we have been overclocked! I ran CF bench n noticed my very high score. then I looked at stats n saw that my top speed is now 1.6Ghz. I couldn't believe it. so I used my system panel app to check out info. It's true! Along with ICS those mofos overclocked us. look at my bench at the top speed of processor.
Edit: Although stock setting reads 1.6Ghz it is not really. Those speeds are deactivated. BUT with rooting and Viperzcontrol Mod, WE ARE NOW OFFICIALLY OVERCLOCKED TO MAX OF 1.6Ghz. Head to Dev. Section for the thread n details on it.
more proof I am now Overclocked to top speed of 1.6Ghz
Ill gladly go back if this is causing my display banding -.-
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I can conform this too this is awesome
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I can conform this too this is awesome
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Awesome isn't even the word. damn! they really surprised us good with this one. I couldn't believe it. I'm so stoked right now. I bet most people don't even realize it yet. that's why I made this thread. this update and overcloxk made me forget all about that b.s. news earlier about new Asus models.
Wtf? I've never seen a manufacturer do this. Did they do this because they weren't confident enough that ICS would speed up the experience by itself?
So all this happened with the ICS upgrade? Did you do anything else to achieve this? I'm gonna have to to test mine out now! :thumbup:
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Most likely a new kernel with the Ice Cream Sandwhich OTA Update.
.Everything running smoother including games.I tested Riptide(shocked at how fast it loaded) and Zen Pinball(had to readjust my timing because its smoother).Also,I put the Prime in "performance"mode.Thought it was a placebo effect but it really is a different beast now!
EDIT..I guess that would explain why games are running smoother...AWESOME!!
Well my quadrant score tanked. After 4 runs about 300 points lower on average. This could be a rendering engine change though, doesn't necessarily relate to performance.
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I can confirm that I'm running at 1.6 too but my Benches on Antutu have dropped by a lot.
Very nice! That explains a lot... Thats good news to me, I just hope it doesn't eat battery.
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Wtf? I've never seen a manufacturer do this. Did they do this because they weren't confident enough that ICS would speed up the experience by itself?
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I don't know. I'm in the same boat. I've never seen this before also. I'm completely stoked n loving it. Asus really trying to make up for the mishaps and its working very well.. you should hear my sinister laugh..lmfao
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So all this happened with the ICS upgrade? Did you do anything else to achieve this? I'm gonna have to to test mine out now! :thumbup:
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nope didn't do anything extra. I just noticed this after I ran CF Bench in Normal mode. I looked at specs n saw it. then used other apps tl confirm it also. This is SICK! Great Job Asus on the ICS update.
Oh yea, 1600MHz! Everything seems faster and it boots up a lot faster!
Same here. Antutu benchmark reports 1600MHz top speed as well.
Wow. I just hope this wasn't something left over from development that was supposed to be turned off...
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My CF bench jumped up by like 1000 points overall. I have a feeling I can get even higher than 13,000 overall score. CF Bench is a really good one that takes into account stuff other benches don't. its a more thorough bench mark. I'm so happy..lol. I can't believe this. Asus kissed our a$$ on this nice surprise. now imagine once developers here start tinkering around. I can easily see us over 2Ghz overclock.
Sorry to burst bubbles here guys, but you're only half right. Upon opening CPU Spy, it shows that while 1.5 and 1.6ghz steppings exist, they are listed as "unused states". Thus, they exist in the kernel but are disabled. Its possible with setcpu you can simply turn it up to 1.5 or 1.6 with the current kernel and it may work that way but as of right now any extra speed is all ICS, they are NOT running at 1.5/1.6. Programs will report the kernel's 'listed' top speed (also why you'll always see 1.4 listed even if it's using all 4 cores limited to 1.3).
Still, looks promising. I'll have to play with setCPU later to see if we need to wait for kernels or not...
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Sorry to burst bubbles here guys, but you're only half right. Upon opening CPU Spy, it shows that while 1.5 and 1.6ghz steppings exist, they are listed as "unused states". Thus, they exist in the kernel but are disabled. Its possible with setcpu you can simply turn it up to 1.5 or 1.6 with the current kernel and it may work that way but as of right now any extra speed is all ICS, they are NOT running at 1.5/1.6. Programs will report the kernel's 'listed' top speed (also why you'll always see 1.4 listed even if it's using all 4 cores limited to 1.3).
Still, looks promising. I'll have to play with setCPU later to see if we need to wait for kernels or not...
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Good catch. I read this and went into SetCPU (no root forgot to keep it) and I check the time in each state thing. 0% in 1.5/1.6 Kinda gay
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Sorry to burst bubbles here guys, but you're only half right. Upon opening CPU Spy, it shows that while 1.5 and 1.6ghz steppings exist, they are listed as "unused states". Thus, they exist in the kernel but are disabled. Its possible with setcpu you can simply turn it up to 1.5 or 1.6 with the current kernel and it may work that way but as of right now any extra speed is all ICS, they are NOT running at 1.5/1.6. Programs will report the kernel's 'listed' top speed (also why you'll always see 1.4 listed even if it's using all 4 cores limited to 1.3).
Still, looks promising. I'll have to play with setCPU later to see if we need to wait for kernels or not...
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Yeah, think you may be right... don't have the Prime yet, but I pulled the following from the OTA Update dlpkgfile (cpu3.sh @ /system/etc):
#!/bin/sh -x
#This is normal mode!
echo 0 > /sys/module/cpu_tegra/parameters/system_mode
echo 1300 > /sys/kernel/tegra_cap/core_cap_level
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tegra_cap/core_cap_state
echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/tegra_grhost/enable_3d_scaling
echo 10 > /sys/module/cpu_tegra3/parameters/mp_overhead
echo 9999999 > /sys/module/cpu_tegra/parameters/pwr_cap_limit_1
echo 9999999 > /sys/module/cpu_tegra/parameters/pwr_cap_limit_2
echo 9999999 > /sys/module/cpu_tegra/parameters/pwr_cap_limit_3
echo 9999999 > /sys/module/cpu_tegra/parameters/pwr_cap_limit_4
setprop power.saving.mode 1
setprop persist.tegra.NV_FPSLIMIT 0
setprop persist.sys.NV_FPSLIMIT 0
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Sorry to burst bubbles here guys, but you're only half right. Upon opening CPU Spy, it shows that while 1.5 and 1.6ghz steppings exist, they are listed as "unused states". Thus, they exist in the kernel but are disabled. Its possible with setcpu you can simply turn it up to 1.5 or 1.6 with the current kernel and it may work that way but as of right now any extra speed is all ICS, they are NOT running at 1.5/1.6. Programs will report the kernel's 'listed' top speed (also why you'll always see 1.4 listed even if it's using all 4 cores limited to 1.3).
Still, looks promising. I'll have to play with setCPU later to see if we need to wait for kernels or not...
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you almost rained on my parade BUT I just went back to my system panel app where it shows real time processor speed and I saw it spike to 1.5ghz. it shows me all 4 cores in real time and shows me the speeds as it fluctuates. So I'm thinking its already enabled if it spiked up that high.
edit: either way, this is all looking very promising. need more confirmation. does set CPU need root? Hol up, let me check my system tuner pro app
edit: all my apps showing 1.6Ghz Max. System Tuner Pro won't let me adjust the speed with slider. the Max still showing 1.6. another thing I noticed also is the lowest speed. it dips really low now. into the 100mhz or so.
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You should share what speed and voltages you are running at, I figured it would be helpful to give other people ideas of where to begin trying their voltages at for undervolting purposes. So, what's your lowest voltages at the highest clock speeds?
I'm using SetCPU's standard voltages. 1.8/.38 normal, .87/.38 screen off and over 130F, 1.2/.38 battery less than 50%, 1.8/1.2 plugged in. Getting 4-5 more hours per charge!
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Here's the values I've currently got in my Permatemp Root .bat file (thanks Eugene!): scpll_l_val=24 vdd_uv=1060000
That gives me 1.296 ghz at 1.06 volts. I know 1.3 ghz isn't much of an overclock, but this phone is already so fast (especially compared to my old Hero, lol) that I'm not really craving any more speed ... what I'm most interested in is undervolting for max battery life. From what I've read the stock voltage at 1.2 ghz is 1.18 volts, so I'm a little under that right now. I tried 1.00 and 1.03 volts and got reboots every time, but 1.06 volts runs rock-solid reliable for me at 1.3 ghz.
is that really even noticable? the LCD draw most of the power typically
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Here's the values I've currently got in my Permatemp Root .bat file (thanks Eugene!): scpll_l_val=24 vdd_uv=1060000
That gives me 1.296 ghz at 1.06 volts. I know 1.3 ghz isn't much of an overclock, but this phone is already so fast (especially compared to my old Hero, lol) that I'm not really craving any more speed ... what I'm most interested in is undervolting for max battery life. From what I've read the stock voltage at 1.2 ghz is 1.18 volts, so I'm a little under that right now. I tried 1.00 and 1.03 volts and got reboots every time, but 1.06 volts runs rock-solid reliable for me at 1.3 ghz.
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Someone in the OC topic was asking about UV at stock speeds. You're close enough to stock that you should qualify. You should go post your results in that thread too. They'd be happy to see them.
I'm running @ 1.78GHz with a vdd of 1300000. I'm going to try and go lower... maybe 12800000.
I have it overclock to 1728mhz but dint know where to adjust the voltage. Does setcpu does this or i need a different program to read voltage/change voltage?
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I have it overclock to 1728mhz but dint know where to adjust the voltage. Does setcpu does this or i need a different program to read voltage/change voltage?
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You adjust the voltage when you type the ADB command to OC. If you're using a script that does it for you, you will need to edit that script and look for the vdd_uv= line.
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is that really even noticable? the LCD draw most of the power typically
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What do you mean by "is that really even noticable"? It's certainly calculatable ... it's an 11.3 percent improvement in battery usage by the CPU. If you're saying that's not very much, well, it's all relative. If you're saying you're not interested in saving a little battery when it won't cost you anything to do so, that's fine with me. If you're saying that no power-saving effort is worth any consideration because the LCD is the biggest power draw of all and that's the only one that matters, then why did Qualcomm bother to develop asynchronous cores and low-power audio modules and low-power GPS modules? I mean, hey, the screen is all that matters, right?
Or did I misread your statement?
Edit: Sorry for coming across as so argumentative, I just don't understand why you're taking the position you are.
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What do you mean by "is that really even noticable"? It's certainly calculatable ... it's an 11.3 percent improvement in battery usage by the CPU. If you're saying that's not very much, well, it's all relative. If you're saying you're not interested in saving a little battery when it won't cost you anything to do so, that's fine with me. If you're saying that no power-saving effort is worth any consideration because the LCD is the biggest power draw of all and that's the only one that matters, then why did Qualcomm bother to develop asynchronous cores and low-power audio modules and low-power GPS modules? I mean, hey, the screen is all that matters, right?
Or did I misread your statement?
Edit: Sorry for coming across as so argumentative, I just don't understand why you're taking the position you are.
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+1! Would have thanked you, except I'm at my limit.
I'm at 35 @1450000. I know I can go lower, but if I overclock, I want stability not battery life
On another note: I can't wait until we have source, custom kernels, and I finish up the viperMOD app to get support for the E3D. Will be one awesome beast undervolted!
I'm at 1.56ghz and 120000 voltage.
Runs stable, get a nice speed boost without killing my battery. Am going to try a lower voltage. I've read the could will default to stock speed if you go too low though. Guess I'll find out.
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I'm at 1.56ghz and 120000 voltage.
Runs stable, get a nice speed boost without killing my battery. Am going to try a lower voltage. I've read the could will default to stock speed if you go too low though. Guess I'll find out.
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No, if your voltage is too low, your phone will freeze or instanly reboot on you.
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No, if your voltage is too low, your phone will freeze or instanly reboot on you.
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Well. I can handle that. Lol. Guess I'm going lower! Wish me luck!
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I am currently testing scpll_l_val=22 vdd_uv=1010000 for undervolting purposes, 1000000 caused a reboot, 1010000 has been holding up well under stress tests..
If one of you guys who are overclocking could test this video clip and either diceplayer or the diceplayer free trial in the market - I would appreciate it:
http://www.movie-list.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27232
Supposedly - the Samsung Galaxy S2 can play 1080P + AC3 MKV's smoothly. But the Evo3D and Sensation lag a bit according to the developer. I tested this file with my evo3D and it looked like my Evo3D stuttered every 3 seconds or so. I'm just wondering if an overclock would smooth out playback - but I haven't installed temproot.
For those of you overclocking just for battery savings, I am currently testing
adb shell insmod /data/local/tmp/8x60_oc.ko scpll_l_val=22 vdd_uv=1003100 and have been stable so far, this is the absolute lowest I can push it at 1.2Ghz on my phone, can anyone else match this or go lower? I think it will be helpful to start establishing these values now so kernel makers will have some ideas of how far they can push our phones.
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If one of you guys who are overclocking could test this video clip and either diceplayer or the diceplayer free trial in the market - I would appreciate it:
http://www.movie-list.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27232
Supposedly - the Samsung Galaxy S2 can play 1080P + AC3 MKV's smoothly. But the Evo3D and Sensation lag a bit according to the developer. I tested this file with my evo3D and it looked like my Evo3D stuttered every 3 seconds or so. I'm just wondering if an overclock would smooth out playback - but I haven't installed temproot.
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Speed = 1.5GHz.
The default gallery player plays it perfectly, but there's no sound.
RockPlayer plays it very choppily, but has sound.
Dice player plays somewhat smoothly and has sound, but there are lag moments every 3-6 seconds as you said.
It's a software issue.
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For those of you overclocking just for battery savings, I am currently testing
adb shell insmod /data/local/tmp/8x60_oc.ko scpll_l_val=22 vdd_uv=1003100 and have been stable so far, this is the absolute lowest I can push it at 1.2Ghz on my phone, can anyone else match this or go lower? I think it will be helpful to start establishing these values now so kernel makers will have some ideas of how far they can push our phones.
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Right noe I'm sitting at 29 (1.56ghz) with a UV of 1170000. Tried 1150000 but phone immediately restarted. And 1160000 restarted after a while. This seems stable so far. Haven't totally stressed it yet though.
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nabbed said:
Speed = 1.5GHz.
The default gallery player plays it perfectly, but there's no sound.
RockPlayer plays it very choppily, but has sound.
Dice player plays somewhat smoothly and has sound, but there are lag moments every 3-6 seconds as you said.
It's a software issue.
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Thanks for the check! I was wondering if there would still be lag with an overclock - that's disappointing. Supposedly the SGS2 handles files like it with no problem.
OC Script
Here is a batch file I created to make it easier to OC. Basically just the Rooting script with a menu to select the speed with delays built in.
Rename from oc.txt to oc.bat if you wish to run the file.
You will most likely need to change the voltages to match your phone. My phone has been very OC friendly.
Currently running 1188mhz @ .97 Volts with no issues. I have been able to OC up to 1890mhz @ 1.32 volts.
Have not tried to go lower on the voltage at 1188mhz yet...
JDC4429
After reading the various issues about the Sensation & I know I may be silly asking this on the EVO 3D section of the forum, but price aside, is the EVO 3D a better device overall than the Sensation?
Of course it is!
Super Chimp said:
After reading the various issues about the Sensation & I know I may be silly asking this on the EVO 3D section of the forum, but price aside, is the EVO 3D a better device overall than the Sensation?
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well they say because the EVO has more on board RAM that SENSE itself runs much smoother....i love this device man....why the question?....are ya thinking about jumpin on board?....if so, its a great choice....the sensation is a great device too tho....i used it the other day and it feels pretty damn good
In terms of power? Yes. Visually, I think the Sensation is sleeker.
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In terms of power? Yes. Visually, I think the Sensation is sleeker.
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Agreed..i think they are pretty close..its odd bc i was reading some anandtech reviews and the sensation scored higher in almost every benchmark..its odd with them having almost identical hardware..also the sensation screen is brighter. I do like the aluminum on the phone as well..I love my e3d but if the sensation had the gb of RAM I'd prefer it ..I don't use 3d much and I'd rather have the better optics ..although I've taken some nice photos
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Agreed..i think they are pretty close..its odd bc i was reading some anandtech reviews and the sensation scored higher in almost every benchmark..its odd with them having almost identical hardware..also the sensation screen is brighter. I do like the aluminum on the phone as well..I love my e3d but if the sensation had the gb of RAM I'd prefer it ..I don't use 3d much and I'd rather have the better optics ..although I've taken some nice photos
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What's odd is people still trust benchmarks....
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Benchmarks play some part in my opinion.
I own a 3D and girlfriend a Sensation, My phone is smoother, hers is a bit cooler looking. I'm betting the Sensations bit of lag will be fixed with this 2.3.4 update rolling out. A little more RAM on the Evo helps and you have the option of using 3D even though you may not or just rarely.
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What's odd is people still trust benchmarks....
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Ditto.
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novanosis85 said:
What's odd is people still trust benchmarks....
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I don't.make decisions based on benchmarks..but if they meant nothing why doesn't the hero out score the Droid 3 ? I understand what you are saying but I'm not talking about quadrant here..I'm talking a barrage of benchmarks used by reviewers that i trust and respect..right now it seems like the sensation is the favorite android of anandtech ..although they still haven't reviewed the e3d..I figure they will like it as well..
3d benchmarks are lower due to screen....
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3d benchmarks are lower due to screen....
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What are you talking about? They run the same resolution.
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3d benchmarks are lower due to screen....
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What about the screen/ ? They are both qhd 4.3 "
I am curious if any of you guys are having the same problems with your kernels that I have been finding with kernels for the Sensation. Faux123 has been looking into it as I brought it up but here are a few issues.
If you look HERE! you can see the issues we are dealing with.
BrokenWall said:
So I installed your latest kernel on Senseless 1.3
Settings: MIN and MAX set to 1512Mhz with Performance gov
When running CF-Bench and letting it run I ran the following commands in an ADB Shell.
Code:
#cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/[COLOR="Red"][B]cpu0[/B][/COLOR]/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
1512000
#cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/[COLOR="Red"][B]cpu1[/B][/COLOR]/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
972000
#cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/[COLOR="Red"][B]cpu1[/B][/COLOR]/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
384000
#cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/[COLOR="Red"][B]cpu0[/B][/COLOR]/cpufreq/scaling_governor
performance
#cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/[COLOR="Red"][B]cpu1[/B][/COLOR]/cpufreq/scaling_governor
ondemand
Also you have to run a test that will stress both cores, because CPU1 doesn't show available unless under load, so benches like Quadrant don't even stress the second CPU
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The issue is that MSM8260 is not the same style Symmetric CPU that Tegra and SGSII use, instead the MSM8260 is a asymmetric multiprocessing unit. if you watch the CPU1 cur freq during benchmarking you will see that it will never hit the maximum speed of 1512Mhz
During linpack the score for multi-threaded goes up but it does not go in line with what should be possible at the proper speeds.
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I have been testing this multiple times, I am not a developer nor do I claim to be. But I can tell you I know hardware, and I research the issues, and this issue is related to any kernel at the moment by ANY dev.
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Quote from Fuax123 after he looked into the issue.
faux123 said:
Ok, you are correct. I finally got my lazy ass off the chair and downloaded available snapdragon documentations online (I Hate qualcomm for making it so difficult to find any technical information regarding their chipsets). This is a quote from the document: "The 8x60 incorporates an asynchronous dual CPU core SMP (aSMP) micro-architecture"
I hate Qualcomm for trying to say their chipset is better than > SMP chipset yet they still use the acronym aSMP to confuse people What da heck is "asynchronous dual CPU core SMP", this is the absolute WORST BS marketing term....
Anyways, I am still blaming the OC apps (SetCPU, CPUMaster, OC Daemon etc) for not correctly set the CPU scaling properties for the 2nd CPU. Maybe all the authors for these apps were as confused as me by STUPID Qualcomm marketing terms and thought they were dealing with SMP but in fact, they were dealing with 2 separate independent CPUs on a single die. One can simply do:
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echo smartass > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor
to set the cpu1's scaling governor to the same governor as CPU0 so both cpus can operate using "similar" governors for better "synchronous" operations.
Maybe you should contact the authors for the OC apps and have them fix their apps I am not sure what needs to be fixed on the kernel side...
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So I tried this, you are unable to modify or create this file while CPU1 is asleep. Our problem is that the way the SoC is that no matter if you do it manually or with any overclock software, it will not affect CPU1 speeds.
We need to find a way for CPU1 to stay awake, or else we will just have a single fast core and a second core at default speeds..
I tried creating the files needed to set the CPU1 speed directly and it deleted them after the CPU went asleep.
Code:
while at idle on homescreen:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online = 1
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online = 0
underload on CF-Bench:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online = 1
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online = 1
after bench is over back on homescreen:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online = 1
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online = 0
While the benchmark was running I was able to change the profile for the governor but was unable to manually overclock the CPU and even running any of the apps while the CPU1 was online still failed to set a speed.
I think it may be in fault to the software as well as HTC kernel drivers as well.
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I just read through kernel SMP and CPU Hot plugging. It seemed there might be a bug in CPU hot plugging for SMP operations (esp for such strange beast as the new aSMP snapdragons). Hot plugging support was originally designed as a fail safe for removing failed CPUs in a CPU farm, but recently, it has been used in SMP systems where they used the hot plugging capability to actively add/remove CPUs as means of power saving by talking an idling CPU "off line". According to Linux kernel documentation, the use of this feature for SMP power management was never intended and it is an on going experimental feature.
I briefly looked at the kernel cpufreq driver and saw nothing obvious. One way of resolving the cpu1's randomness with governors and scaling frequencies is to DISABLE the hot plug feature and just have cpu1 running at all times (idling is considered running) rather than declare cpu1 to be offline completely. The bug seemed to be when restoring the cpu1 back online, the governor and scaling frequencies are NOT restored properly (but from the kernel code, it looks fine the way the code was written. The kernel driver tried to restore the governor and frequencies from a saved data structure).
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If some of you guys on the EVO 3D can try running a few of these test while benching and report back so we can see, since the EVO3D is running the same basic SoC as the Sensation just with a CDMA radio instead.
I take back that statement, also the sensation had software updates so that could play a role aswell depending on when test where taken
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What prompted me to ask was the slightly ambivalent review of the EVO 3D on GSMArena.
Could it have anything to so with the 3d capabilities? It could be just me, but the more stripped down your phone is, the better it seems to do in benchmarks. Perhaps the extra space in the ROM, perhaps more running services? I don't really know anything, just thinkin aloud here.
Anyone able to comment on this issue?
Not to hijack the thread, but since oc apps are mentioned, what's the best one for out 3d's? Im currently using set CPU.
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Could it have anything to so with the 3s capabilities? It could be just me, but the more stripped down your phone is, the better it seems to do in benchmarks. Perhaps the extra space in the ROM, perhaps more running services? I don't really know anything, just thinkin aloud here.
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I would think this also.
This morning I restarted my prime and im looking at system tuner pro...
All 4 cores are active and stuck on either 475mhz or 1.2mhz!
I didn't change anything...governer is interactive 102-1.6mhz limit....the cores wont turn off or scale down. It would usually scale down to 102mhz and turn off 2 cores...but they're all online...
FAST is good but it's killing my battery =P
Anyone know whats going on?
Pretty sire this is across the board for the most part. This happened after update to ICS or last update. Ive noticed it also but it scales to other frequencies also. Doesn't seem to effect battery too much. Your best bet if you worried about battery is to throw it in power savings mode in Asus quick settings. But no matter what mode its in, it seems to like to stay near maxed out. Maybe Asus adjusted the frequency timing to speed up things in ICS.
apologies
I'm sorry, I didn't see any other posts about this issue.
Thanks for your input
Yeah, I've had the same problem since the ICS update, but still can't find a solution, so I'm waitng for recovery and back to HC.. And, btw, it's killing my battery - it barely holds a whole day since then..
This seems like a plausible explanation for all the reboots people are seeing. With ICS the processor is kept in a more active state which uncovers wafer defects and heats up the SoC until it goes into protection mode.
Some processors handle the load better than others and it seems the spread is veeeery wide. nVidia is probably supplying Asus with parts from all bins, if they even bother to quality check and rate their parts after coming off the production lines.
I would argue that nVidia's thresholds for what is considered a passable Tegra 3 chip are way too low for real world applications.
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This seems like a plausible explanation for all the reboots people are seeing. With ICS the processor is kept in a more active state which uncovers wafer defects and heats up the SoC until it goes into protection mode.
Some processors handle the load better than others and it seems the spread is veeeery wide. nVidia is probably supplying Asus with parts from all bins, if they even bother to quality check and rate their parts after coming off the production lines.
I would argue that nVidia's thresholds for what is considered a passable Tegra 3 chip are way too low for real world applications.
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Maybe. I can run overclocked to 1.6Ghz n still be fine no reboots. Like you said, not all chips exactly the same though. Small variances between all chips.
I'm hoping/assuming ASUS is aware of this, but just in case they're not, has anyone brought this to Gary's attention?
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I'm hoping/assuming ASUS is aware of this, but just in case they're not, has anyone brought this to Gary's attention?
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I'm sure they do know already. Probably amped the frequency timing up so ICS can stay as smooth as it is. It may get adjusted in new update we supposed to get any day now. New update "supposedly" fixes alot of issues.
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Just took a look on system tuner, mine still scales down to 102Mhz. Not all 4 cores on all the time. It does like to stay in the higher range though alot. It all depends on what you doing and what you have running in background also.
mine used to scale down to 102mhz as well...and usually with the 3rd and 4th core offline
Odd that it has changed....
Thanks for all the input...im gonna try and see if manually updating to ICS will make any difference
*edit: I put the update file into the system root but TFP won't prompt/recognize the update...guess it won't make a difference....I'll try backing up then doing a factory reset
I'm seeing something a little different. Mine scales all over the place, except it barely ever hits 1300MHz or 1400MHz, even when set on Performance and gaming/benchmarking. For example, right now, mine only show 3 seconds on 1400MHz and 5 seconds on 1300MHz, out of 13 hours uptime.
I think ASUS and Nvidia have some work left to do in getting the Tegra 3 optimized. I'd really rather mine actually use its fastest stock speeds when in Performance mode.
Overclocking?
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Maybe. I can run overclocked to 1.6Ghz n still be fine no reboots. Like you said, not all chips exactly the same though. Small variances between all chips.
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How did you get to overclock? I rooted mine, but had to return it because of problems. However, I couldn't overclock it either.
What's yur secret?
Update: Did a factory reset and all 4 cores are still online 425mhz-1.2 =(
Seems like my i/o speed just got worse and now there's severe lag...
*sigh* - will just wait for unlocked bootloader
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How did you get to overclock? I rooted mine, but had to return it because of problems. However, I couldn't overclock it either.
What's yur secret?
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Where you been? Lol we've overclocked for a good while now. Head over into Android developement section of prime. Then check out the "Vipercontrol" thread. Very easy to install n setup.
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I'm seeing something a little different. Mine scales all over the place, except it barely ever hits 1300MHz or 1400MHz, even when set on Performance and gaming/benchmarking. For example, right now, mine only show 3 seconds on 1400MHz and 5 seconds on 1300MHz, out of 13 hours uptime.
I think ASUS and Nvidia have some work left to do in getting the Tegra 3 optimized. I'd really rather mine actually use its fastest stock speeds when in Performance mode.
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That's how its supposed to be. It doesn't run at top speed full time..lol your battery wouldn't lastlong at all if it did that. It only hit tops speeds when needed. Then it scales back when not needed anymore.
As far as your timing showing only a few seconds at top speed, all that means is you didn't do anything the prime needed top speeds for.
If you want to run at full speeds all the time I have your solution. If you rooted get System tuner app. Then open app up. Go to CPU tweaks. There it shows you what all 4 cores are running a piece in real time. The governor should be on default interactive mode. All you do it put governor on performance mode. Then raise your minimum speed up to the Max. Now your prime will be running at top speeds all the time. Now beware though, expect battery to drain alot faster.
I did that trick with my overclock n can have all 4 cores maxed out to 1.6Ghz at once. Battery drains faster than Asus performance mode though. As far as speeds go though, I can put my prime in stock powersavings mode, lowest power settings, n everything still moves fast n fluid. Same with heavy duty games also. There's nothing out on Android yet to really need overclocking power yet. PRIME handles anything you throw at it in stock settings. OVERCLOCKING is just for kicks really andbto make things that much faster. Not really needed. Overclocking will be better once bootloader unlocked and we get undervolting paired with overclocking. That way we can get great battery life and more power. Nothing wrong with overclocking though. I'd say if you not worried about battery life or gonna eventually be near a powersource, go for it. Android developement section of Prime. Its called VioerControl Mod. Very easy to install n setup. Works great. Everyone rooted should give it a whirl if you looking for more power or want to push the envelope.
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That's how its supposed to be. It doesn't run at top speed full time..lol your battery wouldn't lastlong at all if it did that. It only hit tops speeds when needed. Then it scales back when not needed anymore.
My mistake. I'd forgotten that I'd rebooted since running the benchmarks and gaming, so my CPU Spy values didn't reflect them. I just ran some benchmarks and 1400MHz now shows 18 seconds while 1300MHz now shows 2:08 minutes.
I would still like to see that as running at 1400MHz throughout the benchmarks, so I stand by my statement that some additional tuning is required.
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what Firmware specifically are you guys on????
I just downloaded system tuner... I'm running ICS, and my tablet has been rock solid (not a single reboot).
CPU0 is running around 200-400MHz, and the other 3 cores are offline (although core 1 comes online for a bit now and then.) And, my battery life is excellent.... same or better than it was with HC.
To clarify, those of you who are having reboots, are you all seeing all cores on and maxed out all the time?
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9.4.2.11
Its the latest one available on ICS.
On the contrary...ever since my tfp decided to keep all cores online and minimum 425mhz speed, I haven't had any lockups or reboots.
But my battery life sucks and my benchmark scores are Still horrible.
The disk I/0 speed is horrendous (as stated in the bonnie++ benchmark thread)
Hope for an update soon
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try this for better disk read
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1455382
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try this for better disk read
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1455382
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Has this been confirmed to actually work or be better? Were you the one that made that thread with bonnie benchmarks on disk read speeds or something? How much of a difference are the scores after installing the kernel modules in that thread?
First, I KNEW the thread title would get your attention. Second, i hear 95% of you calling BS, and I would too. In fact, I am still not sure what to make of it, and it makes ME think the number I am getting is BS.
Here's the deal. Got my replacement Prime back from repair, and like more than a few (read the RMA thread) I was lucky enough to get a replacement instead of a repair. I had sent in my Prime, originally received on 1/3 (shipped on 12/23... GROUND, from Best Buy, though I had paid for overnight. Serial was: BCOKAS**5153
Sent if for repair mostly for a cosmetic issue, scratches on screen border, but I had among the worst GPS compared to others I have seen, no sats indoors, maybe 3-4 outside, never a lock. After the 1/19 update (the one that we still haven't seen a change-log for) I started getting reasonably crappy GPS, LOL as in 4-6 sats inside, and 9-12 Outside, occasional locks, but nothing usable. My Wifi was decent, actually quite good I would say. Bluetooth did not dropout when streaming to BT headset watching Netflix.
The support folks offered to open the replacement and test it before sending, and I said: **** yeah: Test everything: GPS, Wifi/BT check for stuck pixels, make sure the serial shows, also check for light bleed. I was promised they would do all these things. Then it was overnighted to me.... All in all I felt it was a reasonably GOOD RMA/support/repair experience, especially in light of the horror stories, and stories of general incompetence we have seen.
New unit arrived, looked cosmetically perfect. One spot on back, it was glue or tape adhesive from assembly no doubt. Screen appears perfect, with just the tiniest bit of light bleed. Wifi is decent, not outstanding, but close to what I had. No stuck pixels, have yet to test BT streaming. GPS? I got another dead one. I have yet to see a SINGLE FREAKING SATELLITE, Outdoors or in, though it's cloudy here today, LOL (If it's so bad that clouds kill it, it's pretty ****ed up)
So that was a bummer. Yes, it's true I will probably not use it in the car (though I did use my OG that way once in a while, but I refuse to accept something that does not work. It is not in me to say: I can do without that.... even if I CAN, LOL. They are gonna get me another one, cause I am NOT RMA'ing this and going without it a week again... not for GPS anyway. If the WiFi was borked, it would be a different story.
One additional improvement. The power button on this one works correctly. I never knew how bad mine was, but compared to the 3 TF101's I had, it sucked. You never felt it bottom ot, or any detectable motion al all. It was just stiff and stuck, and I had to just press on it super hard to get any effect from it. The new one is perfect, the spring is stronger than the TF101 switches were, but at least it has a positive motion, with a solid detent, and you can tell when it hits bottom. Man, I can't believe how bad what I had was, and I had fully planned to live with it, LOL!
Okay so now for the weirdness. I am putting the new one through tests today, and among the, I ran Antutu. The numbers I got were nothing all that amazing, but the Processor speed threw me for a loop: 1600 Hz. WTF?????
Serial is C1OKAS**1793 I thought I was hallucinating. This thins is NOT ROOTED. I have NO performance tweaks, and nothing changed other than my 126 installed apps... How weird is this???
The numbers that I got were 10222, and a couple more in that range. This was running in Balanced mode. I switched it to Performance Mode (what used to be "normal" back in the Honeycomb days" ) rebooted, and ran Antutu again. Best number to date is 11089. Like I said, not up to par with folks that have REALLY overclocked, but somewhat better than my original... Anyone want to take a stab at explaining this to me? Maybe I am missing something super obvious?
Attached the Antutu result, and one other thing: The box sticker from a "C" serial number, for those who are curious: Check it: NO GPS LISTED!!!!I forgot to take a picture of my original box before RMA, screwed up there. Took dozens of the tablet to protect myself against claims of "CID" Customer Induced Damage, and forgot the box... grrrr.
GOOD NEWS: At least for the present the BOX LABEL still shows GPS. As many of us have discussed, as long as it SAYS GPS, we can still break chops to get them to fix it (or try to, I suppose) but what is with the question mark? Does anyone know the significance of that? That is kind of weird. I am pleased they left GPS spec on the box, expecially since I now have a completely dead GPS setup. I guess it's time to practice my Vulcan Nerve Pinch, but the few squeezes I gave it so far near the GPS Pogo Pins have been completely useless. Not a SINGLE SATELLITE HAS APPEARED YET.
An the Asus Support guy went on about how the Jan 19th patch was on this one. I said: as long as you see a few sats. send it along, He said (laughably) that it would get GPS performance as good as my TF101 did. Hmm. Well, to do that, it would need to start by getting ANY performance, LOL. Then it would need to work, in the car, with CoPilot live, all the way up the East Coast... Somehow, I don't see it happening. Sorry for the long post, but I was up late last night reading the huge tear down thread, and I had no energy for posting to a dozen separate threads today, on my latest "interesting" mix of features and performance with my new Prime. These feel like hand built devices.. every one is unique, LOL!
Hmm i have a C serial too and my GPS is fine. Little worse than my dhd but fine.
Get something like CPU Spy & see what it shows in the "unused cpu states" list at the bottom.
It's not overclocked at all, since ICS the Prime has 1.5 and 1.6 ghz in the kernel, however, they are both disabled. This is the only reason we currently have over clock scripts, with root we can enable these settings.
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It's not overclocked at all, since ICS the Prime has 1.5 and 1.6 ghz in the kernel, however, they are both disabled. This is the only reason we currently have over clock scripts, with root we can enable these settings.
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Antutu says mine is 1600 too.
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It's not overclocked at all, since ICS the Prime has 1.5 and 1.6 ghz in the kernel, however, they are both disabled. This is the only reason we currently have over clock scripts, with root we can enable these settings.
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This was what I was going to show with the cpu spy app
I just checked my prime, 1.6ghz with the latest update, no modifications.
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Exactly. If you all use cpu spy like lock says you will see it never enters the 1.6 state. The processor has those steps built in but aren't enabled in the firmware
People in here are funny..lmao. we already went thru this when ICS first dropped. All primes were showing 1.6ghz in the stats n benchmarks. But this isn't the case. WE KNOW THIS FOR A FACT. If you take CPU spy app n look it'll show the 1.5 n 1.6Ghz speeds disbled. MEANING YOU ARE NOT OVERCLOCKED. Only real overclock you can have is if your rooted and Running ViperControl mod or using SaturnDe ATP tweaks app or running script manually from directory /system/etc..
I was the first one to assume what all of you are saying also when ICS first came out. Then we dug in n researched further n found out this wasn't the case. It did lead us to a true overclock though since we knew it was in the kernel but just disabled. Me, I'm running a "TRUE" 1.6Ghz overclock using ATP tweaks app. Mines is confirmed through CPU spy. Plus my Antutu scores are well over 13,000. So 10,000 would be bad for an overclock like that if you really had one.
SORRY TO RAIN ON YALL PARADE BUT YOURE NOT OVERCLOCKED. Only through Root n methods I listed would you "Truely" be overclocked. CPU Spy will confirm your false claim. Don't feel bad, we thought so to at first when ICS first came out but quickly realized the real truth.
No Biggie
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People in here are funny..lmao. we already went thru this when ICS first dropped. All primes were showing 1.6ghz in the stats n benchmarks. But this isn't the case. WE KNOW THIS FOR A FACT. If you take CPU spy app n look it'll show the 1.5 n 1.6Ghz speeds disbled. MEANING YOU ARE NOT OVERCLOCKED. Only real overclock you can have is if your rooted and Running ViperControl mod or using SaturnDe ATP tweaks app or running script manually from directory /system/etc..
I was the first one to assume what all of you are saying also when ICS first came out. Then we dug in n researched further n found out this wasn't the case. It did lead us to a true overclock though since we knew it was in the kernel but just disabled. Me, I'm running a "TRUE" 1.6Ghz overclock using ATP tweaks app. Mines is confirmed through CPU spy. Plus my Antutu scores are well over 13,000. So 10,000 would be bad for an overclock like that if you really had one.
SORRY TO RAIN ON YALL PARADE BUT YOURE NOT OVERCLOCKED. Only through Root n methods I listed would you "Truely" be overclocked. CPU Spy will confirm your false claim. Don't feel bad, we thought so to at first when ICS first came out but quickly realized the real truth.
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Uhm... No rain on MY parade. I think you misread my meaning I don't Have any great desire to overclock my ATP. Maybe later, for now I AM interested in the Kernel Module for Background I/O. Cranking up the processor does diddly when the Prime lags, and freezes every so often, especially under any type of background disk activity. 1.4 single. 1.3 ghz Multicore speeds are more than sufficient. People that overclock do so often for the wrong reasons. Why should I be cranking along at 1.6 ghz to browse a news article? If I had ultimate control I would like to control WHEN the additional core kick in, not how fast they tick along, doing a lot of nothing. I did miss your discovery that with ICS, it shows these rates. Right now I would give my right arm to know how, if you do all your posting with the prime, you deal with the cursor misbehavior in text boxes, like when it jumps to the first character position in the box, or insists on jumping to a spot and only the arrow keys will override that. And why is it "mines" do you have multiple Primes?
Edit: Also, I wasn't stating that "11, 089" was a enormous score, if you read I was stating that it was a BETTER score than my returned Prime, but not what I would expect if overclocked. I'm glad your numbers are so impressive. Maybe someday MY Prime will have a Antutu score of over 13,000! That's really fast! And that helps exactly how?
Also, since the processor has those steps built in it technically isn't overclocking to enable the 1.6GHz step. You are only overclocking when you go above that.
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Uhm... No rain on MY parade. I think you misread my meaning I don't Have any great desire to overclock my ATP. Maybe later, for now I AM interested in the Kernel Module for Background I/O. Cranking up the processor does diddly when the Prime lags, and freezes every so often, especially under any type of background disk activity. 1.4 single. 1.3 ghz Multicore speeds are more than sufficient. People that overclock do so often for the wrong reasons. Why should I be cranking along at 1.6 ghz to browse a news article? If I had ultimate control I would like to control WHEN the additional core kick in, not how fast they tick along, doing a lot of nothing. I did miss your discovery that with ICS, it shows these rates. Right now I would give my right arm to know how, if you do all your posting with the prime, you deal with the cursor misbehavior in text boxes, like when it jumps to the first character position in the box, or insists on jumping to a spot and only the arrow keys will override that. And why is it "mines" do you have multiple Primes?
Edit: Also, I wasn't stating that "11, 089" was a enormous score, if you read I was stating that it was a BETTER score than my returned Prime, but not what I would expect if overclocked. I'm glad your numbers are so impressive. Maybe someday MY Prime will have a Antutu score of over 13,000! That's really fast! And that helps exactly how?
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You are correct. Stock speeds are more than sufficient for everyday usage. Overclock just makes everything even more faster n snappier. Web pages load up faster, apps open up faster, etc.. Its not for everyone. But for me its so easy to do and has no ill effects on my tablet. I'm like why not harness the extra power. Its in the kernel anyways and newer tegra3 tablets down the line will have exact same chip but the 1.6Ghz speeds enabled Stock. I do find myself going back to stock speeds alot because I truly appreciate how fast this device already is stock and ill get better battery life on stock. I do get pretty good battery life also on 1.6Ghz overclock.
Also, yes, I DO ALL MY POSTINGs, from the prime. I don't experience the major slowdowns or lags some seem to experience. Mostly only occurred sporadically in stock browser. I used ATP settings to change scheduler from noop(stock) to cfq. It seemed to help for a while but then came across an issue before, where I never had before, where the whole stock browser seemed to just freeze up or stop loading. Before it might freeze n then prompt come up saying to wait or close. After the switch it didn't do any of this. So i switched back to noop I/o scheduler n everything has been running great for me. I mainly just use the ATP tweaks app now for quick access to overclocking. Less steps needed vs. Having to go into terminal emulator and pulling up vipercontrol. With ATP all I do is open up the app n press Turbo2 n I'm overclocked. I did try out the deadline I/o scheduler also but didn't seem to make much of a difference. Actually acted kinda funny at times so i switched back to Noop. As Noop is the best out of all of them. Its just some people switch to other schedulers based on their needs for prime to PC file transfers n such. So its really a preference thing and what you experience with your personal usage and benefit the change makes for you.
AS far as bench scores go, I just said that cuz you mentioned yours n wanted to show another form of proof you weren't overclocked. Now for the cursor jumping around, I know what you mean..lol. but I use thumb keyboard, split mode, n very use to using the arrow keys to correct anything. Yeah the cursor does jump around at times but it still goes where you want most of the time through touching where u want it. Plus copying n pasting is very easy for me now that o got the technique down packed. So all of this is working pretty well for me and not a hassle at all as majority of my post count had been made with my prime alone. Before I got the prime, I was posting from my Ipad n Atrix4g. I can type very fast using thumb keyboard. Love it. Also, I only have one prime. The "mines" must've been a typo.
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Also, since the processor has those steps built in it technically isn't overclocking to enable the 1.6GHz step. You are only overclocking when you go above that.
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Yeah yeah..lmfao but we can't enable it stock. So its still "Technically" considered overclocked since it is higher than allowed out the box. Only if you running a "true" overclock using vipercontrol mod or ATP tweaks.
It's all good.
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You are correct. Stock speeds are more than sufficient for everyday usage. Overclock just makes everything even more faster n snappier. Web pages load up faster, apps open up faster, etc.. Its not for everyone. But for me its so easy to do and has no ill effects on my tablet. I'm like why not harness the extra power. Its in the kernel anyways and newer tegra3 tablets down the line will have exact same chip but the 1.6Ghz speeds enabled Stock. I do find myself going back to stock speeds alot because I truly appreciate how fast this device already is stock and ill get better battery life on stock. I do get pretty good battery life also on 1.6Ghz overclock.
Also, yes, I DO ALL MY POSTINGs, from the prime. I don't experience the major slowdowns or lags some seem to experience. Mostly only occurred sporadically in stock browser. I used ATP settings to change scheduler from noop(stock) to cfq. It seemed to help for a while but then came across an issue before, where I never had before, where the whole stock browser seemed to just freeze up or stop loading. Before it might freeze n then prompt come up saying to wait or close. After the switch it didn't do any of this. So i switched back to noop I/o scheduler n everything has been running great for me. I mainly just use the ATP tweaks app now for quick access to overclocking. Less steps needed vs. Having to go into terminal emulator and pulling up vipercontrol. With ATP all I do is open up the app n press Turbo2 n I'm overclocked. I did try out the deadline I/o scheduler also but didn't seem to make much of a difference. Actually acted kinda funny at times so i switched back to Noop. As Noop is the best out of all of them. Its just some people switch to other schedulers based on their needs for prime to PC file transfers n such. So its really a preference thing and what you experience with your personal usage and benefit the change makes for you.
AS far as bench scores go, I just said that cuz you mentioned yours n wanted to show another form of proof you weren't overclocked. Now for the cursor jumping around, I know what you mean..lol. but I use thumb keyboard, split mode, n very use to using the arrow keys to correct anything. Yeah the cursor does jump around at times but it still goes where you want most of the time through touching where u want it. Plus copying n pasting is very easy for me now that o got the technique down packed. So all of this is working pretty well for me and not a hassle at all as majority of my post count had been made with my prime alone. Before I got the prime, I was posting from my Ipad n Atrix4g. I can type very fast using thumb keyboard. Love it. Also, I only have one prime. The "mines" must've been a typo.
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Yeah yeah..lmfao but we can't enable it stock. So its still "Technically" considered overclocked since it is higher than allowed out the box. Only if you running a "true" overclock using vipercontrol mod or ATP tweaks.
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I am glad that I am not alone with the cursor thing. A bit distracting, but for the most part I use the Hardware Keyboard in the dock when doing any serious typing. Like with my TF101 I like that the dock acts as a "stand" and a cover/case. and at home I tend to do a lot of wen/newsreader browsing, and posting, as you know.
I know you mentioned that battery life seems decent when running at full clock speed (okay, we know it's technically not "overclocked") so I say "full speed to avoid being corrected, LOL! I am curious about battery performance with it running at a true 1.6, and before you answer that it is not bad, can you say for certain, as in have you tested the discharge times with the Turbo2 enabled full time? Or, if you can at least say that it's not too bad, what would you peg the loss to be? 10% or more? I agree that if I had an app to easily toggle it on/off like the build in app that prioritizes processors, I would like to use it at times.. The built in one I think does the following:
Power Saving: Runs all Cores at reduced speed, I think its 600 MHz, 700 MHz when three are active, and 1 GHz when one or two are active
in "Balanced mode" - the cores are capped at 1.2 GHz
and in Performance Mode (used to be normal mod, just to keep it sounding exciting, they changed it to "Performance with ICS, LOL!) a single core runs at 1.4, or all 4 cores can run at full clip of 1.3
Not sure where they came up with these choices, but I will bet it was only after Nvidia ran them every which way, and came to these numbers as the best compromise of power and battery life. I think the Tegra 3 SOC also controls the video brightness and depth on the fly as well. All told a nice implementation. I still see lags occasionally, and games like Riptide GP freeze in a "Stutter Frame" kind of lock, till I exit to home screen, and resume the game, and it's good again.
Anyone else get that?
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I am glad that I am not alone with the cursor thing. A bit distracting, but for the most part I use the Hardware Keyboard in the dock when doing any serious typing. Like with my TF101 I like that the dock acts as a "stand" and a cover/case. and at home I tend to do a lot of wen/newsreader browsing, and posting, as you know.
I know you mentioned that battery life seems decent when running at full clock speed (okay, we know it's technically not "overclocked") so I say "full speed to avoid being corrected, LOL! I am curious about battery performance with it running at a true 1.6, and before you answer that it is not bad, can you say for certain, as in have you tested the discharge times with the Turbo2 enabled full time? Or, if you can at least say that it's not too bad, what would you peg the loss to be? 10% or more? I agree that if I had an app to easily toggle it on/off like the build in app that prioritizes processors, I would like to use it at times.. The built in one I think does the following:
Power Saving: Runs all Cores at reduced speed, I think its 600 MHz, 700 MHz when three are active, and 1 GHz when one or two are active
in "Balanced mode" - the cores are capped at 1.2 GHz
and in Performance Mode (used to be normal mod, just to keep it sounding exciting, they changed it to "Performance with ICS, LOL!) a single core runs at 1.4, or all 4 cores can run at full clip of 1.3
Not sure where they came up with these choices, but I will bet it was only after Nvidia ran them every which way, and came to these numbers as the best compromise of power and battery life. I think the Tegra 3 SOC also controls the video brightness and depth on the fly as well. All told a nice implementation. I still see lags occasionally, and games like Riptide GP freeze in a "Stutter Frame" kind of lock, till I exit to home screen, and resume the game, and it's good again.
Anyone else get that?
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See I don't even have a dock n typed all that with no problem. Thumb keyboard makes typing so easy n fast on the prime. All I use is 2 thumbs to type n can do it very fast with the split keyboard mode.
AS for battery life if you ever ran the built in performance mode full time, then you will know it drains the fastest out of all modes because its running the higher speeds. Now with 1.6Ghz it drains about the same or a lil faster than performance mode. I've noticed lately I've been getting battery life even better than performance mode on my overclock. For the quick implementation of it that's easy. It can't get no easier then this. Check this out..lol. if you rooted, all you have to do is go into prime developement section. Go to ATP tweaks thread. Download and install ATP app into prime. Then open it. Allow superuser permissions. Then just press the Turbo2 tab n bam! Now you St 1.6Ghz overclock. The real one. You can use CPU spy to confirm that 1.6ghz speed is enabled.
hen if you want to disable it, just reboot tablet. Then whenever u want. All u have to do is open up that app n press turbo2 tab. There's a turbo1 also n that's for 1.5Ghz.. There is a step to do a more hardcore overclock to where you can run ALL 4 CORES @1.6GHZ at the same time all the time. Of course this burns up the battery the fastest. I doubt u ready for that yet though... lmfao just take it slow..lol use the regular overclocks. Get ATP tweaks app in developement section.
For the games, I don't have no stutters or freezes even on stock speeds.
Ok so im rooted and overclocked and was using setcpu then decided i wanna try something different so i tried system tuner! When i checked the cpu it said that one of the processors are off line! Then i pressed the info button and sure enough it says only reading one! So i went through the settings and found force both cores online!
Since then i have no lag and virtually no checkerboarding on the web! Anyway i was just wondering if im the only one who noticed this and maybe it could help those who say that they are still getting lag on they're roms using dag's kernel!
Also i hope devs will notice this thread since i can't post there yet and take advantage of this how ever they can!
Now don't quote me on this but most likely the second core only turns on for processor intensive activities such as high graphics games or multiple programs running at once. I do find it hard to believe that it would be totally disabled. Most likely this is done to conserve battery.
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Now don't quote me on this but most likely the second core only turns on for processor intensive activities such as high graphics games or multiple programs running at once. I do find it hard to believe that it would be totally disabled. Most likely this is done to conserve battery.
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Nope i checked that i had 10 apps open two were games (dead space and gta III) One cpu online even on performance! I see 50 views i hope others chime in and let us know what you are thinking
Btw they Did this i heard to the galaxy nexus with the tiomap 1.2 so we'll see what others find
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Nope i checked that i had 10 apps open two were games (dead space and gta III) One cpu online even on performance! I see 50 views i hope others chime in and let us know what you are thinking
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Okay if this really is the case I could also see at&t disabling the second core totally to save battery because of lte but i guess it will take a dev that has more experience with how qualcomm's multicore cpus work in android. report back with differences in battery life like how much faster does it drain now that both cores are forced on.
if you want both cores on click on boot settings and enable force all cpus online. that heats up your phone and eats more battery though+I do not see any benefits doing that.
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Okay if this really is the case I could also see at&t disabling the second core totally to save battery because of lte but i guess it will take a dev that has more experience with how qualcomm's multicore cpus work in android. report back with differences in battery life like how much faster does it drain now that both cores are forced on.
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I've had it like this for 4 days on average i will take of the charger at 8am now is 8:30pm and i have 27% but i use my navigation for my Job! By 10:30 or so ill have 15% and recharge!
Settings
1836 max
192 min
Governer
Smartassv2
Both cores pushing
Screen off
192 max
In call
384 max
Tomorrow ill post some pics of battery life usage!
And my phone doesn't get any hotter than normal not even while using my navi! Mostly it just gives no lag and better rendering in the browser/maps/etc!!
I was under the impression that Gingerbread didn't fully utilize multiple cores. Need HC or ICS...
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I was under the impression that Gingerbread didn't fully utilize multiple cores. Need HC or ICS...
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Same, but having a better processor helps. Like exynos. I bet once we update to ics if it ever happens, the differences will be only minor between processors, as it runs so nice.
Got system tuner pro, and it shows speed bars on both cpus running? I didn't change a thing?
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Got system tuner pro, and it shows speed bars on both cpus running? I didn't change a thing?
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Really? I switched Roms twice today and had to reset that each time! Cpu.0 online Cpu.1 offline! Like i said am i the only one? Lets hear from more people and let us know of any lag or rendering changes after turning on both cpu's! Battery too, i'll post mine tomorrow.
I thought I'd play and I have CPU0 running and CPU1 running.
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Btw they Did this i heard to the galaxy nexus with the tiomap 1.2 so we'll see what others find
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Not entirely true.. the Galaxy Nexus has a kernel governor that turns one core off when the SCREEN IS OFF, but not when the phone is being used. Multiple kernel creators have since implemented this into their kernels. It is called "hot plugging" and it just turns CPU 1 offline when the screen is off and turns it back on when the screen is on
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Just checked mine, rooted and OC with DaG's 0.1 version (first version). When I looked, it said the second CPU was offline. Changed it to online, we'll see how that impacts battery life.
How much of an advantage is smartassv2 anyway?
I just tried this with system tuner and both cpus were working but wone was of and on and zero was always on.
I am running stock rooted. If you just sit yhere and watch it you will see tje sevond core fires and shuts down alot.
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Really? I switched Roms twice today and had to reset that each time! Cpu.0 online Cpu.1 offline! Like i said am i the only one? Lets hear from more people and let us know of any lag or rendering changes after turning on both cpu's! Battery too, i'll post mine tomorrow.
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Same for me (CPU 0 on, CPU1 off, most times) and I'll say I have noticed no real changes in functionality (speed, rendering, etc) or battery life...
I guess jury is still out or is this a YMMV kind of thing?
I installed system runner and watched the cpus. One was on and the other kicked in periodically
Mine said it was offline as well. Forced it on and am not noticing any difference in speed or temp.
Ill leave it like this to test it further.
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Do you have to be rooted to force both cores on?
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Do you have to be rooted to force both cores on?
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As far as I know yes you must have super user permission to alter such system activities
I don't know why everyone is in such a rush to force the second core online, it turns on and off when it needs to.