MP3 Tags on the radio

Hi, there was a time when men were men and wrote their own drivers, and my N900 sent the MP3 tags (title, album, and author) over the FM transmitter using RDS . But long time ago, if I'm not confused when

Third input language

Hi, It is currently possible to switch input languages by pressing CTRL+Space to be able to use the corresponding dictionary for auto-completion. However, the configurable languages are limited to 2 (at least in the GUI). Is there any way to get a third language? Any file to modify in /etc or the

Re: oh 3g, 3g, wherefore art thou 3g

e. And thank you for your replies. > > f(t) > > 2011/2/28 Alejandro López : >> >> Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail wrote: >>> Hi guys, could it be that a magic setting exist some where? >>> >>> I'm currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Never have I

Re: oh 3g, 3g, wherefore art thou 3g

Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail wrote: > Hi guys, could it be that a magic setting exist some where? > > I'm currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Never have I seen my network > indicator go above 2.5g, I bought my wife an android motorola backflip > and it is most of the time indicating 3g. > >

Re: How to remove duplicate MMS connection

Check this thread: http://maemo.org/community/maemo-users/internet_packet_connection/ Rick B. wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 15:00 -0300, Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail wrote: >> Also interested in this issue, once I installed the fmms or something >> like that, after it didn't work for me I unins

Re: mbarcode trouble

Did this happened after upgrading to PR1.3? If that's the case, updated plugins are already available to fix that problem. Brian Keck wrote: > I can't figure out how to use mbarcode on my n900. I can save a photo > to a file, but can't see how to extract the ISBN number or such. I've > never ha

Re: PR1.3 coming!

Oliver Beck wrote: > The only thing what makes me a little bit perplex is the fact that the > system-info-tool still displays Version 10.2010.19-1. > But i couldn't care less ... In my case it changed after rebooting the device. ___ maemo-users maili

Re: Desktop icons disappeared after reboot

It happened once to me. I just rebooted the device and everything went back to normal. HTH, Alejandro. Christoph Eckert wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running PR 1.2 on my N900. I'm mainly using it as a mapping device. > > Yesterday I replaced the battery. After the reboot, all desktop icons > (shortcu

Re: Lagging ambient light sensor and display backlight in N900

John Sullivan wrote: > Dawid Lorenz writes: > >> I've recently noticed that switching display back on after moving phone away >> from ear is preceded with considerable amount of lag, which makes every >> in-call interaction with device (hang up call, select a digit, switch >> speaker etc.) quit

Re: Protective case for N900

Thanks to you an Erik. I just order mine. R. A. Bilonick wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 15:55 +0200, Alejandro López wrote: >> Has anybody bought one of these cases? >> >> http://www.otterbox.com/nokia-cases/nokia-n900-cases/nokia-n900-commuter-series-case/ >> &g

Re: Protective case for N900

Thanks for your answer Erik. Please find some more questions inline. Erik Hovland wrote: >> Has anybody bought one of these cases? > > Yes, I have one for my N900. May I ask for how long have you had the case? How long is you experience with it? > >> http://www.otterbox.com/nokia-cases/nokia

Protective case for N900

Has anybody bought one of these cases? http://www.otterbox.com/nokia-cases/nokia-n900-cases/nokia-n900-commuter-series-case/ They look wonderful on the website, but are they really effective? Are buttons (i.e. volume, photo, power buttons, etc) still usable? Is the N900 still usable once wearin

Re: News an Nokia maps navigation?

Johann Spies wrote: > On 13 July 2010 09:31, Nils Faerber wrote: >> Hi! >> Now that Nokia recently announced free turn-by-turn navigation for >> almost all of their smartphones (all S60 3rd later than ~2008) I am >> wondering if there will be a version for the N900 too? >> >> Currently I feel a

Re: Images Problem (Showing images outside image and camera directories, but not inside them)

Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail wrote: > by the way, why is it than when you *mv* a file or a dir you get that > error about mv cannot retain ownership or something like that? You are probably moving the files to a fat filesystem, which doesn't support the unix ownsership and permissions. _

Re: .bashrc not executed

Jérôme Bove wrote: > HI ! > I'd like to edit my .bashrc file. So i edit it (vi /home/user/.bashrc) > and save. When I open X-Terminal or connect via ssh to user (not root), > the bashrc is not executed. > If I do su user, then bashrc is executed. > I installed bash and edit my /etc/passwd file fo

Re: How to reopen bugs ?

tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: > P.S. Bug 5445 is fixed, at least on the two devices I tested. Menu works > normally in phone portrait mode. Hi Tero, I think there might be a confusion here. Bug 5445 is about the menu opened when pressing on the status area (I don't know it's official name), not

Internet packet connection

Hi, some time ago I installed fMMS which created a new internet packet connection called MMS. Then I removed fMMS but the connection was not deleted. When I tried to manually remove this connection, I found that the "Delete" button (I'm guessing the name as I use it in Spanish) is disabled, so

Re: Dmesg timestamt format

Thanks for all three answers. Now I know how to use that value. Cláudio Sampaio wrote: > 2010/5/27 Alejandro López <mailto:listas@googlemail.com>> > > Hi, > > Which format is dmesg's timestamp printed in? I currently have > values like 68993.5987

Dmesg timestamt format

Hi, Which format is dmesg's timestamp printed in? I currently have values like 68993.598785 and I can't really figure out how to transform it into a date/time. Thanks. Alejandro. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.or

Re: Wifi messages in dmesg on N900 since PR1.2

Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > since PR1.2 I've noticed my dmesg on my N900 is flooded with this > message every few seconds (but not exact intervals) when I'm connected > to my home wi-fi: > > [31600.605926] wlan0: roaming signal from driver, sending HIGHSIGNAL > [31601.731414] wlan0: roaming s

Upgrade to PR 1.2 gone wrong

Hi all, To be sure that upgrading to PR 1.2 was quite simple and avoid any possible issue, I waited 24 never-ending hours for the SSU. Today the upgrade package appeared in the application manager, so I made a backup and fully charged the battery in preparation for the installation. I installed

Re: PR1.2 is here

El 25/05/10 22:07, Kevin Neely escribió: > flashed, and it appears to be working. At least, I have cellular > connectivity again. Now to install all those apps from backup. I thought reflassing was something from the past since Nokia started distributing the updates as packages with Diablo.

Re: N900 Media player playlist

Andre Klapper wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 02.03.2010, 13:11 +0100 schrieb Alejandro López: >> Andre Klapper wrote: >>> Am Dienstag, den 02.03.2010, 10:26 + schrieb Tony Green: >>>> On the default media player, I can add tunes to the "current" >>&

Re: N900 Media player playlist

Andre Klapper wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 02.03.2010, 10:26 + schrieb Tony Green: >> On the default media player, I can add tunes to the "current" >> playlist, but there doesn't seem to be a way of removing them > > This will be available in the next update. See > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_b

Re: How to resize the GPE Summary applet?

Graham Cobb wrote: > On Thursday 18 February 2010 13:34:03 Alejandro López wrote: >> I'm using GPE Summary in my new N900 and I can't figure out how to resize >> the applet on the desktop, although in Diablo it was quite easy. Does any >> body know how to do it? &

Re: How to enter dashes and spaces in Phone numbers? And voip dialing?

Hartti Suomela wrote: > 1) AFAIK, no setting for this (unless someone creates a small app to > allow addressbook editing with more options :-). > If you import contacts with formatting (dashes and stuff), the > formatting is preserved. You cannot write dashes in the phone number > fields though..

Re: n900 - buy or wait?

Bernard Tyers wrote: > - Original message - > >> Well, I bought my N900 even though it does not work on AT&T's 3G network. > > Can you explain why it doesn't work qith AT&T's 3G network? To a mobile > network guy that sounds very strange! It's a known problem. AT&T's 3G network uses a

How to resize the GPE Summary applet?

Hi all, I'm using GPE Summary in my new N900 and I can't figure out how to resize the applet on the desktop, although in Diablo it was quite easy. Does any body know how to do it? Thanks in advance, Alejandro. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@

Re: N900 without a SIM card

Gary wrote: > On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:33 AM, Alejandro López wrote: >> Why enforce it? My Linksys router just has a combobox where you chose >> your country, and I think is is FCC compliant... > > I agree that either a WLAN product has different SKUs and preconfigs for >

Re: N900 without a SIM card

Klaus Rotter wrote: > At 11.01.2010 19:05, Alejandro López wrote: >> Aren't you facing the problem mentioned by Marijn? >> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5699 > > I also used my N900 two weeks without a SIM card. I also didn't notice > this problem. B

Re: N900 without a SIM card

Fernando Cassia wrote: > 2010/1/11 Alejandro López : >> Hi all, >> >> I'm considering buying one, but I'm not interested in using it as a phone, >> so I plan to put no SIM card. Some time ago I read on this same list that >> the N900 had some problem

Re: N900 without a SIM card

Gary wrote: > how can you enforce a regulatory domain without first knowing geo > location? this idea has been tossed around for a while, esp re Linux > drivers for software radios. good luck with that one... Why enforce it? My Linksys router just has a combobox where you chose your country, an

Re: N900 without a SIM card

Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Alejandro López wrote: >> I'm considering buying one, but I'm not interested in using it as a phone, >> so I plan to put no SIM card. Some time ago I read on this same list that >> the N900 had some problems when no SIM card w

Re: N900 without a SIM card

Marijn Kruisselbrink wrote: > On Monday 11 January 2010 18:38:40 Salvatore Iovene wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 06:35:33PM +0100, Alejandro López wrote: >>> I'm considering buying one, but I'm not interested in using it as a >>> phone, so I plan to put

N900 without a SIM card

Hi all, I'm considering buying one, but I'm not interested in using it as a phone, so I plan to put no SIM card. Some time ago I read on this same list that the N900 had some problems when no SIM card was inserted but I can't find that mail. Is this problem still true? Is there a fix planned? W

Re: Umlauts on English Keyboard

Alberto, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:25:23PM +0100, Alberto Garcia wrote: > >> More info and examples here: >> >> http://blogs.igalia.com/berto/2009/12/17/remapping-the-n900-arrow-keys/ Most of the normal lines have 4 columns. The first one is for a key with no modifier.

Re: Can´t believe N900 doesn´t suppor t 850/1900 UMTS...

Timo Pelkonen wrote: > that's why people must know what they are buying *before* really buying > the product. if no 3g is dealbreaker, then it is. That's how this discussion started. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.ma

Re: Can´t believe N900 doesn´t suppor t 850/1900 UMTS...

Attila Csipa wrote: > On Wednesday 09 December 2009 11:18:38 Alejandro López wrote: > Let's not get carried away. As I understood the situation, the N900 works on > all providers in the USA, the question being the tech level (=speed) > supported on a particular provider. Ye

Re: Can´t believe N900 doesn´t suppor t 850/1900 UMTS...

Timo Pelkonen wrote: > > N900 works in the USA I presume because the device is sold there. Maybe for a particular carrier, but the official frequencies in the USA are those that are not supported by the N900. So, useless device. ___ maemo-users ma

Re: Can´t believe N900 doesn´t suppor t 850/1900 UMTS...

Timo Pelkonen wrote: > I bet quad band were left out because there was no time to get it > working at the first place and it probably will be added to > successors..(atleast if there are good experiences from n97 minis > implementation) A choice that will make the device less successful than it

Re: Can´t believe N900 doesn´t suppor t 850/1900 UMTS...

Timo Pelkonen wrote: > Wait for something to happend to the situation. Aka hope for the best > from n900's successor or frequency changes to 3g network. There is > nothing more to do. This is unfortunate but everybody in the world can't > be pleased because there are so many standards etc. Do yo

Re: Can´t believe N900 doesn´t suppor t 850/1900 UMTS...

Fernando, I think Argentina uses the same frequencies as the US, so I would be very surprised if those frequencies are not supported by the N900. Maybe the supported frequencies depend where you buy it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS_frequency_bands#UMTS.2FHSDPA.2FHSUPA_frequency_bands_deplo

Re: How to best partition the external memory card

Thanks Mark for your answer. I'll give it a try. Alejandro. Mark escribió: > 2009/9/27 Alejandro López : >> Hi all, >> >> some time ago I replaced in my N810 my old 1Gb SanDisk memory card by a new >> 4Gb Class-4 Micro-SDHC (with an adaptor) Kingston memory &g

How to best partition the external memory card

Hi all, some time ago I replaced in my N810 my old 1Gb SanDisk memory card by a new 4Gb Class-4 Micro-SDHC (with an adaptor) Kingston memory card and partitioned it to have just one big partition which I formated in FAT32 (standard maemo tools). Since then I find my tablet a bit slow (slower tha

Re: omweather failure

Peter Flynn escribió: > Has weather.com changed their format again? > omweather is not updating since Saturday. No problem here. Using version 0.22.6. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-user

Partitioning a flash card

Hi all, Reading the wiki page about partitioning a flash card (http://wiki.maemo.org/Partitioning_a_flash_card ) I found that it says that a VFAT partition must be declared of type 6. Is this correct? I thought vfat (FAT32) was type 0x0b. Running sfdisk on the internal memory card will show thi

Re: omweather failure

Peter, Peter Flynn wrote: > But weather.com have screwed up something: all my stations for France > cause the error message "Wrong station code or ZIP code!!!". I deleted > all my stations and then added them all back in again, just in case the > internal codes had changed, but they still cause

Re: Maemo-Mapper and Map Storage

Jamie Bennett wrote: > On 9 Jun 2009, at 18:45, Mark wrote: >> My advice would be to store the maps on the external memory card. If >> you run out of room there, you can always get a bigger card and just >> copy everything straight over and keep on going. > > Definitely. > > External memory cards

Re: skype2 ?

Gary escribió: > The maemo version appears to be numbered 1.7.62.49.1. Is > there any significant improvements in v2.0 over 1.7? Video conference. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Nokia device usage

kenneth marken wrote: > Alejandro López wrote: >> >> Eero Tamminen wrote: >>> As this thread is "Nokia device usage", what you would use >>> the Skype video for? :-) >> >> Mainly to communicate with my family when on business travel, but

Re: Nokia device usage

Eero Tamminen wrote: > As this thread is "Nokia device usage", what you would use > the Skype video for? :-) Mainly to communicate with my family when on business travel, but also to put in touch my kids (2 and 4 year old) and their grand mother (11000 km away) without requiring them to stay i

Re: Nokia device usage

Eero Tamminen escribió: > Skype video requires significantly more power than for example Gtalk > video (which the device supports) and has quite strict latency > requirements (the call drops if Skype doesn't get enough CPU). Great! Now I know the technical reasons, but I still don't know why thi

Re: Nokia device usage

Hi Eero, Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > To assess whether this was a realistic expectation, were there other > mobile devices[1] which provided Skype *video*calls when you bought > the device? > > [1] mobile = ones that are same size or smaller, see my earlier > mail about power consumption

Re: Nokia device usage

Andrew Flegg wrote: > Agreed, and fully understandable. Can we draw up a list of what - > exactly - the N8x0 fails to do out-of-the-box which it is advertised > it *can* do; and requires hacker-like skills to enable? One thing that deceived me is that Skype was announced as and important applic

Re: All applets dying

Tommy Persson escribió: > The ones I usally use are: Clock, Disk Free Size, Display IP, GPE > Summary, Internet Search and IpHome. > The only common applet we have is "GPE Summary"... ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.m

Re: All applets dying

Tommy Persson wrote: > I have a problem with all applets dying (and I think osso-statusbar > and and some other things in the status bar disappear to). If I go to > panel/status bar in the control panel and just press OK the missing > status bar things re-appear. If I reboot the missing applets >

Re: Bug: LatAm region settings wrong

Andre Klapper escribió: > Please file a bug. > Done. https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3784 Alejandro. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Bug: LatAm region settings wrong

Andre Klapper wrote: > I also have "Espanol (America Latina)" in Settings > Control Panel > > Language and Region, but no "Espanol (Mexico)". As far as I know, there is no "Español (México)" in Maemo. Only "Español (América Latina)", although for Latin America es_MX is internally used... > htt

Re: Bug: LatAm region settings wrong

Fernando, I had the same problem and worked-around it by setting the device language to "Spanish (Latin America)" and Regional config to "Spanish (Spain)". Hope this helps. Alejandro. Fernando Cassia wrote: > I've just realised that if I go to the Control panel and click on > Language and Regio

Re: WiFi analyzer

James Knott escribió: > David Grau Serra wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I supose, basically this post on page 16: >> >> http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=207318&postcount=152 >> >> Thanks to everybody, >> David > > Hmmm... > > That package requires some other packages that I'll h

Re: Can I run java on n810

Not Java but you can use Jalimo (thought I never used it): https://wiki.evolvis.org/jalimo/index.php/Maemo Hope this helps. Alejandro. Jeff Treague escribió: > Can I run java on the n810. When I try to play games online off > pogo.com. I need java to play and other sites are the same. If java

Re: Video conference

Eero Tamminen wrote: > If by videoconferencing you mean just video calls between two persons, > the built-in VOIP client supports that (supported it even before Skype > was available for the devices). It uses GTalk i.e. the other end needs > also to have GTalk client with video support. Good to

Video conference

Hi, When I decided to buy my N810 I was expecting it to be able to do some videoconferencing. I was specially happy knowing that Skype was running on the platform. When I bought it, I discovered that the Skype version supported is unable to use webcams, so no videoconference is possible (only

Re: RSS Feeds?

Jonathan Greene escribió: > Have you tried this? http://maemo.org/news/items.xml > I'm failing to access this page because "Connection to 127.0.0.1 Failed." I remember having read today, I think in this same list, that connections from this address would be forbidden in order to prevent spam o

Re: File name completion

Simon Budig escribió: > COURTAUD Didier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> When I use the osso-xterm, I would want to use the file name >> completion of the shell. >> >> I have seen that the buit-in shell is ash but i have not found how to >> make file completion with it. > > You use the "tab" key, w

Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

Hi, Andrew Daviel wrote: > With beacon SSID enabled on "triumf" but disabled on "test" - <10mA > With beacon SSID enabled on "triumf" and enabled on "test" - 100mA > With beacon SSID disabled on "triumf" but enabled on "test" - 100mA > With beacon SSID disabled on "triumf" and disabled on "test" -