N900 charging through "dumb" USB charger

2010-01-29 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Hi, I have a small gadget where you put 4 AA batteries and it outputs power over USB. When plugging this into the N900 with the provided CA-101 cable the N900 doesn't start to charge. As a workaround I used a USB to round nokia plug + the round nokia to micro USB adapter provided with the N900 and

Re: Reboot loop on N810

2009-02-04 Thread Laurent GUERBY
a pist > but I have to check ) > I will let you know > > Didier > > Laurent GUERBY a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > My N810 after updating three applications failed (no blue pill, no rd > > mode) entered a reboot loop, the boot progress bar goes up to 90% > > t

Reboot loop on N810

2009-02-04 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Hi, My N810 after updating three applications failed (no blue pill, no rd mode) entered a reboot loop, the boot progress bar goes up to 90% then the screen goes black then boot again, in loop until I remove the battery. Any way to get out of this loop by pressing magic keys? I don't have the usb

disk space running short on /

2008-10-20 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Hi, I'm running short of space on / (10 MB free) on my diablo N810 so I have to uninstall some apps to be able to install new apps (which otherwise fail leaving the system in an unknown state, not good). Is there a way to remove useless stuff (like translation, temporary downloads, etc...)? To sa

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-04 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:03 +0300, Patrik Flykt wrote: > d I suspect that if I had tried with 'apt-get -f install' or > 'apt-get upgrade' immediately I did apt-get -f install and didn't have to reflash indeed. Even if everything works, it looks like situation is not completely clean on my N810:

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-01 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 23:37 -0600, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > Andre Klapper wrote: > > This might be related to the problem: > > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3749 > > > thanks. that was the exact problem. Poking around with autoconnection on > my N800 made it to connect to nearest kno

Re: USB adapter & keyboard

2008-03-30 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 08:03 -0700, Randall wrote: > If you look through Cyberguys catalogue www.cyberguys.com (duh) you'll > find for 20 smackers a morph cable that will make ANY end to ANY end > Cat5 or USB. I've two of them so I can make any combination of USB > cabling I need. It does mini U

Best internet download speed through bluetooth phone?

2008-03-26 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Hi, When connected to the internet through a bluetooth phone I can't seen to find someone reporting more than 20-25 kbyte/second even with 3G or 3.5G phones + unlimited data plans in France at least. With my Nokia 6086 which is EDGE only I get 20-25 kbyte/second spikes and overall average of 10-1

Re: USB adapter & keyboard

2008-03-23 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 15:58 -0400, Scott Kelso wrote: > My preference was to find something like you describe - either a micro-A > to A-female adapter block or short cable. But the only micro-A-anything > I could find was the cable I bought. This surprised me, given that the > micro-A, by defi

Re: USB adapter & keyboard

2008-03-22 Thread Laurent GUERBY
BTW, any micro-A to female A adapter, without cable so easy to carry around, on the market yet? That's something my N810 is still missing compared to my N800. Thanks in advance, Laurent ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.m

Re: how to enable on-screen text input for N810

2008-02-04 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 17:16 +0200, Tomas Junnonen wrote: > ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: > > Hugo Gayosso wrote: > >> I think the hardware keyboard has to be closed for it to appear, make > >> sure that yours is closed. > >> > > > > In fact when you press shift+space in some text field it is enabled

Re: Will repository.maemo.org be fixed?

2007-12-22 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 19:38 -0500, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > On Dec 21, 2007 8:37 AM, Laurent GUERBY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PS: on bugzilla > > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2531 > > That bug indicates that the issue is closed and it is fixed. I >

Will repository.maemo.org be fixed?

2007-12-21 Thread Laurent GUERBY
After having downloaded the new firmware image from a non official site (!), I've been unable to reinstall packages from repository.maemo.org, I get timeout, wrong gzip or key errors most of the time. These download problems have been there for the past few days, any idea or information on what's

Re: SU-8W kbd question

2007-12-14 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Looks like you've opened the report, thanks! https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2545 I voted for it :). Laurent On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 14:08 +0100, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: > 2007/12/10, Laurent GUERBY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > > > I have a qwert

SU-8W kbd question

2007-12-10 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Hi, I have a qwerty SU-8W Nokia bluetooth keyboard which I pair with my N800/OS2008 with "US keyboard" layout. I've been able to generate pretty much every accented letter but &eagrave; any idea on how to generate it? é is done by pressing the ' (near enter) then e (or Alt-gr e) but when the back

Re: I have USB host!

2007-11-30 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 23:50 +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote: > Lacie USB 2"5 external hard drive with power USB on my PC > and normal USB on the N800 started the automount process > but it was not completed successfully, probably not > enough combined juice to power the hard drive.

Re: I have USB host!

2007-11-30 Thread Laurent GUERBY
I bought it here (in french but there's a picture): http://www.pearl.fr/article-PE3324.html I guess for the N810 I'll need another one. Laurent On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 19:11 -0600, Paul Klapperich wrote: > > On 11/29/07, Laurent GUERBY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: I have USB host!

2007-11-29 Thread Laurent GUERBY
I confirm that on my OS2008 N800 (R&D mode) just after: # echo "host" > /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode I could get recognized and working without power injector just using an small USB adaptor: - USB keyboard - Corsair flash voyager 1GB USB key (file manager started automatically) - USD LE

Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job

2007-11-29 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 22:25 +0100, Jesper Cheetah wrote: > Eero Tamminen wrote: > Also lot of scrolling in launch menu will need getting used to. Is > there some secret gconf setting to bring old stylus optimized menu > layout with small items back? > >>> AFAIK no. The good side i

Re: further beating on OS2008 beta

2007-11-29 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 13:11 -0800, Thomas Armagost wrote: > Martin Grimme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm still wondering why Nokia now includes an X Terminal by default. > > Or is it just there in the beta releases? > > Mac OS X installs Terminal.app by default. This is a Good Thing. >

Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job

2007-11-29 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 23:43 +0100, Frédéric Crozat wrote: > > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667 > > Well, documentation for enabling A2DP is extremely scarce atm, even in > this bug report. > > I'm not sure if I'll keep my BT headset or ask for a refund. On IRC I was told there was work

Re: OS2008 on N800: probable bugs

2007-11-28 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Thanks to all who answered in public or privately. For connection selection in crowded wifi, it's the scrollbar that's unusable, using up and down pad is kinda okay. Situation is not that great but it might now warrant a bugzilla. Same thing for virtual finger, Home button is a good workaround at

OS2008 on N800: probable bugs

2007-11-28 Thread Laurent GUERBY
After a bit more testing I found out: - when selecting a wifi connection the list refreshes and moves all the time: in a street in Paris with about 50 signals it's nearly impossible to select something down the list, refresh sends cursor back to beginning of list every second or so ("Searching" ne

Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job

2007-11-27 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 15:34 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: > Laurent, Stereo headphones? I don't have bluetooth stereo headphones to test so I can't say. Some information on advanced bluetooth profiles here: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667 Laurent __

Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job

2007-11-27 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Real nice job indeed! Everything feels smooth on my N800 with RX-34_2008SE_1.2007.44-4 even scrolling graphic heavy photoblog entries like: http://www.mamicha.org/blog/index.php?post/2007/11/13/La-rigole-de-la-montagne Thumb can be used consistently everywhere to navigate without going to the sty

Re: usb host mode (usb battery)

2007-10-14 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 09:28 +0200, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Don't know the item above but I have this > http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.3205 > and it somewhat works. Price and size is good but there is no indication > of low voltage and no voltage converter. You get voltage straight fro

Re: Battery Life

2007-08-17 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:46 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: > >> How do we know what the actual current consumption is? > > You use extra hardware for that, not software. :-) I always wondered if the N800 platform made this information available. I'm still wondering what the proprietary power managem

Re: Experience with N800 portable autonomous battery charger

2007-07-22 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 10:12 -0400, James Knott wrote: > Laurent GUERBY wrote: > > So I went another route and bought: > > > > - 4x AA NIMH batteries with charger (1), > > - a USB battery extender with room for 4xAA (2) > > - a USB to N800 power plug adapter, par

Experience with N800 portable autonomous battery charger

2007-07-22 Thread Laurent GUERBY
I've been wondering for a while how to extend the (already quite correct :) battery life on the N800 for long trips without power plug access and planned continuous use. One obvious solution is to buy another BP-5L battery for 40-50 euros (*), but changing the battery means rebooting the N800 and

Bluetooth headset support in the plan for next official firmware

2007-07-09 Thread Laurent GUERBY
FYI. Thanks to Quim Gil for keeping up with our requests :). Laurent https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474 << --- Comment #10 From Laurent GUERBY 2007-07-08 13:54:22 GMT+3 I tried to pair a bluetooth headset with 4.2007.26-8 but still no luck, after all it wasn't an

Re: Possible to use the N800 as WLAN Access Point?

2007-05-20 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 21:13 +0200, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Laurent GUERBY wrote: > > > GPRS isn't high bandwidth and there are many place with electricity > > (anywhere your car is for example :), GPRS coverage but otherwise > > without internet connection so I wo

Re: Possible to use the N800 as WLAN Access Point?

2007-05-20 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 15:32 +0200, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Toby Proctor wrote: > > Just a thought I had last night, but is it possible to "reverse the > > polarity" of the WLAN on the N800 and turn it into a small, portable > > hotspot which uses e.g. an HSDPA cellphone as the backhaul? > > > >

Re: N800 inflight!

2007-05-11 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On french "TGV" my N800 with maemo mapper and bluetooth GPS lasted about 7 hours on one charge (screen not always on, but GPS recording always on): http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/2007-April/004899.html I tried video with minimum screen brightness and the N800 stayed up playing 4 hours on

Re: bluetooth GPS receiver

2007-04-27 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 16:15 +0100, David Grau Serra wrote: > Hi all list, > > (It's my first post and my english is getting rusty, I am from Barcelona) > I'd like to buy a bluetooth GPS receiver for my N800, my friend recommend me a > i-blue gps receiver --> http://www.iternet.com.tw/b-gps/ps3200-

Re: N800 switches on by itself while recharging

2007-04-17 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:39 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: > You can enable them for all applications by creating a "core-dumps" > directory to the external MMC. > > Unfortunately the cards are mounted with "user" user, so processes > like "dsnmasq" which are run as user "nobody" cannot dump core to

Re: N800 switches on by itself while recharging

2007-04-17 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:59 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > "ext Eero Tamminen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>> ~ $ cat /var/lib/dsme/stats/lifeguard_resets > >>> /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -k -i lo -a 127.0.0.1 -z : 1 * > > [...] > > > Seems that at some point dnsmasq has caused device reboot by > > dyin

Re: SanDisk 8GM SDHC Flash Card - we need SDHC!

2007-04-12 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 14:43 -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: > I know 4GB is not even officially supported yet, but imagine the 16GB > possibilities with 2 8GB SDHC cards... Movies, Music, Photos - more > ebooks than you could probably even consider reading! 2x2GB=4GB = 16 hours of video already supp

Re: Wifi vrs Bluetooth power => maemo mapper experience

2007-04-12 Thread Laurent GUERBY
FWIW, my globalsat BT-359 GPS linked via bluetooth to my N800 running maemo mapper on during a whole Paris-Toulouse-Castres TGV (high speed train) trip ran on one charge taking 19910 data points from 2007-04-06T08:25:02+02:00 to 2007-04-06T15:11:46+02:00 so a bit less than 7 hours, resulting .gpx f

Re: Interesting freeze

2007-03-26 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 19:00 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: > I have two daily alarms set: one at 9 AM, one at 10 AM. They do not > work in various interesting ways (see e.g. > https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1112). > > This morning when I got up (whithout hearing any of the two tablet >

Re: Creating my own menu entries

2007-03-26 Thread Laurent GUERBY
May be this will help: http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowTo_SimpleToggles I don't know if it's up to date for OS2007. Laurent http://guerby.org/blog/ On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 07:29 -0500, David Hagood wrote: > I'd like to create my own menu entries for a few things I do (e.g. > ntpdate sync, ssh to my

Re: Nokia camera app!

2007-03-24 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 10:13 -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: > I've actually deactivated them all except for the standard two and > still no luck. Same error every time -- Fails at Refresh -- unable to > download. Application package not found. This is probably this bug: https://maemo.org/bugzilla/

Re: N800 as a Business Productivity Tool

2007-02-18 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 00:50 +0100, sebastian maemo wrote: > What do you use as vnc server? X11vnc? Isn't that a security problem? My ubuntu desktop comes with "vino". For security I use openvpn, needs some tutorial reading and config file editing to setup on server and clients but I believe it's q

Re: N800 as a Business Productivity Tool

2007-02-18 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 00:23 +0100, sebastian maemo wrote: > > Have you ever tried ssh -X ? It works (when low latency) but applications are not usable because they do not handle well (read: not at all) the input methods of the N800. If you launch xterm you won't be able to type anything in for e

community-enhancement bugzillas?

2007-02-18 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 14:00 +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote: > This is not forced per se, we just don't want to think about providing > a UI for it. If someone contributes one... :-) May be it would be useful to open "offical" bugzilla enhancement requests for developments that the Nokia team would g

Re: N800 as a Business Productivity Tool

2007-02-18 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:09 -0500, Acadia Secure Networks wrote: > If I had had some of the standard network tools installed on the N800 > (e.g. ping, and perhaps even nmap) I could have performed further > diagnostic testing of the broadband router EVDO network connection > (e.g. to confirm that t

Re: N800 Intermittent Failure Mode Requiring Battery removal/reinsertion

2007-02-17 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 19:40 -0500, Jonathan Greene wrote: > The battery trick seems to fix all odd ailments... Not sure where the > magic is, but there's clearly some connection between a full > power-down and a restorative state. Here is a way to reproduce a loss of functionality ending up in req

Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio -- dependencies?

2007-02-10 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On my N800 libosso-help0 is there, I don't remember doing anything special: ~ $ dpkg -s libosso-help0 Package: libosso-help0 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 96 Maintainer: Jakub Pavelek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: armel Source: libosso-help V

Re: [maemo-users] Rhapsody service?

2007-02-09 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 22:45 +0100, Laurent MARTIN wrote: > Seen under tableteer 'Enhanced' tab, in FMRADIO section: the Rhapsody > service is almost here... What is this service about? Probably this: http://learn.rhapsody.com/ << Rhapsody is a membership-based music service that gives you unlim

Re: [maemo-users] Abnormal power consumption on N800

2007-02-09 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 17:42 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: > "Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have an N800, and there are 2 wireless networks in the office, with > > two SSID "hpcfwl" and "guestwl", I defined them both on the N800, but > > hpcfwl won't let me connect until I

Re: [maemo-users] invalid signature on tableeer catalog for bora

2007-02-07 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Same thing for me, looking with the browser: http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com/certified/dists/bora/user/binary-armel/ << Packages.bz2 07.02.2007 10:256060 Packages07.02.2007 10:25 10273 Packages.gz

Re: [maemo-users] Re: N800 and Bluetooth Headsets

2007-02-06 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 01:05 -0500, Mike Lococo wrote: > >> The SINGLE worst problem with the 770/800 is NO BT headsets. > >> It's a long standing complaint. I've come to believe it's > >> a conscious decision. > > > > No argument here - It seems like the exclusion was conscious, but I > > can't fi

Re: [maemo-users] Usage

2007-01-28 Thread Laurent GUERBY
FYI I filed a bugzilla about the default busybox: Wishlist: include a bit more tools in shipped busybox https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=989 May be other users can add their favourite busybox configuration. Laurent ___ maemo-users mailing l

Re: [maemo-users] Usage

2007-01-27 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 18:34 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: > > http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationCatalog2006 > > yes and filed a bug against it, for some reason if I install it I loose > graphics in the themes (files are there but I'got a white border to the left > and no graphics on keyboar

Re: [maemo-users] Video on N800

2007-01-26 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 14:29 +0100, Fabien Penso wrote: > I tried to play a file from Elephant Dreams which I recoded myself : > > http://penso.info/tmp/N800/ED_1024.avi > > mplayer crashes, and the default multimedia player from N800 can't > play it all, it crashes at different moment. Any idea ?

Re: [maemo-users] A scary story with a happy ending

2007-01-24 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 11:19 +0200, Eero Tamminen wrote: > There's no free space until files been both removed *and* garbage > collected by JFFS2. Some N770 users have also encountered the problem > where the device enters reboot loop because the garbage collection > on the device bootup triggers t

Re: [maemo-users] Nokia N800 unbuyable

2007-01-21 Thread Laurent GUERBY
>From Paris, France: ordered a N800 monday 20070108 at 1pm on Nokia Europe site, first UPS delivery tuesday 20070109 at 2pm (got it wedsneday 1pm at the second UPS delivery, package says it came from Brussels). May be they've sold out by now, who knows :). Laurent http://guerby.org/blog/ On Sun,

Re: [maemo-users] N800: RS-MMC and mini-SD

2007-01-10 Thread Laurent GUERBY
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 13:25 +0100, ext Laurent GUERBY wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Will the N800 read RS-MMC (those used by the N770)? > > > > Yes, it reads RS-MMC with the adapter that comes in the Nokia 770 sales >

[maemo-users] N800: RS-MMC and mini-SD

2007-01-10 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Hi, Will the N800 read RS-MMC (those used by the N770)? Thanks in advance, Laurent http://guerby.org/blog/ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: [maemo-users] Using VoIP on maemo 2.0

2006-06-16 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:39 +0200, Michael Flaig wrote: > Will try it with my bluetooth headset as soon as I have some free > time... Did that work? Are bluetooth headsets supported now? Thanks in advance, Laurent ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-us

Re: [maemo-users] Re: New software version with VOIP built in - Soon

2006-02-21 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 09:51 -0800, Tapani Pälli wrote: > Fortunately memorybus is not utilized for graphics all the time. We have > a separate LCD controller chip which takes care of refreshing the LCD > screen. Memorybus is used when we transfer data from framebuffer in > system memory to framebuf

Re: [maemo-users] Linksys WRTG54GL + Nokia 770 connection lost

2006-02-18 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Did you set in Control Panel / Connectivity / Idle times (second tab) / Packet data and WLAN "Idle time" to "Unlimited"? I have an ASUS WL500GX (Linux inside too) and have no trouble maintaining browsing for tens of minutes. After a while (about one hour UI idle) it drops the connection though,