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My Droid is running at 1GHZ

Fadelight said:
Oh and nice trolling. Giving me negative rep for disagreeing with me?
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I gave you red rep cause your statements demonstrate fundamental misunderstandings of overclocking and your claims as if they are truth potentially can damage peoples' devices

Its nothing personal.
 
I have my droid overclocked to 3Ghz it's "Fast" the battery lasts 15 minutes (that's long enough for me) my phone is a little warm, smokes a little too but my boot screen comes up in like 5 seconds.

I just might try for 4 Ghz tonight...oh yea your a moron and a flamer if you don't agree with me.

Uh oh my phone quite working I wonder if Verizon will exchange with a big black scorch mark under the battery?
 
deeznuts2 said:
No, I gave you negative rep cause most of your statements are utter BS and clearly reflect a misunderstanding of overclocking and performance boosts, which this thread is about, and therefore further perpetuate wrong information being shared.

I'm sorry if red rep causes you a case of severe butt hurt

This thread should be locked as it contains a world of misinformation

EDIT: Then again, it should remain open - it provides some good laughs
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That was your original post. you should leave it up so everyone else can see how you are claiming it wasn't personal.

Have you read the forum rules lately?

phases said:
Please don't make pointless rude/nonconstructive replies.
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scott5626 said:
I have my droid overclocked to 3Ghz it's "Fast" the battery lasts 15 minutes (that's long enough for me) my phone is a little warm, smokes a little too but my boot screen comes up in like 5 seconds.

I just might try for 4 Ghz tonight...oh yea your a moron and a flamer if you don't agree with me.

Uh oh my phone quite working I wonder if Verizon will exchange with a big black scorch mark under the battery?
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Gotta link to the 3Ghz boot image?
 
deeznuts2 said:
No, I gave you negative rep cause most of your statements are utter BS and clearly reflect a misunderstanding of overclocking and performance boosts, which this thread is about, and therefore further perpetuate wrong information being shared.

I'm sorry if red rep causes you a case of severe butt hurt

This thread should be locked as it contains a world of misinformation

EDIT: Then again, it should remain open - it provides some good laughs
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It is one thing to disagree with your fellow member, but posting derogatory, flaming, condescending inappropriate language is quite another.
So cool it or a vacation will commence.

TS out
 
I'm surprising there is overclocking on Android phone. Apart from the apparent CPU clock speed, what do we gain actually by overclocking?
 
twospirits said:
It is one thing to disagree with your fellow member, but posting derogatory, flaming, condescending inappropriate language is quite another.
So cool it or a vacation will commence.

TS out
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Sorry, but nothing I said falls into those categories. If you are referring to "butt hurt" then well, thats just a silly thing for mods to get all up in arms about. Give me a vacation if you want. I called out someone's BS - if that is a violation of the rules, so be it.
 
This is an awesome thread...I want to try this...but I will wait awhile to see how everything pans out :) thanks to all those experimenting!
 
Five hours running at 1G while editing my Sweeter Home theme and testing Pete's 0.8.2 ROM.
Fast! ... Responsive! ... Smoooooth. :cool:


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gonzoguy24 said:
This is an awesome thread...I want to try this...but I will wait awhile to see how everything pans out :) thanks to all those experimenting!
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I don't think there really will be any true resolution to the debate. There are a number of benchmark tests that can and have been run (see previous posts).

Overclocking voids your warranty. Of course there will be someone replying "how can they tell?" - I don't work for VZW so I don't know exactly how they tell whether someone is messing with the hardware (though a fried chip probably doesn't help one's argument). If its something you don't mind, then by all means, feel free to experiment.

I've been overclocking processors for close to 20 years. If done right (along with other component modifications), net gains can be significant.

On a phone, such gains are less likely noticeable in day to day operations, rather can only be seen on benchmark tests. Since there are really no apps that take full potential of the droid's or nexus' processor, any gains are more in one's head.
 
Fadelight-


can u make a video of the two Droids, so we can see the differences? booting up, opening and using a couple apps. nothing crazy.

itd be helpful to give some insight into the difference in baterry life between the two. maybe compare 550 mhz to 800 mhz (as it seems there's a slight consensus 800 mhz is a happy medium between stock and raging 1+ ghz).


then we can let the video speak for itself, whether its actually worth overclocking!
 
oh man!!! :( and here i am waiting for the mods to come back and say something about the ongoing argument... :o...i guess they're going soft on our fellow members :D

**to stay on topic... i do think that 800 mHz is more than sufficient to keep your device running smoothly and snappy.
 
aleksander said:
i do think that 800 mHz is more than sufficient to keep your device running smoothly and snappy.
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Frankly, I was "impressed" running at 800. A few things even felt smoother at 900. But I decided to try 1K, and I don't think I can turn back. My Sweeter Home theme is SICK, I have approx. 140 apps, and this thing is running better than a bare bones stock DROID. No force closes. No reboots. Nothing weird. No heat issues. I am totally amazed. Wow!
 
messenger13 said:
Frankly, I was "impressed" running at 800. A few things even felt smoother at 900. But I decided to try 1K, and I don't think I can turn back. My Sweeter Home theme is SICK, I have approx. 140 apps, and this thing is running better than a bare bones stock DROID. No force closes. No reboots. Nothing weird. No heat issues. I am totally amazed. Wow!
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...wow! indeed. :)

but just a thought. (no flame intended.) engineering is there for a reason..and if the device wasn't set to 1GHz...again there must be a pretty good damn reason for it too.

i don't know just my thought.;)
 
This sounds good! I think I am going to wait just a bit to see how things shake out, but I am looking forward to doing this!

I wish people who don't know/understand overclocking (PC or Phone) would not make such rash statements about this. All that should be said as a warning is "Do this at your own risk", but that goes with rooting anyway...
 
here is a question I need to ask before I do this:

1: on PC's the most tasking thing is booting, so If i overclock too much ill crash at boot, change my bios setting and try again.. what option is there if this thing fails to finish boot due to too high of a OC?

2: What is this kernal thing everyone mentions.. I found the program on the market for $1.99, is that the right one? what else do I need?
 
Been running at 900mhz for over 24 hours, my phone can't handle 1ghz and refuses to boot because not all processors are made the same.

Performance:
Huge performance increases in scrolling, screen switching on home, and huge huge improvements in browser performance. Also using the video hack my phone can now handle 30fps 8mb/s birtate h.264 and the video footage is amazing quality, before overclocking i would get a lot of stutters. When many apps are open switching between apps is much smoother. Obviously benchmarks are faster except neocore because from what I understand neocore doesnt support PowerVR. Some things that are not affected at all between 550mhz and 900mhz that I have tested :

Snesoid (snes emulator)
(I'll add more as I continue to update if you would like for me to test an app let me know)

Battery:
Unplugged my phone this morning at 9:00am eastern and have used it for 15 hours with min frequency set at 550mhz and max at 900mhz, while on sleep/standby i have frequencies set at min 125mhz and max 250mhz... and as of right now I'm at 5% battery life. This is with pretty decent usage, lots of web browsing, lots of benchmark testing because it makes me excited seeing my droid smoke my friends droid who refuses to root.
 
k, i am running on 2.1, i didn't install any images, i am using setcpu from the market, don't i need a special kernel? and if i do decide to use an image, will it reset my phone to 2.0.1 or something?
 
radikal said:
k, i am running on 2.1, i didn't install any images, i am using setcpu from the market, don't i need a special kernel? and if i do decide to use an image, will it reset my phone to 2.0.1 or something?
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I believe I read that this should work with 2.1 as well. You'll need to modified overclocking kernel though. It is easily installed as a nandroid backup, just make sure you only restore the 'BOOT' partition.

Without the special kernel, SetCPU is useless, as it only lets you go up to 550, which is the default speed.
 
where and how can i get that kernel? i found one, and it won't let me install it. but not sure if its the right one or if it needs to be adb pushed? or...
 
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