How To Overclock Motorola Droid To 1GHz

Motorola Droid, with it’s 550MHz ARM Cortex processor looked just fine. Till the Nexus One came into market, with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. Droid users who are looking for ways to over clock their device, that is run the processor at much higher frequency than it was made for.

A forum member of Alldroid has released several boot images for various over clock speeds for Motorola Droid. Of course if you like to install any of these custom boot ROMs, you should first root your Motorola Droid. By rooting you can install custom ROMs such as the Nexus One Android port for Motorola Droid, custom applications such as the multi-touch enabled web browser, and so on.

The boot images are for click speeds of 800MHz, 900MHz, 990MHz, 1GHz, 1.1GHz, and 1.3 GHz. The 800MHz seems to be the most stable version currently. We recommend you to back up the data on your device before you go ahead and install any of the higher clock speed boot images.

droid_overclocked

Here are the download links and the steps to install the boot.img files.

boot.img files

evilboot8.img
evilboot9.img
evilboot1g.img
evilboot950m.img
evilboot1100m.img

1. Reboot Motorola Droid into recovery console.

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2. Go to adb shell and run the command su:

adb shell su

3. Run ‘flash_image boot targetBootImage.img’ where targetBootImage.img is the boot image you want to flash.

4. Reboot the device.

That’s it. You now have a much faster Droid at your disposal.

For those who prefer nandroid restore instead of boot.img files, here are the download links and the instructions:

evilboot8-nand.zip

evilboot9-nand.zip

evilboot1g-nand.zip

evilboot1100m-nand.zip

  1. Reboot phone into recovery console.
  2. Use the ‘backup/restore’ menu and then ‘Advanced Nandroid restore’.
  3. Select ‘Choose backup’.
  4. Choose the nandroid backup you want to restore.
  5. Clear the selections from all backup sections EXCEPT BOOT (only ‘restore BOOT’ should have a * by it)
  6. Select ‘Perform restore’
  7. Reboot the device.
Posted On January 30, 2010 | Tags:Boot Image, Hack, How To, Motorola Droid, Overclock

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3 COMMENTS

  1. Ben June 4, 2010 at 4:04 am

    Sorry for my ignorance here, but what’s the chance of “bricking” the phone (rendering it unrecoverable) by rooting the device and installing these updates?

    I definitely understand the need to backup, but are these changes similar to a firmware update that could kill the device if it goes wrong, or are they just software?

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    • dkszone June 4, 2010 at 12:38 pm

      Most of these root images are done quickly by enthusiast programmers who want to be first in bringing the features. Hence it’s always advisable that you backup all data on your device, and also be careful before you choose to install them.

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  2. Brock Robare July 20, 2010 at 5:31 am

    The Motorola DROID continues to present new possibilities daily. We’ve had it for about 10 months and I have had a Blackberry attached to my entire body due to the fact September 1998. Being connected is often a essential part of my life so I’m constantly reachable by loved ones and co-workers. I’m a bit addicted towards Market for DROID Applications. When the device had limitless memory I would test the capacity. I feel this OS could be the way from the long term and intend to grow with all of you to learn it through and through. Thanks for the content.

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