Thread: Stuttering audio when multitasking?
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2010-06-25 , 15:12
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Originally Posted by fmo View Post
If you want to see proper stuttering of the media player, try it with a bluetooth headset!
Really? That's the only way I listen to audio on my N900, and it's pretty good. (Usually with a stereo BT headset!)

Originally Posted by dushkin View Post
In short, would you guys still recommend N900 as a good overall phone?
If you're the type to say "Hm... Why is this not working?" and look for an answer and type in a few things to fix it, yes. If you're the type to say "Dump Phone! I hate you for not working!" and smash it against a rock to try to "fix" it, no.

Originally Posted by zimon View Post
But still I think OS should not get to state where it is unresponsive to any user input for several minutes
Careful... the UI is not the OS. This is unix/linux, the UI is a process, just like anything else, and is not part of the OS at all. You can change the priority of the UI just like you can with the audio process or anything else. (Though I don't recommend doing so.)

Originally Posted by zimon View Post
The common thing in these lock ups were Mappero.
To be fair, it is talking to lots of things, between caching images on the file system, maybe pulling tiles over the network, checking the GPS, updating the UI... That's pretty intense.

Personally I have setup a script to launch/nice Mappero when it starts so it has a lower (if not the lowest) priority. So sometimes it pauses (usually just before a turn which it tells me of as I pass it), but the system as a whole can keep up.