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[Touch GSM General] number16:
Well, not much luck with overclocking here ... I had it set to 134/200/247 and all was working well for a while, until I got on a call, then midway through the call the phone just reseted, and everytime it got to the today menu it reseted again, for 6-7 times in a row until I got a chance to disable overclock (strange, I already had "Overclock on reboot" unchecked, it still overclocked after a reset!!)

So now I'm trying a 'milder' 221MHz instead and see if I have better luck. My biggest goal actually isn't so much to "OC" the device, as I don't play games on it and most of the applications are fast enough. The only program I can really feel the lack of speed is iGuidance, but for that, a lot of time is used in accessing huge data on the SD card, so OCing the CPU didn't help neither.

I'm actually more interested in UNDERclocking the device to extend battery life ... currently I set the min to 134. What's the lowest you guys have gone at without problems?
[Touch GSM General] Vector-SS:
I actually went back down to 234/247 as well. Battery consumption is greatly increased once your at 260+ So I will overclock to those numbers when nrnnning Navigon 6 or something along the likes.
[Touch GSM General] zakeen:
Whne I over clocked mine to 247 and streamed music over BT it was choppy.

Anyone else get any BT problems when they overclocked it?
[Touch GSM General] TangerineTractor:
Don't need to overclock

Try flashing to the new Light ROM 3.1 Black edidtion, then use pagepool switcher to set to 16mb - I'm running at a standard 195mhz, and it's faster than any rom I've ever run overclocked on my elfin!
[Touch GSM General] sas_sas:
99/200/234

My Elfin is stable under 234.

Otherwise, It boots up..
[Touch GSM General] VooDoo1:
I started my Elf @ 247...then went to 260...now set @ 273 :) I dont think Im brave enough to go any higher..haha
[Touch GSM General] Deepeyes:
I just Downloaded --> BatterStatus V. 0.05.001 build: 0296 (it does not give me the option to raise or lower the cpu speed!?) it automatically set it at 300mhz and so far it seems to run good ( been about an hour or so) why does this not give me the option to change the MHz?

phone: HTC Touch (purchased on 5/2/08 so it must be the newest model available
[Touch GSM General] james_khalil:
400 MHz : the answer

Here is the answer for: "why people are saying they have a 400MHz cpu (out of the box) instead of 201MHZ (like everybody else)."?

GSM's cpu: 201MHz

CDMA's cpu: 400MHz

Here is the reference:

http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=362
[Touch GSM General] dan55:
hi,

i can set mine to 221 and run fine using the drop down menu options. but the it drops to 201 when sleeps - even though option set for it to not.

and then when set it in settings-options - it hangs! even if it is set to 201 again

help!

ta
[Touch GSM General] nighty:
i use the battery status-plugin for overclocking my elf

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=270751

260mhz and no problems
[Touch GSM General] dragon78:
well after finding this site and tryin out the Battery Staus Program, I got my HTC Touch to 312hz ( Very Stable ) then to 325 ( Not so stable )

was not going to risk it at full!! lol! but it runns like a dream now!! also using the spd Mobile shell and spd plus!! it all works perfectly at 312

but i put it at 299 just to be safe though!!

I love this phone again!! it was going slow there for a while!! hehe!! no more waiting for it now hehe!

If anyone can tell me who you get a screen shot off the Phone i will post a pic for you all!! :D
[Touch GSM General] dan55:
help! how come mine wont do it ? :/ as soon as i try changing speed in the actual settings rather than the drop down - phone just turns screen off and then has to be rebooted :(

ta
[Touch GSM General] willy792003:
the most my elfin can do is 286mhz. but it's good enough. i can feel the difference :)
[Touch GSM General] dan55:
but how?! mine wont keep the increase speed after if sleeps :(
[Touch GSM General] gronostaj:
In Battery Status there's an option on |OMAP| which allows you to overclock on wake up

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-tag-overclock.html take a look
[Touch GSM General] dan55:
hi - yeah i have that checked. i think it might be that im using the drop down menu to set the speed rather than the options-settings-opmap (the one that is set to default of 69) - when ever i select this it just kills my phone! screen goes dead and i have to hard reset it :/
[Touch GSM General] dan55:
just read comments on freepc link above and it seem it might not work with the touch - is that correct? something about only omap chipsets :confused:
[Touch GSM General] gronostaj:
Touch is based on OMAP, usually BS works normally. Try OmapClock 2 & OmapClockPlus (download on the site linked above)
[Touch GSM General] dan55:
ok thanks - will do
[Touch GSM General] number16:
I've been using battery status and has been able run pretty stable at 134/201/243.

I wonder if anybody's used pocket hack master ... and I wonder how it compares to battery status
[Touch GSM General] dan55:
hi,

i got BS to show upto 273 briefly using the scaler - but didnt actually notice any change in speed of phone :/ just the cpu speed showed as quicker
[Touch GSM General] porkythe5th:
mine is at 400 mhz. and i have never "overclocked" it, or used anything to "speed things up" i guess you could say. after my latest firmware update a few months ago from Alltel, its "stock/standard" at 400
[Touch GSM General] gronostaj:
You have got Vogue, not Elf - they have similiar look but running on different processors - Vogue has got Qualcomm @ 400 MHz and it cannot be overclocked. And Vogue is CDMA phone, not GSM.
[Touch GSM General] odevil:
hi guys,

i just install this great piece of software and set to 110/247 no boost. so far so good. i just wanna find out if its possible to add the softreset to the traylaucher. if so how do i do that? 1 more thing is how can we adjust the backlight with just 1 tap like that 1 in the htchome? thx alot
[Touch GSM General] Mauriffe:
Hi folks,

I bought my touch around April 2007 (should be from first generation in France). It is running Blue Elves V5.0.

My Touch can be set up to 299MHz without any trouble. Above, it crashes. I usually run it at 286MHz, the battery lifetime is about the same, may be a wee shorter. TCPMP says the clock speed runs at 250MHz (set to 286Mhz with BS).

BS is a really good soft , It gives a good boost to this phone which has an obvious lack of speed.

I don't know if it's relevant but I tried to lunch the HTC Audio Manager. At 201MHz, it needs 8-9sec to open. At 286MHz, It needs only 3-4sec. Because It's not an accurate way to check the gain, I would say I gain 30-40% of speed by setting it to 286MHz.

Hope, my experiment will be usefull in a way for somebody.

See ya
[Touch GSM General] moshinho:
I've been using battery status and has been able run pretty stable at 145/201/299.

So far so good. If i set more cpu speed it crashes.
[Touch GSM General] freaksey:
i m using batterystatus with cpu scaler. min at 143, org 201, max 234 and with boost at 260. works fine for me.
[Touch GSM General] bububang:
How to know its stable or not?

How do u all overclocking? It'z by using "Set CPUspeed" Or CPUscaler?

I tried to Set CPUspeed at 299mhz for few min and try play a rmvb movie.. works fine.. :p
[Touch GSM General] gronostaj:
BatteryStatus is ok, if it doesn't works use OmapClock
[Touch GSM General] dido22:
Thanx to this Thread

I was about to start hating my Elf and I stumbled upon this tread.

I now over clock at 273 and it is working like a charm.

significant change while running Audio manager and multi-apps at the same time

thanx

:):):)
[Touch GSM General] murrun:
247 is stable for me. above from that speed is making my screen blurry and striped(horizontal lines).
[Touch GSM General] Noonski:
Out of a fe other HTC devices i have had the Touch CPU looks less stable and giving different results on different devices.

247 is the safest, 286 is do-able if you can live with the occasional freze once in a while 299 and your phone app will freeze or WMP will skip songs after 10 seconds.

Anything between 247 and 273 is stable on my device.
[Touch GSM General] bububang:
i tried mine at 299.. seems fine the WMP.. no skip song..

Just now i try active 312mhz.. it didnt restart.. but i see some color strip at 299mhz.. :(

While playing song using WMP.. i set speed to 260mhz.. the PocketCM freeze.. unable to quit and need soft reset :(
[Touch GSM General] floh_air:
up to 286 Mhz

Hi,

I have one of the first HTC Touches.

I managed with the tai Chi Battery Plugin OMAP Overcloc application to speed my Touch up to more than 280 Mhz and it ran stable.

However, the power drain and my fear of an overheating and damage was to great, so I am using the CPU Scaler which I find most practical!
[Touch GSM General] osamahosam:
the best setting that works with me

with battery status i ve overclocked omap cpu to 286 and it works fine under games and multiple programms at the same time and before i turn of the screen or connect with active sync reduced it again to 201 but it allowed me to play lots of games like realfootball 2009 and ps1 emulator realy worked ............................... ....... ... .. .
[Touch GSM General] Haad:
i have overclocked elfin [tedbaker needle] to 286 its runn in fine but if i overcloack it to 247 mghz it gets stuck and repeats a sound. and when i use cpuscaler in the battery status when it underclocks the lines of the htc home begins to vibrate.. on the screen...
[Touch GSM General] gronostaj:
299 works fine for me, haven't tried 312 yet but freezes on 325
[Touch GSM General] DubThroatflex:
Mine turns off immediately after setting clock to 264MHz.

Testing 252MHz now ;]

Using MDA Touch and OMAPclock.
[Touch GSM General] thejoker01:
This is weird...when I first got this program I was overclocking to 247mhz because when I tried 260mhz my phone would reboot. Today I was feeling bored (and a bit adventurous) so I stepped up to 273mhz and it worked no problem. 286mhz, no problem. 299mhz, no problem.
[Touch GSM General] Bang Tango:
Can i ask wat kinda and version u all using to OC ur HTC
[Touch GSM General] gronostaj:
Open previous page and read my post...
[Touch GSM General] zdtouch:
Safe on 273Mhz

I am using the OMAP on HTC Touch Enhanced - P3452 - Elfin running on 273MHz.

It works fine on 286MHz but not when connected to the PC - It crashes every time I am connected...

So 273MHz is tha safest for my phone. I have been using it for 1 year.
[Touch GSM General] cyber weesje:
hi 400 on a touch thats danger dude your device warms up have seen screen whit defect blur on the screen from the heat dont recomend it

grtz tom
[Touch GSM General] cyber weesje:
hi guys

think you must be carefell whit overcloking touch and ohter phone because the heat is not so good you dont whant to brik your device en push it to the limit you now when you have overclockt your computer you need cooling phone dont have extra cooling lol 248mhz to 286 think thats more then wel guys

friendly grtz tom
[Touch GSM General] hirencj:
best

the best over clock speed is 273 for elf and do not use cpu scalar because when device speed goes to 247 it get hang...

Thankyou....
[Touch GSM General] mesaj:
I was using OMAPClock v0.2 on mine P3452 (Touch Enchanced) and 252Mhz was the most. Higher speeds taking him to soft reset.
[Touch GSM General] psycoy:
no under 247mhz because block other program

i used overclocked at 247mhz other bloked sygic!
[Touch GSM General] steling:
elf to 299

i overclock my Elf to 299 MHz and work normaly one year.

Using Home Screen ++
[Touch GSM General] maxoueb:
How come your Touch is still stable at 286Mhz?!

As soon as I overclock mine >247Mhz, I got "stripes" and if I overclock more, the device reboot by itself...

Would you please post a screen capture of your device showing this speed?

Which program do you actually use to get this speed? (Battery status or other?)

Thanks for sharing.

Max
[Touch GSM General] maxoueb:
No? Nobody wants to tell me how he get its 286Mhz without any crash?

Which soft? Which exact config?

Thanks,

Max
[Touch GSM General] sorepalm:
I am using battery status - I am clocking it at 286mhz with no problem.

Overclocking is not an exact science and its really dependent on the purity of the processor chip. Every single processor chip has to a certain extend inpurity thus overclocking them give different results.

The safest option is overclock gradually - using a clock speed for a day and increasing it progressively. If you see the strip or error appearing across the screen at certain speed - be sure to underclock and reset it. That is the sign that your processor is at the edge/limit already.

There are some safe setting you can try on battery status -

1) Enable "Overclock on Wakeup"

2) Enable "Remember last CPUSpeed"

3) Disable "Overclock after reboot"

Setting (3) - This is the ensure if the speed set is unstable, at least you can reset to correct it. Surely, you do not want to brick your device...
[Touch GSM General] maxoueb:
Thanks a lot for this long explanation.

I'm really surprised that mine gave "stripes" on the screen at 247Mhz and yours work well at 286Mhz... (I also used Battery Status). I guess I'll have to buy a new Touch to enjoy these speeds.

Max
[Touch GSM General] lohthx1r:
I am using BatteryStatus plugin. I tried xpuscaler but like what you said, it keep on rebooting. Sorry I don't know how to do a screen capture. I am a Palm user for 7 years.
[Touch GSM General] hyde:
Hi Guys,

do you have any screenshot or description of the strips you guys mentioning?

I am using batterystatus for overclocking too. And I had set to 299MHz and it seems fine. I had tried 312MHz too and it works fine for a while but hang once which I try set it to 312MHz after it wake up from sleep at 201MHz.

So now I set to 299MHz n see if I got any problem but so far so good.

I'm surprise to see many ppl unable to clock up to the speed I'm tried with my elf since mine like working fine. Wonder am i doing correctly or not.

Anyone enabled the CpuScaler? What is it for?
[Touch GSM General] QuadDamage:
Mine also does 299Mhz stable, im thinking its a newer patch that can clock better.

For people who cant go too high, use sk-tools to benchmark & stress the cpu (any looping?) after a couple of days. try going higher.

With a bit of luck these might reach 350Mhz (Hopefully)

P.S: I still feel like this device is a little slow.Maybe beside overclocking we need some good tweaks.

time will tell.
[Touch GSM General] koper1:
Hi,

mine was stable all day @ 312, 299, no strips, hangs, resets ... The only thing is that battery last way to less than @ 201. Actually, I didn't notice any difference in battery life when I was 2 days at 201 HMz and then 2 days @ 247. Freq. 260MHz looks like about 10% more energy consuming. But that can be solved by using CPUScaller. Actually, I set it up between 99MHz - 247, with short time boost to 260 and after 2days I noticed a little increase in standby time. Btw mine wont go lower than 99, dunno why is that.

Also, maybe we don't have the right applications, 'cause @ normally use, there is no visible difference when set to 260 or 312MHz. I guess @ that speed there is another "hardware" holding it back, like RAM/ROM acces speed, radio, WiFi, graphic hardware (part of CPU?) etc.

One more thing. What is buggin' me a lot is the horrible display, no way to read anything on direct sunlight. It's my first WM, I was always Symbian guy and still using both, but never saw anything like this (of course - that has nothing to do with the OS). So, is there any way to remap say camera hard button to dual function like press one time for display backlight increase, hold 4 voice recorder (witch I'm usin' as a phone call recorder) ?
[Touch GSM General] ben0s:
@ koper1

You're taking about CPUScaller, what is it ?

Many thanks for all the replay I've setted my Touch @299Mhz and it seems to work great !

Have a nice day,

ben0s
[Touch GSM General] koper1:
It's an "option" or better "different workin' mode" in Battery status. Check On the CpuScaller in main menu, then setup your desired frequencies in "Option" - top row in Battery status's main menu. On the bottom tabs move to the right all the way to Cpu Scaller and start play with it. Your goal is activate something like dynamic CPU frequencies changes, when CPU is force to slow down if U don't need it and boost it up when "hungry" application ask for it. By doing that you are being "nice" to your CPU to let it cool down and save a little bit of energy (Tech geeks will probably shoot me for the way I'm trying to explain it to you).
[Touch GSM General] Johannus:
can't find the cpuscaler anywhere in the mainmenu, can you tell me exactly where to find it?
[Touch GSM General] koper1:
What version?

I'm usin' BatteryStatusToday-Plugin, ver.1.04.203 beta 4, build 0219. Dunno about older ones, but this one has menu like this,from the top : Options/Show Rows/Set CPUspeed/CpuScaller/OnWakeup/Set Last Speed/Device Lock/TaskBar Indicator etc etc.
[Touch GSM General] amirsamy:
Disadvantages

are there any disadvantages for OCing the device?
[Touch GSM General] Biffert:
Extra strain on the hardware, it may reduce lifetime of the device.
[Touch GSM General] paulclo:
Overclocking Problrm - HELP!!!

I am not sure if I have already broken my device. I overclocked it to 273, or there about, but I did not "Disable after reboot". It then kept rebooting - and I can never stop it in time by going to the setting or program. After several re-boots, it shows an error message, saying the device cannot start up due to sudden loss of power. Do you want to continue - click yes or no. It also gives a note - do not remove battery until it is completely shutdown (OFF).

Unfortunately, there is no response on the Yes and No buttons. Any idea how I can remove the overclocking software now?
[Touch GSM General] mikkelnl:
Maybe you'll have to hard-reset the device!
[Touch GSM General] ikarus:
there are at least two solutions for disabling batterystatus (in this situation). please read the manual...
[Touch GSM General] 10203656:
Also concern the CPU temp. in PPC, which level got the danger?
[Touch GSM General] Valentin.H:
It's the cpu temp, only the battery's ;)
[Touch GSM General] the.superunknown:
Hi, got my MDA Touch today.

Devices looks quite slow, but with oc on at 299 MHz this thing works much better. No stripes or hangs, just fine the last hour....

Powercosuption raised a bit, wonder how long battery lasts....
[Touch GSM General] jlpk007:
i only set it to overclock when i use tcpmp.....my youtube streaming cannot stream well with cpu speed @201...i set it 247mhz....
[Touch GSM General] nickmgray:
I've just installed the battery stat program and things seem to be working fine. Main program an I using to test the speed difference is PocketSNES. Without overclocking, it was almost impossible to play any games on it. I've tried all the speed settings and they have all worked fine with no crashing, but I noticed at the two highest speeds I get a mixture of colors on lines in programs which should be black.
[Touch GSM General] rahulkool:
Overclocked mine to 286 Mhz and it just flies :D

altho it hands @ 299Mhz :)

damn there is a temparature indiacator and battery drain indicator :-O
[Touch GSM General] maevro:
I have been using Battery Status since I got this phone. I have it overclocked to

247 and with a speed boost at 260. It rests at 143 and I am good with that.

I don't keep phones long so I am not too worried about the wear it puts on the phone. If it was 3g then I would need something over 300 but its not....
[Touch GSM General] TeeT:
I run at 260MHz

I use Omap also.

Got my Touch at 260 and runs without any problems.

I read somewhere there is a small calculation error is this prog.

Seems that 260 in reality is 284 MHZ but due to an (algorithm) error it indicates less than it runs.

Greetz and enjoy your Touch.
[Touch GSM General] CJSIMPSON:
I have just installed batterystatus and I also have mine set at 143 idle 247 normal boost 260 but only because I have seen it here. Has anyone done any extensive testing/benchmarking to see what benefits it does give as it does feel a bit snappier when in menus and loading cube.

I am also curious about the idle setting, I have it at 143 but what is the devices own rest setting does anyone know or does it stay at 201 normally. If so by reducing it to 143 will this have any effect on phone calls coming in?

1 final point is on battery life, what are people getting with their settings and use. I want to strike a balance between battery life and performance. are my settings ok for this.
[Touch GSM General] Grunt:
Reading through sounds like most are having good sucess.

Mine is OC to 247 for 2 days with Battery Status with no problem...I am going to move up to 260 next and let it sit there for a while...lets see
[Touch GSM General] enja:
when you guys overclock the phone, does the the speed change in the "device information" section?
[Touch GSM General] Grunt:
Just checked and no...still at 201.

Actually...you question gets me thinking about actual performance improvement..anyone running a benchmark software which verifies the performance increase ??
[Touch GSM General] enja:
haha, thats the point. if we o/c should the "device information" change? or is your mind playing trick on you :D
[Touch GSM General] Grunt:
Very reasonable question.

I have just installed SPB Benchmark and I am running the Main Suite of tests at 201 mhz as I write this post.....I will then give it a go at 247mhz and let you know the results.

Lunch break is in between so give me a couple of hours......

;-)
[Touch GSM General] Grunt:
OK...so here it is....Spb Benchmark....201mhz vs 260mhz.

I used only the Main 'Misc' test to save on time and as it is focused in the cpu performance (not the "File System', Built in Apps' & 'Graphics'). As you would hope the overall result indicates about a 30% increase in performace.
[Touch GSM General] enja:
Ah, should the o/c still work just that the information in "Device Information" didn't change...
[Touch GSM General] Grunt:
Correct...I am not sure where the Device Info page pulls its info, probably from the chip identification...but it does not reflect reality..
[Touch GSM General] sohaibkkhan:
Hey guys, i'm using batterystatus cpuscaler, rest at 99 mHz, and boost upto 299 mHz. Works perfect until now (2,5 weeks). Batterylife a bit shorter, but good enough for me, have to recharge after 3 days.
[Touch GSM General] Baxter:
Add me to the list of users happy at 286 mhz. Seems stable after a day of use. Just as fast as my Trinity with equal or better battery life.
[Touch GSM General] tripindustriz:
overclocking!

overclocked at 299 and works fine since day 1 (1-aug-2007)

shows battery bar (depletes faster due to O/C), Singtel (Operator), OC speed 299Mhz, reception satelite icon, 16.5 M temperature is always around 36 C and the hottest was 43C and the power loss,

i dun really know whats the deal with the power loss though
[Touch GSM General] arkasha:
Did anyone try Pockethackmaster?
[Touch GSM General] enja:
Well, i did some small setting and heres wad i set my touch to: 247Mhz @ 29c
[Touch GSM General] Baxter:
I had to charge my trinity and 8525 daily. I've found that the Touch battery lasts 18-24 hrs with my usage at 286 mhz so I am quite happy.
[Touch GSM General] josealb:
Well I never OCed a PPC but when overclocking PCs and graphics cards its very important to overclock the RAM too I guess its quite similar with this kind of devices

So is it safe to overclock the Touch to 299 Mhz? It looks like a little too much difference from the default settings. Anyone bricked it?
[Touch GSM General] nbil78:
HTC

I am always visiting HTC website, but nothing new
[Touch GSM General] madcat23:
managed to overclock mine to 299 without any problem for 2 days so far, been installing programs taking lots of photos or basically stressing it out to see if it holds.

does anyone know any symptomps that i should look out for ? otherthan the obvious brick issue :P
[Touch GSM General] Seed123:
I thought mine was stable @ 286 but today in the Clocks application the first black line was kinda flickering and was discoloured.. not there @ 273 so left it at 273 now.. :\