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If I'm going to overclock my phone on cm7 what would be the best speed or should I just leave it and how do I freeze my blot wear
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Ive been using hellfirephoenix rom which is an offshoot of cm7 and i can overclock to 1.5 ghz easy, which is the max safe setting id say for everyday use. You also have to have a kernal which supports 1.5 ghz though such as faux123's kernals.
In order to freeze stuff i use AntTek which you can get on the market its very easy to use. Otherwise you can buy the full version of titanium backup i believe.

Use morfic's kernels. There is no max safe overclock, it's up to what your phone can handle. I am sitting comfortably at 1.6

I read you can use pimp my CPU to overclock but I can't find the app
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Yes you can but I couldn't find a link for that on xda. Id say setCpu is still better. Its also free for xda members
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Thanks ill look it up
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likeabosch said:
Yes you can but I couldn't find a link for that on xda. Id say setCpu is still better. Its also free for xda members
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You must be blind then, it's on XDA, and it's also free for XDA members. I don't like the UI of it though.

Not blind found it they want you to down load it from the market so its not free
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it says on some links that its free for xda members but there's no DL link except to the market.... Sooo ya

Does overclocking have any downside to it? Like more battery drain or something?

id3alistic said:
Does overclocking have any downside to it? Like more battery drain or something?
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less stability is the main issue if you OC too high. if you set the right profiles in setcpu you can actually get much better battery life.

id3alistic said:
Does overclocking have any downside to it? Like more battery drain or something?
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Yes. But combined with undervolting I get better than stock battery life running at 1.6.
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OVERCLoCk or NOT

Rooted four couple months now.Using overclock widget and seems to work when it wants to
Kinda new to the game was wondering is it the app my settings or wat? Normaly run it at 800
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I personally use ROM toolbox lite (it's free) to keep from overclocking...I prefer to underclock...

I personally use the "ONDEMAND" CPU governor setting in CyanogenMod, with a minimum clock speed of 200MHz and a maximum of 1.2GHz.
In general, I find overclocking less important to good performance than ensuring software minimalism is maintained. For me, I've noticed RAM consumption will hurt performance much harder than a slow CPU clock speed, and excess RAM consumption is caused by bloated software. Keeping your always-running apps in check will amount to greater performance gains.
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Resolved TYVM
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Plz close
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[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.

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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.

Kernel settings?

Based on us kernel settings which governor/sio combination works the best for a balanced phone... Also I'll like to know other settings I the kernel that u might use... Thanx
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cables2590 said:
Based on us kernel settings which governor/sio combination works the best for a balanced phone... Also I'll like to know other settings I the kernel that u might use... Thanx
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mostly interactive or ondemand + 2048bit row scheduler or fiops.. with those I experienced the best UX.
for other settings:
e.g. multicore power saving, so not so much cores are used permanently, underclockig (damn be nexus 5 has so much power, u never need it!) maybe overclocking the gpu (ingress is a beast!) also some hotplug controlling, for loadthreshold an so on!
you can google for mbqs CPU guide,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2325518
or look here, small apk, providing many infos

thenobol said:
mostly interactive or ondemand + 2048bit row scheduler or fiops.. with those I experienced the best UX.
for other settings:
e.g. multicore power saving, so not so much cores are used permanently, underclockig (damn be nexus 5 has so much power, u never need it!) maybe overclocking the gpu (ingress is a beast!) also some hotplug controlling, for loadthreshold an so on!
you can google for mbqs CPU guide,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2325518
or look here, small apk, providing many infos
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Is that a link for an app or kernel... I'm just confused cuz of the zip file... Also I think I need a new kernel because I don't have all of them options... Even with trickster mod
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cables2590 said:
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Try or die. Never ask which ROM/kernel is best.
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sinkster said:
Try or die. Never ask which ROM/kernel is best.
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I never asked which kernel or for... See u are misunderstanding the question... I'm asking about settings and sio/governor combo works best and other settings... I never asked to name a best kernel
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cables2590 said:
I never asked which kernel or for... See u are misunderstanding the question... I'm asking about settings and sio/governor combo works best and other settings... I never asked to name a best kernel
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True, you never asked which kernel was best. But questions regarding the kernel settings can be found in the relevant threads, creating a separate thread is pointless, really. The best way to find out is follow the thread, and experiment with the tuneables yourself.

cables2590 said:
Is that a link for an app or kernel... I'm just confused cuz of the zip file... Also I think I need a new kernel because I don't have all of them options... Even with trickster mod
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for an app
in 2014 my own one will appear

[Q] RAM Usage - SII Plus GT-I9105P

I don't know if it's just me but my phone is using alot of ram (no?). It's like 550-560 while all apps are closed. When I open any app it gets up to 650-700 and the phone goes really slow. Im using stock bulgarian 4.2.2, non-rooted. Apps installed: Viber,WhatsApp,Zedge,Subway Surfers,Candy Crush Saga,Badoo,Clean Master.
Thanks in advance.

DranzerGig said:
I don't know if it's just me but my phone is using alot of ram (no?). It's like 550-560 while all apps are closed. When I open any app it gets up to 650-700 and the phone goes really slow. Im using stock bulgarian 4.2.2, non-rooted. Apps installed: Viber,WhatsApp,Zedge,Subway Surfers,Candy Crush Saga,Badoo,Clean Master.
Thanks in advance.
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Can u send screenshot?
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rs tony said:
Can u send screenshot?
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Screenshot of what? Ram usage? Apps?

DranzerGig said:
Screenshot of what? Ram usage? Apps?
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Ram usage. Ur ram usage is probably normal
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Don't watch it from clean master panel, watch ur ram level from ur phones ram panel. I think clean master's ram panel shows u wrong level

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Oh.. Maybe it's normal..
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I dont think its normal. Maybe some app is eating my ram. Whats your average usage without apps open?
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DranzerGig said:
I dont think its normal. Maybe some app is eating my ram. Whats your average usage without apps open?
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I use custom rom and its always like less than 500mb. Is ur rom offical(not flashed, rooted etc)?
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you can check which app uses what amount of RAM in settings > more > application manager > running
just remove Clean Master and don't worry about RAM. android pretty much takes care about that automatically.

Well, mine, running the latest, rooted stock 4.2.2 (I9105PXXUBNE1) also drives me nuts with its crazy RAM usage. Idling, it offers me puny 200 MB free memory at best, 300, if it doesn't hate me at the moment. I admit, I have lots of apps, but all of them are greenified.
I also use Seeder and SD-Booster to hopefully, squeeze some power out.
How could I possibly enhance its performance? And no, I'm not going to flash any custom ROMs, I like the stock FW.
I'm not using any hard mods besides apps and Xposed with Wanam, so besides these my phone is vanilla. And I factory reset my phone a couple days ago.

you could change the CPU governor. interactive governor gives a noticeable performance boost but it also slightly increases the battery usage. or you could flash a custom kernel (mosh kernel for stock) and tweak it even further with the 'performance control' app.

Mine hovers between 470-370mb free depending on how heavily I've used it since the last reboot (Using LiquidSmooth 3.1 ROM the 13.06.2014 build). The free memory numbers aren't that relevant - you shouldn't obsess over them. Besides your apps and ROM, performance depends on your kernel, governor, scheduler and the way your low memory killer, dalvik vm and cache are configured.

cLick1338 said:
...the way your low memory killer, dalvik vm and cache are configured.
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care to explain this bit?

Ram usage!
I think its normal for samsung roms because they have a lot of services and a lot of samsung apps like s suggest, chat on, samsung apps, samsung hub, s voice... so it mighty can use more ram than its supposed to use!

karamancho said:
care to explain this bit?
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For example, using an app such as Kernel Tweaker, you can customize your Low Memory Killer (LMK) to be very agressive - meaning it "kills" apps very quickly, even when you have high amounts of free ram - meaning you'll always have plenty of free RAM; or you can configure it to be very light, meaning it will only kill background apps and services when it is very necessary (e.g. when you only have 12mb of free RAM left.).
Other Dalvik tweaks are a question of finesse but they still affect performance in a subtle way.

I found it were the AVG (AntiVirus, PrivacyFix, Uninstaller, Cleaner, Zen) apps that made my phone so sluggish. I uninstalled them and now my phone flies!