Im now on the evaluation period of WM6 AKU.03, coz im looking for a good ROM which will save my battery. I used to install XCPUScalar in all ROM (auto scale coz i thought lesser batt) , i stop using SPB mobile already coz i know its power hungry, but still my life of Atom Pure is 24 hrs maximum. BUT AFTER REMOVING XCPUSCALAR ON MY ATOM ( AS SUGGEST BY CKAIDI) MY BATTERY LIFE BECOME GOOD... 70% now as of 3pm -last charge 7pm yesterday...i think now it will last for 2-3 days now
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Please post other TIPS TO SAVE BATTERY and have a GOOD BATTERY LIFE in our Atom
That's true... It eats up battery life (on my Hima and my exec WM5). seems like it's the same case with WM6. Oh well, nice to hear that discovery though. I dont overclock anyway.
Yeah, had the same experience with XCPUScalar. Why isn't there an overclocking program that doesn't do this? Better yet, why the hell does my video skip if I stream the sound over bluetooth unless I overclock? -.-
so now many agree to me coz they experience it too...now it is ver clear.
if you donot overclock then there should be no issue with the battery..
You should autoscale the frequency .. low freq when system is idle and high for power hungry applications..
Based my try out with many many 3rd party softwares, hard resetting to confirm. Things that eat battery power are down to 3 main things
=>> Hardware usage eg. bluetooth, wifi
=>> RAM
=>> CPU Load
For RAM we can do nothing about it. Be it your device start with 30mb free or 10mb free, it consume the same amount of battery as RAM always and never stop running.
For Hardware usage, you can reduce the usage to increase the battery hours. Go setting->Connections->Beam = uncheck the Receive all incoming beams.
Reduce the usage of camera, bluetooth simple as that
Reduce the backlight power will increase the battery by alot.
For CPU Load, this is the part why XCPUscalar can reduce battery life. It keep CPU running and running tell it what speed to run on and although it had little effect on the RAM but the CPU load is very very high. Try install batterystatus and see the CPU usage, it show 100% usage at all times. And if you have rltoday on your today screen, although it does not eat much RAM but you will see CPU usage jumping from 1-5% every sec as the clock's sec update. Activesync is another thing that always auto run in the background that eat your battery without you knowing it!! ALWAY KILL IT with your task manager!!
Therefore low RAM low resource program doesn't mean eat less power!!
CHeer!!!
kaidi
I dont think XCPUscalar just only eat the battery life. In my case, it save the battery.
When i set it to this :
Speed / CPU usage
a. 208 / 0-25%
b. 312 / 26-50%
c. 416 / 51-75%
d. 520 / 76-100%
As you see, in almost time, our ATOM will run with 0-50% CPU usage. With that setting, it use the lower speed and save the battery life. And when we run some applications which need the power CPU, Ofcouse we should lose the battery for the high performance.
XCPUscalar's not only overclock your CPU but also help you save the battery life!
shpy said:
I dont think XCPUscalar just only eat the battery life. In my case, it save the battery.
When i set it to this :
Speed / CPU usage
a. 208 / 0-25%
b. 312 / 26-50%
c. 416 / 51-75%
d. 520 / 76-100%
As you see, in almost time, our ATOM will run with 0-50% CPU usage. With that setting, it use the lower speed and save the battery life. And when we run some applications which need the power CPU, Ofcouse we should lose the battery for the high performance.
XCPUscalar's not only overclock your CPU but also help you save the battery life!
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your atom will be slow then, im using autoscale before thats why.
most of our experience is other story, sorry my friend
generalriden said:
your atom will be slow then, im using autoscale before thats why.
most of our experience is other story, sorry my friend
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Lower speed = lesser power (save batt) TRUE
Process of Pushing CPU to Lower speed = High CPU load (eat batt too)
So end up not saving much batt too. I suggest u try with and without XCPUscaler and see the batt life then you decide which is good or bad for you. I do keep it in my device but only run it when I'm playing resources demanding games
generalriden is right, why scale down ur device speed when it doesnt save you batt. AND i am confirm that jiggs's ROM is already very fast at aku3.3.3 and very very sure that in his wm6, you wont need it cos it will be damn fast!! yeah!!
CHeer!!
kaidi
I also recommend removing XCPUscaler at startup if you don't need to overclock your atom all the time (autoscale is useless to me). Just run it when you need it.
Lower speed = lesser power (save batt) TRUE
Process of Pushing CPU to Lower speed = High CPU load (eat batt too)
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I do not use autoscale.
Listening to MP3s with GSPlayer over Bluetooth, EVEN AT FORCED 208MHZ with Scalar, the Atom eats battery faster than without it running, taking up about 2-3% more power in just half an hour (Note that the lowest automatic stepping on the Atom by default is 208mhz). Both with screen on and off.
And that's unfortunately with regular skipping, which only running at forced 624mhz solves.
Overnight on sleep mode, an Atom w/[email protected] consumes 1% more power than an Atom wo Scalar.
A little research on my part seems to show that Scalar doesn't adjust voltage supplied to the processor, only speed. This is why the slowest settings still eat more battery than leaving it alone - the processor is still supplied a constant voltage. Now, I'm not saying Scalar doesn't work - it does (which is especially great for Bluetooth streaming). However, it's not in the way you expect.
For now, I set it to perma overclock @624, and exit the program completely when I don't need it.
*waits for next version, hopefully with voltage stepping support this time*
Ei, i agree with that.. i just use scalar when i need more power from my atom like watching movies but i always close it afterwards..
Now with NEW WM6, my battery life is still good without XCPUSCALAR. Everything is doing well, 2 days before I recharge. With a good numbers of calls..
ryve25 said:
Ei, i agree with that.. i just use scalar when i need more power from my atom like watching movies but i always close it afterwards..
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your right bro!
One more thing:
Dont forget to DISABLE the receive all beams in your atom. I forget this once then my battery life goes back for one day only. Now I disabled it, my batt life goes to normal again 2-3 days
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your right bro!
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i'm using scalar just after i perform a soft reset, (it usually slow), then open all folders, (accesories, games, office mobile, etc), next, i open setting menu, move from personal tabs to system tabs and connection tabs, then i close the scalar,.
my batt drain not so quickly, because i dont use any apps like scalar,.
just dont install too many apps in your device, it will reduce your speed then,.
i think the speed of my atom while using scalar and not using scalar is same,.
not if play music or movie, it become slower,.
wat is the best speed to use when surfing the internet??!!
ghostrecon2050 said:
wat is the best speed to use when surfing the internet??!!
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520 but you will not feel the difference...just dont use it
ghostrecon2050 said:
wat is the best speed to use when surfing the internet??!!
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its up to you bro, you may use 520 or higher is fine, i think generalriden was right, nothing changed,.
As experienced by most people, without XCPUscalar the battery life of their ATOM is better.
An user spotted that my apps uses a lot of CPU due to the fact that it downloads a lot of images and to do so it uses separate threads.
I think i can lower this CPU Consumption by making each thread download more images, less threads = less CPU. maybe, i do not yet know, that's not my problem.
My real question is the following:
to monitor the app i use "System Tuner", once i start the app it downloads the images and it uses the CPU, ok, on this process CPU consumption might get to almost 50% (!), but why when this process is finished the CPU Consumption does SLOWLY decrease it's value? Should i worry about this values?
This process can take up to a couple of minutes it's not the whole app, when this process is not running CPU Consumption can be 3/5 %
Thanks
Hi XDA folks! Sorry if this has been posted before, I looked and can't find any information.
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I installed CPU memory monitor on my Note 3 and closed all background applications in "active applications". I also greenify literally everything that doesn't cause a problem. However, the CPU usage on my android device, with absolutely nothing open except the CPU monitor, is about 10%.
On my PC, when idle, the CPU usage never goes above 3% (i7 @ 4.5ghz), however shouldn't my phone do the same? The most resource intensive process is cpumonitor itself - using 2% CPU. System stays about .5-3%.
My theory is that, because the phone is underclocked to a very low frequency when idle, any little task will use a bit of CPU percentage. Is my theory correct?
I also noticed a lot of RAM is used idle, but this is no problem to me. I know unused RAM is better, it is good that Android caches everything it can.
Thanks a lot