Thread: I'm running very slow
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-02-23 , 15:15
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Originally Posted by LozBlake View Post
This isn't a complaint about the n900, i love the phone to pieces, more just asked for some advice. My device is running painfully slow at times, so much so that i'm missing phone calls on occassion, it's mainly the desktop thats slow, it really does grind and is completely non responsive at times. I think i've installed some crap in the past from extras-devel which has bodged it up.

I think the best course of action is for me to reflash my phone and start afresh, however will i lose all my pictures, music, messages and contacts if i do this? I really don't want to lose this, especially the contacts and messages.

What would be my best course of action with this? Where to start.
Does it still do this after rebooting? Some people have complained that their phone slows down after a couple of days, but a reboot fixes that.

If you do want to reflash and start afresh, you can use the Backup application to backup all your contacts & messages, etc. For contacts you can also do a full export from within the Contacts app (just to be sure). And the music/pictures can be copied across to the PC before you flash. Ideally, you shouldn't lose anything after backing up, reflashing, and restoring (this isn't quite the case yet, as some applications aren't adding their configuration files into the backup list).

For flashing instructions, see http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware
 

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