So for those interested, I contacted the developer of XCPUScalar about the issues with battery/power consumption on the 6700 and using any OCing program.
It's not a total solution but the developer is aware of the issue and has made inroads into addressing it.
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If you got a builtin power manager use it instead and use XCPUScalar when you want speed and want to lock down on a specific speed. Most WM5 PDA's do not run at their rated speed and are usually in low gear most of the time because of the builtin power managers.
The PPC-6700 runs at 104MHz (idle speed) most of the time and yes it does have a power manager that cannot be turned off. So the 50-70 mah consumption is for 104Mhz speed, not the default 416MHz that you think its running at.
The ideal would be to disable the builtin power manager before running XCPUScalar if it was possible.
In 2.95 and above XCPUScalar will co-exist with the power manager if you can't disable it. I'm always looking for improvements in this area, in v2.95 I added a hibernation mode feature which allows XCPUScalar to hibernate and run passively until its needed again under certain conditions like the backlight dimming, talking on the phone, powering off, and other system events, etc. This mode consumes almost zero power, its like the product is not loaded or running.
As you can see I have made attempts in this area and will keep improving it. I do own the PPC-6700 PDA and reason XCPUScalar is very stable on it. --ImmierSoft
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So I don't think it's
as bad as we thought and might be worth giving the program a shot again.
07-04-2006, 01:34 AM
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