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Overclock display

When I bought my HD I recycled my old XDA2 into a fan controller/overclock display. Now that my HD is getting a little old I thought I would rewrite the application to suit the larger screen of my HD. It uses Everest and WMI to get the values from the PC. Anyway I was wondering if this something you would use/worth making?
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The original version mounted in my case.

Slothie said:
.... Anyway I was wondering if this something you would use/worth making?
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Are you kidding me? That would be absolutely awsome! An application like that would perfectly fit my needs. If you need a beta tester, count me in
btw, nice case mod

Hey, I'd definitely use this!

LOVE IT!, I would LIKE TO TEST AS WELL!

I need this program

Wow!
Oh yeah, I would love to try this, absolute genius.
This is something I desperately need.
If you need a beta tester, count me in please.

Looks great

Brilliant !

Thanks for your feedback. I wasn't sure if I should waste my time making it into a distributable application but it seems you guys have proved me wrong. I will get a version up sometime this week but it will be pretty raw though.

cool I love to test it.

want it too
i am an computer technician since allmost 20 years, i would use ur Tool too.
great idea tho. is it working the way u like.
i like to be one of the test dummys
let me know, when we can start testing

is there any news on this project ? .

Yeah I posted it here but didn't get any response so I when on with something else.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695298

i didn't realize you moved to an other thread... see you in the new thread.

Power GLaDOS Kernel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, guys.
Recently, the GLaDOS Kernel -> overclock problem solving have been.
so, i'm glados control app -> overclock conducted.
my galaxy nexus -> max overclock : 1.8Ghz.
2.1Ghz Is possible.
But do not last long.
I'd like to suggest to you.
glados kerenl is very good. the best kernel.
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Just recently flashed glados for the first time and loving it

Hi,
Like I said on RootzW you're the first!
It's crazy and congratulations for the higher CPU frequency I'v seen for a Gnex
Yes this kernel+the app are awesome!
You should specify that it is with Smartreflex disable and all device can't handle these high frequencies...
It will take me to begin to test above my "little" 1.63Ghz...
This kernel is a beast...and your phone also

junha.lee.32 said:
Hey, guys.
Recently, the GLaDOS Kernel -> overclock problem solving have been.
so, i'm glados control app -> overclock conducted.
my galaxy nexus -> max overclock : 1.8Ghz.
2.1Ghz Is possible.
But do not last long.
I'd like to suggest to you.
glados kerenl is very good. the best kernel.
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GLaDOS has been amazing for me everyone talks about this kernel and that kernel but none compare to the advances in GLaDOS imo it stands alone at the top of the pack. Ezekeel is a great developer his work and devotion to the Galaxy Nexus and his GLaDOS kernel is second to none. Congrats on the 2.1 GHz

blowtorch said:
GLaDOS has been amazing for me everyone talks about this kernel and that kernel but none compare to the advances in GLaDOS imo it stands alone at the top of the pack. Ezekeel is a great developer his work and devotion to the Galaxy Nexus and his GLaDOS kernel is second to none. Congrats on the 2.1 GHz
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thanks ~

Will have to agree with all comments here on GladOS. I've been running it since rooting my GNex, and it's been rock solid stable, fast, and the battery life is awesome using Wheatley. Ezekeel is a great dev, and definitely deserves some more limelight.

My phone crashes at 1.6 which is the highest setting on the cdma version (I don't have the glados app yet)
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Dictate said:
Will have to agree with all comments here on GladOS. I've been running it since rooting my GNex, and it's been rock solid stable, fast, and the battery life is awesome using Wheatley. Ezekeel is a great dev, and definitely deserves some more limelight.
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I agree with that

Anthonok said:
My phone crashes at 1.6 which is the highest setting on the cdma version (I don't have the glados app yet)
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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In the current version does not work properly.
To rise to 1.6Ghz,
as follows:
Create init.d tweak.
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# SmartReflex
echo "0" > /sys/kernel/debug/smartreflex/sr_mpu/autocomp
echo "0" > /sys/kernel/debug/smartreflex/sr_core/autocomp
echo "0" > /sys/kernel/debug/smartreflex/sr_iva/autocomp
#default 1
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This [viking37], and found, [phone_user] was created.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/14685-15-apr-glados-v129/page__st__840

today, antutu benchmark measurement.
my galaxy nexus put in the freezer measurement.
Temperature: 11 degrees.
How are you?

Re,
Yeah!!!!
You can post your score here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1443343&highlight=benchmark
What governor?
Min CPU freq?
CPU temp limit?
Also thanks to the freezer

viking37 said:
Re,
Yeah!!!!
You can post your score here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1443343&highlight=benchmark
What governor?
Min CPU freq?
CPU temp limit?
Also thanks to the freezer
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thank you!

not damaged?

wow..
wow... very nice... my S2 max clock is 1600Mhz...amazing..

Gonna try out Glados right now!

U did an amazing work... I like it.. keep moving on this track..
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2

Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said "Goodbye", and you were like, [deep voice] "No way!" And then I was all, "We pretended we were going to murder you." That was great.

junha.lee.32 said:
Hey, guys.
Recently, the GLaDOS Kernel -> overclock problem solving have been.
so, i'm glados control app -> overclock conducted.
my galaxy nexus -> max overclock : 1.8Ghz.
2.1Ghz Is possible.
But do not last long.
I'd like to suggest to you.
glados kerenl is very good. the best kernel.
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Task killer
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

I was surprised at develoid.
In my phone freeze happens 1.65Ghz

reached 1920 mhz cpu oc without problems!at 2.1 freeze all...at 2 ghz freeze when benchmarked..very good find,also if in normal situation 1400 goes well,without go with higher mhz.but for a flashaolic extreeme overclocker like me it's the best to see that with smartreflex disabled with liveoc i can reach same oc step that htc devices with quallcomm cpu.gnex and omap4 rocks!

Odd CPU scaling behaviour

I've been playing around with TegraStats for a while now and found out, that the CPU's up- and downscaling acts kinda weird from time to time.
For example, running CPU intensive tasks like Antutu benchmark will fire up all four cores, but maximum clock was always 1200 MHz instead of 1400 MHz. Seems kinda "capped" through kernel parameters (correct me if I'm wrong).
So I've tried Shadowgun after benchmarking. In this case, the CPU scaled down to around 360 MHz from time to time, resulting in heavy stuttering during gameplay in huge environments. That's what really bothered me, 'cause same happened with Riptide GP from time to time, just random encounters.
So I installed good old ROM Toolbox (very nice tool by the way) and enforced Performance governor.
Result of this was that cores 0 and 1 scaled very nicely during gameplay (Shadowgun), but cores 2 and 3 were shut down permanently. Really weird stuff, but the game ran much, much better with just those 2 very stable scaling cores!
My best guess is that HTC really messed up the default governor, I hope they'll release kernel sources soon, so our kernel devs can take a look at this.

more2come said:
My best guess is that HTC really messed up the default governor, I hope they'll release kernel sources soon, so our kernel devs can take a look at this.
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Nvidia's low-level code and drivers are proprietary and have been since Teg2. So there's only so much the devs (and HTC) can do.
What you're describing is exactly what happened to the Asus Prime when the first few updates were released. Clock speeds were locked (that hadn't been) and the way the cores worked together was modified and in the process both performance and battery life were lost. It appears that in real world use the way the processors step is very different than Nvidia's marketing material.
I'd be willing to bet you that you'll observe different results using different updates. Code and drivers are going to be modified to fix the graphics issues and improve battery life and those changes are going to alter the way the processor taps and manages the different cores.
Does your phone flicker? It would be interesting to see the results of TegraStats on flickering vs. non-flickering phones. It's a shame you have to be rooted to use it because that limits the number of people who can post results.
Is there some sort of test you can come up with that people can use to compare different phones to see if the results are different? I'm not rooted or I'd help.

I never experienced any flickering so far, seems to be just fine!
Well, easiest part to reproduce is test 1, I guess. Your phone needs to be rooted, you need TegraStats from the Play Store and Antutu Benchmark.
During CPU benchmarking, all four cores are at 100% load, but they're stuck at 1.2 GHz.
Another thing that bothers me is the browser performance with web pages that include alot of different content, like the desktop page of engadget.com .
The One X lags alot during pinch to zoom, I think it's because of text reflow and constant repositioning of pictures and flash content. But with performance governor, the browser runs like hell!
I'll keep playing around with some settings, will post them here if something useful comes out.

What sort of Quadrant/ Antutu scores are you getting with performance governer?

When I test my phone they stay at 1.4 but do go to 1.5 in games but not in benchmarks, maybe the CPU has a turbo boost of some sort.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

Cpu also spikes when you scroll between screens. Largely due to the carousel effect on Sense. Spikes too much imo. They need to optimize Sense for the Tegra 3.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

I read that 1.5Ghz was the fastest single core speed and for multi cores the fastest is 1.4Ghz. So a benchmark using all cores will hit 1.4Ghz but a game running on a single core will hit 1.5Ghz...
"Up to Single Core 1.5 GHz /Quad-Core 1.4 GHz"
Has anyone been able to test this with the One X yet? I know it works with my Transformer Prime
"3D Stereo Gaming - This capability leverages NVIDIA’s award-winning NVIDIA 3D Vision® technology to automatically, and in real-time, convert OpenGL based games and apps into Stereo 3D."

Tried setting up Performance and my system became somewhat unstable.
Running ARHD 5.0 @ Firmware 1.29
Browser didnt rly improve in performance, too. Compared the desktop site of engadget with interactive and performance. Both performed pretty poor here.
Plus: With performance I get 1400Mhz constantly, and my phone heated up pretty fast pretty bad. In regular homescreen use I easily reached 40 degrees whereas with interactive I usually reach tops of 32-33 degrees....

TremF said:
I read that 1.5Ghz was the fastest single core speed and for multi cores the fastest is 1.4Ghz. So a benchmark using all cores will hit 1.4Ghz but a game running on a single core will hit 1.5Ghz...
"Up to Single Core 1.5 GHz /Quad-Core 1.4 GHz"
Has anyone been able to test this with the One X yet? I know it works with my Transformer Prime
"3D Stereo Gaming - This capability leverages NVIDIA’s award-winning NVIDIA 3D Vision® technology to automatically, and in real-time, convert OpenGL based games and apps into Stereo 3D."
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just tested for you
1) all 4 cores on during benchmark
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2) 2 cores disabled (dual core)
as you can see with 4 cores the max was 1.2GHZ where as on only 2 cores the max was 1.4GHZ
even with setting the max cores to 1 it still used 2 cores so i concluded it wouldn't be a fair test.

I wonder if HTC have messed with the CPU working somehow? Nvidia def state "Up to Single Core 1.5 GHz /Quad-Core 1.4 GHz" here.
and the test I was asking about was the 3D Stereo Gaming
I like how with my Prime there's 3 diff settings. Powersave - 1.0Ghz, Standard 1.2Ghz and Full speed (not the actual names but I don't have my Prime in front of me) 1.4Ghz so you can set it depending on what you are doing. Plus with root and overclock upto 1.6Ghz or 1.7/8Ghz with kernal change/custom rom.

TremF said:
I wonder if HTC have messed with the CPU working somehow? Nvidia def state "Up to Single Core 1.5 GHz /Quad-Core 1.4 GHz" here.
and the test I was asking about was the 3D Stereo Gaming
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still going to count the tests as valid lol, on 4 cores my phone only got to 1.2 GHz where you posted it should be 1.4 which was only the case on 2 cores.

This is going to work the same way it works for "Regular" computer CPUs.
Core i7 scales frequencies (and does turboboost) depending on the overral load. You get the highest boost with just one core, a little lower with two, and very little with all of them (this depends on package heat dissipation and is usually set by BIOS in laptops - not sure about desktops). For computers, there is software called Throttlestop which allows you to tune some of these parameters, not sure what can be done on Tegra3.

treebill said:
still going to count the tests as valid lol, on 4 cores my phone only got to 1.2 GHz where you posted it should be 1.4 which was only the case on 2 cores.
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Aye. Can't argue with proper test results. I think for games I'll stick to my Prime with 1.6Ghz max, less heat and more battery

[Q] HTC reduced cpu frequency in update?

Hello, I heard that HTC reduced the processor frequency in "One X", due to the high temperature of tegra and battery lifetime (In update, maybe 1.29?). Is that true?
Sorry, but my english isn't good.

flowerman said:
Hello, I heard that HTC reduced the processor frequency in "One X", due to the high temperature of tegra and battery lifetime (In update, maybe 1.29?). Is that true?
Sorry, but my english isn't good.
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My AnTuTu score went up so I'm guessing not.

flowerman said:
Hello, I heard that HTC reduced the processor frequency in "One X", due to the high temperature of tegra and battery lifetime (In update, maybe 1.29?). Is that true?
Sorry, but my english isn't good.
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not reduced just doesn't ramp up as often as before

Thank for answers
I didn't know that antutu shows the cpu frequency

hamdir said:
not reduced just doesn't ramp up as often as before
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Did they change the CPU scaling governor?
I remember talk a little while back about On Demand and Interactive governors and which one was best

flowerman said:
Thank for answers
I didn't know that antutu shows the cpu frequency
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antutu only shows what the max speed is and its only 1.5 on a single core, when on 4 cores you can only get 1.2 GHZ and 1.4 GHZ on 2 cores.
look at terga stats at bottom on screens
4 cores bench
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2 cores bench

So reduced frequency it's true? Earlier (after updates) unless Tegra 3 had 1.3ghz on 4 cores ?

flowerman said:
So reduced frequency it's true? Earlier (after updates) unless Tegra 3 had 1.3ghz on 4 cores ?
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No It's always been like this, the update changes how the CPU speeds up and down e.g 50 MHz in idle to max speed, all its done is help the phone use the lowest possible speed to save battery.
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[VIDEO] M919 vs I9500 side by side

Short vid showing some subtleties between the international and the T-Mobile version.

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i9500
Auto mode:
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M919
Auto mode:
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pro-tip: turn on camera Macro for close-up shots, or keep camera far away and use zoom mode.
Thanks for the comparison.

When you said octa-core I stopped watching.
I don't care what anyone says, it's not an octa-core. At no point in time will there ever be 8 cores running simultaniously. Therefor it's two quad cores that alternate, in my opinion at least.

NuShrike said:
pro-tip: turn on camera Macro for close-up shots, or keep camera far away and use zoom mode.
Thanks for the comparison.
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You're welcome! Yeah, the cam I was using has horrible auto mode and a broken LCD to top it off. It was just the only camera I had available to film both phones.
TeknoGodz said:
When you said octa-core I stopped watching.
I don't care what anyone says, it's not an octa-core. At no point in time will there ever be 8 cores running simultaniously. Therefor it's two quad cores that alternate, in my opinion at least.
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It will run all 8 cores at some point. This is a dev community homeboy, not a convent. If you wanna call it a dual quad or double quadruple or whatever so you feel better about it go ahead. The fact still remains it has 8 processing units in the SoC. Go troll somewhere else.

KillaHurtz said:
It will run all 8 cores at some point. This is a dev community homeboy, not a convent. If you wanna call it a dual quad or double quadruple or whatever so you feel better about it go ahead. The fact still remains it has 8 processing units in the SoC. Go troll somewhere else.
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Actually, no, it wont.
The "octa core" processor is a 1.6GHz quad-core Cortex-A15 and 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 in the big.LITTLE configuration.
big.LITTLE means it will use the less powerful 1.2 GHz when the phone doesn't need the extra juice. Whenever the phone does need it 1-4 cores of the A7 will turn off and 1-4 cores of the A15 will turn on to give it extra power.
At no point will all 8 cores be running simultaneously. In fact, at no point will more than 4 cores be running simultaneously.
Basically, this is how it can operate:
Code:
A7 A15
ON OFF ON OFF
1234 1234
234 1 1 234
34 12 12 34
4 123 123 4
1234 1234
134 2 2 134
34 12 12 34
124 3 124 3
24 13 24 13
123 4 123 4
At no point will more than 4 cores be running.
Just cause you put 8 cores on a chip unless 8 cores run simultaneously it's not a true octa-core. If you put 16 cores on a chip but only cores 1-4 actually work does that make it a 16 core chip or a terribly designed quad?
And as to your covenant comment, that doesn't even make sense. Nice try though.

TeknoGodz said:
Actually, no, it wont.
The "octa core" processor is a 1.6GHz quad-core Cortex-A15 and 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 in the big.LITTLE configuration.
big.LITTLE means it will use the less powerful 1.2 GHz when the phone doesn't need the extra juice. Whenever the phone does need it 1-4 cores of the A7 will turn off and 1-4 cores of the A15 will turn on to give it extra power.
At no point will all 8 cores be running simultaneously. In fact, at no point will more than 4 cores be running simultaneously.
Basically, this is how it can operate:
Code:
A7 A15
ON OFF ON OFF
1234 1234
234 1 1 234
34 12 12 34
4 123 123 4
1234 1234
134 2 2 134
34 12 12 34
124 3 124 3
24 13 24 13
123 4 123 4
At no point will more than 4 cores be running.
Just cause you put 8 cores on a chip unless 8 cores run simultaneously it's not a true octa-core. If you put 16 cores on a chip but only cores 1-4 actually work does that make it a 16 core chip or a terribly designed quad?
And as to your covenant comment, that doesn't even make sense. Nice try though.
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Actually it does have a mode where it can run all 8 cores simultaneously. Anandtech talked about it in one of their podcasts. So the dev community could enable it if they wanted -- but it definitely wouldn't be worth the power draw.

i4mt3hwin said:
Actually it does have a mode where it can run all 8 cores simultaneously. Anandtech talked about it in one of their podcasts. So the dev community could enable it if they wanted -- but it definitely wouldn't be worth the power draw.
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If this is true enabling it would be freaking stupid. Not only would it waste way more power for not enough extra juice but it also will overheat like a mo****er.
BUT my original statement still holds true. It's two quad core processors, not an octa-core processor.
EDIT: Oh yea, and also decrease your cpu's lifespan exponentially.