Root "HELP" I have been assimialated

[mbancroft]

Started out just to stop paying for cox internet and sprint data plan. two days later and my phone has become an adiction. I am playing with "setcpu" and can not find any thread on how to create a plain text file on the root directory on my SD. I have astro and started to create a zip file but thought i shoud get some feed back first being that i'm new to this

 

[Granite1]

Resistance is futile......

Welcome! I've never personally tried to do this, but there are a bunch of folks that will definately help. Just be patient, the Gurus will help you out...I'm sure one of em will be around soon.

 

[akazabam]

There are a lot of ways to do this. I don't use Astro, but I know this can be done with Estrongs file explorer, for example. Open it, then menu->new->File. Just call it whatever you want, and it will automatically be a text file. When you tap on it, you'll have the option of editing it as a text file. I'm guessing the same can be done in Astro somehow, but it's easy in ES. Another option is to make your text file on your computer, then just copy it to your card. Depending on how much text you're typing, that might be easier. Just a quick warning on that, though, I recommend you use something like textpad (google it) rather than notepad. Notepad will put in junk characters that Android (linux) won't be able to understand. Depending on what this text file is for, it might cause problems.

That being said, are you trying to make a text file for use with setcpu? There are only a couple of reasons for doing this. Are you sure you need to?

 

[mbancroft]

There are a lot of ways to do this. I don't use Astro, but I know this can be done with Estrongs file explorer, for example. Open it, then menu->new->File. Just call it whatever you want, and it will automatically be a text file. When you tap on it, you'll have the option of editing it as a text file. I'm guessing the same can be done in Astro somehow, but it's easy in ES. Another option is to make your text file on your computer, then just copy it to your card. Depending on how much text you're typing, that might be easier. Just a quick warning on that, though, I recommend you use something like textpad (google it) rather than notepad. Notepad will put in junk characters that Android (linux) won't be able to understand. Depending on what this text file is for, it might cause problems.

That being said, are you trying to make a text file for use with setcpu? There are only a couple of reasons for doing this. Are you sure you need to?

In.the guide for setcpu app it says to create a list of supported frequencys

 

[akazabam]

You don't need to do that. When you open setcpu, you have the option to autodetect speeds, which will pick the defaults for your current kernel. You can then chose what frequency you want for the min/max based on what was detected. You shouldn't need to make a text file with the frequency set (though you *can*). It's more of an advanced feature that nobody uses.

 

[mbancroft]

Really great then I do it that way. thanks for your time. ???? am I on the right track to achieve "overclocking" ?

 

[akazabam]

Well, you do need setcpu, which is pretty easy to use, but do you have a custom kernel? Are you sure you even need to overclock?