Sidekick 4G and Tegrak Overclock - T-Mobile Sidekick 4G

I'm on Glorious Overdose V2. Has anyone else found a stable overclock yet or is it not stable at all? I'm running at 1.052 GHz and I haven't frozen yet. But anything higher will eventually freeze me.

JiN1337 said:
I'm on Glorious Overdose V2. Has anyone else found a stable overclock yet or is it not stable at all? I'm running at 1.052 GHz and I haven't frozen yet. But anything higher will eventually freeze me.
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generally what i saw, and had on mine for awhile was 1.2 OC

I usually overclock at 1.2 which is relatively stable, once I went up to 1.3 though, after about 5-10 minutes the phone rebooted... lol, usually I think 1.2 is the safest though.
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Stock ROM (rooted), tried several speeds. too many crashes. I gave up and uninstalled it.

1.2 on Glorious Overdose? Epic crash for me >.<
I'm I doing something wrong?

JiN1337 said:
1.2 on Glorious Overdose? Epic crash for me >.<
I'm I doing something wrong?
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I have read somewhere that each phone is a little different in the overclocking area, mabye you just have a phone that doesnt wanna?

yoyowhatup22 said:
I have read somewhere that each phone is a little different in the overclocking area, mabye you just have a phone that doesnt wanna?
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Haha, yeah thanks. I read that too, but I was in denial. Something about the quality of the motherboard in each device.

Mine does 1.2 no problem. GOv2

Flashed Bali 2.2 over Glorious Overdose V2, bricked. Now I gotta ODIN, lol.
Edit : Back to stock, deciding where to go from here I may install GOV2 again, but flashing Bali 2.2 is impossible.

For a quick stress test, try downloading a benchmark app. OpenGL will be where you encounter problems and crashing.
I don't know of any significant overclock that is stable.
Good luck.

orange808 said:
For a quick stress test, try downloading a benchmark app. OpenGL will be where you encounter problems and crashing.
I don't know of any significant overclock that is stable.
Good luck.
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Thanks. Well, I ODIN'ed back to KD2 and did a clean install of GOV2. Hopefully I can overclock it, it was feeling a bit slow. And LauncherPro probably isn't the best launcher to use for it.

JiN1337 said:
Flashed Bali 2.2 over Glorious Overdose V2, bricked. Now I gotta ODIN, lol.
Edit : Back to stock, deciding where to go from here I may install GOV2 again, but flashing Bali 2.2 is impossible.
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Bali isn't compatible with KJ2, that's why it bricked
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WolfV2 said:
Bali isn't compatible with KJ2, that's why it bricked
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Lol thanks, it was a beginner's mistake at least I learned from it.

Overclocking with Tegrak at 1.2 GHZ on Glorious Overdose v2 with no issues after a couple hours.
Don't know what the benchmarking really proves, if anything, but mine just hit 1421 after i overclocked. is that good? lol

FixXxeR186 said:
Overclocking with Tegrak at 1.2 GHZ on Glorious Overdose v2 with no issues after a couple hours.
Don't know what the benchmarking really proves, if anything, but mine just hit 1421 after i overclocked. is that good? lol
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I usually get around 2000 when I'm overclocked...
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WolfV2 said:
I usually get around 2000 when I'm overclocked...
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that's kinda why i asked if it was a good score or not. i'm pretty noobish but learnin quickly...
does it matter what i'm using to benchmark my device? i'm using quadrant standard, didnt know if they varied in results.
I'm sitting here getting to know Tegrak, there's several settings i'm not sure what to set that might help optimization, doing some further reading on that now.
i also didn't realize that when you use the free version of tegrak OC that you hafta redo the settings anytime reboot. so when i overclocked, rebooted, and ran a benchmarl test, it gave me non overclocked results. so i redid test and got 1690 this time. a far cry from your 2000+ though lol. any suggestions sir?

I've got 1951 using Quadrant.
I'll probably buy Tegrak, once some good settings are shared.

About 2000+ as a Quadrant score while overclocked with 1.2 on GOv2 sounds about right. Although mine crashes if I try to launch a game like Temple Run or something memory intensive. That's why I have to choose a much lower overclock like 1.052 or 1.1.

JiN1337 said:
Thanks. Well, I ODIN'ed back to KD2 and did a clean install of GOV2. Hopefully I can overclock it, it was feeling a bit slow. And LauncherPro probably isn't the best launcher to use for it.
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when i was on GOV2 i was using launcher pro + underclocked to 800mhz and was still butter smooth, and could sustain a 400mhz underclock. (after a day it would lock up and reboot.

Try something like the RD 3D benchmark.
Could also try getting GTA running on your device (provided you have the know how)...
Anyhow, heavy load with OpenGL is likely to crash your device when overclocked. If you can get a "stable" setup, have at it. Good luck.

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Overclock Kernel Question

So I found a kernel on the Fascinate forums that was built off of our EC10 froyo source that was from nemesis2all and I saw that he had added the ability to overclock and undervolt from within the ROM so I installed it just trying (backed up of course) and found that it does indeed work.
I then got the Voltage control app from the market and started playing around doing Quadrant scores throughout after each change. I found that at 1200 mhz I was getting 1600s instead of 1400s and the phone ran great. But when I tried 1400 mhz the phone froze up and restarted while doing the CPU section of the Quadrant test so I reverted back.
My question is, what would be safe to stay at for general use?
Second question, how do you use the voltage app to undervolt I see the settings but I don't know what to set them too.
Here is the link to the kernel
1200 has proven to be the most stable overclock, any higher and it will freeze up eventually.
With voltage control, the way it works is that you set the max clock and then it will give you increments that the phone will automatically clock to within the guidelines you give it. Then for each increment you can set the voltage it will use. Just look around and experiment with voltages, see how low you can go without having issues and never set it to apply at boot unless you know that's what you want, other than that go crazy and a reboot will fix it if you have a problem.
I recommend keeping setCPU installed along with it, that way you can still force it to underclock or overclock or whatever. It all depends on how much you use the phone and what for.
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Thanks sage I'm glad someone who knows what their talking about replied lol.
Swyped using USCC Mesmerize
I've been running overclocked at 1.3 and undervolted at least 50 for a couple days now. Only one issue and I'm not even sure it was related as it janet happened again. I posted my settings in the otb thread if you're curious.
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I've been running overclocked at 1.3 and undervolted at least 50 for a couple days now. Only one issue and I'm not even sure it was related as it janet happened again. I posted my settings in the otb thread if you're curious.
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H'm, I tried going up to 1.3 and it would freeze up after 5 or 10 minutes every time.
Like I said, 1.2 is the only one that has proven to be safe for everybody... not each phone is exactly the same and if akellars CPU has a soldering that is done a little bit different than mine, it might allow him to clock a little higher. who knows
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I've been running it for a week @ 1400 -25 undervolted and haven't had any issues. The new 1.6 gives me trouble. I don't think there's enough overvolting in that one to make it stable for pretty much anyone. I use the 1400, 800, 400, 200 steps all undervolted @50 except 1400 which as mentioned is -25. Battery life is good because during sleep it doesnt really hit the high end and by not having the other steps its snappy when in use. Fastest this phone has been by far. I don't use setcpu because I think it and the voltage app conflict. That was nemisis's instruction to install it.
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sageDieu said:
H'm, I tried going up to 1.3 and it would freeze up after 5 or 10 minutes every time.
Like I said, 1.2 is the only one that has proven to be safe for everybody... not each phone is exactly the same and if akellars CPU has a soldering that is done a little bit different than mine, it might allow him to clock a little higher. who knows
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Yup I'm just lucky 1.4 worked for me too but I didn't see much of a performance difference so I didn't see the need to stress the cpu out anymore than I already was. battery life had been awesome for me with my setup as well.
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Overclocked to 1.3Ghz Quadrant benchmark results

Just thought i'd show a pic
What did u use to o/c tegrak? And its to blurry, can't make out the score
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Success100 said:
What did u use to o/c tegrak? And its to blurry, can't make out the score
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yea tegrak... i'll try to get a clear one didnt know it came out that blurry plus i didnt keep track of score cuz i've been getting that all day
I know this is a stupid question but other than improve quadrant scores, what else does it really improve? Im running the overclock at 1.2ghz right now and I dont notice any difference
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I was testing it out and it didn't really make much of a difference on my for Quadrant Standard. I used SetCPU and put both min and max to 1.3 and set scaling to performance and not a big change. I dunno if I'm doing something wrong.
well i'm also deodexed kd1, bali kernel so i dunno n also runnin the touchwiz 4.0(beautiful interface, just a btw)... well my overall performance improved n battery life surprisingly good... its been 7 hrs now and i still got juice...
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What did u use to o/c tegrak? And its to blurry, can't make out the score
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most recent score 1211
What exactly do I have to do to OC it? I tried it when I had my Captivate but I thought that I needed a different kernel? SetCPU wouldn't let me go over 1ghz... But I do have the bali kernel flashed right now.
EDIT: Nevermind, I saw the other post right after I made this. Sorry to interrupt!
I started a thread about this a while back and I wanted to share the info that was shared to me. Just FYI
joedeveloper said:
Quadrant Advanced provides the breakdown for each individual area (multi-colored).
http://slideme.org/application/quadrant-advanced
The thing about quadrant however, is it's not optimized or suited for the processor in our phones (Hummingbird). It was designed for snapdragon processors.
Additionally, Quadrant is sub par in my opinion on benchmark test apps (even though it's well known) because it does operations that aren't typical. If you get advanced you'll see that it does like 60% all IO operations, however thats a really strange test because it would be like you running a full on database on your phone.
So the scenarios and tests it runs are not representative of the scenarios you are going to use your phone to perform.
I like SmartBench better because it gives you an index for Gaming and Productivity.
Samsung Galaxy S 4G's will slightly outperform the snapdragon/adreno combo that you see in the MT4G etc. Very slight advantage. In regard to productivity it does well too.
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U won't notice anything earth shattering from an extra 200 MHz. However for games and flash and videos it does help. Also improves app loading times and things like that so even though it doesn't seem to do much it does help alot when the phone is pushed to the 1ghz area
icy56 said:
I know this is a stupid question but other than improve quadrant scores, what else does it really improve? Im running the overclock at 1.2ghz right now and I dont notice any difference
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fknfocused said:
I started a thread about this a while back and I wanted to share the info that was shared to me. Just FYI
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i did use smartbench too.... n in terms of gaming it was rite up there with optimus but likely lower in productivity
Scored 1263 Running deodexed KD1, with Bali kernel and spb shell (which is kind of a resource hog)
I know it doesn't truly give a benchmark for our processor, but just like getting your car dyno'd before you build it... it's good for a baseline number. And I was just under 900 stock.
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shotchacokov said:
Scored 1263 Running deodexed KD1, with Bali kernel and spb shell (which is kind of a resource hog)
I know it doesn't truly give a benchmark for our processor, but just like getting your car dyno'd before you build it... it's good for a baseline number. And I was just under 900 stock.
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Where'd you get that battery?
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At 1.3ghz
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@1.3ghz ... this i wud say is an average cuz i've gotten better
badb4lyfe said:
well i'm also deodexed kd1, bali kernel so i dunno n also runnin the touchwiz 4.0(beautiful interface, just a btw)... well my overall performance improved n battery life surprisingly good... its been 7 hrs now and i still got juice...
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Woah, where did you get touchwiz 4 for our phone ? Ive been looking for it all day on google and I can only find the original galaxy s and the epic 4g's
skillz398 said:
Woah, where did you get touchwiz 4 for our phone ? Ive been looking for it all day on google and I can only find the original galaxy s and the epic 4g's
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074410
a thanks would be much appreciated
rickyy00 said:
Where'd you get that battery?
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Look for the status bar mod....under themes
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Is 1.0ghz what your phones comes with?
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rickyy00 said:
Is 1.0ghz what your phones comes with?
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yes that wud be correct

[DISCUSSION] PB&J Frequency/Voltage

I just wanted to start a post so everyone can share which setting are working for them insted of digging through the PB&J OP.. Im running at 1400 mhz.. I havent started tinkerimg with the voltages yet.. Also if there is any info anyone thinks people should know about let me know and ill added it in
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900 right now with the voodoo fix. Seems snappy enough for me.
please someone post on this because my phone crashed so much I had to do a full Odin an wipe. Used many kernals...but this ones kill in me. Any post of how to set up pb&j would be much appriciated.
I messed with my settings.. I have 1400-1100mhz knocked down 75mv and everything 1000mhz and under I knocked down 100mv... Its working fine for me
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MitchTank said:
please someone post on this because my phone crashed so much I had to do a full Odin an wipe. Used many kernals...but this ones kill in me. Any post of how to set up pb&j would be much appriciated.
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I don't understand what problem you are having? Did you have PB & J installed and started overclocking and the phone crashed? If you were using the Voltage Control app then it should have just rebooted and reset the clock speeds.
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I messed with my settings.. I have 1400-1100mhz knocked down 75mv and everything 1000mhz and under I knocked down 100mv... Its working fine for me
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I'm impressed you got 1.4GHz stable at -75mV. Can it run stability test for 30 minutes without crashing?
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I'm impressed you got 1.4GHz stable at -75mV. Can it run stability test for 30 minutes without crashing?
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Lol I dont know what stability test is but ive had this setup for over a day and no reboots or anything.. When I say -75mv I mean 75mv under what default is... At 1.4ghz default voltage is 1375mv and I have mine set at 1300mv.. Idk if thats what you were saying by -75mv
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[Q] How do you overclock the Sidekick 4g?

Hey How do you get more then 1ghz? My dad uses another android phone and he overclocked his to 1.8ghz and he said his method doesn't work the same. I saw somthing on kernels or somthing. Can someone point me to the right path and i need a very detailed thread... thanks. Also I am not talking about setcpu that is not overclocking that is only used for underclocking and custom speed use during specified uses. I need one that actually runs it faster
there is presently no way to overclock the SK4G.... sduvick has been working on adding overclocking to the Bali kernel tho. he might even still have one posted from a previous attempt, but I don't think it is stable.
just for kicks I tried the Tegrak Overclock app from the market, as it is made for Samsung Galaxy S devices so I thought it was worth a try.... but it said this device is not supported.
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yogi2010 said:
there is presently no way to overclock the SK4G.... sduvick has been working on adding overclocking to the Bali kernel tho. he might even still have one posted from a previous attempt, but I don't think it is stable.
just for kicks I tried the Tegrak Overclock app from the market, as it is made for Samsung Galaxy S devices so I thought it was worth a try.... but it said this device is not supported.
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sduvicks current kernel not stable but the one he is working on will be stable so be patient and soon but we can only clock to 1.2
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sduvicks current kernel not stable but the one he is working on will be stable so be patient and soon but we can only clock to 1.2
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nice, I had a feeling it was getting closer. will keep an eye out for it
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yogi2010 said:
there is presently no way to overclock the SK4G.... sduvick has been working on adding overclocking to the Bali kernel tho. he might even still have one posted from a previous attempt, but I don't think it is stable.
just for kicks I tried the Tegrak Overclock app from the market, as it is made for Samsung Galaxy S devices so I thought it was worth a try.... but it said this device is not supported.
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actually, i sent an email to the dev of that app. they sent me an email back early yesterday morning, i gave them some info on our phone and how similar they are to the galaxy s phones they're supporting. so a this morning i checked my email and they sent a test app and it worked perfectly. the app will allow you to overclock to 1.3GHz but only 1.2GHz is stable. They told me they will update the app in the market very soon so keep an eye out, i was gunna post a thread explaining in the general when ready. i've been running @ 1.2Ghz all day it doesnt kill battery too much either. so you guys should be able to overclock pretty soon i already saw our device name on the market for their next update, i was able to reach 2068 on quadrant with my TouchMIUIwiz ROM @ 1.152GHz, i posted pics in this post
Sduvick is also working on a Custom kernel with OC
Sorry about being a bit late to the party guys, had an xbox night with my roommates last night, I'm back to work on the kernel again today, should be able to get another working test going sometime today. Pretty sure that just adding the UV stuff will make it stable, but we'll see when it's ready.
The Tegrak update for the Sidekick is out, available in the market! Running at 1.152 Ghz now, and I see that the app allows you to raise or lower voltages as well..... VERY cool app!
Edit: setting voltages is available only with the paid version.
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Running 1.2 now so nice 1400+ quadrant score with lightning rom v2 running multitask settings on v6. too bad you have to set it every time the phone boots unless you pay. 1.252 has some instability and 1.3 crashed the phone as soon as it was set :-( but still this is awesome
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you can hit 1900's and 2000's with touchmiuiwiz! but yeah 1.3 doesnt play well.
I was having problems with touchmiuiwiz that I need to figure out at a later time but from what teddy has been saying he gets over 2000 ^ up there
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Yeah I did oc my sk4g using tegrak. Work good only at 1.2 ghz.
Touchmiuiwiz v2.0 + tegrak
Benchmark
No oc 1678
With oc 2003
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[Q] dragon ota kernel 1.1.1 (i think)

i never used custom kernels before but overclocking to 1.5ghz is awesome. one downfall, phone gets super hot and my phone restarts. i've heard of undervolting but i have no clue on how to set it using setcpu. i've heard 1.5ghz to be something like -100mv but do i set -100mv to all of the frequencies?
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i never used custom kernels before but overclocking to 1.5ghz is awesome. one downfall, phone gets super hot and my phone restarts. i've heard of undervolting but i have no clue on how to set it using setcpu. i've heard 1.5ghz to be something like -100mv but do i set -100mv to all of the frequencies?
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What do you need the phone to do if you want it to be constantly at 1.5ghz?
You can try using Faux's or Trinity kernel. Both have versions that are already UV'd upon flash. Although some chips can't handle UV. Also, I believe you have to use a different app to control your voltage.
When i play games or watch movies i set it up to 1.5ghz and since school is out and no job... im kinda on my phone for a few hours. Also, i tend to forget to turn it down.
Oh yea my bad, its cpu master. I tried -100mv to all frequencies and it'll work for like a minute then it'll freeze and have to pull out the batt.
I'll check out those other kernels but this one has really fast boot. Although, which of the other kernels gets updated the most?
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When i play games or watch movies i set it up to 1.5ghz and since school is out and no job... im kinda on my phone for a few hours. Also, i tend to forget to turn it down.
Oh yea my bad, its cpu master. I tried -100mv to all frequencies and it'll work for like a minute then it'll freeze and have to pull out the batt.
I'll check out those other kernels but this one has really fast boot. Although, which of the other kernels gets updated the most?
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Faux boots up in less than 30 seconds for me so give that a shot. Both Faux and Trinity get's updated very often. So you can't go wrong with either.
marine417 said:
When i play games or watch movies i set it up to 1.5ghz and since school is out and no job... im kinda on my phone for a few hours. Also, i tend to forget to turn it down.
Oh yea my bad, its cpu master. I tried -100mv to all frequencies and it'll work for like a minute then it'll freeze and have to pull out the batt.
I'll check out those other kernels but this one has really fast boot. Although, which of the other kernels gets updated the most?
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I play games like dead space and Nova at 1.2 and have no lag whatsoever, basically they only time overclocking to 1.5 does anything is when you're running some type of performance test.
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Faux boots up in less than 30 seconds for me so give that a shot. Both Faux and Trinity get's updated very often. So you can't go wrong with either.
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I play games like dead space and Nova at 1.2 and have no lag whatsoever, basically they only time overclocking to 1.5 does anything is when you're running some type of performance test.
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aaahh yea im starting to c wat u mean. keeping it 1.1 and its still good. got used to the old phones under 1ghz and single core.
oh, do guys have to links to the kernels? im trying to find it but its usually part of a rom.
Go in the development section and look for [kernel] in the titles and not ones that say [rom].

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