Okay my problems seems to a be a little different from the problems you guys have been having with the VK...mine pops up just fine on the first go at times, while there are instances when i have to pound on the writing area in text messaging several times for the keyboard to show up surprisingly the VK works just fine in the Notes application...my n900 is on titan's kernel power45 and its overclocked to 750 mhz.....is it a bug in the kernel????btw i have theme customizer installed...i had customized one of the onboard themes to my taste..thought that might have been the cause so i restored all settings to default in the theme customizer....several restarts....tried everything....still the lag.....mind you sometimes the vk pops up on first go and the problems seems to be localized to texting????????