the droid has been overclocked

[coronanlime247]

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]

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

 

[thebizz]

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

 

[thebizz]

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]

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?

 

[thebizz]

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.
Go to sholes.info important files or something like that and you will see the original root update download it. Put it on the root of your sdcard, powere the phone off the power it on while holding x. When it show a exclamation mark press the camera and volume rocker at the same time. From their flash the updsate zip. You have root
Step 2: Make sure that you have flash_image on your system, in /system/xbin/ or /system/bin.
Download droid root helper from AllDroid - View topic - App to install busybox,flash_image v7 (updated 12/23) and the tools folder. Put the tools folder in the root of your sdcard whith the droidroothelper.apk inside. Install droid root helper and follow the instructions.
Side note to get the latest sholes info recovery download 99.2b and put it in your tools folder rename it to 99.1b and flash it with droid root helper
How do I make sure I have this file on my system?
In the droid root helper just click on reboogt recovery it should show the latest
Step 3: Enable USB debugging on the phone.
Settings applications development you should see debugging their
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.
Easiest way is to download the nandroid backup and advanced restore just the boot of that file while in the recovery menu.
Side note insure you have it in your nandroid folder
Step 5: Now reboot into sprecovery mode and select mount options as follows.

mount /system
moust /sdcard

How?
Its in the recovery menu once you install that you will see ot
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?
See 4 sorry put it in the wrong spot
Step 6: Now unmount in the following order.

unmount /system
unmount /sdcard

How?
See above
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?

If you have any other issues shoot me a pm

 

[dagostin]

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

i dont run the 2.1 launcher, i prefer the stock one right now. I never said it doesn't make a difference, just doesnt make a difference in things I use.

 

[thebizz]

i dont run the 2.1 launcher, i prefer the stock one right now. I never said it doesn't make a difference, just doesnt make a difference in things I use.

I don't know for me it makes a huge difference my phone scrolls smother opens apps faster
I can type faster its Luke the phone can finally keep up with my fingers it just makes the phone closer to what I really wanted a beast
But that's me to each his own

 

[dagostin]

as i said i will probably try them out eventually. When it comes to something like this I prefer not to be the first to jump on board. And I love speed and I'm sure there's a difference. My setup is blazing fast right now so thats why i'm content. I'll just give it a few weeks and wait for you guys to test out the ropes

 

[thebizz]

Hey no problem at all I still don't know how MT processor is going to hold up to 1ghz. So if you onto trust it at this point don't do it becouse their I'd the possibility that MT phone can become a expensive paperweight.

 

[Elysian893#AC]

I'm running at 900mhz Was running 1ghz last night, but, with GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and heavy web browsing, I managed to crash the phone. I think 900 is a happy medium.

 

[Cory Streater]

as i said i will probably try them out eventually. When it comes to something like this I prefer not to be the first to jump on board. And I love speed and I'm sure there's a difference. My setup is blazing fast right now so thats why i'm content. I'll just give it a few weeks and wait for you guys to test out the ropes

Hey no problem at all I still don't know how MT processor is going to hold up to 1ghz. So if you onto trust it at this point don't do it becouse their I'd the possibility that MT phone can become a expensive paperweight.

I agree with both of you. It's not like I'm sitting here tapping my fingers waiting on the Droid to do things most of the time. Out of the box, it's plenty fast. Now the one thing I would be curious about, is how much faster web pages render? That would be one reason I would try it.

 

[dagostin]

my guess is the rendering itself is slightly snappier but if you're on 3G you're still gonna be bottle necked there. thebizz, what's the verdict?

 

[thebizz]

I'm seeing little difference in browser load time it may be quicker but I haven't done a side by side comparison I may try and to drop my CPU speed down to 550 and see what happens.
edit
so I dropped my CPU speed back down to stock 550 and loaded a few pages over wiring and did the same at 1100 not a huge night and day difference as I thought the higher clock speed would be slightly faster and it is. But other things like scrolling and typing I don't want to go back to stock
Oh yeah you can now set it to 550 800 or 1100 or 550 800 or 950

 

[dwhall]

This can't be good for the lifetime of the CPU......

 

[thebizz]

This can't be good for the lifetime of the CPU......

It depends on how long you plan to keep tgr phone and how you set it up I have mind set up during screen off Max of 250 and for just playing around 800 but if I want it to be a beast I turn it up to 1100 and I experience no extra heat or battery drain. But for ne its perfect. I don't plan on keeping this phone as s primary phone for over a year I gray bored

 

[tealturboser]

i dont run the 2.1 launcher, i prefer the stock one right now. I never said it doesn't make a difference, just doesnt make a difference in things I use.

I think you need a recovery console that will allow you to mount and unmount the system and sdcard

 

[Cory Streater]

thebizz: thanks for running the render tests. I would have expected a better performance increase.

 

[thebizz]

ill clear my cache and try it again

edit
so i cleared my cache and loaded engadget the full site a few times on 550 and 1100 and i was wrong didn't notice it but their was a difference about 10 seconds after clearing the cache cookies and closing the browser out each time i would get to about 42 seconds before it would fully load at 550 and 32 or less with 1100

 

[Cory Streater]

Hmmm I might be willing to shorten the life of my CPU for 11 seconds a pop.