I have used tegrak overclock and pushed my phone to 1.66 GHz. I am running VillianRom 1.1 and CF-Root kernel.
When I run Nenamark2 I only score 44.2 fps, yet my friend who is running the same as me, expect he has no over clock, scores 43.6 fps.
Should I do a factory reset, how do I COMPLETELY whipe the phone, including all data, cos factory reset from the menu doesnt COMPETELY whipe the phone.
Dannyboyni said:
I have used tegrak overclock and pushed my phone to 1.66 GHz. I am running VillianRom 1.1 and CF-Root kernel.
When I run Nenamark2 I only score 44.2 fps, yet my friend who is running the same as me, expect he has no over clock, scores 43.6 fps.
Should I do a factory reset, how do I COMPLETELY whipe the phone, including all data, cos factory reset from the menu doesnt COMPETELY whipe the phone.
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Your friend is likely running another rom, like lightning rom? Villainrom doesn't perform well with benchmarks
jody2k said:
Your friend is likely running another rom, like lightning rom? Villainrom doesn't perform well with benchmarks
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No, hes running the exact same rom as me.
Hi.
I'm facing a "hard to solve" issue with my Atrix 4G...
It is a non-ATT (international). Using RSD Lite, I flashed the Retail SBF and it worked OK, battery life was "normal" and the phone was cold most of time.
I then unlocked the bootloader flashing the IHOP SBF then using moto_fastboot method. Installed Clockworkmod Recovery and flashed the HomeBase rom with the updates.
What happen is: The phone starts to get very warm and the battery is drained very quickly (couple of hours).
Using the SetCPU, I could verify that the CPU does not scale down automatically. It's always at 1300Mhz, it doesn't matter if the phone is idle or not.
I can reduce the CPU speed using the SetCPU but the processor is with the two cores active all the time and it never reduces the speed below the limit set in SetCPU.
I thought it may be a problem with my phone, so I flashed the retail SBF again and I could verify that, bakc with the retail rom, CPU is scaling down correctly. It goes up to 1000Mhz when requested but stays ~300Mhz when phone is idle.
I did the BL unlock/motofastboot/clockwordmod/ procedure again and tried with different roms (Aura, Alien, RedPill, etc) always cleaning up the Cache/UserData/Dalvik and using the faux 1.3Ghz unified kernel but got no result, on every 2.3.4 rom I flash, the CPU is always at the maximum speed set by the kernel or limited by the SetCPU.
I've found a similar problem on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1190634. and did the same investigation but I was not able to identify any aplication that is making the CPU usage to be constantly high (even tried killing all Apps, not result).
Any ideas what I can do/try to solve this issue?
Thanks a lot.
That happened to me too!! I just reflash the rom wiping everything and the cpu started acting normal
Try to use fastboot to wipe if ur using CWM
Sent from my CM7 Motorola Atrix 4G
For me turning off the phone and back on worked, if not for you then try wiping the usual stuff before reflashing a rom or back up
Feom what I've seen, this is often caused by the webtop. Most ROMs don't touch the webtop, and it seems for some people, this causes problems. I fixed my issue by installing a ROM that (I believe) wiped the webtop. That ROM was deprecated a long time ago so I don't know if it's still available. I'd take a look at the Developer forum. There are some webtop files you can download that reportedly fix the issue. You might also try using fastboot to erase the webtop.
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@vibrantuser
Thanks. Yes, I tried flashing and re-flashing couple of times, no luck whatsoever...
@Ilkinansr92
Thanks for the tip. Will try that and see how it goes.
@ronii1123
Will try that this weekend I'll report about progress.
@frelnik
Thanks for the tip. It makes sense as the retail SBF re-flashed the Webtop area and all roms I tried doesn't touch it. I'll try to get a webtop image and flash it using the fastboot or the CWM method. If you can point a link to any that may work, I'll really appreciate it.
Thanks a lot.
I installed the ROM from here to fix my issues. Every ROM thereafter was fine:
http://briefmobile.com/download-android-2-3-4-gingerbread-for-motorola-atrix-4g
I believe I've heard some people had success with the webtop CWM from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1169457
I do wonder if erasing the webtop would be enough. You could try
fastboot erase webtop
faux123 said:
Just a quick Info dump:
Just going through the code and realized why SetCPU failed to keep the clock frequencies set properly. SetCPU has NOT been designed to work with dual core properly. It only sets the scaling_max_frequency for cpu0 (master CPU) and not for cpu1 (slave). When under load, cpu1 gets awaken by the system, but it's frequencies are still the old 1.3 GHz and since Tegra2 is a synchronous SMP design, the scaler would use the highest frequency again (this case 1.3 GHz). This is why after playing games, or apps that needed the 2nd cpu would cause the system clock to revert to original default 1.3 GHz even when you set it via SetCPU to something lower.
This is not easy to fix, when SMP is involved. I have tried a few hax already and still unable to tame the 2 headed beast. I will continue to work on it or find an alternative solution to SetCPU's issues
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quoted from Faux himself, there's a bug in his kernel that prevents us from underclocking it. should be fixed in the next release.
Alcapone263 said:
quoted from Faux himself, there's a bug in his kernel that prevents us from underclocking it. should be fixed in the next release.
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That's a separate problem, I think. My understanding is that the OP's issue is the CPU is always running at the maximum speed. It never clocks down to the slower speeds when idle. The issue with Faux's kernel and SetCPU is that no matter how you set it, when stressed, the CPU runs at the maximum speed the kernel is capable of, not the speed you set in the app. The CPU does clock down when idle, but will ramp up to 1.3 GHz even if you set it to only 1 GHz in SetCPU. I've experienced both issues.
You have to set it at 800 mhz for it to stick. For some reason setcpu only recognizes under clocking under 1 GHz, otherwise it presumes that it's running at the 1 GHz stock speed without registering the overclock, therefore thinking the stock is 1.3 GHz! I'm not sure but I would have a guess and say that it's something to do with the unchangeable governors? Hope this makes sense lol
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[SOLVED] CPU not Stepping Down - Warm Phone
frelnik said:
I installed the ROM from here to fix my issues. Every ROM thereafter was fine:
http://briefmobile.com/download-android-2-3-4-gingerbread-for-motorola-atrix-4g
I believe I've heard some people had success with the webtop CWM from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1169457
I do wonder if erasing the webtop would be enough. You could try
fastboot erase webtop
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Hey freinik.
I cleaned up the webtop and reflashed the Home Base rom I was using.
Perfect!
CPU is now scaling correctly. Your suggestions was exactly what was needed.
After cleaning the webtop (using the fastboot erase webtop) the issue was solved.
Thanks a lot.
Think in having the same issue with my international atrix alien rom.
Can you provide clear instructions on how to remove webtop and what will it affect if any by removing it?
Hope you can help.
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@ultim
Hi, Thanks for asking.
I erased my webtop using the moto fastboot command line, you can get it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138092&highlight=fastboot
After installing, reboot you phone and enter the "fastboot" mode (holding volume down until the "fastboot" text appears, then press volume up.
Once on fastboot mode, connect your phone to the USB port and run:
moto_fastboot erase webtop
It should erase your webtop partition.
It normaly helps to clean the cache/data, you can do that by running:
moto_fastboot -w
You can then, reboot the phone.
moto_fastboot reboot
If you're using Linux, moto_fastboot should be run as superuser, you can do that by using sudo, ie. sudo moto_fastboot reboot.
Hope this helps.
@Nyx_ Thank you for the instructions. My battery life is so much better now. Before application 'X' (i assume its webtop) would use about a third of my battery all the time.
Thanks for this. I recently discovered the same thing was happening to my phone and deduced that the webtop was causing this. I was using faux's newest kernel. I then related the stock kennel and everything was file after that, no cleaning of the webtop was needed.
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I was running dag 0.2 and was overclocking fine, and decided to install saurom.
wiped caches-->factory reset-->install saurom+fixes-->restore TB backup-->setcpu has 1.5ghz as max, with no higher options as before. cpuspy reports that it's dag0.2 loaded, but I can't overclock.
I tried CWM installing the dag 0.2 kernel but it didn't help. am I missing a step?? i assumed that dag 0.2 overclock was included in the ROM.
Strange..so I installed System Tuner to try and it had higher Ghz options, and I overclocked to 1.83. Went back to setCPU and it was able to overclock! I just uninstalled systemtuner and can now use setCPU properly. Any ideas as to why it thought 1.5ghz was the max before??
Hi,
I' m getting strange hotpluging oO
Most of the time CPU3 (Seen in System Tuner) is running even when there is no power needed. So it runs on 2 cores all the time. I tried full wipe and format system.
Im running CM10 with siyah 1.8.6.
I also tried installing a different kernel and rom, didn't help.
Edit: Even going back to stock nandroid 4.0.4 doesn't fix it
Does anyone know this problem?
Hello. I instal Asgard v1.5 Kernels on Fulmics ROM 1.0.
All stock, no other mod, clear cache and art, but all core stay on max value and vpu temp its 80C.
This is on all gov, only poversave work normal. Anyone's have this problem? Any sugest?
Aha, when restore stock boot in twrp its work normal.
Sorry for my bsd en.