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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-07-14, 17:25
Replies: 1
Views: 2,089
Posted By gwax
N900 hard reboot with flasher

My N900 randomly died this morning. I was using DUN over bluetooth to tether my laptop for Internet access (something I have done many times before) and then, suddenly, the bluetooth connection died....
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-05-28, 17:48
Replies: 20
Views: 8,678
Posted By gwax
MeeGo 1.0 hands-on at ArsTechnica

ArsTechnica just posted a very nice hands-on with MeeGo 1.0 for netbooks: Hands-on: MeeGo for netbooks picks up where Moblin left off...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-05-14, 00:17
Replies: 17
Views: 7,294
Posted By gwax
Re: Free Public WiFi Always shown

Free Public WiFi is an annoying trick that has been played on you.

To solve the problem, go to Settings > Internet Connections > Connections and Delete the Free Public WiFi connection.

To avoid...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-05-14, 00:14
Replies: 5
Views: 1,295
Posted By gwax
Re: some problems cropping up

When you say "downgraded", which firmware had you upgraded to?

Removing the battery is NOT supposed to reset the phone.

Reflashing replaces many but not all things and does not necessarily wipe...
Forum: Accessories 2009-12-26, 20:03
Replies: 13
Views: 8,544
Posted By gwax
Re: Anyone tried the Amzer cases?

It seems an interesting choice on Amzer's part to cover up the N900's user facing camera and proximity sensor.
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-08, 21:02
Replies: 8
Views: 2,802
Posted By gwax
Re: N900 from T-Mobile direct!

If it comes locked, just reflash it and go.
Forum: Applications 2009-12-07, 21:49
Replies: 64
Views: 33,478
Posted By gwax
Re: Comix or Comic Book Viewer for Maemo 5 (N900)

From previous experience, cbrpager served its purposes quite well on my old N810. That cbrpager is laggy or slow is not very surprising as it's still only in extras-devel. Being in extras-devel means...
Forum: Applications 2009-12-04, 22:37
Replies: 80
Views: 59,000
Posted By gwax
Re: key bar for xterm

dead_grave refers to the dead key (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key) for the grave accent (aka, backtick).

If you instead use:

~ $ gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/xterm/keys -t list...
Forum: Multimedia 2009-12-04, 22:09
Replies: 390
Views: 166,519
Posted By gwax
Re: gPodder 2.0 for Fremantle

I'm pretty sure that this is not a good way to handle things as it's generally a bad idea to make things explicitly depend on things that they don't NEED.

If you want to get your python optified,...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-11-20, 21:38
Replies: 18
Views: 6,844
Posted By gwax
Re: N900 & aeroplanes

Most airlines say that PDAs can be used as long as their wireless is disabled; the N900 is no different.

That said, there are a number of airlines that have started providing in-flight WiFi, which...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-11-11, 22:45
Replies: 28
Views: 7,290
Posted By gwax
Re: How good is Maemo/N900 really?

Here are some answers and my (biased) $0.02.



The N900 has the same core hardware as the iPhone 3GS, so it's not more powerful. There is, to my (possibly inaccurate) knowledge, no hardware...
Forum: Development 2009-11-11, 22:20
Replies: 25
Views: 14,890
Posted By gwax
Re: Gentoo x86_64 SDK

Having just gone through the process of installing the Maemo 5 Final SDK (http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Final_SDK_Installation) on my x86_64 Gentoo system, I'll tell you what worked for...
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