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Originally Posted by ikirk View Post
I'll start by saying I'm no expert and I'm just writing what I did to (eventually) get this working on my N900. Maybe the guys I thanked before can explain better or "proper" ways of doing things but from this and another couple of posts on TMO this how I understood it to work.

I did everything as root. You need to download and "install" three things:

1) Java SE for Embedded 6 (I got ARMv7 Linux - Headful) - get it here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/ja...ads/index.html

You have to fill the requerst form and they email you a link to download the file (almost immediately). You will download a <file>.tar.gz file. Create a new directory on /opt such as /opt/microemu3 , put this file in there and uncompress it using
tar -zxvf <filename>.tar.gz

Also run this so you can run java later from anywhere:
ln -s /opt/microemu3/ejre1.6.0_21/bin/* /usr/bin/

2) Download MicroEmulator 3 - http://snapshot.microemu.org/microem...0-SNAPSHOT.zip

Again just place that on /opt/microemu3 and unzip the contents. It will create it's own directory in there - "microemulator-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT"

3) Download the official app (.jar file) here (as casketizer pointed out):
http://mobile.formula1.com/download/...7/Formula1.jar

And place it on a new /opt/F1 directory (for example).

Now at this point check that you can run MicroEemulator by running this:
java -jar /opt/microemu3/microemulator-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT/microemulator.jar

If everything is OK then do this:



I also created a desktop shortcut to automatically open the emulator and load the F1 app.

Save the formula1.png (attached) into "/opt/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps"
and create a new file called "formula1.desktop" in "/usr/share/applications/hildon" with the following contents:



Go to the desktop, add the shortcut (might be called "F1 Live" in there) and run it - should just load ME and then the app a few seconds later. I needed a reboot for the icon/image to display properly - will get blue square icon until you do that.

Hopefully it will all work fine and you will get the timing app working in time for qualifying and the race.
Being a die hard fan of F1 myself, I can't thank you enough to tell how much this article helped me to set up the F1 app in my N900.... It works awesome....Appreciate your work! Thanks a ton!