Hi

I am a research student and I was intending to use N900 but I am now finding it difficult to find it in any store....
Most stores offer the N9 instead. My questions is that if I use Maemo 5 SDK to cross compile a custom kernel for ARM, will I be able to flash it onto the N9?

Assuming it is possible to do this, will I be able to install other packages (also cross-compiled using Maemo 5 SDK) onto the N9?


Regards

p.s. basically, I want to avoid using MeeGo and just run the software I have developed (using Maemo 5 SDK) on a mobile device. Anyone willing to shed some light on this matter?

I don't know if you're willing to try this, but you might consider converting your software to use Qt. The advantage of Qt is that it supports most of the functionality of the Maemo UI, but also provides easy porting to Meego, Symbian, desktop Linux, desktop OS X, desktop Windows, and probably lots more environments in the future.

If nothing else, it would allow you to run your app on both the N900 and the N9 with a minimum of pain, so you could purchase either phone.

Doubt it'd be easy, even in AEGIS open-mode...
What's wrong with re-adapting your app for Maemo 6x?* (Qt/QML etc)
It gives a wider scope for easily re-adapting it for other platforms in the future.

*aka MeeGo-Harmattan

yaiiiii, maybe this way we can use skype or gtalk video call... sighhh,

^ There's a thread for following that
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81043
Still pretty quiet/worrying ATM, but things can change.

we already have this feature in maemo .

^ Of course....
But he's referring to getting it to work in Maemo6x (MeeGo), thanks to what the OP is proposing.
Anyway this is off-topic...

Hi

I think that adapting for MeeGo (using Qt) seems to be the only solution...
my 'app' is written in C (not much interaction with the UI) and requires that some changes have been made at the kernel level.

I am new to N9 and Qt, so my really simple questions are:
1. Are there any issues/problems with flash a custom kernel for N9?
2. Since my 'app' uses a number of C libraries, what is the best way to adapt my 'app' so that is can run on N9?

Regards

It is possible but there are problems. You should be able to find what you need here.

http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=4575&page=15





This is not correct the only part of qt that can be ported with minimal effort are apps built only using qt quick any other components have to be basically rewritten. This is for symbian to maemo 6 ...I could only imagine the cluster phuck that windoze to maemo/symbian will be.

http://www.developer.nokia.com/Commu...ps_to_Nokia_N9

this is ridicilous. Some people want to downgrade from maemo6 to some ****ing android. And now i see this thrad were people wa t o downgrade to maemo5

whats next? Downgrade phone to 3310 maybe