N900 Super Super Buggy Today
 

EDIT:

Seems to be working fine now.

Not sure if it had anything to do with anything I did or did not do:

- I had had 20gb of media for about 6 days before the problem started and still have the same files on the device between when the problem started and when it ended so not sure anything to do with the media explains the problem.

- I had tried a hard reset twice but it did not solve the problem.

- I had installed the msn butterfly plug in a day before the device started misbehaving. So I uninstalled it and it didn't make any difference. I installed back again today since it didn't seem to be the cause of the problem.

- I visited Engadget on the day the device started misbehaving and I think that was the only site I visited that day. But I have visited Engadget several times before without the device having any issues.

So hard to tell what exactly caused all the issues.

Okay my device is being so annoying today I am almost ready to smash it against a wall even though I paid over $600 for it.

1. It is taking 10 years to open anything. I went into conversations and switched to a different message but it took like over 2 minutes to switch the message.

2. None of my my videos are playing. I tried like 15 different videos and it just says unable to play file format. Switched off the phone and switched it back on. Played 2 videos and then back to the same thing. Unable to play file format.

3. Switching between desk tops is a painful process. I swipe and swipe and it doesn't move. Eventually it gets its act together but in stages. Freezes half way through before managing to change the whole screen.

I really hope this is not a sign of things to come. It is not like I paid $100 for it. With something so expensive I would have hoped it would at least not give such troubles. It is a different matter if it is completely faulty after all electronics do fail. But these are just bugs and bugs that you would not expect in a $600 device.

Has anyone else had their device working perfectly fine and then go mental on them one day? If so what was the solution? I am hoping it is just going through a bad phase today and would be back to normal tomorrow. Don't want to flash the device and lose all my settings I spent ages on. Also don't want it to be that I get this problem every week and keep having to flash the device. That would be pretty annoying.

Re: N900 Super Super Buggy Today
 

The problem persisted after restarting? Did you install custom applications, any possibly unstable ones? Any other custom modifications?

Or have you been adding a large media collection recently (e.g. by putting in an SD card)? Perhaps tracker is busy indexing stuff.

Re: N900 Super Super Buggy Today
 

I´ve used mine daily for the last 12 days. Pretty heavily. Haven´t seen any of that, but then I´ve not either enabled or installed anything from extras-testing.

It´s being pretty good, I am currently watching a 300mb video podcast and, and downloading more podcasts and IM´ing and emailing away.

I´ve not flashed once.

Talking about flashing will the N900 be like the Symbian phones, will I have to redo the settings every single time I update the firmware? If so why can Nokia not do things like OS updates are done on desktops, where settings stay untouched while you make system updates?

Re: N900 Super Super Buggy Today
 

Try switching of and then back on. I have no problems at the moment, just reboot if it slows down too much. I have a MP4 video open, a few webpages, just tried pairing a Zeemote and testing it, and played SuperTux (anyone know how to get the Zeemote working for that?).

Re: N900 Super Super Buggy Today
 

Looks like something is eating up all your CPU cycles...probably a buggy new application you may have installed.

Try to open an xterm, type "top" (without the quotes) and see if your CPU is busy with something. Look at the column "%CPU": if it's constantly showing values near 100%, then post back with the command that is using all the CPU (last column of the top output)

Re: N900 Super Super Buggy Today
 

With most electronics, if they ever freeze or whatever, I usually will take the battery out for a minute and then put back in and start the phone up again. See if that works. It usually works for me on my other smartphones.

Re: N900 Super Super Buggy Today
 

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.

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"

Re: N900 Super Super Buggy Today
 

Now the device is completely frozen up

Re: N900 Super Super Buggy Today
 

Did you try taking the battery out for a minute and put it back in and restart the phone?

Re: N900 Super Super Buggy Today
 

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?