Just rooted my phone a week ago and installed setcpu and a new kernel (made for 4.0.2 - and I quadruple checked that 1) I am definitely on 4.0.2 and 2) the kernel is definitely made for 4.0.2 (it's Faux's 4.0.2 kernel).
With that out of the way, here's my issue: with SetCPU installed, my phone is a slow, laggy mess. When I uninstall the application, my phone is fast, zippy, and all is well. It doesn't make sense given the context. More details below.
Specific things that lag especially bad are the following: 1) very slow screen wake/unlock (without any screen-off profile set/enabled and with the phone at stock min/max CPU frequency and ondemand and interactive governors, and also when underclocked and overclocked and in any combination you can think of); 2) homescreen performance; 3) typing; 4) switching between apps; 5) answering phone calls
I have tried using Setcpu with and without screen off profiles set and enabled, I have tried using the phone at stock clock, overclocked to 1.35ghz, and underclocked to 920mhz, and in all situations and combinations, the phone is slow, jerky, and a bit laggy. I also played with different scaling governors (interactive and ondemand mostly), and had the issue regardless of the governor used. I have not messed with voltage or anything else.
This issue has persisted over three days now, it happens regardless of how many times I've rebooted the phone and uninstalled/reinstalled the SetCPU application, etc. In short, there seems to be nothing I'm doing wrong on my end (or so I think) to explain this issue. And every single time I uninstall SetCPU, my phone is a speed demon again.
I have never had this issue on any previously rooted phone using Setcpu. Also, yes, I wiped cache AND dalvik cache before flashing Faux's kernel. I am not new to Android, cell phones, rooting, flashing kernels, etc. I can even use ADB without problems.
So, hopefully I covered all my bases. Anyone have any thoughts on why I might have been experiencing this issue?
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Hi,
i have an Italian version of i9000 with jf5 firmware.
I have upgraded whit samsung kies my firmware.
now i have
pda xwjm3
phone xxjm2
csc itvjm1
now sometime my phone goes off
anyone have the same problem?
i read that this is a bug......
You read its a bug? Of course it's a bug.
It's either a bug with the firmware or with an application. I had the same problem when using SetCPU.
Sent from my GT-I9000
i have setcpu me too.
so the problem is this app?
just uninstall it?
I experienced it (no response completely unless I reinsert the battery) when with lag fix and GPS on, regardless eclair or froyo ROM.
then I reflashed and turned GPS off for most of the time on my 2.1 lag-fixed ROM, the problem seemed not to trouble me any more. I have also underclocked my CPU with "Overclock Widget" to 800/400 MHz on screen, and 400/400 MHz offscreen.
I have a feeling that the problem was due to GPS or due to the 0513 pit, but I'm not sure - so far it's been okay so I bother not to break it for tests.
SetCPU shuts my device down... out of nothing...
i uninstalled setcpu and never happened again
mystaka said:
then I reflashed and turned GPS off for most of the time on my 2.1 lag-fixed ROM, the problem seemed not to trouble me any more. I have also underclocked my CPU with "Overclock Widget" to 800/400 MHz on screen, and 400/400 MHz offscreen.
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Slightly off-topic but... That'd actually be an overclock if I'm reading those numbers correctly. The default frequency is 1000/100mhz with a conservative setting, meaning it'll try to be as low as possible more or less. What you've done is set min-frequency to 400mhz, which in my book is an overclock from the stock 100mhz.
Back to semi on topic... SetCPU is known to cause problems on Galaxy S, and likely other devices aswell. Most problems has been more specifically caused by using ondemand setting when setting up profiles - for some reason the phone doesn't handle this setting well when it wakes from sleep.
I'm pretty sure I managed to get it working more or less flawlessly with an screen off profile at 400/100 with Conservative setting, though I reflashed shortly after those settings so never got to test it properly. Regardless, they might work if you want to mess about with it.
I had a similar problem with JM5 and SetCPU.
Removed and it didn't happen again.
gettons said:
I had a similar problem with JM5 and SetCPU.
Removed and it didn't happen again.
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The way to have SetCPU working is to do the following:
Scaling: conservating
Freq Step: 100
insty said:
The way to have SetCPU working is to do the following:
Scaling: conservating
Freq Step: 100
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Great!This work
Thank you
I don't use setcpu but I have this problem in my two SGS. Using m5 and m6..
Hi,
first of all, I am not using a HAVS kernel anymore since I only had bad experience with it. But I would like to ask you, if I am the only one who had bad experiences. So here is the problem:
No matter which rom I tried, every time I use a kernel with this super cool HAVS-feature, my batterylife increased a lot, but the phone was nearly unusable after a few hours of idling. Direct after the boot process, the phone worked like normal, but if it was a few hours in stand-by, I had to wait a few seconds (at least 30+) until the phone did ANYthing. Mostly it was a FC from the launcher app, and it didnt matter which one (zeam, launcherpro, adw, and so on, all the same). I somehow didnt care, because once I made a testcall to test if this sluggish behaviour applies to phone-calls, too, and it didnt. Sometimes the launcher wasnt even usable after 3 FC's and I had to reboot the phone. Did I do something wrong? I also tried various SetCPU settings (ondemand, interactive, smartass, profiles) but these settings didnt have any impact on this behaviour.
So, am I the only one with this problem? Because I never read, that anyone else has this problem. If yes, what did I do wrong?
Yes this behavior is normal. Not every desire likes a havs kernel. With havs you use less voltage for the same speed. And because every phone is slightly different you could have one which does not like it. So your phone gets to little power to do it's job, that's why you have crashes etc.
So it's not a problem with havs but a problem with your phone.
Also there are different havs kernel, 875mv or for example 925mv. Maybe you could try a 925mv, that one uses a little more juice. Otherwise stick with SVS.
Ah, thank you for the information. Isnt there a 950mV kernel by chance? I tried from 875 to 925 all I could find, but they behaved all the same . Seems like my Desire doesnt like HAVS kernels at all.
Does anybody else have this problem? It happens to me about once a day..I'll go to check my phone and its totally off and I have to pull the battery to get it to power up again. It only happens when the screen is off.
I've had this happen a few times, and other have as well. There is a thread about it, with various theories on the cause, but a definitive cause(s) has not been found.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857584&highlight=pulling+battery
One user claimed the GPS was the culprit. But this was not my personal experience. I was never using GPS when it happened to me. Mine might (possibly) have been linked to having screen-off profiles under CPU Tuner. I uninstalled CPU Tuner, and went back to SetCPU, and have not had the issue re-occur in over a month. Do you use either of these CPU over/underclocking apps, any overclocking?
Thanks for the reply I actually just found the thread you linked to right after I started the thread.. My desire Z is rooted but other then that totally stock.
EDIT: It also did this before I rooted.
My Z also did this a couple times the first few days I had it, and it was pretty much stock. Then it didn't do it for a while, during which time I flashed the overclocked Godspeed kernal, and installed SetCPU. Then the power-on issue cropped up again (almost immediately) when I tried using CPU Tuner. The issue stopped after uninstalled CPU Tuner, and hasn't come back in over a month.
My only hypothesis is that its related to some combination of the kernal and CPU Tuner, in my case. But it also may have been a complete coincidence, and have nothing to do with either of those.
ive had this happen to my g2, no setcpu profiles had been set. mine was charging both times i noticed this. had to pull battery and unplug it before i could get it back on
This is just a note to those that use CM7 and want to manage their CPU settings (overclock, etc).
I didn't realize at first that CM7 now includes CPU management and went to use SetCPU first thing to set up my usage profiles. I discovered that CM7 has its own CPU management built in and it appears SetCPU doesn't work well with it.
The symptoms I found were:
Profiles would not work correctly in SetCPU
Conflicts would occur that resulted in unknown CPU settings (unknown as you don't know them, they are not displayed properly)
Bluetooth broke (this seems random)
All of the problems that came up since installing SetCPU went away after removing it and rebooting (including the bluetooth issues). You lose the profiles support, but eh, it's not really necessary and didn't work right anyway.
No wonder I was having so many problems with SetCPU. Thanks!
I was getting ready to install it on my rooted SGH I777and decided to check on compatibility before I did. Glad I saw your notes. Where is the options in Cyanogenmod7 management on my phone? I see the performance option but the warning message I get makes me think I need to leave that alone.
robertafoster said:
I was getting ready to install it on my rooted SGH I777and decided to check on compatibility before I did. Glad I saw your notes. Where is the options in Cyanogenmod7 management on my phone? I see the performance option but the warning message I get makes me think I need to leave that alone.
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The Performance section is where you want to go. In there you can choose the Governor and CPU Min/Max.
Hi All,
After being a long time iPhone user i recently purchased htc one x, as a result my android skills are almost non-existent; so please bear with me.
I managed to flash clockworkmod recovery and rooted with SuperSU with no issues.
Purchased setCPU after reading the reviews and enabled. However the phone would reboot randomly a few times a day. Ususally when the screen was off.
After disabling setCPU there was no rebooting issue.
Has anyone got this app to work on the OneX, and if so which settings did you use?
Also has it been confirmed to work with all 4 cores?
FYI I had the following profiles setup.
Screen Off
Freq:640Mhz-51Mhz
Gov: conservative
Temp > 44.5
Freq:880Mhz-51Mhz
Gov: conservative
Battery < 30%
Freq:1000Mhz-51Mhz
Gov: powersave
Charging Any
Freq:1500Mhz-51Mhz
Gov: ondemand
Please note these profiles are based on no evidence, just on what I estimated to be about right...
Cheers
I did not start using SetCPU on my phone yet because it's not rooted, but first I would check if SetCPU doesn't require some kernel support? and if that's implemented in the custom ROM you're using? (if it's needed, I'm not sure).
Or maybe SetCPU needs an update to properly support our phones?
That Temp > 44.5 Profile, wouldn't that interfere with gaming? I have never used Temp profiles before (is it really needed?), only the other ones, like battery and screen-off and charging.
my one x has unlocked bootloader, recovery and root. I was running into some serious intermittent lagging issues, the phone in any app would just stall for 5+ seconds. after hours restoring after failure , it came down to the problem that using ANY cpu controll app, messed my phone up... BADLY! it seems at the moment (im assuming) apps like setcpu and cpu master are not quad core ready...
thanks for the responses guys.
I guess ill just wait until one of the devs can confirm this as working...
The reason is simple. We don't have rooted kernels yet. Until then stay away from messing with CPU speeds or under volting. Etc.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
skywalker1970 said:
The reason is simple. We don't have rooted kernels yet. Until then stay away from messing with CPU speeds or under volting. Etc.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
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DO NOT mess with your CPU speeds yet. Undervoltage is causing reboots!
the software is not up to the hardware capability, i dont think the cpu control apps can handle quad core yet. and there is a lot of apps (esp. games) that lag a lot, and amazingly the cores are too lazy to work... im hoping for a better kernel that will address this issues.
If you want to at least see what's going on with the cores, I can confirm that Tablet CPU Usage Monitor works on HTC One X
It shows 2 icons in notification bar, each icon showing usage of 2 cores. Not sure how accurate it is, but so far had no problems with it and it seems to be reporting correctly. Developer is working on single icon with all 4cores in it, to save space.
I had the same problem, but if you delete your profiles you won't get reboots.
I'm just running default profile Max: 1500, Min: 760 Ondemand gov. and it has been a straight line for 6 hours when I was sleeping and no reboots.
jakejay said:
Hi All,
After being a long time iPhone user i recently purchased htc one x, as a result my android skills are almost non-existent; so please bear with me.
I managed to flash clockworkmod recovery and rooted with SuperSU with no issues.
Purchased setCPU after reading the reviews and enabled. However the phone would reboot randomly a few times a day. Ususally when the screen was off.
After disabling setCPU there was no rebooting issue.
Has anyone got this app to work on the OneX, and if so which settings did you use?
Also has it been confirmed to work with all 4 cores?
FYI I had the following profiles setup.
Screen Off
Freq:640Mhz-51Mhz
Gov: conservative
Temp > 44.5
Freq:880Mhz-51Mhz
Gov: conservative
Battery < 30%
Freq:1000Mhz-51Mhz
Gov: powersave
Charging Any
Freq:1500Mhz-51Mhz
Gov: ondemand
Please note these profiles are based on no evidence, just on what I estimated to be about right...
Cheers
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I was having that problem too... In my opinion, I don't think that the phone can handle the Conservative governor setting. I set my governor to Interactive (On Demand works too)
Right now, I have my profile set to 1000mhz max and 475mhz min, with screen off profiles set to 475mhz max and min. I have not had any problems with the phone rebooting at all since setting those freqs. (And I don't want to quite go any lower yet). And I have it Set on Boot.
im now using rooted HTC One X(HOX) and installed RD-MIUI ROM quite sometimes. my kernel is still in stock. Im using setcpu and NO random reboot happen like what you have said. Yet, i am still confuse whether setcpu is good for my phone. based on my review, in the leading rom developer thread they not mention setcpu for their choice. they play alot with kernels to govern their hox cpu-s. could anyone do some comment.