Some crazy programmers have overclocked the Droid to 1.1GHz, making it faster than the Nexus one. The Droid usually runs at about 600MHz so bumping it up to 1.1 was fairly dangerous. However, with a little tweaking the boys at AllDroid were able to find a stable speed at about 800MHz.
How do you do it? Well, it requires you to root your Droid, a fairly simple process and then upload a new bit of firmware. The full instructions are here.
As someone who has tried to futz with firmware, this second step is pretty rough so get yourself a few bottles of beer before you start.
I wonder how much the nexus one can be overclocked too.
Be careful what you wish for coz you just might not get it. In this case, the ROM got cooked (not-technically). Anyway, aside from this post… xda-developers are providing some rooting of N1 phone too, promising some cool apps to be installed. Details: http://bit.ly/nexus-one-updates-detail-opinions
The Droid doesn’t ever run hot (stock, at least) — so I think it has a bit of room.
My Nexus One on the other hand gets noticeably “warm” to the touch when playing games and such, so I don’t think it has much room.
There’s a thread about it here: http://www.nexusoneforum.net/forum/nexus-one-tech-issues-bug-reports/519-nexus-one-getting-hot.html
Would you please credit your sources?!
http://alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=312&t=1637
Thanks to tasmanian_droid. I prefer the 800mhz bootimg because, at the moment, the 600mhz slots have been replaced with higher clockrates.
The least you could do is credit the source of the image and give respect where it’s due. “Some crazy programmer” is doing some great work.
My Droid runs hot quite often. It’s not overclocked.
These guys got it to go faster…..
http://androidandme.com/2010/01/news/droid-overclocked-to-1-3-ghz-nexus-one-still-faster/