[maemo-users] Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

[From: Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Bernard Tyers <b at runningwithbulls.com> wrote:
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> ----- Original message -----
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Dawid Lorenz <adl at adl.pl> wrote:
>> > Is this only my N900 @PR1.1 or others also experience overall device
>> > sluggishness after ~2-3 days of uptime? There is semi-identified problem
>> > with hildon-home hogging CPU time for few seconds on each wakeup from
>> > standby
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> [snip]
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>> I experienced same thing here yesterday, no user applications running,
>> but it's slow and memory usage is high, swap in use etc.
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> [snip]
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> This doesn't make me too confident in upgrading to 1.1.1.
>
> Are there *any* real benefits in upgrading? I can't find any big reasons-there is a mention somewhere about battery usage improvements.
>
> I think I might stay where I am. My N900 is operating pretty well.

Well, for me PR1.1.1 seems to have fixed the wifi problem that
required a reboot every time it lost connection and failed to
reconnect (which happened usually 1 or 2 times a day to me since
December). The wifi still loses connection for "no reason" (maybe too
aggresive power-saving or roaming?), but at least now it reconnects
automatically with no reboots involved. :)

My battery seems the same as always. If I don't make any phone calls
it lasts around 13 hours at the most (I'm connected to wifi 90% of the
time, phone mostly sits idle). If I made phone calls the life is
shorter, and especially if I used speakerphone it seems like a
5-minute call can take away 1 hour of battery life... :)

Also, I think maybe you need PR1.1.1 for some Ovi Store stuff?