Pants on Fire
 

hey, for all over clocking people, is it possible to have a program, that alerts when the cpu/battery getss to EFFFIN HOT ????? like it could give a notification " PANTS ON FIRE" so the user like me (noOb) can reduce the clock speed from 1200mhz to 600mhz stock ?:confused:

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look at conky??????????

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how can i ask conky to alert me ?.. and i dont find any cpu tem in it !!!!

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CPUFreqUI shows cpu temperature...

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its actually a rather good idea, should be easy to implement, but you've probably alienated a lot of people with a stupid and irrelevent thread title. i know a lotta folk here will think troll and avoid.

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you have to enable it first and use a different conky.conf search the entire beutify conky thread.
hers a pic

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i rather not search, but how can i get the conky in the pic above ??????? for god sake any simpler method ?

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i try to search it give me 10 minutes

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One of the posters here created a script that adjusts the overclocking profile based on battery level and temperature. I don't much like it because once you have worked out the optimal voltage profile for your device you shouldn't need to change it, thus this script is a sub-optimal way of running, but it can be used as an example of how to change overclocking settings based on temperature. If you are interested here is the relevant thread.

Alternatively, do you really need to be running @1200MHz when you aren't using it? If not then there is a guide on the wiki of how to change the clock speed when your N900 is locked/unlocked which will prevent "pants on fire" problems, and when you are using it you should be able to feel it getting too hot and rectify the situation manually.

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i wouldnt run it at 1200mhz at all, honestly. the temp jump from 1150 to 1200 is substantial, but the performance gain isnt noticable, either way, keep on rockin.

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ok go to this thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...pu+temp&page=4
post nr 71.copy and paste the code to /etc/conky/conky.conf
be sure you delete the code in there first.i hope you now how to copy and paste code to system folders.
after that you have to enable the temp sensor for conky.
go xterm an:
sudo gainroot
echo bq27x00_battery >> /etc/modules
after that reboot and conky will show you your temp
success

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thanks man, im actually not much of a linux user, kinda noob, but thanks for searcing.... i will wiat... u take ur time !!!

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Better leave me a thanks for using my conky.conf too then :p

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sry i forgot that ;)
but i gave you a thanks in the thread and i give you anotherone;)
thanks

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man im sorry, but have to ask, how do u copy system files ??? like i got the code fro the post.. in windows browser, i can copy text there,,, and in my n9000 im using file box, was able to locate conky confi... but have no clue how to oepn and paste the code !!! :S:S:S:S:S im a noob

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and below post 71, is a zip file, which i downloaded, it has a config file, shal i use that to replace the one in n900? and if yes, is there a way ?

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there are different wys for that.for example leafpad.
i use midnight commander.its a good working file explorer with many functions.
download it go xterm.
type
root
mc (thats cause midnight commander needs root to edit system files)
then go to your conky conf tap on edit,erease the old code tap on the upper bar and push "paste" (you have to copy james code first)
then exit and don't forget to save,type this in xterm:
sudo gainroot
echo bq27x00_battery >> /etc/modules
reboot and you are finish;)

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cute explorer is crap you can't paste code to system files with it

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from my n900 browser i copied the entire code by pressin CTRL C and now i erased every thing in the conky config file via MC, but when i press CRTL V, its not pasting, and in the edit there is no paste option, any idea what i can do ?

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hope ur not to busy, but im in crises causse i erased all the text in the file, and not able to paste the code from the browser on n900 ....

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no problem dude.you have to paste it with the upper bar.
there should be written something like mc@root n900.
tap on it and there is a paste button.

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okay man done, i coppied the entire code from 1st line till last, pasted it, but when i say save, it says " SAVE AS" some options, i dont change any thing, then i hit ok, it says "CANNOT SAVE" any idea whats wrong now ?

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are you sure your opened midnight commander as root?
don't use the icon from the menu.you have to give mc root permissions.
xterm and
root then
mc

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my deaar firend, people like u are prudent minds, thanks so much, i finally got it working... i was forgeting the root thing, realy really appricitae ur paitence and help.... THANKS A LOT !

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no problem

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You're probably shortening the life of your N900 significantly by overclocking it like that, but i guess you already know that

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Only true if you overclock above 1000Mhz. The Cortex A8 was made to run from 600Mhz, minimum, to 1000Mhz, safe maximum.

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There were variants made that were officially spec'd to scale to 1ghz, those included in the N900 are the 550-600mhz variant. Yes most of the A8s in N900 will scale up to 1ghz but not all will.

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I don't wanna say you're wrong, but where'd you read that?

I just checked ARM's site, as far as it's concerned, the Cortex A8 is a variant in the Cortex-A series, four variants are available - A5, A8, A9, A15. There's only one Cortex-A8 available on their site, and it says

It's clock speed is set by the manufacturer - Nokia chose 600Mhz - probably to try to stretch out the battery.

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you know the whole reason i decided to customize the conky source was so people wouldn't need to do that anymore... just type ${battery_temp} and save your cpu cycles. you guys are going to get that version eventually so you might as well get used to it :)

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You can easily do this with Desktop Command Execution Widget.

The command will be:

And yeah, you must enable (if not yet) bq27x00_battery module to make this command work

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Even if the processor itself is safe, there is the matter of the other hardware components that interact with it. For example the other day I learned while at the IRC channel that the controller for the internal memory gets stressed out beyond specs if you OC the processor.

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True, but most users, as in like 99% of users who've been overclocked for months seem okay. Plus, as long as you don't set the limits to the same number, say /usr/sbin/kernel-config limits 1000 1000, most of the time it's clocked at 0.