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Re: N900 Tips & Tricks

Can anyone post how to enable portrait mode (for all the menus) with the keyboard slide hack thing?

Re: N900 Tips & Tricks

One more video with portrait mode on Nokia N900:

http://maemoworld.ru/2009/12/09/%D0%...B2-nokia-n900/

Re: N900 Tips & Tricks

Some tips I've discovered:

If the device is not responding to input, try the camera lens cover. I've had some situations before where I could see my apps doing stuff in the dashboard, but couldn't press anything. The lens cover trick got my inputs working again. It seems to send a low level interrupt that can jolt the kernel back to life.

Constant network transfer (no matter how low bandwidth) over 3G feels like the real battery killer to me. If you are like me and keep an SSH connection open to a screen session, you'd be wise to disable any clocks or other constantly changing elements, and possibly also adjust keep-alive times, etc... I haven't delved deep into this so far, but I think it will effect a big improvement in my battery life, particularly on 3G/GSM.

Some feel us linux user's may have gotten the shaft on simple synchronization, but we are afforded many other advantages from the nature of the platform:

Per app screen sharing through X11 forwarding: ssh -X me@mydesktop
Rsync/SSH file synchronization over wifi/3g (this could apply to mac power users as well)
The knowledge that nearly every desktop app you use on a daily basis has a high potential for being ported, or otherwise usable (chroot) on the n900 in some way

Re: N900 Tips & Tricks

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Originally Posted by ArnimS (Post 399125)

Yes

The charger delivered with device charges the battery internally in the device, if the device is not bricked.

No apologies needed. This is an interesting miscommunication.

The N900 uses the cpu to manage charging. If you have trashed your filesystem or otherwise bricked your device so that it can not boot, it will not charge from usb or wall-charger. This is behavior i haven't seen before in devices, so i thought it was worth mentioning.

If nothing supports the N900, then what program should we download to update the firmware? The box didn't come with a software CD.

Re: N900 Tips & Tricks

Just ran Speedtest.net from the phone....and OMG, 6.7MB down and 5.2MB up... Sweeeeetttt

Re: N900 Tips & Tricks

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Originally Posted by spinnukur (Post 420302)

what program should we download to update the firmware? The box didn't come with a software CD.

Detailed instructions are on the Wiki

Most important thing. start with a fully charged battery :rolleyes:

Re: N900 Tips & Tricks

As well as using the tapping or swirling with you finger to zoom in when using the browser you can also use the volume keys

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Originally Posted by ksh (Post 449288)

As well as using the tapping or swirling with you finger to zoom in when using the browser you can also use the volume keys

Volume keys also zoom the fonts in a XTerm window.

Re: N900 Tips & Tricks

Typing while in media player list of artist,songs etc will skip to the artist/song starting with those letters.

Probably everyone knew that already - I didnt.

Re: N900 Tips & Tricks

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Originally Posted by ksh (Post 449288)

As well as using the tapping or swirling with you finger to zoom in when using the browser you can also use the volume keys

Also volume keys in email will zoom your emails :)