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how does the stock Nexus 4 compare to one that's overclocked I'm Taylor Martin this is PocketNow and this is a before and after with an overclocked Nexus 4 we the nerdy minority often take pride in having the latest greatest and fastest devices but we make an exception for virtually anything barring the Nexus brand and the Nexus 4 is a perfect example of that at the time of its release it did actually include what many consider the best chipset of 2012 the Snapdragon s4 pro for CPU cores and a clock speed of 1.5 gigahertz it's still nothing to scoff at but in light of newer devices with faster clock speeds and newer chips the Nexus Wars age is beginning to show if only slightly as any Android enthusiast will tell you there are a few ways to breathe new life into a device to instill munis even on aging hardware new roms themes software updates and of course custom kernels for my Nexus 4 I chose the Mako kernel which comes in various forms it comes with either stock CPU frequencies called the mainline version and in turbo boost versions with maximum clock speeds up to 1.8 3 6 gigahertz and 1.9 4 4 gigahertz of course it wouldn't be interesting if I didn't choose the highest clock speed so I picked the 1.94 4 gigahertz turbo boost maker kernel and flashed it to flash the carnal simply download the zip file to your device the XDA thread is linked in the description below and boot into recovery select Install zip from sdcard choose zip from sdcard navigate to the file you downloaded confirm and flash wipe the cache partition and the dalvik cache and reboot this reboot will take longer than normal but once the reboot finishes you're good to go the Nexus 4 certainly was not sluggish before overclocking but it's definitely a little faster after the fact to the naked eye and views separately is difficult if not impossible to tell the difference in performance from before and after flipping between tabs and chrome opening and closing applications and perusing Google+ all happens in the blink of an eye even switching between applications happens quickly and smoothly with few instances of lag or hesitation the most notable difference in actual usage is how easily the overclock mixes for powered through Facebook while the stock Nexus for stuttered and suffered from slow wait times when quickly scrolling to the bottom of the news feed the overclock nexus for loaded older posts much quicker the overclocked nexus just felt snappier in most scenarios ever so slightly pinch zooming felt a tad smoother app switching and loading seemed faster and upon returning home the home screen was redrawn more quickly maybe it's a bit of a placebo effect in other areas or maybe it's actually a bit faster the two were even very close in synthetic benchmarks the stock nexus 4 actually scored higher and n22 than the nexus with the overclocked kernel in other n22 tests it also scored significantly lower while the overclocked Nexus 4 consistently scored in the 16,000 s running at one point nine four four gigahertz the overclocked Nexus 4 also scored higher in Geekbench 2 than the stock version and it shaved some time off the SunSpider javascript test breaking into the 1200 millisecond range versus the Starks consistent 1500 millisecond average best of all unlike our HTC one before and after video the nexus didn't seem to run abnormally warm but it did tend to tear through battery life faster than before through the same amount of stress the battery drained at about 1.5 times faster than the stock kernel and clock speeds that's all for now if you enjoyed the video and found it helpful be sure to click the like button and subscribe follow us in all the usual places twitter google+ and facebook at pocket now you can find me on twitter at casper tech and taylor Martin and I'll see you next time do you want to know how a nexus 4 do you want to know how a stock Nexus 4 stacks up against an overclocked start do you want to know how a stock Nexus 4 do you want to know how a stock Nexus 4 compares the one that's overclocked of course you do I'm Taylor Martin this is PocketNow and this is a before and after of an overclocked do you don't know let's get to it let's get to it