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Root Overclocking For A Beginner

Kamau

Kamau

Android Expert
I am trying to understand this thing called overclocking. From what I have seen, simply, it is pushing the processor to perform faster. Would this be accurate?
I rooted my Droid X the other day for the first time, and I have an app called Milestone Overclocking. Now, where I become a little fuzzy is understanding it, as it comes with little instructions. I am also wondering about the actual benefits I can achieve by using it.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
 
I think you'd do better with QuickClock, even if it's the free version.

The benefits of overclocking (fastest stable speed) is more performance. Undervolting (running on the minimum stable voltage), will get you better battery life.

Quickclock will help you determine both, then you just need to check for stability.
 
Ok, I installed the pro version of QuickClock and had it to calibrate itself. Here is the result, and tell me if it's good or so-so:

16 VSEL / 300MHz
1406 MHz max
 
I also had about 1406, but found 1300 iffy with the "balanced" profile. Maybe if I selected performance....

Bump up the stability buffer if you have crashes. I find playing games will be a good test for stability. If it's unstable, increase the stability buffer by one, then tap "calculate", then set the cpu again. You can take those numbers and enter them in any number of apps, like Droidx Overclock or SetCpu if you want to set profiles. The dev for QuickClock frequents this forum a lot and just having "QuickClock" in this post just about guarantees he'll be paying us a visit. :D

Pressing the menu button in QC will bring up a help window that will tell more how to use the app.
 
colchiro said:
I also had about 1406, but found 1300 iffy with the "balanced" profile. Maybe if I selected performance....

Bump up the stability buffer if you have crashes. I find playing games will be a good test for stability. If it's unstable, increase the stability buffer by one, then tap "calculate", then set the cpu again. You can take those numbers and enter them in any number of apps, like Droidx Overclock or SetCpu if you want to set profiles. The dev for QuickClock frequents this forum a lot and just having "QuickClock" in this post just about guarantees he'll be paying us a visit. :D

Pressing the menu button in QC will bring up a help window that will tell more how to use the app.
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I'm pretty sure the 16/300 1406 are just the min and max settings that it uses to calibrate you values. To the OP, I'd try the stock "balanced" settings and see how that works for you.
 
I'm trying the battery saver option first to see how that goes since battery life is just short of amuziamusing.
So far, I've played games, used the web, and just about everything in normally do, without any negative results.
 
Kamau said:
I'm trying the battery saver option first to see how that goes since battery life is just short of amuziamusing.
So far, I've played games, used the web, and just about everything in normally do, without any negative results.
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The battery saved profile will definitely help with battery life. If you have other questions just let us know.
 
Looks like you're right, I don't see a free version. Also, the price increased from 99 cents to $2.49 about 3 weeks ago.
 
yeah, i was interested in the auto calibration feature; but not interested enough to pay the price jump.

ive done enough playing with jrummys to get what i want.
 
faber78 said:
yeah, i was interested in the auto calibration feature; but not interested enough to pay the price jump.

ive done enough playing with jrummys to get what i want.
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Price jump was due to the amount of time and effort I put into the app increasing dramatically after the initial app for $1, but I respect your decision not to purchase nonetheless :)
 
Ok - Let me tell you from experience that I tried to get the 1300/1350mhz setting to be stable. I tried a lot - for a long time. And I just decided that I dont think a 30-40% overclock on a CPU that has 0 cooling, it wont be stable for any long period of time. It might work for a few hours or even days with nothing problematic, but when you go to use it for Nav or a phone call at the important time, and it decides to reboot, youll have that in the back of your mind, i wonder if it would have rebooted if i wasnt overclocked. That to me is worth clocking it around 1200/1250 where i can have it run those apps and be Stable for all apps Always. Obviously some are different and some can run high, i just dont think that the OC app is going to test it seriously enough that you can RELY on it for important tasks, just cause a math formula says "17V @ 300 = 1406mhz @ 80v" your gonna be pissed. Either leave it alone and do a minor OC or spend the time and adjust it manually.
Nothing against the app dev, i think he did a good job, I just think a lot of "newbs" are running SERIOUS overclocks and thinking the phone reboots a lot and not correlating that with the ridiculous amount of OC that hes projecting your phone can take. on a PC 10-15% is an AWESOME OC. Were looking at 30-40% for 1400 over 1000.
 
Ok, so I am having a little trouble with my phone now.
The videos and games are now a little choopy. Nothing spectacular, but noticible nonetheless. Could this be due to a setting in OC? I ask because the other day I was in it and accidentally hit the calibrate option. I'm not sure if I changed any settings, but I just redid the the whole set up from beginning to end. Now, as I said, things are abit choppy.
What can I do to get things back to normal?
 
Kamau said:
Ok, so I am having a little trouble with my phone now.
The videos and games are now a little choopy. Nothing spectacular, but noticible nonetheless. Could this be due to a setting in OC? I ask because the other day I was in it and accidentally hit the calibrate option. I'm not sure if I changed any settings, but I just redid the the whole set up from beginning to end. Now, as I said, things are abit choppy.
What can I do to get things back to normal?
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It is possible that you may need to bump up the voltage a little to get the performance back.
 
Airmaxx23 said:
It is possible that you may need to bump up the voltage a little to get the performance back.
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Ok, remembering that I am new to this all, I am assuming you are talking about the VSEL.
In the "CPU SPEED SCALE" page, there is this:

300MHz 19 VSEL
540MHz 32VSEL
720MHz 40VSEL
900MHz 49VSEL
Stability Buffer 15
Profile: Battery Saver


If I increase the voltage in one, then do I do it for all the numbers? Also, by how much do I increase them by?
 
Kamau said:
Ok, remembering that I am new to this all, I am assuming you are talking about the VSEL.
In the "CPU SPEED SCALE" page, there is this:

300MHz 19 VSEL
540MHz 32VSEL
720MHz 40VSEL
900MHz 49VSEL
Stability Buffer 15
Profile: Battery Saver


If I increase the voltage in one, then do I do it for all the numbers? Also, by how much do I increase them by?
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Now that you've posted you speed scale the lag could be the result of having a max clock speed of 900MHz rather than 1000MHz (1GHz) or more. The first thing I would try is changing your max speed and see if it helps the lag, if not then bump each VSEL up by 1 and see what that does for you.
 
Kamau said:
Ok, remembering that I am new to this all, I am assuming you are talking about the VSEL.
In the "CPU SPEED SCALE" page, there is this:

300MHz 19 VSEL
540MHz 32VSEL
720MHz 40VSEL
900MHz 49VSEL
Stability Buffer 15
Profile: Battery Saver


If I increase the voltage in one, then do I do it for all the numbers? Also, by how much do I increase them by?
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Rather than increasing each voltage individually, you can just increase the stability buffer by a few.
 
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