OVERCLOCK Milestone

hamleto · 02-08-2010, 01:17 PM

Has anyone tried to overclock the milestone? DOes it works like for droid?

Your impression on it?

Richdog · 02-09-2010, 04:00 AM

People seem to have got some astonishing results out of the CPU! Motorola DROID Gets Overclocked to 1.1GHz - Its CPU runs stable at 800MHz, testers say - Softpedia

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Motorola DROID Gets Overclocked to 1.1GHz

Its CPU runs stable at 800MHz, testers say

By Ionut Arghire, Mobile Editor
January 26th, 2010, 15:01 GMT
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Motorola DROID is one of the hottest mobile phones currently available on the market with Google's Android operating system on board. The handset arrived on the market back in November on Verizon's airwaves, and rapidly became one of the most popular phones around, even if it was not packing the highest available hardware specifications.

In the meantime, another Android-based device emerged, the Nexus One by HTC, which boasts a 1GHz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm inside, and which has all chances to dethrone DROID from its leading position, yet enthusiasts seem determined to prevent that from happening. The guys over at AllDroid are included in this category, especially one user who managed to overclock DROID to up to 1.1GHz.

This is certainly not something that one should do at home, since there are great chances that something will go terrible wrong and the handset will be damaged. However, since this guy did it, and successfully, it seems, others also gave it a try, only to find out that DROID's processor can reach 1.1GHz in speed, but that it is quite stable only at a slower speed.

The Android-based mobile phone was tested at lower clock speeds too, and, while the 800MHz is said to be the most stable one, it did quite well at higher speeds too: “850MHz - 6.76 Mflops/s linpack, 3395 on BenchmarkPi; 900MHz - 7.646 Mflops/s on linpack, 3054 on BenchmarkPi; 990MHz - 8.367 Mflops/s on linpack, 2695 on BenchmarkPi; 1GHz - 2661 on BenchmarkPi; 1.1GHz - 9.254 Mflops/s on linpack.”

Those of you who would like to learn more details on the overclocking of DROID and on the findings should head over to this forum thread for that. As stated above, you should not go for it unless you know what the process implies, for the consequences might be unpleasant in the end. However, if you do want to try it out, just make sure you backup all your data before proceeding, so that no important files are lost.

I think I may well try nudging it to 800mhz when I root, if that seems to be stable!

ratcom · 02-09-2010, 05:48 AM

not possible on the milestone due to motorola locking down the bootloader which in turn means no custom roms. And you need a custom rom to enable overclocking over 550mhz

Richdog · 02-09-2010, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by ratcom

not possible on the milestone due to motorola locking down the bootloader which in turn means no custom roms. And you need a custom rom to enable overclocking over 550mhz

Eh... so the Milestone cannot be rooted like the Droid, in the same way? I don't understand why they would be different...