its alive... on first try

its my corsair flash voyager gt 4gb.

havent tried my 16gb... time to sleep... experiment tomorrow...

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before attaching the Corsair GT 16GB USB Drive


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after attaching the Corsair GT 16GB USB Drive


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in FileBox, it just appears as Flash. the mmc1 is the MicroSD


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in File Manager, it just appears as CORSAIR, since i labelled it that way.


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in File Manager, with the volume label removed, it shows the true formatted capacity of the Corsair GT 16GB USB Drive.


- all contents accessible using the built in File Manager as well as FileBox
- can play most near HD quality videos smoothly from the Corsair GT 16GB & Corsair 4GB
- left it connected for 20 minutes, no issues apart from battery drain
- battery continues to discharge even after disconnecting USB Drive, be sure to reboot after testing.

This post has been edited by jananan: Sep 28 2010, 10:21 AM

i just tested using default media player, it should be as fast as the internal eMMC or faster, since my Corsair GT has avg read speed 30MB/s

microSD comes in non-class verified, class 2, class 4, class 6 and class 10.

the class stands for minimum write speed.

some applications read and write data sequentially, while some dont.

reading movies off a mem card is sequential. it does not necessarily mean good random read and write speeds.

some of the newer memory cards, esp class 10 and above (yes, there are faster than class 10 cards, but not microSD) might read and write faster than the eMMC.

eMMC is a cheap storage solution. when you use torrent app for example, and downloading large amounts of data at high speeds on your n900, you will saturate the bus and slow down the entire phone.

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Added on September 28, 2010, 11:29 ampost # 999

This post has been edited by jananan: Sep 28 2010, 11:29 AM

too much noise dude... way too much...

tips for a low noise photo

when taking photos, not only with n900 and fCAM, with any camera.

first rule is, use lowest ISO. then try to snap at an angle where most light enters the sensor.

second rule, use flash to enhance the brightness of the subject.

if really no choice, use higher aperture (lower F-Stop) and longer exposure (as much as your hands can handle without blur)

if that does not help, increase the ISO.


only some situations, need to use high ISO

places that dont allow flash

when you dont want the person photographing know you are photographing (stalker alert)

when it is very dark, i mean really really dark

when you are shooting shiny object that does not behave well with flash

i've been a member since 2003, 1000 posts seems so less... compared to those seniors (spammers) ahem...

not every shop has this cable.

my offer still stands for those in Penang.

free link to google map location url for the shop selling the usb female to female converter.

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Added on September 28, 2010, 1:42 pmthere are people here with more post count than you, haha... wayyyy more...

This post has been edited by jananan: Sep 28 2010, 01:43 PM

errr.... why dont i take the sim card out of the usb-broadband-modem and insert it into the n900 ? same results ma...

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Added on September 28, 2010, 5:22 pmanyway, the latest usb hostmode drivers only contain basic storage drivers for usb drives, portable hdd, cd/dvd filesystem and ntfs r/w capability in the latest versions.

even keyboard does not work properly, someone tried it at tmo. (tmo - talk.maemo.org)

still a long way to go.

once the project is stable, they might add support for more devices, but seriously incorporating usb-broadband modem drivers does not make sense...

This post has been edited by jananan: Sep 28 2010, 05:22 PM

did some modifications on the original Nokia Sans font.

removed a lot of the unneeded characters and symbols in it. (european accented characters)

really slimmed down to smaller than 1/3 of the original fonts size (28kB - 34kB)

should take up less resource , most standard english characters, numbers and symbols are there, ABC, abc, 123, !@#$%^&*()_-+=\/?'";:|[]

try it, if you find some characters missing please tell me, i'll re-edit to insert the missing characters. (but its only an experiment, no custom jobs)

you guys are really driving n900 as a camera phone.

seems like everyone, i mean every single one of you guys are into FCAM.

i should reinstall it, waiting for new version...

only the FCAM app was updated, waiting for a new version FCAM camera driver.

anyone tried my lightweight fonts ? need some feedback.

its just a link to the PR1.2, no new files inside there...

nokia just create it first, to give us some hope...

create folder first, then after few months only got content inside...

same as mine... its confirmed working.

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Added on September 29, 2010, 6:17 pmand no, its not taken using FCAM.

This post has been edited by jananan: Sep 29 2010, 06:17 PM

are you guys using fcam driver - 1.0.6-1

or fcam driver - fcam-drivers 1.0.7-1 ?

doesn't work.

i just installed... i guess its not compatible with usb hostmode kernel.

i can launch the fcam app, but the camera capture window is just grey in color.

and yeah, i did open the lens cover....

no multiboot at the moment...

not even OC

default kernel > usb hostmode > fcam - no go...

flashed back default kernel.

i know hostmode works, that should be enough for now.

wait till they leave alpha stage and enter beta....

FCAM + RAW + Photochop

again, fcam + raw + photochop

sudo gainroot (assuming you have installed rootsh)

dpkg --remove packagename

or

dpkg --purge packagename