One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

Hey there. I bought a little used nokia n900 for couple of days ago and it was alot of stuff on it when i had it but everything worked fine and the browser was doing a great job. I restored my phone to original mode and after that i put 10 gb of music, i installed debian and openoffice aps and i packed my desktop with some shortcuts and of course downloaded some apps and now it is a bit slower. For example in the begining i could watch live stream football match on my browser and it worked fine but now it lagges and are really slow.
How can i fix this?

Re: one question about my new nokia n900
 

Well, if you are confident enough with technology and Linux you can try over-clocking. If you aren't, remove some programs you don't need.

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

Sounds like a memory leak caused by one of your apps/widgets. Try the top command in Xterminal (or download Conky) to see what your highest CPU usage is coming from. Alternatively, remove widgets/apps one by one until you find the culprit.

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

thank you for the comments

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

thank you for the comments but i´m not comfortable with overlclocking it.

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

okey but how can i see what is normal in the top command and also in the conky app?

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

Same here!!!

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

The top-command shows what your most resource-consuming processes are. If there is some program that is consuming too much CPU or RAM you should remove the application or ask for help with it.

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

In my experience, nothing should take up more than 5% of your CPU in idle (except for that damn modest client :P) I forgot about Htop too -- I find it to be useful for this purpose.

Btw people, don't forget the thanks button :)

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

one more question, for example i have none application open and then i go to xterminal and see some application running, how can i close them through xterminal?, and is safe to close most of the applications/servers like for example Xorg or hildon-desktop? I really appreciate your quick answer i´m really happy with my nokia n900 and the maemo community to help me to get deep into it ;)

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

Hello,

I have a similar problem, but it because when i first bought my n900 i 've installed all kinda of applications on it (from all kinda of repositories :) ) i want to ask how to totally format my device to restore it to its original status when i first unboxed, i flashed it to pr 1.1 and then pr 1.2 couple of times but still the slowness there and all my stuff as well ( flashing didnt remove user/apps files).
whats the best way to do that?

thanx

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

Its not really a sensible idea to go round closing processes when you don't know what they do. They're all there for a reason.

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

i also filled my phone with apps prior to 1.2 update, and now i get jerky media streams i've installed conky and it's saying my cpu usage is between 9 and 11% and my ram usage is 64% when idle?? is this normal?? ps i'm only ever had a phone i couldn't brick i.e. a noob to all the ins and out of a n900 lol :)

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

9% to 11% with CPU clocking at 250MHz sounds like a normal idle to me.

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

thanks didn't have a clue what was the norm :) any ideas for jerky media playback??

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

My audio has always been a bit glitchy, and may now be worse after PR1.2. Haven't had too many issues with video, myself.

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

audio has been mint only ocasionally stuttering but video streams are always poor :( if i was tbh it never has been good and hoped that a update would improve it, lol still hoping lol but reading other threads some people have good streams others don't, no industry standard :confused:

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

still guys i didnt know how to make my n900 as if it just came out of the factory :) total cleaning

Re: One question about my new Nokia N900: Slowdown after installing apps?
 

http://wiki.maemo.org

there is a link in the front page that says "update the tablet firmware"

the wiki is really pretty good, so if you have a little clue what you are looking for (doesn't apply fully to this situation), use it!