Re: Installing Firefox 4 beta 2 in N900 - howto?

2010-11-09 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 5 November 2010 20:18, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+ma...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bma...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I'll probably do at the end but I'm feeling dirty just thinking about dpkg to install packages. The good news is that it is worth it, the latest Fennec nightlies are

Installing Firefox 4 beta 2 in N900 - howto?

2010-11-05 Thread Dawid Lorenz
I'm experiencing problems installing Firefox 4 beta 2 on my device. I currently don't have Firefox/fennec installed at all. So here's what I do to get latest beta installed: 1) Go to http://firefox.com/m/beta in N900's browser - click Download for Maemo button. 2) App Manager starts and prompts

Re: Installing Firefox 4 beta 2 in N900 - howto?

2010-11-05 Thread Dawid Lorenz (maemobile)
- Original message - On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Dawid Lorenz da...@lorenz.co wrote: I'm experiencing problems installing Firefox 4 beta 2 on my device. It's a long-running problem. I haven't been able to install from Mozilla repos in what seems like a year. I don't know

PR1.3 OTA update - overriding Nokia PC Suite prompt

2010-11-03 Thread Dawid Lorenz
PR1.3 variant 203 has finally landed in my App Manager, but when I try to upgrade I get *you must use Nokia PC Suite* message and upgrade fails. How to avoid this and carry on with OTA anyway? I presume it could be a matter of some conflicting packages in the background - if so, how to determine

Re: PR1.3 OTA update - overriding Nokia PC Suite prompt

2010-11-03 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 3 November 2010 16:11, Dawid Lorenz da...@lorenz.co wrote: PR1.3 variant 203 has finally landed in my App Manager, but when I try to upgrade I get *you must use Nokia PC Suite* message and upgrade fails. How to avoid this and carry on with OTA anyway? I presume it could be a matter of some

Re: PR1.3 coming!

2010-10-29 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 26 October 2010 08:43, Cedric Cellier ri...@happyleptic.org wrote: I still can't see PR1.3 in my App Manager. I have UK variant (.203), tough, so I reckon I'd need to wait another 4-6 weeks, agh. :| Anyone else with .203 variant already upgraded? Cannot see PR1.3 from here neither,

Re: PR1.3 coming!

2010-10-25 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 25 October 2010 15:43, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+ma...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bma...@gmail.com wrote: PR 1.3 version 20.2010.36-2 is now available. I still can't see PR1.3 in my App Manager. I have UK variant (.203), tough, so I reckon I'd need to wait another 4-6 weeks, agh. :| Anyone

Re: Lagging ambient light sensor and display backlight in N900

2010-08-27 Thread Dawid Lorenz
2010/8/27 Alejandro López listas@gmail.com This is the solution: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=60599 It worked for me as for many other people. Not for me, tough. I still sometimes suffer from noticeable lag when putting device away from ear... :( I was wondering whether

Lagging ambient light sensor and display backlight in N900

2010-08-25 Thread Dawid Lorenz
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.) quite troublesome. I'm not sure what caused this, as I have an

Re: Lagging ambient light sensor and display backlight in N900

2010-08-25 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 25 August 2010 16:01, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+ma...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bma...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's maybe the proximity sensor and not the ambient light sensor. Or maybe the rotation control. It sounds similar to the problem these people are talking about:

Re: MfE sync with Google Calendar - doesn't sync since yesterday

2010-08-17 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 16 August 2010 17:02, Valerio Valerio vdv...@gmail.com wrote: Still doesn't work for me - even after deleting and setting up MfE sync again. :( *Side question: does MfE log its activity somewhere?* Yes: http://wiki.maemo.org/Mail_for_Exchange#How_can_I_turn_the_logging_ON_or_OFF.3F

Re: MfE sync with Google Calendar - doesn't sync since yesterday

2010-08-17 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 17 August 2010 14:23, Reggie Suplido reg...@internettablettalk.comwrote: Can you try visiting this from your N900 browser and authorize: http://tr.im/gunlock Then retry or re-setup. In my experience, if there are too many different devices connecting to the same Google account, Google

Re: MfE sync with Google Calendar - doesn't sync since yesterday

2010-08-17 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 16 August 2010 17:02, Valerio Valerio vdv...@gmail.com wrote: *Side question: does MfE log its activity somewhere?* Yes: http://wiki.maemo.org/Mail_for_Exchange#How_can_I_turn_the_logging_ON_or_OFF.3F I used these instructions and got quite huge log in result (~204KB of grep activesync

Re: MfE sync with Google Calendar - doesn't sync since yesterday

2010-08-16 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 14 August 2010 15:32, ri...@happyleptic.org wrote: -[ Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:25:13AM +0100, Dawid Lorenz (maemobile) ] Anyone else experiencing issues with MfE sync with Google Calendar since yesterday evening (GMT), or is this just me? It used to work flawlessly for couple of months

MfE sync with Google Calendar - doesn't sync since yesterday

2010-08-14 Thread Dawid Lorenz (maemobile)
Anyone else experiencing issues with MfE sync with Google Calendar since yesterday evening (GMT), or is this just me? It used to work flawlessly for couple of months, so I assume it's just temporary problem. -- Dawid 'evad' Lorenz * http://adl.pl ___

Re: MfE sync with Google Calendar - doesn't sync since yesterday

2010-08-14 Thread Dawid Lorenz (maemobile)
- Original message - -[ Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:25:13AM +0100, Dawid Lorenz (maemobile) ] Anyone else experiencing issues with MfE sync with Google Calendar since yesterday evening (GMT), or is this just me? It used to work flawlessly for couple of months, so I assume it's just

Re: MfE sync with Google Calendar - doesn't sync since yesterday

2010-08-14 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 14 August 2010 13:24, Johann Spies johann.sp...@gmail.com wrote: I have not heard about MfE sync before and do not find it in my repositories. Is MfE the name of the package? It's built-in Mail for Exchange client, see Settings - Mail for Exchange. I have been trying Erminig-NG but

Re: N900 /home full disaster: lost a lot of stuff

2010-06-17 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 17 June 2010 00:20, David Potocnik david.potoc...@gmail.com wrote: Side effects: # the device started to behave insane - nothing worked anymore, and only later I started getting disk full messages. # loss of all conversations!!! :O ...can I get my messages back? this is the worst. # loss

Resurrecting Conversations history

2010-06-10 Thread Dawid Lorenz
I've just bumped into a problem with Conversations application on my N900. When I launch it, I can see all conversations as usual, but when I select specific conversation it opens up empty. When I send (or receive) message, I can see that new message under given contact in all conversations view,

Re: Resurrecting Conversations history

2010-06-10 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 10 June 2010 12:44, Dawid Lorenz a...@adl.pl wrote: How to bring Conversations app back to normal behaviour, yet *without* rebooting device (I am collecting nightly sp-endurance snapshot and I don't want to break them with reboot now)? Wait... it seems this issue has fixed by itself

PR1.2 regression of double-tap to zoom feature in Browser

2010-06-09 Thread Dawid Lorenz
I am looking for people who experience problems with Browser's double-tap to zoom into text feature after upgrading to PR1.2. I have filed a bug entry about this: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495 As well as Ryan Abel has, with similar issue:

Re: PR1.2 regression of double-tap to zoom feature in Browser

2010-06-09 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 9 June 2010 16:01, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+ma...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bma...@gmail.com wrote: Tap zooming in MicroB seems to be a mess in general. Sometimes it resets to normal zoom on a new page, sometimes it remains zoomed in, sometimes double-tap zooms closer, sometimes it zooms

Re: Searching in the app manager

2010-06-09 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 9 June 2010 17:07, Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: There used to be a handy function in the app manager to search. I cannot seem to find this anymore after upgrading to 1.2. Has it moved? It used to be in App Manager-Download-Click on Application Manager top bar and find

Re: Searching in the app manager

2010-06-09 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 9 June 2010 17:37, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+ma...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bma...@gmail.com wrote: In general I find it to be MUCH faster and easier to just go to xterm and do apt-cache search foo rather than deal with application manager and all of its monumental slowness. That's so

Re: Phone reboot loop

2010-06-07 Thread Dawid Lorenz
2010/6/6 Станіслав Рибачук rybatc...@gmail.com So. What I have now, is that my phone is without battery. If i put it in, the phone automaticaly turns on. The word NOKIA shows up and he vibrates for a second, like always. Then, in about 3 seconds, the phone turns off and turns on again,

Re: Quality assurance of stable software: my battery drained in few hours

2010-06-01 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 1 June 2010 12:24, Klaus Umbach klaus-ma...@uxix.de wrote: Yes, I had the same. The Twitter-Widget is really bad software. Use Mauku for twitter, it's not that bad. http://www.tweetgo.net -- even better. -- Dawid 'evad' Lorenz * http://adl.pl null://google 'no evil' mail has taken away

Re: PR1.2 is here

2010-05-26 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 26 May 2010 13:57, Oleg Hahm o...@hobbykeller.org wrote: Dunno if I got it all right but let me summarize what I experienced so far: - some hours ago the packet manager informed me about a Maemo 5 update. - when I try to install it, it recommends a backup and asks me to connect my

Re: week view as default calender view?

2010-05-19 Thread Dawid Lorenz (maemobile)
- Original message - Hi David, Am Dienstag, den 18.05.2010, 11:18 +0100 schrieb Dawid Lorenz: When you launch calendar via desktop widget, it always opens up in Agenda view, however when you launch it from apps list with Calendar icon, it will use the last viewed mode, ie. Week

Re: week view as default calender view?

2010-05-18 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 17 May 2010 21:01, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni li...@prometoys.net wrote: is it possible to change the default calender view to the weekly overview? The Agenda-view is confusing for me. When you launch calendar via desktop widget, it always opens up in Agenda view, however when you launch it

Re: Opera 10 alpha for maemo

2010-05-12 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 12 May 2010 10:54, Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: I really liked Firefox on my N900 but it took an age to open/swap to another open app/swap tabs. Did you try the recent 1.1 beta (or any of the latest nightlies)? I've had exactly same experience like you, but it seems the

Re: Still Good Time To Bye an N900?

2010-05-12 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 11 May 2010 21:38, Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail francisco.diaztre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I'm such a newby that I don't have the N900 yet. I recently payed back my debts and am ready to get the N900. But I wanted to get some comments on whether it is a good Idea to get it

Re: Opera 10 alpha for maemo

2010-05-12 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 12 May 2010 17:43, Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: I tried the original release for about 3-4 months and gave up eventually as the pretty UI wasn't worth it the delays. Same here, but I'm quite impressed with post-1.0 releases of FF. However, I'd still rather avoid opening

Changing automatic internet connection via cli or config file

2010-05-11 Thread Dawid Lorenz
I am after changing a setting under Settings - Internet connections - Connect automatically between Always ask and Any connection but via command line command or some sort of config file/gconf value. I've seen via dbus-monitor that no dbus commands are exectued while changing that setting, so it's

Re: Changing automatic internet connection via cli or config file

2010-05-11 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 11 May 2010 12:25, Luca Donaggio donag...@gmail.com wrote: Try this command: gconftool-2 -R /system/osso/connectivity/network_type I think the value you're searching for is auto_connect. Yep, exactly! Many thanks. -- Dawid 'evad' Lorenz * http://adl.pl null://google 'no evil' mail

Re: Changing automatic internet connection via cli or config file

2010-05-11 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 11 May 2010 12:35, Dawid Lorenz a...@adl.pl wrote: gconftool-2 -R /system/osso/connectivity/network_type I think the value you're searching for is auto_connect. Yep, exactly! Many thanks. Fruit of this discovery can be found here: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=653314postcount

Re: N900 power consumption

2010-04-26 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 26 April 2010 10:01, Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: If I am at home I use it to read rss feeds, and make calls. When at work it is idling on wifi. * Phone ALWAYS on 2G, unless I want to download something via cellular network. * No more softwae installed than before

Re: N900 power consumption

2010-04-26 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 26 April 2010 12:10, Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: I had a look at top and /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --high-priority seems to be running constantly, at around 0.2 (when idle) to approx. 32.2% cpu (when making a call). CPU usage when making a call is valid. I meant

Re: [mafw-lastfm-devel] mafw-lastfm 0.0.4 (Last.fm scrobbler for the N900)

2010-04-23 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 23 April 2010 11:53, Petteri pett...@gmail.com wrote: Cool! Personally I only find one problem; videos are also scrobbled. This is indeed a major drawback. Any changes of dropping video support or at least making it optional? I'd also suggest adding following features: 1) Some sort of

Re: [mafw-lastfm-devel] mafw-lastfm 0.0.4 (Last.fm scrobbler for the N900)

2010-04-23 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 23 April 2010 12:35, Claudio Saavedra csaave...@igalia.com wrote: 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. Done. -- Dawid

Re: [mafw-lastfm-devel] mafw-lastfm 0.0.4 (Last.fm scrobbler for the N900)

2010-04-23 Thread Dawid Lorenz
2010/4/23 Mika Tapojärvi mika.tapoja...@sse.fi +1 too. Could 2) be done from track metadata? If Genre is either Podcast or Audiobook, then scrobbling would not be done? Good idea, but I don't think it'd suffice, as I rarely see music files with genre tags propagated properly. -- Dawid

Web browser page load issues

2010-04-21 Thread Dawid Lorenz
I frequently experience very weird and frustrating problem with built-in web browser in my N900, which is basically quite long lag between launching a given URL and getting that URL to actually start loading. Say I type a www.google.com URL in address bar, hit enter and expect the page to load

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-04-21 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 20 April 2010 16:52, Dawid Lorenz a...@adl.pl wrote: I'd like to follow-up on this a little. Basically, after nearly two months since launching this thread and moving my N900 into much lower swappiness value (I currently have 30), frankly I can't see much difference. What usually happens

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-04-20 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 22 February 2010 16:43, Dawid Lorenz a...@adl.pl wrote: Other thing I've noticed is system swappiness value, which is 100 by default. What I've learned [2] is that 100 value favours moving stuff to swap space quite frequently, which makes some sort of sense with experience I've got. I

Re: Weird battery (?) problem bricked N900

2010-04-13 Thread Dawid Lorenz
2010/4/13 Cláudio Sampaio pat...@gmail.com As for the continued malfunction, have you tried to reflash everything, including the eMMC? Might be a corruption in files caused by the successive attempts to get it up, that could only be fixed by a complete reflash. Yes, as I already said - I've

Re: N900 and Google sync

2010-04-12 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 11 April 2010 20:06, Henrik Frisk fris...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, nuevasync seems to be the way to go. Unfortunately I recently bought a lifetime subscription for goosync... Oh well, maybe syncml will work on the N900 one day. GooSync over SyncML works quite well for me using

Re: N900 and Google sync

2010-04-12 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 12 April 2010 13:41, Henrik Frisk fris...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the info. I've seen the instructions and you are obviously right, SyncML exists on the N900 (I've also used syncevolution CLI on my N810). I have tried it with GooSync but, as I wrote earlier in the thread, the

Weird battery (?) problem bricked N900

2010-04-12 Thread Dawid Lorenz
A friend of mine has recently bought a N900 (via ebay), used it for ~2 weeks and now got it bricked in somewhat weird way. He said that during normal use, just while fiddling with menu/apps, suddenly a charging error message appeared (*without* a charger connected!), notification light turned red

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-02-25 Thread Dawid Lorenz
2010/2/25 Aniello Del Sorbo ani...@gmail.com I have been using the device in GSM mode only and being always on-line with Skype Gtalk. As expected, the battery lasts a lot longer and I didn't notice any difference (of course) on using IM. What do you mean exactly by a lot longer? --

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-02-24 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 24 February 2010 10:25, Eero Tamminen eero.tammi...@nokia.com wrote: Does killall tonegend help? Then it's probably this: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6868 Yep, killall tonegend fixed it. I'll have a look at bugzilla entry later on and try to re-create the issue.

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-02-24 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 23 February 2010 19:38, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+ma...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bma...@gmail.com wrote: Ultimately the data comes from the /proc/[pid]/stat, and typically I would use top or ps aux, but N900 (busybox) version of those tools doesn't include the CPU time. So on N900 I'm using

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-02-23 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 23 February 2010 09:16, Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt wrote: There are no leftovers of apps that got closed; AFAIU it's just that apps/libraries that didn't get closed were pushed from RAM into swap and haven't moved back in again. To force them back into RAM you can try sudo gainroot

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-02-23 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 23 February 2010 14:33, Jan Knutar jknu...@nic.fi wrote: If htop just uses the MemFree field from /proc/meminfo, then it's pretty much supposed to hover at over 90% used all the time. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. What matters is if the system is able to free up RAM when it's needed without

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-02-23 Thread Dawid Lorenz
This is a follow-up from bugzilla entry https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8723#c35 -- as I think it goes beyond a scope that issue itself. Eero Tamminen eero.tammi...@nokia.com wrote: Anything large (say e.g. Python) waking up on the background will also be an issue. You can check top

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-02-23 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 23 February 2010 17:28, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+ma...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bma...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't noticed anything, and my load average at the moment is 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 which is good, but if I sort by time the top offenders since my last reboot (uptime 1 day, 3:14) are:

Re: TCP/IP SyncML client help

2010-02-22 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 22 February 2010 14:41, Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: I have found TCP/IP SyncML client in one of the repositories. Can anyone give me some help on getting this configured with a SyncML server? One that runs on Mac OS X preferably. You are probably talking about

Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-02-22 Thread Dawid Lorenz
Is this only my N900 @PR1.1 or others also experience overall device sluggishness after ~2-3 days of uptime? There is semi-identified problem with hildon-home hogging CPU time for few seconds on each wakeup from standby [1], however that's fixable by *killall hildon-home* and re-adding widgets to

Re: TCP/IP SyncML client help

2010-02-22 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 22 February 2010 15:25, Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: I don't want to use Google services, I prefer to keep this inhouse running the SyncML server myself. Does anyone have suggestions for a SyncML server I can run on OS X? There is Funambol Server, but doesn't seem to

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-02-22 Thread Dawid Lorenz (maemobile)
- Original message - When this happens, do you see SGX mentioned in dmesg output? Don't know, but I'll try hard to not forget to check that next time round. If it's as low as on desktop, you can get hitches while using the device.  Something below 100 may be better though. Is

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-02-22 Thread Dawid Lorenz (maemobile)
- Original message - This doesn't make me too confident in upgrading to 1.1.1. Are there *any* real benefits in upgrading? I can't find any big reasons-there is a mention somewhere about battery usage improvements. Tbh, I found initial firmware release a bit worse when it comes to

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-02-22 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 22 February 2010 18:06, Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt wrote: (Note that after a fresh boot with hundreds of megs of swap used the UI is still snappy; it's after a large app pushes essential bits of the OS into swap that leaves the UI a bit struggling, even after you close that large app --

Re: Dealing with N900 responsiveness (or lack of thereof)

2010-02-22 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 22 February 2010 21:27, Jan Knutar jknu...@nic.fi wrote: What I am suspecting here is swap (over)usage. It does only seem to grow over time, rather than going down when I close unused apps, for example. Physical RAM, on the other hand, usually sticks around 180-200MB of use,

Re: Bad experience with N900 onboard GPS.

2010-02-14 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 14 February 2010 09:12, Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: No, I don't have a connection to the Internet when using Ovi Maps-thats the exact reason why I use Ovi Maps. You shouldn't be expected to use a network connection with an onboard GPS. True, but afaik N900 has A-GPS

Re: Bad experience with N900 onboard GPS.

2010-02-13 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 12 February 2010 20:17, Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: Is anything written to the OS when the GPS is running? Can we tail any logs? All recommendations welcome. Main question is whether you have any sort of connection to the internet when you're trying to get a GPS lock?