Just wanted to say Thank you

[*Luke*]

I would add also that these phones aren't just fun toy stuff... Mine is absolutely a business tool, and I use it as such throughout my work day. Between calling customers, looking up specifications on equipment, sending emails to my suppliers, taking pictures on job sites for photo referencing, etc. its absolutely not just a toy... I don't have one game on my phone, I use my laptop at home for that. My concern as far as rooting it and running a custom ROM is to make it as fast and efficient as possible in the field. While I would definitely agree that a lot of people don't use their smartphones mostly for business, I think that saying these phones are just toys is very inaccurate. Theyre very powerful business tools when used as such.



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[cutiedroid]

Far be it from me to be dismissive of the value of a person's smart phone in his daily life but you're the first person I've read whose rooted phone sounds beneficial to your day to day. Most reports here are rooting to add themes, or to overclock just to see how far they can go, or for sheer geekery. It's too bad one can't buy "basic" phones like the days of buying basic computers where one could load the OS of choice and modify to their hearts content.

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[Xplorer4x4]

to overclock just to see how far they can go, or for sheer geekery.

Well there is a performance boost. Due to the locked down boot loader of the D2/D2G were not able to OC much. I tried quickclock which claims it pushed my phone to 1.4Ghz but yet setcpu never showed my CPU ever hit more then 1200Mhz/1.2 Ghz. Milestone did claim to push it to 1.3Ghz, but honestley the performance improvement, while there, is not real world noticeable. It would improve quadrant scores and general benchmark results slightly but this is something people dont always realize when looking at benchmarks. If soemthing takes half a second to load vs a second to load, the human eye probably will see very little difference.

You also have to keep in mind how well this can benefit some of the mid class android phones because you jumped right in to the smartphone market with a high end phone. My jump to android was a Moto Backflip. The cpu was outdated at launch, let alone now. It was a 512Mhz CPU. Compare that to our phones when throttled down to 512Mhz MAX, and our phone will be the clear winner. Now I had it overclocked from 512 Mhz to about 750Mhz. That ~200Mhz jump helped breather life in to a phone that the rest of the android world treated like the red head step child of the android family. It was outcast like you wouldn't believe. Now the CPU was not the only reason for this. For example the inability to install apps from sources other then the market(unless you side load them through the PC using your USB cable) was the biggest reason.

Now our phone, no it doesnt really need an OC, but if we had the ability for a proper overclock, it would mean a real world performance gain, not just numbers on a paper. You said it yourself you like the newest toys, so certainly you can appreciate that Overclocking does have its uses.

 

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