This Android OEM could let you easily overclock or underclock your phone
Tuning phone chips like it's 2013 again — Xiaomi may bring back granular CPU frequency control for true power users.
Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority
- Strings found in MIUI firmware suggest Xiaomi is developing a ‘Chip performance dashboard’ feature.
- This dashboard would allow users to adjust CPU and GPU frequencies and voltages within safe parameters.
- Changes would require a reboot and will undergo system checks to ensure that the phone works well enough.
Most Android flagships these days come with overkill processors, and frankly, most of us don’t need that much processing power for our everyday tasks. SoCs inside the phones can dynamically adjust their performance based on various parameters, but outside of gaming modes offered on some phones, there’s no way for a user to dictate just how much processing power is available to them. That could soon change, as an Android OEM is working on giving power users the ability to adjust CPU and GPU frequency and more on the fly!
Leaker Kacper Skrzypek spotted strings within MIUI that suggest that Xiaomi is working on a CPU tuning feature.
