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Post #2967415

2026-05-30 12:00 UTC

Can I overclock an android tablet with termux? Say, by sending some value to something inside /sys/.../cpu or the likes. I have already aggressively debloated the tablet, but I like to experiment and I am not afraid to destroy the tablet since I bought it for 150 bucks at sale. Or pehaps there is some Magisk module that can do this? The tablet is a Samsung Galaxy A9+.

Replies (7)

  • @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-30 12:27

    Not on stock ROM. IIRC back when I was messing woth that kind of thing, you needed a custom kernel.

    Open ##2968146

  • @vapor_body@lemmy.ml 2026-05-30 13:45

    I’m surprised that worked since Termux has so many permissions and process # limits and stuff on stock Android. Is it permanent? Semi-permanent if you avoid losing ADB/Shizuku with restart?

    Open ##2969959

  • @MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-05-30 15:11

    Thanks, i’ll try this on my anemic E-reader (Kobo Boox Leaf). It’s a bit painful to run full LineageOS. But will likely affect battery i guess?

    Open ##2970906

  • @nocteb@feddit.org 2026-05-30 16:01

    You simply disabled the power management.

    Open ##2971940

  • @gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 2026-05-30 20:35

    Usually (on laptops anyway) setting the performance governor only marginally increases performance and/or latency, while massively increasing battery usage. This is because the default behavior of ondemand governor is, almost always, to go to max clock speed practically instantly when there’s actual work to do. In theory it can even have detrimental effect, especially with passive cooling (which I assume an Android tablet would have), because the CPU will throttle automatically if it gets too warm, and disabling power saving features means it’ll run generally hotter.

    Open ##2976641

  • @dessalines@lemmy.ml 2026-05-31 02:38

    What’s your use case for doing this.

    Open ##2982660

  • @AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 2026-05-31 13:04

    Interesting. I’m sure heat and battery life are noticeably affected. If not very noticeably, I think significantly anyhow I recently got some Galaxy Note 10” 2014 units, and I am trying to get the very best out of it. I hadn’t even known about them. The early Galaxy Note phones were terrific, but still a phone size. Then there are the Galaxy Tab models which basically deals with the size issue but not really designed specifically for what I wanted. This thing is just a very enlarged Note 4. On a couple of them, I put TWRP and custom ROM, while on one of them I kept the stock ROM with its last update, bringing it to Android 5.x. It runs the old school Adobe PS Touch, Snapseed, Sketchbook, S-Note, and a handful of other graphics apps. They all run beautifully and it’s my almost-perfect art device. Rooted and debloated, of course. I’m gonna see how these modified units do on eBay. I think my long-winded rambling point is that rather than kill your battery and possibly cause severe wear on your device, maybe find one that can use a custom ROM, or at least Root and optimizing by shutting off tons of bloat.

    Open ##3262306