What is overclocking your DROID? Overclocking is nothing but, resetting your Droid’s component so that it runs faster than the manufacture specified speed, The purpose of overclocking is to boost your Droid’s performance. Overclocking doesn’t only applies to Droid it applies to most of the computer devices.

Your Droid by default comes with 550 MHz, with the help of this process your could increase it up-to 1300 MHz. Making your Droid run much more faster. Credit goes to tasmanian_droid at AllDroid, who worked hard on this. To get this on your Droid, your Droid should be rooted. If you haven’t rooted your phone, please follow this link to root your Motorola Droid.

Unfortunately, tasmanian_droid dint upload the evilboot1_3g.img yet. Because, tasmanian_droid feels that, its not stable. We will keep you posted when its available.

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Warning: Please do it on your own risk. We will not be responsible for any damage or breakage of your iPhone.

Overclocking is not without risk because when taken to extremes the process can make the system unstable. Most device warranties are voided if an issue is caused by overclocking.

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Here is the Step by Step Process.

Step 1: Download the following file(s) -

• evilboot8.img -  Overclock to 800 MHz – Tested and works good
• evilboot9.img – Overclock to 900 MHz – Tested for only 5 minutes
• evilboot1g.img – Overclock to 1000 MHz or 1 GHz – Tested for only 5 minutes

Step 2: Make sure you have/do all the following..

• Make sure you have sprecovery
• Make sure you have flash_image on your system, in /system/xbin/ or /system/bin
• Make sure you perform a nandroid backup first
• Make sure to enable USB debugging on phone

Step 3: Copy the respected evilboot file to the root of your SDCard (evilboot8.img or evilboot9.img or evilboot1g.img)

Step 4: Now, reboot in sprecovery

Step 5: Select mount options

• mount /system
• mount /sdcard

Step 6: From your PC run the following…

• adb shell /system/xbin/flash_image boot /sdcard/evilboot8.img OR
  
• adb shell /system/bin/flash_image boot /sdcard/evilboot8.img
• (Where ever your flash image is on your phone xbin folder or bin folder)

Step 7: Now, unmount both system and sdcard using the following command

• unmount/system
• unmount/sdcard

Step 8: Now, reboot your device.

That’s it! Now, you should notice, your Droid running faster than before. Please let us know if you have any challenges and experience with this tutorial.

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