HTC EVO 4G safely overclocked past 1.2GHz, battery begs for mercy
By Chris Ziegler 
posted June 15th 2010 9:11PM
posted June 15th 2010 9:11PM
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@Presence These are sub-500mW processors. Heat isn't even remotely an issue.
So besides the typical reply of "because you can," why would one want to do this??
I mean, yeah, it's cool to tinker with stuff like this, but what's the damn point?
This isn't a computer. It's a phone for pete's sake. Is Aunt Mable's voice going to be that much clearer with an overclocked CPU? Are your TXTs to your girlfriend going to be sent any faster? The fact that modern phones can do much more than just make calls still doesn't clarify the purpose of overclocking a phone's CPU. Webpages aren't really going to load any faster since usually the bottleneck is the wi-fi or 3G/4G connection, and not how fast the CPU can render the page.
I'd go so far as to say that I rather under-clock my phone to save batterylife.
@Hazdaz Your avatar is a car? I wasn't aware you were a Transformer
@Hazdaz
Actually, webpages do load faster on my OC'ed Droid...
@Flowah
There is the law of diminishing return.
The Droid only has a ~500Mhz processor. That's relatively fast, but when asked to do all the things that Android can do, there is a slow-down.
The EVO has a 1Ghz processor - there is no good reason that a CPU as fast as that needs any help in rendering out a page. And if it does, it's more due to bloated code than lack of processing power.
Great idea. The things were falling apart already, so lets find new and exciting ways to put more of a strain on it. Brilliant!
When i seen the overclocked evo from across the room I JIZZED IN MY PANTS!!!
Its nice to see that this is possible but my Evo is snappy enough already. I think its amazing how people can complain about something that is OPTIONAL. Way too many people playing devil's advocate.
1.2 ghz and still capped at 30fps = FAIL
feel so strange to see cpufreq options on cellphones...
Overclocking would come in handy for video streams and flash. I was watching T.W.I.T on Ustream using my evo and noticed the video was pretty choppy. I then tethered my phone to my laptop and went to Ustream and I noticed how much smoother the playback was on my laptop. I bet a few tens more mhertz on the evo would have brought the playback to a smoother more fluid viewing equilibrium.
Tegra 2 or nothing. I need battery life AND performance AND GPU flash acceleration.
Will this finally give us smooth scrolling?
If only it scaled like the Doird getting a 210% overclock without issue!
I played with the EVO, first off it's blazing fast already and the battery life is already atrocious. Why in the world would you want to overclock that thing. It already blazes. If anything I'd be looking at underclocking it to 800MHz and getting some more battery life out of it.
3000mAh battery? Nawww... How about a 3500mAh? http://www.mobilecityonline.com/wireless/store/productdetail.asp?productid=26469
It's not nearly as sexy with that quasimodo back, but it'll at least last a full day on a single charge...
This is quite sad compared to Moto Droid overclocking that people have done.
@protolink The 65nm Cortex A8 architecture seems to universally hit a brick wall after 1.3GHz or so. There's just a ton of headroom in the OMAPs.
Way to go Engadget. Funny how such good news for us evo owners is peppered with Ur negative vibe. Get off Apple's nuts.