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[Q] Overclock question

I am using Setcpu on my motorola droid with rooted FRG22. Why wont it let me overclock it higher than 800mhz??? I'm kinda new to doing this and wondering if I'm doing anything wrong. Thank you

[A] Overclock answer
Yes you have SetCPU and your phone is rooted. However, you're missing one more piece to the puzzle. In order for you to clock over 800Hz you have to install a kernal cooresponding to the voltage and what you want to overclock it to. I recommend you googling(haha) p3designs and choose a kernal you want to try. Instructions are on the site as to how to install. I currently have a low voltage of 125Mhz overclocked at 1Ghz. Hope that helps

Question for you Stephen, with you running 1.2Ghz on your droid, has there been any istances of freezing thus far? I was tempted to go higher, though I stuck with 1Ghz to be safe.

M4r34d0 said:
Question for you Stephen, with you running 1.2Ghz on your droid, has there been any istances of freezing thus far? I was tempted to go higher, though I stuck with 1Ghz to be safe.
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The right approach to overclocking is not how fast can you go, but how low can you tolerate? Most Droids are stable to 1.2 ghz. Some can go higher, some can't. I'm running the "stock" 1ghz kernel that comes with Sapphire rom. However, I have it choked back to 800mhz. This gives me 36 hours of battery life on light-moderate use, (3G off, wifi on) but also lag-free performance.

This is chevys 1.25 medium voltage, only reboots were with watching movies online.
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That was droid 1, lol barely get 1300 with my droid x
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The links for the kernals over at p3designs don't seem to be working for me. Does anyone have some overclocking kernels they could post?

Barkleyfan said:
The right approach to overclocking is not how fast can you go, but how low can you tolerate? Most Droids are stable to 1.2 ghz. Some can go higher, some can't. I'm running the "stock" 1ghz kernel that comes with Sapphire rom. However, I have it choked back to 800mhz. This gives me 36 hours of battery life on light-moderate use, (3G off, wifi on) but also lag-free performance.
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I understand what you mean. I've done the trial between 800Mhz and 1Ghz. I have emulators now and I liked the performance on the 1Ghz more because of the speed, so I kept it on 1Ghz. I haven't had any battery drainage issue and all. I liked my low voltage 1Ghz kernal.

kclive said:
The links for the kernals over at p3designs don't seem to be working for me. Does anyone have some overclocking kernels they could post?
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http://p3designs.info/kernels/
Is this the site you tried accessing the kernals? I did a test and downloaded the kernal zip fine.

That does sound impressive. I'm curious to try that out even more so now.

Fastest Hero Kernel?

So I have a random question here. I've got a buddy that has his original G1 overclocked at 1.2Ghz. I was pretty impressed by it and figured if the G1 could achieve that, then the Hero has to have at least a kernel up to 1 Ghz. Any thoughts on this? I really don't care about overheating the phone, I'm just tired of the lag. Right now I'm clocked at 728 Mhz.
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You must do more than overclock to improve responsiveness.
I can run a stock, rooted and just by deleting many, many items, the phone is very fast(responsive).
Typically, the Hero will dislike clock speeds over 710. Some can run stable at 768 but not many.

Well, honestly. I really don't care what my Hero likes. Lol. I once had a Palm Pre running at 1.2 Ghz and it was blazing fast. I don't really think that storage space really makes a huge difference, it more or less depends on your clock speed.
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Good luck, man. If you just want to ramp up the speeds, try the standard voltage kernel. Found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705074
I would say use the v4 version as it runs the stock(I believe)voltage. There also may be others that other users will suggest; Im not a pro by any means.

Is oc risky?

Thinking if overclocking my captivate to 1.6 but will it shorten the like time significantly.
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Jusrertiner said:
Thinking if overclocking my captivate to 1.6 but will it shorten the like time significantly.
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What is your desire to oc?
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Very risky
Very.

Yes it will shorten the life on your phone no way to know how much though. unless you are into it and read a fair amount about it i would not oc. The benefits just are not that significant
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start at 1.2 if your scared

It will not shorten the life to the extent that it will not last the update period
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Oh well how long do u think it will last. N I want it for the extra speed in games mostly.
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If you want some extra speed, still to 1.2 and below and try using Pimp My CPU to drop the voltage -50mV across the board (try messing around with it more to get more drops without charge deaths and etc). By doing this, I am running mine currently at 1.2 ghz with a -100mV voltage drop, which is the same as stock 1.0 ghz voltage level.
It's overvolting that kills a processor, not overclocking. More voltage means more power for the processor to dissipate as heat and some components are not spec'd to take more voltage than stock.
I hope this helps.

I have read that you should be safe up to 1300mv(not mhz). Usually 1200 mhz will run that. After 1300mv, you risk damage. It also can cause charging issues (phone uses more battery than it is charging).
Don't get me wrong, at one point I had my phone up to 1500 mhz, just to check kernel stability. Didn't stay there. Also remember that each phone is different when it comes to this. Some phones tolerate it better than others. That is why entered no definitive guide to it, only recommendations.

You shouldn't be scared to OC. but its your phones processor because everyones is different. My captivate can only get up to. 1.5. Then it freezes up. My inspire 4g can get up to 1.9 without a problem while others can only get to 1.6 or so. So try it out
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I overclocked to ,1.3 and my while screen turn purple and green n I had to pull battery. Is that a crash?
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Is a CPU manager really necessary?

Just curious, I'm running CPU master and have it set to on demand. Is that really gonna speed things up? doesn't the phone in a way operate in "on demand" anyway?
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Actually i believe ondemand will help with battery life by throttling down the processor until needed.....at least thats my understanding of the situation

Unless you've found a way to overclock, a cpu manager isn't going to speed things up, i think. What it might do is help to manage a better battery life, enforcing lower cpu speeds when you don't need the higher speeds. I don't know how well gingerbread manages that sort of thing though without a manager.

That's the way I use Set CPU. The profiles help eek out as much battery as possible.

alright thank you! Any help with the battery life works for me!

Your phone can perform faster if you set it to performance and max it out on both lines. With set cpu. But your battery will suffer but i use it when running tune in radio and it is plugged in
Its not oc but it will be faster
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SetCPU is the best CPU management app, imo.
@OP: Sadly, there's currently no overclocked kernel for the Revo; however, I'm pretty sure the stock LG kernel was made available a little while back, so it should be only a matter of time before someone releases an OC kernel (hopefully hehe).
That being said...as someone else mentioned, installing SetCPU still has the (rather significant) benefit of changing your phone to use ondemand scaling. That is, your CPU will only work as hard as it needs to; when your phone is just sitting in your pocket, it winds itself down (to a minimum mhz that you determine) to save battery life.
I could be wrong, but I am fairly certain that phones are not setup to do this by default. Even if they do, I am completely certain that it's not on the scale (pun intended) of a rooted phone using SetCPU. Why? Because LG / Verizon want their phones to run/look as fast as possible, and your average customer is clueless. They pick a phone based on said looks, not specs.
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jamRwoo said:
SetCPU is the best CPU management app, imo.
@OP: Sadly, there's currently no overclocked kernel for the Revo; however, I'm pretty sure the stock LG kernel was made available a little while back, so it should be only a matter of time before someone releases an OC kernel (hopefully hehe).
That being said...as someone else mentioned, installing SetCPU still has the (rather significant) benefit of changing your phone to use ondemand scaling. That is, your CPU will only work as hard as it needs to; when your phone is just sitting in your pocket, it winds itself down (to a minimum mhz that you determine) to save battery life.
I could be wrong, but I am fairly certain that phones are not setup to do this by default. Even if they do, I am completely certain that it's not on the scale (pun intended) of a rooted phone using SetCPU. Why? Because LG / Verizon want their phones to run/look as fast as possible, and your average customer is clueless. They pick a phone based on said looks, not specs.
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ok cool, thank you!

OC Kernel >1.5 Ghz for CM10.1 ?

Hello!
I was wondering if someone could provide a kernel running at a speed above the 1.5 Ghz?
I think to remember that Maromi already offered a kernel with 1.6 Ghz but due to freezing issues (smartflex?!)
it's not available anymore.
Actually I'm having the 1.5 Ghz (thx to Maromi and Hashcode by the way!) running on the last CM10.1 (06/04)
with persanos tweaks (thx to him as well!).
The device isn't getting hot even while playing games, watching movies or running the Antutu Benchmark (~9200)

Mistaz said:
Hello!
I was wondering if someone could provide a kernel running at a speed above the 1.5 Ghz?
I think to remember that Maromi already offered a kernel with 1.6 Ghz but due to freezing issues (smartflex?!)
it's not available anymore.
Actually I'm having the 1.5 Ghz (thx to Maromi and Hashcode by the way!) running on the last CM10.1 (06/04)
with persanos tweaks (thx to him as well!).
The device isn't getting hot even while playing games, watching movies or running the Antutu Benchmark (~9200)
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Hummm... I would use Hashcode's kernel but i'll see what else I find and get back to you.

Yeah, maromi and Hashcode have the lead on the kernel thing. They have been working together to provide the 1.5 ghz kernel. As far as I know it is the only stable OC kernel for Kindle. I remember I think it was Hascode said the Kindle actually isn't even meant to get up to 1.5, so to go higher than that probably not, and I think it was maromi said basically it was a fine balance between OC and heat issues and 1.5 ghz is really pushing the upper limits of the cpu. So just taking a guess, but probably won't see higher than 1.5.

I think the smartflex thing had something to do with the voltage tables of the CPU and I also read that maromi had a 1.7 but never released it. The overheating issues had to do with the smart flex being turned off but hashcode fixed that with a new voltage table for the 1.5. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed they can release something higher that is stable and doesn't overheat. I'd test it.
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