if i am not mistaken the appmefo edits the hildon resource file. somehow it has created extra icons / shortcuts. maybe not really valid ones so you cant move it. i would suggest manually opening up the file and look for duplicate entries...

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Added on July 6, 2010, 5:56 pmthe path to the hildon.menu that apmefo uses...

/home/user/.config/menus/hildon.menu

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Added on July 6, 2010, 5:59 pmn900 does not use the product code thingy to determine region. you can update whatever you want for whatever product code. no messing around with JAF or NSS to change product code...

if you cannot flash, 3 things possible.

1) you are doing something wrong

2) incorrect image or flasher or unsupported OS on your computer that you are using to flash.

3) you have a faulty n900 / faulty cable.

This post has been edited by jananan: Jul 6 2010, 05:59 PM

froyo should be able to detect the gpu. i am sure there will be other omap based phones with exactly the same config like n900. and since froyo is an open system, designed like meego to run on multiple machines, it should naturally be able to pickup the n900's gpu.

we are most likely just weeks away from gpu accelerated froyo on n900.

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Added on July 6, 2010, 8:20 pmn900 is not suitable as a tablet-phone with 1320 mah battery. what was nokia thinking.

they should have used a thicker battery, at least 2500mah. since its a tablet, and since n800 was huge, i would not mind a thicker n900. it would be still pocketable with a slightly thicker battery. better than carrying two phones.

when you are using as a phone, the gsm module sucks the battery slowly. when you want to use it for internet / other tablet functions only left with 1-2 bars.

now using the n900 as a pure tablet only, no sim card. the battery just stays at the same level when standy. and always ready for use when you need it.

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Added on July 6, 2010, 8:24 pmi want to get this as my second phone,

http://www.mobilestopic.com/reviews/nokia/x2.html

the photo shows 4 speakers... ftw...

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Added on July 6, 2010, 8:27 pmits true.

http://europe.nokia.com/support/product-su...00/how-to/music

4 speakers. nokia really bringing the fight... to china phones...

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Added on July 6, 2010, 8:31 pmbuilt in FM antenna, dont have to plug in headset.
5 megapixels with flash.
3.5 mm headphone jack
2.2 inch screen
facebook on homescreen ?
bluetooth 2.1
up to 16GB microSD
internal 48MB
series 40

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Added on July 6, 2010, 8:35 pmAdobe FlashLite 3.0 support
Support both USB using microUSB and 2mm nokia charger
Widget on homescreen
Quad band

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Added on July 6, 2010, 8:36 pmshit, and they dont give n900 both 2mm charger and microusb charging capability...

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Added on July 6, 2010, 8:46 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMkO1guE35o&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR4LFs0ZTMc&feature=related

Froyo on n900 without GPU acceleration. This is why you want to wait till they get GPU acceleration working.

Also i think Froyo would perform better if its natively installed on the n900 rather than dual boot from a microSD

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Added on July 6, 2010, 8:47 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uxsu7TuBKw&feature=related

biometric, using front camera.

This post has been edited by jananan: Jul 6 2010, 08:47 PM

a lot of users not added in... u need to PM the aspire2006...

everybody wants better battery life. i would rather spend on mugen power battery than ottercase...

once you used to fapman you forget the rest. i love being able to queue install/uninstall apps.

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Added on July 7, 2010, 11:33 amusually i prefer not to touch 'airport', nothing to touch anyway...

This post has been edited by jananan: Jul 7 2010, 11:33 AM

time to reflash my n900, there are leftover junk everywhere from previously uninstalled apps...

i can see icons from previously uninstalled apps popping up everywhere... and it disappears in a blink when the system refreshes...

either the built in appman or fapman is not removing all files/links/libs/icons when apps being uninstalled...

and apt-get is uninstalling libs are still needed... something wrong with dependencies data... maybe corrupted...

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Added on July 9, 2010, 12:18 pmonly flashing fiasco... leaving the eMMC intact... still going to be a frankenstein...

too much work to backup all and flash emmc...

This post has been edited by jananan: Jul 9 2010, 12:18 PM

shit... have to flash both. there are still leftover in eMMC.

i cannot find such an option...

nokia said cannot... same with mms... nokia said dont use mms also...

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Added on July 9, 2010, 1:32 pm
For new owners, click on these 3 links with your n900 to see the "magic" in your Application Manager.


http://my-maemo.com/download/repos/extras.install

http://my-maemo.com/download/repos/extras-testing.install

http://my-maemo.com/download/repos/extras-devel.install

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Added on July 9, 2010, 1:34 pmonly add Extras if you are scared of bricking your device.

Extras-Testing and Extras-Devel contains stuff that can brick your device if you don't know what you are doing

This post has been edited by jananan: Jul 9 2010, 01:34 PM

i remember playing this on symbian... brings back fond memories...

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Added on July 9, 2010, 9:47 pmmany shops dont know this is a tablet, they thought its a new version of s40 or s60. and when they are not used to it, and scared they wont be able to advice customer accordingly or answer questions like how to set up mms. so they rather badmouth it and not sell it, and try to promote other phones that they are used to selling...

if only we had better educated hand phone shop dealers. even the branch manager of a certain nokia shop/zitron/avaxx does not know what OS this phone is running when i tried to check with him, just to test how much he knows. (i dont want to give out names / branch) they just say new "version" from nokia. its all they can and will say. some say "like a computer" while some say "hard to use".

maybe nokia malaysia should have training for them. you can't expect much from them without product training.

imagine if proton comes out with a "flying car" based on advanced nuclear fission technology next month. do you think our local salesman would be able to explain to customer how it works or even sell it ? how do you sell something you cant explain. most will try to avoid it altogether.

This post has been edited by jananan: Jul 9 2010, 09:47 PM

make sure you are getting the whole complete set incl. charger, battery and all accessories zitron/avaxx
also remember to look for scars on the phone, dents or cracked plastics. make sure the slider mechanism is smooth as well.
if he's never dropped it, then like the prev post i have to agree RM1000-RM1500 is a very good deal

lol

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Added on July 10, 2010, 3:39 pminstalling extra decoders support + subtitles support, then installing mafw-eq-gst-renderer that replaces the in-built renderer and then installing the latest mplayer + kmplayer breaks internal media player from playing videos.

it just shows a message that says unable to play media, doesn't crash or nothing. mp3 still plays fine, and videos recorded on the device itself still plays fine.

i tried it on a newly flashed device...

weird, gonna try uninstalling and reinstalling extra decoders support again to see if it works...

This post has been edited by jananan: Jul 10 2010, 03:40 PM

sh... screwed up mce.ini
keyboard light constantly on, even when keyboard closed... haha... no wonder...

and one more tips, dont leave phone in app manager screen, seems to suck battery even when not connected to anything...

got it now, keyb light goes off in 10secs. then followed by screen 30 secs

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Added on July 11, 2010, 2:57 amnow keyboard light goes off in 1 second. but re-activates when screen touched.

so keeps blinking on & off when screen being used. any way to permanently turn off the keyboard ? i tried '0' values for keyboard timeout but doesnt disable it.

there should be some undocumented values for mce.ini to disable keyb light.


ok got it now... wrote a guide for it below....

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Added on July 11, 2010, 5:35 am
Guide : Removing keyboard back light
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WARNING : this removes the keyboard backlight entirely. even when you type it remains dark.

This requires the following tools :

1) Rootsh (enables root access)
2) Leafpad or any other text editor

Steps
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1) sudo gainroot
2) cd to "/etc/mce" folder
2) leafpad mce.ini (or any other text editor, i prefer leafpad)
4) The file contents will look something like below, look for the "Modules" section

# Modules
#
# List of modules to load
# Note: the name should not include the "lib"-prefix
Modules=display;keypad;vibrator;led;battery;filter-brightness-als;inactivity;alarm;accelerometer;callstate;camera;homekey;audiorouting

5) remove the keypad from the line, make sure there is semicolon ; separating the other components.

6) the result will look somewhat like below, with the keypad entry removed

Modules=display;vibrator;led;battery;filter-brightness-als;inactivity;alarm;accelerometer;callstate;camera;homekey;audiorouting

7) save and exit

8) "killall mce" to restart mce or reboot your device.

9) now your keyboard is backlightless.

10) should be able to squeeze more juice from the battery if you like to surf the net with the keyboard open like me...

11) to revert simply reverse the steps, open up the file in text editor > add "keypad" in the Modules section > save and exit > killall mce


PS : original mce.ini attached in case you screw something up. rename the file from mce.ini.txt to mce.ini

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Added on July 11, 2010, 5:46 amand i thought micro-usb ports on nokia phones were of subpar quality...

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/07/08/...4-catches-fire/

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Added on July 11, 2010, 6:03 amNokia N8 : more untouched sample photos

http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/010/07/r...a_n8_camera.htm

can i throw away my P&S camera now ?

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Added on July 11, 2010, 6:13 amMeego looks good on AAVA phone

http://www.umpcportal.com/gallery/v/aava-meego1_1/

and Maemo is the best for n900.

This post has been edited by jananan: Jul 11 2010, 06:13 AM

take it slow if ur scared... even at 700mhz u can feel the tablet snappier when opening and closing apps...

Nokia launched the 5800 express music phone with the CPU running at 369MHz. and from V20 firmware onwards the CPU ran at 434MHz.

what we can learn from this is that nokia always clocks their phone at minimal levels, even lower than the manufacturer recommended.

other manufacturers like to show off higher clock speed, but nokia always goes for one step below what the manufacturer rates the chip. maybe they dont like to show off ?

for example you buy a HP desktop with Core i5 processor, rated at 2.6Ghz by Intel(meaning on the box its stated Core i5 - 2.6Ghz), but HP clocks it down to 2.0Ghz and sells it to you.

of course you can overlock it to 2.6Ghz and it would run just fine because it was made to run at that speed.

for the processor in our n900, the speed is not locked by the chipmaker, but some other phones from other manufacturers is running the same processor in their phones at 800Mhz++ as the default maximum speed.

so common sense tells that 800Mz is still safe for n900, correct me if i am wrong.

just that with 800Mhz, the battery will run out faster, thats all. because nokia forgot to put in a bigger battery

with newer firmware from nokia for n900 (PR 1.3 anyone ?) that has better power management, nokia might push it higher to 700Mhz maybe... like they did for 5800 express music.

with the correct battery and power management by the OS, you might even have better battery life at higher Mhz.

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that said, there are 2 methods to OC

titan's kernel and lehto's kernel.

1) titan's kernel has varying speeds, and if something goes wrong and your phone reboots, it resets to default settings. you can uninstall it and revert to original as well. it has many speed options to play with. from a safe 700mhz to a crazy 1150mhz.

2) lehto's kernel has fixed max Mhz options, you have to re-flash each time you want a new setting, but its flash once and forget. you wont notice any changes were made, except for the faster speed

for beginners i would highly suggest titan's kernel = easier to install and easier to reset to default if you are not satisfied / not stable. but as far as i know, 95% of the phones should be rock solid with 700Mhz max clockspeed.

but even if you dont overclock, you are not losing out much. it does not enable some new functions or unlock secret levels in the phone, its still the same phone.
it only makes a big difference for people who run emulators like PSX emulator.

dont expect the n900 to perform like a Core i5 desktop machine after overlocking....

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Added on July 11, 2010, 6:49 pmfrom what i heard, the ball is in nokia's court. see how they play it out.

This post has been edited by jananan: Jul 11 2010, 06:49 PM

n900 can rotate 90, 180, 270, 360... whatever orientation also... just they haven't implemented the rotation system-wide.

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Added on July 12, 2010, 12:05 amwell said...

This post has been edited by jananan: Jul 12 2010, 12:05 AM

of cos at 900Mhz or above the phone feels like a "different beast" altogether... i meant the 600Mhz to 700Mhz jump would be low risk and not noticeable in most cases...

if you are a heavy multi-tasker, for example 3-4 different browsing window, and if some of those sites are not mobile versions but full versions with flash, and with lets say music playing in the background, then even 900Mhz is not enough...

you need to make some changes to make firefox and flash to work on n900, but if i were you, i'd stick with the built-in MicroB browser. its based off mozilla anyway... and its faster.

battery life seems better without keypad backlight. typing in the dark is a mess though...

http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?p=2303

WebGL demos on the n900.

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Added on July 13, 2010, 12:17 amFennec 2.0 Aplha 1

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mob...runk-maemo5-qt/

use at your own risk ! memory consumptions issues, might crash your device requiring reboot.

PS : this is the QT version. not from the 1.9.2 source code that our current Fennec 1.1 is based on.

This post has been edited by jananan: Jul 13 2010, 12:20 AM

sudo gainroot
first cd to this folder

/usr/share/themes/yourthemename/gtk-2.0/

replace "yourthemename" with the name of your theme

if you "ls" at /usr/share/themes you will see a list of installed theme folders

in the gtk-2.0 folder you will find 2 files, gtkrc and a backup copy of gtkrc

open up gtkrc in a text editor like vi or leafpad

(make sure your are root to be able to open and edit)

look for these 2 sections in the gtkrc file

"font definitions"

"new fonts for fremantle"

increase the size by 1 point, for example if its, dont use fractions like 16.5

increase all fonts listed under these 2 sections by 1 point, save and exit

reboot your n900.

PS : if you increase more than 3 points for some fonts, it will be cut off, for example the "tail" on "g" "y" will got missing.

PS : if you look under "logical color definitions", entries there changes the font colors, use hex color codes.

This post has been edited by jananan: Jul 13 2010, 12:36 AM

enjoy ur OCed phone...