[Q] A question about overclocking - Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

How much do you overclock and how stable is your tablet? I have mine clocked at 1400 constantly and so far only had a couple of hang-ups. I know from my experience that it's pretty unstable at 1700, but what about 1500-1600?

Beyond 1200 doesn't really gain you much and may even degrade performance, along with instability. Might give you better benchmarks, but real world, 1200 is probably the sweet spot for stability with modest performance increase.

1400MHz for years, tried 1500MHz but crashed fairly regularly

I've been sitting at 1400mhz for years as well. Noticable improvement in even the smoothness of the GUI.
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Been using it at 1200 MHz -- while 1400 was ok, was using too much juice. Also, I don't see that much difference betwen both clocks, although I'm not a heavy gamer anyway.

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[Q] Overclocking and battery life

This is a question for those who have overclocked their Xoom. How much is overclocking to 1.5Ghz affecting battery life?
Overclocking would be the only reason I would root right now, and I am trying to make up my mind on whether to do it.
My battery life is better after using setcpu to overclock. The reason is that the tegra2 chipset scales the performance based on whether it's needed(IE, when you're using your xoom) with setCPU you are extending the top end of how fast the CPU can go. The clever bit is you can also tell your xoom to slow itself down and go very efficient when the screen is off or if the chipset gets too hot (which it never has). If you do go for it I recommend using setcpu using interactive scaling (prioritising the user interface) and whack the max speed up to 1500 and the min speed down to 217 mhz
I wouldn't recommend setting screen-off profiles at the moment. It seems to lead to some strange issues once in a while.
That said, because you're only going to 1.5 GHz when needed, battery life doesn't really suffer. Additionally, at least in my usage, my screen uses ~70-85% of my battery. This is even during heaving gaming, where the Tegra 2 really has to work hard.
I wouldn't worry about its effects, personally.
MrGinger said:
The reason is that the tegra2 chipset scales the performance based on whether it's needed(IE, when you're using your xoom)
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All CPUs do this, not just Tegras.
Re scaling, never said otherwise I've never had a problem with screen off profile. Maybe just lucky

[Q] How many of you run overclocks on your android?

just debating over should i overclock my phone and the pros and cons.
so was wondering what frequency people were running their phones at
I overclock up to 1200/1300 MHz without any stability issues. The main reason I require this speed bump is for demanding games such as GTA 3, Shadowgun, and Modern Combat 3.
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i will go ahead and try 1.2ghz i dont susally play many games but i have felt the systema bit slow when multitasking a lot so hopefully this will help.
same here I feel ICS is bit slow so I oc to 1.2g
I overclock to 1.2, although I think realistically it doesn't do much since I hardly do anything demanding like 3d gaming. I really just OC for bragging rights...
I generally OC to 1200. Remember that it only clocks as high as it needs to (thanks to various cpu governors, default is ondemand), most of the time it will be around 800 - 1000mhz while in use from my experience. So long as it doesnt get particularly hot (say 35C+) and you don't get reboots/sleep of death/general instability, it is quite safe. I'd imagine the 1GHz they clock this cpu by default is more due to cpu variation during manufacture, to guarantee all chips work perfectly fine. Some phones will be more prone to instability while overclocking than others because of this.
I'm also interested in OC-ing, so maybe you could also post some voltages if your configuration is stable. Thanks
i tried oc but my phone hangs on some apps, so i only oc on certain apps only
Phone gets hot. = faster battery drain.
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1200 or 1400 mhz
i overclock to 1200 mhz and all my apps/games work fine. When i need to play games like modern combat and gta 3 i overclock to 1400 mhz (just to get better gameplay)

[Q] About permanent overclock

Just a little question, i have a x10 mini pro, and its processor runs at 600 Mhz.
Now with the Mini CM7 i can overclock it to 864 Mhz. So i've been testing it with 724 Mhz and my question is: if i set the maximum processor speed at 724 Mhz, and leave it like that permanently, would this affect my cellphone in some way?
What i'm trying to say is, if you set a maximum speed, it doesn't means that the processor is gonna be running at that speed all the time, just when is needed, for example in games so it won't increase noticeably the battery consumption if the phone is locked 85% of the time. Or it is actually draining more battery even if don't use it?
PS. (English is not my native language, so i'm sorry if the text is hard to undestand, tried my best to explain it well).
You do know the hazards of overclocking in general right? Unless you have the proper cooling, even on a cellphone you will eventually burn out the processor. That is the real issue you need to worry about, just because you can overclock does not mean that you should overclock.
I wouldn't overclock it to the max. That's just bad juju. Unless you plan on hooking up a perpetual ice pack to the phone as well. You'd do well to be a bit moderate.
And to answer your question, yes you will burn battery quicker.
Test at different speeds. If it runs stable, with no force closes, lock-ups, reboots, excess heat, etc., then you're good. You are correct, you are only setting the maximum. What your phone idles or runs at on will depend on what governor you are using, I recommend Smartass for good battery and performance balance, although I have been liking Smartass v2 lately. Obviously overclocking will affect battery life, but you will find that your choice of governor will make a huge difference too.
Well, thanks for the help, glad to see that there are people who are willing to help with small questions like this one. Keep the good job!

[Q] Is the Infuse underclocked from the factory?

I'm running CM10, and it's running fine overclocked to 1600 MHz, yet the phone is factory clocked, (with a factory ROM), to 1200 MHz. Why? My phone seems to run perfectly fine using SmartAss2 management, but Samsung apparently purposely underclocks phones for some unknown reason. Obviously stability isn't a concern, or it would crash at 1600 MHz. Yet it is stable, so why is the default clock speed so slow? Considering the phone is perfectly stable at 1600 MHz, would it be possible to O/C my phone to 2 GHz, or would I risk frying my phone if I somehow managed to OC it by that much?
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I'm running CM10, and it's running fine overclocked to 1600 MHz, yet the phone is factory clocked, (with a factory ROM), to 1200 MHz. Why? My phone seems to run perfectly fine using SmartAss2 management, but Samsung apparently purposely underclocks phones for some unknown reason. Obviously stability isn't a concern, or it would crash at 1600 MHz. Yet it is stable, so why is the default clock speed so slow? Considering the phone is perfectly stable at 1600 MHz, would it be possible to O/C my phone to 2 GHz, or would I risk frying my phone if I somehow managed to OC it by that much?
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uhh well.... yea and no. there are a few things you need to understand about microprocessors. no two are alike. they are built on a scale of a few nanometers and any difference causes a significant difference. to keep production numbers up there is a line they have to draw between performance potential and stability. more chips will be stable at lower clocks so they pick an speed they can get a high production number out of. sometimes a whole line of chips is produced with exactly the same core. chips that pass the highest get boxed as the highest performing and priced. chips that dont pass will either have specific features turned off, cores turned off or be underclocked and sold as lower models. in addition to that the top performing models are actually over priced, and often many more pass the tests than they need so perfectly good processors are intentionally disabled to fill the market for lower speed processors, so yes the cpu may be "underclocked" in a sense. but i don't know if that really applies to the infuse because i don't know if there are any chips in the same family that have a higher rated clock speed, if there are they aren't used in phones.
in example, on my pc i have a 3 core processor, it's actually a 4 core and i can even turn the 4th core on in bios, but a certain percentage of that particular model of chip will be unstable with the 4th core active.
another thing to understand is how the clock speed is set. there is a buss and a table of multipliers and dividers. so as one part of the chip oscillates at one frequency the multipliers and dividers say how may times per oscillation the other components go. the cpu speed changes by changing these multiplier values. the problem is that there are only so many multipliers the cpu is designed to use. this is a hardware limitation and can't be overcome so at some point the only way to get more clock speed is to change the buss speed which affects the entire system and will cause instability in most cases. occasionally you can get around this if you change the multiplier values for other componants as well but it's probably not a good idea to mess with it. the hummingbird chip only has multipliers to go to 1600mhz regardless of stability unless you mess with the buss, one developer got the galaxy s to 1700 with buss overclocking but some things didn't really work at that speed and it took a lot of changes to other system clocks. snapdragon chips can go to higher clocks and process numbers better but the hummingbird is better for graphics and multimedia which is more important on a modern phone imho.
so yeah 1600 is it, as far as practicality goes anyway. there are a few infuses that can only go to 1400-1500 as well and galaxy s phones which have the same clock limitations but are only rates for 1000mhz rarely go to 1600, but a few do, my captivate was absolutely peaked out at 1300, believe me i tried to get it higher, i tried a lot of things with voltages to try to get it stable, but even 1300 took some doing. it took a long time before developers even produced a kernel for the sgs that used clocks over 1200 because many of the early builds of the sgs series were much like mine and were not stable at high speeds.
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Overclocking's effect on phone's lifespan

It seems to me many people overclock their HOX up to around 2ghz through various kernels/ROMs. I'm relatively new to Android phones but I do have a fair amount of OC experience on PC. The thing is, on PC the OC is generally well studied/tested by many people with well established thresholds, and people often upgrade their cooling system to accommodate OC. If stock cooler is used, there are usually established conservative limits. Furthermore, there are programs that stress test the setup to detect any instability. It's known that OC decreases hardware's lifespan, but if you do it right, that decrease can be negligible because of the realistic lifespan of PC.
Our phone is tiny and its cooling is not upgradable. If we overclock it by 30%, what effect will it have on its lifespan? Is there something about these S4 CPU's that I don't know about? Were they made to be able to easily handle the OC without any significant heat increase?
Please share your thoughts.
I'm not sure the true clock speed of the krait but I've read that most CPUs are under clocked by default
So I would think the impact would depend on its true clock speed
It also depends on how long you intend on keeping the phone. I change phones quite often.
If you intend on keeping it two years then I'd suggest just be safe and not sorry. This phone is fairly new and not much is know of long term issues quite yet
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i know the S4 can be clocked at different speeds by default (1.5-1.7 GHz Dual-core Krait). there is also superpi for android to test stability. it seems 1.5 - 2.0 GHz doesn't give much of a performance boost as far as benchmarks go imo. If we could somehow manage to tweak memory timings like on a pc that would be awesome.
OC = shorter life........to what extent I cannot say. But it's a fact
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My P3 that was a stock speed of 733 an runs at 1.8ghz for last 6 years with factory cooling says don't worry about it.
Also, i couldn't hit 229ms in pi until 2ghz.
If your worried about shortening the life span, by over clocking, its not for you honestly.
WR
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you overclocked a Pentium 3 733 to 1.8 ghz? i don't believe that at all..
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you overclocked a Pentium 3 733 to 1.8 ghz? i don't believe that at all..
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You are correct, its a typo, it should read 1.4 and not 1.8.
WR
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