Disable 'keypad unlock on slide-out' on the N900
Is there a way to disable the N900 unlocking itself when the screen is slid open? I want to do this because the N900 frequently slides open in my pocket and launches all kinds of apps from the desktop that end up eating the battery. I don't mind unlocking from the power-key or unlock button. Thanks. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Fwd: [canola-devel] Canola2 available for UbuntuKarmic and Lucid
Forwarding from the Canola mailing list, if anyone here can help testing this. -- Forwarded message -- From: Thomas-Karl Pietrowski thopie...@googlemail.com Date: 11 February 2010 19:12 Subject: [canola-devel] Canola2 available for UbuntuKarmic and Lucid To: Cc: canola-de...@garage.maemo.org Hello I'm Thomas Pietrowski, I prepared packages for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) and packages for Ubuntu Karmic are also available. [special thanks to Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri for the =UbuntuKarmic packages] I also packaged some other plugins for canola for example a picasa plugin, a bittorrent plugin and (many) other plugins, which definitly need testing! But they are at the moment just available for Lucid, so let me know if you want or need them on other releases, like Karmic. Testing like Fabio Leal does and find missing dependencies that our packages need and report them here or simply join the discussion on IRC [irc.freenode.org, channel #canola]. Using Ubuntu Karmic or Lucid and you want to test canola2 right now? Just add the Canola PPA to your apt list by executing this command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canola/ppa You can also contact me on #canola if you have a new plugin that needs packaging. See you soon.. Thomas Pietrowski ___ Canola-devel mailing list canola-de...@garage.maemo.org https://garage.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/canola-devel -- Sometimes you gotta look reality in the face and say no! -- Benjamin Gonzalez ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Getting started with a 770, tips?
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:19:39PM -0500, Jake Wasdin wrote: I don't know about the N770 in particular as I had the N800, but I can say I had much better results with the Minimo browser than I did with the built in Opera-based browser before I upgraded to OS2008. I see it's available for OS2006 as well so you may want to give that a shot. The download link for the OS2006 minimo browser is broken: http://www.maemo.org.br/minimo/minimo.install The Mozilla-based MicroB browser link in the OS2007 downloads seems to work (this is what ships with the N800, N810 and N900 apparently). If I upgrade to OS2007HE I should be able to use that. Claws Mail is also available for OS2006 which is a great mail client.. Claws is what I'm using now. The default mail client just won't open at all. With Claws I can at least read my mail but it runs very badly. The problem is that it hangs frequently, whenever I open a folder or an email, delete an email, move one, etc. it seems to start downloading entire folders of email from the imap server. It does this every time, and hangs for minutes. Sometimes it seems to start trying to download all folders and will hang for hours and then eventually crash. The whole OS becomes completely unresponsive while Claws does this! I got the X Terminal from here http://770.fs-security.com/xterm/ to work (the repository doesn't work, but manually installing the packages does) but this terminal is too simple to be useful. Various keys are missing, you can't backspace, etc. I was able to ssh to some servers but I couldn't really use their shells, on one server I opened vim and it was impossible to close it again! :q!Enter was putting me into Insert Mode instead of exiting! I think I need the Osso Xterm (advanced), like the simple Xterm it failed to install from maemo.org but I've found the website for it so maybe I can install it from here: http://maemo-hackers.org/wiki/OssoXterm ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [canola-devel] Canola2 available for UbuntuKarmic and Lucid
Hi, thanks for taking the time to package it all for Ubuntu. However, at least on Karmic, the package python-efl-epsilon conflicts with python-epsilon, which is e.g. used by coherence, and thus the UPnP plugins for totem and rhythmbox. I had to uninstall python-epsilon along with coherence and the UPnP plugins first before I was able to install canola2. Anyway, thanks for your work! Martin 2010/2/12, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes luis.str...@gmail.com: Forwarding from the Canola mailing list, if anyone here can help testing this. -- Forwarded message -- From: Thomas-Karl Pietrowski thopie...@googlemail.com Date: 11 February 2010 19:12 Subject: [canola-devel] Canola2 available for UbuntuKarmic and Lucid To: Cc: canola-de...@garage.maemo.org Hello I'm Thomas Pietrowski, I prepared packages for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) and packages for Ubuntu Karmic are also available. [special thanks to Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri for the =UbuntuKarmic packages] I also packaged some other plugins for canola for example a picasa plugin, a bittorrent plugin and (many) other plugins, which definitly need testing! But they are at the moment just available for Lucid, so let me know if you want or need them on other releases, like Karmic. Testing like Fabio Leal does and find missing dependencies that our packages need and report them here or simply join the discussion on IRC [irc.freenode.org, channel #canola]. Using Ubuntu Karmic or Lucid and you want to test canola2 right now? Just add the Canola PPA to your apt list by executing this command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canola/ppa You can also contact me on #canola if you have a new plugin that needs packaging. See you soon.. Thomas Pietrowski ___ Canola-devel mailing list canola-de...@garage.maemo.org https://garage.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/canola-devel -- Sometimes you gotta look reality in the face and say no! -- Benjamin Gonzalez ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [canola-devel] Canola2 available for UbuntuKarmic and Lucid
Thanks for testing, but just making it clear, it wasn't me who did the packaging, it was Thomas-Karl (for Lucid) and Gustavo Barbieri (for Karmic). If anyone else here is interested in helping out, let me know and I'll add you to the launchpad group. Cheers, --lf On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Martin Grimme martin.gri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, thanks for taking the time to package it all for Ubuntu. However, at least on Karmic, the package python-efl-epsilon conflicts with python-epsilon, which is e.g. used by coherence, and thus the UPnP plugins for totem and rhythmbox. I had to uninstall python-epsilon along with coherence and the UPnP plugins first before I was able to install canola2. Anyway, thanks for your work! Martin 2010/2/12, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes luis.str...@gmail.com: Forwarding from the Canola mailing list, if anyone here can help testing this. -- Forwarded message -- From: Thomas-Karl Pietrowski thopie...@googlemail.com Date: 11 February 2010 19:12 Subject: [canola-devel] Canola2 available for UbuntuKarmic and Lucid To: Cc: canola-de...@garage.maemo.org Hello I'm Thomas Pietrowski, I prepared packages for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) and packages for Ubuntu Karmic are also available. [special thanks to Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri for the =UbuntuKarmic packages] I also packaged some other plugins for canola for example a picasa plugin, a bittorrent plugin and (many) other plugins, which definitly need testing! But they are at the moment just available for Lucid, so let me know if you want or need them on other releases, like Karmic. Testing like Fabio Leal does and find missing dependencies that our packages need and report them here or simply join the discussion on IRC [irc.freenode.org, channel #canola]. Using Ubuntu Karmic or Lucid and you want to test canola2 right now? Just add the Canola PPA to your apt list by executing this command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canola/ppa You can also contact me on #canola if you have a new plugin that needs packaging. See you soon.. Thomas Pietrowski ___ Canola-devel mailing list canola-de...@garage.maemo.org https://garage.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/canola-devel -- Sometimes you gotta look reality in the face and say no! -- Benjamin Gonzalez ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users -- Sometimes you gotta look reality in the face and say no! -- Benjamin Gonzalez ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Bad experience with N900 onboard GPS.
Hi there, I have been trying out my new N900 for the past few days and overall I really like it. The only problem I have left with it is the GPS. I have yet to get a regular location lock. The first time I used it it took approx 15 mins to update, in a location where it takes my E71 approx 2-3 mins. Leaving aside the unit has to calculate my location the first time it's turned on, that's a bloody long time. The second time I started it up, in the same location, I didn't get a lock at all. All the time I was using Ovi Maps (Which I know are basic, but surely GPS location update should work). I know how GPS works and have tried some troubleshooting, but I can't find any diag tools. At least on the Symbian OS there is a compass app which will give you your location in long lat. Can anyone else comment? Am I the only one? Is the N900 GPS chipset abit weak (in whatever way in comparison to other Nokia devices)? Can anyone recommend any troubleshooting apps I can use to see where the issue might be? I saw minigpsd mentioned it can speed up the lock process on the gps. Can that help? (I'm not a coder, so maybe thats a wrong avenue...) Is anything written to the OS when the GPS is running? Can we tail any logs? All recommendations welcome. Thanks, Bernard ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Bad experience with N900 onboard GPS.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: I know how GPS works and have tried some troubleshooting, but I can't find any diag tools. At least on the Symbian OS there is a compass app which will give you your location in long lat. Enable extras-devel repo and try gpsjinni, it's a simple view of the raw GPS data. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Bad experience with N900 onboard GPS.
Bernard Tyers wrote: Can anyone else comment? Am I the only one? You're not the only one and bugs.maemo.org has a few entries on this issue. There's a diagnostic tool called, aptly, location-test which can be used among other things to force the GPS subsystem to acquire the lock using only a specific method (be that cellular, wifi or satellite). https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5337 https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7026#c53 Hope that helps, Andrea. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Bad experience with N900 onboard GPS.
- Original message - On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: I know how GPS works and have tried some troubleshooting, but I can't find any diag tools. At least on the Symbian OS there is a compass app which will give you your location in long lat. Enable extras-devel repo and try gpsjinni, it's a simple view of the raw GPS data. Hi Paul, Thanks for the reply. Ok so I intsalled gpsjinni and it shows that I get a gps lock fairly quickly, and in the majority of locations. So good news- the gps unit is working more or less well. So what's the issue then with Ovi Maps? It seems completely deaf to the gps data. If this issue continues when/if Ovi Maps gets proper navigation and becomes actually useful, like on Symbian, this will be a big problem for me. Any suggestions on fixing Ovi Maps? Thanks, Bernard ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Loading Ovi maps onto device memory-yes or no?
Hi, I havem read in different places that it's possible to load the Ovi Map files onto your N900, like you can on any Symbian device. I have tried this butg so far it's proved unsuccessful. Can anyone point me to a guaranteed procedure to load the map locations on my 2GB memory card? I'm using Ovi Maps 1.?. Thanks, Bernard ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Bad experience with N900 onboard GPS.
- Original message - Bernard Tyers wrote: Can anyone else comment? Am I the only one? You're not the only one and bugs.maemo.org has a few entries on this issue. There's a diagnostic tool called, aptly, location-test which can be used among other things to force the GPS subsystem to acquire the lock using only a specific method (be that cellular, wifi or satellite). Hi Andrea, Thanks. Ok I will have a look at this, but specifically, will this work also for acquiring a lock in Ovi Maps, or just in general? Like I said in my previous mail, it looks like the gps is aquiring a lock quickly-ish when using gpsjinni, but Ovi Maps is VERRRY slow. Thanks, Bernard ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Loading Ovi maps onto device memory-yes or no?
follow the download links from maps.nokia.com and grab the map loader (not the map updater). This application will let you side-load your maps. I am not 100% sure it works for N900, but that device is listed under the devices for the maps program itself. hope that helps, K On 2/12/2010 5:08 PM, Bernard Tyers wrote: Hi, I havem read in different places that it's possible to load the Ovi Map files onto your N900, like you can on any Symbian device. I have tried this butg so far it's proved unsuccessful. Can anyone point me to a guaranteed procedure to load the map locations on my 2GB memory card? I'm using Ovi Maps 1.?. Thanks, Bernard ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Signature pad app for maemo tablets?
A not so complicated maemo app to think about... It would be nice if there were a secure app (like the Topaz signature pad http://www.topazsystems.com/products/index.htm) for using any of the maemo tablets (770, 8xx, 900, etc) as a 'signature' device that could (preferably interactively) connect a displayed document to client signatures. The interaction could be via wifi or bluetooth or stored doc-idsig to be securely transmitted later via any available means. While the utility of the older tablets diminishes, all these devices that I'm aware of could support an app that could connect a displayed (sizable) document with a tablet collected signature for that document. In other words, display document X in the tablet, give someone a stylus to directly sign the fully read document and have that either transmitted or stored in a secure format for business/legal use. One could even add a layer of security with a picture of the signee taken by the device? Possible uses could be enormous, such as legal documents, medical consent forms, business agreement transactions, and perhaps even collecting petition signatures. -- Always, Dr Fred C drfr...@drfredc.com ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Signature pad app for maemo tablets?
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:39:28 -0800 Lake Stevens Dental lakestevensden...@verizon.net wrote: A not so complicated maemo app to think about... It would be nice if there were a secure app (like the Topaz signature pad http://www.topazsystems.com/products/index.htm) for using any of the maemo tablets (770, 8xx, 900, etc) as a 'signature' device that could (preferably interactively) connect a displayed document to client signatures. The interaction could be via wifi or bluetooth or stored doc-idsig to be securely transmitted later via any available means. While the utility of the older tablets diminishes, all these devices that I'm aware of could support an app that could connect a displayed (sizable) document with a tablet collected signature for that document. In other words, display document X in the tablet, give someone a stylus to directly sign the fully read document and have that either transmitted or stored in a secure format for business/legal use. One could even add a layer of security with a picture of the signee taken by the device? Possible uses could be enormous, such as legal documents, medical consent forms, business agreement transactions, and perhaps even collecting petition signatures. If an application could be made to simply take an input from the device and forward it to the computer like a graphics pad (i.e. Wacom tablet) could it also be used for a signature pad? I think having a rudimentary graphics pad application would be more useful to more people than one only aimed at signatures (well I'd prefer it anyway!). Anyway, the idea is good. I don't have the know how to code it, but I would like to see it. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Loading Ovi maps onto device memory-yes or no?
If you hit the default OVI maps area the app to store maps on the N900 is there. I've used it to throw the maps on my system, and it works just fine. There are two cavets though: 1 The maps are stored on the internal flash, not the memory card. 2 You must connect your device via USB in Media Storage Mode (not PC Sync Mode) You have to have space on the internal flash for it, since thats where the OVI app looks. (And if you're grabbing several states or countries, that can be a lot.) One nice thing is it lets you pick and choose. So for example, I chose a few states in the NE of the US, the south-eastern portion of Canada, Florida, and Washington, since I travel there on occasion. When I go to another place, (like a trip to Spain) I can grab just the areas I'll be in and load them up on the phone before I go. :) Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: = Hi, I havem read in different places that it's possible to load the Ovi Map files onto your N900, like you can on any Symbian device. I have tried this butg so far it's proved unsuccessful. Can anyone point me to a guaranteed procedure to load the map locations on my 2GB memory card? I'm using Ovi Maps 1.?. Thanks, Bernard ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Bad experience with N900 onboard GPS.
This is a bug in OVI maps. I think the link has already been given. The problem is that OVI opens the device to get a lock, but then gives up and closes it just before it can get a lock. It cycles doing this every few minutes, but unless you have an alternate signal, it's not enough time for the GPS to lock on it's own without feeder information (which requires a data link, via GPRS or wifi). This is supposedly going to be fixed on the next OVI push out, whenever that is. I'm hoping they add voice and turn by turn as well soon. Sad that a cheep 3 year old $40 Magellan can out-preform my expensive shiny new cell phone. :P Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: = Hi there, I have been trying out my new N900 for the past few days and overall I really like it. The only problem I have left with it is the GPS. I have yet to get a regular location lock. The first time I used it it took approx 15 mins to update, in a location where it takes my E71 approx 2-3 mins. Leaving aside the unit has to calculate my location the first time it's turned on, that's a bloody long time. The second time I started it up, in the same location, I didn't get a lock at all. All the time I was using Ovi Maps (Which I know are basic, but surely GPS location update should work). I know how GPS works and have tried some troubleshooting, but I can't find any diag tools. At least on the Symbian OS there is a compass app which will give you your location in long lat. Can anyone else comment? Am I the only one? Is the N900 GPS chipset abit weak (in whatever way in comparison to other Nokia devices)? Can anyone recommend any troubleshooting apps I can use to see where the issue might be? I saw minigpsd mentioned it can speed up the lock process on the gps. Can that help? (I'm not a coder, so maybe thats a wrong avenue...) Is anything written to the OS when the GPS is running? Can we tail any logs? All recommendations welcome. Thanks, Bernard ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
