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i wanna update my N900 with latest OS available, help

hello people of maemo.org

i'm not that good with coding/xterminal-thing. however, i wanna update my Nokia N900 with the latest OS available for this device. can any one help about this ?! just a link and a small chunk about flashing it .!

thanks alot .!

Re: i wanna update my N900 with latest OS available, help

navigate to this page on your n900
click on the big "Maemo Community Update CSSU" banner in the right column (it's at the very top, below search bar and council election banner)
on that page, you can choose if you want "stable" or "testing" (with more experimental stuff) - just click on one of the links at the top, Hildon Application Manager will open and begin instalation
on the forementioned page, exactly here: http://wiki.maemo.org/CSSU#Installation you have even a video tutorial
TA-DAH!

You may also want to try CSSU-Thumb (even more experimental then testing, but much much faster and, as others have reported and i can confirm - it works :) ). To get to know more about CSSU-Thumb, visit its thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84829 and read first post, there is section "How to install it?" in the first post which will tell you what to do (basically it's the same as installing cssu stable and cssu testing - you navigate to one page, click on a link, and then maybe run one program on your n900 and ta-dah! it's done)

Re: i wanna update my N900 with latest OS available, help

thanks misial :), you were super helpful .!
one more thing, is there any software available for N900 other than Maemo ?! a cooler one :D

thanks a million dear :)
really appropriate your reply

Re: i wanna update my N900 with latest OS available, help

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Originally Posted by DavidAlgor (Post 1297391)

one more thing, is there any software available for N900 other than Maemo ?! a cooler one :D

Thumb not cool enough for you?

Re: i wanna update my N900 with latest OS available, help

The N900 and Fremantle (Maemo 5) are synonymous with each other - there is no better device for Fremantle and no better operating system for the N900. Although there are some irregularities with the hardware across all N900s, they're enough the same to be considered as much - there are no versions of the device. The latest OS releases are (as mentioned above) obtained from the CSSU repositories.

You can tweak/edit/hack so much with this pair (device + OS) that almost anything's possible, within the limits of its hardware.

What sort of functionality were you hoping for on a handheld? Perhaps someone here can guide you to achieving it?