Thread: Tips for afterlife for N9 with broken screen, but intact SSH access?
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2013-05-19 , 00:51
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Originally Posted by judhaz View Post
Hi, a friend of mine gave me a Nokia N9 with broken screen (totally broken, no interaction and all black, visible crack on the inside). I had already set up SSH access for automatic backup, and I can ssh into it after it boots and autoconnects to my network.

I do not intend to fix it the screen, as I am looking towards Sailfish at this point.

Now, I though it try to do as I did with my old N900:
Put mpd on it and connect some loudspeakers.

So my questions are:
  • How would I go about to add the required repos, and build environment on the N9, using ONLY the terminal. Is it possible at all?
  • Any special things I should consider, before I change settings and reboot (as I cannot interact with the screen)
  • Would it be possible to activate VNC from the command line?
  • Are there any other nice use cases. All tips appreciated!
1.) Well, I rarely use anything else than terminal to handle repos. Just add them on /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and run apt-get update.
2.) Why not... I don't think I have tried it but there shouldn't be anything preventing it. (BTW, you can connect to your device with -X option, set the DISPLAY env and run your GUI on your PC...)
3.) I'd say you can do just about everything you need from shell
 

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