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2011-10-14
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I tried to enable the security code, but wasn't able to do that because I didn't know the default code. But somehow it got enabled and now the phone is asking me to enter the security code when I restarted the phone. Does anyone know what the default security code is? I already tried 12345 and 00000. And no, I haven't changed the code myself, because I didn't know the default code.
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2011-10-14
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Check your phones manual?
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2011-10-14
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Originally Posted by slai
@Slai
shishtox ; should be noted that it doesnt run meego, but maemo6 renamed meego harmattan. reviews ive read have all had faulty or incomplete info in them. link me some reviews and i can dissect them for you if you want.
here is one http://gearburn.com/2011/10/a-not-so...-the-nokia-n9/
http://all420works.com/?p=1425
most of them say that it's main problem that it's running a doomed OS
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2011-10-14
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Originally Posted by IsaacDFP
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Ok, so I just finished reading all 26 pages, and I just want to know (maybe I missed it), but is there any answers/updates to the following questions:
I also find it very strange that a software upgrade can boost BT2.1 to BT4.0... Any documentation on this? Also, if it only a pure rumor that BT4.0 can support payment a-la NFC?
720 MKV files are very important to me, thats pretty much my main format used for videos. Has your friend confirmed any of this? Could it be achievable thru custom kernels or software upgrade in the future? Or is the hardware really crippled to that point...
Mind that my opinion is not an expert at all, N900 was also my first Linux encounter, fell in love with it, made me install Ubuntu on my PC, and I just love the Maemo Community... But as far as answering your question... I think the only answer that has been given is, if you have the money to spare, then go ahead and buy the N9. If you will have to struggle, save up for it, then I imagine it is not really that worth it... But since I'm hard-headed, I'm gonna go ahead and struggle for 2 weeks by spending an entire paycheck on a phone, because my N900 is really starting to let me down (I can't even reflash it...), I refuse to go do the Android road, iOS is a joke to me, and I have no business with BB so not interested. By the time Nokia actually releases WP7, I could probably afford to buy one if it comes to be more interesting than the N9 (which I really hope not...)
Much Appreciated, and i have to say with no doubt that you and I think exactly the same, after the N900 it seems like a joke to to iOS or Android , and money wise, it's not a big of a problem, still reading review almost every day, but aat the end I have my mind set on it, and hope i'll love it as i loved the N900
Cheers Mate
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2011-10-14
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Originally Posted by shishtox
http://konttoristhoughts.blogspot.co....html?spref=tw
@Slai
here is one http://gearburn.com/2011/10/a-not-so...-the-nokia-n9/
http://all420works.com/?p=1425
most of them say that it's main problem that it's running a doomed OS
read that. it's all about perception. sensationalism sells, so using "doomed os" will grab hits more then "support for the next few years" edit: not the article i posted but the quoted one.
another thing and the most important thing. form your own opinion, try it and see for yourself, don't be lead by what others tell you to do. if you don't like it then you dont like it, if you do then you do, but at least you went by your own experiences.
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2011-10-14
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Originally Posted by erendorn
You sir are a genius...it worked like a charm.tq
Do not "remove" files to uninstall programs (at least as you would not in any desktop OS).
I'm not familliar with the N9 but you should do something along the way of
see there for dpkgCode:dpkg -P {package}
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2011-10-14
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Has "get_iplayer" been made available for the N9 yet?
I know you need to be root to use it, and the Aegis situation could be a problem.
That alone will decide whether i get the N9 or stick with my N900.
I know you need to be root to use it, and the Aegis situation could be a problem.
That alone will decide whether i get the N9 or stick with my N900.
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2011-10-14
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Originally Posted by shishtox
@Slai
here is one http://gearburn.com/2011/10/a-not-so...-the-nokia-n9/
http://all420works.com/?p=1425
most of them say that it's main problem that it's running a doomed OS
A series of patterns
The interface, a simplified Linux mobile OS known as Meego is crap and hey, it still looks like Symbian. There is no excuse for Nokia having to release a phone this beautiful with such a backwards and archaic OS. The genius implementation of the general interface is lost with the sloppy OS. If the N9 was paired with an Android or Windows 7 mobile OS, then the phone would truly shine.
I can see what Nokia has tried to do here though. “Don’t bury your head in the sand, find what you want and carry on with your life”, the interface intones. What it does not realise though is that we have become accustomed to phones that mirror our social interactions. Head down, mute and with the soft glow of a screen running over our face is the way life is. Attempting to change this result delivers an OS like Meego.
The OS has a single redeeming feature though, known as the carousal. There is no “point A to point B”. Instead, there is one single line of consciousness which repeats itself from left to right, up and down, whatever. Swipe off the edge of the glass on an open app and the app pauses, shifts like a playing card on a full deck and remains in a tabbed sheet of apps until it needs to be reactivated. This is remarkably innate and without instruction from the phone, I was able to understand the OS fully from intuition alone.
The home screen is a disgusting page of “squircle” apps which give the candybar form of the N9 a very childish appeal. You cannot create folders meaning that over time your homepage begins to fill up with unwanted apps. How hard was it to create folders Nokia?
The solution to problem 2 is to get an icon pack when/if available.
The solution to problem 1 is "dont review a phone thats made for X as if its made for Y", I guess. He wants a homescreen to sit around idle in, whereas the N9 isnt made for that at all but rather the opposite.
The addon: hes a ******. It reminds of symbian in the way that it has touchactivated tasks, and has icons representing things.
He also doesnt like that there are no folders in the appgrid. Im sure we can put folders in the appgrid sometime soon, but theres no real reason to if you organize your most used apps up top anyways. Writing this I realize its a very defensive way to put it, and I have to say that folders wouldnt have subtracted from the experience, so I agree there should be folders and a few more options on sorting apps (alphabetically, most used, etc).
It’s everything you require right out of the box. I need more though, I need an all you can eat buffet and so will everyone else.
The best mobile camera on the market
The N9’s ace in the hole
The battery. It’s fantastic. After using the phone constantly for three days, the battery level is barely on 50% — it is absolutely astonishing how far Nokia has squeezed the power of this phone. Listening to music, watching YouTube, browsing the internet and more means nothing to the N9 and it continues to soldier on and on and on…
Basically they view Maemo6 in a negative light because they feel it reminds them somewhat of Symbian, which IMO it doesnt (coming from S60v5 and S^3 Anna and Belle).
They also seem to be negative towards apps, which is a legitimate concern I guess. Personally Im not a huge "app" nut, so for me its irrelevant as long as the most key things are getting done (go community go!).
Simple. It’s a phone with (at best) a very limited future. MeeGo runs like a greased weasel on the hardware, but the app offering is meagre, and with Nokia’s focus rather solidly being on Windows Phone 7, it’s a handset with a limited shelf life if you want a smartphone that’ll go beyond that core smartphone experience. If your wants are limited and you’re after an excellent looking phone it’s a fair buy, although clearly Nokia’s going to have an uphill battle convincing the mass market to buy the N9 rather than the equally consumer-friendly iPhone 4S.
Look at where N900 started and look at it today. Quite a change, imo.
Course, if you want to buy a phone that will last you 4 years... youre not really big on tech and whatnot anyways, and probably wont even bother updating your phone, so the point is moot.
Iunno, I guess I just dont get the whole "OS is doomed = OMG STAY AWAY" logic.
My take at least
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2011-10-14
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Originally Posted by deadmalc
Could've sworn I read something about the status of that at the meego forum.
Anyone know if it can support openvpn?
Stock Android can't due to missing kernel module.
aka. does it contain the tun module (tun.ko)
I can't remember specifics now sorry....
There was a thread in the handsets sub-forum there...
Maybe go back a mth or so & work your way to the present, or search for openvpn in subject line?
If you do find something, please share it here, thanks!
Originally Posted by olympus
You're best off asking jakiman, he had a direct line with Damien.
jalyst, is there something new about photo quality and Damien Dining thing?
But I don't think Damien actually told him much...
I really do hope they re-tune AMBR for PR1.1, if not, then PR1.2.
ATM motion compensation is too agressive, & creating too much noise in pictures.
Originally Posted by shishtox
That guy's review was a joke...
here is one http://gearburn.com/2011/10/a-not-so...-the-nokia-n9/
He didn't offer any solid arguments as-to-why the UI/OS is so terrible, just vague arty farty statements.
Plus he just kept repeating "it's horrid", as if that alone is enough to form a coherent argument.
Best cameraphone on the market? Pfft, there's at least two others that are better. That's not it's focus, it's an all-rounder.
There's a ph coming from panasonic (IIRC), that looks more like a camera than a ph, & it'll take way better pictures.
You do yourself no favour by absorbing anything he wrote.
Last edited by jalyst; 2011-10-14 at 17:11.
I'm not familliar with the N9 but you should do something along the way of
dpkg -P {package}