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defrost problems

Hello,
I find things very funny on my phone let me describe. This happens on both opendesire 4.0.25 and defrost 4.9 . I am downloading defrost 4.7 now to see if the problem solves. This is it, my phone clock speed is always at 998MHZ and the CPU usage is always at 100% . I realised that is why my phone always got hot and the battery drains fast. I hope someone could give me a solution, or is it the new kernal that is giving the problems?
Thank you.

On Defrost you can try a different kernel directly from the Defrost setup.
I am now using HAVS 1113and the phone works great and the battery life has increased significally

Thank you for your reply
but that is not the problem. This is, my CPU usage is always at 100% (checked with many apps) also the CPU setting is ondemand which means my usage being at 100%, makes the clockspeed always at 998. The process that took up 76% of the CPU was named android.process.media or something like that. Anyone knows what it means and what I am supposed to do now? How am I to disable the process and what process is that? How can I disable it?
Thank you and I'm hoping for more replys its quite upsetting to have your processor running high all the time

Sounds like a background app is stopping the Desire going into a sleep state...you might have to reset the phone and add 1 app at a time to see what it is...

install Android System Info on your Desire and take a look at the tasks list.
There press the menu button to sort the list by CPU load.
The total CPU load should be around 10%, which gets consumed by the Android System Info process itself, and a small amount by Android System Info.

Question for rooted stock GB PLEASE HELP!!

ok so im running the STOCK GB but im rooted and have been running gingertiny 9/29 ran into rebooting issues.. phone constently reboots after 20 mins of use. usually when this happened before like on stock kernels the battery temp would rise up to 104 but i kept eyes on the temp and it never goes over 78.4 F
not overclocking cpu im actually running at about 625 mhz but issue still occurs
SO with that being said i need help finding either a better kernal or trying to find solutions with this one.
i went back to complete stock and rooted to see if i still have this issue
any help will do thanks!

These questions belong in the Q/A section. This has zero relevance to development.
Now:
1) pull the battery then place it back into your phone.
2) Charge it awhile to make sure you haven't dropped a considerable charge during the bootloops.
3) Turn your phone on and move your clock speed towards 998400 (stock clock speed) via setcpu or however you underclocked.
This bootloop is likely due to you being underclocked so low. If you want, flash Tiny's latest kernel from 9/29/2011 to bring yourself up to date.

Was your min clock speed underclocked below the stock 245000? I had random reboot issues when I underclocked my min to 128000.

Having your max_freq set at 628 or whatever it was shouldn't cause reboot issues. You're phone should be rock-solid stable at a speed like that. I'd suggest taking a look at your voltages.
I've never run that kernel so I'm not familiar with what the voltage table looks like, but it might very well be that your voltage is too low. If your max_freq were higher, the transition through that clock freq would probably be too brief to cause an issue. I don't know if that kernel has sysfs enabled, but if it does, upping the voltage at that step .25 volts should cure it.

Min speed was at 628 even switching back to stock kernel still having issues I'm not sure what can be the issue I only last few mins playing any games or watching anything all speeds are stock
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Sounds like it's time to start wiping stuff.

How low can you go with screen off?

Having some major headaches with my Note 2 right now. I'd previously had System Tuner set to cap screen-off frequency at 800MHz, with the pegasusq governor still selected. That was causing heavy drain (1-2% per hour) while idle, so I tried yesterday evening to scale it down to 200MHz with the powersave governor for screen off. It worked in the sense that my battery stayed flat at 67% overnight, but the phone took forever to come out of sleep so I could turn off my alarm clock, and then it started some type of fresh torment where it would freeze at the lockscreen and need a battery pull to reboot.
I switched the frequency to 500MHz this morning, but it's still locking up. Struggling to boot, too. I'd really rather not go back to 800MHz and pegasusq, but will if I need to. How do you guys have your screen-off behavior set in System Tuner, and has it caused you any problems? I'm on stock rooted, by the way, debloated by myself a while back.

T.J. Bender said:
Having some major headaches with my Note 2 right now. I'd previously had System Tuner set to cap screen-off frequency at 800MHz, with the pegasusq governor still selected. That was causing heavy drain (1-2% per hour) while idle, so I tried yesterday evening to scale it down to 200MHz with the powersave governor for screen off. It worked in the sense that my battery stayed flat at 67% overnight, but the phone took forever to come out of sleep so I could turn off my alarm clock, and then it started some type of fresh torment where it would freeze at the lockscreen and need a battery pull to reboot.
I switched the frequency to 500MHz this morning, but it's still locking up. Struggling to boot, too. I'd really rather not go back to 800MHz and pegasusq, but will if I need to. How do you guys have your screen-off behavior set in System Tuner, and has it caused you any problems? I'm on stock rooted, by the way, debloated by myself a while back.
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I don't use system tuner, but in setcpu my screen off profile is set for 200-500 with pegasusq/cfq. I use almost no battery when my screen is off, and the wake up time is no slower than stock.

P1 Wookie said:
I don't use system tuner, but in setcpu my screen off profile is set for 200-500 with pegasusq/cfq. I use almost no battery when my screen is off, and the wake up time is no slower than stock.
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Thanks for that. I had to restore (luckily I'd done a Nandroid yesterday!) because the system wouldn't boot past the Samsung splash. I've been anti-Juice Defender for a while here, but it seems like a decent chunk of the problem with my battery has been wlan_rx_wake, most likely caused by network traffic. That's what I get for letting my wife share my phone's wifi router instead of leaving her on the house.
Much as I hate to do so, I've put JD Ultimate back on my phone in hopes that its control over wifi and data will prevent those wifi and data wakelocks from happening. Hoping that 500 max with pegasusq (I'd put it back at 600 after restoring) will alleviate things.

cpu going nuts for no reason

I'm on stock, rooted, s-off
my device is getting extremely hot during normal use.(i dont play games at all, just whatsapp, facebook, news etc..)
sync is off, auto brightness.no google location reporting and history, no google now or history.
and using bbs to see what is going on ,i have no wakelocks and looking at battery screen, screen on time and awake time are almost identical.so nothing is keeping my device awake.
but for some reason, when the device is idle, the cpu goes nuts!
i installed cpu status bar xposed module so i could monitor cpu on real time, and i see the device jumping allot from 300mhz to 960 and 1000+ for no reason.(without touching it, and no apps running).when i touch the screen it scales to maximum.
it drives me crazy because i dont understand why the cpu behave like that.there is no logical reason for cpu going to max when i'm typing text.
its unbearable, cause its getting really hot while i hold it.
i have tried various kernels(elementalx, skydragon, faux, ionx, hacker kernel, but all of them shows that behavior.
on my old i9100, i never got that behavior, ondemand governor was perfect and i could reach 4 hours of screen on time.with the m8, i can barley pass it , going for 4-5 hours, because its draing too fast.
any suggestions?
*EDIT*
tried a factory reset, and i just installed xposed with cpufreq status bar module, and the device is still going nuts.WTF?

Can I ask... are you sure this is abnormal? I mean, are you seeing ill effects? Is the device laggy? Is your screen-off battery time awful?
All OS's do stuff in the background, and "idle" doesn't really mean anything at all to be honest -- even when you "don't have any apps running" there are apps running, and you'll always see the CPU cycle from idle to low speed to high speed if you're looking for it.

thebobmannh said:
Can I ask... are you sure this is abnormal? I mean, are you seeing ill effects? Is the device laggy? Is your screen-off battery time awful?
All OS's do stuff in the background, and "idle" doesn't really mean anything at all to be honest -- even when you "don't have any apps running" there are apps running, and you'll always see the CPU cycle from idle to low speed to high speed if you're looking for it.
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i know there are background process and apps, and i don't except the device to stay at 300mhz all the time, but its quite annoying to hold on to a device and feel its temperature rising to insane levels without doing anything fancy with it.just texting.and every touch ramp the cpu to the max frequency, its weird.and unnecessary.
i don't know if its normal behavior, as i mentioned, my old i9100(galaxy s2) would not act like this. and i could get 4 hours of screen on time, and here, i get 4-5 hours max.it dose not seem logical.
I'm not using lte of nfc or BT.my reception is full(both wifi and cell).
i just want to know if this a normal behavior? anyone else having this heat buildup on light use?

I have a similar problem there on M8S. I killed half the background tasks, disabled syncing, auto backups, and then I open FBreader(or any other app) at 30% brightness and all the cpu cores go to 50 degrees C, heat up my battery to 43 degrees C. It results in loss of 40% of battery charge in just an hour. With screen off my device usually consumes 1-2% an hour. Whatever I do, I have never seen at least one core sleeping, they always work at 600-900MHz.

Is my Note 4 defective?

I need somebody's help. The coolest my Note 4 CPU/GPU seems to get is about 53 degrees C and that's when I turn it on after it's been asleep on my desk. It is not a rogue app or anything like that because I have done both Factory resets and I have install custom roms, so everything has been factory reset multiple times. The water damage sticker indicates no water damage whatsoever. I know phones can get hot when gaming, my Note 4 gets to anywhere between 70 to 85 degrees Celsius and I am just wondering if that's normal I reduced my screen resolution to 720P and disabled two cores of the quad core processor and it does not seem to help one bit. Is this temperature normal or do I need to get rid of the phone?
PS when doing normal browsing it seems to hover around 60 to 67 degrees C
And the battery does not seem to go over 37 degrees Celsius

bucs9115 said:
I need somebody's help. The coolest my Note 4 CPU/GPU seems to get is about 53 degrees C and that's when I turn it on after it's been asleep on my desk. It is not a rogue app or anything like that because I have done both Factory resets and I have install custom roms, so everything has been factory reset multiple times. The water damage sticker indicates no water damage whatsoever. I know phones can get hot when gaming, my Note 4 gets to anywhere between 70 to 85 degrees Celsius and I am just wondering if that's normal I reduced my screen resolution to 720P and disabled two cores of the quad core processor and it does not seem to help one bit. Is this temperature normal or do I need to get rid of the phone?
PS when doing normal browsing it seems to hover around 60 to 67 degrees C
And the battery does not seem to go over 37 degrees Celsius
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Okay, so I got rid of my Note 4 so this is off of memory (full-disclosure). My Note 4 always ran pretty hot when it had to do anything. When flashing ROMs I'd be lucky if the CPU was below 70 C and any time I'd be playing a GPU intensive game it would get too hot to touch. I never had a lot of issues with the battery temp being too high though despite this.
As far as solutions go:
1) Screen res might help.....but I would try my other suggestions first
2) I wouldn't recommend disabling cores, it just makes the other two have to work harder to accomplish the same tasks and may be worse overall.
3) Kernel adiutor will allow you to do two things: adjust thermal throttling and adjust max GPU/CPU frequencies. I always reduced the max GPU frequency on this phone to lower the temps and adjusted thermal throttling to 55 C. The only CPU adjustments I did were to make sure the CPU wasn't overclocked.
4) I know you said it wasn't a rouge app, but get a task viewer (this is a good one) just to make sure (I had Nova taking 25% CPU usage in the background because I restored it from TiBu).
I saw your post in the NSeven thread and decided to respond, but please in the future try not to post errors in other threads unless you have the issue in that ROM. It sounds like you might have the same issue in that ROM as well, but you didn't say so in your post.

Well first of all I would like to say thank you! I have been hoping for a while that someone would have some knowledge on the subject and I very much appreciate yours. Secondly, I apologize and I will try to refrain from posting the wrong thing in the wrong area in the future. Thirdly I have kernel auditor when I changed their frequencies on my CPU cores they just change right back. If I set a minimum it will stay but then if I try to set a maximum it resets them both to the default setting. I will turn my other course back on though thank you for that information do you have any idea why I may be having this frequency issue?

bucs9115 said:
Well first of all I would like to say thank you! I have been hoping for a while that someone would have some knowledge on the subject and I very much appreciate yours. Secondly, I apologize and I will try to refrain from posting the wrong thing in the wrong area in the future. Thirdly I have kernel auditor when I changed their frequencies on my CPU cores they just change right back. If I set a minimum it will stay but then if I try to set a maximum it resets them both to the default setting. I will turn my other course back on though thank you for that information do you have any idea why I may be having this frequency issue?
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You're welcome, and no worries for the post . As for your third point it would be really helpful if you tell me what you're running.
Could you list: kernel, ROM, root method, Android version, and any kernel mods (govtuner, skynet, etc)?
Also, does the same thing happen when you set a GPU max frequency? Have you tried having the settings run on boot and then reboot the phone?

Yes I have tried that a couple of times I am currently running the nseven ROM with the CPU frequencies set at a minimum of 300 megahertz and a maximum of 1190 megahertz, or at least that's what I'm attempting to do LOL I have not tried changing the GPU Max frequency. The N7 ROM I believe is Android version 6.0.1. here is what I have tried
Wiping cache in recovery
Starting in safe mode
Factory resetting
Turning off certain settings such as WiFi calling, data Etc.
Using apps such as greenify to limit background processes.
Changing screen resolution to 720P
I actually installed this ROM hoping that it would make a difference because I have the same exact issue on the stock ROM before I ever unlock my bootloader or rooted my phone at all. And according to the sticker on the back of the phone it is not nor has it ever been water damaged. The picture I have attached shows my phone's activity just while writing this reply to you. In the bottom left-hand corner you can see the statistics. Sorry for the Inception lol

bucs9115 said:
Yes I have tried that a couple of times I am currently running the nseven ROM with the CPU frequencies set at a minimum of 300 megahertz and a maximum of 1190 megahertz, or at least that's what I'm attempting to do LOL I have not tried changing the GPU Max frequency. The N7 ROM I believe is Android version 6.0.1. here is what I have tried
Wiping cache in recovery
Starting in safe mode
Factory resetting
Turning off certain settings such as WiFi calling, data Etc.
Using apps such as greenify to limit background processes.
Changing screen resolution to 720P
I actually installed this ROM hoping that it would make a difference because I have the same exact issue on the stock ROM before I ever unlock my bootloader or rooted my phone at all. And according to the sticker on the back of the phone it is not nor has it ever been water damaged. The picture I have attached shows my phone's activity just while writing this reply to you. In the bottom left-hand corner you can see the statistics. Sorry for the Inception lol
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Since you're replying to both threads I'll keep my responses to your other Q&A thread to make life easier .