HTC Wildfire - Poor performance

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Hi Guys - I have this phone and I am careful to monitor the performance, however it's very slow. I know I shouldn't expect much given the price however is there any way I can switch to a lighter version of the operating system?
 
Is it supposed to be faster? I guess what I am trying to find is a lighter version. I am on android version 2.2.1.
 
Ok, checked it out and it is indeed allot fast however my phone came with 2.2.1 which prevents rooting the device :( Thought I was on to a winner there.
 
Are there any alternatives? I use all of the google sync options including reader, chat, calendar and contacts and well as google mail. The only other candidate is facebook which I know on my iPhone used to be quite demanding.
 
Thanks manic man. I'll give it a try tomorrow :)

For those of you that have overclocked their phones, are there any obvious dangers? Or is it a case of keep pushing until the phone doesn't 'post' ??
 
The latter, I find that with 1Ghz phones you can usually safely overclock without worry to 1.2-1.4Ghz with an undervolted kernel.

Remember they only run at that speed when they need to, if you play around with the SetCPU governers till you find one that gives you a good balance between performance and battery life you should be good to go :)

Also look at setting up a "Screen off" profile where the max CPU is something like 600Mhz or so so that you extend battery life even more when the screen is not on and the phone decided to do some sort of update fart :D
 
Biffa said:
The latter, I find that with 1Ghz phones you can usually safely overclock without worry to 1.2-1.4Ghz with an undervolted kernel.

Remember they only run at that speed when they need to, if you play around with the SetCPU governers till you find one that gives you a good balance between performance and battery life you should be good to go :)

Also look at setting up a "Screen off" profile where the max CPU is something like 600Mhz or so so that you extend battery life even more when the screen is not on and the phone decided to do some sort of update fart :D
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Thanks for the advice mate. I never you could overclock a phone, thats crazy. My poor Wildfire is only 500Mhz at stock so I am hoping for a decent performance boost!
 
The wildfire uses old ARM11 architecture, so even with a decent o/c performance gains will be negligible compared to the newer SoC designs. 45nm snapdragons overclock like crazy, get a good one and you can go past 2GHz! :D

edit: As Biffa pointed out undervolting with a small o/c is the way to go. :)
 
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Hey guys - I'm afraid that for the Wildfire on 2.2.1, SuperOneClick requires that you root your phone using unrevoked3. Unfortunitely, with this version, you can't root the wildfire as per the FAQ:

The program says “Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?”
If you're on EVO 4G, we've seen this happen with some applications from the market that cause incompatibilities; try uninstalling other apps. If you're on Wildfire, then the message is as it suggests; your firmware is in fact too new, and has the vulnerability that we use to get root patched. Sorry.
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Which means I will need to wait for an update for unrevoked before I can upload the cyanogen mod :(
 
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