Like I said before, from a logical standpoint, there have to be 3 different profiles.
1. Power Saving -> clocks are mostly low and never switch to highest rates (50-75% max.), switching to higher rates late
2. Normal/Balanced -> clocks switch between low and high, try to stay low but switch high when needed
3. Performance -> clocks stay (mostly) high, lower rates only after a few idle seconds
That's roughly what should happen. Do you see my point?
I'm with you, seems a bit odd to remove one of the modes now. Be interested to know what the new modes actually do.
From what I remember the three modes where...
1. Power Saving - in this mode cpu always ran at the lower speed.
2. Normal - in this mode it ran at the lower speed and then switched to the higher speed when under load.
3. Performance - in this mode it always ran at full speed. 1.7GHz
As most phones over the last couple of years are so overspec'd for the majority of uses, my Mi2S spent probably 90% of it's time running the slower clocks in power saving mode. I'd only switch it to normal/perf when doing s/w updates and for the odd more demanding games.
I'm wondering (or at least hoping) that they may have got rid of the performance mode and just moved the other two up?
As if not, as above, it will mean there is now way to force it to stay at the lower speed and that it'll possibly keep ramping up to full speed when ever it is being used.