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Originally Posted by lovingHDTV
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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that would be sweet if you can look at the battery load. from our "testing" (lol) of just using our phones i dont notice any difference in life - and i guess at the end of the day that is all that is important to me. if we ever figure out a way to underclock while asleep...my guess is this will result in an additional 5 minutes of battery life =)
anyway - it would be great if we can figure out a dynamic OC and improve battery life - but I am not holding my breath