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WTF?!?

Do you guys know what you are dealing with??

THIS APP IS DESIGNED TO WORK WITH INTEL XSCALE CHIPS, not our Qualcomms!

As with all overclocking apps, these things are CPU SPECIFIC.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of overclocking:
Modern CPU's are designed to run at different clock speeds. The manufacturer selects a certain clock speed in the factory based on factors such as intended battery life and reliability of the components. However, many of the chip manufacturers design it to accept a special command to change that clock speed at will for testing/debugging/etc. These overclocking applications supercede the operating system and send that machine code command to the chip.

The problem is that EVERY CPU MANUFACTURER HAS DIFFERENT CODES TO DO THIS. For example, when the Intel Xscale chip first came out, there were tons of apps to overclock it, however they only worked on Intel's chips and not on other PPC processors such as Samsung and TI, or even Intel's older StrongARM chips.

Sometimes trying to force this code would confuse the chipset and lock it up, or worse, fry it. Yes, playing with overclockers can fry your chip if it wasn't made for it. The best case scenario here is that will just do nothing. (I've seen many people claim overclocking did "something" to their speed even tho it wouldn't show up in any benchmark tests. Its a total placebo effect)

Back in the days of the HTC Wizard, which ran a TI OMAP CPU, some people tried XcpuScaler (which was for the Xscale chip), only to find it would lock up their device until hard reset. Omap IS overclockable, but you need an Omap-specific overclocker, such as OmapClock.
The same was true of the older ipaqs that used the Samsung chips or even the original ones that had the Intel StrongARM chips.
Yes, I've seen those get fried from people messing with overclocking apps they didn't understand.

BOTTOM LINE:
The titan/vogue use a new chipset by Qualcomm, which is NOT compatible with the Xscale overclock commands that the Apache's chip accepted. In fact, there are many incompatibilities with these 2 chips (just look at the direct draw support).

At the very least, this is just a "sugar pill" solution. Luckily it seems that the Qualcomm 7500 chip is smart enough to just let the command bounce off it instead of locking up like some other manufacturer's chips. However, its still very possible that you're all doing some damage to your processor that we can't see yet.

If someone writes an overclocking app for the Vogue or even the Kaiser which all use new Qualcomm chips, then it will work with our Titans. Until then, I would very highly recommend not to mess with this.
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