Dynamic Overclocking of CPU?

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Is this possible on Androids (mostly, this phone?) Before this I had a windows phone and I had a software where I could set a minimum and maximum cpu clock rate.. and then it will overclock dynamically as needed! If you are running a game and it needs more power, it will overclock it while the game is running.. dynamically without you having to change the clock-rate manually.

This will solve battery life problems when overclocking to 1.8ghz. There is no need for it to be draining the battery at 1.8ghz if you are only texting and probably even a 200mhz cpu can do that lol

Hope what I said makes sense.

it's easily done by installing Setcpu,provided that your phone has been rooted and kernel modded to allow overclocking.

Sent from my IDEOS X5

Actually it is already done in stock ROM without root, setCPU provides a way to change the default way of handling the CPU frequencies and governors.

The stock ROM comes right out of the factory can do "cpu stepping" itself, just like the intel "Speedstep" thing. But the factory powersaving profile (or if you wish to call the scaling) might not match our taste. Then there it comes the apps called Setcpu which enhances the cpu stepping behavior according to our preference. The enhancement considers the frequency of sampling cpu load, thresholds modifications, and other considerations.

In Setcpu, we can accord one of the following scaling setting that suits our taste. From my experience, each scaling setting behaves as follows:

ondemand - runs at Min or at Max (eg. 200 MHz or 1200 MHz)
interactive - adjusts frequencies according to the real load
conservative - behaves like "interactive" but incline to power saving
performance - always runs at Max
powersave - always runs at Min
userspace - disables Setcpu scaling and uses stock scaling
smartass - behaves like "interactive" but always runs at Min when LCD screen is off

And again, the phone must be rooted and kernel modded for Setcpu to work properly.

I've been using setcpu with conservative. I like conservative because it gives you a lot of control over the throttling of the cpu. It seems to work pretty good.

Are you getting any benefit from overclocking to 1.8GHz? I also overclocked to 1.8GHz, but I didn't see any noticeable improvement past 1.0-1.2GHz.

I like to use interactive Cox I enjoy the fast sampling rate and hence the high responsiveness.

Sent from my IDEOS X5

Personally I have not tried overclocking yet.. still need to update the kernel, but I'm afraid it might get unstable.

Didn't know that CPU could do it dynamically using different profiles.

Thanks all for the help

Originally Posted by Tcm9669

Is this possible on Androids (mostly, this phone?) Before this I had a windows phone and I had a software where I could set a minimum and maximum cpu clock rate.. and then it will overclock dynamically as needed! If you are running a game and it needs more power, it will overclock it while the game is running.. dynamically without you having to change the clock-rate manually.

This will solve battery life problems when overclocking to 1.8ghz. There is no need for it to be draining the battery at 1.8ghz if you are only texting and probably even a 200mhz cpu can do that lol

Hope what I said makes sense.

I have setcpu but the x5 is not listed....??