Root Overclocking vs battery usage

[nedamdam]

Soo running the froydvillain 1.4.4 tried different kernels. Would ask this on their IRC channel but I think they would lynch me

The max stable I get is 748 was running it for like 10 mins (768 wont boot)

Was running mostly 691 and now 614 . But dont know what will the difference in power consumption be. For example when playing with the phone and it will have to go to the 691 will it hold a lot less? Or its just a minor difference?

Thanks for any answer.

 

[Xyro]

I don't exactly have a yes or no answer here, sorry

The conventional wisdom used to be that you could overclock when the screen was on, underclock when it was off and the phone is sleeping. With that setup you'd usually end up with a longer lasting battery than someone who didn't do either.

But, as you may have noticed, the Villain team removed the option for underclocking when the screen is off. Their reasoning being that their overclocking set up was good enough that underclocking wasn't necessary. And to their credit, I haven't noticed a drop in battery life since then.

I have mine set up for 125-690 using the interactive governor (that's the key, apparently. When the screen's on it is usually at 690, so I presume it spends a lot of time at lower speeds when the screen is off.

Short answer: Just give it a try, see how it goes

 

[nedamdam]

Interactive? Me using the ondemand one it goes down to the 123 if not needed.

Their forums dont work properly and cant kinda search fine. As I mentionend setcpu on the IRC i got a big lecture Am now afraid of asking about the difference and had to reset the battery too

Tried if I see any difference in games (raging thunder 2) and between the 614 and 691 no difference. Between the speeds of the launcher also nothing

I noticed a nice speed increase in the home when using 748 but as I wanted to download the game it rebooted before I got it. Have problems with market

Btw is your app drawer lagging strangely too? I had to use the 3D drawer option to fix that. Dunno why normally on scrolling it lags...

 

[Xyro]

Performance and ondemand are governors that have always been there, interactive is one that Villain created/brought in on one of their froyd releases. It supposedly works much better than ondemand because it can react instantly to increased demand, where as the ondemand one can't (ironically). It does seem to work, as I can set my settings to 124-690 without noticing any lag when the processor jumps between speeds, which I couldn't do with ondemand.

Which overclocking app are you using? The interactive one may only be available in the CPUSpeed app they built into froyd.

 

[nedamdam]

Which overclocking app are you using? The interactive one may only be available in the CPUSpeed app they built into froyd.

They made me to unistall setcpu so only cpuspeed . btw even setcpu had it the interactive one I guess. But I got almost always on this kernel the violet screen when waking up so I had to get rid of setcpu.

Man, if I knew what can froyd doo sooner, 20 € would be saved on useless or redundant apps...

Didnt know what interactive means thats why I asked . Soo will use it

Uf after 20 mins 3 percent down of battery... (was on demand) will try the interactive and thanks for the tip.

Btw the appdrawer lags still. Well not lagging, but strangely cutting... dunno how to explain it better. In 3D its ok

One thing though. It kinda feels colder on 691 as on 614. Maybe am imaging it

 

[Xyro]

I'm not sure why it would do that. It might be worth resetting the launcher pro settings to default, or even reinstalling it, in case something's messed up in the settings.

 

[nedamdam]

I'm not sure why it would do that. It might be worth resetting the launcher pro settings to default, or even reinstalling it, in case something's messed up in the settings.

Ok let me do a nandroid backup(oh hoooooow I love this option ) first . In case it doesnt help so i dotn have to configure it again for nothing

 

[Xyro]

Launcher Pro can do it's own backup/restore of settings, which is pretty handy for switching between the frequent updates of froyd.

It might only be in the donate version of LPro though, I'm not sure.

But yeah, nandroid backups are always useful. You can mess around without fear of buggering it up (Which I have done quite a few times).

 

[nedamdam]

I have the plus (donate) version from day one since I used it on the stock 2.1 .

And why didnt I save it like that see I am getting used too much to nandroid.

Btw flashing between the kernels I wont have any garbage on the android right? Since I didnt go back to my nandroid backup I always flashed one kernel over the other.

To laucherpro, I always have a "force close" and "wait" on boot (wait helps)

And I have it set to 5 columns in the app drawer. When set to 4 the cutting lagging or whatever it is, its not so much to see but still there...

Reseting settings didnt help

 

[Xyro]

I get the FC message on boot sometimes. Usually when I'm being impatient and trying to click on stuff while it's still loading

Not sure why it would be doing it then. Is anything else sluggish, or just that?

 

[nedamdam]

Well I have the feeling, the scrolling between options . (like in settings) has the same feeling.

10 percent of battery down after an hour .(screen on 7 mins...) Its eating away my battery