How to overclock our CPU if its even possible?
I'm a noob at android, but I'm a quick learner if someone can explain or just give me a link I would be very grateful.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743782
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yeah that topic has been hot since day one
everyone crazy enough to OC the phone have already installed it
it also consumes a lot of battery, gets very hot fast
not a good idea to keep it on for too long, but okay for those short 3D games
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Did anybody manage to overclock our qualcomm ?
My old cingular 8125 is running 280 mhz fo years now ...
some more speed is needed for gaming ....
Please help !
Forgive me , i just saw another thread but no real answer ..
Can you even overclock the Diamond chip? I thought only the OMAP chips can be overclocked. But I could be wrong.
If that is possible, it would be awesome!
But i'm n00b on this, but i think this is impossible, right...?
Battery life is already bad and you want to get it even worse? And in my opinion processor speed is good enough for everything like games, videos etc. I don't think that somebody is going to try overclocking Diamond.
What about downclockng? maybe for normal use it would be enough with a load of 70%. A scalar way as in omap processors
For what it's worth...
no2chem has an app he's working on that suppose to overclock the TP to
800mhz.
http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/post/2009/09/06/Touch-Pro-running-at-800MHZ.aspx
I'm not endorsing attempting to overclock anything. The last thing I ever overclocked what a celeron 300, to 450Mhz back in the day LOL, but, for you
hard core types, might want to head over there and read the thread. THE APPLICATION IS NOT AVAILABLE to download yet, I suppose he wants to really make sure your TP does not burst into flames, or cause a rift in the time space thingy
I read through the whole thing. It looks very promising, but is in its starting stages. Hopefully we can see something good come out of it. If we pick up a few hunderd MHZ, im sure it will greatly help the phone out.
Yeah, I've been following the thread also. If they can get it to work...I'm thinking it would be a trade off. Yes, I'll bet anything these chips are a bit underclocked, but, I'm also believing they are underclocked to remain stable.
Plus, anytime you run one over the specs, it just has to have a marked decrease in battery life, and it almost has to heat it up a bit. Those electrons can only run around inside that tiny package so fast before they heat up
I tried the app 2 times on my Fuze running 6.5 Energy Rom. Crashed everytime I tried to run the program. Gonna wait for the finished product to see how it turns out because the "test version" does not.
Ok so why in the world would anyone want to speed this little Gem up?
Running an energyrom i can run AD2P plus read a book or surf the net fine (hell ive even logged onto one of my webhosts from it) without any lag or speed trade off.
Isnt this just going to kill battery and heat the thing up?
you cant play games like quake and tony hawk with default speeds.. overclocking will enable u to play those games without a lag
hdaackda said:
you cant play games like quake and tony hawk with default speeds.. overclocking will enable u to play those games without a lag
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by the way i guess you guys didnt see my posts. this was all ready covered even have benchmark results.
dearmasfamily said:
by the way i guess you guys didnt see my posts. this was all ready covered even have benchmark results.
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Actually i covered this before you and anyone else on my blogspot, flame ON! xD jk jk.
Does running an overclocked kernel drain your battery faster? I figured it would since it's running faster, but not really sure. Sorry if this was talked about in one of the OC threads, but I couldnt find the answer.
It most certainly will. As you suspected.
virtualkaos said:
Does running an overclocked kernel drain your battery faster? I figured it would since it's running faster, but not really sure. Sorry if this was talked about in one of the OC threads, but I couldnt find the answer.
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It will, but not signicantly. Your screen is the single biggest user of battery power.
Since CPU is working faster, battery is getting a bit faster drained.
But yes, screen is the most important problem.
virtualkaos said:
Does running an overclocked kernel drain your battery faster? I figured it would since it's running faster, but not really sure. Sorry if this was talked about in one of the OC threads, but I couldnt find the answer.
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Only if your CPU is actually working at those speeds (or you have an android device running a ported kernel that it isn't designed to run).
Example, my Vibrant is mildly OC'd to 1.2GHz, it uses no more battery life through out the day than it did without overclocking, unless I'm doing a lot of stuff like playing games or multitasking and using that CPU power.
Hi everyone.
I've been lurking around this forum for a long time and used alot of custom roms and kernels for my old trusty SGS2.
A month ago I decided to upgrade to the lovely GNOTE. I was and still am very satisfied with it, except for 1 thing. Battery life was nowhere near what I had on my SGS2. So I decidet to start tweaking it a bit.
To my great joy I found the Speedmog-kernel by hardcore and proceeded to install it. Everything works fine and batterylife really improved.
Now to my problem, when I'm playing f.ex Templerun I get really bad lag compared to when I was on stock-kernel. Trying to find what is causing it I have used to cpu-spy to see if it ramps up or not. and to my surprise I find that after playing templerun for about an hour I had 14 seconds on 1400 Mhz and the rest on 800 Mhz. No wonder it lags badly.
Is there a way to redeem this problem?
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reason I'm posting here is because I'm not allowed to post in develpoment section yet.
Forgot to mention that I'm on stock LC1 and only custom is Speedmod K2-10 kernel
Belfia said:
to my surprise I find that after playing templerun for about an hour I had 14 seconds on 1400 Mhz and the rest on 800 Mhz. No wonder it lags badly.
Is there a way to redeem this problem?
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Why don't you experiment with some other kernels? AbyssNote also offers overclocking feature for heavy gaming. Don't know what it'll do for your battery life, though.
Franco kernel is also excelent.
Belfia said:
reason I'm posting here is because I'm not allowed to post in develpoment section yet.
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You'd be shouted out of you underpants had you posted this in the dev section. Q & A is the proper sub-forum for this type of thread.
Thanks for your reply.
I think I'll give Francokernel a couple of days testing. Too bad though since i allways liked Speedmod on the SGS2.
Hello Folks,
I`ve been on an infinite quest for having a lagless/slowness free device since I got it. In the middle of it I found out about the Chainfire 3D that could maybe help, but I also found out it`s quite risky and I haven`t found anyone who has tried it on our device yet.
Do you know of anyone who has entered in this risky path and succeeded?
I actually only want a lagless phone when it comes to gaming. I know that there are many threads about it, but believe me, I`ve read them all and all of them give only advices that helps, but don`t resolve the problem.
Don`t come with the: "the game is not yet optimized for Tegra 3", because in some cases like Shadowgun THD, the game lags anyway.
My 4X HD out of the box was terrible in gaming. Now with 10E, root access and governor/clock manipulation it's got much better, but STILL lags once in a while playing simple games like Jetpack Joyride or even Angry Birds! And LOTS of problems if you scale up to heavy games! That`s very frustrating!! :crying:
Do you guys have any formula or a way you`ve found to play games well?? If you do, please help! I`ve heard about the new updates but some people said it doesn`t really matter so, I`d rather wait for an update in my country.
Thank you!! and sorry if this is not the right place for it and for the long post!
In most phones it improves it. Not sure in the 4x because I didn't try it yet. Don't feel the desire on bricking my phone im case it won't work.
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Good point, I played Shadowgun THD on Galaxy 2 and it rocks (gpu OC to 400mhz).
Thing that should help us is update o CPU-GPU governor and latest GPU drivers. Let´s hope they will come with JB or after unloced bootloader we will have great custom kernel...
I've installed on my O4X, the app Chainfire.the extra drivers. It works fine and I didn't have any weird crashes, hang-ups nor restarts. I didn't notice any improvements however.
The advice I have to offer, is to get an app like SetCPU, create a profile that will launch when you play a game, and set the governor to performance mode and lock the highest frequencies, from 1.2 to 1.5 GHz. Then it will run great. At least it does on me. From the games I've played so far, including Galaxy on Fire 2 THD, History Channel's Great Medieval Battles, NFS Most Wanted, Angry Birds Star Wars HD, Zombie Driver THD, RiptideGp, Beat Hazard Ultra, Canabalt HD,Dragon Slayer, when I start them with this profile, I don't get any lags. Remember also, that a game needs RAM memory to run fluidly. Run a utility to clear on RAM before starting a gaming session (just like a computer), or go to developper options and limit the number of background processes.
That's what I told someone too. 1500 MHz performance when playing games and then there is no issue.
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than I have a problem, cuz I set the governor to performance - min 1500 and it reduces lag A LOT, but not all the time. I cut the ram use too.
What update are you using? Or maybe I`m missing something...
Are you sure chainfire didn`t change anything? I think I`ll give it a try!
Thanks for you help!! :cyclops:
gabrielgon said:
than I have a problem, cuz I set the governor to performance - min 1500 and it reduces lag A LOT, but not all the time. I cut the ram use too.
What update are you using? Or maybe I`m missing something...
Are you sure chainfire didn`t change anything? I think I`ll give it a try!
Thanks for you help!! :cyclops:
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Let me see if I understand...
You set the governor to 1500 min. and you CUT the RAM???
What improvement are you trying to do?
RuedasLocas said:
Let me see if I understand...
You set the governor to 1500 min. and you CUT the RAM???
What improvement are you trying to do?
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There was a little misunderstanding here. I tried to mean I FREE some ram!
I used Chainfire on ICS with no problem, yet there was no improvements in gaming.
Tried to use it on JB V20A and it bricked my phone! Nothing a reflash couldn`t fix it, but if you`re on JB, don`t try it.
gabrielgon said:
I used Chainfire on ICS with no problem, yet there was no improvements in gaming.
Tried to use it on JB V20A and it bricked my phone! Nothing a reflash couldn`t fix it, but if you`re on JB, don`t try it.
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A very soft brick... Advanced restore of system in CWM Recovery should help. If there is a proper backup...
Chainfire is not compatible with any JB ROM, in fact officially it doesn't even support ICS. Wish he would update it, the msaa settings were great!
Sent from my rooted P880