4 cores stopped

[DarthMaul14]

Hi all,

I have cpu z installed and I'm not rooted. It generally uses all 8 cores but when I accidentally opened it I saw that it was only using 4 cores. I decided to restart and it is still using 4 cores. Is this normal because my g5 plus always uses all 8 cores.

 

[acejavelin]

Your in low power or battery saver mode... look at the battery symbol.. I can't remember if it kicks in at 5% or 15% battery automatically, then turns off when you connect the charger... It sometimes takes a few minutes for everything to kick back in. I would bet after getting a decent charge it was back to normal?

There is also a issue with Nougat at newer reporting CPU usage incorrectly even in rooted devices... been talked about a lot, something in the stock Moto firmware (or maybe that was a different Moto, I get them confused sometimes).

 

[DarthMaul14]

Ok thanks. Apparently cpu z was wrong.

 

[anshuman_1]

the cores are reduced to 4 when u are on battery saver.

 

[DarthMaul14]

On thanks. The weird part was I didn't turn the battery saver.

 

[acejavelin]

On thanks. The weird part was I didn't turn the battery saver.

It's automatic at a certain battery level by default.

 

[DarthMaul14]

Oh ok. Does the same thing apply for quad cores and hexacores.

 

[acejavelin]

Oh ok. Does the same thing apply for quad cores and hexacores.

It will throttle them, although the exact implementation varies somewhat depending on the actual processor. littleBIG architecture tends to be that the BIG cores get shutdown, on more standard architecture like the SD625 they will get throttled to 50-75% of maximum speed, and others may just get a couple random cores disabled, it depends on the CPU and how Qualcomm/MediaTek/whoever engineered it.

 

[DarthMaul14]

Ok thanks!