For those of you that overclock with SetCPU, what settings do you use, and if you use them, what profiles?
bump. So nobody uses profiles?
Main I use -1400max/1400min ondemand
Screen off- lowest max/lowest min
Temp >50c- Stock #s
I use pershoots kernel for OC
andrios23 said:
Main I use -1400max/1400min ondemand
Screen off- lowest max/lowest min
Temp >50c- Stock #s
I use pershoots kernel for OC
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50c ! Does your tab ever get that hot? Yikes!
Also, the 1400 max/min setting drains the battery too fast for me.
I'm also using Pershoot's Kernel (on task650 v5)
Attached a screen shot of my profiles for ya, works great for me, clock speed goes down as battery drains, screen off takes priority to save battery. Pershoot's kernel.
I run 216 and 1400. On demand. Is it worth setting up setCPU like the above poster?
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mroneeyedboh said:
I run 216 and 1400. On demand. Is it worth setting up setCPU like the above poster?
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I really feel that at the very least the screen-off profile helps to reduce idle battery drain.
**** to tell you the truth. I had my tab on sleep and so like 8 hours ad it only drained 1% lol. That's with the overcome rom, pershoots newest OCed to 1400.
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I was curious... does SetCpu work for this phone like Milestone Overclock? What's the difference, aside from SetCPU having more options?
They are both free (well SetCPU only free for XDA), but everyone uses milestone OC here and I'm wondering if there's a reason for that.
syrenz said:
I was curious... does SetCpu work for this phone like Milestone Overclock? What's the difference, aside from SetCPU having more options?
They are both free (well SetCPU only free for XDA), but everyone uses milestone OC here and I'm wondering if there's a reason for that.
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There is difference between two applications. Milestone overclock actually overclocks the processor while setcpu doesn't. Setcpu just changes clock frequency of CPU ranging from minimum to maximum. It allows you to make user profiles depending on which frequency of processor will be controlled. It actually helps battery last battery longer. BTW setcpu is paid application
SetCPU is used for setting CPU parameters. Like the range of mhz your CPU works at. Also setting profiles (CPU mhz when the phone is charging, reach temperature, battery lower than... etc.). But it cannot be used for overcharging, that's why we use Milestone overclock...
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jackfrost3821 said:
There is difference between two applications. Milestone overclock actually overclocks the processor while setcpu doesn't. Setcpu just changes clock frequency of CPU ranging from minimum to maximum. It allows you to make user profiles depending on which frequency of processor will be controlled. It actually helps battery last battery longer. BTW setcpu is paid application
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Setcpu is free for XDA members bud, find it here
how should i adjust my advanced settings? im overclocked at 850mhz
LibertyMonger said:
Setcpu is free for XDA members bud, find it here
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Thank you I wasn't knowing it is free for xda members!
I personally think Setcpu creates glitches in phone routine. Say when I play music and turn off the display, after I turn it on it pauses music a bit. I uninstalled it, problem seems to be no more. Still I can't confirm if the bug was created because of setcpu plus the battery life is not increased exponentially with setcpu.
Thanks for the answers
jackfrost3821 said:
I personally think Setcpu creates glitches in phone routine. Say when I play music and turn off the display, after I turn it on it pauses music a bit. I uninstalled it, problem seems to be no more. Still I can't confirm if the bug was created because of setcpu plus the battery life is not increased exponentially with setcpu.
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I think I agree, lol. Android has it's own built in "Setcpu" it's supposed to do a good job on it's own. I have been using it lately and not really sure it is much of an advantage. I'm gonna go a few days without I think and see. Same with battery calibration, I use 3 backup batteries so if it works it really can't work properly when switching batteries but they all always seem calibrated the same whether I use it or not.
SetCPU works with msoc but it is more of a parameter setting app. Imagine if you were oc to 1200 all the time. That would be foolish bc your processor would burn up that is to say if you battery stayed charged long enough to do it. Im set at 1100/74 but I don't need it like that all the time. When my screen is off, why do I need it that high. I do bc I listen to alot of online media, MLB, Jango, Pandora, and if the screen is on it makes temp go up. I do, you may not need it that high. SetCPU allows me to set that parameter to adjust the CPU down and underclock it if I need to. Also if my battery is too hot, I don't need it to be fast as lightning compounding heat, so I set it for a specific temp and it underclocks when I hit it. Here is a screen shots to show my settings.
LibertyMonger said:
I think I agree, lol. Android has it's own built in "Setcpu" it's supposed to do a good job on it's own. I have been using it lately and not really sure it is much of an advantage. I'm gonna go a few days without I think and see. Same with battery calibration, I use 3 backup batteries so if it works it really can't work properly when switching batteries but they all always seem calibrated the same whether I use it or not.
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Exactly that is what I've tried, uninstalled SetCPU to see the battery performance. It was really unnoticeable the battery drain with and without Setcpu. I use Autokill Memory Optimizer which seems to be providing good results as well as performance enhancement.
Nah that pause has nothing to do with setcpu. I get that all the time.
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exist2resist said:
Nah that pause has nothing to do with setcpu. I get that all the time.
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Yes it has to do with SetCPU if your minimum frequency is less. In screen lock profile select min frequency to 550Mhz instead of 250Mhz. Music won't pause while waking up your device. It works!
jackfrost3821 said:
Yes it has to do with SetCPU if your minimum frequency is less. In screen lock profile select min frequency to 550Mhz instead of 250Mhz. Music won't pause while waking up your device. It works!
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I guess you are correct.
But currently I removed the SetCPU. And I see much better performance now. I was min at 250MHz. Even the quadrant score is much better now.
Thanks for your insight
I remove setcpu and do a comparison too. I'm using CM 7.1.0 of fjfalcon and it lasts 1.5-2 days with minimal usage on setcpu. Now let's see if it's barely unnoticable.
but I think set cpu to 250mhz during the night when you don't use your phone may prolong battery life.
Woodrube said:
SetCPU works with msoc but it is more of a parameter setting app. Imagine if you were oc to 1200 all the time. That would be foolish bc your processor would burn up that is to say if you battery stayed charged long enough to do it. Im set at 1100/74 but I don't need it like that all the time. When my screen is off, why do I need it that high. I do bc I listen to alot of online media, MLB, Jango, Pandora, and if the screen is on it makes temp go up. I do, you may not need it that high. SetCPU allows me to set that parameter to adjust the CPU down and underclock it if I need to. Also if my battery is too hot, I don't need it to be fast as lightning compounding heat, so I set it for a specific temp and it underclocks when I hit it. Here is a screen shots to show my settings.
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Dude! with those settings what is your battery life like?
my minimum is at 125mhz and max at 250mhz (when screen off) and I lose 30% over night! and it barely lasts 8hours D:
what ROM are you on?
Do you guys know how the smartass governor works?
I'm looking for a good baseline to see what works best on this phone.
list everything, screenshots prefer and please specify your rom, kernel, and theme.
Mine are as follows...
all info in my sig. I use 500-1400 conservative with a 500-500 power save profile set for when the screen is off.
My battery lasts between 28-42 hrs pending my usage level from high - low. YMMV.
Miui
200 to 1200
Conservative
Noop
Using no-frills
Same settings when using perception. Awesome battery life, almost two days.
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CM7
200-1400 On demand
nothing else changed in setcpu
using red drop them for theme changer
CM7 launcher (ADW)
Widgetlocker for lockscreen theme
So, I'm heavily themed, but not much in widgets.
Seems good on battery, can last ~14 hours with moderate to high use.
Stable as well, no major crashes other than the usual browser and market.
I use Voltage Control myself and I've UV'd all across the board by -50. I've also dropped max speed to 1000Mhz. The rest should be pretty self explanatory...
Oh and I can't really list battery life because my usage really varies day to day, by quite a bit. I will say that I definitely get through an entire day with very high usage with no problems at all. Much... MUCH better than when I was running stock.
Default voltages and frequencies, ondemand, ignore nice load
llescaflownell said:
CM7
200-1400 On demand
nothing else changed in setcpu
using red drop them for theme changer
CM7 launcher (ADW)
Widgetlocker for lockscreen theme
So, I'm heavily themed, but not much in widgets.
Seems good on battery, can last ~14 hours with moderate to high use.
Stable as well, no major crashes other than the usual browser and market.
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Do you notice any difference at all in performance? How much display time do you get?
Cansomeone tell me the stock voltages I think mine are messed up
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roadrash7 said:
Cansomeone tell me the stock voltages I think mine are messed up
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Add 50 to each of the ones in my picture posted in the reply up above.
Simba501 said:
Default voltages and frequencies, ondemand, ignore nice load
Do you notice any difference at all in performance? How much display time do you get?
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Day to day performance, there really is no difference than stock, but to compare quadrant, I got ~3300 stock, but at this OC I get ~4400. It's gonna be smooth as butter either way, I just like numbers
Display time, I'm not too sure, but my settings are at its 1/3 highest (so not too bright, but not too dim either for me). If I were to approximate, I would say a good 2 hours of the display being on, give or take an hour or too (not the best estimate, but Ill try and keep track next time and report back).
Rooted stock
No themes
I get a good 14 to 18 hrs (minimal usage during the day and heavier usage evenings/nights - lots of wifi or data intensive apps)
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Add 50 to each of the ones in my picture posted in the reply up above.
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thanks but it looks like that is not stock settings, turns out if you click revert in setcpu it tells you how to get back to stock. they are...
1200-1275
1000-1175
800- 1075
500 - 975
200 - 950
my new settings are...
1200-1175
1000-1100
800 - 1000
500 - 925
200 - 850
all is well so far. stress test with no probs.
Here's my settings
Main Profile: 200Mhz Min 1Ghz Max running conservative governor. During the day. Conservative is performing better than ondemand for me.
I've also been toying with the up and down thresholds on the conservative governor to find a difference. Haven't really experienced any lag unless I set the up threshold to 90 or over.
Screen Off: 200 Min 500 Max also conservative
Charging: 200 Min 1400 Max ondemand
Battery <25% 200Min 800Max conservative
I've been finding the phone is just as good running at 800mhz max on the main profile. It's amazing how much faster this thing is then my captivate.
As far as voltages
1600: 1450
1400: 1325
1200: 1225
1000: 1100
800: 1000
500: 900
200: 825
Been getting amazing battery life. Been on battery for 10 hours now. Still 65% battery. Not bad.
My phone absolutely blows for overclocking. anytime i try the settings posted here it locks up
Also using No Frills here. Settings are:
Max: 1200
Min: 200
Conservative and Noop
I unplug it at 7am and by the time I get off of work at 5:30ish I still have 60%+ of my battery left. Running MIUI with quite a few widgets and I leave wifi on all the time.
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thanks but it looks like that is not stock settings, turns out if you click revert in setcpu it tells you how to get back to stock. they are...
1200-1275
1000-1175
800- 1075
500 - 975
200 - 950
my new settings are...
1200-1175
1000-1100
800 - 1000
500 - 925
200 - 850
all is well so far. stress test with no probs.
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Thanks for this!
DJSLINKARD said:
My phone absolutely blows for overclocking. anytime i try the settings posted here it locks up
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Might have to Overvolt. I had to overvolt 1400Mhz by 25mv in order to get it stable.
Also I've noticed lately when it's not happy with the setCPU settings I'm using the phone seems to emit a high pitched frequency when you put your ear to the back cover. When I get stable it appears to stop.
roadrash7 said:
thanks but it looks like that is not stock settings, turns out if you click revert in setcpu it tells you how to get back to stock. they are...
1200-1275
1000-1175
800- 1075
500 - 975
200 - 950
my new settings are...
1200-1175
1000-1100
800 - 1000
500 - 925
200 - 850
all is well so far. stress test with no probs.
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Not sure what to tell ya. I just installed SetCPU and this is the default settings showing - the same as Voltage Control and what I was referring to. I deleted the boot and profile settings first from Voltage Control and then rebooted, then installed SetCPU.
The only thing I can think of is that since I'm running UnNamed with Entropy's daily driver, maybe the voltage was tweaked from him? I'm only assuming because reading through his thread doesn't seem to indicate that he upped the default voltage on all levels. Unless I missed it somewhere.
This is in Entropy's Daily Driver thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18433190&postcount=213
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Not sure what to tell ya. I just installed SetCPU and this is the default settings showing - the same as Voltage Control and what I was referring to. I deleted the boot and profile settings first from Voltage Control and then rebooted, then installed SetCPU.
The only thing I can think of is that since I'm running UnNamed with Entropy's daily driver, maybe the voltage was tweaked from him? I'm only assuming because reading through his thread doesn't seem to indicate that he upped the default voltage on all levels. Unless I missed it somewhere.
This is in Entropy's Daily Driver thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18433190&postcount=213
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Thanks for the clarification
I'm still trying to find settings that give the most performance and give the best battery life
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No one cares to share?
Stock voltages and frequencies - on demand
Charging - stock frequencies - on demand
screen off - 200-500 conservative
So ive been told that underclocking or undervolting might actually harm battery life instead of helping it by making the process slower before it completes.
What are the best set cpu settings for battery life?
If i decide I dont want to use setcpu how can i restore the default values?
Search for the setcpu thread by lennyuk.
All your answers are in there. Sorry don't have the link but you will find it. Think it might be in android development and hacking section??
Edit:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158102
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So ive been told that underclocking or undervolting might actually harm battery life instead of helping it by making the process slower before it completes.
What are the best set cpu settings for battery life?
If i decide I dont want to use setcpu how can i restore the default values?
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UC/UV/OC can harm your phone if not properly taken care of.
Each cpu is different so there is no 'best settings'. If i share my settings, it might not be stable in your phone, or may be you can undervolt more than me which means your cpu can handle lower voltages better than mine.
You can use an init.d script (if your kernel supports) or SetCpu or Voltage Control to overclock/underclock/undervolt.
First thing, search through kernel threads and find a kernel you think suits your taste best.
Next, using setcpu or voltage control, set a min and max global frequency.
Now for each frequency lower the voltage by 25 mv (from stock). Keep doing this until your phone becomes unstable or hangs. Use the last settings that didn't cause any problems.
I have a profile which works only at night
from 11pm to 6 am 500mhz with power save.
Once i tried 1000mhz conservative, for the whole day, does seem to give me more battery life at the end of the day.
ProNewb said:
I have a profile which works only at night
from 11pm to 6 am 500mhz with power save.
Once i tried 1000mhz conservative, for the whole day, does seem to give me more battery life at the end of the day.
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Shouldn't the phone be in deep sleep (200mhz) at night? If you're not using it ofcourse.
TheSaw said:
Shouldn't the phone be in deep sleep (200mhz) at night? If you're not using it ofcourse.
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Deep Sleep doesn't mean locking on to lowest frequency supported by kernel. (200 mhz on stock).
Deep sleep is the state where both cores shut off, and system (O.S) goes to sleep, governor stays idle, etc etc. There will be some background processes running too, but cpu is not using 200 mhz throughout deep sleep.
EDIT: Or you meant a screen off profile.
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Shouldn't the phone be in deep sleep (200mhz) at night? If you're not using it ofcourse.
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The phone should be in deep sleep, but some apps don't let the phone sleep at night thanks to there inefficient coding.
Anyway it does seem to use less battery, without this profile, I loose around 9% in 6 hours, but now I loose only 4-5%.
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So ive been told that underclocking or undervolting might actually harm battery life instead of helping it by making the process slower before it completes.
What are the best set cpu settings for battery life?
If i decide I dont want to use setcpu how can i restore the default values?
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just unistall setcpu and then reboot your phone and then you go back to default values
Ive been running the "cm7-1.4highpro-test-rev3" kernel and it runs great. I've been bumping up my undervolting slowly, and im at -475 at 216 mhz, which (in theory) should be the undervolt clock speed that will save me most battery becasue i have phone set to go between 216 mhz and 312 mhz when screens off. Ive got both 216 and 312 mhz undervolted extremely heavily and i haven't seen ANY issues. The rest of clock speeds are at -100 or so, and if i push much further than that the phone locks up and does weird stuff. This would lead me to believe that the undervolting IS indeed working. But can the processor really run at -475 @216mhz and [email protected] without any side affects?? I haven't once had it get stuck in sleep mode with screen off or ANYTHING, so im a bit unsure if it is actually undervolting or not.. Myrt undervolt shows that my phone is undervolted to the specific settings i set within SetCpu. I also havent seen much, if any, difference with battery life. With 10 hours of idle time, straight idle screen off whole time, wifi, gps, mobile data, 4g, bluetooth, all that stuff off and after 10 hours my battery is down to 85%.
I limited uv clocks, so there is a low limit. One day ill add more low end clocks but it won't matter because the photon uses a separate clock for suspend. I knew people would try to uv to 500 with it set on boot and screw there phone up. So this way I didn't have thousands of user error related uv issues. Uv does works but its more for high end than low end. Low end uv causes sleep of death.
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Ive been running the "cm7-1.4highpro-test-rev3" kernel and it runs great. I've been bumping up my undervolting slowly, and im at -475 at 216 mhz, which (in theory) should be the undervolt clock speed that will save me most battery becasue i have phone set to go between 216 mhz and 312 mhz when screens off. Ive got both 216 and 312 mhz undervolted extremely heavily and i haven't seen ANY issues. The rest of clock speeds are at -100 or so, and if i push much further than that the phone locks up and does weird stuff. This would lead me to believe that the undervolting IS indeed working. But can the processor really run at -475 @216mhz and [email protected] without any side affects?? I haven't once had it get stuck in sleep mode with screen off or ANYTHING, so im a bit unsure if it is actually undervolting or not.. Myrt undervolt shows that my phone is undervolted to the specific settings i set within SetCpu. I also havent seen much, if any, difference with battery life. With 10 hours of idle time, straight idle screen off whole time, wifi, gps, mobile data, 4g, bluetooth, all that stuff off and after 10 hours my battery is down to 85%.
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haha ok I understand, just thought I was going crazy there for a bit, or had the most amazing tegra 2 known to man. is there a way to UV the suspend mode then or no? And is my battery life at idle about average or low considering the UV. do you have any kernels for CM7 that aren't limited for UV? Thanks for reply, and all your hard work on the photon!!
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Changing suspend voltage can only be done in source. I havnt played with it yet because i need to test it on a stable kernel that way i know any issues would come from it. As far as extra uv steps its planned after wifi fix. I wont add 500 new steps probably 2 steps at a time(-25 steps). Im also planning on changing my clock table(multiples of 216 only). I might make a half step 1.0 kernel underclocked to 108~192. It will be mem underclocked and gpu/avp underclocked. With lower voltage tables on everything. Default scheduling will be powersave. Which you can check out with cpu master right now. That kernel will also have a tweaked 2 core start/stop.
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haha ok I understand, just thought I was going crazy there for a bit, or had the most amazing tegra 2 known to man. is there a way to UV the suspend mode then or no? And is my battery life at idle about average or low considering the UV. do you have any kernels for CM7 that aren't limited for UV? Thanks for reply, and all your hard work on the photon!!
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"That kernel will also have a tweaked 2 core start/stop. "
Holy ****!
That would be the best thing
All new ones this week have tweaked 2nd core
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"That kernel will also have a tweaked 2 core start/stop. "
Holy ****!
That would be the best thing
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Im building a battery version of top secret now
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Just finally got around to rooting my USA SGP 5.0 yesterday and download SetCPU 2.24. I set the max clock to 400MHz but noticed that it would periodically jump up to 800MHz. Am I to conclude that it is not properly setting the max speed? ie. not doing anything at all?
thanks!
No, this is normal for this device. When you touch the screen, the driver or the kernel increase the speed to 800MHz, but when you let it go, it will jump back to whatever you set in SetCPU. The driver or kernel overwrites the settings, this is done by Samsung to increase the responsiveness of the device. There's nothing you can do about it.
Interesting... So I want to be able to set a profile so that when the screen is off, the max speed is 200MHz. I am assuming that listening to music does not require the CPU to be clocked at max speed. That said, do we know if the CPU automatically clocks down when not needed? If it does, then does that mean that SetCPU is doing nothing to help with battery life?
I don't know how well the CPU clocks down when not needed. Run some tests with and without caping the CPU and see what SetCPU shows you in terms of clock speed. I have SetCPU on my device because i like to set exact limits to my CPU and not rely on some algorithms to figure it out.
It seems to work whenever I switch the governer to ondemand. Conservative, not so often.
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If you can buy tegrac overclock..you can undervolt any FQ and overclock how many you want.
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Nevermind... I just uninstalled SetCPU. I had set it to max out at 400MHz. I surfed the web for a while and then watched youtube for 1.5 hours and noticed that I dropped from 70% to 45% battery life. I've never seen my battery drain so fast, even when watching full movies. I might give Tegrak a try but I think I'm done with SetCPU for now...