Overclocking made it MORE stable?! Am I crazy?

[spyder2723]

I just wanted to post that I overclocked my phone yesterday, just 730ish, and it has made the biggest difference in the way the phone works. I am running MightyROM and I was always having slow downs opening texts or emails and over all the phone was very frustrating to use. Now it is much more responsive and battery life is a little better. So if you are on the fence overclock and enjoy.

[DavidinCT]

So, let's see.... Better performance and better (claimed up to 40% better) battery life without getting a new phone ? Hmmmm... Where do I sign ?

Great another thing to study up on...

[WitnessX]

Thanks creedo for bringing this to light, and one80oneday for providing the link. I'm going to give this a try.

[creedo]

Good to see I'm not just imagining this. I think this is how the phone is MEANT to be run with wm6.5 and the newest sense. It's like that extra processing power is being used to clean up the garbage and free up RAM that used to stay tied up. I'm STILL showing about 66% memory usage after days of running it.

It's like the memory leak is fixed and therefore everything is fixed... nothing runs slow or crashes because the memory is where it's supposed to be.

This really does make the phone 10x more usable and stable. Don't buy the stuff about needing AC power or dealing with reboot loops or crashes. Trying this mod is safe because the settings do not stick after a reboot. So you won't get locked out of your phone. You can, after using it for a while, choose to make the settings stick.

I hate to be critical but the setcpuspeed app (the one in gono's guide) just isn't as good as overclock tool. By default, it doesn't have all those mysterious settings set correctly (steps, interval, etc.) and it doesn't offer any way to change them. So while it technically runs at a higher clock speed, it seems almost doomed to cause problems.

I think the specific OCT settings thread has a great explanation of what all those settings mean, but honestly the defaults will work for most people I think. If the phone gives problems at a certain speed using those defaults, just ratchet it down a notch instead of trying to squeeze a few more Mhz out.

OCT 1.5 is probably tied with mightyrom for the single best thing I could do to my phone.

[fcastro]

creedo I was about to ask what rom you were running. I am also running mightyrom and after about 2 weeks its gotten super sluggish. HTC Sense and HTC Messaging are just so slow. I am rebooting at least once a day.

[chardog]

Originally Posted by fcastro

creedo I was about to ask what rom you were running. I am also running mightyrom and after about 2 weeks its gotten super sluggish. HTC Sense and HTC Messaging are just so slow. I am rebooting at least once a day.

maybe too many sms or email? same thing happened to me when I accidentally downloaded thousands of emails from my yahoo account. I've been on the same mr x rom since it's release in april. it's been working so well, I'm afraid to change it.

[jerryyyyy]

You are not crazy. It is much more stable. I was an early adopter and am still using the old scripts. I did have a crash recently that I had to restore from backups, but had nothing to do with OC. Almost never have to reboot.

Now with the new Opera Mini 5.1 browser, I am set for a couple years no matter what MS or Apple throws on the market.

[mxl180]

i'm running @ 806.4 mhz... not issues so far.

@ 826 mhz... freeze.

[udithadj]

Originally Posted by mxl180

i'm running @ 806.4 mhz... not issues so far.

@ 826 mhz... freeze.

hi
can you let us know the interval, load/min/max, jump etc settings for stable 806.4 mhz ?

[mxl180]

Originally Posted by udithadj

hi
can you let us know the interval, load/min/max, jump etc settings for stable 806.4 mhz ?

i think it depends on specific phone and rom.

But here's my settings

806.4
4
100
0
80
3