Brand new N900 extremely slow
 

Hello,

This is my first post here so I hope I'm in the right spot :) I figured this would be the best place to ask this kind of a question.

My N900 was just delivered about 2 hours ago. All I've done is installed the Sim Card, Battery, Charged it, and Upgraded the Maemos 5 option it gave me to upgrade. I chose a different (factory-provided) theme and background image. I also installed the Facebook widget but that was later on and the problem was occurring from the get-go.

Basically, my N900 is running *extremely* slow. For example, when I try to just slide over from desktop to desktop, it halts half-way through the scrolling/animation with some glitchy looking graphics and doesn't even redraw until I touch it. When I'm scrolling through the Apps Manager, I have the same problem. It's as if this thing is having a really tough time drawing and/or updating the graphics buffer. I don't really understand what's going on so it's hard to explain.

The command line runs flawlessly though -- once I can actually pull it up. So I'm not sure if it's a CPU issue as much as it is a memory or even a graphics issue.

Running top, I see that my CPU is sitting at 96% idle. It looks like 223MB of memory is used and 21MB of memory is free (rounding). That feels excessively high to just be sitting idle with only the command line running so I assume that it's not an accurate indicator of memory usage.

I have bluetooth disabled. I am connected to a Wifi(G) network so that might explain a little bit of a problem. I have my SIM card in but had AT&T put a block on my data so I don't think it's doing a whole lot there. The thing that's using the most memory is X which is only taking up 6% of my memory.

I read another post and kind of google'd around for a bit but it seems like other people's problems are with mutitasking. My problem is just using the standard interface with practically nothing running.

If anyone has any suggestions on what might be going on or what I should do, I'd be happy to hear them.

Thanks a lot!
-Kurtis

Re: Brand new N900 extremely slow
 

Ok. I understood your problem. This has happened a couple of times to me alsowhen I had updated to the latestfirmware but without having the latest emmc. In Plain words, uhave managed to update one such component and thesecond one is not yet done. If you wanna fix this up, I'dsuggest you flash your device to the latest firmware as per the Wiki Guide rather than using the SSU.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware

EDIT: APOLOGIES. SRY FOR THE ABOVE BUT I DINT READ THAT IT IS AT&T LOCKED. PLS SOMEONE ELSE ASSIST HIM WITH GETTIN THE IMAGES. AGAIN, DO NOT FOLLOW THE GUIDE UNLESS SOMEONE CONFIRMS IMAGES OF AT&T's AVAILIBILITY.

Re: Brand new N900 extremely slow
 

Thank you :) I'll give that a shot. I just went to change my background image and the whole phone just shut off instantly. Hopefully there's nothing wrong with the hardware!

Re: Brand new N900 extremely slow
 

If your phone is AT&T Locked, do not do so unless someone using AT&T contract phone can confirm that the same images will work.

Re: Brand new N900 extremely slow
 

Since when does AT&T sell the N900?

Re: Brand new N900 extremely slow
 

I Have no friggin idea and so.... I Panicked :p I Dint realise it might just be a sim.... oh my, now i feel stupid. LoL

Re: Brand new N900 extremely slow
 

mine does the same thing sometimes after turning it on. i think its the trackers and all other background processes that slow it down. give it some time and reboot it and it think it will perform just fine. ;)

PS. mine is clocked to 1100Mhz so it might not be a hardware issue.
sry for my insufficient english,
PSPS. welcome to the forum! its always nice to see our community gains new members. i hope we here can help you with any problems you might encounter.

greetings from finland.

Edit: fixed lots of typos.

Re: Brand new N900 extremely slow
 

haha no worries :) I appreciate the concern. Yeah, I just took the sim out of my old phone and put it into this one.

Re: Brand new N900 extremely slow
 

Tests: Disable Wifi-network and Wifi-searches, disable all repositorys in HAM, boot w/o SIM or SD-card, Flight/offlinemode, GSM connection only etc.

Re: Brand new N900 extremely slow
 

Thanks a lot! I'll definitely be coming back more often. I've been waiting to be able to buy this phone for like a year now so I'm pretty excited.

I was waiting for the firmware to download when I read your suggestion on giving it time and just rebooting it. I already had it shut down. I went ahead and started it up just to see if there's any difference. It feels like it's running a lot better already and I haven't done anything except turning it off for might a little bit. I think I'm going to wait to flash this phone and see if it just keeps working like normal. Thanks a lot for that suggestion! You might have saved me a lot of time and a headache, haha.