Overclock - A REAL new phone experience.

[blitzburgh39]

Honestly all I want with 2.1 that I don't have through APK's are animated wallpapers and 5 screens.

I just think for my purposes waiting for 2.1 to be installed and then overclocking seems wiser. I will have everything on the phone I want (dont care about multi-touch) - and I don't boot the phone often enough to even care about boot animations.

If I wait for 2.1 (hopefully not much longer) I'll be able to ramp it up to 800 right after that and have everything I really want all at once.

I'm incredibly impressed with what some of you have made your screens look like with the transparent icons and I'm sorely tempted to restore that one that was posted but I just don't know...

Why not wait for 2.1 which will be out sometime this year and get animated wallpapers and all the official 2.1 apps and then overclock the Droid.

Seems a smarter way to go... am I missing anything?

But, why wait? There is no reason to. I don't see any real danger, and the things I've gained through root/hacking the phone are awesome. The transparent window pane, different boot modification and the overclock are all great (the overclock being by far the best one).

Why wait?

-Wil

um... well. all the apks you have ARE 2.1... the only thing not included is animated wallpapers (which i read you CAN do on 2.0.1) and 5 screens. so no. really you do want 2.1

there is nothing else 2.1 gives other than your apks and the two i mentioned. so your statement is void

 

[blitzburgh39]

How is it easy to reverse?

its very easy. you install nandroid. and sprecovery. and make a backup BEFORE you root. then you root. bam. if your phone gets messed up either "bricked" (not booting) or just a simple thing that you would take it back and get a new phone for. you just boot into the recovery console. and restore your previous 2.0.1 nonrooted backup that you made.

and bam. no one knows a thing.



orrrrr just run a stock update.zip

 

[Jer]

I'm tempted to give this a shot. I like the idea of faster processor and having most of 2.1 now and some of the other benefits. I'm a bit of a tech guy and love messing with this sort of thing although I've never actually rooted a cell phone so the task of something I've never attempted is a little daunting. I may have to read the how to's a couple times and convince myself to give it a shot.

 

[gentlefury]

I am complete confused on how to do this. Does the phone need to be rooted?

Run 'adb shell su' (all directions provided with single quotes should be run without including them). If you don't know how to do this step comfortably, there is lots of good info on AllDroid starting here: AllDroid - View topic - Important Droid Threads.

This step is confusing, I go to that link and see nothing that seems to help me.

If you can get it to a point of doing a nandroid restore you can use my backup....I've built it over the past month from things that have been cool...no custom rom tho, so its really really fast.

800MHz_glass_vkb-BS-20100128-0226.zip

includes, root/busybox, 800Mhz, Mobile Defense in System, Voice Keyboard, Glass Theme, and removes corp cal, email and visual voice mail (they are all still there, just need to be renamed if they need to be restored), and wifi tether (you still have to install the APK application, but it is ready to go)

I tried bugless beauty 800Mhz and it was really slow in comparison.

Awesome. I just used your backup to fix my horrible crashing problem that DroidRootPro caused. One question - how can I tweak the colors of the theme? I like the smoked glass, but not the blue color that replaced the normal green.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-themes/17009-glass-theme-v1-01-metamorph.html

just grab the glass no blue.

There is a stock theme out there, I have it on my sdcard...dont remember where i got it tho.

 

[hyperlite456]

I understand bricking the phone is nearly impossible, but if anything were to happen and this stuff voiding the warranty, is it possible to just tell verizon that your phone was either lost or stolen?

 

[blitzburgh39]

I understand bricking the phone is nearly impossible, but if anything were to happen and this stuff voiding the warranty, is it possible to just tell verizon that your phone was either lost or stolen?

that would be illegal correct? your saying to keep your droid but say it got stolen? noooo thats trouble. just update.zip

 

[gentlefury]

I understand bricking the phone is nearly impossible, but if anything were to happen and this stuff voiding the warranty, is it possible to just tell verizon that your phone was either lost or stolen?

Why would you say its lost or stolen....bring it to a verizon store, tell them it doesn't work for some reason, they give you a new one....you haven't stolen anything and committed insurance fraud, they plug the phone into a computer and flash it to factory default and use it for insurance claims as a refurb...everyone wins.

 

[accordlord04]

I didn't read the previous 10 pages, so forgive any repetition. For those who are skeptical about O/C'ing. Some tips.

1) Install Temperature Monitor from here:
AllDroid - View topic - [Beta] Temp Monitor

2) Install SetCPU from marketplace.

Temp monitor is at the bottom, SetCPU is on the right.

You can set your CPU to run at certain speeds with this app. Start off low, then work your way up and check for stability. Mine works fine at 1.1Ghz.

This shows you your phone temp. Not sure if it reads the battery temp or the actual CPU temp. Nevertheless, it gives you an idea of how hard your phone is working. If it gets too hot, you can reduce the CPU power with SetCPU. Those two apps work well together. You can see here that my phone is fairly warm, but then again I am pushing it hard to demonstrate. That is about as hot as it has ever gotten for me. I hope that eases any trepidation for people on the fence about O/C'ing. I would recommend O/C'ing. The performance is noticeable.

 

[pcandroid]

For anyone thinking about doing it I would say stop thinking and do it.
I am currently running the bugless beast rom overclocked to 1.1ghz and it is running perfectly. I cant even explain how fast it is now.

If you get in trouble the hack section is very fast to respond to help you get yourself unstuck.

 

[qoncept]

@accordlord04
Off topic of course, but what are those silent and vibrate widgets you have?

I just overclocked to 800mhz today and it is much faster. I left it @550 when it's not charging, 250 when it's sleeping. It's been on the charger all day today, not sure if I want to sacrifice any battery life but I'll probably test it at some point.

 

[accordlord04]

@accordlord04
Off topic of course, but what are those silent and vibrate widgets you have?

I just overclocked to 800mhz today and it is much faster. I left it @550 when it's not charging, 250 when it's sleeping. It's been on the charger all day today, not sure if I want to sacrifice any battery life but I'll probably test it at some point.

Its from Beautiful Widgets. Worth the $2 now that its skinnable. Highly recommended.

 

[SSHGuru]

There is no stable Launcher for 2.1... that's a huge issue. 5 screens.

 

[gentlefury]

So why is it that some people can OC to 1.1Ghz and others can't. I tried and my phone won't boot....just keeps recycling at the Moto Logo screen.

950 worked fine, but it seemed to have stuttering issues.

800 is smooth and flawless, exactly how I hoped it would run out of the box.

Are some chips different?

 

[SSHGuru]

Also the official update is likely to fix existing issues as well as add new ones.

 

[jimnutt]

So why is it that some people can OC to 1.1Ghz and others can't. I tried and my phone won't boot....just keeps recycling at the Moto Logo screen.

950 worked fine, but it seemed to have stuttering issues.

800 is smooth and flawless, exactly how I hoped it would run out of the box.

Are some chips different?

Because the chip is actually rated at 600 mHz. It's all in the way they sort the chips. Basically all the processors, for any speed, come from the same batch. But there are small variations across the wafer and the batch of wafers. So they test the chips starting at the lowest rated speed. If the chips pass, they move on to the next higher speed rating. If they fail, they are rated as running at the previous speed (or dropped altogether if they fail at the minimum speed). However, and this is why overclocking can work at all, if they need a whole bunch of 600 mHz chips, but only a few 800 mHz chips, they'll throw 800 mHz chips into the 600 mHz batch to make up the slack (or only test to 600 mhz until the order is filled). So you may actually get a chip that's been tested faster, but only rated at 600 mhz because that was the order.