[Q] Undervolting - Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Loving overcome - AND about to LOOOOOOOVE overcome gingerbread!
Quick one on undervolting
When i start the app .. at the top right i limit the cpu to 1ghz (dont want to overclock)
then under the 1ghz option below i select -200 for undervolting.
then press apply for now.
My Q ... does one need to set -200 for each of the clocking levels? Or how do i affectively get a consistent -200 across all clocking levels?
many thanks!

First test in -75 mV increments. Under each frequency with upper level your max clock speed (1 Ghz in your case). Then test for freezes lags and death sleep (dont panic death sleep is NOT a brick!your UV tab doesnt wakeup from standby on a hard boot flushes the uv settings to default and your tab is up and running). If you hve stable settings uv more till you to the right voltage that causes no issues. You can uv to -200 mV from the start. But this the way the experts taught me so

Thank you very much I will follow your advice! Appreciate the headsup on the death sleep (saves a nappy or two )

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SetCPU usage/benefits?

I was thinking about installing SetCPU but I have heard stories of it not working very well on the Captivate. Does anyone use this, and if so what kind of battery life improvement are you seeing? Post config settings too please!
Its working just fine. I have a live background so my battery usage isnt very great so long as the screen is on. I had some trouble with the system being slow to respond every time I turned the screen back on when I had "screen off" profile set to max 200 and min 100. then it dawned on me that it would always just underclock to 100 I set it to max 200 and min 200 when the screen is off and also started using launcher pro and it is no longer sluggish at all.
This has saved me a gratuitous amount of battery life when the phone is idle.
Default profile
Max 1Ghz
Min 800Mhz
scaling Conservative
Charging/full profile
Same as default but scales on performance
Battery <50%
Max 800Mhz
Min 400Mhz
scaling Ondemand
screen off
Max 200
Min 200
Scale powersave
kenjindomini said:
Its working just fine. I have a live background so my battery usage isnt very great so long as the screen is on. I had some trouble with the system being slow to respond every time I turned the screen back on when I had "screen off" profile set to max 200 and min 100. then it dawned on me that it would always just underclock to 100 I set it to max 200 and min 200 when the screen is off and also started using launcher pro and it is no longer sluggish at all.
This has saved me a gratuitous amount of battery life when the phone is idle.
Default profile
Max 1Ghz
Min 800Mhz
scaling Conservative
Charging/full profile
Same as default but scales on performance
Battery <50%
Max 800Mhz
Min 400Mhz
scaling Ondemand
screen off
Max 200
Min 200
Scale powersave
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Thanks for these, I was looking for a some decent settings. Mine were close to that to start, but I had no idea what I was doing, haha
I had some stability problems with it that I am now fairly certain are related to adjusting the polling frequency in advanced settings. After disabling setting advanced settings on boot, and a reboot, it has not caused the phone to hang once. I am also fairly sure that the phone boots with the conservative governor enabled and min/max frequencies set to 100MHz and 1GHz, even without SetCPU - so the main benefit here is profiles to force lower clocks with screen off, or during overheat or low battery.
CPU throttles itself. Any effects of setCPU is placebo effect
Err if you set the clocks yourself, you can produce a difference depending on what it's catered towards. I'm sure if I set the max clock to 200 (assuming the app works) for all situations there will be a difference.
Does the stock ROM have a perflock like the EVO that we need to disable?
Also, does the stock ROM automatically underclock at times, or???
I've now verified after clearing user data, the stock firmware already sets the conservative governor and allows it the full range of frequencies supported by the CPU. Only benefit from SetCPU should be profiles - reduce max clock when hot or low battery, that sort of thing.
Sent from my Samsung Captivate
I was going to make a screen off profile of 200mhz, to save battery. Should I bother doing this?
Edit: Nevermind, I'm just going to uninstall it. It's locked up my phone twice already
Default Profile: 800 MHz
Profiles:
Temp > 46 C -- 400 Max 100 Min Conservative
Battery < 40 -- 400 Max 100 Min Conservative
Screen Off -- 400 Max 100 Min Conservative
This now gives my phone life of about 2 days with moderate use (1 hour calls, 1 hour browsing and another 30-45 mins of using apps that need screen on like games, etc)
brandonb81 said:
I was going to make a screen off profile of 200mhz, to save battery. Should I bother doing this?
Edit: Nevermind, I'm just going to uninstall it. It's locked up my phone twice already
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One thing u got to keep in mind, CPU scales up when woken from low speeds (like when u set for 200 n this takes a second or two). After some R&D i realized 400 MHz when sleeping is optimal with hardly noticeable lag.
Unhelpful said:
I had some stability problems with it that I am now fairly certain are related to adjusting the polling frequency in advanced settings. After disabling setting advanced settings on boot, and a reboot, it has not caused the phone to hang once. I am also fairly sure that the phone boots with the conservative governor enabled and min/max frequencies set to 100MHz and 1GHz, even without SetCPU - so the main benefit here is profiles to force lower clocks with screen off, or during overheat or low battery.
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well, i have tried playing heavy games like asphalt 5, dungeon hunter, assasin's creed... these all games seemed to work with no lag even at 400 MHz when my battery was less than 40. Most apps I have or used or saw were very comfortable even at 400 MHz. But with multiple apps open, sometimes there was lag, so i set the max at 800 MHz, instead of 1 GHz.
Also, I set my connection to EDGE from 3G. This helped reduce phone from getting heated up with long calls.
I tried using this app myself but uninstalled it after a week. While I'm sure there was some underlying cause, it made my phone never wake up from sleep mode when it turned off.
Honestly thou, I know several android phone owners with s lot of phones That didn't see any real change in their battery life as s result. And based on my experiences, I'd say stay away from it.
Just my 2 cents thou
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Best settings/frequencies for OC/UV Beater?

Hi there,
I'd like to overclock my IncS to 1,3 Ghz...
But I don't know the right settings.
Can you please tell me the right setting for best performance (e.g. oc to 1,3ghz) and best battery life?
thanks
does anybody know?
Set max to your desired, min to the lowest it will go and scaling to smartass.
I'm OCd to over 1.4 and no issues... UCd to 192 with smartassv2 governor
Sent from my Incredible S using XDA App
the best performance I have experienced in my INC is when I put oc / uv beater to the following:
wake gov: ondemand
wake mins: 245000
wake max: 1228800
Sleep gov: Conservative
my sleep: 245000
Sleep max: 691200
when I take a test in antutu nenchmark for I the following result.
score: 2729
If I clocked lower or higher, the result is lower
Overclocking depends entirely on your chip.
You should use whatever governor suits your needs.
I personally use ondemandx which speeds up on demand (as the name implies), conservative tries to keep the frequency as low as possible, interactive uses max frequency if min isn't enough, smartass is an improvement of interactive that keeps performance high while improving battery life (meaning there's little reason to use interactive).
You can find it in more detail here.
So basically, smartass if you want performance, conservative if you want battery life, ondemand if you want something in between. In reality though, I don't think you'll see much difference between them and I've seen no difference in idle power draws, so if you don't use your phone all that much, they won't be that different.
Once you've picked a governor, you should set min speed to 122000 (no reason to use any higher) and max to whatever you want. Your phone will probably crash or suffer from bad performance if you go over 1.5 GHz, but it varies a lot. Might happen even earlier.
Once you've found your desired performance level, you should start tweaking your voltages. You can do that under the UV profile. In there, you can adjust voltages at different speeds and the phone will automatically use them at whatever speed it's at. You should undervolt to increase battery life, so start by reducing all by 25 or 50 and then temp apply. Use it like that for a couple of hours and if it doesn't freeze, you're probably stable. You can either stop here or spend many hours tweaking it further, but that'll take many hours to get right.
This is my setting
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using xda premium
Which would be the best O/C program out there ?! I have SetCPU, Daemon but I'm sure there is better in the market...... just need to know the name so I can get it Thanks!
I'm currently 230MIN/1150MAX
Me4oKyX said:
Which would be the best O/C program out there ?! I have SetCPU, Daemon but I'm sure there is better in the market...... just need to know the name so I can get it Thanks!
I'm currently 230MIN/1150MAX
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In my opinion, and I'm sure many others', Virtuous daemon is the best by far.
It comes standard in a lot of roms, and using the OC/UV beater
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1207546
it would have the best performance. I've set mine similar to yours and with this method, you can set the phone to underclock when battery reaches a low level

Concept noob idea for a governor

Hello all !
I was bored in school today so I've written a governor concept idea for quad cores. I'm not a dev AT ALL (for now at least, i'm studying many different stuff, hardware / code related too).
I have no idea if this is possible or if this is clever but I wanted to share it anway. If it gives idea to a developer, that's totally worth it, otherwise, well... I had fun doing it
It's called Progressive.
Progressive
The name of the governor says all. The idea behind it is to be «*progressive*». It means it doesn't unleash the full power when it's not needed. It goes progressively higher in freq with more cores. This should make the phone cooler and the battery better. The delay (3 sec ) is just a number, not sure this is really nice. Also, I'm not sure how the S4 handles temperature.
Max freq 1.5 Ghz
Min freq 384 Mhz
Screen off
=> 384-918 Mhz // not too low frequency to avoid reboot
Screen on without touching since 3 sec // always check after 3 seconds for changing the state
=> 384-1134 Mhz only one core online
Screen on touched
=> 594-1134 Mhz two cores online // bump the min_freq to avoid keyboard lag and to add a bit of butter
Screen on touched with a medium load of task // not sure how quantify this
=> 594 Mhz – 1.5Ghz two cores online
Screen on touched with a high load of task // i.e. Games
=> 702 Mhz – 1.5 Mhz four cores online // max power
We also need a thermal protection to avoid any damage, this should do the trick
If the temp is >= 80°C
=> Two cores online max_freq 1134 Mhz until it reaches 70 °C // not sure about the temp, this can be adjusted
If the temps is >=70°C
=> Let 4 cores being possibly online but lower the max_freq to 1134 Mhz
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What do you guys think ? Is this even possible ? Good, bad idea ?
I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed to writte it
doesn't it do this already?
Fissurez said:
doesn't it do this already?
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I'm not sure how the ondemand governor on nexus 4 works. So I can't really answer, it's really a noob idea that poped into my head today
you pretty much described interactive with mpdecision enabled.
not exactly, but quite.
3 seconds is way too long for the CPU to ramp up (just a matter of tweaking, though). you'd get more lag than you save battery.
mpdecision ramps the cpu to its maximum frequency as soon as a touch input is detected (normally only 2 cores until a certain threshold is reached), so yours should save a bit of power during smaller workloads.
also, if the touch input is released, it clocks the active cores down to 1.02 GHz for a bit before disabling them when not needed.
after all, it seems like a more conservative interactive governor with active mpdecision. could be nice for saving battery while retaining good performance.
it could be a viable choice for those who go for battery life over performance. :good:
Nuu~ said:
you pretty much described interactive with mpdecision enabled.
not exactly, but quite.
3 seconds is way too long for the CPU to ramp up (just a matter of tweaking, though). you'd get more lag than you save battery.
mpdecision ramps the cpu to its maximum frequency as soon as a touch input is detected (normally only 2 cores until a certain threshold is reached), so yours should save a bit of power during smaller workloads.
also, if the touch input is released, it clocks the active cores down to 1.02 GHz for a bit before disabling them when not needed.
after all, it seems like a more conservative interactive governor with active mpdecision. could be nice for saving battery while retaining good performance
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Thank you Sir, I understand better how mpdecision works now
Glad to see i'm not completely stupid lol

[GUIDE/DISCUSSION] ViperWVGA/Sense ROMs kernel tweaking thread: Battery/smoothness!

Because both the ViperDHD and Team Venom beta forums are being used by people like us to discuss battery life, kernel tweaking and smoothness, I decided to change this into a universal Viper/Sense discussion thread. ANyone from the family of devices which include DHD, Desire Z, Desire S, IncS, dinc2, mt4g etc are welcome here. ACtually, everyone is.
The discussion was sort of started here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37246862#post37246862
Feel free to post settings and everything. We are trying to get the most of our old devices!
Reserved
Reserved for something else
CyanVivo X, default kernel.
Screen off: 245 min/max
Screen on: 245min, 1228 max.
2 hours of screen on time, 3 hours when I'm lucky, 3G is killing my battery...
Frequencies: 61-1200 MHz redux kernel.
With ondemandx governor and deadline scheduler
Undervolted consolidatedly by -25
I manage to get a battery life of 14-16 hours.
Main usage: voice calls- 1-1.5 hrs
The only problem is... Battery never reaches 100%.
Any suggestions?
Sent from my oc'd viper vivo
Using tricksterMOD, you can see that governors like interactive and ondemand have their own settings. I have been playing around with these settings, and I am still not finished with what I like yet. However you can use this post as a guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36743252&postcount=3113
With Interactive, you can set your go_highspeed_load to 806 or 768MHz. I have set my min to be 245MHz, max 1200MHz but highspeed load is 806MHz. This results in a kind of even split between the times that 245, 806 and 1200MHz are used. With ondemand or another governor, it generally spikes up to 1200MHz (your max freq) a lot, rather than scaling between the lower freqs. This results in more battery usage because you are staying at a higher freq for longer than needed. Performance is generally the same with interactive and ondemand if configured right.
What do these mean? Basically, with my device now when I touch the screen, it will ramp up to 806MHz. If the process is more than just moving something on the screen and more processing power is needed, it will automatically go to 1200MHz, and when its done and I am still touching the screen, it will go back down to 806MHz. When all I am doing is browsing xda or something, when I scroll it ramps up to 806MHz and when I leave it to read something, it will go down to 245MHz. Then obviously when its sleeping it goes into deep sleep (hopefully)
My battery life suckss.
Sent from one of the few remaining Incredible S'
markj338 said:
Using tricksterMOD, you can see that governors like interactive and ondemand have their own settings. I have been playing around with these settings, and I am still not finished with what I like yet. However you can use this post as a guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36743252&postcount=3113
With Interactive, you can set your go_highspeed_load to 806 or 768MHz. I have set my min to be 245MHz, max 1200MHz but highspeed load is 806MHz. This results in a kind of even split between the times that 245, 806 and 1200MHz are used. With ondemand or another governor, it generally spikes up to 1200MHz (your max freq) a lot, rather than scaling between the lower freqs. This results in more battery usage because you are staying at a higher freq for longer than needed. Performance is generally the same with interactive and ondemand if configured right.
What do these mean? Basically, with my device now when I touch the screen, it will ramp up to 806MHz. If the process is more than just moving something on the screen and more processing power is needed, it will automatically go to 1200MHz, and when its done and I am still touching the screen, it will go back down to 806MHz. When all I am doing is browsing xda or something, when I scroll it ramps up to 806MHz and when I leave it to read something, it will go down to 245MHz. Then obviously when its sleeping it goes into deep sleep (hopefully)
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I am gonna try nodding the governors now!
Sent from my Incredible S using xda app-developers app
Mark r these settings good?.... Btw what nr i should put to boost?
janarp said:
Mark r these settings good?.... Btw what nr i should put to boost?
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Looking good to me
Smooth or not? Maybe post a screenie of cpuspy or something to see what you're running at
See here for more info
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19846297&postcount=2
Are you finding any slowdown and major battery drainage where android os keeps the device awake?
markj338 said:
Looking good to me
Smooth or not? Maybe post a screenie of cpuspy or something to see what you're running at
See here for more info
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19846297&postcount=2
Are you finding any slowdown and major battery drainage where android os keeps the device awake?
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It feels really smooth right now.. i cant tell for battery because i flashed patcha kernel right now... Lets see how good my battery is after few days of using... Thanks for link i read it later... Dont have that time right now... And here is pic ... If u mean this offcourse..
or u can suggest me better kernel tuning app...
janarp said:
It feels really smooth right now.. i cant tell for battery because i flashed patcha kernel right now... Lets see how good my battery is after few days of using... Thanks for link i read it later... Dont have that time right now... And here is pic ... If u mean this offcourse..
or u can suggest me better kernel tuning app...
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Not that one
The screen that shows how long you've been at what freq
probably i flash new Beast Mode MOD kernel if it release today... it looks more interesting..=)
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markj338 said:
Not that one
The screen that shows how long you've been at what freq
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with this kernel tuner app i cant see that i guess..=)
hey all i m using advenced-sense-kernel-r1
i would like to set governors like markj338 posted.
"Using tricksterMOD, you can see that governors like interactive and ondemand have their own settings. I have been playing around with these settings, and I am still not finished with what I like yet. However you can use this post as a guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=3113
With Interactive, you can set your go_highspeed_load to 806 or 768MHz. I have set my min to be 245MHz, max 1200MHz but highspeed load is 806MHz. This results in a kind of even split between the times that 245, 806 and 1200MHz are used. With ondemand or another governor, it generally spikes up to 1200MHz (your max freq) a lot, rather than scaling between the lower freqs. This results in more battery usage because you are staying at a higher freq for longer than needed. Performance is generally the same with interactive and ondemand if configured right.
What do these mean? Basically, with my device now when I touch the screen, it will ramp up to 806MHz. If the process is more than just moving something on the screen and more processing power is needed, it will automatically go to 1200MHz, and when its done and I am still touching the screen, it will go back down to 806MHz. When all I am doing is browsing xda or something, when I scroll it ramps up to 806MHz and when I leave it to read something, it will go down to 245MHz. Then obviously when its sleeping it goes into deep sleep (hopefully)"
is there an easy way
right now i have these cpu stats and these oc settings
do i have to remove oc deamon and cpu stats to use tricksterMOD
mkdsa said:
hey all i m using advenced-sense-kernel-r1
i would like to set governors like markj338 posted.
"Using tricksterMOD, you can see that governors like interactive and ondemand have their own settings. I have been playing around with these settings, and I am still not finished with what I like yet. However you can use this post as a guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=3113
With Interactive, you can set your go_highspeed_load to 806 or 768MHz. I have set my min to be 245MHz, max 1200MHz but highspeed load is 806MHz. This results in a kind of even split between the times that 245, 806 and 1200MHz are used. With ondemand or another governor, it generally spikes up to 1200MHz (your max freq) a lot, rather than scaling between the lower freqs. This results in more battery usage because you are staying at a higher freq for longer than needed. Performance is generally the same with interactive and ondemand if configured right.
What do these mean? Basically, with my device now when I touch the screen, it will ramp up to 806MHz. If the process is more than just moving something on the screen and more processing power is needed, it will automatically go to 1200MHz, and when its done and I am still touching the screen, it will go back down to 806MHz. When all I am doing is browsing xda or something, when I scroll it ramps up to 806MHz and when I leave it to read something, it will go down to 245MHz. Then obviously when its sleeping it goes into deep sleep (hopefully)"
is there an easy way
right now i have these cpu stats and these oc settings
do i have to remove oc deamon and cpu stats to use tricksterMOD
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You can't edit the governor settings with the daemon controller app. That's why we use the trickster mod app to edit things
By governor settings I don't mean switching governors, I mean the actual settings of it.
That stuff should disable itself but its best to remove them to avoid conflicts
Sent from my HTC Incredible S
My results on ViperIncS with z13boot.img, redux_0.8 kernel, daemon controller, 3G always On, 7 hours of sleepmode (0.8%/hour), sync ON, loged on on every account on my phone but with disabled updates for accounts.. only IM+pro is working all the time inpush mode.
hey markj338 i m new to this,so if i understand i should remove oc deamon and cpu stats but can u walk me trough setup trickstermode
removed oc deamon and cpu stats and installed trickster i have these screenshots
mkdsa said:
hey markj338 i m new to this,so if i understand i should remove oc deamon and cpu stats but can u walk me trough setup trikstermode
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Delete them
Download an app from play store called trickster MOD kernel settings or something
Download busybox installer by stericsson
Install busybox using the app
open trickster, then you can set whatever you like.
screnshoots
ok removed oc deamon and cpu stats
installed busybox and Trikster got these settings..what should go_highspeed_load be now is 99...noticed when i restart dhd governor goes back to ondemand
tnx man

OC and UV to perfection safely and easy guide !!!

READ EVERYTHING BEFORE ATTEMPTING ALSO DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Required. you must have an oc and voltage support kernel. jfbs stock roms have both oc and voltage. cars1189 stock rom does not but he provides link to kernels that do. Dont use exuv or uv kernels while doing this. well you can but if your new to this it is recommended to use regular oc kernel without uv/exuv. Also ram size does not matter.
What else do you need:
an app that allows you to change clock speed and voltages. if you dont already have one get performance control here (i use this thanks to jfbs for finding it).
*NOTE* never ever leave phone unintended when doing this until you find your chips sweet spot. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. otherwise if you listen and follow my advice you wont cause any major harm to your phone or any harm to your phone. Also do NOT have the settings apply at boot until you find all your settings. keep a pen or pencil and paper ready so you can remember workings settings.
1. remove case (if you have one on your phone) and battery cover. (this is just a safety precaution should your power button not work to pull that battery.
2. open up your overclocking app. (in my case performance control). set min and max frequency/speed to 245mhz
3. go to voltage settings and change the current voltage for 245760khz (really 245mhz) which is stock 900mV to 875mV (decrease by 0.25). close app out swipe around home screen and apps draw. open and close contacts list and see if phone freezes. we are not worried about phone running slow at this point until you reach 1ghz+ point of this. IF phone freezes/locks up hold power button to reboot phone or just pull battery and put it back in (personally i just use power button). if phone doesnt not freeze lower voltage again by 0.025 which should be 850mV. continue this process until phone DOES freeze so make sure you you wrote down last working voltage and as soon as phone freezes reboot or pull battery.
4. Once you found the lowest working voltage for 245mhz up the min and max frequency (speed) to 368mhz (368640khz)
5. Do the same thing as step 3 which is decrease the voltage by 0.025mV for the frequency for 365mhz. and repeat for each frequency up to 1ghz. Once you get to doing 1ghz voltage and above. The testing phone phase will be different but still flow the decrease by 0.025mV. for testing use any 3d game not candy crush type. and let it run for at least 10mins actually playing with phone plugged into charger. when you reach the spot where the phone freezes unplug both charger and force reboot/pull battery.
6. Once you find all of your working voltages for each frequency then you can set min back to 245mhz and your max to which ever you was able to hit. then set all of your volt settings in and save it for set on boot.
Note. 1.2ghz-1.4ghz seems to be a very good and safe battery to performance ratio. even more so if you followed my directions properly.
EDIT:
My settings for comparison.
Frequency Range: min.256mhz max 1401mhz(1.4Ghz)
Voltage scale:
122880KHZ - 700mV
245760KHZ - 700mV
368640KHZ - 700mV
768000KHZ - 925mV
806400KHZ - 950mV
902400KHZ - 975mV
1017600KHZ - 1000mV
1113600KHZ - 1050mV
1209600KHZ - 1100mV
1305600KHZ - 1150mV
1401600KHZ - 1200mV
pretty awesome you guys are still squeezing the juice out of the exhibit. XD
teerout said:
pretty awesome you guys are still squeezing the juice out of the exhibit. XD
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i just got this phone only a year ago... also the guide should work for any phone that has oc and voltage control support. but thanks
my new phone, motorola droid, is not as developer friendly as the samsung. i should have done more research before getting it. motorola and verizon have it pretty locked down, no flashing and awesomeness. getting root privileges was a 15 step process.....oh for the days of flashing with the exhibit...i still have a red case and a green flowery case if anyone wants them.
teerout said:
my new phone, motorola droid, is not as developer friendly as the samsung. i should have done more research before getting it. motorola and verizon have it pretty locked down, no flashing and awesomeness. getting root privileges was a 15 step process.....oh for the days of flashing with the exhibit...i still have a red case and a green flowery case if anyone wants them.
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any electronic can be overclocked and under/over volt. Over voltage is fine if electronic requires a outlet to run e.g pc. game consoles. while undervolt is best for battery operated devices as you would want to have long operation time between charging xD.
Updated OP with my personal settings for this phone.
Thanks for the guide, Will be giving this a try this weekend... Well this and possibly flashing that new Mahdi Rom for the exhibit
Thanks!
TripFX said:
READ EVERYTHING BEFORE ATTEMPTING ALSO DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Required. you must have an oc and voltage support kernel. jfbs stock roms have both oc and voltage. cars1189 stock rom does not but he provides link to kernels that do. Dont use exuv or uv kernels while doing this. well you can but if your new to this it is recommended to use regular oc kernel without uv/exuv. Also ram size does not matter.
What else do you need:
an app that allows you to change clock speed and voltages. if you dont already have one get performance control here (i use this thanks to jfbs for finding it).
*NOTE* never ever leave phone unintended when doing this until you find your chips sweet spot. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. otherwise if you listen and follow my advice you wont cause any major harm to your phone or any harm to your phone. Also do NOT have the settings apply at boot until you find all your settings. keep a pen or pencil and paper ready so you can remember workings settings.
1. remove case (if you have one on your phone) and battery cover. (this is just a safety precaution should your power button not work to pull that battery.
2. open up your overclocking app. (in my case performance control). set min and max frequency/speed to 245mhz
3. go to voltage settings and change the current voltage for 245760khz (really 245mhz) which is stock 900mV to 875mV (decrease by 0.25). close app out swipe around home screen and apps draw. open and close contacts list and see if phone freezes. we are not worried about phone running slow at this point until you reach 1ghz+ point of this. IF phone freezes/locks up hold power button to reboot phone or just pull battery and put it back in (personally i just use power button). if phone doesnt not freeze lower voltage again by 0.025 which should be 850mV. continue this process until phone DOES freeze so make sure you you wrote down last working voltage and as soon as phone freezes reboot or pull battery.
4. Once you found the lowest working voltage for 245mhz up the min and max frequency (speed) to 368mhz (368640khz)
5. Do the same thing as step 3 which is decrease the voltage by 0.025mV for the frequency for 365mhz. and repeat for each frequency up to 1ghz. Once you get to doing 1ghz voltage and above. The testing phone phase will be different but still flow the decrease by 0.025mV. for testing use any 3d game not candy crush type. and let it run for at least 10mins actually playing with phone plugged into charger. when you reach the spot where the phone freezes unplug both charger and force reboot/pull battery.
6. Once you find all of your working voltages for each frequency then you can set min back to 245mhz and your max to which ever you was able to hit. then set all of your volt settings in and save it for set on boot.
Note. 1.2ghz-1.4ghz seems to be a very good and safe battery to performance ratio. even more so if you followed my directions properly.
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My settings for comparison.
Frequency Range: min.256mhz max 1401mhz(1.4Ghz)
Voltage scale:
122880KHZ - 700mV
245760KHZ - 700mV
368640KHZ - 700mV
768000KHZ - 925mV
806400KHZ - 950mV
902400KHZ - 975mV
1017600KHZ - 1000mV
1113600KHZ - 1050mV
1209600KHZ - 1100mV
1305600KHZ - 1150mV
1401600KHZ - 1200mV
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Thanks a lot man! I still have this phone, and i am trying to squeeze out as much juice as possible. Going to be switching to the Oneplus one soon, or the nexus 5!
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Hello i have an exhibit ii 4g running mahdi 4.4.4 kitkat can i just download the performance app and follow this instrccions or do i need to flash a kernel to overlock my phone?
Andresakapaco04 said:
Hello i have an exhibit ii 4g running mahdi 4.4.4 kitkat can i just download the performance app and follow this instrccions or do i need to flash a kernel to overlock my phone?
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all of jfbs roms are overclockable by defualt so just download performance app and follow instructions. be save and watch temps if your overclocking keep it below 35c is possible or if battery gets really warm.
TripFX said:
all of jfbs roms are overclockable by defualt so just download performance app and follow instructions. be save and watch temps if your overclocking keep it below 35c is possible or if battery gets really warm.
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Thanks for this response one more question what are the benefits of overlocking my phonr aside from more batery lifee??? ... i wana give this a try so i can keep using my exhibit
Thanks!
This will be helpful when undervolting my parents' phones.
undervolting will give you the better battery life while keeping the same performance
overvolting will drain the battery faster
underclocking will drop performance and save more battery life then just undervolting
overclocking will give you better performance
When it comes to any mobile device it is recommended to undervolt and overclock as you want as much battery life as you can while getting a performance boost or just to undervolt to save battery only.
Desktops are made to handle heat and voltage a lot better thus most ppl will overvolt and overclock to get the fast possible performance as you are always connected to a main power source.
@TripFX, thank you for the comprehensive OC & UV guide. I've been tinkering with the voltage settings for about a week via Performance Control and I think I've found a good spot for both my Exhibit devices.
Here are my settings (using cars1189 Christopher K^Kernel uv vhm 9-9-2014 build)...
EDIT: Updated voltage & CPU settings.
CPU Frequency:
Max. 1401 Mhz
Min. 368 Mhz
Voltage Settings:
122880KHZ - 750 mV
245760KHZ - 750 mV
368640KHZ - 800 mV
768000KHZ - 925 mV
806400KHZ - 950 mV
902400KHZ - 975 mV
1024000KHZ - 1000 mV
1113600KHZ - 1025 mV
1209600KHZ - 1050 mV
1305600KHZ - 1075 mV
1401600KHZ - 1125 mV
Btw, 750 mv is the lowest 122880KHZ, 245769KHZ, and 368640KHZ can be set to using the kernel mentioned above. If anyone wants to go lower, you'll need to try a different kernel or one of jfbs ROMs. cars1189's uv kernels seems to do okay (every device is different though, so be careful) but I would strongly advise against using exuv (both my devices couldn't handle exuv).
Also, device temp. has decreased by a couple degrees overall, couldn't be happier!
jajb said:
Here are my settings (using cars1189 Christopher K^Kernel uv vhm 9-9-2014 build)...
EDIT: Updated voltage & CPU settings.
CPU Frequency:
Max. 1401 Mhz
Min. 368 Mhz
Voltage Settings:
122880KHZ - 750 mV
245760KHZ - 750 mV
368640KHZ - 800 mV
768000KHZ - 925 mV
806400KHZ - 950 mV
902400KHZ - 975 mV
1024000KHZ - 1000 mV
1113600KHZ - 1025 mV
1209600KHZ - 1050 mV
1305600KHZ - 1075 mV
1401600KHZ - 1125 mV
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I almost copied your exact settings for my T679 and it's running nice (I've set min/max to 245 MHz/1209 MHz)
However I was curious as to what you've set for Governor and IO Scheduler; I've just left it on default: ondemand and row. Any other special settings or tweaks?
I ask because temp has definitely lowered, but battery life *I think* seems to drain a bit faster (though I do have a bunch of communication apps that probably sync throughout the day).
ZHXS said:
I almost copied your exact settings for my T679 and it's running nice (I've set min/max to 245 MHz/1209 MHz)
However I was curious as to what you've set for Governor and IO Scheduler; I've just left it on default: ondemand and row. Any other special settings or tweaks?
I ask because temp has definitely lowered, but battery life *I think* seems to drain a bit faster (though I do have a bunch of communication apps that probably sync throughout the day).
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as far as more tweaks to boost performance. if all the apps you use is art compatible then i'd suggest switching to art. massive cpu difference between davlik and art. least from my own experience. as far as battery drain i would recommend using an app such as greenify. for gov's and sched. mine i left ondemand but sched put it on sio. however i recommend reading over this as it will help you get a much better idea of what would work best for you. everyone uses the their phone differently so it should technically vary from person to person.
Just a heads up to anyone undervolting. Be careful undervolting below 750mv. I noticed on my phone that the battery started overheating at 725mv and below. 750 and above was fine.

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