mobile-phonesMy Nokia N900 is becoming slower and slower. Sometimes it is so bad that I have to wait up to 10 seconds for a new browser tab to open or cannot watch a divx movie due to stuttering. Did anyone try to overclock N900? Is it safe? How much of a difference did it make?
There is a reason Nokia decided to set the max. clock frequency to what they have chose. Overclocking is dangerous: depending on which side/corner of the wafer the actual silicon for the N900's CPU chip came from -- your overclocking may or may not actually work.
It will most certainly void your warranty.
It will probably also reduce the overall life of your device (caused by overheating)
In spite of all these warnings, if you do decide to go for it, here is a great tutorial on how to do it.
Assuming you could overclock it, the extra heat might cause problems, and you'd probably drain the battery much faster.
Apparently someone has overclocked their N900, but it only resulted in more movie stuttering.
It might be safer to try to find out what software issue is causing the slowdown before you try messing with the hardware.
Are you running an especially busy theme? Have you cleared out the browser cache recently?
This link has a few suggestions, like running top in a terminal to find out what's hogging the CPU. (Here's a pic of top running on the N900)
Also this thread has suggestions like running in a terminal:
df -h|grep rootfs
to see if the filesystem is getting too full.
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