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hey guys it's joe of pocketnow.com and I thought you'd like to see what you can do with a fully rooted t-mobile g2 and how fast you can make this thing go let's take a look okay so here's my t-mobile g2 I have applied the perma route solution to it and I have also downloaded and installed setcpu for root users we're just going to cost you about five dollars us but it lets you do some cool things like set up profiles so when my battery is under thirty five percent I'm going to scale back my processor to a maximum of seven hundred and sixty eight megahertz and a minimum of 245 and that scaling is going to be on demand whenever an app needs it it's going to scale up and go back down when my battery is a little bit lower I'm going to scale all the way up to a maximum of 3 68 and down to 2 45 and when my screen is off I'm going to run it at the absolute slowest so that I can recover some of my battery life now I said recover my battery life and why is that well first and foremost take a look at this I've got it scaled minimum 2 45 but maximum at basically 1.5 gigahertz and I have this set to performance mode running at boot so let's go ahead and take a look and see what this thing can do now overclocked running cyanogenmod bacon bits version 0.3 scaled all the way up with a performance governor and see where the score is in quadrant alright so here is quadrant standard let's go ahead and run the full benchmark running it through now the t-mobile g2 comes with what a lot of people have complained to be a very very slow 800 megahertz processor fortunately for us it's the scorpion processor which is the next generation or the current one if you want to look at it that way it is very fast in and of itself and it's very very white if you will on i'm using the battery in fact they decrease the size of the battery unfortunately which gives you even more run time but running through quadrant you can see here it's running at about 20 frames per second on that test this one usually scorers a bit better so its up into the high 50s low six these this one usually scorers a little slower it's running about 20 23 frames per second and just like that the test is all over and looking at this so if you can zoom in and see that the quadrant benchmark score here is 2202 points now I have regularly been getting over 2200 points on this device when it's all the way up and it's just just fabulous and I haven't noticed battery life suffering at all not one bit but that is with the performance governor I want to run this one more time on what I do every day then that's on demand which basically means you can see here how the speed is jumping up and down it doesn't need much right now so it's 245 and as it has processes it needs to run faster it will speed up so let's give it something that it really needs the whole processor on shall we let's go back in and let's run quadrant standard and we'll go back here run the full benchmark again this should perform a little bit slower because that on demand requires a response time when you're running full performance you're running full performance it's running out full bore most of the time when you are running on demand it's basically sitting back and saying oh okay you need more power let me give you more power well in the small amount of time that it took for this app which is again setcpu for root users in the time that it took for that app to notice that it needed more speed and then scalar your processor up of course that's going to impact the speed that you you were running at for those few milliseconds while it was asking for for the faster speed speed excuse me so we can see here it's running still pretty good the frame rates are about the same and it's really when we get into the nuts and bolts are that you'll see a difference and as you can see right there a huge difference huh 2210 it performed even faster when it was in on-demand mode versus in performance mode I don't know why that is but it's been consistent so that might be a little issue with the governor that we're using or it might just be this device likes being able to ask for things on demand and scale up quite a bit faster but playing around with it see which one of those governors really works best for you but you know what for a device that scored 1600 points when we first got it now all the way up to 2,200 that's phenomenal okay now I got one last little bit of goodness here you ready for this this isn't even the fastest Colonel out there they've got another Colonel like we told you about earlier that isn't well it isn't what you'd call stable but it's more than twice the clock speed that the phone came with you can go all the way over 1900 megahertz and I can just imagine the scores that you can get from that hopefully we can get it to run stable you at that speed but in the meantime 1.5 that's phenomenal and the phone doesn't get warm it doesn't run hot the battery life I haven't noticed any problems at all if you do definitely let me know in the comments if you've got a different score that you want to report leave that in the comments if you haven't checked out our video channel to see the other tests that we're running with well unlocked phones and off the shelf owns make sure you subscribe to our video channel and you know if you want to see more of these videos I like positive encouragement the best way to do that is with a big thumbs up to the video you can click that down at the bottom right now so showing you how fast an overclocked t-mobile g2 can run I'm Joe for pocketnow.com