GHZ, Kernals And stuff

[poloboogie]

call me a noob but i gotta ask, just what does the kernals do to the phone thats so special, and all the ghz talk means what. i rooted my device for the teather and customizing, and now i see all this talk of kernal this, overclock that, and different ghz people are getting can someone explain to me what this does for your phone, should i be interested???

 

[Forgetful]

GHz talk is just referring to the CPU frequency. Typically the higher the Frequency the faster everything runs. There is a limit to that though and it has been found that overclocking (making the phone go over the stock 1GHz specs) isn't much useful past 1.5GHz.

Kernels are just how the hardware interacts with the rest of the phone. There's a good explanation on XDA forums. Custom Kernels can include code to overclock the phone or undervolt the phone (undervolting can save battery life, but too low and the phone doesn't run right).

 

[poloboogie]

thanks