Overclocking your android msm7k device

[Guest HunteronX]

Have a look here on xda-developers.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=665909

Could this be done on the pulse? It would be really helpful in speeding up the device.

[Guest BigBearMDC]

Have a look here on xda-developers.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=665909

Could this be done on the pulse? It would be really helpful in speeding up the device.

I'll deffo have a look at that.

I already thought about overclocking earlier.

I also need a new project to put my work into ;-)

Greetings,

BigBear

[Guest HunteronX]

I'll deffo have a look at that.

I already thought about overclocking earlier.

I also need a new project to put my work into ;-)

Greetings,

BigBear

Cool ;) - that was fast

[Guest helikopter]

this would be great but i think there are more important and useful things which should be done with the pulse. like enable swap somehow (as i think that the device's main problem is not the processor but low ram in terms of speed) and wifi tethering. i remember that months ago paul tried to do both but failed at the end, mainly because his attention turned towards other phones. these would be great additions to the pulse, and wouldn't mean any danger to our devices like oveclocking. bigbear, how about trying these ones instead?

[Guest BigBearMDC]

this would be great but i think there are more important and useful things which should be done with the pulse. like enable swap somehow (as i think that the device's main problem is not the processor but low ram in terms of speed) and wifi tethering. i remember that months ago paul tried to do both but failed at the end, mainly because his attention turned towards other phones. these would be great additions to the pulse, and wouldn't mean any danger to our devices like oveclocking. bigbear, how about trying these ones instead?

Yeah I would try it, but if Paul wasn't able to get it working, I'm a bit sceptic about my abilities ... overclocking would be easy, just modifying one line and thats it.

I think I'd have to add kernel modules and register them, and I got a huge lack of knowledge on this sector to do so.

MT (theoretically) is very easy, if you know how to accomplish it.

Just modifiyng the driver a bit and voila...

Basically, I'm pretty much a n00b, but I learned how to hide that ;)

I had really absolutely no clue about kernel images and ramdisks 4 months ago until I got my beloved Pulse dev phone ;)

To get back to what I wanted to say:

At the moment I don't think I could get tethering or swap working as I just know too little about that. But I'm very interested in those kind of things and I'd really like to learn more about that, and thats why I'm doing those things, except of helping the community ;)

Sorry for spamming by the way...

Greetings,

BigBear

[Guest rss2k]

See Overclock/underclock utility

[Guest Bendolfc]

Setcpu can underclock, but without the kernel modification it can't overclock it.

[Guest Basher52]

id seen somewhere in the deep of the package a file where a cache with 32MB was declared.but it was in data space only, might been a project to move to sd, but overclocking would be more interessting in my eyes, as i could clock my athlon 2 @ 3,9 Ghz ;)

[Guest gusthy]

Why you guys want to solve tethering on Pulse? It works like a charm without any tricks under both Windows and Linux.

For Windows, you find the required software on the CD, and for Linux you need to add one line to a config file and reboot.

This comment was written using an Ubuntu netbook with tethering using a Pulse ;)

An alternate solution for Ubuntu 9.10:

sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1501

and you will find it in Network Manager. Or you can add it to the udev

[Guest Azurren]

Why you guys want to solve tethering on Pulse? It works like a charm without any tricks under both Windows and Linux.

For Windows, you find the required software on the CD, and for Linux you need to add one line to a config file and reboot.

This comment was written using an Ubuntu netbook with tethering using a Pulse ;)

An alternate solution for Ubuntu 9.10:

sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1501

and you will find it in Network Manager. Or you can add it to the udev

Wifi tether actually turns your device into a wireless router so any wifi device (ipod, ds, games consol, fridge ;)) can access the internet directly ;)

@big bear: My first attempt at programming I managed to achieve something just by using ints, ands, else, ifs and basic number values that an experienced programmer could not. I'm not suggesting for a second that you are at my level, just that every ones programming styles are different, same as with anything. You could give it a try.. You never know :P

But i know I would only ever work hard to achieve something if i want to (or I'm getting paid;))

[Guest BigBearMDC]

Wifi tether actually turns your device into a wireless router so any wifi device (ipod, ds, games consol, fridge :P) can access the internet directly ;)

@big bear: My first attempt at programming I managed to achieve something just by using ints, ands, else, ifs and basic number values that an experienced programmer could not. I'm not suggesting for a second that you are at my level, just that every ones programming styles are different, same as with anything. You could give it a try.. You never know :P

But i know I would only ever work hard to achieve something if i want to (or I'm getting paid;))

Jap I never said I won't try it, just don't expect it to be working in a few hours ;)

By the way I'll patch the kernel tomorrow, I'm really looking forward to see what we can get out of the Pulse.

I don't think either that 700+MHz would be a problem, if you keep it plugged into the charger ;)

But just to be sure, I'll place it on a PC fan while testing...

If that works, I'll add it to my Phoenix kernel on my git repo.

Greetings,

BigBear

[Guest Basher52]

from XDA Developers:

The MSM7200a is the 65nm version of the MSM7200 (90nm). The big difference is a speed boost for the ARM11 processor from 400MHz to 528MHz.

Produced in 65nm, there should be a great overclocking potential, as the could clock it 128MHz faster with the same power consumption. With additional pwoer is shouldnt be hard to reach 700MHz.

If i can help you anyway, please tell me, iam very interessted in overclocking my mobile ;)

[Guest BigBearMDC]

from XDA Developers:

Produced in 65nm, there should be a great overclocking potential, as the could clock it 128MHz faster with the same power consumption. With additional pwoer is shouldnt be hard to reach 700MHz.

If i can help you anyway, please tell me, iam very interessted in overclocking my mobile ;)

Yeah sure, you can test it ;)

Greetings,

BigBear

[Guest HunteronX]

Yeah sure, you can test it ;)

Greetings,

BigBear

Same here ;)

[Guest BigBearMDC]

Hmm the kernel seems to be a bit different...

Patched it anyway.

I hope it works!

Greetings,

BigBear

[Guest BigBearMDC]

Holy s***!

The Phone seems to be amazingly fast!

But is there a way to look up the CPU speed?

Greetings,

BigBear

[Guest Rem1x]

Holy s***!

The Phone seems to be amazingly fast!

But is there a way to look up the CPU speed?

Greetings,

BigBear

SetCPU, lets you do it!

I WANT TO SEE THIS ;)

[Guest BigBearMDC]

SetCPU, lets you do it!

I WANT TO SEE THIS ;)

Yay but network isn't working and I can't install any apps ... don't know why .... doesn't matter anyway ;)

newramdisk.cpio.gz

zImage.tar.gz

[Guest HunteronX]

Yay but network isn't working and I can't install any apps ... don't know why .... doesn't matter anyway ;)

Can you flash the Zimage?

[Guest BigBearMDC]

Can you flash the Zimage?

Yap using

fastboot-os flash raw:boot <path_to_boot.img> <path_to_ramdisk>

[Guest HunteronX]

Yap using

fastboot-os flash raw:boot <path_to_boot.img> <path_to_ramdisk>

The command didn't work for me, but I did this:

fastboot flash:raw boot <path_to_boot.img> <path_to_ramdisk>

with <path_to_boot.img> = zImage.tar.gz

and

<path_to_ramdisk> = newramdisk.cpio.gz

This also didn't work, as I'm stuck at the static android logo.

What should I do? ;)

Edited April 21, 2010 by HunteronX

[Guest BigBearMDC]

The command didn't work for me, but I did this:

fastboot flash:raw boot <path_to_boot.img> <path_to_ramdisk>

with <path_to_boot.img> = zImage.tar.gz

and

<path_to_ramdisk> = newramdisk.cpio.gz

This also didn't work, as I'm stuck at the static android logo.

What should I do? ;)

If you use linux write the following (assuming you have the files stored in /home/username/a-folder or C:\a-folder):

sudo ./fastboot-linux flash:raw boot /home/username/a-folder/zImage /home/username/a-folder/newramdisk.cpio.gz

if you use Windows:

fastboot-windows flash:raw boot C:\a-folder\zImage C:\a-folder\newramdisk.cpio.gz

[Guest HunteronX]

If you use linux write the following (assuming you have the files stored in /home/username/a-folder or C:\a-folder):

sudo ./fastboot-linux flash:raw boot /home/username/a-folder/zImage /home/username/a-folder/newramdisk.cpio.gz

if you use Windows:

fastboot-windows flash:raw boot C:\a-folder\zImage C:\a-folder\newramdisk.cpio.gz

Thanks ;) , it flashed, but I have the same problem as you. You'll probably have to ask Paul to add it into his custom kernel.

[Guest BigBearMDC]

Thanks ;) , it flashed, but I have the same problem as you. You'll probably have to ask Paul to add it into his custom kernel.

Yap ;)

Do you think its faster?

[Guest Azurren]

Yap ;)

Do you think its faster?

Wouldn't it run faster without network anyway? ;)

I can't trust over clocking a mobile processor, I added extra fans before doing it to my pc and only overclocked until the temperature matched stock before adding the fans :/