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#2461
Originally Posted by Erminaz View Post
Hi, i updated the kernel-flasher-maemo(it's now version 2.6.28-maemo20). Now i can't write 60000 into /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq All other values are possible, but I can't reset the default.
Use 599999 instead - 600000 was disabled to prevent the system auto-resetting the maximum frequency.
 

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#2462
I'm a bit confused, titan's ideal kernel is said to work @ 500/850, does that means it ignores the values in /etc/pmconfig ?

I've installed the ideal kernel and it worked normally (was using ulv @ 250/810) and things were ok, then I edited pmconfig to 500/850 and the device get stuck in the reboot loop, flashed to stock kernel then back to ideal with 500/810 and things seem to be ok.

I'll give it a day or two, then depending on the battery usage I might change to the xlv version.
 
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#2463
Originally Posted by rooted View Post
I've written a revised version of my script to analyze time_in_state output. It is available on the wiki page:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Overclocking#A...ed.29_-_rev2.0
Hmm, ideally you should be looking at CPU idle time from /sys/devices/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle/state[0-3]/time for total time calculation and working out the idle time

That is how the overclocked kernel at lower voltage potentially saves power so without this, you are not giving an accurate picture.
 
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#2464
Originally Posted by vjs View Post
Also based on BatteryGraph data idle power usage is at least 2x than it was with previous kernel!
What are you basing this on? Slope of batterygraph? Can you post the two graphs you are comparing? Are they roughly like for like?
 
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#2465
could someone please post some batterygraph results of idle with titan's ideal kernel??

Also, keeping the minimum at 500mhz all the time, is it not bad for the cpu??
This must have been disussed before, but I spent the last 30 mins looking bt cant find it..

I have spent over 40hours with lehto's xlv at 800mhz, even played tekken at 1ghz for 30min..... most time, but not always, idle... battery is 27%
 
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Originally Posted by UNderworld View Post
Also, keeping the minimum at 500mhz all the time, is it not bad for the cpu??
This must have been disussed before, but I spent the last 30 mins looking bt cant find it..
Have a look at this page
 

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#2467
Originally Posted by arbitrabbit View Post
What are you basing this on? Slope of batterygraph?
Basically I do follow "Percent" slope, but pick the time from 00:00 to 06:00 because on that time I do know that the device has been on idle for sure to eliminate all other possible causes for power drain.

I also value idle power consumption the most important, since that is what the device is mostly spending on its time.

Slope with previous kernel (was normal voltages OC @ 900) kernel shows it took 10 hours to for percent to decrease 10% with nice straight line. With current "ideal" kernel, it took about 5h to decrease 10%.

What I would like is to have is xlv kernel with minimal amount of speed steps, basically only the following steps: 250, 550, 775, 1000 and try that with "conservative" governor (since ondemand doesn't obey up_threshold value) to keep the CPU from unnecessarily hopping to 1GHz all the time (stats show it spends way too much time in there) and with very low load sampling rate to keep it still responsive.

PS: Not sure if I'd like to include 125 to the list too and what its effect would be for battery or device responsiveness.

Last edited by vjs; 2010-04-12 at 17:22.
 
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#2468
Just to follow up on my experience with the xlv kernel. I have tried up to 1000MHz and the phone was stable.

Unfortunately, I keep getting this error message (Unable to play media. Media format not supported.) when trying to play any video with the Media Player. I am also unable to record video with the Camera application, it crash with an error message (Internal error : closing Camera application).

Power consumption seems to be way higher than stock kernel. I am already at 50% with less than 5 hours of minimal usage.
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BTW... All my kernels are built from this source
kernel_2.6.28-20100903+0m5
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#2470
Quick question, I can write 999000 to get 1GHz speed but what if I want to try 1.1 or even 1.2GHz? I use titan's kernel so I won't change the speed permanently, obviously. I just want to test
 
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