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OverClocking Motorola Droid To 1.3 GHz In 7 Easy Steps

27 January 2010 5 Comments

Motorola Droid 235x300 OverClocking Motorola Droid To 1.3 GHz In 7 Easy Steps

Here are the 7 easy steps to overclock your Motorola Droid to 1.3 GHz and make it faster than Google Nexus:

1. First root your Motorola Droid by following the guide here.
2. You must have flash_image on your system, in /system/xbin/ or /system/bin.
3. On your Droid enable USB debugging.
4. You need the following:

5. Reboot into recovery console. Cannot be achieved using a terminal emulator while running.
6. After rebooting into recovery mode select the mount options as:

  • mount/system
  • mount/sdcard

7. Run the following adb command through your PC:

  • adb shell /system/xbin/flash_image boot /sdcard/evilboot8.img (where xbin is xbin or bin depending on location of flash_image file on phone)

8. After running the above command now unmount as:

  • unmount /system
  • unmount /sdcard

9. Reboot your Droid and enjoy the speed.

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5 Comments »

  • bob said:

    its a good one !

    # 28 January 2010 at 1:45 am
  • SeidiMobile : » Nova marca para o overclock do Droid! said:

    [...] site AreaCellphone.com informou que conseguiu bater o recém divulgado overclock no Motorola Droid de 1,1Ghz. A nova [...]

    # 28 January 2010 at 12:02 pm
  • Stuck w/ Overclocking - Droid Forum - Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum said:

    [...] I'm trying to push the 900mhz image over to my Droid. I'm trying these instructions: OverClocking Motorola Droid To 1.3 GHz In 7 Easy Steps | areacellphone.com And I get to Step 7 and it gives me permission denied. I checked the permissions of the file and [...]

    # 23 April 2010 at 6:11 pm
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    # 14 September 2010 at 8:25 am
  • Taylor Lewis said:

    i do not usually overclock my PC coz sometimes it can kill your PC

    # 5 October 2010 at 3:07 am