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Forum: Nokia N900 2012-12-01, 00:39
Replies: 13
Views: 3,491
Posted By arne.anka
Re: n900 bluetooth problems

rule of thumb: the more effort it takes to get at least an idea how to solve, the more trivial the problem is ...

therefore: did you enable BT and set it to "visible"?

edit:

what do you get...
Forum: General 2012-12-01, 00:34
Replies: 3
Views: 2,059
Posted By arne.anka
Re: libicd-network-usb apparently tries dhcp -- and fails

switched to libicd-network-null (though, in hindsight it wouldn't probably have made any difference) and spent some more time to substitute non-existent documentation.
finally came up with the...
Forum: General 2012-11-17, 10:56
Replies: 3
Views: 2,059
Posted By arne.anka
libicd-network-usb apparently tries dhcp -- and fails

hi,

yesterday i stumbled over
libicd-network-usb
which seems to be the perfect solution to another one of nokia's blunders.

but, whenever i try to use that, i only get

"Internet...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2012-10-07, 19:06
Replies: 375
Views: 191,792
Posted By arne.anka
Re: [Announce] CSSU stable release

check for processes going crazy.
does

top -d1

show processes using about 100% cpu?
Forum: Nokia N900 2012-09-22, 20:08
Replies: 4
Views: 3,000
Posted By arne.anka
Re: N900's Sat Nav

gpsjinni is said to help -- start it and wait for a fix.
for me, though, only using internet assistance works (which usually mean added costs. thanks a lot, nokia).
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2012-09-06, 19:40
Replies: 375
Views: 191,792
Posted By arne.anka
Re: [Announce] CSSU stable release

thanks for the update!
but it would have been a great possibility to get rid of the forced installation of _all_ language packs.
oss-pdf-viewer installs all language packs which is unnecessary and...
Forum: Nokia N900 2012-08-25, 21:33
Replies: 1
Views: 1,549
Posted By arne.anka
n900+gps: saving/restoring satellite data?

i am sure the question came up already, but due to the ... eh ... suboptimal search facilities of these fora i am unable to find any post related.

gps in n900 is bad -- the only reliable way to...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2012-08-04, 22:11
Replies: 28
Views: 14,054
Posted By arne.anka
Re: Tired of Maemo. Want to use another OS.

the messages are pretty clear. what exactly don't you understand?
Forum: Multimedia 2012-06-16, 00:11
Replies: 526
Views: 208,207
Posted By arne.anka
Re: [ANNOUNCE] SomePlayer is available for Maemo 5

just installed and wondering about a few points:
- why is the help "online"? it really makes no sense to me to force users to open an online connection just to see a little file that should be...
Forum: Applications 2012-06-02, 07:54
Replies: 1,387
Views: 454,861
Posted By arne.anka
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu - OS backup & restore | New version - Jul 9th(v1.1)

well, as i indicated: it's just a procedure that seems reasonable. i didn't test it myself.
as for partitions -- i may be mistaken, but doesn't bm just backup the files, not the partitions? if so,...
Forum: Applications 2012-06-01, 20:45
Replies: 1,387
Views: 454,861
Posted By arne.anka
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu - OS backup & restore | New version - Jul 9th(v1.1)

just from the top of my head:
- use backupmenu to create a backup on the faulty n900
- either boot faulty n900 and transfer backup to new one
- or if on sd card jusdt put the sd card into the new...
Forum: Applications 2012-04-18, 21:25
Replies: 842
Views: 455,499
Posted By arne.anka
Re: Navit on N900

i always download both the new navit.xml and my customized one to my local computer and comapre them with a GUI diff (like meld or kdiff3) -- that way i

- see how much changes are there
- see...
Forum: Applications 2012-04-12, 20:23
Replies: 842
Views: 455,499
Posted By arne.anka
Re: Navit on N900

the chollya repo seems to be dead for some time now - latest packages are from july 2011.
the only one still being updated i know of, is bokomoko (search the forum for instructions on how to install...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2012-04-11, 21:59
Replies: 36
Views: 21,995
Posted By arne.anka
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade problems! PreDepends sysvinit-utils/busybox

ok, being annoyed by that for a long time now, i finally took the time to play around.
after all, it's something APT does and there's should be a way -- even with the crap NOKIA made out of it ...
...
Forum: Applications 2012-04-09, 12:46
Replies: 1,387
Views: 454,861
Posted By arne.anka
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu - OS backup & restore | New version - Jul 9th(v1.1)

here's a patch i meant to sent you already. it simply md5sum's the IMEI before sending -- maybe there's someone out there knowing how to do that with awk in a more sopihisticated manner, but it...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2012-04-08, 21:54
Replies: 375
Views: 191,792
Posted By arne.anka
Re: [Announce] CSSU stable release -- doesn't install

TO SUM UP:

- CSSU Stable Upgrade does not install b/c my qt4 libs are at 4.6.2 -- CSSU requires >= 4.6.99 which did not get installed with _any_ of the regular updates i made previously!
- how...
Forum: Applications 2012-04-06, 18:12
Replies: 1,387
Views: 454,861
Posted By arne.anka
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu - OS backup & restore | New version - Jul 9th(v1.1)

for all i care, he might be santa claus and the easter bunny rolled into one -- but grabbing private data w/o prior information and consent is plain wrong.
the imei is a unique identifier and as...
Forum: Applications 2012-03-30, 20:35
Replies: 1,387
Views: 454,861
Posted By arne.anka
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu - OS backup & restore | New version - Jul 9th(v1.1)

while considering to update to CSSU, i wanted check out backupmenu first.
downloaded http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/fremantle/free/b/backupmenu/backupmenu_1.1.1-1_all.deb and...
Forum: Applications 2011-06-19, 19:54
Replies: 14
Views: 4,990
Posted By arne.anka
Re: sharing 900's internet connection with a Linux pc via USB-cable?

networkmanager and modemmmanager.
plug n900 in, select pc suite mode -> add the phone on the mobile broadband page.
you may want to use modemmanager from maverick, since the most recent ione is too...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-09-16, 18:37
Replies: 15
Views: 4,256
Posted By arne.anka
Re: volume buttons keep changing with turning control

so, you think it makes sense, that the button you learned to decrease volume suddenly increases? probably you think it wil be ok, if your car's accelerator and brake switch while driving through...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-09-16, 18:29
Replies: 15
Views: 4,256
Posted By arne.anka
volume buttons keep changing with turning control

i guess, it's not the first time, someone asks about taht, but i didn't find any thread.

so, i got used to a lot of ... questionable usabilty decision on nokia's part, but a while ago i learned,...
Forum: General 2010-08-13, 21:09
Replies: 5
Views: 4,414
Posted By arne.anka
Re: Worn simcard causing heat

the worn sim means less contact area -> creates some kind of resistor -> thus heating since the nergy has to go somewhere.
either put some paper below the sim to get it closer to the contacts,...
Forum: Development 2010-07-26, 20:43
Replies: 597
Views: 302,054
Posted By arne.anka
Re: [WIP] CloudGPS - smoothest maps for N900, now in Extras-devel

what about using the maps navit uses?
there are preprocessed maps available of all of osm and the maps need by far less space than the tiles maep or tiles baesd approaces use (germany is at about...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-06-09, 09:43
Replies: 287
Views: 105,478
Posted By arne.anka
Re: PR1.2 automatically sends SMS, registers phone with My Nokia. Privacy breach?

store and normal repositories are different.
at the store i am sure, they log my purchases (that's why i don't even dream of using the store), and i guess they somehow point that logging out to you....
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-06-06, 19:37
Replies: 287
Views: 105,478
Posted By arne.anka
Re: PR1.2 automatically sends SMS, registers phone with My Nokia. Privacy breach?

a link like
https://qa9recEP:Pat2UGuP@downloads.maemo.nokia.com/
is already unique, b/c nokia generates it individually for each device. it allows nokia to track your upgrades/installations frome...
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