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2009-12-30 , 06:33
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Hey all,

I am thinking a good app to make would be one that would add a restart option to menu that appears when you hit the power button. Right now it is only shut down. I doubt this is something Nokia will do for the main distro (although I may be wrong) so a nice simple app may work well.

I am not at all versed in coding (well not since some java back in High School, which is not supported anyway), but I am going to try to make this in python if I can over the next few weeks (I am sure someone who knows how to develop could do it in a couple hours). The coding should be very simple, just getting the actual SDK to do what I am looking for will likely be more of an issue.

Any tips would be appreciated.
 
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2009-12-30 , 06:41
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This is a much needed add on. I had an program on my touch pro 2 to do soft resets which was a life saver cause on the touch pro 2 you have to remove the battery cover to do so. And winmo phone is proned to needing soft resets alot
 
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2009-12-30 , 06:53
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In my n810, I wrote script restart.sh and created a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/hildon and linked them with Exec=/location/of/restart.sh. Icon appears in the menu and when clicked does the job for me. However, I'm not sure in n900 as it doesn't have menu like in n810.
 
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2009-12-30 , 06:55
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Originally Posted by jaeezzy View Post
In my n810, I wrote script restart.sh and created a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/hildon and linked them with Exec=/location/of/restart.sh. Icon appears in the menu and when clicked does the job for me. However, I'm not sure in n900 as it doesn't have menu like in n810.
http://wiki.maemo.org/Desktop_file_format
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2009-12-30 , 07:44
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Originally Posted by canabal View Post
I am thinking a good app to make would be one that would add a restart option to menu that appears when you hit the power button. Right now it is only shut down. I doubt this is something Nokia will do for the main distro (although I may be wrong) so a nice simple app may work well.
Nokia already thought of that.

Edit /etc/systemui/systemui.xml and remove the "<!--" and "-->" lines. Reboot, and you'll get a reboot option there (along with some others).
 

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canabal is offline canabal
2009-12-30 , 08:20
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Damn, I needed an excuse to write a program and get me learning to code, now that is gone.

Oh well, now to look for something else.

Thanks through.
 
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2009-12-30 , 14:40
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Warning: rebooting your device 17 times without shutting it down cleanly may cause it to brick!

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6350
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2010-06-18 , 20:23
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Does the problem of rebooting your N900 17 times without shutting it down still make it a brick?

I wanted to add the reboot button to the dropdown menu, but now I don't know if it its safe.

Any ideas?

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Warning: rebooting your device 17 times without shutting it down cleanly may cause it to brick!

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6350
 
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