The new Orange Android phone (San Francisco) £99...but a Question??

englishpremier said:
I'm back to my normal phone usage now, which is barely a few messages a day and a short call. Took the phone off charge at 11pm last night and its on 98% at the moment.

I only turn on wifi, gps, 3g when i need it.
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using SetCPU I have dropped the min frequncy to 122mhz (down from245), this along with switching my 3G/wifi on/off as I need it is making a big difference to my battery.
The 15% showed up last night at 9pm-ish, its now at 11% and i have taken 2calls on it,used the browser and played a few mins of chess.
I can't complain at that, its at least lasting as long as my X10 does.
 
Wondering how far I can push this but i'm scared i'll bugger something up. Showing 22C, if I overclock it too much will it knacker the CPU or will it be a case of re-starting the phone?
 
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buchtis said:
Wondering how far I can push this but i'm scared i'll bugger something up. Showing 22C, if I overclock it too much will it knacker the CPU or will it be a case of re-starting the phone?
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yeah crashes and reboots, just rem do not select enable at boot !
 
imo it's a bit stupid overclocking this phone, all you're doing it reducing your battery life further and shortening the lifespan of the phone.

All for what? so you can play Angry Birds at a few FPS more?
 
748Mhz and still stable. Need to install a game though and try it out properly, will Angry Birds do as a little benchmark? :P

This setCPU software is a bit weird though, I would have assumed that it'll let you do decrease/increase the Mhz in set increments i.e 1/5/10/50 Mhz.

imo it's a bit stupid overclocking this phone, all you're doing it reducing your battery life further and shortening the lifespan of the phone.
All for what? so you can play Angry Birds at a few FPS more?
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Why would you be shortening it's lifespan? You're not drastically overclocking it anyway.
 
PiKe said:
imo it's a bit stupid overclocking this phone, all you're doing it reducing your battery life further and shortening the lifespan of the phone.

All for what? so you can play Angry Birds at a few FPS more?
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most people upgrade every 12/18 months anyway
 
buchtis said:
748Mhz and still stable. Need to install a game though and try it out properly, will Angry Birds do as a little benchmark? :P

This setCPU software is a bit weird though, I would have assumed that it'll let you do decrease/increase the Mhz in set increments i.e 1/5/10/50 Mhz.



Why would you be shortening it's lifespan? You're not drastically overclocking it anyway.
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there is a stress test built into setCPU (info tab) that does seem to cause a reboot if your too high.
 
Yeah just tested it with that and Angry Birds for around 10 minutes. 768Mhz is tops my phone will do without crashing, anything above that and it crashes after 10-15 minutes of use. Not a bad OC I think, from 600Mhz to 768Mhz, it's made a hell of a lot of difference to the smoothness and speed of the phone.

Edit: Will give Quadrant a go too, heard it's not very reliable though so i'll do 3 runs.
 
buchtis said:
Yeah just tested it with that and Angry Birds for around 10 minutes. 768Mhz is tops my phone will do without crashing, anything above that and it crashes after 10-15 minutes of use. Not a bad OC I think, from 600Mhz to 768Mhz, it's made a hell of a lot of difference to the smoothness and speed of the phone.

Edit: Will give Quadrant a go too, heard it's not very reliable though so i'll do 3 runs.
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thats highest i have seen tbh.
Quadrant score around 550 i recon.
 
3 runs done, faster than the Nexus One and HTC Desire!

Run 1: 594

Run 2: 608

Run 3: 603

Well impressed, also set the minimum frequency to 122Mhz from 245. Charging it now but i'll report on the battery drain and whatnot tomorrow.
 
Definitely.

The only bad thing about this phone (at least to me) is the camera and (was) the stock Orange ROM filled to bursting point with bloatware.

Apart from that, for a £100 this is a steal I think.
 
Forgot to mention my screen protectors from the bay (270679639682) turned up, they are spot on !
well worth the £2.95 inc
 
buchtis said:
Definitely.

The only bad thing about this phone (at least to me) is the camera and (was) the stock Orange ROM filled to bursting point with bloatware.

Apart from that, for a £100 this is a steal I think.
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What rom have you on yours? Etc. Easy to do?
 
buchtis said:
3 runs done, faster than the Nexus One and HTC Desire!
Run 1: 594
Run 2: 608
Run 3: 603
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I've been wanting to pick one of these up as a little dev phone for ages now. Which ROM are you running? Stock 2.2 boosted my Desire's score up to around 1,200 in quadrant (class 2 SD card)
 
buchtis said:
3 runs done, faster than the Nexus One and HTC Desire!

Run 1: 594

Run 2: 608

Run 3: 603

Well impressed, also set the minimum frequency to 122Mhz from 245. Charging it now but i'll report on the battery drain and whatnot tomorrow.
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how on earth is that faster than the nexus one or desire?

*edit* i guess you mean looking at the chart it provides? my desire is scoring 1432 on leedroid 2.3d, ive had it upto almost 1900 using a desire hd rom
 
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So I've seen the white and grey San Frans side by side... and the white one honestly looks like it was half the price.

On another note, the latest jellyfish is harsh on battery life:(
 
@Bradmax57

Sorry I meant the old 2.1 benchmarks. Wasn't expecting a whole lot from a £100 phone but i'm really impressed with it.

@sean

Japanese Jelly 2.2 Release 6 with ABH OC and HW UI. Also increased the VM size to 40 from 24.

@koolpc

As above. The hardest part for me was getting the damn drivers working which didn't work in the end anyways. So I had to root it and do it through Terminal (Android App) on the phone. Once rooted you're flying.
 
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