The reason that you don't see a direct 60% change in battery life is that the CPU is only a portion of the entire power consumption of the device. The screen, radios, Memory, etc all make up the entire power budget of the device. If the CPU only accounts for 5% of the total power consumption, then you wont see much difference in the battery life when you overclock.
Mobile cpus are very different from desktop cpus. Completely different market segments and power requirements. In mobile devices the use of dynamic voltage scaling and power switching is very common in an attempt to reduce both dynamic and leakage power. Desktops "typically" don't use dynamic voltage scaling, but instead rely on voltage switching (on,off) as they are more concerned about leakage power.
Has anyone looked at the current load on the battery to compare between an overclocked device and non-overclocked. I'll have to take a look at this I know that tBattery reports current draw.
BTW I'm running at 710Mhz and the weather animations are flawless for the first time.
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Originally Posted by nayr1482
and how much Activity do you think is going on when the phone is asleep?
how much load is occurring when the phone is asleep?
how come all of us that have been working on this have not noticed any decrease in battery life?
one of the main reasons is the phone sets itself back to 528 when it goes to sleep. the other is - the OC does NOT use a direct linear factor of voltage...if that were the case my battery would be lasting about 60% of the time it used to.
also when overclocking computers the voltage is constant (or at least set as a constant in BIOS) - why would you assume a phone cpu is any different?
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