Maybe the thing that change too fast is the culprit? Is it keep appear and disappear?

Which OC method you use? Titans kernel?
If you use Titans, then you can create shortcut in your desktop to OC on demand. Means, only OC when you need it. When you need the extra power, press the button to OC to 900Mhz. After finish your work, press another button to set back default/stock clock speed.

Actually you can... For Android, overclocking is done much ealier than Maemo on N900. When people start talking about N900 overclocking possibilities, there're many against it and say it cannot be done. But the Milestone already running overlock for some time already... Finally, someone come up with the overclock and those skeptics turn their words and said some other things; basically they're against overclocking.

For Android, there is a very good and nice app which let android device to do overclock with profiles settings...

Technically, the more you have, the more memory it requires, also depends on your desktop customization.

Once I was out, want to converse battery, get fast response and smooth video recording then use 3G to upload the videos to facebook. So I turn off 3 other desktop, only left 1. The phone is much more responsive and I believe the contributes a lot of battery life as well.
The drawback... after I enable back my 3 other desktop, I have to customize those 3 desktop again! Darn it! I'm not gonna do it again.

So, those phone that have only 1 simple homescreen or worst, NONE at all, surely it's smooth as butter.

This post has been edited by Andy214: Aug 4 2010, 10:54 AM

SNES: Chrono Trigger! (RPG - Active Time System like Final Fantasy)
Sega Megadrive: Shining Force series (Strategy/Tactical type RPG)

Farming Games:
Harvest Moon! Forget about cheapo farmville...

SNES also got Harvest Moon. This is actually the first Harvest Moon I played, the land is big, not bad, somehow feel 3 year for the game is a little too short.

PS1 got one version is the best, many things to do one, got cooking, many events, etc. Forgot the name already, I think it was also ported to PSP. Didn't complete it tough, these kind of games, similar like RPG, once you stop playing sometime and play back, you don't know where to start and where you left. Very hard to follow back.

This post has been edited by Andy214: Aug 4 2010, 05:37 PM

Most video recording phone doesn't have auto-focus or focus function when recording, even most of the PnS camera outthere can't do it.

However, there is one app call "iFocus" (I think) which allows you to adjust the focus manually during video recording. Previously I did install it, but it seems buggy and they implemented something on the proximity sensor, so it's annoying with the menu keep popping up.


Learn some photography technique. You can focus on something else, lock the focus, then move back at the object you want to capture. With this technique, you can take many wonderful pictures, even those that you can't focus due to lighting or the lense unable to focus that particular object. You can focus something easier to focus (even near), lock it, the shift back to the object you want to capture.

As for 3rd party camera app, there is BlessN900... and finally, the most powerful of all, fCAM.
fCAM is what I have been asking for, manual focus, manual controls. It's like having a profesional camera already!

I wonder if there's any other smartphone have such powerful camera app.

Is a technique if you don't have manual control over focus and/or the auto-focus cannot focus on the object. So, it's an alternative way. If done correctly, the shot looks the same, it's not noticeable.

I've seen many professional photographers use this technique during photoshoot, it's a quick way rather than adjusting manually and useful in certain situations.

EDIT:
I read the article, it says the user blame the camera. It's as if the user do not intend to do it.
Well, if you intend to use this technique, you wouldn't blame the camera, you blame yourself.

Beside, the article also doesn't sound right, it depends on the purpose of using this technique and what you want to achieve. The article is talking about general shot and people who use it without knowing what they want thus facing issues. Usually, when I use this technique, I was my object to appear sharp and focus and the background is blur or out of focus, it looks great; It's like Macro settings but you macro settings have limitation, with this technique, you can achieve further.

As I said, it's a technique and alternative option to achieve certain capabilities which is limited by the camera.


This post has been edited by Andy214: Aug 5 2010, 03:00 PM

Control N900 with your MIND:
http://dailymobile.se/2010/08/05/thinkcont...with-your-mind/

Some Basics of fCamera:
http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/27/...light-examples/

Superb fCamera Reviews:
http://ericscorner.blogspot.com/2010/07/fc...900-review.html

Not if you put videos/movies into your N900, it's never enough.

Anyway, I try to put all the videos on the memory card and leave my internal storage free. I also change the camera and video capture to memory card, my memory card is only class2, not sure if higher speed will help to improve the video capture performance. Perhaps someone who have higher speed can verify.

Only with Resistive Touch; Capacitive touch can forget about it.

If MMS is so important, then perhaps you should not get this phone?

N900 by default does not provide MMS support (not sure if Nokia will update the OS to provide it in future).

But there is 3rd party software which provide MMS support, it's called fMMS. But this app, seems doesn't use our MMS rate and will use our Data rate (so it'll cost you a bomb to send MMS if you don't have Data Plan).


Actually the lag is caused by the use of Swap Memory... When you ram usage increase, so does your swap memory. If there is no swap memory, you most probably will not have these problems.
Not sure if there is way to limit the use of Swap Memory and clears it *properly*.

The non-proper way of clearing swap memory is by turn it off and turning it on. Yes, there is way to turn off the swap memory but it's may cause instability.

Another way to clear off swap memory is... same like your PC... RESTART...

Sorry, but based on the above, I'm strongly curious why do you want the N900? As from your requirement, this N900 doesn't seems to fit your requirement. It's doesn't have good phone functionality and as a phone, it's not as reliable as most of the phones out there.

If you really intend to use this phone, you really need to do many things in order to appreciate it.

Unless you really like the design, the OS, the phone itself and don't mind it's limitation, then you may consider this phone. There're users out there which don't install other things and just practically use it as a normal phone, they buy it because they like the UI, the phone design, etc. and there's nothing wrong with that, the important thing is that they know what they want.

The reason I'm saying this is hope that you know what you're getting and not regret later. Many people purchase this phone and ended up disappointed and sold it away simply because they got it for the wrong reasons.

Well, as long as you know what you want and what you're getting then it's fine.
We're just trying to prevent people from making wrong choices.

With that cleared, if you're looking for a laptop replacement or computer on the move, look no further and take no doubt, N900 is the best (and probably the only for now) choice WITH phone capabilities. Others are smartphones, but N900 is something more than a smartphone, it's an Internet Tablet with built-in phone functionalities.

It's "very" open unlike Symbian and Android, but this also means the user needs to be more careful and knowledgeable. The more "open/freedom", the more "possibilities", at the same time, the more "risk".

With the power of TRUE multi-tasking, you'll be appreciating it a lot, and also the concept of Social Networks Integration into the Address Book. Unlike other smartphones, they need to install 3rd party apps and open them to see status or chat, etc. On the N900, everything is/can be built in, and my looking at the contacts, you can see your friend's status on MSN, Facebook, etc. and you can initiate chat directly from there.

Web Browsing is also great on this device, the ONLY drawback for now is NO FLASH 10 support!!!

You may say you rather do it at home, but once you have this, it's so mobile. Sometimes, I lazy to move over the the PC/laptop, I rather surf with my N900 on the bed or couch. Or while watching TV, on commercial breaks, you can turn to your N900 anytime and browse the web, search wiki on the movie you're watching, etc. It's so portable. It can pretty much replace a "normal" netbook for internet browsing, but of course, not to the extend of a computer or laptop.

The media playing capabilities is also another awesome features with support for many different file types and most fo the time, there's no conversion required, just transfer to your N900 and enjoy! Hook the N900 to a car stand, and it can become a portable player for your car. Sweet.

MMS is working over data network instead of the usual MMS data network. I think maybe oversea they don't have this thing called MMS data network? Because I think they're the same thing, just that our local operator separate it? Anyone care to enligthen or know about this?

You can turn of A-GPS and use only GPS. That is not the real problem, the real problem is there is no good GPS Software with Malaysian map on the N900. Nokia Maps for N900 is different from Symbian and it's pretty much useless without navigation and location saving.
There's a paid GPS app called Sygic which is pretty good, but NO official/supported updated Malaysia map.
The popular GPS software such as Garmin and PapaGo, is not available for N900.
Since the N900 is already available in Taiwan, hopefully they will port the PapaGo over? Even the Samsung Wave running Bada OS have PapaGo M7...

1 & 2. Your situation could be caused by low rootfs. Are you using the latest firmware PR1.2?
Next, make sure the apps you installed are optified; use Conky to check your rootfs FREE Space. When install apps, becareful; This phone is very"open" and gives you many "freedom", thus it also means the user need to be more careful and know what he/she is doing.

Next you can check your memory, although it should rarely be the case as you only open a few apps, unless those are apps are uses heavy resource.

3. Check your swap/virtual memory usage. This is usually the cause. If it's used up too much (e.g. above 100MB maybe?) It will become more and more laggy as the more it used. Since there is no "proper" way to clear the swap memory, you can only do a RESTART (just like your PC), and your N900 should regain it's speed/responsiveness.
4. Just click on the contact to go into the Contact page, click on the top part which will bring down the menu, select "Send Contact Card".
5. No idea if this game is available. Check Chinese (HK/TW) forums maybe see if anyone ported it as I think rarely westerners know what is that game?

RAM usage 100%????? WOW!
I've never seen 100% usage, never see it used above 200MB before.
It will use up swap usage when it require more ram, thus increasing the swap usage. When swap usage gets higher, the phone will start to lag and less responsive...

You can try install HTOP, then you can see DETAILED information on each process, you can order by highest RAM usage, processor usage, etc.

What about your rootfs free?

There're 2GB dedicated space for application; optified apps will only take up little space on rootfs. Non-optified app will/might take up a lot of space on your rootfs and this will give you problem if you rootfs is low.

Actually, the public is over-ruled or blinded by capacitive touch. Yes, multi-touch is great, but you cannot use stylus! You cannot use finger-nails, lack of accuracy and NO pressure sensitivity.

Previous tablets, handhelds, Pocket PC all comes default with stylus support and it was great back then. Then comes with Capacitive with multi-touch being made famous by the iPhone.

For people with long fingernails or bigger fingers will curse when using capacitive touch keyboard, and worst when accessing website links in FULL version. Imagine clicking on links in Facebook FULL version, almost impossible unless you zoom in.

Resistive screen lets you use any object, especially stylus and it can have good precision/accuracy as well as some sort of pressure sensitivity. Multi-Touch is actually *supported* but the implementation is different from Capacitive.

Why reviews saying Amazing resistive screen for N900? Because N900's resistive touch screen has great sensitivity, not as good as capacitive, but IMHO, IT'S JUST NICE.
Capacitive sensitivity is OVER SENSITIVE, you can accidentally open an app or hit a key/button easily. And also because of this, it lacks of pressure sensitivity.

To appreciate the resistive, try using the provided simple SKETCH app on the N900. You can use the stylus and choose the PENCIL thickness and start sketching.
For better one, install MyPaint and be amazed how amazing this Resistive touch can do.
Honestly, for a tablet device, I'd choose resistive or capacitive ANYTIME.
But there is a new type of screen which will have both advantages of resistive and capacitive.



Entertainment device YES, iPhone is undeniably the best. But it's useless without a proper ear/headphone or speaker. The built in speaker is rubbish, any cheap phone can beat it. WHY? Can you believe it... iPhone is using only MONO speaker!!!!! and the quality is rubbish!!!!!
How can people still accept this and WHY IN THE WORLD DID APPLE STILL PROVIDE MONO SPEAKER???

As for videos, again, iPhone/iPod Touch have very limited support for files types, even worst than ANY smartphone out there, so again, it's failure. The best? Still N900.

Gaming, no doubt, totally cannot compare, iPhone wins hands down. No smartphone stands a chance, not even N-Gage (which used to be really good, I still remember playing King Of Figthers on my 6600 and play bluetooth against my friend, and that was way way back).

My personal advice?
iPod Touch 3G 32GB - around RM1.1K
(Before iPhone4) iPhone 3GS 32GB - around RM2.9K

iPhone = iPod Touch + Phone + GPS receiver + 3.5M Camera
Price difference = RM2.9K - RM1.1K = around RM.1.8K??? just for the phone + GPS + 3.5M Camera?
Heck, instead of buying the iPhone, I will pay RM1.1K to buy iPod Touch and enjoy all the games.
The remaining RM1.8K, I have many options for many powerful smarthones, which have better GPS receiver, better WiFi, better Camera, everything better, and best of all, I get to ENJOY BOTH.
And btw, iPod Touch 3G is faster than iPhone 3GS and also less problem.
Of course, now there's iPhone4, iPhone 3GS is no longer valuable. Soon, there might be iPod Touch 4?




This post has been edited by Andy214: Aug 13 2010, 01:21 AM

LoL, don't have to be fat fingers, a normal adult fingers is can easily cover a non-zoom small links for Desktop version website on a 3.5" screen.
Maybe you should get one and try browsing FULL DESKTOP version of Facebook and try to touch with your finger, even using your last finger.
It doesn't need a scientist to figure this out. But then, there're many people who by default set the zoom to maybe 150%~200% or more when browsing. I prefer to browse in original size.

Long time no see man.

Yup, it requires flash, unless the video is linked from YouTube.

You can install the "Tweak Flash" plugin to enable "fake" you Flash version.
It only works if the site is not really using Flash 10, but just requires Flash 10.

http://www.nokian900applications.com/tweak...for-nokia-n900/

Eh? I thought he got it for RM1K flat?

It was second hand though, I think the owner claimed only used for 1 week or something.

aspire is right. Some apps or services might be using your storage, like indexing, etc.

You can try restart your phone and re-try.