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jonmchugh

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hello. I just rooted my eris using froyo v34. i can't figure out how to install setcpu that i downloaded from xda. when i went to the application settings i cant check the box allow non makert apps. how else do I install it?

thanks.
 
jonmchugh said:
hello. I just rooted my eris using froyo v34. i can't figure out how to install setcpu that i downloaded from xda. when i went to the application settings i cant check the box allow non makert apps. how else do I install it?

thanks.
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If you feel that you must overclock your CPU, I'd like to advise you to acquire SetCPU from Market, as the developer of that app requests at the top of his XDA page:

SetCPU for Root Users [2.0.3] It's over nine thousand 09/03/2010 - xda-developers

"ROM developers: Please do not include SetCPU in your ROM. I appreciate the work you're doing, but link to this thread instead, and I'd really appreciate it if you mention that SetCPU is available on the Android Market."

The note is to devs, but the message is a good one for users like us as well. ;)

Market downloads install automatically, and you don't have to worry about whether or not you're doing it correctly, just be sure to understand how to configure SetCPU:

SetCPU for Root Users
 
jonmchugh said:
hello. I just rooted my eris using froyo v34. i can't figure out how to install setcpu that i downloaded from xda. when i went to the application settings i cant check the box allow non makert apps.
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Wow, I've never had that happen to me.

I agree with Frisco - you should just buy it, if you are going to use it, if only to keep getting updates. That said, I stopped using SetCPU in Kaos Froyo completely, and I am getting both better performance and better battery life without it since I stopped. KF is clocked at 245/710 by default without using SetCPU.
 
doogald said:
Wow, I've never had that happen to me.

I agree with Frisco - you should just buy it, if you are going to use it, if only to keep getting updates. That said, I stopped using SetCPU in Kaos Froyo completely, and I am getting both better performance and better battery life without it since I stopped. KF is clocked at 245/710 by default without using SetCPU.
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Frisco said:
+1 (as you know ;))
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lol - I'm not really sure that you two are saying the same thing.
Doogald says here that he's OK with an overclock of 710 - the KF default. Frisco normally says that he doesn't overclock at all because he doesn't see much, if any, increase in speed (to which I agree).
:D
 
mhotovec said:
lol - I'm not really sure that you two are saying the same thing.
Doogald says here that he's OK with an overclock of 710 - the KF default. Frisco normally says that he doesn't overclock at all because he doesn't see much, if any, increase in speed (to which I agree).
:D
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In the past I was actually using SetCPU to clock at either 604 or 528 max (depending on my mood), and to underclock with screen off at 19.2 min. All that said, with no SetCPU I am getting better battery life with a faster max speed and faster min speed while the phone is sleeping. Hence, I now recommend that you install a ROM that overclocks by default if you want OC, rather than use SetCPU to force it.
 
If you downloaded SetCPU already, you install it using Astro File Manager. This is a free app from the Market.

If you downloaded the app straight to your phone, just go to your browser's downloads and click on it. It will install.

If you downloaded it to your computer, just transfer it to your SD card and then use Astro File Manager to find and install it.
 
Kaos Froyo doesn't really "need" either SetCPU or Autokiller imo. I did some comparison tests and found that by removing both apps I actually got equal or higher Linpack and Quadrant scores.
 
Smacky, you forgot the 'period'.
Yes, you need to have a task killer, period! :)

Of course you're wrong about that, but it's OK with us if you go on believing it... ;)
 
Back to the original question about SetCPU for a minute.....I'm inclined to wonder if the apk the OP downloaded was corrupted. It'd be worth checking to see if the md5 value is correct.

As to task killers, I haven't made up mind one way or the other as to their value or lack thereof. Personally, I stopped using them because for some reason I found them really annoying.

As to SetCPU. Off the top of my head, I can't think of one ROM I like/use that isn't already overclocked by default. I only use it to underclock somewhat when the screen is off and to set a temperature-based failsafe since alot of my use is in the car and the phone is in a mount (i.e. I can't actually feel if the battery is getting overly warm).
 
mhotovec said:
lol - I'm not really sure that you two are saying the same thing.
Doogald says here that he's OK with an overclock of 710 - the KF default. Frisco normally says that he doesn't overclock at all because he doesn't see much, if any, increase in speed (to which I agree).
:D
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I don't use 2.2 ROMs as default, only testing them (much less so now) for the devs and community.

Zero overclocking, be it kernel or SetCPU, needed on my device. ;)

Sorry to be a stick in the mud. :D
 
Go to the market and download OverclockWidget.

Does the same thing as SetCPU and it's free.
 
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