Does Setcpu really work?
 

As the topic states, does Setcpu actually work? I am asking this because I tend to see more "stuttering" when it is enabled versus when it is not. For example, playing the game Guns 'n' Glory with Setcpu uninstalled, I see an occasional slowdown, but with Setcpu enabled, the game slows so much that it is almost unplayable.
Any suggestions to resolve this?

[Edit] I have two profiles. One is for when the phone is in use. This one has the sliders all the way to the left and right, respectively. It is also set to the ondemand scaling. The other is when the phone is asleep. Both sliders are set to the minimum with ondemand scaling. Any help?

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Sounds like it's in your settings, though I haven't used it with 2.2. Also, I don't play games, but on 2.1, I found it generally well behaved

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Definitely the settings. I just started digging into SetCPU and using profiles my battery life has gone from 6 hours on a full charge to right now Im at 90%, 3 hours since last unplug. No stuttering, no problems at all

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I am not sure, right now I am running without and cant say I really notice much difference.

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Will you share you're settings?

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You may have CPU set too high or low when game is played.

Kind of petty but what I didn't like about it is having its icon in the top left corner. Anyway to not let it do that?

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What's really happening is that the processor namely snap snail in evo isn't really what's played out to be. the thought that it be competitive to other 1ghz processors in the same band turns out to be one of the biggest hype and an embarrassment of it's kind. Check out the hummingbird processor it's made by chinese lol htc is twain without the brains lol ever since it became popular with it's touch slow 1 and and the htc touch slow 2. lol trust me man I owned these phones especially the diamond in the past so my experience COUNTS...lol good luck.

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Oops...double post.my bad.

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Go to profiles and uncheck notifications.

Also, while the snapdragon processor does not possess the same 3d processing capabilities as the hummingbird, the remainder of speeds/performance is very similar between a snapdragon and Samsung processor equipped device. I have both an epic and an evo. Btw, owning a diamond does not make you credible on this subject.

To the op, SETCPU works great for me abscissa experience no lag. I use it primarily for profiles and have increased my battery life by roughly 50% since I started using it. As far as your settings go, I would try turning down the clock speed to 1ghz. The only difference I have noticed with overclocking is better benchmark numbers. Other than that it just seems to yield inconsistent and glitchy performance.


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I never OC but I do UC it, I have two profiles set one is when screen off at 24500 max and min, then when battery is below 40% min at 245 and max at 7 something I can't remember. I have all set to conservative.

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I played with it for about a week and just did not realize much benefit but did find myself causing some problems. I uninstalled it.

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A couple of things here...

I've owned these phones as well (tp, diamond, hero, and evo) and I never really had any problems. There was never an issue that wasn't my own fault.

Snapdragon is not only competitive with other processors but, in my experience (Having used an Epic for 2 weeks and a Fascinate for a 3 weeks), performs much more consistently. The hummingbird was awesome when it was awesome, but there would be large hiccups where the system would totally lock for what I considered to be a frustratingly long amount of time.

I guarantee that I have more phones on my computer desk right now then you have ever owned and have had way more phones than that in my hands for 1+ weeks at a time in the past year, so my opinion COUNTS MORE by your logic. There is not a single phone that i would give my Evo up for.

Also, and this is kind of a side note; I think your post may have been racist. That thing about the Taiwanese and Chinese was not only irrelevant, but threw any shred of the shadow of pathetic credibility your post had straight out the window. Your lack of ability to convey thought through writing (referring to your horrible grammar and punctuation) should have signaled me to stop reading right at your first sentence, but I chose to give you the benefit of the doubt. It was a bad decision on my part and I assure you I will not make it again. Aside from being tangentially related to a distant echo of the original post, your post doesn't belong here.

More on topic, SetCPU, in my experience, works famously for giving my Evo a little cpu boost (speed below 1119) when I need it to. The biggest reason I have it installed, though, is to underclock my processor. When my battery is taking a beating, I dial it down to 720 max (Ah, the HTC Hero) and I can squeeze out a good amount more time. It seems that every Evo has a CPU "personality" and they all have different amounts of overclocking that they can handle. You may be clocking it too high and causing mild instability. Also, the scheduler, be it BFS or CFS, may not be playing nicely with your phone. I usually do CFS, but other users with set ups almost identical to my own have great luck with BFS kernels. Playing around and trying new configurations is the only way to know what works for you. Hope that helps.

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Bradart: The Thread Assassin.

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lol, pretty much.

you killed it deader than Andre Johnson would have had it punched him in the neck.

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What is the applause smiley? I forgot. Anyway applause...

I actually came to this page to see if anyone had ripped this guy the new Ahole he deserves and I ended up reading your post, which was very well put together. I know why the boys at AP keep you around. Thanks for getting this guy before I saw it. I have been slacking lately.

And yea you are the thread assassin, by the time I got here he was already dead. :( hahahaha.

Why are u giving false hope to those who r suffering badly with the evo? Thankfully those with updated hardware (if bought in November) have a better shot... and a new kind of method rooting.

You had to edit your post a couple times before u actually settled it. Don't be stupid becaue I saw you deleted your original post before you make a new one. So obviously you're taking it very seriously. But I will omit one creditable mistake on my part... After re reading my post when I said "Twain with no brains" while you took the other direction, I was actually joking by that I should've said "they...could've done better competitively than the chinese product-wise." But Hey, what am I... a Politician? I'm not being a racist... I definately need to make that clear.

I can give 2 horse manures if you asked me if I cared about how many shot up cell phones you've had in your lifetime... I could've owned more and I'm not counting PREPAID cell phones. During my trial with the Epic I've tested the fascinate, the captivate and the htc evo. The same experience you had with the epic is the same way I feel about the evo. So +1 for experience I give you that while u don't necessarily deserve it. You're still -2 for editing your essay, and your lousy attempt to make me jealous of your Harvard degree-like writing. You think you're smarter than me don't cha? Last I checked I heard most novelist were homosexually motivated...is so why they "speak" and "type" so well like you do. Which is why you stopped reading my post after that little migraine you had because my grammar is so not perfect for you... Well kudos to you, my man!

So tell me what books have u written? I'll be sure to pick one up for my wife and maybe she'll voice her opinion afterwards. ;-)

Edit: Nooooooo.... I'm not dead yet. :-)
It felt so good standing on the Redskins turf while I was wearing the Mike Vicks jersey my man Jim Jim gave me and kicked their asses .... I'm about to wear the Samsung on your turf now what?! U mad?

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Let's clarify some things here: I definitely did not post, delete, rewrite, and re-post that. I wrote it fairly quickly because I was somewhat perturbed at your obvious trolling in the Evo forum. If I did edit it was because, after I post something, I usually go back and proof read it after it's been posted. If I delete a post, it stays deleted. If I edit a post, it's certainly not to change the idea of what i said because, honestly, I don't start a post if I think I might be wrong.

Next on the list is the homosexual motivation thing:

If you think that homosexuality is a negative thing, then you can go ahead and think that. Not only are you assuring everyone of your ignorance, but what I do in my free time has no bearing on how I'm so astronomically above your intelligence level. I'm not trying to make you jealous, and you are yet to provide any evidence that the Epic is somehow leaps and bounds more efficient or more powerful than the Evo. What you're doing here is attacking me personally instead of supporting your own argument as if I haven't been a very involved and trusted member of this community for years. If you want to read my writing, you can head over to AndroidPolice or RadioAndroid, the two websites that have asked me to write for them. Did I forget to mention that I was asked to write for the news team here on PPCGeeks? I don't have a novel but, if I did, it would probably be a crime or medical story because I'm good with facts. Due to that aspect of my personality, I feel like it would be lost on you. Who do you write for, again?

There is no false hope here. I'm not biased toward the Evo. If HTC makes a phone that sucks, I'll be the first one to admit it but, thus far (aside from the hardware of the touch pro) they are yet to make a phone that would ever lead me to switch over to a Samsung as my primary device. That said, if the the Nexus S is the phone that sets the standard for amazing devices, I'll get one. Samsung has, however, in the past and present, made phones that I have personally found to perform at a lower level than my HTC devices. Sure, the dedicated GPU of the Galaxy S line is nice, but I don't do many graphically intense things. The fact that you probably use your phone to play games constantly would be the reason that you found the Evo lacking. Unfortunately for you, I use my phones for things other than time wasting, so I can comment on its usability from a practical standpoint.

The fact of the matter is that SetCPU is very useful on the Evo and everything I said before holds true.

I'm not mad that you're in the Evo forum. I'm bothered that you're ignorant. You can call me gay all day, but I'm not stupid enough to believe that would be a detriment to my credibility. I have no doubt that you're straight as an arrow, my friend (I'm saying that ironically. You are obviously the type of person that can't carry on a conversation of any substance long enough to make friends) but you didn't have to drop out of eighth grade to be that way.

You're an amateur.

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I had a whole thing typed out about him being racist, having bad credit because of switching to verizon and back, and him having major grammatical errors, but you seem to have gotten it done again Bradart. Thanks bro.

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Dude, you really need to get back on your meds. Honestly.

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Hey guys does setcpu have to keep running in the background or can i just kill it and the phone will remain overclocked?

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I played with is for about a month and never felt like I was gaining much. I flashed one of the SBC kernels and got a lot more for my money.

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i flashed one too... which one did you flash? and do i need to keep it running the the background? (setcpu i mean)

It does work. If it didn't then I would have thrown mine through the window. This program makes my evo so awesome.

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i think you either misread my post or didn't even read it but thanks for the response anyways...

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I have all the Sensed ones on my phone. The Havs, LessHavs, Agressive, etc. Since they are small, I just put them all on the card.

I would run one for a day and then flash another, trying to compare. Think I am on the Non-Hav now. They all work but I don't see that much difference between each of them.

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I gained about 4-5 hours of battery life it SetCPU. When I was using it my setup was as follows:

(I don't remember the exact Mhz settings but this should be close.)
Screen on: 614-1000
Screen off: 245-499
Battery less than 20%: 245-499
Charging: 1000

Also, my phone did not auto detect correct when I was setting it up so I have to manually select the Nexus One/Snapdragon setting. Also had to disable Perflock in the program as well. Once those two things were done, it worked great. There was a little lag when I'd turn the screen on when the CPU would throttle up but thats it.

Hope this helps!

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I flashed one of those new kernels as well and SetCPU seemed to make the battery life worse with it.

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The kernel should get you better life but if you run SetCPU wring it can definitely make battery life worse and screw up your phone. I was experimenting with it and tried some very agreesive values and I could barely move my screen. Had to reboot and get in and reset it. It was actually a little scary.

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dont use it any longer. phone is much better with out it. run juice defender with this battery performance kernal and all is well now

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I just had my daughter install JD. Will see.