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Forum: Competitors 2019-09-05, 00:44
Replies: 3,489
Views: 632,225
Posted By rewt
Re: Are you Ready? F(x)tec Pro 1 HW Keyboard Phone

You obviously weren't around for the N900 pre-order...

Nokia USA canceling pre-orders? (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33522)
Nokia.com N900 orders/Pre-orders...
Forum: Competitors 2010-07-20, 05:20
Replies: 89
Views: 24,570
Posted By rewt
Re: Droid X, what does everythink about it?

It's definitely impressive, as far as Android devices without hardware keyboards go. After some hesitation, I pulled the trigger today... and will hopefully be in possession of it by next week. Then...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-03-05, 13:18
Replies: 117
Views: 61,579
Posted By rewt
Re: [HOWTO] Freeing up rootfs space

Glad I could be of assistance :)


Sure, there are a few things that can be manually optified, but if you aren't having problems it's not worth the trouble.


I'm sitting at 60MB free on my...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-03-04, 04:36
Replies: 117
Views: 61,579
Posted By rewt
Re: [HOWTO] Freeing up rootfs space

That's not too bad.


Some of the packages exist only to pull in other packages, and don't install any files (such as python-all), so there is nothing to optify. In some cases, it's just not...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-02-24, 04:22
Replies: 17
Views: 2,817
Posted By rewt
Re: Phone Randomly Launches

What is the state of "Launch by turning"?
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-02-23, 21:04
Replies: 7
Views: 5,365
Posted By rewt
Re: Power saving on/off ?

Works here...

50 pings with PM on and off:

RTT...min......avg.......max.......
[on ] 6.570....128.856...253.957 ms
[off] 2.203......3.133.....4.783 ms

I only tried disabling power...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-02-23, 19:55
Replies: 7
Views: 5,365
Posted By rewt
Re: Power saving on/off ?

As root:

iwconfig wlan0 power off

will disable power management temporarily. You will need the wireless-tools package (from Nokia Apps repo) installed to get this command (IIRC, it isn't by...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-02-04, 18:25
Replies: 10
Views: 6,273
Posted By rewt
Re: Is it just my N900 that disconnects Bluetooth headsets when on WiFi?

Try to enable bluetooth coexistence mode on the WiFi chip...

In x-term:
sudo gainroot
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/wl12xx/bt_coex_modeThis will have to be redone after each reboot of the...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-01-29, 22:37
Replies: 773
Views: 364,969
Posted By rewt
Re: Will N900 be ignored by Nokia?

So you're fine with receiving no more OS bug fixes/enhancements, except for major issues? Let's see if you still agree with that statement once you're affected by something that won't be fixed...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-01-29, 20:09
Replies: 773
Views: 364,969
Posted By rewt
Re: Will N900 be ignored by Nokia?

Bugs opened against Fremantle, fixed or considered for fixing in Harmattan...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-01-29, 05:00
Replies: 773
Views: 364,969
Posted By rewt
Re: [Under development] Ovi Maps - Turn by Turn Navigation

In the meantime, we have all purchased a half-baked product and are on our own to solve the problems until Harmattan comes along, possibly a year or more later. That is only if Harmattan is even...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-01-27, 05:08
Replies: 137
Views: 103,825
Posted By rewt
Re: Using Micro SD Card as Virtual Ram on Nokia N900?

For those who need more VM, and wish to use their entire MicroSD card for this purpose:

(WARNING: This will erase the entire MicroSD card, or worse, some or all of your internal memory if you...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-01-22, 04:38
Replies: 47
Views: 19,671
Posted By rewt
Re: N900 3G Frequency: Limited by Software or Hardware?

Ok, I guess I assumed the talk about this being in brainstorm meant the actual brainstorm (http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/) - not the brainstorm sub-forum on t.m.o. It would have been nice to...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-01-16, 21:48
Replies: 17
Views: 3,826
Posted By rewt
Re: ATT internet

The APN wap.cingular is correct - in case I wasn't clear in my last post. That's what I'm using right now. The other option would isp.cingular with a username of ISP@CINGULARGPRS.COM (although from...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-01-14, 19:13
Replies: 879
Views: 239,241
Posted By rewt
Re: update failed to fetch archives please help

It sounds like it would be best for you to use App. manager to perform the upgrade. If you insist on using command line tools, you must do the following (specifically in this order):

apt-get...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-01-13, 21:06
Replies: 117
Views: 61,579
Posted By rewt
Re: [HOWTO] Freeing up rootfs space

Correct. If your python is optified, /opt/pymaemo would exist. I would advise NOT following part 2 of the first post, but rather doing:

sudo gainroot
apt-get install pymaemo-optify
apt-get clean
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-01-13, 20:47
Replies: 117
Views: 61,579
Posted By rewt
Re: [HOWTO] Freeing up rootfs space

Yes. It'll move the following to /opt/pymaemo/*:
/usr/lib/python2.5
/usr/share/pyshared
/usr/lib/pyshared
/usr/share/python-support
/usr/lib/python-support

It will then use mount to bind the...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-01-13, 20:25
Replies: 117
Views: 61,579
Posted By rewt
Re: [HOWTO] Freeing up rootfs space

Not necessary - just use apt-get to install the pymaemo-optify package, from extras. Removing and installing is doing just that, but the long way.

If you had python installed prior to...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-01-13, 13:08
Replies: 117
Views: 61,579
Posted By rewt
Re: [HOWTO] Freeing up rootfs space

I put together a quick script last night... It'll check any packages that aren't dependencies of mp-fremantle-*-pr (which should exclude most of the pre-installed packages) to see if they place any...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-01-13, 01:40
Replies: 15
Views: 3,384
Posted By rewt
Re: Please help me: failed update and difficulties flashing

Then try working with other members of the community to resolve the issue you all are having, as opposed to sitting alone in your own thread screaming for help. People aren't going to help you if you...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-01-12, 20:51
Replies: 2
Views: 1,398
Posted By rewt
Re: Next update will require 45MB on rootfs!

Already in the stickied update FAQ (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40150)
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-01-11, 20:19
Replies: 27
Views: 8,077
Posted By rewt
Re: N900 dead after attempt at updating software

Did you try searching? There are other people that have experienced the same thing and there is discussion going on in existing threads.

Searching for "nokia logo"...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-01-11, 13:28
Replies: 728
Views: 218,289
Posted By rewt
Re: New firmware released!

I didn't check immediately prior to the update, but two days ago I had about 62MB free and post-update I have about 60MB free.
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-01-09, 21:22
Replies: 4
Views: 3,556
Posted By rewt
Re: maemo 5 portrait mode

More redundant new threads = more noise. More noise means less likelihood of finding useful information. In the case of multiple threads on one topic, the information usually ends up split across the...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-01-09, 21:06
Replies: 9
Views: 3,549
Posted By rewt
Re: Who has problems connecting to Exchange 2007 server?

Search "exchange 2007"... results (http://talk.maemo.org/search.php?searchid=6127911)

See "Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls" thread (result 4)

Follow link at the bottom of post #1,...
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