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.

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.

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.