Underclock CPU to save battery? [Snapdragon 660, MIUI 10]


chrisdealemania

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Does any have experience with editing the available CPU frequencies? I want to go to a lower frequency than 1113 GHz. So, the opposite of overclocking. From what I understand, it requires either editing the kernel or getting an entirely different one - which I am not capable of doing myself.
As it bugs me (and probably you) how fast the battery drains on Mi 6x, I looked in the CPU settings.

As it looks:
CPU 0 to 3 run on a minimum frequency of 633 GHz each. (or 1 to 4 depending on how its being read)
CPU 4 to 7 run on a minimum frequency of a whopping 1113 GHz each. (or 5 to 8 depending how its being read)

When I put the phone into standby, it continues to run on 1113 GHz on 4 cores. So, is it surprising that Mi 6x drains battery? No. (In addition to a massive screen that requires extra battery, in addition to a smaller battery... very smart engineering here) Imagine you'd put your laptop into standby and it would continue to work with half its processor speed. Not acceptable.
 

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