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My Droid is running at 1GHZ

messenger13 said:
I know you're joking, but for the sake of others...

And they would know this how? All they know is upon inspection, it appears that my phone wasn't abused, physically damaged, or dropped in water. They keep old DROID, I get new DROID, end of story.

CPUs do die of natural causes. Rare, but it happens. Besides, they wouldn't even investigate far enough to know if it was a fried CPU, or some other failure; i.e. motherboard, power supply, etc...
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They will actually investigate far enough to know the CPU is fried. When you send a phone back for warranty replacement it gets completely torn down until they find what is wrong. They do this so they can replace what is damaged and ship it back out to someone as a refurb. If you fry the CPU and it wont boot they will go straight to the board to see what is wrong with it. If you do get caught you will be charged full retail for the phone which is $559.99 and it can take anywhere from 2-6 months, in rare cases sometimes longer, to show up on your bill. I'm not saying you will definitely be charged but my company has to do at least 5-10 warranty replacements with Verizon a month with multiple smart phones. Out of all the warranty replacements we send back probably 10% of them have something wrong with them that isn't covered by warranty and we get charged full retail, mostly for hidden water damage or modified OS's.

source: I worked for a company that refurbished phones for multiple carriers and asurion.

source 2: My company was charged $500 for a XV6700, 8 months after we did a warranty replacement because the employee that was using it had installed a modified ROM and the phone died.
 
rockstar323 said:
They will actually investigate far enough to know the CPU is fried. When you send a phone back for warranty replacement it gets completely torn down until they find what is wrong.
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Yep, this is exactly what I was referring to, I just didn't have anything to back it up with.

Just because you can
 
AndroidsOfTara said:
First, I've not rooted my Droid yet much less overclocked it.

However, yes, people are doing this to make their Droids faster, more responsive, whatever.

What's wrong with that if they're willing to take the risk?

Having used my Droid and a N1 (returned) side by side for a few days, I would most certainly like my Droid to be as fast as the N1.

My plan is to wait for the official 2.1 update, see what that does for performance and then decide if I want to OC the Droid.... after watching this forum to see if there are any reports of failed OC Droids.
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+1....That used to be my plan too.

Now I'm just bored and chomping at the bit to do more with my phone. Somebody point me to some new app or something....

But now I'm reading that 2.0.1 is faster than 2.1. I don't know what to do
 
But yes, its noticibly faster, as it should be at over 2x the clock. The zoom on the RC3 multitouch browser is flawless, apps open instantly, and things that took seconds before are now having no noticible delay. For me, it is definately worth it. And so far, I've been running at 1.1 all day with no issue. It really is the settings you put on your phone.
 
DroidJnkie said:
ONE MONTH LATER:

Verizon Rep: Hello. How are you today?
Joe: Good, I just had a quick question.
Verizon Rep: Great. What can we do for you today?
Joe: I wanted to know why I was charged $500 on my account?
Verizon Rep: OK, sorry to hear about that. Let me check ... oh, I see that upon inspection, it was noted that you FRIED YOUR FREAKING PHONE!!!
Joe: OK ... thanks.

:p
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A lot of people seem skeptical of this OC business, but OMAP 3430 was designed to run at 550 - 1100MHz, it was set at 550 for the best balance of leakage(performance) and battery life. Tipping the scale to 1GHz seems to be working fine with no real detectable battery consumption. I am running SETCPU app to bring the CPU down to 125MHz during standby. I also do NOT have any heat issues. In an Intel CPU upping the bus frequency = more heat while upping the multiplier = not much increase in heat just better performance... but multiplier is usually locked in Intel's unless you are rich and you can afford the Extreme Edition.... i'd assume ARM was unlocked? who knows. bu no issues!
 
michaelearth said:
Heres my question, Once you Overclock and say it works perfectly fine for a month or so and then one day you wake up and find out that you CPU is completely fried. Then what? What would you tell Verizon?

I'm not trying to be rude (I cant wait to OC my droid) but i'm just wondering what would happen.

Thanks
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Is it really that hard for you to think of an answer?
How about , my droid doesnt work, I need a replacement!
 
rockstar323 said:
They will actually investigate far enough to know the CPU is fried. When you send a phone back for warranty replacement it gets completely torn down until they find what is wrong. They do this so they can replace what is damaged and ship it back out to someone as a refurb. If you fry the CPU and it wont boot they will go straight to the board to see what is wrong with it. If you do get caught you will be charged full retail for the phone which is $559.99 and it can take anywhere from 2-6 months, in rare cases sometimes longer, to show up on your bill. I'm not saying you will definitely be charged but my company has to do at least 5-10 warranty replacements with Verizon a month with multiple smart phones. Out of all the warranty replacements we send back probably 10% of them have something wrong with them that isn't covered by warranty and we get charged full retail, mostly for hidden water damage or modified OS's.
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I am not questioning your story and experience for a second. But here's my experience. Where I work, about once every 3 months we have to call our Verizon rep for a replacement phone due to damage. They ship us a new phone overnight, and they don't even ask for the old phone in return. Perhaps we spend more than your company, I don't know. But I'm not too too concerned with damaging my DROID because of this relationship we have with our Verizon rep.
 
jmccarthy14 said:
But yes, its noticibly faster, as it should be at over 2x the clock. The zoom on the RC3 multitouch browser is flawless, apps open instantly, and things that took seconds before are now having no noticible delay. For me, it is definately worth it. And so far, I've been running at 1.1 all day with no issue. It really is the settings you put on your phone.
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Sorry if this was already asked I have only read about half the thread. But I was wondering if you have put it through any stress tests?

Also, is it safe to assume that this processor would shut itself down like an intel processor would when it gets too hot therefore (hopefully) mitigating the risk of frying it?
 
messenger13 said:
Perhaps we spend more than your company, I don't know. But I'm not too too concerned with damaging my DROID because of this relationship we have with our Verizon rep.
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Well, la-di-da! I sure hope that everyone has read your post. Not many of us have the luxury of being able to essentially get free phones when we snap our fingers for one.

I know my comment sounds a little combative, but it isn't. I just think that you are in the EXTREME minority here. So suggesting that everyone else merely gives a rats @$$ about what to say when they fry their phones might not be the best way to go.

Like the other poster mentioned, any phone you return is potentially a refurbished one for someone else. So of course they're going to strip down that puppy to find out what went wrong, and who's responsible.
 
alostpacket said:
Also, is it safe to assume that this processor would shut itself down like an intel processor would when it gets too hot therefore (hopefully) mitigating the risk of frying it?
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If there's NO risk in frying this thing .. well then, I'm going back down to stock! :mad:
 
Where is the "bugless .7.1 800mhz + wifi" file found? Is it here or on another site?

I flashed using the Evilboo8.img, and the wifi on my Droid isn't working. Is there a way to revert, or update to a new one?

Sorry to ask, but I 'neeeeed' wifi.


Thank in advance!
S
 
sghere said:
I flashed using the Evilboo8.img, and the wifi on my Droid isn't working. Is there a way to revert, or update to a new one?

Sorry to ask, but I 'neeeeed' wifi.
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The very same post (at the other site) that offered that image file had a fix for the WiFi as well. Only have to do it once, even if you flash other image files for more speed.
 
i've been playing around with my droid at 1GHz playing NESoid nonstop. Battery life doesn't seemed to have gone down much. I could run a test of playing it with and without the OCing. I haven't noticed any warming up of the phone either. But that may be because the chip isn't being overclocked by upping the voltage.
 
sghere said:
Where is the "bugless .7.1 800mhz + wifi" file found? Is it here or on another site?

I flashed using the Evilboo8.img, and the wifi on my Droid isn't working. Is there a way to revert, or update to a new one?

Sorry to ask, but I 'neeeeed' wifi.


Thank in advance!
S
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bugless rom is on alldroid in development/motorola/droid/pete
 
How would i go about OCing from 800 to 1ghz i bought the set CPU app from the market but it only lets me go to 550 and actually brngs it down and i have to restart to get back to 800mhz. i am running bugless beast
 
Kirch21 said:
How would i go about OCing from 800 to 1ghz i bought the set CPU app from the market but it only lets me go to 550 and actually brngs it down and i have to restart to get back to 800mhz. i am running bugless beast
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To fix your SetCPU problem, don't select 'Droid' as your device, just choose auto detect. That will let you adjust the sliders without screwing it up.

As for running at a higher frequency, you need to download either the boot image or a nandroid backup of the boot image that allows you to run at the higher speeds. Then SetCPU will detect these new frequencies and allow you to use them.

You can find those images at the same place you found the bugless beast ROM.
 
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