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Originally Posted by saqer
Interesting...
I tried that acbpowermeter and it reports that for every two minutes on 30% backlight and underclocked to 208 mhz I use 6 mAh whereas closing out the XCPUscalar completely I only use 3 mAH / 2 minutes.
Keeping XCPUscalar opened and on the default 412 mhz still uses 5 mAh.
It may appear that my perception of better battery life came from my lower backlight settings which I enabled at the same time I began underclocking.
But, then again that test was only for 2 minutes. Although slim, it might prove to show that over longer periods of time it will show the opposite is true, especially with backlight off or in standby mode. Which makes me ask when the phone is in standby is underclocking relevant?
Also, is there some way to disable the internal scaling mechanism or modify it?
btw it's saqer  |
That's what I expected. I'd like to see Shaska run the test as well to see if his 6700 or program is different than all the others I've seen metered. *cough* placebo *cough*
Yes - I realize that I could be in for a heaping serving of crow - but based on his earlier reply to me, I think the smart@$$ reply was justified.
To answer your first question - unless 3.03 effectively disables our scaling feature, there's no point to underclocking while in standby. If you don't underclock or scale down, XCPUScalar goes into hibernate mode on standby. So . . . you're not expending any more energy. SO LONG as you don't use the scaling feature in the program. You may find that you'll get better battery life than you are now - by OVERclocking so long as you don't use the scaling.
But don't let me tell you that "the world is flat" - test it with abcpowermeter and find out.
As to your second question - many programmers have tried to disable the scaling on our phones with no success, for over a year. I've traded e-mails with the creator of XCPUScalar over this issue - and I'm waiting for him to reply back about version 3.03. I'm not holding my breath to ever see this work, especially now that our phone's end of life has been reached.
Sorry I screwed up your name Saqer.