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Root [How-To] Overclock your Droid X

Umm...its not there:thinking:

find it droider?

With RE:

I went to
root/../etc/install-recovery.sh
mount to rw
open install-recovery.sh with text editor
add two lines:

insmod /system/lib/modules/overclock.ko
setscaling.sh

save and exit
reboot, and there you go...

Also, thanks Hilbe for guiding me through all that.
 
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How to do the overclock at boot:

1. Pull file off phone.

adb pull /system/etc/install-recovery.sh .

2. Add 2 lines to bottom of install-recovery.sh in text editor on computer, save:

insmod /system/lib/modules/overclock.ko
setscaling.sh

3. Remount /system in read/write:

mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system

4. Push changes to sd card.

adb push install-recovery.sh /sdcard

5. Copy file to right place.

cp /sdcard/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh

6. Remount read only /system

mount -o ro,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system

7. Reboot

Take off that period at the end of step one to avoid confusion. I am sure when people start copying and pasting this there will be problems;)

find it droider?

With RE:

I went to
root/../etc/install-recovery.sh
mount to rw
open install-recovery.sh with text editor
add two lines:

insmod /system/lib/modules/overclock.ko
setscaling

save and exit
reboot, and there you go...

Also, thanks Hilbe for guiding me through all that.

You need to add the .sh to setscaling;)
P.s I still can't find it
 
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Took the "." off my how-to for you guys. Also, there are a few other scripts called on startup, but I'm not sure if they will work as well as install-recovery.sh. Here are some others to try:

/data/misc/wifi/forward_start.sh
/data/misc/wifi/forward_stop.sh

Something is wrong I looked in RE too

C:\Users\Jeff\Desktop\tools>adb pull /data/misc/wifi/forward_start.sh
remote object '/data/misc/wifi/forward_start.sh' does not exist

C:\Users\Jeff\Desktop\tools>adb pull /data/misc/wifi/forward_stop.sh
remote object '/data/misc/wifi/forward_stop.sh' does not exist
 
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For those that don't have it, here is my install-recovery.sh. Unzip, drop in /system/etc, and use at your own risk. Permissions look like:

-r-xr--r-- root root 470 2010-08-09 22:04 install-recovery.sh

What is that? chmod 644? It is late, I'm heading to bed. Best of luck.
 

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For those that don't have it, here is my install-recovery.sh. Unzip, drop in /system/etc, and use at your own risk. Permissions look like:

-r-xr--r-- root root 470 2010-08-09 22:04 install-recovery.sh

What is that? chmod 644? It is late, I'm heading to bed. Best of luck.


Trying it now.

WORKED for me! I didn't do ANYTHING except move it to the root/etc/ folder no changing the chmod or permissions or anything.

To all:
I was one of you guys that could not locate install-recovery.sh for the life of me.

I used his uploaded file, extracted to root, moved it to root/etc/ and rebooted.

works perfectly with my modded setscaling.sh @ 1.1ghz @ 34
 
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