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My Droid is running at 1GHZ

Go to tasmanian_droid's section at alldroid, and find the thread about 800MHz being stable. All the files you need are on the first page. If your wifi breaks after flashing his kernel, you need to replace your wifi driver with the one he provides. Those instructions are also floating around somewhere.
 
Fact is you can't argue this doesn't affect your phone. Mine is blazing. GDE is fluid, pinch to zoom is better than 3gs (finally, sad we need this much horse for it) , and i got another day of Heavy use out of this phone, and it was at 30% when I got it to the charger -- it Does Not kill the battery with proper profiles.

This is a great boon for droids so far and I would highly recommend it to my little brother. Apps load almost instantly now. It will only be better when we get a cyno-esque jit rom, apparently. I will let anyone know if i get any issues, but my battery was fine, and my performance phenominal.

The Only issue I had was with home++, for some reason it crashed often when I first booted, so i just swapped to GDE. It may have been a fluke -- far from controlled experiment. Not ONE crash, reboot, etc (other than this one with home++), using this plus sholes 1.2 rom.

So yeah, enjoy. Oh and to the bitterz, its not bragging -- I didn't do it i don't develop anything for the public on android, I was just posting here to get more people to try it out -- I know if i missed it i would have wanted to know.
 
ok, so when ya think we will get a better rom for it? i would be excited for that, wait for it instead haha. i don't have adb push etc, got win 7, its rough on me.
 
I'm too skerred to OC at the moment, I have the smoked glass ROM v2.5 which takes me up to 600mhz, don't really notice a difference.

Are you guys seeing noticeable speed differences? I mean yea it might benchmark well but do you notice a difference in how the phone is functioning.. THAT'S THE QUESTION THAT NEEDS TO BE ANSWERED...

Too much flaming going on... Puppy might die.
 
VtotheZ said:
I'm too skerred to OC at the moment, I have the smoked glass ROM v2.5 which takes me up to 600mhz, don't really notice a difference.

Are you guys seeing noticeable speed differences? I mean yea it might benchmark well but do you notice a difference in how the phone is functioning.. THAT'S THE QUESTION THAT NEEDS TO BE ANSWERED...

Too much flaming going on... Puppy might die.
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Couple people have mentioned the real-world effects on performance. Short answer, yes, everything is snappier.

To the guy asking about a ROM. On the thread in question someone posted a nandroid backup you can boot to if you are uncomfortable using flash_image. Though so you know i use adb all the time on windows 7 machines. And you don't need push. just put it on your sdcard and do the rest from the shell
 
so i guess i will have to research the shell and adb etc... cause i am confused. haha, guess i will figure it out. i will check the nandroid backup of it! will it work on my 2.1?
 
If you're having issues getting your droid overclocked pm one of the guys in the thread who mentioned it working. I'm not 100% sure on this forums policies for outlining this stuff, or linking etc. And it will keep the thread clear.
 
true, sorry about that, i did pm a few, guess i will just wait for replies, its pretty cool that this can happen! I am excited. woo
 
running the new "Bugless Beast" by pete and it is the best experience i have had with my droid so far, WOW
 
jmccarthy14 said:
If you'd like to try it, check your normal ROM website for droid.

It allows up to 1ghz clock. I personally have profiles set for a little lower for most times, but its running fine at 1ghz.

droid does, i guess
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I've checked xda-developers, somehow this OC'ing of Droid is not yet done.
 
Hmmm - Although I am all for OCing (Hell, I got a 50% OC on my Q6600 - Can' argue on a quad core rated for 2.4 GHz running at 3.6 :D) but I am not so sure I want to do it on my phone - maybe up to 800, certainly not much past that - I hate performance drops, any performance drops at all, even intangible ones.
 
johnlgalt said:
...maybe up to 800, certainly not much past that - I hate performance drops, any performance drops at all, even intangible ones.
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I had those very thoughts myself. But once I tasted the sweet fruit of 800 ... I just had to go to 900. And then . . . aw what the heck? I'll just "try" 1000 for a few minutes. ;) And now, I am a hooked DOG! And with setCPU, it's not like it's running at 1000 constantly. Just when it needs to. :D
 
OK, screw it...I think I want to do this now. I have never rooted my phone. Should I go through and root (say to 2.1) first, then do the kernal deal? Or should I do it all at once...I can produce a mean over clock on PC, but have never done it on a mobile device, so be gentle..lol
 
dmodert66 said:
OK, screw it...I think I want to do this now. I have never rooted my phone. Should I go through and root (say to 2.1) first, then do the kernal deal? Or should I do it all at once...I can produce a mean over clock on PC, but have never done it on a mobile device, so be gentle..lol
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I recommend the sholes 1.2 rom, or at least a stock 2.0.1 rom with most of the 2.1 apps (not launcher). 2.1 roms out aren't up to speed yet, and with all the 2.1 apps there is little reason for going there.

Even the nexus supposedly runs quicker on 2.0.1
 
ajm144k said:
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!
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I'd be glad to. It's going to be an hour or two, but this time of the night, most everyone who is interested is probably in bed anyway. lol.

Battery life takes a hit, but not as big of a hit as I had originally thought. Running GPS and Pandora/lastfm while I am driving (I drive for a living) at night usually leaves me with 30% battery life when I get home. (4 hours a night). Tonight when I got home, it was at 10%. I was expecting the battery to be completely dead when I got home.



aleksander said:
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.;)
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Here is another thought for you... most overclockers agree that PC CPUs are rating for a life expectancy of around 10 years. If overclocking shortens the life of a CPU to even half what it was intended for, most people who overclock will have replaced it before then. That's why it is a risk they are willing to take.

My thought on the matter is that phones are probably rated much the same way. Certain life expectancy and certain acceptable failure rate. Even if the phone is intended to last two years, cutting that time in half wouldn't hurt me... I replace my phones yearly anyway. Since it is currently overclocked to 1ghz and I'm not seeing anything out of place... and the temps look fine (40-42 degrees c under full usage for 4+ hours), then the risk of failure is something I am willing to accept in order to have the added performance gains. To each their own on that one, though. Everyone is different when it comes to weighing risks against rewards.

The other big thing to consider is this: everything in the consumer industry is designed as a compromise. What will meet the needs of the largest portion of their buying public without sacrificing too much? In the world of cell phones, battery life is pretty high up on the priority list for most people. If I can almost completely drain my battery in about 4 hours with this clock... a lot of people would say that is completely unacceptable. Does that mean I need the longer battery life? No. My needs differ from others. That is the whole point in customization of anything you want to talk about. It is a way to take something and make it better fit your personal needs.
 
Well when I'm using navigation in my car I always have it plugged in and charging. When I have my phone at work, its about 50% by the time I get home. Well see how it will be this weekend when I work to see if its less.
 
just took the jump, installed evilboot8.img, figured i would start off slow, its faster! it seems faster! i dunno, we will see, made the nandroid backup so, just in case! hope it doesn't ruin anything but i can't imagine if some are at 1gig and it aint destroying it than my 800 won't hurt me for a bit, i doubt i will jump to 9, we will see!
 
Booting. Left is 1ghz clock and 2.1 (greek v2 ROM), and the one on the right is stock clock with 2.0.1.

YouTube - 0127000352.3g2


A couple of other random actions

YouTube - 0127000357.3g2


Although I am fully aware this is going to sound like an excuse, I should also point out that the Greek35 v2 rom was VERY slow on stock clock. (other greek ROM users probably know this already.) I'm looking forward to doing a straight up side-by-side of stock vs overclocked once the official 2.1 drops.
 
cool videos, start time doesnt change much, guess we will see how things all work. i think i am going to make a vid sometime soon, just personal, i usually update when i have changed something, gets about 500 views, pretty good feeling
 
First I want to say that Joe got me sucked into his Sweeter Home campaign, saying how awsome it is, while I'm having slow-ass problems with it, and here I find he's buzzin' along @ 1GH! (Curse you, Messenger13, curse you!) :D

Now some questions coming from a novice at overclocking Intel chips;
I'm happy with the speed of my Droid, but wouldn't mind a faster browser, etc. Can the CPU profiling app OC app-specific & then return once the specified app is closed? How about when the screen times out?
-Which brings me to this question; Can you underclock with it?
I'd be more apt to play with overclocking profiles if I knew I could have an underclocking profile, with the *current assumption that voltage use is linearly proportional to CPU speed (*no pun intended).

And then...
Will there be any progress on an under-volting front, emphasis being on complete customizable CPU speed & voltage that works for the individuals' needs?
I use RMClock for my old Dothan to regulate stepping and voltage. My behemoth 17" laptop gets over 50% more battery life than it did new, with no underclocking, all just voltage regulation. You just decrease voltage, run a series of endurance runs to see where your blow-chunx @ low voltage threshold is, and back her off a bit. So just because I get 50% more MPG outta my lappie means nothing for the Droid, but I figure if the Droids CPU can be OCed 66%, it might have significant capability in this other department, as well.
We could conceivably end up with 300-1kGH variable profiles with 24 HR battery times.;)
 
saxman1212 said:
here is the link to that
OverClock Droid CPU

and it doesn't say DUMB it just says most stable
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Thanks for the link, saxman --

Could one of you technical masters review these instructions? If a complete newbie attempted the directions here and followed them precisely, would these directions be sufficient -- or are there a few things left out that could cause a few problems?

I'm willing to give it a shot... :rolleyes:
 
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