Thread: Newbie to N900 Need Advice!
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BaronKatz is offline BaronKatz
2012-07-14 , 22:13
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Originally Posted by bandora View Post
1. Use FAPman (http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/fapman/)

2. Never happened to mine so I don't know how to help on this one.

3. Is it fully brand new? Or was it used before? Because if it's been used before, you might want to reflash the N900 to start fresh (http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware)

4. Again, this shouldn't be happening (I would suggest Flashing the N900 before doing all this again).

Try using CSSU and see if that makes things better for you and your N900.. (Use the Stable version if you don't want to experience any headaches)..

http://wiki.maemo.org/CSSU

EDIT: Also CSSU's default application manager seems to be slightly faster than non CSSU application manager.. But that's only from my own observations
FAPman seems to work a lot better, although it did take a long time to update the repository catalogues, etc... on Initial startup. It still however cannot install the "Merge Contacts" package... Don't know why that is.

It is fully brand new. It came in a the original box which was in Mint Condition and was sealed with a Nokia sticker. It says 23/2010 on the box which might mean it was manufacutred then?

With CSSU this is just a firmware and OS update pretty much? Should I just use the backupmenu to backup everything? Will it delete everything or this backup is just in case? I ussually just use OviSuite for backups, is this better?