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Root Specific settings for Droid Overclock for battery life

dmiller2007 said:
Well then I suppose it just comes back to personal preference. I use the conservative governor. It clocks up amd down as needed also but does it in a way that is more friendly to the battery life. I think I may try my balanced profile from quick clock and see if I notice much of a change.
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How long does your battery last with your settings?
 
imronburgundy- there should be an option at the bottom of the list of slots in the advanced/custom menu of droid overclock to set at boot. it will be a check box.

darkcyber- make sure you export profile from quickclock and it should save the file to your sd card. then when you open droid overclock, click advanced/ custom and then hit menu/ import presets. it should bring up all the zips on the root of your sdcard. the file saves as quickclockprofiles.zip by default. it should be there

escalade- i'm not a good constant for these kinds of experiments lol i do notice the battery isn't quite as good as with battery saver (obviously) but i haven't had a need for the extra clock speed and ended up just letting it revert to the battery saver. i'm a power user and away from a charger all day while at school. i browse the internet and stream slacker for a couple hours during a break so i have killed my battery a couple times before i got to my car charger to go home. but i do know that rubix hasn't left me with any less than 40% at 4:15. and unplugging it before i go to sleep the previous night. i consider this good battery life. i have gone without using my phone as a browser all day before, and i can get a couple days out of it easily. using the battery saver profile.
 
Yeah it seems that no matter what i do it doesn't get any better. I tried to put it on userspace instead of ondemand and it was just too sluggish even using the browser. I'm a heavy user as well and i always have to charge after bout 8 hours.
 
Rubix has 2 more kinds of governors. Performance and conservative. Conservative is what I use. I wasn't sure if the other roms took advantage of the new governors.
 
dmiller2007 said:
imronburgundy- there should be an option at the bottom of the list of slots in the advanced/custom menu of droid overclock to set at boot. it will be a check box.

darkcyber- make sure you export profile from quickclock and it should save the file to your sd card. then when you open droid overclock, click advanced/ custom and then hit menu/ import presets. it should bring up all the zips on the root of your sdcard. the file saves as quickclockprofiles.zip by default. it should be there

escalade- i'm not a good constant for these kinds of experiments lol i do notice the battery isn't quite as good as with battery saver (obviously) but i haven't had a need for the extra clock speed and ended up just letting it revert to the battery saver. i'm a power user and away from a charger all day while at school. i browse the internet and stream slacker for a couple hours during a break so i have killed my battery a couple times before i got to my car charger to go home. but i do know that rubix hasn't left me with any less than 40% at 4:15. and unplugging it before i go to sleep the previous night. i consider this good battery life. i have gone without using my phone as a browser all day before, and i can get a couple days out of it easily. using the battery saver profile.
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Haven't had time to try this again, but I think that is/was the problem. I think the only .zip file in the root directory on my sd card is that update.zip file, thus my reason for the question. I guess I didn't realize quick overclock saved its files as .zip files.

Thanks, will try all of this again today...I just switched back to DarkSlide 4.2. Apex 1.4.x was just killing me with the battery drain and being so sluggish all of a sudden.
 
I highly recommend rubix focused if you want the best battery life. Do all the quickclock stuff to it and set the governor to conservative. Its the best battery life I've seen yet. Note: I haven't tried darkslide.
 
if you want even more battery life, enable 'sysctl' in 'advanced settings'

with extended battery, i am able to go over 2 days of moderate usage. (and i'm overclocked at 1.2ghz)

this phone will last me 2-3 years rofl.
 
dmiller2007 said:
I highly recommend rubix focused if you want the best battery life. Do all the quickclock stuff to it and set the governor to conservative. Its the best battery life I've seen yet. Note: I haven't tried darkslide.
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Is Rubix Focused a rom or an app? If it is a rom, how is the performance?

aohus said:
if you want even more battery life, enable 'sysctl' in 'advanced settings'

with extended battery, i am able to go over 2 days of moderate usage. (and i'm overclocked at 1.2ghz)

this phone will last me 2-3 years rofl.
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Where is sysctl? What is it?

Dumb questions...but don't know.
 
dmiller2007 said:
I highly recommend rubix focused if you want the best battery life. Do all the quickclock stuff to it and set the governor to conservative. Its the best battery life I've seen yet. Note: I haven't tried darkslide.
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If you are setting your gov to conservative, what profile are you using? (battery saver, performance, balanced)

Thanks!
 
battery saver. the governor doesn't really have much to do with over/underclocking and undervolting. it just controls the way the cpu scales its frequencies. conservative uses a method that is much more friendly to the battery.
 
I made a Battery Saver profile with QuickClock, exported it and imported it into Overclock and it would constantly go from 500mhz to 1000mhz, and started running my temp up too. I went back to Medium Voltage 1.25, 1.0, 800, 400. Max Freq is 1250, but when I'm not using the phone it drops down to 400 and doesn't waiver.
 
escalade6103 said:
i might have to retract what i said about Quick Clock. after reading the above instructions i tried it again. i didnt know to press menu to be able to select different profiles. but it gives you the option for battery saver, performance, balanced, or default. i would suggest balanced. battery saver does save more battery life but you would be lacking when you wanted to play games or other things that would require more performance to run smoothly. but thats when it comes down to preference

this is my balanced profile setting

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Thank..... Can't emphasize enough how helpful these threads are. Appreciate everyone :D
 
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