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Originally Posted by ricotomo View Post
I've been envious of all of you for a while now so i finally got around to buying an n900 off of amazon. Now i relize i need the passcode and the seller has forgotten it, also its not the default. When i try the command to get the hash it returns root::
does anyone have a suggestion to solve that? I was thinking that maybe the seller had locked herself out of the phone and decided to reflash it, which allowed her to get in but also deleted the stored password?
Be sure you are root otherwise you cannot access /dev/mtd1 where the encrypted password is stored. If you have not yet done so, install the rootsh package from the application manager, open xterm and run "sudo gainroot" then you'll be logged in as root.

Originally Posted by ricotomo View Post
otherwise can someone please explain to me how to run qwerty's program? i unzipped it into "new folder" on the phone but cant seem to run it. i tried run-standalone.sh a.out but got a error saying it wasnt found. i assume i just saved it in the wrong spot. I am not familiar with the linux terminal. help please? is it also possible to do what qwerty descrives manually? thanks in advance
This also would need to be done as root. In the folder that a.out is in run these 2 commands:
chmod +x a.out
./a.out

The first sets a.out as an executable
The second runs the command

(I have not tried the a.out program myself)

Good luck and welcome to the fun of N900 ownership
 

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