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Dual battery widget also reports the temperature - just curious if it reports the same values. But regardless, my tablet seems to reach the same temps as your - I don't think the temp is problem...
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jtrosky said:
Dual battery widget also reports the temperature - just curious if it reports the same values. But regardless, my tablet seems to reach the same temps as your - I don't think the temp is problem...
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How do you get it to show the temp? On the bottom right it just shows a battery icon, and when you click into the widget it just shows a line graph of the current battery % of the tablet.. while the system menu on bottom right shows the dock %.
Misera said:
How do you get it to show the temp? On the bottom right it just shows a battery icon, and when you click into the widget it just shows a line graph of the current battery % of the tablet.. while the system menu on bottom right shows the dock %.
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I actually turn the notification icon off completely. Create a widget with it instead and then click on the widget - it reports the temperature.
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jtrosky said:
I actually turn the notification icon off completely. Create a widget with it instead and then click on the widget - it reports the temperature.
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Umm how to do you create a widget? It's not listed in the widgets tab on app screen.
I see a great deal of people writing about poor performance on this tab and real, real bad lag and benchmarks ect and i know on stock this machine does not perform awesome but i just wonder... are you guys aware there are 2 performance mode settings in the stock rom? if you go to settings, then power saver, then scroll down to and click sytem performance, then change it to performance mode. then there is another one right on your task bar thats real easy to find, says power saving mode balanced and performance. turn both settings to performance and i found it worked better for me when i was on stock. just curious if some of yall did that or not.
conan1600 said:
I see a great deal of people writing about poor performance on this tab and real, real bad lag and benchmarks ect and i know on stock this machine does not perform awesome but i just wonder... are you guys aware there are 2 performance mode settings in the stock rom? if you go to settings, then power saver, then scroll down to and click sytem performance, then change it to performance mode. then there is another one right on your task bar thats real easy to find, says power saving mode balanced and performance. turn both settings to performance and i found it worked better for me when i was on stock. just curious if some of yall did that or not.
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The one in power saver is just that.
Work on low battery if it is on.
So I just leave it in middle setting.
You want to get the most out of the tablet? Root that sucker and overclock it. I run mine at mine at 1.5 GHz and it'll handle just about everything I throw at it. :thumbup:
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how do i make it automatically select PERFORMANCE MODE every time it boots up?
currently, it'll reset to balanced mode when i restart the tablet
As far as I know, you can't.