Mod81

Is there anyway to reliably find out how many cores are enabled in the Android build on my T95? Aida64 and a few other apps ive installed all show 4 cores, but i have seen while looking online that some dodgy Chinese Android ROMS are set up to report fake info to make them seem better than they really are.

It appears that my T95 box was only running at 1.49Ghz (not 1.8Ghz) under Android according to a CPU info app I installed. So I set Armbian to run at that CPU speed by changing the value in cpufrequtils file but that didn't resolve the overheating problem in Armbian as I had hoped. My next solution was to add maxcpus=2 into /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf and that did keep the temperatures low enough to stop the box overheating and shutting down. Even after a 15 min stress test of both cores running at 100% the box remained stable at a temperature of about 85C. But obviously this was at the expense of loosing 2 CPU cores and when it did get to 85C it has to throttle the CPU speed down to about 1Ghz - 800mhz. But I would much prefer to have a stable box with only 2 cores than a 4 core one that is overheating. I tried maxcpus=3 hoping I might get one more core going but the temps soon got up to similar as with all 4 cores enabled and the box shutdown after only a few mins of stress testing. So 2 cores is the sweet spot for my box apparently. I still think there is some software issue here though as unless they have set up the Android build to report fake info, then its running all 4 cores under Android at 1.49Ghz and not having any overheating problems.

I have also experienced the issue of my T95 mini hitting 90C + and under both Armbian and LibreElec its caused the system to first throttle the CPU down to 400mnz and then eventually shutdown. Yet the load on the CPU was not that high maybe 30% utilisation. I think that maybe both of these OS are getting incorrect readings from the temperature sensor. As when I ran a CPU stress test on Android I left it maxing out the CPU for over 15 minutes i got a maximum of 91C for a few seconds then it dropped back to the 80s temperature as the cpu throttled to a lower speed. Is there a way of altering the temperature value that Armbian will throttle and then shutdown the system? As i believe its doing so prematurely as I haven't experienced any crashes or shutdowns of the same box running Android.