Thread: Why is N900 so slow?
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2010-01-21 , 18:26
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Originally Posted by etuoyo View Post
I would also love to know the answer to this. The media player - the less said about it the better. It can take up to a week for it to finally recognise all the media files you have added. And even then it takes ages to do anything. Starting a video is particularly painful (I can press play as many as 10 times before a video starts playing - not because it didn't recognise my press the 1st, 2nd, 3rd time, etc but because it is just taking 10 years to start the video). Then the video stutters for the first few seconds. Contrast that with my old 2nd gen ipod touch that was able to start videos immediately and play them smoothly from the start.

And it is not just the media player that is slow. It just seems to take too much time with everything in contrast to you know what which is a far older device.
Sometimes when i read these i feel like my 5 weeks old N900 is somehow different
Music player is fast. I got Ipod touch 2G, Zune HD and 5800 here to compare. Only thing that's mentioned here is that it takes 1-3h to regonize all the songs i put there first time i transfered videos, music and what not to N900. This should be fixed and fast no doubt.

My videos play great on the N900. Example random 700mb Top Gear episode from Finalgear.com played like a dream and i actually got 2 Top Gear season on the device with 2 movies that play just as smooth with no need to do anything to the videos. Thought i got 40mb trailer that did take 4 secs to start and then stutters like crazy.

Do your ipod touch really play any random file you give it? Mine didn't and i started from the presumption that i would need to do something to the video before it would even play.
Last edited by tissot; 2010-01-21 at 18:34.