@bazza i dont use any of those 3 widgets on my n9 but i also have a problem with this bug so i guess its not about this widgets.

Well, I have only three widget active:

- Personal Dataplan Monitor
- Personal IP Address
- Calendar

So if you remove "Personal Dataplan Monitor" I'll keep it. If your problem is gone and it occurs for me again, the probability is high that "Personal Dataplan Monitor" was the cause, otherwise I'll start to iterate trough all combinations of the three.

Cheers
Bjoern

Oh, okay... then I guess my post above is a wate of time...

Hmmmm ok,

i will still do this anyway i rarely use them so its worth a try.

cheers


Edit

I decided to keep the 3g/2g switcher widget i just realised i installed it 4 weeks ago and the bug started 10-14 days ago.

Swapping does not require a lot of CPU time (remember, it is mostly data transfer to/from the MMC controller) and you do not have to have your main memory full in order to trigger swapping. As to verifying how seriously swapping system feels like, run FireFox Mobile and see for yourself

Well, but how do you explain, that I can launch apps from the Application Menu without any delay?

No idea: when the damn thing is slow for me, it launches apps with a huge delay.

It maybe a coincidence by my battery widget / icon won't stay bottom right of screen over the last few days. It has been playing up since around the same time as the icons freezing.

The icons froze yesterday and I left the N900 for about an hour to see if it would sort itself and it did not. A reboot was the only solution.

FWIW - I had similar symptoms on my device: app shortcuts becoming unresponsive when clicked (they'd do nothing for a while but they were 'buffered' so after about 2 minutes all the actions would be carried out at once). Also had substantial slowdown in moving between homescreens when this happened.

This didn't affect contact shortcuts, nor did it affect app's themselves (so, if I clicked on a desktop shortcut to a web page, or to any app, it would hang for ~2 minutes before starting ... but if I launched the same app from the app menu directly, it would start no problem durign that 2 minute period).

In my case, I had multiple instances of the Desktop command execution widget running (from memory: rootfs % free, battery % remaining, last reset reason and uptime) - I removed them all and my problem was immediately resolved.

May be unrelated, but anyone with one or more of those DCEW's running who's got similar problems may want to try removing it/them to see if it helps?

saw someone mention about time it takes for input to register in one of these posts, now provided theirs no tweaks been done top the kernel the normal touch time to register input on touchscreen is set as 10ms in the kernel driver for it if i remember correctly