With so many smartphones now sporting 1GHz processors, we were a little surprised to find out T-Mobile’s G2 smartphone would ship at ‘just’ 800MHz. This led us to believe it would have some overclocking headroom tucked inside, and boy does it ever.
XDA forum member “coolbho3000″ dropped an overclocking kernel module into the wild that allows adventurous G2 owners to push their smartphone’s MSM7x30 processor to new heights. Keeping in mind that overclocking smartphones is risky business and you could very well brick your device, coolbho3000 managed to push his G2 all the way to 1.42GHz.
“Benchmark scores are very, very high, and the improved CPU performance is in line with what you’d expect from such a high clock frequency,” coolbho3000 said. “All of this is possible without permanent root (and the ability to flash kernels) because we are using a kernel module and not flashing an actual kernel.”
Full instructions can be found here, though allow us to reiterate this is not for the faint of heart. If you kill your device trying to overclock it, you’re on your own.
Check out the video below.
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