Re: Overclock the N900?
 

Command:
sudo gainroot Touch the Phone
if hot - Close some applications and flash your kernel back to stock.
if cold/normal loop command and :D

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

@new_bee
The driver that windows xp should look for is update mode, not boot rom, boot rom is what appears when its starts up, but its not the mode you want the phone to be in.

Note: Make sure you have flasher program installed before plugging in phone because the flasher program contains the drivers. Also make sure you hold down "u" key on phone keyboard, not PC keyboard.

1. Shut the phone down completely.
2. Press and hold the "u" key on the keyboard of the phone, not the pc.
3. keep holding down the "u" key while connecting usb cable
4. In winXP the driver prompt should come up, actually two of them will. One is for the boot rom mode, the other is for the Update mode.
5. After XP stops making noises associated with plugging in and unplugging usb devices, then let go of the "u" key on the phone. In total should only really hold u key for like 10secs or so max.
6.Make sure the phone has dark screen and USB logo in top right
7. Go through the windows xp prompts for drivers, one will come up with no driver found just click ok or finish or wtv. The other prompt will find a Nokia BB5 something or another driver, and it will install correctly.
8. all you have to do now is just run the flasher program.

If you need anymore help, let me know.

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

wait a minute. so the heat sensor we get that reading off is really just for the sensor near the battery!!! unless someone can figure out how to get a CPU heat reading you will have no luck.

this is still handy for a weather temp reading anyway :D

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

after rebooting my phone my desktop heat widget is showing -40??? i m running at 900 mhz

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

lol it will change

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

yeh i did after a while. now showing 27...


thanks for the guide "ionstrom3".

me going to sleep. will c how my phone behaves tomorrow in real life.

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

I would recommend you to not let people rely / use that widget in relation to the overclocking. :cool:
Maybe it's better to remove it from that post as it definitely is not an accurate measure of cpu temp.
(I already tried it with DCEW before your post also but it didn't work so I didn't post it up. Wish it worked!)

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

Mine too was always showing -40. I powered down my device and stuck it in the refridgerator for a couple hours. When I restarted it and ran the cat command it returned "5" :D I reran the command about once per second, and the output was climbing fast in realtime, so yes, it is dynamic.

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

It actually seems that iPad is running the same single Cortex-A8 core, although clocked into 1 GHz and probably fabricated using 45 nm process. This is just speculation, but for example the Sunspider test is 1/1 comparable to 3GS (10475/17360=0.603).

So overclocked N900 is pretty much on par with iPad, although the comparsion is pretty dumb as it's a completely different kind of vechile.

Second thing - the Snapdragon. According to a Swedish Android site (http://www.swedroid.se/test-av-acer-liquid-s100) A8 @ 550MHz is faster than Snapdragon @768 MHz. For example BenchmarkPi gives 5500 ms for OMAP3430, and 8300 ms for QSD8250.

It might be a software issue, maybe also related to memory bus or speeds, but in general it seems that for MHz per MHz Cortex-A8 is indeed faster than Snapdragon. Even though the cores share a somewhat similar architecture.

And that makes an overclocked N900 pretty much the fastest smartphone on Earth. :D

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

Could the temp reading be tjunction?