SetCpu for rooted Droid 3 - Motorola Droid 3

What are the best settings to use on the droid 3 for overclocking?
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I don't know the best settings, but I set it my SetCPU too low for my "ScreenOff" settings... So sometimes when I tried to turn my screen back on, my phone wouldn't have enough cpu power to turn itself back on... so make sure you don't set governors too low! easy enough fix though when you do.

don't think you can overclock until custom kernals are out.

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don't think you can overclock until custom kernals are out.
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Correct, but you can still set governors to under-clock and help battery-life.

I set my droid 3 to 800 mhz max, 300 mhz min, but the widget doesnt change, and if i open the app i can watch it jump to 1000 mhz. I have used setCPU on other phones, so I know how to work it.
Does setcpu not work with moto's hotplug governor? I've seen other forums say not to change that

If you set it to 300 and 800 or 600 using "ondemand" it works but the phone gets a little laggy.
Using "motplug" and trying to underclock freezes the device for me.
You can pull the battery to get it working again.
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I looks like if you set the governor to anything but mot_hotplug the second core does not get deactivated with the phone is idle. So battery life may actually suffer.
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fotoingo said:
If you set it to 300 and 800 or 600 using "ondemand" it works but the phone gets a little laggy.
Using "motplug" and trying to underclock freezes the device for me.
You can pull the battery to get it working again.
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I experienced this as well, but was using ondemand and 300-600 with screen off. Phone wouldn't turn on at all unless a battery pull was performed, scared me a bit to be honest until i realized what was happening. Decided to stick wit mot_hotplug until we get a custom kernel.

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Overclock widget

So im running the RoDrIgUeZsTyLe froyo with the oc kernal and was playing around with Overclock widget and noticed that it will goto 1.2ghz..i know the kernel was for 1113ghz. Anyone tried using the higher setting? Would it be safe to just try it or ?
thanks
what for a wiget allows 1,2 Ghz ???
Overclock widget on the market
If u go into click here to define it allows 1.2ghz
heres a screenshot taken by shoot me
Even if you set it to 1200 it'll only let your device go as high as 1113. Give it a try
Edit: just saw your screen shot. That's interesting.
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If u go into click here to define it allows 1.2ghz
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yes you can set it to 1,2 Ghz but you get just 1,114 Ghz not more
better to use setCPU the widget is not working right...
damn your right....i thought maybe it would work but ya i tried and just goes right back to 1113...oh well
thanks
Lol
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u know i was using setcpu and i was charging my phone earlier while on a phone call and all of a sudden my temp went up to 104F
was set at 1113mhz....i've had it set at before and never had any temp issues the highest its ever climbed was like 97F...i know the back of the phone was hotter than all hell
just out of curiosity how come the Moto Droid uses a slower cpu than the nexus but yet the droid can be overclocked way past the nexus?
How would you know? I heard hell is very hot these days. Lol.
Its nothing unusual. Your phone is over clocked, you're charging and using your phone.
I suggest you lower down the Max freq while on charge.
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u know i was using setcpu and i was charging my phone earlier while on a phone call and all of a sudden my temp went up to 104F
was set at 1113mhz....i've had it set at before and never had any temp issues the highest its ever climbed was like 97F...i know the back of the phone was hotter than all hell
just out of curiosity how come the Moto Droid uses a slower cpu than the nexus but yet the droid can be overclocked way past the nexus?
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funny thing is that i had a charge/sleep profile set a min/max 576
what about the droid any idea?

Overclock or not?

A few weeks ago when I still had my HTC Hero it was overclocked to 672Mhz (standard = 528Mhz). It gave me a little boost in performance on Froyo, also the batterylife wasn't decreased too much.
But with our N1 running on 1Ghz, will it give much difference when clocked to 1113/1152Mhz? And what about batterylife?
If SetCPU is used what are your settings then? Mine is currently running on stock speed, no SetCPU.
ZeppeMan said:
A few weeks ago when I still had my HTC Hero it was overclocked to 672Mhz (standard = 528Mhz). It gave me a little boost in performance on Froyo, also the batterylife wasn't decreased too much.
But with our N1 running on 1Ghz, will it give much difference when clocked to 1113/1152Mhz? And what about batterylife?
If SetCPU is used what are your settings then? Mine is currently running on stock speed, no SetCPU.
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I have my nexus one rooted and flashed to MIUI Rom and clock @ 690mhz I get way better battery power. Before I would only get 6hr to 8hr if lucky now I get from 9hr to 13hr depending how much I use it.
set to 1.13 ghz
then screen off to minimum 245mhz
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I have my nexus one rooted and flashed to MIUI Rom and clock @ 690mhz I get way better battery power. Before I would only get 6hr to 8hr if lucky now I get from 9hr to 13hr depending how much I use it.
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So you underclocked it, what about the speed? It's not to laggy?
Nexus one can run reasonably smooth @ 600mhz and above. It might not open applications as fast as it will be @ 1GHz though.
i think 1Ghz is enough for n1
why do u want an overclock?
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shreyas1122 said:
i think 1Ghz is enough for n1
why do u want an overclock?
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I didn't said I want an overclock. It's allready very fast on 1Ghz (compared to my old Hero ), just wanted to know your thoughts about overclocking the N1.
im overclocked at 1152 mhz and profiles set for 245 max with screen off. Overclocking is nice because i like the snappiness but most people cant tell the difference between 998 mhz and 1152. its not needed to overclock but i think profiles help alot. just my two cents
Ok thx, I will try 1150Mhz and see (if it's stable and) what batterylife does. I'm also going to try underclocking.
I have my N1 only for a couple of weeks now and I must say, this phone is awesome. It's VERY fast compared to my old Hero. I remember when I was installing apps on my Hero it became very slow and couldn't do anything untill installing was finished. With the N1 you still can do things while installing apps without lag. The responsiveness and smoothness is also a lot faster. I loved my Hero Because it never let me down, ok it was all a bit slower, but it was getting there. Now with the release of Gingerbread (custom ROM) it became to slow for me and that's why I sold my Hero and bought the N1. It was very difficult to find one, because of the EOL (end of life). But eventually I found one and i'm very happy with it. The N1 is allready more 1 year old, but it still competes with the best phones out there.
I generally run overclocked at 1075MHz, which gives a good balance between battery power usage and processor power. My understanding is that a different voltage scaling method is generally used above 1075MHz, so power consumption will increase above that point.
Didn't knew the voltage would increase above 1075Mhz, will keep that in mind
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Didn't knew the voltage would increase above 1075Mhz, will keep that in mind
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This is, of course, dependent upon how the kernel is constructed, but this is what I have generally found to be true.
Give us some feedback
I overclocked it too 1075Mhz when screen is on (screen off 245Mhz). Will give my thoughts in a day or 2.
Just report that my battery drain is almost the same as on stock settings. I think it drains a tiny bit faster on 1075Mhz, but nothing major. On the other hand, I don't feel it's faster on 1075Mhz then on stock speed. Only benchmarks give me performance increase.
I'm now on CM6.1.1 with stock kernel (cyanogen), I tried other kernels like Wilmonks kernel,.. Although it was more responsive, battery was going down even faster. I get best battery results with stock kernel.
Hard to choose
more speed = more battery drain
less speed = longer battery
I think I stay with the last option (less speed = longer battery), because Wildmonks kernel doesn't give me enough performance increase over the stock kernel on stock speed.
I have mine at 998mhz, but overclocked 1152 while plugged into power.
Either way, its so easy to play with the clock settings, i'd just have a play with a bunch of different settings if i were you.
liam.lah said:
I have mine at 998mhz, but overclocked 1152 while plugged into power.
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I'd love a how-to fire that..
mind sharing the app?
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ZeppeMan said:
wanted to know your thoughts about overclocking the N1.
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well my thoughts: underclock!
so you can watch movies on it all night!
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shreyas1122 said:
I'd love a how-to fire that..
mind sharing the app?
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You can use SetCPU to create profiles based on different circumstances.
Me, I have mine clocked to a max of 1075 and min of 245 with the screen on, 576 max / 128 min screen off, 998/128 charging (to reduce heat - overclocking while power is applied can make it silly hot), and a failsafe to clock down to 576/128 if the temperature gets over 50*C.
Fabulous app.
Correct me if I am wrong. When you use setcpu to "ondemand", the CPU speed can ramp up to max whenever necessary, otherwise the speed will tune down to min especially in standby mode. In that way, you can enjoy the advantages of overclocking and underclocking the CPU speed i.e. increasing performance when needed and saving power when not in use, right? When I loaded Rod's MIUI and Wildmonk's kernel, I can underclock down to 128Mhz and overclock up to 1.152Ghz. At the end of the day, I still have over 60% of power left after not so heavily use (some web browsing, checking email and listen some music). Overall, setcpu is a great app for me.

[Q] Laggy games?processor running at 1000mhz max?

i m on v10D, i just rooted and intalled setcpu, 1500 max 1400 min gov: performance, now just after i restart/turn on my device, the frequency is right..but then after a couple of minutes it drops to 1000 mhz..i have 2 questions:1.is there a way to fix this,2.does any other version( other than v10D )offer better gaming experience...and if so, which is the best?
Thanks for your time :good:
Well i have mine when I game set to 1500 low and high plus performance. It never drops and other then that. One issue I did encounter is that as long u have profiles set up and checked it will still use them regardless if u set it in the front page to a certain speed. So u need to uncheck all profiles and also uncheck the use profiles. Basically uncheck it all then even if u uncheck use profile it still will use the profile if u select one. Here a picture from what I mean. See how I unchecked everything. U need to do this to or it still will the profiles even if not checked the use profile box.
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Well i have mine when I game set to 1500 low and high plus performance. It never drops and other then that. One issue I did encounter is that as long u have profiles set up and checked it will still use them regardless if u set it in the front page to a certain speed. So u need to uncheck all profiles and also uncheck the use profiles. Basically uncheck it all then even if u uncheck use profile it still will use the profile if u select one. Here a picture from what I mean. See how I unchecked everything. U need to do this to or it still will the profiles even if not checked the use profile box.
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Wow, that worked!!what do you know!!! Thanks man, one more thing..about the updates, which version should i go with??
matatouille96 said:
Wow, that worked!!what do you know!!! Thanks man, one more thing..about the updates, which version should i go with??
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No problem. And Well i use v10f seems just fine.
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Dammit, the frequency problem is back..no profiles this time...any ideas??
Do u have any other app installed that might interfere like quadgearbox or anything like that?
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dante501 said:
Do u have any other app installed that might interfere like quadgearbox or anything like that?
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not that i know of..i had lg gear box but i removed it...i also have ATP tweak but i dont think that s relevant
Edit: i just removed the atp tweak..and it still automatically returns to 1000mhz
btw, are you facing any lags, framedrops, etc on v10F?
and is there any way to force the 4 cores to work simultaneously?
I have the same problem. When i set frequencies to 1500 min and max in game it's still change to lower.
I don't really know. Mine always stays steady on 1500
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Can you make for me a screenshot from game with osd cpu core usage?
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I don't really know. Mine always stays steady on 1500
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Well, its probably has something to do with the firmware version, lets hope an update would fix it
But still, are you facing any lags on v10F?
What exactly do u mean?
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CPU not run full speed
Hy !
Merry Christmas !
My problem is same as you. I don't rooted my phone.
I have stock v10h firmware hungarian,
When I play games, all games very laggy.
I checked the CPU speeds, the max frequency is 1300Mhz and below.
What is this ? Tegra 3 stupidity ?
Best Regards
Gabor
Just write 3845#*880# and on the bottom you can see cpu usage, turn it on and play some game.
LorinczG77 said:
Hy !
Merry Christmas !
My problem is same as you. I don't rooted my phone.
I have stock v10h firmware hungarian,
When I play games, all games very laggy.
I checked the CPU speeds, the max frequency is 1300Mhz and below.
What is this ? Tegra 3 stupidity ?
Best Regards
Gabor
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that 's 3 people with the same problem...and no one is helping -.-, ^^^and he 's on v10H so its not fixed by update .-.
anyone??
It didn't change anything for me to put the CPU @ 1,5GHz constantly. I did a test with the game Horn and its lagging exactly as with the default CPU governor enabled.
If you think about it for a moment, it makes sense, as the GPU is doing the majority of work.
Tegra 3 CPU Clocks
Based on what I understand about Tegra 3 from this thread- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1664391, the CPU has 3 different "modes". 1.5Ghz single core, 1.4Ghz dual and triple core, and 1.2Ghz quad core (At a certain temperature, remains on 1.4Ghz or 1.3Ghz until that temperature is reached... quickly). The reason why the frequencies go down is because when the phone is utilising more cores, the frequency drops too. The move from 1.5Ghz to 1.4Ghz causes lag in games at times, which is why the maximum should be set to 1.4Ghz to prevent this from occuring. Also they said that the performance governor causes 2 of the 4 cores to no longer be in use, which is NOT good for Tegra games such as ShadowGun as all 4 cores cannot be used, so they advised people only to use it for Non-Tegra games as they do not use all the cores. Hoped I helped in any way, even though I'm a new guy. I'm not sure if this applies for ALL Tegra 3 devices or just the HTC One X, but it still looks like useful information.
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Based on what I understand about Tegra 3 from this thread- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1664391, the CPU has 3 different "modes". 1.5Ghz single core, 1.4Ghz dual and triple core, and 1.2Ghz quad core (At a certain temperature, remains on 1.4Ghz or 1.3Ghz until that temperature is reached... quickly). The reason why the frequencies go down is because when the phone is utilising more cores, the frequency drops too. The move from 1.5Ghz to 1.4Ghz causes lag in games at times, which is why the maximum should be set to 1.4Ghz to prevent this from occuring. Also they said that the performance governor causes 2 of the 4 cores to no longer be in use, which is NOT good for Tegra games such as ShadowGun as all 4 cores cannot be used, so they advised people only to use it for Non-Tegra games as they do not use all the cores. Hoped I helped in any way, even though I'm a new guy. I'm not sure if this applies for ALL Tegra 3 devices or just the HTC One X, but it still looks like useful information.
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Thanks for your reply..but for me, the frequency doesnt drop to any of the values above, it automatically drops to1000 and mostly its on 1 core
Which brings me to another problem...i need a way to force the activation of the 4 cores simultaneously...in most games the cpu is stuck at 100% single or dual core
matatouille96 said:
Thanks for your reply..but for me, the frequency doesnt drop to any of the values above, it automatically drops to1000 and mostly its on 1 core
Which brings me to another problem...i need a way to force the activation of the 4 cores simultaneously...in most games the cpu is stuck at 100% single or dual core
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Most games are not optimised to use 4 cores, so I guess using only 1 or 2 cores should be normal. What governor are you using for games, because this might have an effect on the performance.
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Most games are not optimised to use 4 cores, so I guess using only 1 or 2 cores should be normal. What governor are you using for games, because this might have an effect on the performance.
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I tried all governors..performance isnt the best, idk why..userspace seems to work fine, but still when i set min and max freq above 1000mhz, it automatically drops to 1000mhz ._. and that isnt quite good for gaming, and since i bought this device over s3 for gaming, i feel f*cked
so would an update to v10F or a hard reset fix anything??
EDIT: and there 's 4 other people with the same problem and one of them has v10F so hardware problem??if so, im hanging myself

CPU Info

I am using Carbon ROM 4.3 with Chronic kernal. The settings were at a min of ~1700mhz and a max of ~2200mhz. Before i set this I let the cpu temp cool to about 23 degrees Celsius. I then set the cpu governor to performance. Then I started running AnTuTu benchmark ver4. After the cpu integer test the cpu froze up. I was cooling my phone using a freezer with the phone on a paper towel which was on a bag of ice. The CPU crashed at the CPU float point test.
After another test I found that my CPU becomes unstable after 2160mhz.
The settings for the posted benchmark were CPU Min at 1674mhz and CPU Max at 2160mhz with the governor set at performance.
The minimum freq is mute when the gov is performance. Performance just keeps the cpu at the MAX freq.
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Cloaker said:
The minimum freq is mute when the gov is performance. Performance just keeps the cpu at the MAX freq.
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What he said.
Also you can just put the phone in the freezer for a while and let it cool way way down and then run the test while leaving it in the freezer.
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eskomo said:
What he said.
Also you can just put the phone in the freezer for a while and let it cool way way down and then run the test while leaving it in the freezer.
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I am aware of this. I did have it in the freezer until it cooled down enough. The problem was not overheating, it was the CPU becoming unstable at full load with the processor being overclocked. The phone was still cold but it went to a reboot or just turned off.
Gotcha. I missed that part. I wasn't fully awake yet at 4:30am.
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Ok buddy here is your issue buddy its all about volts and throttle limits ive been fine tuning oc steps on antutu, cf bench, geekbench2 and geekbench3. Im stable all the way up to 2106 so far I use ktoonzs kernel cuz it has more options in his app the control alot of the throttling and volts. Ok understanding what it means what the phone just shuts off or reboots when the phone shuts off and wont cut back on you either have to do pull the battery out or plug the charger in to get the phone to boot up that means you had a power overload it drawed to much power on the battery which means you neesd to drop volts on your max step. Now if the phone is just rebooting or if the app FC back to the home screen that means that you dont have enough volts for your max step you only have to add or substract volts on that one step not on the whole board the best way to do this is just by finding your volts for that max step first yes scores will be low but once you find the volts then you start adjusting the throttle limits that way you can control the heat of the cpu but once you find the sweet spot of that oc step move to the next one and start over again for the next oc step doing the steps I listed above I will post pics of what I gotten so far. On a further note I have found that the freezer trick hurts you more then gaining anything cuz if you cool the cpu and battery to much it will make the cpu run sluggish cuz its to cold to run and if the battery is to cold it makes the phone think it dont have enough power to run on that oc step and makes the phone reboot so bare in mine the freezer isnt always the best way to do this I found that if the battery is below 28c it will reboot the phone during benching and if the cpu is below 25c it sluggish as hell the best app to use is cool tool on the app store if you use kt kernel I can give you the direct path to monitor cpu temp like his app does hope this helps you understand alil better of whats going on if you need anymore info just pm me
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Battery life and CPU

Although this might seem as a question. It really isnt.
What kind of battery life do you get on the First? Screenshots would be nice, but what is like the max time and min time you got and what kind of setting do you use, voltage, clock speed, usage etc.
Also has anyone been using the MSM-DCVS (dynamic clock and voltage scaling) CPU Governer? And if yes then have you gotten better battery life? I will do a test tomorrow and see how it goes.
My best stats.
Well before i got into cpu governors, by default the phone uses on-demand and i could max out 14 hours with variable usage. screen on maybe 50% of the time the phone was on and minimal gaming. texting. I dont have data so that didnt take any battery (i hear 4g and 3g take away lots of juice, is that true?).
Okay. So just did a quick test with msm-dcvs.
Basically for 5 minutes I tested each governed doing the same stuff.
Msm-dcvs utilizes deep sleep ALOT more. Almost 8 times more than on demand. And doesn't really use anything in between. So it goes from deep sleep to minimum 300mhz to get it going and then jumps to the max of 1.4ghz and if the screen is on it uses 700mhz.
So using deep sleep it saves batter.
On demand on the other hand tends to use 300mhz instead of deep sleep. It also jumps around a lot between all the various clock speeds using just about anything it can. So i guess on demand will get worse battery life but I will report my findings in a few hours seeing bow battery life goes with dcvs.
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Just a quick update. On demand is crap. Performance is really good and dcvs is performance just more intelligent
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My battery life is crap. I've tried to adjust clock speed & voltage but I don't believe JMZ's latest kernel supports it and I'm never able to get any governors besides stock to stick
abrahammmmmmm_ said:
My battery life is crap. I've tried to adjust clock speed & voltage but I don't believe JMZ's latest kernel supports it and I'm never able to get any governors besides stock to stick
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Use performance. It has a really fast "rave-to-idle" speed. This means that the phone will finish tasks faster and go to idle/deep sleep. So it should save you batter. Unless you don't mind lag and use msm-dcvs which is performance just it takes time to ramp up the speed.
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Use performance. It has a really fast "rave-to-idle" speed. This means that the phone will finish tasks faster and go to idle/deep sleep. So it should save you batter. Unless you don't mind lag and use msm-dcvs which is performance just it takes time to ramp up the speed.
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What app do you use for this? All the ones I've tried don't make any custom settings stick
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What app do you use for this? All the ones I've tried don't make any custom settings stick
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CPU master by antutu. I've always used it. Best one there is
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CPU master by antutu. I've always used it. Best one there is
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Alright I'll try the app. BTW I'm pretty sure 918mhz isn't the stock minimum... Must explain my horrible battery. What do you have yours on?
Edit: so far so good. I'm feeling some better battery life even tho it might just be a placebo effect I know that the CPU will have less strain & rest more now that the minimum is at 384. And few more questions, what do you have set for your I/O scheduler and also did you configure the voltage?
It's important for battery life, that the phone goes into deep sleep while screen is off. Use this app to test whether thats the case: BetterBatteryStats
Also you can see which process "wakes up" the phone while it should sleep.
My First normaly runs about 2 days without charging. So battery is pretty good!
PS: I'm using deodexed rom with stock kernel.
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It's important for battery life, that the phone goes into deep sleep while screen is off. Use this app to test whether thats the case: BetterBatteryStats
Also you can see which process "wakes up" the phone while it should sleep.
My First normaly runs about 2 days without charging. So battery is pretty good!
PS: I'm using deodexed rom with stock kernel.
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Wow that's great battery life.
I'm yet to test dcvs in my first and see how long that lasts me. I have Wi-Fi on all day. So I can get up to 14 hours max.
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Alright I'll try the app. BTW I'm pretty sure 918mhz isn't the stock minimum... Must explain my horrible battery. What do you have yours on?
Edit: so far so good. I'm feeling some better battery life even tho it might just be a placebo effect I know that the CPU will have less strain & rest more now that the minimum is at 384. And few more questions, what do you have set for your I/O scheduler and also did you configure the voltage?
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No I have yet to figure out io bit tinkering with voltage isn't a good idea since the battery is specifically set to a voltage the phone needs.
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Okay I have some new findings. Idk about the custom kernel...bit with stock you only get 3 I/o schedulers. Noop, deadline, and cfq. Noop is first come first serve. Deadline reorders the task sequence and does what it thinks should come first...good for like gaming. And cfq. Which evenly distributes the power amongst all tasks. If you are using cfq make sure you kill unused tasks all the time. If you use a lot of things on your phone and multitask a lot use deadline. Noop is pointless unless you don't use your phone for anything. And cfq is just an alternative to deadline. So I/o won help much.
Then in CPU master. Go to advanced. And press "disable perflock". It will explain what it does. Hit set on boot. And reset you clock settings. Now we shall see what we get.
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Okay guys. I used deadline to see if that would change anything. With the same dcvs setting with deadline I got 15% batter down in 2 hours. That's pretty good. That's 7.5% an hour.
And this is with screen on and wifi on about 70% of the time.
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Okay this is my final say on how to get the most out of your battery life.
There are two set ups
1. Lag free/ smooth set up
Min 384mhz, Max 1080mhz
Governer: Performance
i/o Scheduler: Deadline
-This set up will save battery why? Because 1. You don not need your max 1.4 ghz to keep the phone running lag free, and in performance mode, the phone is LOCKED into 1.4ghz until you dim the screen and it goes into deep sleep. no inbetween. So clocking down will help save EVEN MORE battery. So unlike dcvs you will not have lag when you turn your screen on. It will jump from zero to 1ghz in a few milliseconds.
2. Inteligent
Min: 432mhz, Max 1.4ghz (default max. Dont over clock)
Governer: MSM-DCVS
i/o Scheduler: CFQ
-This set up will save battery, i go down about 1% every 6-20 minutes depending on usage. (6 being max usage and 20 meaning iddle). Once you turn the screen on your device will lag slightly and then will work just fine. This set up is good for those people who dont ALWAYS need max performance. Example: Reading an email doesnt require your phone to be locked at max frequency all the time so it will down clock the device. It simply takes time for it to rev the engine.
3. On Demand
Well this is simply absoule minimum to absolute maximum with NOOP as the i/o. This is the ultimate ondemand set up as it will do what you are currently doing first then do the rest while constantly changing clock speed.
Also...btw changing clock speed takes battery that is why performance saves batter not uses it. Its either deep sleep or max and thats it.
I will add screenshots to this soon once im done with all my tests.
Battery life today on msm-dcvs
I should be at 30% right now bit pretty good battery tight now
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Tried today MSM-DCVS scheduler on my stock rooted firmware. Don't like it. Lags a lot when screen on (and CPU at max 1.4Ghz). And i do not see any significant battery improvements, instead it seems that it takes longer time for phone to do background tasks like mail checking etc.
Concerning battery life - in general I receive 3-3.5 hours of screen time. And it can be 1 day to 3. It all depends on usage, but screen on time never goes above 4 hours.
In attached file - Stats for my phone while traveling from the U.S. to Russia. As you can see, delivery does not take very much time And in standby mode phone can last almost two weeks (with wi-fi and nfc on).
Hulo_ said:
Tried today MSM-DCVS scheduler on my stock rooted firmware. Don't like it. Lags a lot when screen on (and CPU at max 1.4Ghz). And i do not see any significant battery improvements, instead it seems that it takes longer time for phone to do background tasks like mail checking etc.
Concerning battery life - in general I receive 3-3.5 hours of screen time. And it can be 1 day to 3. It all depends on usage, but screen on time never goes above 4 hours.
In attached file - Stats for my phone while traveling from the U.S. to Russia. As you can see, delivery does not take very much time And in standby mode phone can last almost two weeks (with wi-fi and nfc on).
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Personaly i dont have NFC or 4g on at any time. 1. i dont have data and 2. i dont use nfc cause the so called "modern world" is still stuc on stupid apple devices.
I noticed the following issues with managing the cpu
1. When setting cpu clock speed, after about 5 seconds after you left the app it changes the clock speed back to how it was
FIX: in cpu master (or the app of your choice) go to advanced and turn perflock off. then go to the cpu settings and set the speed you want. you must do that every time though cause of the htc kernel
2. MSM-DCVS lags.
FIX: set your minimum to 450-500 mhz
3. 4g drains batter (or so i hear)
FIX: idk yet but if someone could show me their battery life with 4g on and normal daily usage i could try to figure something out.
Hulo. Try this set up
Performance, 300mhz - 1080mhz, deadline
IDK my phone syncs things quite well and lag isnt a big issue for me, i can deal with it because my old phone overclocked is 700mhz so lag isnt anything new to me. So i just notch up the minimum to reduce it.
MSM-DCVS saves batter when screen is off and when screen is on but idle. playing games or actively using the screen will drain battery no matter what setting you use. This is made for people who are constantly on their phones.
Performance saves battery when screen is OFF period. When screen is on its at its max. this is best used for people who dont use their phones alot.
With dcvs i got an extra 7 hours of battery life. usually i get 11. But i hear with 4g on your battery dies in about 6 hours? is that true?!
russian392 said:
Personaly i dont have NFC or 4g on at any time. 1. i dont have data and 2. i dont use nfc cause the so called "modern world" is still stuc on stupid apple devices.
I noticed the following issues with managing the cpu
1. When setting cpu clock speed, after about 5 seconds after you left the app it changes the clock speed back to how it was
FIX: in cpu master (or the app of your choice) go to advanced and turn perflock off. then go to the cpu settings and set the speed you want. you must do that every time though cause of the htc kernel
2. MSM-DCVS lags.
FIX: set your minimum to 450-500 mhz
3. 4g drains batter (or so i hear)
FIX: idk yet but if someone could show me their battery life with 4g on and normal daily usage i could try to figure something out.
Hulo. Try this set up
Performance, 300mhz - 1080mhz, deadline
IDK my phone syncs things quite well and lag isnt a big issue for me, i can deal with it because my old phone overclocked is 700mhz so lag isnt anything new to me. So i just notch up the minimum to reduce it.
MSM-DCVS saves batter when screen is off and when screen is on but idle. playing games or actively using the screen will drain battery no matter what setting you use. This is made for people who are constantly on their phones.
Performance saves battery when screen is OFF period. When screen is on its at its max. this is best used for people who dont use their phones alot.
With dcvs i got an extra 7 hours of battery life. usually i get 11. But i hear with 4g on your battery dies in about 6 hours? is that true?!
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I'd just like to add that 4g actually consumes LESS battery than 2g/3g/3.5g only LTE tho. That's because it's more optimized and advanced I've read and experienced it in many occasions
abrahammmmmmm_ said:
I'd just like to add that 4g actually consumes LESS battery than 2g/3g/3.5g only LTE tho. That's because it's more optimized and advanced I've read and experienced it in many occasions
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Alright then. Interesting. My friend on his s3 gets 6 hours of battery with 4g.
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russian392 said:
Alright then. Interesting. My friend on his s3 gets 6 hours of battery with 4g.
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I should add that the optimized battery life for LTE is only true tho for new snapdragon CPU's including Apple's processors as well. I'm not aware of tegra or any exynos at the moment.

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