[Q] CPU governor broken ? - Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello, so here's my situation.
I'm on a Galaxy S4 Mini, running Lollipop 5.1. Everything was fine with my kernel, until i finally discover that it was acting weird..
I was usually setting the governor as conservative, with a maximum frequency of 1350mhz. The problem is that it is effective for the core n°1, but the core n°2 randomly gets online and jump all the way at higher speeds than the limit I've set. Usually 1400 up to 1700mhz. Which makes my phone running hot and draining fast..
I tried to change the hotplug settings to make only core N°1 online, but when I do that, the core runs at 100% (1350mhz which is the limit I've set) all the time.
The only solution I've found ATM to not drain my battery is to set the governor to powersave and locking it to 700mhz.. But it's a crappy solution since the frequency stays at the same state all the time with that governor.
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Now I'm setting the cpu at 162 min and 810mhz max, with conservative. The big problem is that whenever the phone is awake, it runs almost full time at full load (810 mhz) and never scale down the frequency, just see the screenshot.. This is obviously ruining battery life. Why the hell is it doing this ? Isn't conservative made to use the lowest possible frequency as often as it can ?
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Do you have any idea on why this problem is occurring ? Thanks
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After rooting, unlocking bootloader, flashing Flex http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1589034 my score is 2729. Runs real nice now.
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very nice, what app are u using to tweak the cpu? if you wouldnt mind posting what runs smoothest with no crash. basically a limit threshold. with crossix sd mod i only got up to 2744
I got up to 2830 using set cpu and performance governor with flex rf1. On my usual interactive it got a hair lower, 2790-2800 over 4 runs. Overall I seem to pull about 2750 averaged out. Rf1 isn't any faster then my 3.1 but I was already using the kernel in rf1 ( i think anyways, it was the second kernel he released for 3.1) on it, which did boost the score up about 300 points.
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How do you turn on force GPU? No option like that in the menus. And does it cause any problems?
Its under developer towards the bottom of user interface. None that I've noticed so far, but I've only had it enabled for about 3 hours of use.
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The title says it all.. they are not working.. I am using ARHD with stock kernel.. each of them reset the values to default on waking up, reboot, or randomly, or an app pushes the on demand limit..
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Hi,
The title says it all.. they are not working.. I am using ARHD with stock kernel.. each of them reset the values to default on waking up, reboot, or randomly, or an app pushes the on demand limit..
What I want to do is to limit the clocks to 640 ( or 10000 at least) on daily use..
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This is a known issue with Tegra 3. At some low level, those values are governed by the CPU. Whatever you set them to, doesn't stick. Only governor and IO Scheduler sticks.
However, this doesn't mean that your CPUs work at the maximum possible frequency all the time. The Tegra architecture manages the CPU frequencies and you see a distribution of times at different frequencies.
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EDIT: There is one thing you can do. Using SetCPU, under Advanced tab, you will see Powersave Bias (0-1000). Set to 0 on mine. If you set it to 400, your CPU will never go above 1000-1100 depending on how many CPUs are online. I am not sure if this will stick though. If you test it, let us know.

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The board has an auto downlocking feature that turns the clock down to 810 Mhz when it heats too much. Safety vault, so the chip doesn't burn.
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The board has an auto downlocking feature that turns the clock down to 810 Mhz when it heats too much. Safety vault, so the chip doesn't burn.
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Well, That explains alot . btw I saw nfs most wanted on adreno 205 it was way better then on my adreno 220 why ?
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Well, That explains alot . btw I saw nfs most wanted on adreno 205 it was way better then on my adreno 220 why ?
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Because the system might be less loaded, or less RAM used. Dunno. In JB on S it runs almost without any problem
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Because the system might be less loaded, or less RAM used. Dunno. In JB on S it runs almost without any problem
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thanks alot .guess I'll just wait for JB update

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