overclocked at 1.5 is awesome!

[everythingsablur]

Originally Posted by 1969bob

I am new to HP TOUCHPAD I have overclock it to 1.5 GHZ BUT NOW I had a tase of speed
I want to try 1.7GHZ DO you go through the same steps as you would thru 1.5GHZ?
WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE??

Bob

It's all the same steps, just different kernels. I've actually found the happiest balance of speed and stability (for me at least) to be on the Warthog kernel at 1.728 GHz. I found the last couple of F15C kernels to be buggy. I loved the performance of the F4 kernel, but I do notice the increased battery drain.

When you uninstall UberKernel, most will recommend that you install the original Palm recovery kernel first, then install the new kernel you want. It's just cleaner, avoids any potential problems if something wasn't uninstalled completely.

[klx300r]

+ 1 here on 1.5Ghz for the TP

[joeym74]

Today I went back to stock to see if battery drain was much higher compared to overclocking at 1.5. So far I am seeing around 11% depletion per hour by just doing web browsing. When it was at 1.5 it was more like 15% loss per hour. So to me it seems you do get a 25% faster battery loss compared to stock. Anyone else care to comment on their battery drain when overclocked?

[TPwebOS820]

I have to say that I didn't see a lot of benefit from over-clocking.
The major benefit was disabling logging as much as possible. Also, like others. . . I seen increased battery use with preware patches.

Nonetheless, this thread points to the TouchPad's initial problem. A user shouldn't have to make any of these changes for the device to be snappy out of the box.

[joeym74]

Originally Posted by TPwebOS820

I have to say that I didn't see a lot of benefit from over-clocking.
The major benefit was disabling logging as much as possible. Also, like others. . . I seen increased battery use with preware patches.

Nonetheless, this thread points to the TouchPad's initial problem. A user shouldn't have to make any of these changes for the device to be snappy out of the box.

What sort of battery life are you getting now with none of the patches installed and no overclock? Have you seen a big drop in battery loss now when doing like simple browsing, etc? Are you seeing similar drain of like 11% per hour when just web browsing?

[chicle]

I'm on UK @ 1.5. The battery is not as good as Stock, but when you get 7hrs +, who cares?That's with WiFi always on, pretty heavy web browsing, some games, music and videos. The 7hrs gets me down to about 20-25%, then I charge it. I guess I've been lucky because the only problems I've had have been self-inflicted (getting instructions wrong - that kind of screw-up), and I've been able to resolve them myself. I haven't installed the CM7 Alpha release, even though I'm pretty good with Android, just because it's Alpha. I'm so pleased with my TP and webOS that I might not even install it once they get a stable release, and they will. Those Cyanogen guys are amazing! So if you're on the fence about oc'ng to 1.5, I say go for it. If things don't work out (I believe they will), a visit to the Doctor will fix you up as good as new. My opinion.

[joeym74]

Originally Posted by chicle

I'm on UK @ 1.5. The battery is not as good as Stock, but when you get 7hrs +, who cares?That's with WiFi always on, pretty heavy web browsing, some games, music and videos. The 7hrs gets me down to about 20-25%, then I charge it. I guess I've been lucky because the only problems I've had have been self-inflicted (getting instructions wrong - that kind of screw-up), and I've been able to resolve them myself. I haven't installed the CM7 Alpha release, even though I'm pretty good with Android, just because it's Alpha. I'm so pleased with my TP and webOS that I might not even install it once they get a stable release, and they will. Those Cyanogen guys are amazing! So if you're on the fence about oc'ng to 1.5, I say go for it. If things don't work out (I believe they will), a visit to the Doctor will fix you up as good as new. My opinion.

When I had mine at 1.5 I after 6 hours of browsing I would be down to 10% or lower. How are you getting 7 hours and still 20-25% left?

[waveuponwave]

Just got mine going at 1.5 and it is rockin! Can you set a profile in govnah to kick it down to 1.18 when charging, locked, etc?

[chicle]

Originally Posted by joeym74

When I had mine at 1.5 I after 6 hours of browsing I would be down to 10% or lower. How are you getting 7 hours and still 20-25% left?

I really don't know why. Maybe, just like there are units that give all sorts of trouble, I got lucky and have one of the ones that are built like a rock. I don't have 'case cracks', the email and WiFi work with no problems, my web browser does not disappoint, etc. Sure there are things that need improvement (like scrolling web pages, up-down-side-to side arrows, among others), but there are great webOS devs that keep coming up with patches and solutions to the problems. Case in point is this site, without it I wouldn't have had as great an experience as I'm having now. It makes using the TP much easier, as it educates you without you even knowing it. It's part of my daily reading and keeps me up-to-date with the webOS experience.

[chicle]

Originally Posted by waveuponwave

Just got mine going at 1.5 and it is rockin! Can you set a profile in govnah to kick it down to 1.18 when charging, locked, etc?

I don't think you need that, as the CPUs wind down to min power when 'resting'. In UK anyway. I've read where some of the other kernels keep them at full power all the time; that would really use up the battery pretty fast compared to the UK.

[everythingsablur]

Originally Posted by joeym74

When I had mine at 1.5 I after 6 hours of browsing I would be down to 10% or lower. How are you getting 7 hours and still 20-25% left?

There are a LOT of variables in play. How bright is your screen vs. how bright someone else's screen is? What website are you browsing? how actively are you browsing? Are there interactive elements on the pages you are viewing? "Browsing" is a horrifically general task making it completely incomparable between users.

I use Warthog at 1.7 GHz, and honestly I can get 8+ hours out of it pretty regularly.

[aw9d]

Originally Posted by waveuponwave

Just got mine going at 1.5 and it is rockin! Can you set a profile in govnah to kick it down to 1.18 when charging, locked, etc?

You can create different profiles to use but you have to manually switch them.

And with 1.72ghz you should still get 7 hours easy out of a battery during normal use. I have mine set to ondemandTCl which will shut off one of the cores when its not needed. I've tired on demand and didn't notice any difference in the way it worked other than the second core would always run at 192mhz even during idol.

I charge it at night, wake up at 6am, it plays music non-stop from 7am-5pm with wifi on, streaming to my bluetooh head phones, I play games on lunch, use it to facebook all day, and most of my web surfing is done on it during the day. by the end of the night, I've never had less than 40% battery unless I played my HD racing games on it. I didn't charge it all weekend and its still at 32%, 3 days now no charge.