no music in pocket hexen??

[James S]

[hexen]

i´d really like to do that - BUT:

1. i don´t know if overclocking causes major damage to my pda and

2. i also don´t know how long the battery will last if overclocked to 300mhz.

[James S]

[hexen]

[James S]

I suggest you perform a system backup onto external media (an SD card, or through ActiveSync) before overclocking. There is a possiblity of damage, don't get me wrong, but it's so slim it's really not feasible. If you run your PocketPC overclocked constantly and forever then there will be damage, but there aren't enough days in a year to cause damage, so don't worry about it.

There are two programs, one free, another offers much more functionality but costs $10 at Handango.
The free program is called SpeedStepper (Or Turbo Tray):
http://elevatedstudios.com/pocket/
Just go there and click on "Download Speed Stepper." It's the free one that I have on my iPaq H3955. I never do anything that requires overclocking, though, so I never use it. I used it for benchmarking purposes. It's very good, though. If you select an unsupported speed your device will freeze. Simply soft reset to fix it.

The program that I would recommend, however, is XCPUScalar:
[url=http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&productId=53054&optionId=1_2_2&productType=2&catalog=30&txtSearch=XCPUScalar§ionId=0&platformId=2]http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?site...2[/url]
This piece of software is $10, however it is more than a simple overclocker. It allows you to set the CPU to scale to certain speeds based upon CPU usage levels. Thus you can set it to run at a mere 100MHz when you're simply looking up your contact information or reading an eBook and save TONS of battery life, but then as soon as you start up a game or play music or movies it will automatically scale to 300MHz, or whatever speed you wish to set it at. A very useful piece of software that gives you better battery life but performance when you need it. I'm hoping that in a later edition they will add the ability to set the CPU speed based on the program that is running, as well. However, if you have $10 handy, this program would be my recommendation. Be sure you try the demo version before you buy it, however, to make sure it works the way you want it to.

[hexen]

wow, thanks for your great help!!
well.. still a slim chance to damage it.. mmh.. i don´t know.. i paid 150 dollars for this pda.. :-/

mmh.. let´s say i only need it for emulation purposes(like castCE for example) and for pocket quake.
for everything else i would turn it back to normal.
so, is there still any danger? really, if i kill that pda, i will have to live completely without any portable pocket pc solution.

[James S]

[hexen]

[hexen]

phew.. i guess it´s been the emulator. i used a different screenmode than before the overclocking - in other words - the emu would also have crashed in this mode if not overclocked. this explains why every OTHER game worked - even quake or the divx player. so you were RIGHT. overclocking does not harm the pda. BUT - for me i´m DONE with this tweaking stuff i switched it back to normal and i´m glad everything is ok.

[James S]

Haha... too much of an adrenaline rush for yuh, huh?

[hexen]

well, it´s the money :-/ i can´t afford a new one right now..

hey - HOW actually does look a "crash" on a pda? is it like in my description? maybe i really BROKE something.........

[damian]

Moose, you're a bundle of contradictions.

[James S]

Ya, I know Damian. I was hoping no one would notice

hexen, no if it's normal now then nothing is broken. Sometimes it does funky things when it freezes. To me it sounds like your LCD inverter was running too fast because of the overclock.

[hexen]

well.. but only at ONE game in ONE emulator? i mean the emulator player other games great, it happened only at one single game..

[hexen]

well.. but only at ONE game in ONE emulator? i mean the emulator player other games great, it happened only at one single game..