Originally Posted by claustn

There will be never a new Whatsapp app for N9, there is not even one for Sailfish sadly, nor a good one for Telegram (the original developer of Sailorgram left). ...

Originally Posted by claustn

There will be never a […] good [app] for Telegram

Originally Posted by mfrasca

Being Telegram an open protocol, I think I would be comfortably able to get something running on both (or either) N900 and N9 (prefer N900 because of hardware keyboard). I started looking into Telethon, found it quite simple actually, at least if you don't expect a fancy graphical interface, but I am stuck with OpenSSL, because in order to install Python dependencies, I need a working `pip`. On my N900 I now have:

Code:

user@carlolus:~$ openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8zf 19 Mar 2015

and on the N9 I have:

Code:

user@theresia:~$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1g 7 Apr 2014

and I don't know where to find anything newer.

Originally Posted by mfrasca

for Python3.4 (might be sufficient) I've been hinted at devel-extras, but where is that?

Originally Posted by Halftux

This is a package for maemo5/N900. http://maemo.org/packages/view/python3.4/

So for the N900 I would try to compile a new openssl best is to get a different devel package name like libssl1.0-dev. So go with debian package libssl1.0.0 which is a backported 1.0.2 version.
After this I would compile python3-openssl and python3-cryptography. The python3-cryptography should be compiled against the newer libssl which is obvious because it is linked to libssl1.0.0.

Originally Posted by aspergerguy

Just to save a bit of time by bringing together available resources, although this is essential reading:https://wiki.maemo.org/Resurrect_your_N9

When you are ready to dig a bit deeper have a look at:https://wiki.maemo.org/Harmattan_Tips_and_Workarounds/

If device has been left untouched for too long may need to revive battery via Harmattan flasher:http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=87709

Please bear in mind in view of age of device that it may be necessary to set date of device to between 2013 -15 quite early in re-commissioning if eliciting "signature check failed" at any stage.

1) Flashing if needed, have a look here for firmware:http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=96401 and here is source of Harmattan flasher:http://markom.lt/n9/firmwares/

2) Upon N9 open Settings/Applications/Installations, and enable the option 'Allow installations from Non-Store sources'.

3) Point N9 browser to this link to disable Nokia repositories after installation: https://openrepos.net/content/ancelad/n9-repomirror

4) Enable Developer Mode in Settings > Security which should install Terminal and SDK-Connectivity-Tool

5) Install N9QTweak: https://openrepos.net/content/schturman/n950-quicktweak

6) Redirect connectivity-test.ext.nokia.com to connectivity-test-ext.maemo.org via entry in hosts file:http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...5&postcount=83

7) Disable Nokia account prompt when SIM in place:http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...0&postcount=53

8) Bypassing Nokia account requirement in Maps & Drive:http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...39&postcount=1

Bear in mind that while map data (2015) can still be downloaded via WLAN connection in Maps > Manage maps, in Drive you can no longer download navigation voices which would have to be installed manually. Map data can also be found for manual installation here:http://web.archive.org/web/201704101...02.54.223.html

For any Mac users you do need to use recursive command in Terminal to combine regions/states for manual installation of mapping data. Unfortunately this tutorial can no longer be brought up to date due to lack of sufficient privileges, but gives the idea:https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...c-cb77bcef0f06

Delving deeper remember that commonly used apps such as GPSMeeFo require you to reset date upon N9 to 2015 for installation and Coderus trusted Harmattan repository can be essential to track down missing dependencies when say installing BtInput app:http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...66&postcount=1

At this point if not before you should install coderus aegis installer hack either via http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...79&postcount=1 or through N9QTweak Tweak EE > 2 (Coderus Aegis-install) to allow installation of apps. via

HTML Code:

aegis-dpkg -i

Emojifix - after installation of harmoji_0.6.6_armel.deb need to install ibsms-utils0_0.5.17.3+0m7_armel.deb and libsms-utils0_0.5.17.3+0m7_armel-mod.deb from here via Terminal:https://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?...&postcount=132

Here is example of installing btinput where Warehouse seems to fail locating repository so dependencies have to be sourced manually:http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=98797

Make text size larger in Messaging, tutorial in use of feature in N9QTweak:https://nokiaindependent.wordpress.c...ssages-app-n9/