[Q] Overclocking - G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hiya,
I have been looking the forum, using the search etc, but I can't seem to get a definite answer. Here's my question: Is it possible to overclock a HTC Desire Z without rooting the phone? Because I'd like to keep my warranty on it but do want to see if 200MHz extra helps.
Thanks

I think you can temp root your phone and then oc. If anything goes wrong, just reboot.
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Get visionary r14 and temp-root, works nicely, used that before perm-rooting
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Yeah there is no way to do it without at least temp root.
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Root=access to kernel, and clock frequencies are in the kernel. If you want OC, use visionary as someone already mentioned. Rooting isn't that hard to do and is easy to undo, so consider it.
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PatrickHuey said:
Yeah there is no way to do it without at least temp root.
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There was that one right when the G2 came out that was a script and allowed you to oc up to 1.42.
Or did that one require temp root? I know you had to rerun it every time you rebooted. I'd say just root anyway - you can always go back for warranty purposes.

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Trackpad wakes up my G2.

So I have the opposite problem from most folks. Pushing the trackpad wakes up my phone and I don't want it to. I have temp root installed, but I rarely root it. I've tried to uninstall various apps to see if the function disappears but I just can't seem to troubleshhot it.
Anyone have any idea why this happens on my phone when I've done nothing intentional to enable the function?
Thanks!
Cyanogenmod does this. Also its possible baconbits does as well.
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But what have I done to make it happen? Everyone else complains the trackpad won't wake up their phones. I didn't mod it yet my trackpad has this functionality and I want to disable it.
Are you running a custom rom? If so then which one?
No, I'm just running stock. That's why I'm confused. Like I said, once in a greatwhile I temp root my phone, but that's about as crazy as I get. It just seems to be a standard feature on my phone, but from the comments I read elsewhere, most people do not have this feature and are actively searching for ways to get it.
I personally don't like it as my phone constantly wakes up in my pocket. I know, that's what she said....
You temp root with visionary i assume? And your sure you havnt installed any other program at all? No kernals nothing? Not even setcpu or rom manager?
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i say ducktales
When'd you get your phone? Makes me wonder if HTC just snuck it in there later. Then again, probably not.
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You temp root with visionary i assume? And your sure you havnt installed any other program at all? No kernals nothing? Not even setcpu or rom manager?
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Well, I dowloaded the overclocking script that folks were using before we got perm root. And I do have setcpu installed. I didn't try uninstalling that app. I have linpack, gscript, cachemate, busybox, and titanium installed as well. You think one of these apps could be causing it? I got tired of troubleshooting by uninstalling apps so I thought I'd come here for a tip, so thank you!
EfemaN said:
When'd you get your phone? Makes me wonder if HTC just snuck it in there later. Then again, probably not.
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I did a phone order from tmobile. This is a replacement. I preordered the first one...
theres a script that can allow trackpad wake.
The kernel is your problem. You need to flash a stock kernel. Ther are plenty on rom manager. Most kernels include the trackpad wake.
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When I set Tasker to turn off keyguard (phone doesn't lock itself) it will wake with the track pad.
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Overclocking problems

I overclocked my phone to 1.4GHz but it freezes soon after. 1GHz works fine. I followed the youtube vid from blackprince. Any help would be nice thanks
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Bdix said:
I overclocked my phone to 1.4GHz but it freezes soon after. 1GHz works fine. I followed the youtube vid from blackprince. Any help would be nice thanks
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More info, are you rooted? Im assuming yes from the blackprince video reference. What rom are you on, what kernel, setcpu, any profiles etc...????
Bdix said:
I overclocked my phone to 1.4GHz but it freezes soon after. 1GHz works fine. I followed the youtube vid from blackprince. Any help would be nice thanks
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That's just your phones' way of saying "Stop making me work harder than I need to!!!!"
Bdix said:
I overclocked my phone to 1.4GHz but it freezes soon after. 1GHz works fine. I followed the youtube vid from blackprince. Any help would be nice thanks
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R u using gscript overclock??
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Kernal is
2.6.32.17-g9ab3677
Yes I im useing gscript. I have the
OC. File and Oshitttt
Oc. Works fine, but have to overclock it every time I reboot. Every thing is stock on my phone beside the peraroot (S-off) and the kernal.
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I do have setcpu, astro, and all apps needed to root and over clock. I am still on stock rom.
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Then I guess you're just unlucky :/
You'll have to just settle for 1GHz I guess.
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Wow! That sux...........
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Bdix said:
Kernal is
2.6.32.17-g9ab3677
Yes I im useing gscript. I have the
OC. File and Oshitttt
Oc. Works fine, but have to overclock it every time I reboot. Every thing is stock on my phone beside the peraroot (S-off) and the kernal.
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I dont think I quite understand your situation, are you rooted or not, according to this post you say you are stock besides "peraroot (I think you meant permroot)and the kernel" , so meaning you are rooted (s-off)??. Anyways if you are rooted why are you using gscript to OC with? And if your on a custom kernel why not use setcpu or something similar.
If your not rooted (s-on) then I think I remember when using the gsript files that 1.4 and over was unstable, if you want something a little higher than 1ghz use something like word pad to change the value in the script you are pushing for the oc to go to 1.1ghz or 1.2ghz etc..
Bdix said:
I overclocked my phone to 1.4GHz but it freezes soon after. 1GHz works fine. I followed the youtube vid from blackprince. Any help would be nice thanks
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From my experience, not all processors are created equal... Some just handle the higher frequencies better than others do.
I have loaded everything why not working download kernel should put first in phone should I do in computer
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Yes I'm permarooted. S-off. I'm useing gscript because that's what was done in the video. I have setcpu and use it but with out a overclock program I can only raise it to 806MGz and with oc. I can raise it to 1017MGz. If that's as high as I can go then I guess I just have to deal with that.
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Bdix said:
Yes I'm permarooted. S-off. I'm useing gscript because that's what was done in the video. I have setcpu and use it but with out a overclock program I can only raise it to 806MGz and with oc. I can raise it to 1017MGz. If that's as high as I can go then I guess I just have to deal with that.
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As someone said earlier, I think you are using the old, unstable method. I highly recommend u updating to a ROM with OC embedded into the kernel.
It is also true that "not all processors are created equally" but this is the only case I have read with it freezing at 1.4.
Bdix said:
Kernal is
2.6.32.17-g9ab3677
Yes I im useing gscript. I have the
OC. File and Oshitttt
Oc. Works fine, but have to overclock it every time I reboot. Every thing is stock on my phone beside the peraroot (S-off) and the kernal.
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U need to find a rom that suits u and use pershoots kernel download any cpu tuner for overclock do not use gscript it really freezes ur phone
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I have the same problem ,i am running virtouos ROM with evil 12/10 and if i over-clock anything over 1094mhz my phone freezes the the only way that i can manage more than that is if i set it to performance scaling with no profile and there is no point on doing that because it eats the battery .its only good for benchmarking ,i think your problem is same is me, you have been unlucky with your CPU .i am just hoping its going to be different when gingerbread come out.
bahmanxda said:
I have the same problem ,i am running virtouos ROM with evil 12/10 and if i over-clock anything over 1094mhz my phone freezes the the only way that i can manage more than that is if i set it to performance scaling with no profile and there is no point on doing that because it eats the battery .its only good for benchmarking ,i think your problem is same is me, you have been unlucky with your CPU .i am just hoping its going to be different when gingerbread come out.
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Have you given CM6.1 a go just to compare if you can clock higher using a different ROM?
If you are indeed using the gscript method then this has been explained many times! there's a whole giant humungo thread about that hack when it initially came out.
the reason your phone's freezing is because you're asking it to clock faster, but you arent giving it more juice to offset the additional work it's conducting..hence the freeze. that old hack (while it was awesome at the time) is very outdated and has been surpassed by actual performance kernels.
It's all in the thread. you wouldnt put low octane in a sports car would you? same principle lol
wileykat said:
Have you given CM6.1 a go just to compare if you can clock higher using a different ROM?
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No i havnt ,i got desire z i thought CM6.1 is for G2 only ,i will look into it and see if its compatible with Desire z though i really like sense ,thanks
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No i havnt ,i got desire z i thought CM6.1 is for G2 only ,i will look into it and see if its compatible with Desire z though i really like sense ,thanks
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I think they have already solved the key mapping for the CM rom, look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=847824
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Have you given CM6.1 a go just to compare if you can clock higher using a different ROM?
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I gave CM6.1 a go and i am stable at 1.5ghz cheers for that , i really like sense though, i will play with CM6.1 and see what happens maybe i will continue using it.

Is the problem my hboot?

I rooted my phone back in november, around the same time everyone else did it, and everything worked fine I suppose. However, lately, I've been having trouble with flashing the newer roms. Sometimes, the market would be missing when I flash a rom. Many times, I'm just stuck in a bootloop. Sometimes, apps malfunction, specifically embeded system media players. I've also had encounters typing text into a text field where the cursor moves to different parts of the field randomly. NONE of these problems have been solved by reflashing the rom. I'm using koush's latest recovery, 3.0.0.5, as well.
However, I don't have the most current hboot version on the g2. The version I have is 0.76blahblahblah. Are these problems being caused by an outdated hboot?
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ohshootrawr said:
I rooted my phone back in november, around the same time everyone else did it, and everything worked fine I suppose. However, lately, I've been having trouble with flashing the newer roms. Sometimes, the market would be missing when I flash a rom. Many times, I'm just stuck in a bootloop. Sometimes, apps malfunction, specifically embeded system media players. I've also had encounters typing text into a text field where the cursor moves to different parts of the field randomly. NONE of these problems have been solved by reflashing the rom. I'm using koush's latest recovery, 3.0.0.5, as well.
However, I don't have the most current hboot version on the g2. The version I have is 0.76blahblahblah. Are these problems being caused by an outdated hboot?
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First things first, what method did you use to root?
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OriginalGabriel said:
First things first, what method did you use to root?
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I used the visionary temproot/permroot method on theunlockr.com. I forgot to mention that I actually have the engineering s-off. Could that be why I'm having trouble with the roms?
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ohshootrawr said:
I used the visionary temproot/permroot method on theunlockr.com. I forgot to mention that I actually have the engineering s-off. Could that be why I'm having trouble with the roms?
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The Visionary method is buggy as hell, use the method in the wiki
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OriginalGabriel said:
The Visionary method is buggy as hell, use the method in the wiki
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Darn. So I have to unroot first? .____.
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[Q] HELP!?!?!?!?!?!

what do i do? i was flashing cm 7.03 and now its just stuck on the screen where the blue arrow goes around and around. what do i do? any help is appreciated.
happymfeet said:
what do i do? i was flashing cm 7.03 and now its just stuck on the screen where the blue arrow goes around and around. what do i do? any help is appreciated.
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Take out the battery. Put it back in and start your phone again. If the same happens repeat the battery pull but this time hold down on the volume bar and THEN press the power button to restart your phone. After it starts up in bootloader select recovery by moving the volume bar and then hit the power button again. This will bring you back to recovery where you can flash the rom again or restore your backup.
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Take out the battery. Put it back in and start your phone again. If the same happens repeat the battery pull but this time hold down on the volume bar and THEN press the power button to restart your phone. After it starts up in bootloader select recovery by moving the volume bar and then hit the power button again. This will bring you back to recovery where you can flash the rom again or restore your backup.
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Thanks im restoring my backup now. I thought i had bricked my phone or something. i just rooted my phone so this was my first ROM that i was flashing so I wasn't sure of what to do.
I know this going to sound stupid, but can anybody point me to a guide or video on how to flash roms? Im new to all this so I dont want to mess anything up.
happymfeet said:
I know this going to sound stupid, but can anybody point me to a guide or video on how to flash roms? Im new to all this so I dont want to mess anything up.
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YouTube is your best friend sir. I wish I had one to direct you to, but a Google or YouTube search with do you just fine.
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happymfeet said:
I know this going to sound stupid, but can anybody point me to a guide or video on how to flash roms? Im new to all this so I dont want to mess anything up.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYOzWLVnBuc&feature=fvst
Note: Start @ 3:15. In the video clockwork mod is black/green but that's just because its an older version, the newer version is black/orange. All the steps are still the same though.
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eioous said:
Note: Start @ 3:15. In the video clockwork mod is black/green but that's just because its an older version, the newer version is black/orange. All the steps are still the same though.
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Thanks, appreciate it.
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Thanks, appreciate it.
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Also keep in mind that some roms can take up to 5 minutes to load the first time. Normally (but definetely NOT always) as long as it doesn't keep reloading the boot animation, everything is fine - the rom is building your file system on your first boot.
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What rom do you all think is the best? Im currently on cm 7.02 and i like it but i want to know your opinions
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Also what are
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Also what are the benefits of switching kernels? And which do you all recommend?
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if you took the time to read about kernels and what they are you would know.
but, i'm in a good mood today:
Kernels govern your cpu speed and how to scale it. Some are locked to a certain frequency set and some are made adjustable, but you have to get an app that interacts with the kernel otherwise it runs at whatever it is preset to.
SetCPU is the one I used, but I know there are plenty out there that others would recommend and swear by in a heartbeat.
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if you took the time to read about kernels and what they are you would know.
but, i'm in a good mood today:
Kernels govern your cpu speed and how to scale it. Some are locked to a certain frequency set and some are made adjustable, but you have to get an app that interacts with the kernel otherwise it runs at whatever it is preset to.
SetCPU is the one I used, but I know there are plenty out there that others would recommend and swear by in a heartbeat.
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Thanks, which kernel do you have and would you recommend me getting it?
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I'm using Virtuous rom 1.02 with the advanced kernel. I clocked mine at 475-1100mhz with a low battery profile switch at 275-887 (i think).
Check your rom specific kernel to make sure it runs best for your rom. The rest is personal preference.
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*sigh* Give a man a fish and he will eat all day. Teach a man to fish and he will drink beer all day.
Since you're on CyanogenMod, I recommend Pershoot's kernel (available through ROM Manager). If you're feeling bold, download Flippy's latest kernel. Since I'm running the CM-based PyroMod, Pershoot's kernel is built in.
Everytime i flash a rom do i need to flash clockwork mod recovery?
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I suggest you check out the stickies sections that has links to a bunch of very well written guides that answer all your questions. the responses you get here are going to turn ugly very fast.
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If you open clockwork and your current recover is the same as newest version then there is no need to reflash recovery. The only reason to reflash clockwork is if there is a newer version out.
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Set Cpu refuses to detect temperature

set cpu seems to be stuck at 25.2 degrees Celsius i have tried all the wiping and uninstalling and re-installing possible is there a fix for this or am i stuck
Try flashing an older/recent Radio.
Your desire z / g2 might not have a core temerature reader built In.
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Just tried flashing radios and that did not work. Is it really possible that some g2s have core temp readers and some dont
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Try flashing an older/recent Radio.
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Dude flashing a radio won't fix that. Sure wish people would quit telling others to flash a radio for everything that goes wrong on their devices.
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Dude flashing a radio won't fix that. Sure wish people would quit telling others to flash a radio for everything that goes wrong on their devices.
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I didn't think it would work I was just really hopeful cause the temperature profiles was one of the main reasons I use setcpu. I'm just hoping its not a hardware issue cause I don't want to have to get a warranty replacement, I just got done with the whole rooting fiasco and don't want to go through that again.
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