Re: My GFs top 3 issues which stops her getting this phone.
 

GNU is Not Unix.

Apparently, you don't understand Google either.

You type in something, and hit enter. Then The Google Answers. It's like talking to God, except Google is more evil.

Re: My GFs top 3 issues which stops her getting this phone.
 

Can you post the make and ideally series of SD Card? Cheaper cards tend to have slower response times which can make a big difference in an already busy setup.

The other thought: do you have facebook widgets and lots of IM running as well? I seem to recall the facebook widget eating resource at one point.

Re: My GFs top 3 issues which stops her getting this phone.
 

Unfortunately it is not enough. renderer and browser sizes may easily reach 100MB and it can take a couple of seconds to swap out one of them.

BTW, for some reason that real time processes are use the same scheduler and doesn't use real-time priorities... the minimum "nice" is -11, sometime -5 but RT priorities starts from -20.

Re: My GFs top 3 issues which stops her getting this phone.
 

Tracker, I believe. Test again next day.

Re: My GFs top 3 issues which stops her getting this phone.
 

N900 has only 256MB of RAM and music player (actually - renderer) and MAPS both are BIG crocodiles. You just open a swap hell for around 5-10-12secs and that halts music.

Re: My GFs top 3 issues which stops her getting this phone.
 

Sorry for being off topic - but for all those saying they never hear any music stuttering - did you do anything special to fix this? I've all my N900 fully up to date and my music player does indeed skip quiet often while multi-tasking with simple things...

~Jeff

Re: My GFs top 3 issues which stops her getting this phone.
 

My main audio listening is to The Economist, which releases its entire weekly magazine (which is pretty large) in spoken word format. I store The Economist download either on the 16 gb microsd card I have or on internal memory, and it doesn't make any difference -- in neither case do I perceive any stuttering. even though I multitask as much as I want, without thinking about it, while listening.

I also listen to Internet Radio, and I do have problems with it sometimes. I attribute those problems to bandwidth issues not having anything to do with the N900, but to Time Warner Cable or to the radio station broadcasting over the net.

I know from many years playing chess on ICC and FICS that even low-bandwith usage such as sending chess moves over the net, it is not unusual at all for various internet problems to affect transmission.

Re: My GFs top 3 issues which stops her getting this phone.
 

Best way to halt the N900 is to update podcasts in gpodder, and rss feeds in feedingit at the same time.

I've also found the N900 has the occasional skip when using GPS related software (Ovi Maps, Mapper, Google Maps in microB) and panucci at the same time.

Re: My GFs top 3 issues which stops her getting this phone.
 

Ah yes but its never that simple is it.

When I had problems on desktop Linux with sound stuttering when loading web pages, cranking alsa and mplayer to a higher priority than the web browser did nothing to help the situation.

Even now I have stuttering of the flurry screensaver if I leave a web page open refreshing in the background, I cranked flurry to the highest priority and it still happens, just not quite as bad but still annoying.

There are so many layers of processes that can be causing trouble, surely if it was simple Nokia would have already fixed it before launch?

Re: My GFs top 3 issues which stops her getting this phone.
 

i'd say that the audio codec used is the main reason for stuttering.

there's quite a difference between a lossless codec and a 224 kbit/s mp3 in terms of throughput needed :)

i have had no problems with 2-3 browsers loading simultaneously while playing music, and i mostly have mp3s.