Hello Everyone,

I recently bought a brand new N900 and have been trying to tweek it to run faster. It has been pretty slow since I bought it and it's not even the speed as much as the lagging and errors that bother me.

Some examples of problems I have had include:

1. When going into Applications Manager it takes forever to load the menu. Then when I hit download it takes forever to load that next menu. Usually it does not load it and becomes stuck in a loading mode. If I exit and try again maybe 10 minutes later it starts to work and I can download and install a new program but after that it's extremely difficult as it gets stuck again loading. Sometimes it even says "No Application Catalogues."

2. Some applications will not install. So far it has been the two Contact Merger programs that are available. Other applications just freeze up when loading or when launching the internet or facebook it takes forever.

3. It takes forever to load pretty much anything, but especially the contacts, SMS, etc...

4. I tried using Cutetube, myTube, and Zoutube and unfortunately they will not play any video when I hit play. Cutetube takes a while to load but doesn't actually load it. The only program that seemed to work is MediaBox but it lags and sometimes freezes the frames when playing and youtube videos.

So far I have installed the Extras-devel catalogue, Conky (which doesn't show much CPU being used at all so no problems there), SPB TV (Which works great and smooth unlike all the other youtube apps I have tried), ForecaWeather (which doesn't lag and works well), and Hermes.

I have installed the Speed Patch which seems to have improved things very slightly. I also installed the Optimizer and when I double click on the icon it seems to refresh everything but it starts to lag after I start another program and use it for a few minutes...

I had horrible lagging problems on my previous phone (Nokia E90) but it eventually loaded things, this phone I thought would be faster and often it just gives me an error that the application is stuck and whether I want to exit out of it.

I was thinking about overclocking? Are there other ways to increase performance and speed? Is it normal for it to lag this much?

Also if anyone has any suggestions for "Must Have" programs for the phone please let me know.

Thank you all and I look forward to your replies!