Palm Pre hits 1.2GHz courtesy of SR71 Blackbird kernel, not for the faint-hearted
By Richard Lai 
posted July 19th 2010 11:11PM
posted July 19th 2010 11:11PM
posted July 19th 2010 11:11PM
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I'm not going to lie that's effing pimp
lol @ poster
@NuklearPanda Going that fast will undoubtedly lead to Pre-mature... well you know...
@dgtlber This is the sickest thing ever!
@Son Of a Gun Highest ranked on this post and in oblivion on the other. Sweet.
@Brt312 Didn't they break the 1 ghz barrier like a year ago? Am I thinking of another phone? Or am I just hallucinating and thinking of the 800 MHz? Cause that was like 2 years ago
@dgtlber It's like the good ol' Pentium days where breaking the 1GHz mark was seriously pimp and it was possible to get a 200% OC.
Gives me a tiny smile on the side of my face.
@Son Of a Gun Birth?
Awww hell same meaning if you thing about it. . .
@That guy 2
What's the original clock speed of the pre? Haven't they just doubled it going to 1.2GHz?
That is pretty cool!
@That guy 2 The Pre was released on June 9 '09. It is just one year and 6 weeks old.
@SFHandyman Pre is as old as the 3GS ... speaks volumes.
@yeoldgreat1
Although the stock speed for the OMAP 3430 is 600Mhz, the Pre was underclocked to 500Mhz, so this is really a more than double overclock from a stock Pre
@dgtlber
damn thats pimp...good thing i still my pre in my drawer.
@Roisen
For PDK apps (3D games) the CPU scales to 600MHz automatically.
so will there be a kernel that turns my pre into a bomb?
@rocko213
possibly the "B2 Spirit" kernel
@JeremyBenthem I have enough trouble finding my phone without a stealth patch that might go nuclear.
@rocko213 I see a homebrew app here...your Pre makes the phaser on overload sound from Star Trek as it gets ready to blow up. Or melt in your hand as the case may be.
We've gone to plaid!
MY BRAINS ARE GOING INTO MY FEEEEET
That is the best Kernel name ever. Huge props naming it after easily one of the coolest jet aircraft ever conceived.
@Prevacator
That it was.
This effort would have been better placed in hounding HP to release a new webOS phone..somehow.
@SoulinEther
Right, because the vast majority of people have been coming up with ways to overclock the processor on the pre, and it's a small minority who have already been rallying for a new smartphone...
@snowbound Prēcisely.
I so would've got this if it were available when I got my 3G.
Best of all, if you let go of the menu button below the screen, the Pre explodes.
There is a bomb on the Pre!
WHAT!?
THERE IS A BOMB ON THE PRE!!
If this Pre clocks below 900 Mhz, it'll explode.
*Gasps in horror*
I lol'd @Jacob1
@Jacob1 That's actually funnier than it seems because the way the hardware on Sprint Pre's work with kernel, you can't run anything lower than 700Mhz in the governor or else the phone just fails and you have to Doctor it. This is a "Funny Cause It's True"
@robotsongs not true. I was running the original kernel with 250MHz min, 1205Mhz max and had no issue.
Yay!! For the 50 people who use the Pre.
@RockTripod
49. I switched to an iPhone 4.
@RockTripod OH NO YOU DI' INT!
@RockTripod
have you ever used a Pre. It has WebOS which is undoubtedly the best mobile OS currently out there. Palm just did not market it properly.
@ssguy
now if only HP gives us some good hardware.
@ssguy
I second that. It saddens me that my pre in the corner is now useless
@ssguy hp and good hardware have never been seen in the same sentence until now
@ssguy
I have to agree, I used to have an iphone, when multitasking on the pre poped out, i got hooked, after i tried to switch to a nexus one but i just couldnt. I cant live without the gestures anymore or the well made multitasking as it is. It just failed to market correctly the way paklm had hoped for but their freakin advertising team was probably gay at doing so. Sprint left them in the dust as well.
what about this sentence? "HP isn't known to have good hardware" sorry for the bad formatting, the only thing I have is this not-so-great ipad keyboard, i love the pre and i own a droid so im not an apple fanboy, i also have a imac lol@davebu3
@ssguy dude that phone rocks but the operating system is just moving to slow. I used one a while and it is the best operating system. But is just moving way too slow. All of the development is going to the android and I'OS. I had a iphone but I dropped off for the EVO but if they make a cool device and the development picks up to the level of android (like the android tv etc). I don't rule out getting one.
Wow, that'd be helpful. Anything as amazing as this for the Nexus One?
@Dafrety
The Qualcomn cpu can't handle overclocking like the OMAP can.
+1 for TI
@Dafrety
Well thats all the N1 is anyway, same with the EVO. They are both 65nm processors just like the cortex in the Pre.
The new 45nm Apple A4 processors and Samsung Hummingbird processors are going to be where the action is at. Running the new Galaxy S phones at 1.6-2.0GHz shouldn't be out of the question. Too bad apple locks their hardware so tight, I would love to make my iPad scream.
my droid with an omap 3430 has been clocked at 1.25ghz for the past few months. but welcome to the club palm
@tallen1331 The droid looks like it can run at that speed.
there's nothing about the pre hardware that gives you the perception that 1 is possible, let alone 1.2. Mine sure doesn't (i have a weakling pre that can't run it, not a chuck norris pre as they call it).
@tallen1331 Actually the Droid with OMAP has stability issues being clocked past the 1.2+ghz just as the Pre does...the droid is not immune to overclocking issues...
@tallen1331 Then your aware that the Droid had stability issues just the same as the Pre when hitting 1.2 Ghz
@carpediemwine
Im well aware, just saying that the droid community has been able to clock past 1.2 for quite some time using the same processor. the only stability issues ive come across were when using an ultra low voltage kernel clocked past 1.2 ghz. But the standard voltage 1.25 has been 100% stable for months, all the while getting 2X the stock battery life (petes BB rom)
@tallen1331 For the record, I don't really recommend running it past 800MHz.