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I tried some instructions in the past that will automatically overclock the OMAP processor every time the display lights up, and then lets you set a lower clock when the display is off. I never got them to work for me.
Is there a better way to get the same effect now? I hate having to manually enter omapclock every time I have the need for speed.
I second wanting more info on this.
search on here for an app called tornado..its for ppc but works fine on the dash...you can set it to underclock when the phone is idle and overclock when you are running something...works well.
Oh no going too fast.... Just flashed netarchy-toastmod-4.3.1-cfs-havs-nosbc-universal-signed, seems to work great however SetCPU will max out @ 1262 and then it locks up and i have to restore. From reading the FAQ's it's was disabled and the max was 1152. I have fat fingers so you can see my dilemma
Is there a txt file that i can adjust so that SetCPU will only over clock to 1152?
Is there a File/APP or something that shows the CPU voltage for the set clock speed
Thx
I dont beleive there is an easy way to modify the voltage wih a text file. If yuo ahve a problem now where you cant get it turned off yuo can use titanium back up to delete the data associated with setCPU and then go in and reset it. Alternatively youc an uninstall and reinstall and that should clear the data as well.
Download CPU tuner from the market... way better then setCPU
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Yea I make a nandroid before I go mess with setcpu overclocking. That way if I accidentaly set on boot a too high oc, I can go back to not having set cpu. The easiest way to prevent a lockup is to uncheck "Set on boot". That way it will only oc when you open setcpu. Then if you go too high, like I have, you can restart, uninstall and reinstall setcpu.
I'm looking to optimize my battery life without sacrificing performance when I need it. I know it sounds easier said than done, but I figure that if anyone might know how, they'd be here. My goal here is to have the performance when I need it, and to keep the battery preserved when I don't.
I'm rooted and running ViperROM 4.0.4 Trinity v2.0. I have the "Genocide 1.2GhzOC EB13 Kernel v0.3a" kernel also flashed to my phone. SetCPU is installed and I've set up my profiles, but I think I may be doing something wrong with them.
I am using autodetect settings as is recommended for adjusting clockspeed. Everything is set to on boot. All profiles are set to conservative as I'm not sure which ones actually apply. Below are screens for everything I have currently set up.
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Am I doing anything wrong here? And if not, is there anything I need to do to improve battery life without sacrificing performance?
I would bump your charging max to 1200Mhz and keep the min at 1000Mhz, although I keep max and min while charging through AC power at 1200Mhz.
Your screen off profile is fine. If you get hiccups or missed calls for any reason, bump the max up to 400Mhz.
If you can run it smoothly, set your minimums for your battery profiles to 100Mhz. It what I'm at now and it runs fine. You may want to keep your minimum for your "screen off" profile at 200Mhz if you get hiccups or missed calls like I mentioned before.
As for your battery <50% profile, I'd set the min at 200Mhz if you're wanting to save battery. Don't want the phone running at a higher clock when it doesn't need it. That's the point of running the min lower.
I personally uncheck the "set on boot" to allow SetCPU to always come back to the appropriate profile rather than going back to the default setting.
Also, set a Battery < 101% profile which will be your new default. I have mine at max 1000Mhz and min 100Mhz and it works well.
Also, conservative simply means the battery will remain at the lowest possible clock until it needs more juice. Assuming it starts at 200Mhz, it'll bump up to 400Mhz, 800Mhz, etc. depending on what the demand is. It will jump frequencies from 200Mhz to 1000Mhz if necessary.
On Demand means the CPU will either be at your minimum set clock frequency or your maximum.
On Demand is usually the most compatible/stable, but the conservative setting is best for battery/performance if your kernel allows it.
Hope this helps =). Let us know if you have more questions.
EDIT: The "set on boot" button simply sets the min and max that's shown on the main screen in SetCPU. If this button is unchecked but the "enable" button on the profiles menu is checked, your profiles will still adjust accordingly.
I can't really see the profiles but do you have the Max set at 400 when the battery is under 50%? If you do your phone will crawl. The 1000 is undervolted. That way you get speed and save battery. And on demand does not.mean that your CPU is either at min. Or Max. It means that it Scales faster then Conservative does. My profiles are when battery is less than 50% I go to 1000/100 and when screen is off I'm at 200/100 all set on demand. My regular setting.is 1200/100.
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I'd like to hijack this since I have a similar question.
I'm using ACS Frozen 1.0 and have the latest SetCPU and am still getting pretty crummy battery life.
The weird thing is that in SetCPU the maximum CPU frequency is always 1.2ghz even if I drag the slider down to 1.0. I don't currently have any profiles enabled that would cause this, so why won't SetCPU let me top off a 1ghz undervolted instead of 1.2ghz?
My battery life definitely hasn't improved at that's a big bummer for me :\
I also have a question. I kept getting a message about superusers rights not being given. I searched to see how to grant SU rights, but could not fond any. I turned the phone off and on, and that message did not pop up anymore.
Now the main screen I cannot adjust any of the numbers, is this normal? I can however enable and make profiles. I made the first one if temp is greater then 0 (I obviously do not want it like this, but its just a test) then it should be OC to 1200. When I saved this in the top right hand corner it says I am at 1200, however when I bring up a program, and go to setcpu and look at the main screen it says 1000.
So what am I doing wrong.
badbeats said:
I also have a question. I kept getting a message about superusers rights not being given. I searched to see how to grant SU rights, but could not fond any. I turned the phone off and on, and that message did not pop up anymore.
Now the main screen I cannot adjust any of the numbers, is this normal? I can however enable and make profiles. I made the first one if temp is greater then 0 (I obviously do not want it like this, but its just a test) then it should be OC to 1200. When I saved this in the top right hand corner it says I am at 1200, however when I bring up a program, and go to setcpu and look at the main screen it says 1000.
So what am I doing wrong.
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This might be a dumb question, but is your phone fully rooted?
I think so I used Clockwork mod 3.0.6 and I am running Bonsai 3, with 2.2.1
ZeppelinJ0 said:
I'd like to hijack this since I have a similar question.
I'm using ACS Frozen 1.0 and have the latest SetCPU and am still getting pretty crummy battery life.
The weird thing is that in SetCPU the maximum CPU frequency is always 1.2ghz even if I drag the slider down to 1.0. I don't currently have any profiles enabled that would cause this, so why won't SetCPU let me top off a 1ghz undervolted instead of 1.2ghz?
My battery life definitely hasn't improved at that's a big bummer for me :\
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Yeah I hear you, I get the same crummy battery life with SyndicateROM, I was dying for the 30 hours ! Starting to think it's the battery itself.
musclehead84 said:
I can't really see the profiles but do you have the Max set at 400 when the battery is under 50%? If you do your phone will crawl. The 1000 is undervolted. That way you get speed and save battery. And on demand does not.mean that your CPU is either at min. Or Max. It means that it Scales faster then Conservative does. My profiles are when battery is less than 50% I go to 1000/100 and when screen is off I'm at 200/100 all set on demand. My regular setting.is 1200/100.
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Do you keep your 1200/100 on conservative? And what's the battery life you're getting on average? Dummy question but you know...
I'm going to try out this setting today actually with BakedSnack.
Referring to those of you getting "crummy" battery life. The screen takes so much battery many other things don't come into play. Therefore, if you're getting 4-6 hours of screen-on time, you're getting about what everyone else is getting. Those who report 30 hours+ probably have there phone idle more often than not.
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Referring to those of you getting "crummy" battery life. The screen takes so much battery many other things don't come into play. Therefore, if you're getting 4-6 hours of screen-on time, you're getting about what everyone else is getting. Those who report 30 hours+ probably have there phone idle more often than not.
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Ahh this is a good point then. I'm still confused though why when I set my SetCPU to 1ghz it still keeps it at 1.2 :\
ZeppelinJ0 said:
Ahh this is a good point then. I'm still confused though why when I set my SetCPU to 1ghz it still keeps it at 1.2 :\
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Did you update to the latest Twilight kernel? It's 1.0.1 I believe. Try that as I believed it fixed some CPU scaling issues. Just install the zip in CW, but I'd still wipe cache at last, just in case.
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Blankrubber said:
Did you update to the latest Twilight kernel? It's 1.0.1 I believe. Try that as I believed it fixed some CPU scaling issues. Just install the zip in CW, but I'd still wipe cache at last, just in case.
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+1 I think this was a bug with the original release of Twilight Zone that was fixed in 1.0.1.
Blankrubber said:
Did you update to the latest Twilight kernel? It's 1.0.1 I believe. Try that as I believed it fixed some CPU scaling issues. Just install the zip in CW, but I'd still wipe cache at last, just in case.
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I'm trying this out right away, thanks!
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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.
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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.
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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.
I've been noticing something with my cpu that seems strange to me. I run an app called system panel to monitor my phone for various things and I've noticed for the past few days that my second core is constantly sleeping, even under a full load it stays at 100% idle and system panel says that cpu 1 is asleep. I downloaded kernel tuner and it says that cpu 0 is active but cpu 1 is offline. Was running stock rooted with no tweaks or other things added so i tried using odin to go back to stock but I still get the same info. The first screenshot is from kernel tuner with root and the sceond is from system panel with no root. Could my phone be defective?
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Try system tuner in the play store. It has an option in settings to force the second core online, all the time. Set it to always on, and set it to boot that way. At least you can test it to see if it can be forced online. It is normal for the second core to be sleeping most of the time. In your first screenshot I see a toggle for cpu1 on/off at the bottom. You accidently toggle that?
Also, what's up with your CPU temp being 32°F? Are you in the arctic tundra?
You could also try flashing a new kernel. I believe there are a few for touchwiz based ROMs. IMO you should go aosp based ROMs. Slimbean4.1.2 with asdk kernel is the best performing rom/kernel combination I've ever flashed
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I tried flashing other kernels when my phone was rooted but it kept giving me the same thing. I tried the toggle in kernel tuner to see if I could turn the second core on after noticing the issue but it did nothing. System tuner was able to force the second core on for a bit but about 30mins after boot, the core went offline and has not come back on since.
Update: found out why core went offline. Apparently, if I touch any frequency settings such as core speed or governor for either core, the processor doesn't like it and shuts down the second core. Not sure if that's normal or not. Once phone is charged enough, gonna try flashing a different kernel to see if the same thing happens when I try to change the speed and governor.
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Here is a long story, but please read it all as I really think it will help explain how the two cores work together.
I had/have the same thing. Exactly as you described it. Here is what I found (What I think anyway). I ODIN'd to stock, rooted, and installed Trickster MOD. That app showed only one core working. From reading up on Trickster MOD changing any CPU settings will apply to both cores. I changed the speed, and check the info panel. It showed both cores at the same speed that I changed it to, but the second core was still not moving. I reset Trickster MOD to default, uninstalled it, and installed Kernel Tuner. Same thing. Only one core was working. I started to think it was the stock kernel, so I flashed Tiberius, Jedi, and am now on Faux123. All kernels are doing it. It's not a kernel issue, but a kernel/Stock ROM function. Here is why I say that. I installed CPU Stats, and enabled it to display the CPU cores in the status bar. 99.9% of the time only one core was working (When I mention "99.9% of the time" I mean only one core would be working for about five minutes at a time. Which would lead a person to think somethings wrong since they normally wouldn't stare for ten minutes at the phone's kernel stats trying to catch the second core come on, and think only one was working.). I did catch the second core come on very briefly, so I knew it was working even for a split second. When I did see the second one on I tried to quickly open whatever kernel tuner I had to see what the cores were set to, and what they were doing, but by the time I opened the app only one core was working. I did some thinking, and I opened Lookout and ran a full scan, opened a couple more apps that use a lot of CPU. Then I opened, and kept on top my kernel tuner. To my surprise again 99.9% of the time only one core was working. Even if the CPU load was at 100%. The second core never came on, BUT it was because the first core wasn't at 100%. The CPU load would get to 90% when the first core would hit 100% under heavy load, but no second core was working at all. I finally watched it long enough to see a pattern (Like 15 minutes). The second core will only come on when the first core is at 100% AND the CPU load is at 100%. Then the second core kicks in. Once both cores were working at the same time the CPU load quickly dropped back under 100%, and once it did the second core shut right off to leave the first core do the work. So long story short your phone is not broken. That's the way it's meant to work. In my finding anyway. I'm running the stock ROM from ODIN with Faux123 JB release 1 kernel. That's all my mods are, and running quadrant I get an average score of 3730, so I'm thinking both cores have to be working to get a score like that. Here is the Play link to the CPU Stats app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.takke.cpustats
And here is what it looks like in the status bar (The last icon on the left showing both cores at max in one screen shot, and the second screen shot showing only one core working. Just to show it does show both cores working separately.):
Thanks for the explination. I watched everything like you did and same results as you. I'm grateful for everyone's input. It puts my mind at ease knowing that everything is like it should be.
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That's a good score. What frequency and governor you running?
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ctrlaltdeln said:
That's a good score. What frequency and governor you running?
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It's easier to show in pics that type all the stats. Here you go:
Not sure if me forcing my second core to be on constantly did something or what but I just ran quadrant twice and I got a score of 5661 the first time and 5981 the second.
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damn dude. Now that's a score. Obviously your battery life will suffer with that kind of performance. If still using system tuner u definitely want to turn that second core back to default. You dont need all that muscle. I run at 1.18ghz/ lag free governor monday - Friday and 1.67ghz on the weekend. Battery life is more important to me. And everything is still buttery smooth. Glad all is well, your phone is back baby.
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