1.5 ghz overclock

[gmen78]

Seeing that sprint is gonna release the gn, their version is releasing with the CPU at the default processor speed of 1.5 ghz. I haven't seen any overclocking threads bumping Verizon's from 1.2 to 1.5. Is the battery drain to much? or does sprint have some secret recipe or do they just not care about crappy battery life.
Mods feel free to move to other part of forum...but just curious what people have heard here

 

[Small_law]

I'm fairly certain the processor can be clocked at 1.5 ghz with little concern. I read somewhere that is its out of the box speed. I'm keeping an eye on this too.

 

[DaPoets]

Most Sprint Galaxy Nexus phones will have 4G turned off. Because of this they can clock the processor at a higher speed and let that be the battery drain.

Sent from my Verizon Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

 

[lostmarine]

I think the specs are still rumored aren't they? They also say it will only be 16 gigs if that is the case I feel sorry for them. I would rather have LTE, 32 gigs, and 1.2 but guess we will just have to wait and see.

 

[NateDizzy]

This phone will be Sprint's first LTE phone, seeing as they just announced their first four markets a week ago or so; i feel like this phone will be available from Sprint before their LTE network is. haha

 

[greydarrah]

I've tried clocking mine to 1.45 and had erratic lockups. 1.3 seems very solid. I would suspect that as more ROMs are released, somebody will figure out how to overclock into the 1.5 range while under volting to get both stability and decent battery life. We're just not there yet. That's what's so great about this phone...more devs working on it than any other device.

 

[kerrhome]

I think it's the same processor right? At least that's what I've read. If the hardware (board too) is the same, then the limitation is in the software. Maybe we'll be bumped to 1.5 when we go to 4.0.3 or some other coming update. I hope that's the case. If the hardware is identical I don't know why Goog would put one phone at 1.2 and the other at 1.5. "Normal" people wouldn't even know/care about the difference. It's only for us nerds and we can load a future kernel and bump it easily.

 

[dammitcubs]

What I read is that our batch of units is speed binned and 1.2Ghz was only good. This could be the reason why some people are having problems bumping up to 1.5Ghz. The yield was too low during testing and they had to downclock it. I think samsung may have solved some yield issues and so thats why sprint is getting the "bettter" versions.

I wouldn't say its guaranteed to work at 1.5Ghz.

 

[bignaz]

I got mine at 1.35ghz stable as a rock. I seen some at 1.7 and 1.8ghz

Chances are they just dropped the cpu down to 1.2ghz to save battery life since the normal user will not see a diff. from 1.2ghz vs 1.5ghz with every day use. And they wanted to get every drop of power from the batt.

I haven't pushed my phone harder than 1.35ghz but im pretty sure it will hit 1.5ghz with stock volts and be stable since im running undervolted at 1.35ghz.

when they bin that's just the guaranteed max speed the cpu will run with 100% reliability and even then they usually down clock it some for some cushion. Also i dont know if mobile cpu's are anything like desktop but each cpu will be binned with a vid. lowest voltage they guarantee it will run at the stock clock at. Example i had a Q6600 that had a 1.3v vid that would run at 3.4ghz with 1.26 volts that i ran prime on for a week non stop and never had any errors.

Each cpuz will clock diff. Looks like the 1.5ghz range will be the normal +/-. Just at the 1.5ghz range dont expect to under volt the cpu. Some may clock at lower volts but some may need stock or perhaps slightly higher volts.

 

[iBowToAndroid]

I think the specs are still rumored aren't they? They also say it will only be 16 gigs if that is the case I feel sorry for them. I would rather have LTE, 32 gigs, and 1.2 but guess we will just have to wait and see.

They still won't release processor info for the GNex. 16 GB was confirmed to be a typo - theirs will have 32 as well

Most Sprint Galaxy Nexus phones will have 4G turned off. Because of this they can clock the processor at a higher speed and let that be the battery drain.

Sent from my Verizon Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

It won't necessarily drain battery. It will simply have a different kernel designed for that speed

 

[craigrn16]

Were is everyone getting this Sprint Gnex will be clocked at 1.5ghz I just read that it'll be exactly the same as the verizon version except they will have google wallet enabled on there and no Sprint bloatware.