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Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-11-25, 15:21
Replies: 9
Views: 7,407
Posted By cpitchford
Re: N9 WLAN issue

I'm sitting here listening to music via BT headsets and I'm off the wifi lan.. even though iwconfig reports I'm connected:

$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0: IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"mynetwork"
...
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-11-16, 19:58
Replies: 236
Views: 70,294
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Handtec sourced N9 crashes thread

My replacement has been rock solid too! It very clear the Austrian unit was duff. Not single crash or reboot
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-11-10, 00:10
Replies: 236
Views: 70,294
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Handtec sourced N9 crashes thread

I spoke to handtec this afternoon and they told me that it would be end of december! WTF?! never mind

Anyway, back to the bricking problem

perl -e 'print 1234'


This command should not...
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-11-09, 01:25
Replies: 236
Views: 70,294
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Handtec sourced N9 crashes thread

Ok, messing with flasher (set-rd-flags=no-lifeguard-reset) I got my device to boot.. turns out dnsmasq wouldn't start and since it was mandatory, the lifeguard halts the phone (thanks for that!)
...
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-11-08, 22:10
Replies: 236
Views: 70,294
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Handtec sourced N9 crashes thread

Enabled developer mode, so I could get an xterm and check dmesg.... it rebooted as it said it would.. but then its back to the too many reboots, dnsmasq problem..

Good job I can re-flash it with...
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-11-08, 14:51
Replies: 236
Views: 70,294
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Handtec sourced N9 crashes thread

All updates installed now (retry required for golf) It seems much more even.. I'll have a play and report back
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-11-05, 16:17
Replies: 236
Views: 70,294
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Handtec sourced N9 crashes thread

Install the logging option under settings -> security -> development. it will install klogd which sends the kernel log to /var/log/syslog..
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-11-04, 11:51
Replies: 236
Views: 70,294
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Handtec sourced N9 crashes thread

Just hoping they don't ship out returned handsets to new customers.. that would suck :(

it seems some other product codes are suffering the same issue; Swedish product code ending j187.

Is...
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-11-03, 21:42
Replies: 236
Views: 70,294
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Handtec sourced N9 crashes thread

Here you go!

http://chris.intrepid.cx/n900/meego9-dmesg.txt
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-11-03, 20:37
Replies: 236
Views: 70,294
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Handtec sourced N9 crashes thread

I'm having real issues figuring out what happens when app crash.. strace is practically useless since Aegis protects all the nokia stock apps from ptrace tracking.. grrr.. I just want to know if it...
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-11-02, 22:53
Replies: 236
Views: 70,294
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Handtec sourced N9 crashes thread

take the sim tray out of the phone. on the back of the tray is printed the product code in tiny print. it isnt actually printed on the handset itself, only on the plastic tray
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-11-02, 22:27
Replies: 236
Views: 70,294
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Handtec sourced N9 crashes thread

The only third party app I've installed was a file browser app, which I've not needed to actually use yet.. Apps are crashing with such regularity its scary. I would expect if it were RAM issues,...
Forum: Nokia N9 / N950 2011-11-02, 13:03
Replies: 236
Views: 70,294
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Handtec sourced N9 crashes thread

Received my N9 last night.. 64G Austria Black model, which seems to match the handtec batch's product code though I bought it from a different supplier.

It "black screened of death" within an hour...
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-03-09, 23:04
Replies: 81
Views: 41,338
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Micro SD Not Recognized YES I SEARCHED

I bought my first N900 the day it launched.. On the whole it was pretty good with SD cards.. but when I bought a SanDisk 32GB card just under a year ago things didn't behave so well..

It saw the...
Forum: Accessories 2011-03-03, 03:35
Replies: 37
Views: 22,072
Posted By cpitchford
Re: N900 crashes a Nokia BH-905 Headset?

PR1.3 still causes the BH-905 to crash..
the BH-905i, however, seem to work far better..
I've not had them crash yet... They also don't do that perculiar rate change in which the audio speeds up...
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-02-22, 15:05
Replies: 1
Views: 2,230
Posted By cpitchford
UK PR1.3 firmware now on tablets-dev

Thanks to a very helpful Nokia employee, the UK generic PR1.3 firmware has been added to the tablet-devs.nokia.com site
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-11-06, 23:26
Replies: 6
Views: 1,472
Posted By cpitchford
Re: What the heck is Mydocs/._.?

It is a MacOSX resource fork.. its essentially a file that holds "info" about other files.. for example, it might hold the icon for a folder, or which application should open a file.. or where this...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-11-04, 01:59
Replies: 13
Views: 4,160
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Problem :(

*phew* :)
Old firmware does nasty things to N900s.. downgrading tends to upset stuff, so hearing you're using the new one is a good thing :)
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-11-04, 01:52
Replies: 13
Views: 4,160
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Problem :(

Don't such an old firmware with such a new EMMC image

you're using firmware from 2009 and an EMMC image from April 2010?
Why?

Use the most recent firmware 20.2010.36 and the most recent EMMC...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-11-03, 01:03
Replies: 6
Views: 4,834
Posted By cpitchford
Re: where is the prompt set for bash user?

I add this to my .bashrc:

export PS1="`awk '($1=="name") { sub(/^name /,"",$0) ; print; f=1} END{if (!f) exit 1}' /var/lib/bluetooth/[0-9A-Fa-f]*/config || echo "\\h"`:\w \\$ "


Sets the...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-10-02, 10:28
Replies: 4
Views: 2,307
Posted By cpitchford
Re: the simplest reminder

have you tried:
dpkg -i bsdutils_2.13-8_armel.deb
apt-get is used for "getting packages from the repositories then installing using dpkg"

dpkg -i <filename>
installs packages from files..
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-09-30, 23:42
Replies: 103
Views: 31,469
Posted By cpitchford
Re: N9 is comng soon??

I've said it before, but

The Nokia 7710 in 2004 was the first widely available touch screen phone from Nokia.. It had a 640x320 display..

Increasing the number of pixels by 12.5% to 640x360 in...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-09-30, 23:24
Replies: 153
Views: 123,857
Posted By cpitchford
Re: Flash 10.1 on Nokia N900

ftfy!

Two choices as I see it:

a) flash is tied to the platform (windows, macos, linux, android) and everyone can get it.. that is good

b) flash is tied to the vendor and platform. Other...
Forum: Accessories 2010-09-17, 11:11
Replies: 37
Views: 22,072
Posted By cpitchford
Re: N900 crashes a Nokia BH-905 Headset?

There is (or at least soon will be) a potential alternative:
...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-09-14, 23:24
Replies: 13
Views: 4,828
Posted By cpitchford
Re: N900: find does not know -exec

Lucky you :)

$ find / /home -xdev | grep " " | wc -l
436

It's always good to have space robust/aware shell code, though :)

IFS="" read file works pretty well, though a line starting with a...
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