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Cant handle CPU Max Clock!
Hello Masters of Android! I am using Galaxy S5(SM-G906S)(Qualcomm SnapDragon 801). I have a problem. The problem is that I can't handle CPU Max Clock.. Available Max Clock is 2457Mhz but system always set to 1728Mhz.. It causes some lags... How can I Solve this.. I already did factory reset using Ki...
Hello Masters of Android! I am using Galaxy S5(SM-G906S)(Qualcomm SnapDragon 801). I have a problem. The problem is that I can't handle CPU Max Clock.. Available Max Clock is 2457Mhz but system always set to 1728Mhz.. It causes some lags... How can I Solve this.. I already did factory reset using Kies...
FollowJB
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Feb 29, 2016, 03:21 PM
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Cpu frequency keep going down by it's own
I am experiencing problems with Samsung Galaxy Note 2. - Build number(ROM): DN4 v2.1 - Baseband version: N7100NEUFND1 - Android version: 4.4.4 - Kernel: AGNI KERNEL (March 29,2015) --- I have overclocked CPU from 1.6 GHZ to 2.0 GHZ and I use [SetCPU][1] app to control CPU values like: * When screen...
I am experiencing problems with Samsung Galaxy Note 2.
- Build number(ROM): DN4 v2.1
- Baseband version: N7100NEUFND1
- Android version: 4.4.4
- Kernel: AGNI KERNEL (March 29,2015)
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I have overclocked CPU from 1.6 GHZ to 2.0 GHZ and I use SetCPU app to control CPU values like:
* When screen is off, change governor to **Ondemand** with min and max frequencies at 200 MHZ and 400 MHZ.
* When screen is on, change governor to **Performance** with min and max frequencies at 1000 MHZ and 1800 MHZ.
The problem is that now whenever I set the values, the values drops down to 1200 MHZ and goes down to 500 MHZ gradually. Mostly, it stays stuck at 1000 MHZ causing the device to lag especially while gaming.
Previously, I experienced problems with all other governors except **Performance, Pegasusq and Powersaver**, even when I set the Max value to 1.8 GHZ it somehow restricted the Max frequency to 1.2 GHZ. Now I think this has affected all the governors.
I have also updated my kernel but the problem persists.
Any solutions?
Abdullah Yahya
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Apr 23, 2015, 06:14 PM
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How much battery savings to expect from SetCPU?
Has anybody done any serious measurements as to effects of SetCPU (or a similar power-saving app)? I mean, are Google and Linux developers really that stupid not to properly implement power management in-system? Especially so considering the Android's paramount problem of battery life. The SetCPU pr...
Has anybody done any serious measurements as to effects of SetCPU (or a similar power-saving app)?
I mean, are Google and Linux developers really that stupid not to properly implement power management in-system? Especially so considering the Android's paramount problem of battery life.
The SetCPU promo video only shows how the MHz numbers jump up and down, but is it noticeably better for the battery than processor idling done by the OS itself?
Alexander Shcheblikin
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Dec 11, 2012, 08:59 PM
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How fast can CPU governors change their frequency?
All CPU governors descriptions that I could find use subjective words such as slow and fast to explain how the frequency changes over certain conditions. What are the typical values here, are we taking about over or under 1ms? I'm curious about a) how fast can the hardware go from min to max and vic...
All CPU governors descriptions that I could find use subjective words such as slow and fast to explain how the frequency changes over certain conditions.
What are the typical values here, are we taking about over or under 1ms?
I'm curious about a) how fast can the hardware go from min to max and vice versa and b) what would be a reasonably conservative number such as in a on demand cool down?
Are there any typical values for say an open source ROM or any other, in such and such device, available anywhere? Or in the lack of it, is it feasible to measure my own device over adb/ndk/sdk tinkering?
Fabio
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Nov 21, 2015, 01:57 AM
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The effect of CPU governors when Min and Max frequencies are the same
Phone: Galaxy Ace 3 gt-s7272, android 4.2.2 (rooted) Available CPU governors: `Interactive, Conservative, Ondemand, Powersave, Performance` Available frequencies: `999999, 666666, 499999, 312000` Number of Cores: `2` My question is since CPU governors are responsible for change and adjustment of fre...
Phone: Galaxy Ace 3 gt-s7272, android 4.2.2 (rooted)
Available CPU governors:
Interactive, Conservative, Ondemand, Powersave, Performance
Available frequencies: 999999, 666666, 499999, 312000
Number of Cores: 2
My question is since CPU governors are responsible for change and adjustment of frequency based on the workload, What will happen if we lock the maximum and the minimum frequencies the same? Say we set Max: 312000 and Min:312000; So does type of governor has any effect in this situation?
wiki
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Nov 14, 2015, 11:38 AM
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Android not responding, screen off and battery drop
I have a Lenovo s890 that sometimes stop responding and back after about 1 minute. I have checked the screen and seem there is no problem with the screen. On the other hand when the cell phone stops working, then the battery indicator drops significantly that is really annoying. Do you have any solu...
I have a Lenovo s890 that sometimes stop responding and back after about 1 minute. I have checked the screen and seem there is no problem with the screen. On the other hand when the cell phone stops working, then the battery indicator drops significantly that is really annoying. Do you have any solution for that?
Here you can a similar video that shows the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB_w4WvDiUY
TPArrow
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Jun 1, 2015, 06:24 PM
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How to make rooted android phone faster and avoid battery drain
I have rooted by Samsung S dous s7562 (645 RAM single core 1ghz processor)phone using Kingo Android root desktop App. I decided to root my phone as it was very slow . I have already done the following to speed up the phone : - Uninstalled unnecessary system apps. - Frozen bloatware - Using RAMBooste...
I have rooted by Samsung S dous s7562 (645 RAM single core 1ghz processor)phone using Kingo Android root desktop App.
I decided to root my phone as it was very slow .
I have already done the following to speed up the phone :
- Uninstalled unnecessary system apps.
- Frozen bloatware
- Using RAMBooster App
- Tried overclocking a bit using CPU Adjuster app
**Problem :**
> I don't have any idea regarding how much should I overclock based on
> my device specification.
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> I changed min CPU speed from 245Mhz to 320Mhz .
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> But since I have overclocked it the battery is drain too fast although
> the performance is a little better(but still lagging a bit).
**Please suggest what should I do to speed up my phone without damaging it and without battery drain(battery is weak already as its an 1.25 year old phone)**
Also please let me know How can I move apps to sdcard as even movetosd apps for rooted android devices are not working , (as my internal memory is read as sdcard)
Thanks!
Rachita Nanda
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Jun 10, 2014, 06:12 AM
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How do you maintain a constant load on the cpu?
I am looking at my phone with a thermal camera to watch the external heat distribution as I attempt to hold it at a constant high load. What I need to do is hold the CPU at a constant load over the span of about 30 mins, I have achieved this with relative success using the two "burner" apps availabl...
I am looking at my phone with a thermal camera to watch the external heat distribution as I attempt to hold it at a constant high load.
What I need to do is hold the CPU at a constant load over the span of about 30 mins, I have achieved this with relative success using the two "burner" apps available on google play. I paired this with SetCPU to max out the allowable core frequencies.
I have used HWMonitor PRO to view the temp sensor values and record them on my PC.
Does anyone know if there is an app available that applies a repeatably constant load or how one would begin to do so through programming? The main issue I am finding is that the burner apps will shut down after a certain time (or temperature) and don't feel very consistent.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
ndsu_jurf
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Jan 9, 2015, 10:16 PM
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What is a safe CPU speed for the HTC Dream?
I know that T-Mobile clocked it down to 384 to extend battery life on the G1, and I believe that the processor was designed for 528. With all that said, does anyone have experience with what a good, safe speed is? I'm new to Android (less than 1 week), so all this is new to me. Thanks! Update: the p...
I know that T-Mobile clocked it down to 384 to extend battery life on the G1, and I believe that the processor was designed for 528. With all that said, does anyone have experience with what a good, safe speed is? I'm new to Android (less than 1 week), so all this is new to me. Thanks!
Update: the processor is the MSM7201A.
Mingo
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Feb 9, 2011, 12:30 PM
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Explain the ondemand CPUFreq governor parameters in SAMSUNG galaxy S4?
I am trying to understand how does the onDemand CPUFreq governor works. I have a SAMSUNG S4 device and I looked into the following file to see the tuneable parameters of SAMSUNG Glaxy S4 GT-i9505 (Qualcomm chipset). $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand down_differential enable_turbo_mode i...
I am trying to understand how does the onDemand CPUFreq governor works. I have a SAMSUNG S4 device and I looked into the following file to see the tuneable parameters of SAMSUNG Glaxy S4 GT-i9505 (Qualcomm chipset).
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand
down_differential
enable_turbo_mode
ignore_nice_load
io_is_busy
optimal_freq
powersave_bias
sampling_down_factor
sampling_rate
sampling_rate_min
sync_freq
up_threshold
up_threshold_any_cpu_load
up_threshold_multi_core
I tried to understand these parameters, The kernel documentation here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
explains Governors and governor parameters, but some of the parameters are not explained in the documentation. Can you please explain or point me to the documentation which I could read and understand all these parameters for a better understanding of dynamic frequency scaling in Android?
Zohaib Hassan
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Oct 4, 2013, 09:33 AM
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How are SetCPU frequencies formulated?
Are the frequencies suggested by `SetCPU` for each device based on a certain algorithm or was it worked out device specifically or are they just arbitrarily formed upon extensive testing? I have an old HTC Wildfire which has a maximum frequency at `768MHz` The steps of frequencies show by SetCPU its...
Are the frequencies suggested by
SetCPU for each device based on a certain algorithm or was it worked out device specifically or are they just arbitrarily formed upon extensive testing?
I have an old HTC Wildfire which has a maximum frequency at 768MHz
The steps of frequencies show by SetCPU itself is 176,264,352,518,576,614,633,652,672,691,710,729,748,768 all in MHz.
I eventually created a setcpu.txt file which I put in the root of the SD-Card. The thing is when I had a frequency of 800MHz SetCPU still read it but the max frequency it could obviously touch was 768MHz.
I repeat, my question is how are the frequencies listed by SetCPU formulated?
Torcellite
(281 rep)
May 26, 2013, 11:28 AM
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Why does controlling CPU frequency require root access?
According to [this answer][1] one of the programs that requires root access is SetCPU that can lower the CPU frequency when the phone is not used thus prolong battery life. I don't get one thing - why does that require root? What could be the harm in reducing the CPU frequency? [1]: https://android....
According to this answer one of the programs that requires root access is SetCPU that can lower the CPU frequency when the phone is not used thus prolong battery life.
I don't get one thing - why does that require root? What could be the harm in reducing the CPU frequency?
sharptooth
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Nov 21, 2011, 07:01 AM
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Why can't I overclock a rooted Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500 beyond the default maximum 528MHz?
I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500 running stock Donut (Android 1.6). I tried a couple of overclocking apps such as SetCPU and CPU Master, but none of them let me actually "over"-clock the CPU, because I can't set the maximum to be more than the default 528 MHz. I have read about speeds of 624...
I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500 running stock Donut (Android 1.6). I tried a couple of overclocking apps such as SetCPU and CPU Master, but none of them let me actually "over"-clock the CPU, because I can't set the maximum to be more than the default 528 MHz. I have read about speeds of 624 and/or 710 MHz possible with either the Galaxo custom ROM or GAOSP, but I want to achieve those kinds of speeds with stock Donut.
I've tried GAOSP b3 (Gingerbread) and Galaxo 1.6.3.4, but I prefer the feel of stock 1.6 (that's why I love my stock Nexus S running 2.3).
Is it possible to set the CPU speed beyond 528 MHz in my rooted Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500? How?
aalaap
(725 rep)
Nov 26, 2011, 08:44 PM
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After "legitimately" rooting an HTC phone, how do I get SuperUser to work?
I went through [HTC's official rooting steps][1] which I've discovered is unusual because it means I didn't instantly start with a special rom that has SuperUser installed by default. I installed Superuser from the Play store, but when I run something like SetCPU, I just get "SetCPU can't get root p...
I went through HTC's official rooting steps which I've discovered is unusual because it means I didn't instantly start with a special rom that has SuperUser installed by default. I installed Superuser from the Play store, but when I run something like SetCPU, I just get "SetCPU can't get root permission. Make sure to set it in superuser." I don't get the promised sudden prompt from SuperUser. Is there a special way to install SuperUser that I should be using?
John Baber-Lucero
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Nov 23, 2012, 03:24 PM
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Is there any reason not lock the CPU frequency to the minimum while the screen is off?
To save battery, I have created a "screen off" profile with SetCPU that locks the CPU frequency to the minimum while the screen is turned off. Could this have any negative side effects on apps that run in the background?
To save battery, I have created a "screen off" profile with SetCPU that locks the CPU frequency to the minimum while the screen is turned off. Could this have any negative side effects on apps that run in the background?
Nova
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Apr 23, 2012, 11:14 PM
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Phone randomly black screens, forced to remove battery and reboot
I have looked through the site, and it doesn't seem this has been answered yet. Once a day, at some point I pull my phone out of my pocket and it refuses to wake (black screen only). It isn't off, because the power button does nothing. I have to remove the battery in order to reboot the phone. I hav...
I have looked through the site, and it doesn't seem this has been answered yet. Once a day, at some point I pull my phone out of my pocket and it refuses to wake (black screen only). It isn't off, because the power button does nothing. I have to remove the battery in order to reboot the phone. I have looked for an app to help me find the cause (i.e. Log Collector) but it doesn't help because this isn't as simple as an FC, I am unaware when it happens until I pull my phone out. Is there a way to debug/find the culprit?
**My info:** Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660, Froyo, rooted
**Note:** I am running SetCPU (no profiles) and Tasker, they are suspects but I haven't been able to get an app to give me a continuous log.
Mingo
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Jun 3, 2011, 03:59 AM
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Problems with SetCPU on Sidekick 4G
I installed SetCPU on my SK4G today, and for the most part things are running fine and I haven't had any problems. At first I was getting a lot of lag and my phone kept freezing, so I checked [this][1] post and it helped me out a lot. But I ran into one more problem. My phone keeps shutting off and...
I installed SetCPU on my SK4G today, and for the most part things are running fine and I haven't had any problems.
At first I was getting a lot of lag and my phone kept freezing, so I checked this post and it helped me out a lot.
But I ran into one more problem. My phone keeps shutting off and I have to take out the battery and put it back in order to turn it on again. It's happened twice.
Could SetCPU be the cause of the problem?
**Profiles:**
Main / 816max - 312min (ondemand)
Temp > 35.6 C / 608max - 216min (ondemand / priority: 100)
Charging / 760max - 456min (ondemand / priority: 75)
Screen Off / 456max - 312min (ondemand / priority: 50)
I should also mention that I don't have a custom ROM or Kernel on my phone. It's just rooted.
disassembler
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Nov 22, 2011, 01:41 AM
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Is it possible to set CPU speed with Tasker?
For example: I would like to set my CPU to higher end for when running a specific application, such as psx4droid. Is this possible with Tasker? Or if not Tasker... any other app? SetCPU doesn't have the option.
For example: I would like to set my CPU to higher end for when running a specific application, such as psx4droid. Is this possible with Tasker?
Or if not Tasker... any other app? SetCPU doesn't have the option.
Bryan Denny
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Jan 13, 2011, 10:10 PM
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I’m new to SetCPU on Moto Droid and need help
I'm running rooted stock Android 2.2 on a Motorola Droid. I was hoping other users of the app could give me some advice. First question: whats the best underclock setting for a good balance between performance and longer battery life? How much longer battery life is it giving you on average? Second...
I'm running rooted stock Android 2.2 on a Motorola Droid. I was hoping other users of the app could give me some advice.
First question: whats the best underclock setting for a good balance between performance and longer battery life? How much longer battery life is it giving you on average?
Second question: I told it to autodetect the phone and I can seem to only overclock to 800mhz. How do I overclock to 1ghz. How high can I/should I overclock? I'm only overclocking when I play psx4droid.
Third question: any recommended profiles to setup?
Thanks!
Bryan Denny
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Aug 9, 2010, 01:01 PM
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