Sorry about being a little late to this discussion. If people are still
interested, I have a few other thoughts to consider.
First, the assumption is that it is the checking for updates that is using up
the bandwidth. Keep in mind that it could be other things, such as fMMS if you
use it,
Well, there are a lot of different things that could be going on and since
everyone's phone is likely to have different things installed, it is hard to
come up with a general recommendation, but that said, let me suggest a few
things.
Do you have OpenSSH installed? It is typically the first
I've been kicking this around for a while and not managed to get this to
work yet. From what I'm reading MeeGo just isn't working with MultiBoot
yet.
In may case, I have a 16 gb card. I've partitioned it into
1 2 gb vfat (for Maemo data)
2 2 gb Swap (particularly for booting Fedora)
3 2 gb
Various questions:
Who has installed this? Did you flash or go OTA?
Anyone using this with power-kernel? Is power-kernel compatible with 1.3?
What sort of multi-boot capabilities are there? I currently use the
multi-boot package to boot between Maemo and Android. Is 1.3 compatible
with
: maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org
[mailto:maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org]on Behalf Of Paul Hartman
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 12:32 PM
To: maemo-users@maemo.org
Subject: Re: PR1.3 coming!
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Aldon Hynes
aldon.hy...@orient-lodge.com wrote:
Various questions
How hot is it?
I've started running Kernel Power which I really like.
http://wiki.maemo.org/Kernel_Power
Mostly because it gives me the ability to use IPv6. However, one of the
other features it provides is information about the battery.
Specifically, if you run
modprobe bq27x00_battery
it
I did my update over the air using apt-get commands from a terminal
Specifically, you need to have root priviliges to run this. Since I use SSH
to connect to my machine I can come in easily as root. If you are going
from the terminal on your phone, you will neeed to gainroot one way or
another.
My guess is that it takes a kernel modification. I'm using 'kernel power'
on the N900, which enables IPv6. In my case, with the enhanced kernel, I
get an IPv6 address properly off of my local network. I can send out about
half a dozen IPv6 packets, but then it stops working. I haven't had a
[...]
I'm using IPv6 with the power kernel as well. I get the IPv6 address via
a tunnel managed by aiccu. I've no problems so far with the web browser
and ssh. I can use IPv6 pretty reliable. I've also a very small http
webserver running on the N900 which listens on the IPv6 address.
The
[...]
I'm using IPv6 with the power kernel as well. I get the IPv6 address
via a tunnel managed by aiccu. I've no problems so far with the web
browser and ssh. I can use IPv6 pretty reliable. I've also a very
small http webserver running on the N900 which listens on the IPv6
-Original Message-
Anyway, removing el-v1.db and el-v1.db-journal and then rebooting fixed
this for me. The database got correctly converted during boot and I
have all my conversations back (minus the one that got lost while the
database was in the wrong format).
Be sure to make a
I am doing my upgrade via apt-get dist-upgrade. I've installed an
incredible amount of cra... err, interesting applications and have often run
into space problems. To get around this I have done a few things.
First, I moved the apt cache into the /opt directory In my case, I moved
the
Okay... I've finally gotten PR 1.2 running and just about everything seems
to be working, with one exception. My SMS messages are not showing up in
Converstations. I can send and receive new SMS messages, but they do not
show up in conversations.
Checking the database
It really depends on what you are looking for. There will always be some
greater device coming down the pipeline. Some people may find the announced
N8 more to their liking. It has a 12 Megapixel camera is supposed to
support Java and the OS, Symbian3 is supposed to be open source.
On the
I kind of depends on what you want to do. If you want to access files from
a linux box sshfs is a much nicer option. I've been trying to get sshd
running under cygwin for Windows boxes, but without much luck.
UPnP works nicely if you want to share media files and access them from
either the
-Original Message-
I'm glad of your interest and suggestions. However, could you please
file them individually as bug reports[1]? I wouldn't like to hijack the
maemo-users mailing list with discussions on a small project.
Claudio
[1]
As I hope everyone on this list knows, we are in the middle of the Maemo
Community Council elections.
People who have had maemo.org accounts for over 3 months and have a karma of
10 or over can vote. If you qualify, you should have received a ballot. If
you think you qualify, and didn't receive
Gunter wrote:
Aldon Hynes wrote:
I just wanted to add my experiences with Java Embedded and Cambridge
Labs OpenJDK on the N900 as well as with running J2ME midlets /
applications using MicroEmulator (http://www.microemu.org/) but I
somehow hit the wrong key which caused my browser to open
For wave, I would encourage you to check out QWaveClient
http://code.google.com/p/qwaveclient
It is still very early code, but I've tested it on my N900 with some luck.
The downside is that QWave Client works with federated wave servers, but not
with the Google Preview Wave server.
For a little
Sorry about taking so long to get back to this, it's been a busy couple of
weeks.
I finally got a chance to sit down and write up some of my experiences and
what I did. You can read it at
Running Java on an #N900
http://www.orient-lodge.com/node/4013
I hope it helps. Let me know any thoughts
It seems like we are at least getting useful data that will help in figuring
out the best way to calliabrate the accelerometers.
First, go to a place where there is zero gravity
-Original Message-
From: maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org
[mailto:maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org]on Behalf
When I set mine on a table, I get
X: -.04
Y: 0.00
Z: -1.07
When I shift it onto the edge of a table so it isn't propped up by the
camera lens cover, the numbers stay essentially the same, although X does
fluctuate down to the -.02 to -.03 range.
All of that said, for my purposes that seems to be
I installed Sun's Embedded Java 1.6.0_10 when I first got my N900 back in
December. I managed to get java applications to run, but didn't have any
luck with java applets in a browser. If I spent more time, I suspect there
may be ways to get it to work.
Aldon
-Original Message-
From:
What I did was move the apt and dpkg directories out of the rootfs and
everything works nicely.
(I posted about this back on the 19th)
First get root access e.g. sudo gainroot or ssh into the device with root
access
then
mkdir /opt/cache
mkdir /opt/lib
cd /var/cache
mv apt /opt/cache
ln -s
I hear that it works really well with Microsoft's search engine
Bada...Bing
Aldon
-Original Message-
From: maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org
[mailto:maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org]on Behalf Of Cláudio Sampaio
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 11:18 PM
To: maemo-users@maemo.org
- Original message -
Guys, thanks for the input. I see you all like your n900.
I have an issue which is stopping me to buy it right away.
Here in Vancouver, Canada, n900's 3G is not going to work with any of
the GSM providers here.
Well if you'd told us that earlier..we could have
I did something similar below, and it worked a little bit, but I eventally
ran out of room again.
What I ended up doing was
mkdir /opt/cache
mkdir /opt/lib
cd /var/cache
mv apt /opt/cache
ln -s /opt/cache/apt apt
cd /var/lib
mv apt /opt/lib
ln -s /opt/lib/apt apt
mv dpkg /opt/dpkg
ln -s
Val, (et al)
For years, I had a Motorola Razr V3xx. It has been a wonderful legacy
cellphone, and my wife still uses one. I've watched smartphones come and go
over the time. I didn't buy a blackberry. I didn't buy an iPhone. I
didn't by the iPhone 3GS when it came out, but I came close.
Yes, moving the package cache and other parts of the packaging system out of
rootfs works great. It is, perhaps, a little geeky for some users, but for
those comfortable with root access at a command line it is trivial.
I wrote about it in a blog post when the last big set of upgrades came out
Based on the documentation of the GPS software, the GPS can run in four
different modes,
Complementary Wireless Positioning (CWP) - This is based on the location of
the country and/or the GSM base station location. It does not use the
onboard GPS at all, but depends on the SIM card.
Assisted
I don't know for sure, but my guess is that it is based on what you have
selected in
Settings... Location...
If you enable GPS and Network Positioning, I would guess you get Assisted
Global Navigation Satellite System (AGNSS)
If you enable GPS and don't enable Network Positioning, I would
I installed Sun's JRE, 1.6.0_10 on my N900. I managed to get command line
java applications to run, but did not get as far as getting Java ME MIDlets
to run. It may be possible, I just didn't get that far.
However, this might be a better question maemo-developers list, which also
talks a lot
application is people are interested.
Aldon
-Original Message-
From: Felipe Contreras [mailto:felipe.contre...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:45 AM
To: Aldon Hynes
Cc: maemo users
Subject: Re: gst-launch and openmax
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Aldon Hynes
aldon.hy
For anyone interested, I've just written my blog post about the iPad, the
Nexus One and the N900.
iPads, Nexus One and the N900
http://www.orient-lodge.com/node/3941
Thoughts and comments are always welcome.
Aldon
-Original Message-
From: maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org
Hmm. Does that mean it might be hackable and you could put something
useful, like maemo on it?
Aldon
-Original Message-
From: maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org
[mailto:maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org]on Behalf Of Milos Mandaric
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:01 AM
To: Christer Eliasson
the
exposure and/or ISO settings with gst. If anyone knows how to do that, please
let me know.
Aldon
-Original Message-
From: maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org]on
Behalf Of Iñigo Illán Aranburu
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 8:51 AM
To: Aldon Hynes
Cc
So, you haven't seen http://post.ly/Ku1h yet?
-Original Message-
From: maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org
[mailto:maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org]on Behalf Of George Farris
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 8:05 PM
To: maemo-users@maemo.org
Subject: Re: iPad
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 16:05
So, I've been reading about a lot of fun things that I could do with my
N900, if I can just figure out how...
In particular, I'm interested in exploring what I could do with the camera.
For example, I would love to set up a script to create high dynamic range
(HDR) photographs. It seems like the
, January 26, 2010 5:07 PM
To: maemo-users@maemo.org
Cc: Aldon Hynes
Subject: Re: gst-launch and openmax
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 22:26:54 Aldon Hynes wrote:
started looking at it. However the examples for taking pictures via
gstreamer talk about using omx_jpegenc, the OpenMax jpeg encoder
be
greatly appreciated.
Aldon
-Original Message-
From: Attila Csipa [mailto:ma...@csipa.in.rs]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 6:42 PM
To: maemo-users@maemo.org
Cc: Aldon Hynes
Subject: Re: gst-launch and openmax
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 23:21:49 Aldon Hynes wrote:
When I tried
Thanks. Great info. Exactly what I was looking for.
Aldon
-Original Message-
From: Sergey Vlasov [mailto:sergey.v...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 4:53 PM
To: Aldon Hynes
Cc: maemo-users
Subject: Re: Recording on the N900
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:20 PM
Anyone doing anything interesting with using the N900 as an audio recording
device or doing things to improve audio quality when doing video recordings?
Currently, I'm using Recorder for audio and Qik for streaming video.
However, I'm just using the internal microphone.
I know that Steve
SQLite3 on the N900 is 3.6.14 I haven't checked to verify that it is
complete, but it has worked really nicely for everything I'm using it for.
It is worth noting that the database that keeps tracks of calls and SMS
messages on the N900 is sqlite3
For more info on this check
#N900 mbarcode,
Nelson,
Can you walk me through what you needed to do to get it running? e.g.
Did you download the OS2008 version? For the N800 or the N810? Does it
make a difference which one? Any gotchas to be aware of?
I just tried installing the N800 version using dpkg -i and it gave me an
error
I am using my N900 on ATT, and rebooted it yesterday after applying an
upgrade. I had a similar alert appear. I rebooted again today, without an
update, to check to see if I would get the message again, and I did not. As
another data point, I previous phone was not an iPhone. I had used a Razr
Hmm, I'm trying to make sense of all of this. I had major problems when I
tried to do an apt-get upgrade today. I moved files around and finally got
enough space to do the upgrade.
Now, if I go to settings about, I get Version 2.2009.51.1.002 So, that is a
different name from 1.2009.51-1...
: Hartti Suomela [mailto:har...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:30 PM
To: Aldon Hynes
Cc: maemo-users@maemo.org
Subject: Re: Is Maemo PR 1.1 the same 1.2009.51-1 released today for all?
I could be wrong, but isn't that Nokia-N900-42-11 your device's network
host name and it does
I've managed to record calls by starting the Recorder application and then
placing a call and putting it on Speaker phone. It isn't a nicely
integrated app, and requires using the speaker, but it works well as a
temporary work around.
Aldon
-Original Message-
From:
I ran into a similar problem. I have 15M available in my root file system,
but the updates where asking for about 38M
To get around this, I moved my apt cache to the /opt directory and ran the
updates. Everything ran fine at that point.
Aldon
-Original Message-
From:
Hmm... I'm running Google Latitude on my N900.
googlelatitude 0.3-9 - Works quite nicely.
Also, mbarcode is every nice as well
mbarcode 0.0.8-0 - Only problem I'm having with that is that SMS barcodes
aren't handled well yet, but the developer and I have been having a great
discussion about
To: Andrea Grandi
Cc: Aldon Hynes; maemo-users
Subject: Re: Google services - Latitude, mbarcode and Goggles.
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 16:34, Andrea Grandi a.gra...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm getting dependencies problems with Qt.
I've also tried to uninstall the old 0.2 googlelatitude and reinstall
Looking at the specs of the Nexus One, I see that it has a Qualcomm 1Ghz
processor. That looks nice. 5 megapixel camera, same as N900. 512M Flash,
512M RAM and 4GB Micro SD. The extra ram is nice, but the lack of disk
space is a concern to me. It has a digital compass, which is nice. Does
I'm with Timo on this. If you don't like the N900, there is a better site
to be posting on. It is called eBay. When you post your N900 there, let us
know, some of us might respond more favorably there.
Aldon
-Original Message-
From: maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org
Recently, I've been kicking around porting Squeak, a popular version of
SmallTalk to run on the Nokia N900. I've had some success and have a zipped
tarball available. If you're interested, check out
Running Squeak, Etoys, Scratch, or maybe even OpenCoqueat or OpenCobalt on a
Nokia N900
Kevin, et al.
My understanding is that the 32 Gig of diskspace that comes in the N900
is broken into a few different pieces. These include pieces for the root
file system, temporary files, a section for installable applications and a
section for user data.
The section for installable
For a good starting point, I would recommend
http://wiki.maemo.org/PyMaemo/Using_Location_API
It provides pretty good documentation as well as a nice sample python script.
I've run it as well as tweaked it, on my phone. I think I'll run a more
interesting test a little later.
Anyone else
particularly interesting and I would be willing to try and collaborate.
Anyone else know of anything being done in this area?
Aldon
-Original Message-
From: Jason [mailto:ma...@lakedaemon.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 6:32 PM
To: Aldon Hynes
Cc: maemo-users@maemo.org
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