Droid gets overclocking, Nexus One gets tethering, Android hackers get mad props
By Tim Stevens 
posted January 9th 2010 11:33AM
posted January 9th 2010 11:33AM
If there's one problem with Motorola's Droid it's that the battery life is just too long. We can almost make it through an entire day without a recharge and really, who wants that? Thank goodness there's a hack to enable an extra 50MHz boost, bumping the Droid up to a full 600 and, according to at least one user, significantly decreasing stability in the process. We'll go ahead and skip that one, but on the more alluring side there's a new add-on to the (already rooted) Nexus One that enables wired or wireless tethering. It's not a full ROM but does entail a kernel update, and as always these things can go horribly wrong if you don't know what you're doing. Not sure if you know what you're doing? Chances are you have your answer.
"Chances are are you have your answer.”
Chances are are, you’ve used too many ‘are’s.
@CoffeeCoffee Chances are, you're right. Thanks.
Ehhh flashing a new kernel is easy... Not really a big chance of bricking your N1... yet...
@mattyboy247 Flashing the kernel isn't that dangerous, you can always back-up.
Super-duper-phone??
if only this worked for the samsung behold 2...
curse me for upgrading on black friday..
I believe there are custom ROMs, with both wired and wireless tethering cooked in already.
@B3astofthe3ast None of them are reported to already work on the N1
@arvid http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=614186
@B3astofthe3ast Impress, just after a couple of days, you can see that Nexus One has already been tethered and got a custom rom already? Well, just be careful of not cooking it too much. Kudus to the geeks of
xda. Details: http://bit.ly/nexus-one-updates-detail-opinions
Wouldn't really feel comfortable doing a kernell update on such a new device. I guess apps like: Pdanet (http://www.junefabrics.com/android/index.php) are better alternatives and worth the few bucks!
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Arvid
http://www.oetzitterd.nl
@Jon Rubinstein you know your in good shape when XDA community works for you...
What was the point of you comment anyway?
I wonder when Thermalright will release an overclocking heatsink that fits?! What about water cooling kits!? Awesome to the max!
@Jon Rubinstein
Surely that's back to front? If XDA Devs are working on your OS you've got a nice, moddable (& geek friendly) product
@Jon Rubinstein
yeah I mean what has XDA brought to the world yet ?
... oh wait..
@Jon Rubinstein - what's your issue? xda and ppcgeeks take something great and make it better.
@labrat
oh yeah, Windows Mobile is in great shape
DROID overclocked....
GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAT
hmmm....I wonder what the Nexus one is clocked at??
@Loick
1ghz -- but understand that clock speed with RISC or ARM cpus is mostly irrelevant. It's their instruction set that matters, and how efficient (or innefficient) it is at doing every-day tasks.
What I *don't* understand though is that alot of other devices use the OMAP3430 (droid CPU) at 600mhz and it's just fine. Maybe it's the garbage operating system it runs? :D
The sad truth in the android world, it takes hackers to enable functionality that should be there out of the box. "Open" my aching ass. Just another locked down jailed OS that doesn't come with root access out of the box for a device you paid for. Next -->
@surgex Are you referring to tethering? Because if you are, the N900 doesn't include this functionality either. If you are referring to rooting, how quick do you think some dumbass would brick his/her phone having total administrative access to the OS? Also, think of the security issues that could arise.
@etrnldrk
Who said anything about the N900?
What about all the symbian and WM phones that come out of the box with wifi tethering software??
Yeah, who wants long battery life? Lol.
A fun hack I'd like to see is changing the default search from Google to something else, like, Bing?
I'm gonna pick up an N1 next week and I'm pumped to be able to tether. Woo!
The Droid overclocking link is dead, site says it's been hacked.