Uninstall? After you have touched those places then only and one way to go really back is to backup to desktop pc or microsd,flash rootfs and emmc and restore only pim data.

The development and testing repositories have those names for a reason. Do not install applications from those repositories if you require your device to remain stable. I don't really use my N900 as a phone, so I can afford to tinker.

Also, as a developer, I don't really want newbies installing my application(s) from extras-devel/testing. It just causes headaches for all concerned and doesn't provide any really useful feedback, which is what those repositories are for.

I wonder which search query would return the greatest number of results. My guess would be 'plz help?????!!!???!!!!!!!'.

/rant

Personally, mine's rock-stable. I havent had to reboot it recently, ignoring times I ran the battery completely down, or dropped it a few feet and knocked the back cover and battery out(!)
I've even got it OC'd, but I did a custom OC, tuning it for the least stable voltage for my chip.

I have a feeling that the two people here with problems either have corruption on their disks and need a reflash, or have -poor- CPU samples that need slight overvolting at stock speeds.

Agreed, I've only had mine a few months now but have been much more impressed than I thought I'd be, both in terms of stability and functionality (especially with many of the excellent tweaks and apps from developers on this forum).

In the first week I installed everything I found even vaguely interesting (including from testing & development repos) and the device became quite buggy (which you've got to expect - that's why devs put their software there and why the repos carry severe warnings).

But having tried everything out, and decided what was really stable/useful for my needs, I reflashed with PR1.3 (including emmc) and have since been far more careful about what dev & testing apps I install. That has kept things very stable since, and I usually only reboot when I want to play around with NitDroid (while I'm keen to keep track of what Android has to offer, I find it much clunkier and less refined than Maemo, except for its nice way of handling notifications).

Agreed, I've only had mine a few months now but have been much more impressed than I thought I'd be, both in terms of stability and functionality (especially with many of the excellent tweaks and apps from developers on this forum).

In the first week I installed everything I found even vaguely interesting (including from testing & development repos) and the device became quite buggy (which you've got to expect - that's why devs put their software there and why the repos carry severe warnings).

But having tried everything out, and decided what was really stable/useful for my needs, I reflashed with PR1.3 (including emmc) and have since been far more careful about what dev & testing apps I install. That has kept things very stable since, and I usually only reboot when I want to play around with NitDroid (while I'm keen to keep track of what Android has to offer, I find it much clunkier and less refined than Maemo, except for its nice way of handling notifications).

i would guess majority of the people probably do use applications from devel and testing and still have less problems than people who are on other platforms. The funny thing is that we can't really relate overclocking and applications in testing/devel to the "stable" topic that i have created because they are known to be unstable :P. My bet is if we took any number of users of the n900 with only stable applications and no overclocking and compare them to any other phone n900 would whip every other phone in running without crashing

Mine is much more unstable than WinXP on my desktop (at least before the harddisk issues started), i would take weeks between boots on my desktop, while with my N900 often i need to reboot it more than once a week

Stable. The only sponaneous reboot I have witnessed wadue to overclocking.

Having refrained from installing any dev - testing repo - app untill 2 months after clean PR1.3 I can confirm this system is very stable and the outnof the box experience is quiten great. Even in hot countries.
However reboots may still be required for optimal speed.
PR 1.2 + Swappolube needed reboot every about 2 weeks with my usage pattern.
PR 1.3 naked a little sooner.
Now testing PR1.3 + Kernel power 46. No problems so far.

While we're talking about stability, how about reliability?

Anyone tried n900fly? What's the best result we have so far?

How did you instal the restart option there is only a switch off option