Just loaded ics and it's great. Just one thing. On GB I was underclocking to minimum with a Screen Off profile.
When I restored setcpu on ics, I just get setcpu has stopped working.
Has anyone had success underclocking a RAZR with Ics via setcpu?
No issues here so far. Its been running since day one on CM9. Perhaps try reinstalling the app or make sure there isn't something else thats interfering with SetCPU.
Seems to have settled in. Not sure why i was having an issue. Which governor are you using? It came up showing interactive but i recall on GB the default was hotplug
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edit: rebooted and got the error again. i tried unfreezing apps to see if that did it but no solution there. Should i clear cache and dalvik? That won't mess up root, correct?
Nope wont mess up root and i use hotplug not the mot one though.
Using Set on boot seems to have fixed issue. It's my understanding you only really need set on boot for over clocking, not under, but seems to work.
I've set it to stock hotplug for time being. is hotplug less demanding than ondemand?
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Hotplug is basically the same as ondemand except with the ability to switch off a core when not in use.
I've had two sleep of death episodes today. Phone wouldn't wake up. While the screen off underclock worked fine on GB I wonder if it's preventing the phone from walking in ics. I set it to hotplug with a screen-off profile of 300 for min and Max.
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Thats really weird. I have never had such issues with SetCPU on GB or CM9. Are you using the xt912 official ICS leak? If thats the true then it could be an issue with the kernel/build. Im using JDaddy's CM9 GSM port.
I'm running the ics leak on fans Verizon RAZR. I suppose it could be attributed to a different bug but I haven't found anything.
Probably some bug with the release/kernel in that case then. Perhaps try a different governor or clocks?
Since that is the only profile I'm using I'll probably just disable and see if the problem stops. I'm not sure how much battery it actually preserves.
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Edits: i did a factory reset. We'll see if that make any impact. I'll also try ondemand. Of the ondemand and hot plug which do you think maximizes battery?
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I tested it once and I'm losing 4% per hour. Its 800-200 on demand as main, screen off at 500-200 and less than 50% battery also at 500-200.
I haven't toyed around with different kernels, I'm using the kernal that came with Zedomax's root instructions. Also, 200, 500, 800, 1000 and 1200 are my only options, this is because of the kernel that I'm using correct?
In your experience is -4%/hour average or does it seem like SetCPU is working? 500-200 is the lowest I can go otherwise it would be 200-200.
Thanks
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Sounds like you have some apps or widgets draining your battery. I've overclocked mine to 1.6 and get less than 1%/hr drain on idle.
First off, what rom are you running. Try unnamed or serendipity. Don't do the 50% or less at 500-200 its gonna slow you down. Also switching to entropys daily driver should net you an improvement. Also try out the conservative governor. Its just as good as ondemand but with better battery.
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I am running stock ROM. Should I bump the 50% up to 800-200? I don't have many options with this kernel/rom.
Im still new to this process as well
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I am running stock ROM. Should I bump the 50% up to 800-200? I don't have many options with this kernel/rom.
Im still new to this process as well
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800 should be fine for most things, only adds a tiny bit of lag to paging around the apps and home screens. I just benchmarked mine at 800 and got a 2721 on Quadrant, which is only ~500 less than what I got at 1200mhz on stock.
Also, I was wondering, is the issue with screen-off speeds below 500mhz still around? I have mine at 200-1600 conservative and I haven't had any issues yet.
Thanks. I flashed UnNamed and now I can finally overclock, but SetCPU won't allow me to set my main to conservative. Ive tried it multiple times and re-booted as well.
I also want to undervolt, I've reduced each one by 50, thoughts? Is this too little?
Thanks again, im trying to get the hang of this
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Thanks. I flashed UnNamed and now I can finally overclock, but SetCPU won't allow me to set my main to conservative. Ive tried it multiple times and re-booted as well.
I also want to undervolt, I've reduced each one by 50, thoughts?
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Is it giving a error could be the new kernel didn't flash. Go to entropy's thread download the newest version and flash via CWM. See what it does then.
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Is it giving a error could be the new kernel didn't flash. Go to entropy's thread download the newest version and flash via CWM. See what it does then.
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Nevermind, it worked. SetCPU was just using a different governor for a profile that I set.
I think it's just me but I don't know, I have to be doing something wrong cause I keep running into deep sleep/lockscreen problems on ICS roms. what could possibly be causing this? the only time I never had lockscreen issues was passion v11-v12 and now on v13 I have them again, what I am doing wrong??
please any tips/advice are appreciated.
I'm also running into the same problem on v13.. Have you tried flashing the clean up patch?? I haven't tried it yet but I think it's supposed to help.. Personally I think it's kernel related
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yeah I am running v13 with the clean up patch but it's still occurring, which is surprising cause after the problem seemed to be gone with v11, I thought I'd seen the end of it. And I love passion ics way too much to just let this effing bug wreck it for me. I wil let you know if I find anything out
smartass-based governors are the problem. use any non smartass-based governor and the issue vanishes.
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I'm using the ondemand governor and the problem still occasionally occurs for me.. What governor are you using???
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By default my phone was set to ondemand and when i would turn the screen off and then back on it would not detect my touches on the screen i would have to turn the screen off and on again to be able to do anything. I just switched the option to smartassV2 and the problem seems to have gone away.
menu>system settings>performance>processor>CPU governor
(For those looking)
Check what your CPU minimum is set at. It should be at 200. I've had issues with it at 100, and some people said that they needed to increase it to 400.
I've had better success with performance than others, but this issue persists with every kernel, every gov, and every frequency. I went back to v12, where I never had this problem, and it's working well. hopefully they figure out the problem and it's solution as well.
for anyone who wants to stay on v13 (RC1) just use performance and the lock screen of death will be minimal. good luck my friends!
I am not using any governors at the moment...is it impossible to reach deep idle without this?
you're using one of the govs, android can't operate without them, but to change it you need to look in settings>performance
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I've had better success with performance than others, but this issue persists with every kernel, every gov, and every frequency. I went back to v12, where I never had this problem, and it's working well. hopefully they figure out the problem and it's solution as well.
for anyone who wants to stay on v13 (RC1) just use performance and the lock screen of death will be minimal. good luck my friends!
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I heard people about this problems, I having this, and I resolve put the Min Processor on 200 (previously I down to 100 better Battery after that, i experiencing lockscreen problems, I reversed all changes again 200)
I just installed the new Siyah 3.2b1 kernel to run my ShoStock 2.2.2 ROM last night and everything was working fine. I didn't make many changes other than switching the governor to lulzactive and the i/o scheduler to noop.
It was running fine over night (lost 0% battery).
Then today after I used the phone for a few minutes the battery seemed to drain a little quicker. I know its too early to complain about battery life but I decided to investigate. When I checked cpuSpy it showed that all of the frequencies were barely used (mostly spent in deep sleep over night) but the 1200 mhz frequency was used most after that (significantly more than the others). When I went back into voltage control (same thing with setcpu) I noticed that it seemed to be stuck at 1200 mhz. The only thing that fixed it was changing the governor.
Does anyone have any ideas on whats causing this and how to fix it (I had great battery performance on lulzactive before so would like to use it again)?
Just try clearing app data rebooting and reinstalling the app. That problem has happened to me every once in a blue moon and that fixed it for me.
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Thanks, I'll try reinstalling the kernel.
Which app are you referring to? because I had this problem no matter which app I used to change the governor (Extweaks, voltage control, setcpu).
Use Jivy's Kernel cleaning script prior to flashing, and try again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428530
Ive used the kernel cleaner every time I installed a new kernel. It didn't seem to work this time. But thanks for responding.
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Ive used the kernel cleaner every time I installed a new kernel. It didn't seem to work this time. But thanks for responding.
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It's the lulzkernel for some-reason :|
I have problem goto smartassv2 it's ok just steps heavy
Thanks for your suggestion. I just moved over to ondemand and its been ok for me. Too early to make any judgments but I'll try smartassv2 next.
Not that I'm glad to that you're having problems, but I'm glad I'm not the only one with this issue. Thanks for the response
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Use Jivy's Kernel cleaning script prior to flashing, and try again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428530
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DONT use kernel cleaning scripts. They cause more problems than good.
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I haven't had any issues with using the kernel cleaning script thus far.
What kind of harm can they cause? and do you have any recommendations on how to clean up before switching kernels or is just flashing them over ok? (A lot of people recommend the script cleaner and it seemed to have solved a lot of peoples issues kernel issues)
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I haven't had any issues with using the kernel cleaning script thus far.
What kind of harm can they cause? and do you have any recommendations on how to clean up before switching kernels or is just flashing them over ok? (A lot of people recommend the script cleaner and it seemed to have solved a lot of peoples issues kernel issues)
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Wipe cache, wipe dalvik. I've read more problems with the cleaning script than good.
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thanks, I generally do that any way along with the script cleaner
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Wipe cache, wipe dalvik. I've read more problems with the cleaning script than good.
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Lol what exactly have u heard? If it was causing problems it would get pulled. The only thing I can foresee happening is someone flashing it and then not flashing a kernel or something. Which would be user error.
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CPU related as well...
Hi Guys,
My first post here. I am total noob. I rooted and installed the newest ShoStock2 on my at&t galaxy s2. Everything works perfectly. I couldn't be happier. I also went bought the setCPU for overclocking it. That too seem to be working fine.
My question is. I didn't set up any voltage requirements. The only thing I did was to set it to 1600 MHZ and 200 min and change the governor on the bottom to Lulzcrative. Will this work? Do I need to actually do something with the voltage? am I really on 1600 right now? I cannot tell.
I ran a quad test (I now it is meaningless in real world) it came 2818 yesterday. I ran it again this morning ..... It froze and took my battery from 45 to 9 in less than 3 mins!!!!!! The phone got really hot. I took out the battery right of way. The battery life showed 23 percent this time.
I got little afraid of the quadrant testing ... The phone seems to run good without that but I am not sure if it is set up how it is suppose to.
Could someone help me out please? I tried reading the forums and that is where I got the idea in the first place to overclock it.
So to summarize it, I guess phone is fine right now but I am not sure if I set up setcpu out properly.
I am on the newest shostock2. I have galaxy s2 on att. I am pretty good with computers and phones but not sure about voltage and other problems with relating to setCPU.
Thank you advance for helping me out.
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Hi Guys,
My first post here. I am total noob. I rooted and installed the newest ShoStock2 on my at&t galaxy s2. Everything works perfectly. I couldn't be happier. I also went bought the setCPU for overclocking it. That too seem to be working fine.
My question is. I didn't set up any voltage requirements. The only thing I did was to set it to 1600 MHZ and 200 min and change the governor on the bottom to Lulzcrative. Will this work? Do I need to actually do something with the voltage? am I really on 1600 right now? I cannot tell.
I ran a quad test (I now it is meaningless in real world) it came 2818 yesterday. I ran it again this morning ..... It froze and took my battery from 45 to 9 in less than 3 mins!!!!!! The phone got really hot. I took out the battery right of way. The battery life showed 23 percent this time.
I got little afraid of the quadrant testing ... The phone seems to run good without that but I am not sure if it is set up how it is suppose to.
Could someone help me out please? I tried reading the forums and that is where I got the idea in the first place to overclock it.
So to summarize it, I guess phone is fine right now but I am not sure if I set up setcpu out properly.
I am on the newest shostock2. I have galaxy s2 on att. I am pretty good with computers and phones but not sure about voltage and other problems with relating to setCPU.
Thank you advance for helping me out.
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Lots of questions there. Phone overclocking is the same and at the same time different than PC overclocking. I too bought SetCPU and due to bugs and problems have completely abandoned it. Honestly with the exception of running an epeen benchmark there is little incentive to overclock. Find a newer Kernel (I use NEAK which has no overclocking ability) and install it, performance is stellar. You really have to ask yourself, is my phone slow enough that I need more CPU power to make it faster?
To see what time your CPU is spending at a given clock speed, download CPUSpyhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bvalosek.cpuspy&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd, you will be surprised to see your phone spend very little time at it's max clockspeed.
Due to the immaturity of the fab process for our CPU's (well SoC), what is a stable overclock for one person might not even load for another. These CPU's are not like an Intel Sandy Bridge, with 1Ghz of free overclocking, nearly guaranteed. You can certainly play with voltages to try and attain a higher overclock, but at the expense of CPU lifetime, as well as battery.
Additionally, it takes a new Kernel 3 or so full charge, discharge cycles on a phone to really 'settle in' and 'learn' a particular phones battery, while yours got hot, which to me indicates an endless loop of some kind running in the background.
My advice would be as follows: Choose a ROM you like, feel free to play with different Kernels, again, I use NEAK, which does not work for some folks, or crashes or whatever. Give it several days to 'settle in' and if your still not happy with performance or have stability problems, try a different governor/scheduler. You really need to establish a good, solid baseline of your phones performance and make small changes and give them long enough to establish any changes to your phones overall stability. Basically running cowboy through your phone and making changes will have a negative overall outcome. Make small, documented changes, test and see what overall effect this has to your phone's stability and battery life, and make another change.
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I just installed the new Siyah 3.2b1 kernel to run my ShoStock 2.2.2 ROM last night and everything was working fine. I didn't make many changes other than switching the governor to lulzactive and the i/o scheduler to noop.
It was running fine over night (lost 0% battery).
Then today after I used the phone for a few minutes the battery seemed to drain a little quicker. I know its too early to complain about battery life but I decided to investigate. When I checked cpuSpy it showed that all of the frequencies were barely used (mostly spent in deep sleep over night) but the 1200 mhz frequency was used most after that (significantly more than the others). When I went back into voltage control (same thing with setcpu) I noticed that it seemed to be stuck at 1200 mhz. The only thing that fixed it was changing the governor.
Does anyone have any ideas on whats causing this and how to fix it (I had great battery performance on lulzactive before so would like to use it again)?
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Lulz has known problem in 3.2b2-1
Gokhan has fixed it in 3.2b2 - 2
Wait for ktoonsez to update it for us
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Thank you so much for the information. Could I simply uninstall the setcpu and go back to normal? Simply reflash the rom and/or kernel? I really like shostock2 with the cherry picker kernel for now. I want to give them a week of try to make my mind. Before the setcpu I think.I was better off
Thanks for the help by the way. I appreciate it.
Thanks for the update about the new siyah kernel. Glad it wasn't just me with the issue. I was going to post this question in the siyah thread but am new to the site so didn't have permission so thanks for finding me all the way over here
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Lol what exactly have u heard? If it was causing problems it would get pulled. The only thing I can foresee happening is someone flashing it and then not flashing a kernel or something. Which would be user error.
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I'm just going off what I've seen in the Siyah/NEAK threads. Most of the lock-ups/random reboots I've heard people having had used the cleaning script. Either that or its just coincidence.
I may be wrong but I think that using the kernel cleaning script actually solved most of the lockups. Perhaps I misunderstood the threads.
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I may be wrong but I think that using the kernel cleaning script actually solved most of the lockups. Perhaps I misunderstood the threads.
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Hmm, well I've just manually wiped cache and dalvik and have never had problems between roms/kernels.
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Many have complained about issues with the kernel in ICS. On any build, it is vital that you not use setcpu or any other cpu scaling app. Don't change the max/min freq, don't change the governer, nothing. Perflock will constantly reset any changes and cause the cpu to run at either full throttle or full min - no in between. Until we get kernel source and custom kernels, this will always be the case. It's something HTC does.
Many cpu monitor apps will do the same. The link in my sig has more info, and a link to a cpu monitor app that is safe to use with our kernel.
Actually when I was on the second ics leak, and setcpu worked fine. I know this because I benchmarked before and after setting frequencies
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benchmarking doesn't mean it wasn't running at full tilt when you didn't need it to. unless your kernel magically doesn't include perflock, it was.
also, there are some combinations of setcpu and monitoring that will work. at one point if i used setcpu, cpu monitor, and one other which i forget now, it would work, kind of. definitely not recommended.
Thats why I deaded mine. Phone was constantly overheating
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since i stop fighting with the kernel i've had nothing but great battery life and performance since the first ICS leak.
tsp, what i don't understand is why something like system panel, which shows you scaling (but doesn't let you change it) showed the proper correct scaling between 384 and 1512 and hardly EVER hit full throttle on GB, but on ICS, it's always showing full throttle.
then i installed your widget you showed me, and it showed constantly chagning like system panel used to on GB.
any idea why? which one is rgiht??
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since i stop fighting with the kernel i've had nothing but great battery life and performance since the first ICS leak.
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Agreed. I had set CPU try to disable perflock and limit to 1200mhz on conservative and it ended up being worse battery and slower overall.
You're exactly right I advise everyone I discuss the topic with to make sure and avoid trying to over ride perflock with a CPU management app. It causes a conflict in my opinion which is a huge battery drain and also causes excessive heat due to the process of fighting for its life.
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I've been saying this I even started a thread to smash this rumor of ICS kernels running bad...apparantely people like to give out wrong information on these forums, reminds me of the news channels.
THERE WAS NEVER ANYTHING WRONG WITH ANY ICS LEAKS. JUST USER FAULT
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I've been saying this I even started a thread to smash this rumor if ICS kernels running bad...apparantely people like to give out wrong information on these forums, reminds me of the news channels
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You are correct. I would say upwards of 20% of what I read here is incomplete or straight up wrong.
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You are correct. I would say upwards of 20% of what I read here is incomplete or straight up wrong.
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My favorite part is when they try to sound like a dev, I guess everyone's a dev on here ;-P. At least I only say something I know from EXPERIENCE and not what I read ;-)
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tsp, what i don't understand is why something like system panel, which shows you scaling (but doesn't let you change it) showed the proper correct scaling between 384 and 1512 and hardly EVER hit full throttle on GB, but on ICS, it's always showing full throttle.
then i installed your widget you showed me, and it showed constantly chagning like system panel used to on GB.
any idea why? which one is rgiht??
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the widget i posted is what you want. it should be scaling up and down, and settling eventually when nothing is really going on. the system panel that you tried clearly affected the perflock in some way. from what i understand, some apps/widgets look at the cpu itself, while others hit up the kernel for status. the ones that hit up the kernel are the issue. i'm not 100% on this, that's just what i've been told. all i know is my experience seems to match this.
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Many have complained about issues with the kernel in ICS. On any build, it is vital that you not use setcpu or any other cpu scaling app. Don't change the max/min freq, don't change the governer, nothing. Perflock will constantly reset any changes and cause the cpu to run at either full throttle or full min - no in between. Until we get kernel source and custom kernels, this will always be the case. It's something HTC does.
Many cpu monitor apps will do the same. The link in my sig has more info, and a link to a cpu monitor app that is safe to use with our kernel.
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Hmm, that's weird, cause I've been using setCPU with ICS on the Rezound for months and it works great! My CPU scales fine and hits all the frequencies its supposed to. The min and max frequencies do change around seemingly randomly, but anyone can see by watching the current frequency display that it is always somewhere in between the range I selected, and always appropriate for the system load.
I've always had CPU Master installed. I just removed it, we'll see how it goes.
I have recently just hopped back onto ICS AGAIN. I have used ICS ever since its been out for my region and every single try i will revert due to the same issue. Either battery life or random freezes.
This time i am really lost hope. I was hoping samsung could release something that worked for me but it never came. I have to seek help from all the pros
The situation:
I have flashed afew ICS ROMs and kernel combo. I tried
DXLP9 w/ stock, siyah, NEAK
DXLPB w/ stock, siyah, NEAK
Sensation ROM 3.5 with siyah.
They all had the same issue whether i UV them or not. I tried factory resets, clear cache, kernel cleaning scripts, even SD format.
They all will have random freezes on load. Its random so sometimes i cant recreate the situation. Most common ones are updating or downloading from market, when its near or starts to install. But i can watch videos and everything fine. GMaps sometimes freezes it too.
As for governer i use smartassv2 for siyah and lulzactive for NEAK and SIO as scheduler. Did try ondemand on stock and sometimes noop and NEAK. Same responses.
I ran sensation rom fine ytd with 1 widget and downloaded whatsapp and extweaks and UV and everything was stable. Watched pps the whole night. Totally fine and this morning i wanted to load my normal apps from market and it started to freeze on me.
Im really lost someone pls help me. If not i really have to go back to GB again.
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I have recently just hopped back onto ICS AGAIN. I have used ICS ever since its been out for my region and every single try i will revert due to the same issue. Either battery life or random freezes.
This time i am really lost hope. I was hoping samsung could release something that worked for me but it never came. I have to seek help from all the pros
The situation:
I have flashed afew ICS ROMs and kernel combo. I tried
DXLP9 w/ stock, siyah, NEAK
DXLPB w/ stock, siyah, NEAK
Sensation ROM 3.5 with siyah.
They all had the same issue whether i UV them or not. I tried factory resets, clear cache, kernel cleaning scripts, even SD format.
They all will have random freezes on load. Its random so sometimes i cant recreate the situation. Most common ones are updating or downloading from market, when its near or starts to install. But i can watch videos and everything fine. GMaps sometimes freezes it too.
As for governer i use smartassv2 for siyah and lulzactive for NEAK and SIO as scheduler. Did try ondemand on stock and sometimes noop and NEAK. Same responses.
I ran sensation rom fine ytd with 1 widget and downloaded whatsapp and extweaks and UV and everything was stable. Watched pps the whole night. Totally fine and this morning i wanted to load my normal apps from market and it started to freeze on me.
Im really lost someone pls help me. If not i really have to go back to GB again.
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try with less UV, and more bus freq
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try with less UV, and more bus freq
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but i even tried no UV and with stock. ytd i tried no UV again. seems to be performing well but i cannot let my phone run without UV cos it will drain battery very fast
Btw im using the same 5 cpu states but i turned off the 1.2GHz state. So its 200 to 1000. What do you mean more bus freq? Up cpu speed?
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but i even tried no UV and with stock. ytd i tried no UV again. seems to be performing well but i cannot let my phone run without UV cos it will drain battery very fast
Btw im using the same 5 cpu states but i turned off the 1.2GHz state. So its 200 to 1000. What do you mean more bus freq? Up cpu speed?
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dunno about siyah, i use fluxi, u can ov bus. I think in siyah too.
The thing is simple, not every phone reacts equal. My phone for example doesn't handle strongs uv. I have to slightly uv it. Same as bus.
I even saw some phones that couldn't handle aokp without over volting. Ir getting higher bus.
In the other hand, uv is overrated. It doesnt saves as battery as everyone thinks. The screen is battety's worst enemy
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