Root [CDMA] Whats a safe max scalling to set on setcpu?

[SMALBA]

I just flashed a new kernel and It's letting set the max mhz scalling higher than the default 1188 mhz. I don't want to overclock my CPU and have my phone crash.

 

[novox77]

Every phone's tolerance will be different. Mine appears to be stable at 1700. I haven't pushed it any harder than that.

If your phone does crash, it's not a big deal. Typically, it just reboots. Don't use the set at boot option in SetCPU and you'll be able to adjust the value back down to something stable on the next reboot.

 

[ocnbrze]

yeah mine is stable at 1782 with no issues. like novox77 said every phone is different.

 

[ovrrdrive]

I've been stable to 1700 too but I odn't leave it overclocked for daily driving. Overclocking uses more battery and makes more heat. That's 2 side effects that I don't want in my phone. If I'm running a benchmark I'll overclock it for a short bit but that's only once every blue moon. Honestly I can't tell the difference for day to day use when it's overclocked anyway.

Word on the street is the chip in our phones was designed to run at 1.5 but they underclocked it for our phone for some reason.

If anythign I like to set the phone to underclock when it's not being used much to save battery life. I run it down as far as 384mhz with ondemand scaling.

 

[jerofld]

They underclocked it for power saving purposes, or as the rumor had it during the pre-release speculations.

I think the governor matters more than max scale range. I like the conservative governor, and have a profile set to set the max scaling frequency at 500 when the screen is off. But if you want response time, interactive seems to be good for that.

 

[ovrrdrive]

I ran conservative for a while but I had a few apps that the cpu wouldn't scale up in for some reason. In ondemand it still slows down when you're not doing much but it scales up appropriately in all of my apps. Conservative definitely keeps it lower longer, which would maximize battery life even more but I wanted it to be transparent.

 

[ocnbrze]

i like smartass myself as a governor. it has a built in screen off profile. and i do not have any profiles running as well. too many is counterproductive.

 

[novox77]

I haven't used SetCPU for 5 months. I honestly don't see much improvement between SetCPU governance and stock in terms of battery life. Not saying there's no difference... just that I don't really perceive one.

 

[AndroidStyle]

You think higher ghz better speed?
Some phones show better performance at lower CPU speed, all phones are different so u gotta find the speed that is stable for you...