the droid has been overclocked

**thebizz** · 01-26-2010, 10:58 AM

I have been running mine at 900 MHz sense last night its getting no hotter but its noticeable faster thank-you to Tasmanian Droid for this kernal

Update
I ran 900mhz for about 2 hours after posting this thread
Then flashed to the 1ghz kernal and my phone ran like it was made to run at that clock speed no reboots no forced closes but this phone is a speed demean at that clock I can't wait for them to get more CPU freqs

**BoNg420** · 01-26-2010, 11:05 AM

Hows battery life?

**geeanywhere** · 01-26-2010, 11:08 AM

i went on website and downloaded 900Mhz but i dont know how to open it from droid?

**BoNg420** · 01-26-2010, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by geeanywhere

i went on website and downloaded 900Mhz but i dont know how to open it from droid?

Think you have to flash it with nandroid. Probably should read the whole post before you do anything and all that good stuff.

**sniffs** · 01-26-2010, 11:14 AM

How is it installed? i downloaded the 800mhz one and all i see is a .img file..wtf?

EDIT: ah.. nandroid.. does nandroid flash it and reset the droid back to factory defaults?

**thebizz** · 01-26-2010, 11:15 AM

No change for me I have it set at 900 MHz while awake and 250 while asleep and to install you need root and adb shell

adb shell
su
/system/bin/flash_image boot /sdcard/evilboot1g.img

or /system/xbin/flash_image boot /sdcard/evilboot1g.img depending on where your flash_image is located
Tip 2 download the updated setcpu from the market or page 2

**PJnc284** · 01-26-2010, 12:18 PM

as long as you have it set to on-demand you should be fine and throttle down when not in use but I wouldn't use it excessively. Someone is bound to fry their droid.

**thebizz** · 01-26-2010, 12:23 PM

True that's why mine is set to vary between 900 and 125 while in use but screen off Max is 250 to conserve battery and give the CPU a break but I notice no extra heat plus with the HQ video hack the blocking is gone

**Genesys** · 01-26-2010, 06:31 PM

Alrighty - a few questions if the forums don't mind...

I would like to OC my Droid, but am a little weary because of....

What, other than giving me the ability to access the system as a super user, does rooting my phone do? I.E. what other system variables are being modified when I flash to a new ROM?

When you root the phone, are you permanently accessing the system as a super user? Or, as in *nix, do I have specifically tell the system to execute a command as the super user?

After rooting the phone, would it not be possible for someone to come along and take control of the phone because it has been rooted - in a similar vein as what was happening to jailbroken iPhones a few months back.

After you root the phone, is it possible to flash the ROM back to the manufacturer's default?

The reason I ask is because, as much as I want to OC my phone, I'm not entirely sure I want to enable super user access without being able to protect my phone and my data from the less trustworthy elements of this ever increasingly connected world.

**thebizz** · 01-26-2010, 07:18 PM

I haven't heard of anyone being abler to do that and as far as I know its doubtful that someone could take over your phone
Yes your apps have permanent access to super user once you set it to remember
Yes you can flash back to a stock rom and remove busybox. And superuser
As far as protecting yourself just don't download apps that aren't in the market

**AllGood** · 01-26-2010, 08:43 PM

Has any one got the wifi working after OCing? I used nandroid to do the hack can anyone please help.

TIA

**thebizz** · 01-27-2010, 07:32 AM

Yes go to alldroid and look for Tas's wifi kernal read and it will show you how to flash it as long as you have adb you'll be set

**AllGood** · 01-27-2010, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by thebizz

Yes go to alldroid and look for Tas's wifi kernal read and it will show you how to flash it as long as you have adb you'll be set

If you could help me with where to get adb?

**nox** · 01-27-2010, 08:29 AM

This has me very tempted. Don't wanna risk it though.

Will give it sometime.

**dagostin** · 01-27-2010, 11:28 AM

overclocking is cool but to me its more of an ego thing

None of hte apps I'm using are slow, they are all pretty darn snappy. Maybe If i was using apps that were more cpu intesnive where i'd see big gains it could be worth it. I'm overclocking slightly at 600 but for now will stay here as I dont want to lose battery life from going any higher really.

**AllGood** · 01-27-2010, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by dagostin

dont want to lose battery life from going any higher really.

Battery life will actually increase. You would use SetCPU to set the speeds and can decrees the standby speed from 250 to 125. Since the phone is usually in the mode it would use less battery.

I have used the 800,900 and 1ghz with 2.1 and they all cause stability issues.

**dagostin** · 01-27-2010, 12:14 PM

allgood - i can use setcpu to do scaling even without overclocking up to 800, so I get the battery saver improvement already, i just dont get the extra battery usage from when the phone is not in standby. Our setups are equivalent since i do the setcpu scaling for standby, but inactive mode you use more battery. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, its a compromise as is everythign in the world of computer science and technology

I just am content with the performance, battery and my stability expectations are met running at 600. And dont get me wrong, im sure i'll try the new boot image soon enough just for kicks

**thebizz** · 01-27-2010, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by AllGood

If you could help me with where to get adb?

download the android sdk to your desktop or were ever you can find it then go and install. by goin into the zip and loading the set up. choose a destination like this c:/users/username/androidsdk. once you've finished setup right click on computer then select properties, advanced system settings then in the popup window select environmental variables, go into the second window and select path once highlighted click click edit. put the path for your sdk in their it should look like this c:/users/yourusername/androidsdk or whatevery you named the folder/tools once done just click ok to back all the way out. now go to command prompt and type this in cd: /then the directory to your tools folder in your android sdk, if you get it correct it will show the new path to the left, now type in adb shell with your phone connected to your computer if all goes well it should start up the program and you have a shell.
side note insure on your phone click on develment in your settings

**AllGood** · 01-27-2010, 12:35 PM

Can any one help the the IMG file to return it back to stock (just for the over clocking). My droid keeps crashing. THX

**dagostin** · 01-27-2010, 12:41 PM

didn't you do a nandroid backup before making any changes? you shoudl never make a change without doing that first. if not, head over to sholes.info -> important files link. They have a virgin oem nandroid backup. download that, unzip it and copy the boot.img to your sdcard and flash that.

**coronanlime247** · 01-27-2010, 06:52 PM

This seems overly complicated. You think sholes will impliment this in their next rom? If i have their 1.1 rom installed will flashing this mess anything up?

**thebizz** · 01-27-2010, 07:29 PM

It may break wifi. If it does then in the same post as the overclock kernal is a wifi kernal just flash that

**thebizz** · 01-27-2010, 07:31 PM

And it's already in Pete 7.1 beautiful beast just at 800

**thebizz** · 01-27-2010, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by dagostin

overclocking is cool but to me its more of an ego thing

None of hte apps I'm using are slow, they are all pretty darn snappy. Maybe If i was using apps that were more cpu intesnive where i'd see big gains it could be worth it. I'm overclocking slightly at 600 but for now will stay here as I dont want to lose battery life from going any higher really.

Flash the 2.1luancher at 600 then flash the 800 or 900 and tell me it doesn't make a difference

**Japultra** · 01-27-2010, 11:19 PM

Is there anyone kind enough to walk me through how to do this? I've read tutorials from 3-4 different sites and they all lack very important information.

Example:

Step 1: You’ll need to first root your Motorola Droid. Follow the step by step guide posted here to root your Droid phone if you haven’t already.

Step 2: Make sure that you have flash_image on your system, in /system/xbin/ or /system/bin.

How do I make sure I have this file on my system?

Step 3: Enable USB debugging on the phone.

Once again, how?

Step 4: Download evilboot8.img to overclock Droid to 800Mhz, evilboot9.img for 900Mhz and evilboot1g.img for 1Ghz from the source link here.

Step 5: Now reboot into sprecovery mode and select mount options as follows.

mount /system
moust /sdcard

How?

Step 5: Now run the following adb command from your PC.

adb shell /system/xbin/flash_image boot /sdcard/evilboot8.img
(where xbin is xbin or bin depending on location of flash_image file on phone)

How?

Step 6: Now unmount in the following order.

unmount /system
unmount /sdcard

How?

Step 7: Reboot your phone.

I'm not sure how anyone who hasn't done this before is able to do this with these vague instructions. Maybe I'm just slow?