[Epic 4G Android Development] m5james:
Just finished reading all 33 pages of this thread...whew!! I wiped the phone via CLockwork Recovery and then flashed the full version of Syndicate ROM with this rom built-in. So now, to my issues.

For a while I was only running SetCPU v1.5.2 and it wouldn't go past 1ghz, but then sometimes it would act odd and only go up to a max of 528mhz. Resetting the phone didn't change anything, clearing Cache and Dalvik Cache didn't help. Ater reading more of this thread, I can across post 284 - http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9152605&postcount=284 (thanks Jackal424) that has a link to free downloads of SetCPU. I installed SetCPU v2.0.4, reset the phone via Quickboot, and then I've suddenly got the option to finally get upwards of 1.6 ghz.

Honestly, after clocking the phone to 1.6ghz/Conservative/Performance, I swear going to my apps list, going back to the desktop, etc moves slower (I'm using LauncherPro) so I ran Quadrant. While I'm getting a little under 1200 scores, I swear it's visually slower watching the apps list coming back and forth from the desktop. I reset the phone again just to see if it was me, and now when I go back into SetCPU, I'm once again having this odd issue where it gives me a max of 528mhz. I noticed that if I hold my finger on the slider for a second of so, it says 1200 at the top, but the slider bar only goes to 528 still.

I took some Drocap pics below...usually the top number was 200 while just sitting here looking at the screen, but since drocap was doing a countdown timer, it went up to 600 and then back down to 200 after it took the pic. I tried holding the slider bar so the top number would show the 1200 number, so ignore where the slider is since it moved while holding it in place. Point is you can see what I mean where on each screen that the highest number on the slider is still only 528.

I've since removed SetCPU (for testing the visual speed again), and it's back to being faster going back and forth from the desktop again. I'm back to getting 930 range in Quadrant, so I don't understand how it "looks" quicker visually but a testing app is telling me I'm slower. I've since reinstalled SetCPU to try it again, and I get around 970 @ 1.2 and almost 1200 @ 1.6, both being scaling On Demand. I played around @ 1.2ghz between On Demand, Conservative and Performance and I can literally see how much faster the phone is. Bumping up to 1.6ghz (logically would be faster), the same three scalling options, I can definately see the slower apps list reaction speed. I'm so confused. Lastly, once I get SetCPU working correctly, I've accepted the crappy battery life of these phones and I'm pretty much plugged in whenever possible. I'm leaning towards sticking to 1.2ghz for stabilities sake (reference from this thread) and being visually faster (from my own experience this evening), so what scaling setting do I want for the best performance all around. Any suggestions?

PS - Thanks for adding Reboot to the options when holding the power button, now I can delete Quickboot and keep one less shortcut on my desktop :)

PSS - Instead of having "alarm clock" I see that I now have "clock", which is fine as long as it's an alarm of some sort. It's quit cool in that it can slideshow my pics, play music, shows the weather, etc. My only gripe is that I can't seem to use my own ringtone with this version. Short of just finding a different alarm clock on the Market, how can I get the other one back that I had before I flashed this ROM/kernal? EDIT : I did a long hold on the initial setup screen (time, repeat, etc) on the Ringtone, and suddenly a new popup window appeared and I was able to pick my ringtone. It should have been in the list to choise the stock list of options or to choose my own, but at least I figured it out now, so once again I'm a happy camper! :D