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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
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Your "Set CPU settings"

I have SetCPU settings:
Main:
Min: 352
Max: 710
Profiles:
Screen Off:
Max: 352
Min: 245
Priority: 95
Battery<30%:
Max: 352
Min: 245
Priority: 50
temp>30%:
Max: 352
Min: 245
Priority: 50
Have all profiles on "on demand", same as the main.
Phone working really good, no freezes what so ever, so think this is good settings!
But, my issue is that my battery drains from full to empty in just 2-3 hours!
Maybe some settings in SetCPU that is doing that. Have noticed that the mainscreensettings goes back to "interactive" scaling when restarting phone, is this a common issue?

Main: Min 245, Max 710
Profile:
Screen Off: Min 245, Max 480.
Battery lasts over 1 day normal use. 2+ with light use.

Main: 691 max 245 min
Screen off: 245max 19min 90%
Temp >35: 352max 160min 85%
Charging/full: 691max 245min 75%
Battery

Michealtbh said:
Main: 691 max 245 min
Screen off: 245max 19min 90%
Temp >35: 352max 160min 85%
Charging/full: 691max 245min 75%
Battery
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and your battery last for how long with this settings enabled?

Main: max 768
min 595
No profiles and battery lasts already for one day
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Akerhage said:
and your battery last for how long with this settings enabled?
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The rest of my post seems to have disappeared, strange. Depends how heavily I'm using my phone tbh, can last from 8 hours to 1+ days. I'm running stock ROM with OC kernel

Michealtbh said:
The rest of my post seems to have disappeared, strange. Depends how heavily I'm using my phone tbh, can last from 8 hours to 1+ days. I'm running stock ROM with OC kernel
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Okay strange indeed! =)
I personally think that 8hours is really not good. Dont have time to load battery every 10+hours. Dont know if its the Roms, the kernels or the setCPU that decreases the batterylife this much.

My battery did last longer before flashing the kernel, so I think the problem is either with setCPU or the kernel. I don't mind charging more often, its worth it for a more responsive phone

Michealtbh said:
My battery did last longer before flashing the kernel, so I think the problem is either with setCPU or the kernel. I don't mind charging more often, its worth it for a more responsive phone
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I dont mind ether, but my phones battery emptys within 2-3 hours, so I really cant use the phone. And I do like the improvements, and see that others have there phones working 24+ hours, so maybe its all up to different settings etc.
Hope this thread will sort some problems out =)

How old is your phone? Maybe the battery is worn out

Michealtbh said:
How old is your phone? Maybe the battery is worn out
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Its maybe 5-6 weeks old, but maybe the battery suffered from the treatment in the washingmachine?

If your phones are lasting less than 12 hours you have SERIOUS problems or you ove ruse it.
My settings 691 max; 160 min - on demand.
Profiles: who needs profiles?

Profiles are for battery safe usage...
1rst page,:
max:768 mhz
min: 122 mhz
I've set 4 profiles in setcpu:
-battery < 40%: 518 max 122 min (interactive) (priorité 100)
-screen off: 245 max 122 min (interactive) (priorité 80)
-charging/full: 768 max 518 min (ondemand) (priorité 100)
-battery <99%: 768 max 352 min (ondemand) (priorité 50)

poggus said:
Profiles are for battery safe usage...
1rst page,:
max:768 mhz
min: 122 mhz
I've set 4 profiles in setcpu:
-battery < 40%: 518 max 122 min (interactive) (priorité 100)
-screen off: 245 max 122 min (interactive) (priorité 80)
-charging/full: 768 max 518 min (ondemand) (priorité 100)
-battery <99%: 768 max 352 min (ondemand) (priorité 50)
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and with theese settings your phone last?

Akerhage said:
Its maybe 5-6 weeks old, but maybe the battery suffered from the treatment in the washingmachine?
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It would definitely be worth trying a new battery if its been through the washing machine

Michealtbh said:
It would definitely be worth trying a new battery if its been through the washing machine
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Yeah, maybe worth the try. Strange when I look at my battery-use it says
Cell Standby: 43%
Phone Idle: 41%
Android system: 15%
Display: 4%
Wery strange that the phones batteryuse is consumed at standby and idle???

Even with profiles my phone it doesn't make much of a difference for me, I just put it for the hell with it

kevin2516 said:
Even with profiles my phone it doesn't make much of a difference for me, I just put it for the hell with it
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Yeah I only use two profiles, one for temperature and one for screen off. They don't make much of a difference. My phone lasts 3 days.

With normal use and 710max 245min , no profiles , i have 77% left in 20 hours. 3G/2G on , and Wifi on for 8 of the hours. Played some Spotify and showed a mate some Youtube videos (with 3G data).

71baker said:
With normal use and 710max 245min , no profiles , i have 77% left in 20 hours. 3G/2G on , and Wifi on for 8 of the hours. Played some Spotify and showed a mate some Youtube videos (with 3G data).
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damn you baker!
I want to have it like that!

[Q] best setcpu settings for t-mobile G1

hello i am searching for the best setcpu settings for G1 so i will get the hell out of my g1 !! please help and if double post sorry i didn't see the other at related threads

576 max, 528 min
122 122 on sleep

This is the setting that I have been using, the good thing is it has failsafe profile as well to prevent overheating
Profiles are listed according to order (high priority to low)
Main setting 528 max 245 min
Screen off 245 max 122min (245 max to allow background apps to function properly)
temp>38.6 352 man 245 min
Charging 537 max 245 min
Battery<40% 480 max 245 min
u can set your own max speed, but not advised to go beyond 576
245 is set as minimum when awake because that is the original minimum clockspeed of the cpu
remember to check 'set on boot' and 'enable profile' setting
change them to your liking n have fun!
p/s: my setting is based on this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6762470&postcount=208

Any figures on how this affects battery life?

mimox said:
Any figures on how this affects battery life?
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try it out for yourself, set it, and forget about it, and do your normal daily usage, after that you'll notice of the extra juice available

mimox said:
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Keep in mind, the best settings may be none at all.
SetCPU does take a few MB of available RAM - a precious commodity on the G1. I've been going without it using Farmatito's kernels - it defaults to 528 and 245, I think. Only drop about 1% an hour on standby.

sisterchick said:
Keep in mind, the best settings may be none at all.
SetCPU does take a few MB of available RAM - a precious commodity on the G1. I've been going without it using Farmatito's kernels - it defaults to 528 and 245, I think. Only drop about 1% an hour on standby.
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Good idea! It may be wise to remove the SetCPU to get more available RAM if the battery won't drop fast without SetCPU.

Incredicontrol

We finally have root permissions, so i decided to try incredicontrol... anyone has already tried it?
I lowered the max freq up to 640MHz, and lowered the minimum freq up to the minimum (51MHz). The phone remains agile, no lags.
I noticed an improvement of the battery life, and the phone doesn't overheat like before.
The system uses more cores, not just one as with the base frequency.
I verified with the options "show cpu usage" in the hidden menù.
I suggest to use the interactive governor, because other governors don't use the shadow core.
We still cannot undervolt because there isn't a kernel that supports undervolt...
ps sorry for my bad english, but i'm italian

this app is simple, but unfortunaly it crashed for me to often, i use cpu master, set max speed to 1000 and min speed to 51mhz,
i think these tools are not full tegra3 rdy right now

fire3d said:
this app is simple, but unfortunaly it crashed for me to often, i use cpu master, set max speed to 1000 and min speed to 51mhz,
i think these tools are not full tegra3 rdy right now
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mmm maybe.... maybe we have to wait new versions....... but on mine incredicontrol does not crash

CPU master
My CPU master doesn't (never) crash(ed) when i set max min CPU. Perhaps your app is buggy?

Note stays on 800Mhz when playing Asphalt 7, even when min = 1.6ghz

As above.
i'm using Half illusion ICS Rom, with anidroid kernel.
used better battery stats to track cpu usage while playing the asphalt 7 game.
initial settings were
min 200
max 1.4ghz
governor = interactiveX
after i realized that the game hits a ceiling @ 800mhz, i forced it to run faster
min 1.6ghz
max 1.6ghz
governor = ondemand / interactiveX
the phone runs 1.6ghz when at my home screen.
however the game still runs @ 800mhz only. It's somehow laggy at the start of the race and when loading (u can see the graphics stutter quite a bit).
is there any way i can get my Note to run at full speed whenever I'm running a gfx-intensive game?

i closed all apps except batt stats to make sure it's not RAM shortage that's causing the lag ingame.

Have you tried using the governor "On demand"? Also try flashing HydraCore kernel.. Maybe that fixes it without changing governor..

go thru this thread and choose the appropriate CPU governer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1736168

dylansmith said:
As above.
i'm using Half illusion ICS Rom, with anidroid kernel.
used better battery stats to track cpu usage while playing the asphalt 7 game.
initial settings were
min 200
max 1.4ghz
governor = interactiveX
after i realized that the game hits a ceiling @ 800mhz, i forced it to run faster
min 1.6ghz
max 1.6ghz
governor = ondemand / interactiveX
the phone runs 1.6ghz when at my home screen.
however the game still runs @ 800mhz only. It's somehow laggy at the start of the race and when loading (u can see the graphics stutter quite a bit).
is there any way i can get my Note to run at full speed whenever I'm running a gfx-intensive game?
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Phone is too hot so It's uderclocking to 800MHz. It is impossible to do without raising max core temperature in the kernel. Stock 1,4GHz is marketing gambit.

nokiamodeln91 said:
go thru this thread and choose the appropriate CPU governer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1736168
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point is, no matter which governor i choose, it sticks to 800mhz.
out of few hours of stuff, only 1minute stays on 1.4/1.6ghz.

dylansmith said:
point is, no matter which governor i choose, it sticks to 800mhz.
out of few hours of stuff, only 1minute stays on 1.4/1.6ghz.
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Means it takes 1 minute until the CPU gets too hot after starting he game and the kernel decides to throttle the CPU frequency to 800 MHz maximum.

is that even possible

Change your kernel

Silent Lain said:
Means it takes 1 minute until the CPU gets too hot after starting he game and the kernel decides to throttle the CPU frequency to 800 MHz maximum.
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not really. as mentioned that 1 minute is probably when i'm scrolling around the homescreen and navigating menus.
what are the kernels that can work on the half illusion ROM other than the default CM9/anidroid? hydracore works too?
I just have to flash through CWM and reboot right?
(just want to make sure, because i know it's gonna be hard-bricked if i do the wrong thing.)