Re: Overclock the N900?
 

It would be interesting to see what users would do if there was a report of brickage at 900 or 800mhz. Then what do we do? Risk it or go back to the slower kernel? I am sure there will still be people who will keep running the higher clock speeds at the expense of bricking.
But that would be a very tough decision after experiencing great increase in speed....

Lets see

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

If my N900 lasts me 6 months at 900mhz, I'll be happy, since by then the exterior of the phone wil be pretty much trashed (yes, my N900 has a hard life).

I would be surprised if we don't see 1.5Ghz mobiles in the next year, so the point of the life expectancy of an overclocked 900 being only 3 years is a moot one to me.

Personally, I'm using the 900 a lot more for browsing now thats web pages load in a practical snap at 900mhz.

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

maybe i did


flasher-3.5.exe -F zImage-700mhz -f -R

and not

flasher-3.5.exe -k zImage-700mhz -f -R



i found out i did flasher-3.5 -k zImage-900mhz -f -R

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

It seems that most people after flashing one of the overclocked kernels onto the device gets "Version: Unknown" listed in "About the product". This is however not the case for me (I use the 900ghz image), and I wonder if this could be due to me using fiasco-flasher on the device instead of the Flasher-3.5.

Not important, but just a little bit interesting.

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

Wrong: This is quite an interesting and inspiring thread, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who has read the whole damned thing.

This thread captures the spirit of why many of us bought an N900. We are in it for the adventure. Maybe we are wrong in overclocking our N900s, but those who are trying to kill this spirit are not just shooting the community in the foot -- they are shooting the community in the brain.

Edit: By the way, I personally hope to buy a Meego phone if my N900 dies prematurely, which would seem to be in Nokia's interest.

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

The decision to overclock or not to overclock is indeed up to the individual user. However, that being said - I will rain down with furious vengeance on those (if any) come back here complaining they cooked their N900. Myself I flashed - checked it and went back to stock. While the speed improvement was nice, I am going to wait to see what 1.2 has in store for us before making a permanent decision on OCing.

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

To users who have never overclocked a CPU before.

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

It's not really about the clockspeed. It's much more about the multicore design. OMAP4 won't have anything over 1ghz processors for year to come. Tegra 2 is maxed to 1ghz(will have two of them) and Snapdragon next generation(Snapdragon 2) will be running on 1.3ghz.

Re: Overclock the N900?
 

Very sound logic. If 1.2 makes the device perform as smoothly as the 800mhz rom and Flash media and games play as well (this will take Flash 10.1, of course). I will change back to stock too.

We should get Flash 10.1 sometime later this year, so I may go back then. Truth is, almost all Flash content plays smooth now, so it will take Flash 10.1 to get me to revert back anyways.

Added:

Still, if I used the N900 as my main device & phone, I would probably have not OC'd in the first place. Maybe not, or perhaps the 700mhz version ;)

BTW, I hope nobody has a fried N900 due to OC, but I look forward to the post and Bratag's reply to them :) ;)