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etuoyo is offline etuoyo
2009-12-06 , 18:58
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#11
Originally Posted by bbns View Post
Did you try to browse any heavy Javascript / Flash savy sites? It looks like the web browser is eating up the resource. Have you ever changed the setting within browser like cache size?
Nope never changed the settings. Went to Engadget just before I posted. Not sure if that could have been the problem. But I was having problems even several hours before I used the browser.
 
etuoyo is offline etuoyo
2009-12-06 , 19:03
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Originally Posted by mobilefan View Post
Did you try taking the battery out for a minute and put it back in and restart the phone?
Switched it off and back on but didn't take out the battery. Maybe if I continue to have problems I will take out the battery. Tried one video and it played but last time I switched on and off it played two videos before going mental again. Almost afraid to try more videos.

Noticed that the battery is draining like crazy though. In the last 1 hour or so I have gone from virtually full battery to like just one bar.
 
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2009-12-06 , 19:11
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Originally Posted by etuoyo View Post
Switched it off and back on but didn't take out the battery. Maybe if I continue to have problems I will take out the battery. Tried one video and it played but last time I switched on and off it played two videos before going mental again. Almost afraid to try more videos.

Noticed that the battery is draining like crazy though. In the last 1 hour or so I have gone from virtually full battery to like just one bar.
Simply powering it off via the Switch will not "reset" the electrons running through your phone. Right now your phone is congested/stuck with electrons in a unstable state. That's what my electrical engineer friend told me before, don't quote me. Hence, to really reset an electronic device is to pull the battery (power supply) out so the memory effect of the electrons will be gone. This should refresh your phone. Pressing the power switch on/off will not give you a true "reset" because the battery is still connected to the phone, electrons are still flowing.
 

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2009-12-06 , 23:57
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Originally Posted by mobilefan View Post
Simply powering it off via the Switch will not "reset" the electrons running through your phone. Right now your phone is congested/stuck with electrons in a unstable state. That's what my electrical engineer friend told me before, don't quote me. Hence, to really reset an electronic device is to pull the battery (power supply) out so the memory effect of the electrons will be gone. This should refresh your phone. Pressing the power switch on/off will not give you a true "reset" because the battery is still connected to the phone, electrons are still flowing.
I honestly can't tell if you're joking or not. It's like watching a painting by Salvador Dali.
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etuoyo is offline etuoyo
2009-12-07 , 10:43
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#15
Another day, Another Supper Buggy Device.

Media Player claims I have no music or videos even though I have about 20gb of music and video on the device. Tried going to file manager to launch a song from there in the hope that it will get the media player app to start recognising my loaded media player files. File manager doesn't work. Keeps freezing.
 
twaelti is offline twaelti
2009-12-07 , 10:50
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Leave it up and running for a night, without any apps open. My N900 used to be exactly like that about 2 weeks ago. For about 2 days, it was nearly unusable. Don't know what was going postal on it, even "top" gave inconclusive results.
Sometimes I fear that "tracker" (the media database indexer)can chew up too much CPU (just had it happen again - device left alone for an hour with media player up but paused - device very slow - Ctrl-Shift-X - top .... tracker at 70% CPU for 30 seconds)
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2009-12-07 , 10:57
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#17
Originally Posted by etuoyo View Post
Now that you mention it I did install something from testing. But it was the msn plug-in (butterfly) which many said they had been using with no problems.
cannot tell how much of your problems this explains, but there's a discrepancy here: enabling extras-testing *should* come with a warning to drop your expectations of a well functioning device. in other words, with extras-testing stuff installed, expect annoying stuff to happen. if it doesn't, well good then. as qgil said: enabling extras-testing means you're no longer an end user but a tester.

related comment.

and in this specific case: i have noticed sluggishness of the n900 when account-plugin-butterfly was installed. however not as much as you do.

Originally Posted by etuoyo View Post
Did the xterm thing and I don't really have anything near 100%. Top column is showing around 45 to 56%. Don't know what the things mean though. Says "/usr/sbin/browserd". Next row was going up to about 35% but now seems down to 3%. Says "/usr/sbin/browser"
web browser windows (with flash elements) opened in the background tend to slow down the device. could it be applicable in your case?
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2009-12-07 , 11:12
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#18
hi guys i just have read about a terrible reboot bug at the german n900 devices. could anybody tell me more about couse i want to buy my n900 this week and hope its not a hardware failor in the german devices..
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2009-12-07 , 11:48
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If your top is indeed showing 50-60% CPU levels then something IS wrong.

Mine is showing around 2% at normal.
 
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2009-12-07 , 11:58
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Originally Posted by crown77 View Post
hi guys i just have read about a terrible reboot bug at the german n900 devices. could anybody tell me more about couse i want to buy my n900 this week and hope its not a hardware failor in the german devices..
best regards crown77

...I have a german N900 and (so far) no problems whatsoever, neither on hardware- nor softwareside.
 
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