Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2021-12-05, 23:35
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Replies: 666
Views: 284,066
Re: Maemo-Leste pre-alpha announcement
if you are booted in leste and like an adventure you can try fstrim -v /dev/mmcblk1p1 (not sure it maybe /dev/mmcblk0p1)
to finally service "maemos vfat MyDocs" partition and maybe speed up your...
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Forum: Nokia N900
2020-04-30, 21:57
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,141
Re: Baking N900.in the oven
wow, thats work. How many tries did you need before you got your first working? How many did you mess up (ripped pins)? Did you have a stencil for reball? How did you test them?
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Forum: Nokia N900
2020-04-29, 13:19
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,141
Re: Baking N900.in the oven
I love to break it to you :p
You underestimateing the difficulty of this.
This is way more complicated than most other devices not only because of small pin size and count. But because of ram...
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Forum: Nokia N900
2020-04-18, 10:03
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,141
Re: Baking N900.in the oven
I cut a razer blade to fit in both sides.
I press them down (very gently) with a screwdriver.
So you may not need that special (depending on how many devices you need to fix ;) )
fun fact: the...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2020-04-10, 12:31
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Replies: 666
Views: 284,066
Re: Maemo-Leste pre-alpha announcement
just a guess
sh root@droid4-IP => "root" user id ( swapon most probalbly in /sbin root only command)
local X Terminal => "user" user id ( /sbin not in path)
try "id" command to get your...
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Forum: Nokia N810
2020-01-12, 17:31
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Replies: 2
Views: 6,617
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2020-01-07, 17:31
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Replies: 16
Views: 6,315
Re: Maemo Leste default theme
On Mameo 5 you can disable both, and at least change the Nokia hands and it is not that difficult ;)
Maybe it is a good idea to have different themes on different devices..
It seems im not the...
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Forum: Games
2019-12-21, 18:31
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Replies: 53
Views: 12,927
Re: Game advices for N900
Alex Kid in Mircale World runs on MasterGear emulator on mameo.
But i would not try it without a controller (or GameGripper) and at least 4 arrow keys..
Tower Toppler is a native nebulous clown.
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Forum: Nokia N900
2019-05-12, 21:59
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Replies: 28
Views: 9,142
Re: N900 strange behaviours
The strange battery behaviour you saw is "normal".
The battery state is kind of saved on the n900, not on battery. (it is a flaw)
That gets confused if you switch batteries. So probably your old...
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Forum: Nokia N900
2019-05-12, 21:54
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Replies: 28
Views: 9,142
Re: N900 strange behaviours
So your Battery seems to work.. but discharges a little too fast..
I would not run it with battery in this state.
Look for an equal hot spot on the pcb.
Since you have two devices (and your...
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Forum: Nokia N900
2019-05-12, 21:22
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Replies: 28
Views: 9,142
Re: N900 strange behaviours
Find the heat source..
Get a dual-use thermal camera.
Become the louis rossmann of the N900 community!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLSO0D67lOA#t=01m45s
If you get one you can help check...
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Forum: Nokia N900
2019-03-13, 05:26
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Replies: 29
Views: 4,527
Re: N900 as an external monitor and keyboard?
If you dont care for camera, the upper keys, and it still fits in your pockets, that might work. I still like to hear an experience about such nice modular design. Post pictures of the beast, if you...
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Forum: Nokia N900
2019-03-11, 18:08
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Replies: 29
Views: 4,527
Re: N900 as an external monitor and keyboard?
My knowlegde of usb is limited, but currently the n900 draws about 18ma in device mode propably through pullup detection resitors (1.5K+15K) when conneted.
But it may even drain the battery fast if...
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Forum: Nokia N900
2019-03-10, 19:06
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Replies: 29
Views: 4,527
Re: N900 as an external monitor and keyboard?
Connection of the 2 device will be a problem.
USB on N900 is too power hungry for a always on connection, even if you dont charge or do anything. You have to pull the plug.
Running a wifi hotspot...
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Forum: Applications
2019-02-25, 10:07
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Replies: 35
Views: 5,098
Re: Chromium 57 on ED Jessie on N900
If you havent already tried, you can try the simple keyboard focus fix for bluemaemo from http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=457097&postcount=453
to narrow it down
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Forum: Applications
2019-02-21, 21:03
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Replies: 0
Views: 3,585
take a picture from command line with torch
Hack of the day:
take a picture from camera from command line in the dark with torch (less powerful than flash).
get v4l2-ctl [apt-get install lfocus installs to /opt/lfocus/v4l2-ctl or a newer...
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Forum: Community
2019-02-17, 00:36
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Replies: 243
Views: 45,281
Re: To amuse the community
You may facing known problems.
some newer ext4 filesystems doesnt mount on maemos old kernel.
try "dmesg" after your "sudo mount loop -t ext4" and see its output.
Dont mess with /etc/fstab...
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Forum: Accessories
2018-12-20, 22:27
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Replies: 4
Views: 22,908
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Forum: Buy & Sell
2018-11-30, 14:47
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,197
Re: Looking for defective N900 in Germany
I may have an upper half in optical ok condition and a german keyboard (no white foil), but did not test if it is still working. If you dont find a better solution, and or want to test it yourself...
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Forum: Alternatives
2018-10-29, 16:52
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Replies: 635
Views: 345,300
Re: Arch Linux ARM on N900
I remember too there where problems with wifi in older kernels.
So i can only second sicelo too skip to a newer kernel.
But as long as postmarketOS still has trouble with wifi...
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2018-10-05, 17:09
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Replies: 38
Views: 28,797
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Forum: Nokia N900
2018-09-30, 20:15
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Replies: 9
Views: 4,302
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2018-09-30, 15:56
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Replies: 666
Views: 284,066
Re: Maemo-Leste pre-alpha announcement
That is one one way to handle it.
Another one is to parse debian .desktop files and keep the hildon debian seperation.
for me that issue is https://github.com/maemo-leste/bugtracker/issues/165...
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2018-09-28, 22:04
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Replies: 666
Views: 284,066
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Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste
2018-09-25, 22:30
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Replies: 666
Views: 284,066
Re: Maemo-Leste pre-alpha announcement
# a look (or Howto) at maemo-leste Running on real hardware (amd64)
# base system is ubuntu 16.04 and we use the latest maemo-leste-1.0-amd64-virtual-20180425.vdi virtualbox image and grub2
#...
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