Hi all. I couldn't find anything related to this in the forums because the search does not work. So I posted a new thread. Is MobilePro 900 and 900C slower than other HPC's? While reading the thread on Linux in MobilePro 900C I saw some remarks to that and I just wanted to get this sorted out. Also I would like to share my experience even though I had this device only for about a month. I noticed that it is rather slow compared to my Palm TX which only runs at 300MHz (newer CPU though and different OS). I also tried opening a 3MB word enter on Softmaker Office and it took forever. Minimo browser starts in about 10 seconds. The device is rather unresponsive to keystrokes when I type messages on forums or type a document (i e sometimes it happens that I type too fast for the device to hande ad it does start missing letters). A few days ago I had an idea of using xclkcfg2 overclocking application to try overclocking my device but with disappointing results (there is a go on that in this forum). I know from the specs that MobilePro is supposed to run at 400MHz but I still tried to manually set its clock speed to 400MHz and I noticed something: the device appears to be more responsive some applications start faster and the battery is depleted faster too. Does that convey that it was not running at 400MHz before that? Any experiences are wellcome.
In my opinion it does seem slower than other hpc/pcc's that i have. Playing movies on it is rather jumpy compared to my 206 mhz jornada 7xx's and my 190 mhz htc wizard which play the same movies flawlessly. Also there are alot of 900c's that are only running at 340mhz rather than the 400mhz it claims. You can test this out using tcpmp. The keyboard issue is also common. For its specs it is a rather disappointing machine sadly. Cheers.
I've found that my two 900C's are quite fast and certainly faster as far as web browsing goes than my Jornada 720. And with the overclocking program it performs even better. Actually. I'm very impressed with this system. Its strange that yours is going slow. I almost wonder if it might be some form of hardware problem? Oh undergo you tried entering text on forums using a different browser? Minmo is incredibly slow even on my systems when they are overclocked. Try downloading the Opera 8.65 beta from Cmonex's site and see if you still get text lag.
For the last few days I've been runing my machine with the xclkcfg2 set to 400MHz and using both Minimo and IE. While minimo is still rather slow to start it works pretty abstain now. No keyboard lag either. I'm yet to try the 3MB word file on Softmaker office. Will see how that works. I checked what speed is reported by tcpmp and surprisingly when the xclkcfg2 is set to 400MHz tcpmp reports 348MHz. I'll do a reset and see what happens when I don't set anythig on the xclkcfg2. EDIT: So I've played around with the xclkcfg2 and strangely enough tcpmp always reports abou 50MHz less than what the clkcfg2 is set to. Right now I have xclkcfg2 saying that CPU is set to 470MHz while tcpmp reports only 422MHz. Dissapointing. When no xclkcfg2 is used after a softreset - tcpmp reports 348MHz. :-(Edited by andrius_MP9C 2007-10-28 11:28 AM
I'm not a pxa255 expert but concidering the CPU behaviour my guess is that this is the hardware issue. Also my device is a MP900C-A. Anybody knows what the diference is between this one and the MP900C is? Also can anyone share what the default CPU speed on MP900C is? Or is that motherboard version/revision dependent?
andrius_MP9C: this is true of any 900 or 900c if you flash ce net on it. (though my first 900 stays on 400 sometimes) your observation is very interesting though about how it eats more battery on 400mhz so it may be true that the 900c is underclocked by default. isotherm and michael tried to play with this cpu underclock issue a while ago turns out somethng is configuring the cpu so it gets lower mhz we don't know why but this is giving me an idea.. i can try to check this out
btw if the 900 is running hpc2000 then it is 400mhz just fine iirc. oh and textmaker typing issue is solved.. will soon put up the file for download / it will be in rom too. (along with overclocker lol) minimo plain sucks on any device ive ever tried it on. oh and videos in my experience the 900c plays it the same as the jornada not better nor worse but we know rtfm is exceptionally unlucky with the 900c :/Edited by cmonex 2007-10-28 6:17 PM
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