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Forum: Nokia N900 2022-09-07, 13:44
Replies: 4
Views: 2,940
Posted By biketool
Re: Worn USB port replacement

It is(or was) a pretty standard surface mount USB port I have seen that there are two general designs one with the narrow part of the port on the solder pad and the other with the wide part near the...
Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste 2022-08-10, 14:14
Replies: 53
Views: 25,270
Posted By biketool
Re: Installation on Pinephone

A great writeup on the Leste subject especially the Mali 400 GPU on the PP.
https://medium.com/@camden.o.b/maemo-leste-might-be-right-for-your-pinephone-f0345485e8b1
Forum: Competitors 2022-08-10, 14:02
Replies: 86
Views: 27,067
Posted By biketool
Re: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 20XX?

The PP kb thumb typing ergonomics seem fine to me, easy better than a N900 but I could 4-6x finger peck, no touch typing though, but I have very large hands and thick fingers. The key switches are...
Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste 2022-08-02, 18:30
Replies: 53
Views: 25,270
Posted By biketool
Re: Installation on Pinephone

How well is the phone and SMS service working now?
I love the idea of deuvian and getting to use recompiled old Maemo apps again.
Is the Pine Keyboard driver in the latest builds? I want my...
Forum: Nokia N900 2022-07-24, 12:15
Replies: 3
Views: 2,926
Posted By biketool
Re: Suites with N900

Incorrect spammy bu11$hit above. Reporting this but it appears our reporting and deletion system is broken for now, was also a problem in the crypto donation payments thread. This is the bit-rot in...
Forum: Nokia N900 2022-07-04, 17:56
Replies: 4
Views: 3,352
Posted By biketool
Re: Triple-boot - Maemo 5 + Maemo 7 Leste + Android 2.3.4

Where do you get apps old enough to run on ancient android?
Forum: Nokia N900 2022-07-04, 10:36
Replies: 23
Views: 37,189
Posted By biketool
Re: Bitcoin server running on an N900

It should only need one more report to delete the post (linked below) for spam.
https://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1574324&postcount=20
I will delete my posts once the spam is gone.
Forum: Nokia N900 2022-07-04, 06:11
Replies: 23
Views: 37,189
Posted By biketool
Re: Bitcoin server running on an N900

ArthurT41, your very first post on TMO is spamming your crypto casino.
Please report his post and I will delete mine once ArthurT41's is gone.
Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste 2022-06-21, 19:18
Replies: 53
Views: 25,270
Posted By biketool
Re: Installation on Pinephone

Can leste now be run from a bootable SD on the PP to try it out?
I have current tow-boot for a bootloader.
Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste 2022-06-21, 16:26
Replies: 53
Views: 25,270
Posted By biketool
Re: Installation on Pinephone

Oh man...
so the telephone and SMS works...
Like no systemd?
flatpak?

This is seriously tempting, I still dont love Phosh vs maemo.
Currently running mobian on a 3/32 PP upgraded from a 1/16...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2022-06-16, 05:37
Replies: 7
Views: 4,234
Posted By biketool
Re: Garnet VM 2022 deb anyone? 2022 edition

What old palmOS apps are still relevant in 2022?
I can only imagine some sort of offline calculators.
The great thing about those old apps is they were self contained and did not expect live...
Forum: Community 2022-06-16, 05:34
Replies: 591
Views: 199,892
Posted By biketool
Re: How many of you still use N900 as main phone?

While I already had a Pinephone in-hand I could have continued with the N900 to this day had I not gotten the deballed SIM issue.
While I cannot access most websites with the browser on the N900 I...
Forum: Development 2022-06-12, 17:48
Replies: 17
Views: 21,673
Posted By biketool
Re: Editing n900's rootfs.jffs2

Oh $#!T it's Pali!!! OY! it has been a long time!
(edit)since 2019!!
Forum: Competitors 2022-06-06, 10:01
Replies: 3
Views: 4,677
Posted By biketool
A New Linux Notkia!! Candybar Form Factor

https://www.hackster.io/reimunotmoe/notkia-f6e772
Linux phone in the shape of Nokia, with LoRa+WiFI+BT connectivity, no built-in wireless carrier service.

Note: This is NOT a custom ROM for Nokia...
Forum: Brainstorm 2022-05-29, 16:30
Replies: 83
Views: 22,920
Posted By biketool
Re: Maybe it's time to do something with broken USB sockets?

To drift off topic I have to again thank Maemish for helping me kick the can down to road of time(about 4 years) trading some niche tomes.
Those N900s lasted just long enough for Mobian to mature to...
Forum: Nokia N900 2022-04-18, 08:14
Replies: 11
Views: 2,936
Posted By biketool
Re: Help! Have to read last SMS with broken touch screen

OK, yea you need H-E-N or USBcontrol to get that working, this is not USB OTG.....
Is there a keyboard shortcut to open and navigate the settings tray?
I think there is but I cant get my N900 to...
Forum: General 2022-04-17, 12:11
Replies: 8
Views: 3,921
Posted By biketool
Re: Cloning a N900 from backupmanager restore files

The flasher for Linux should work on both phones, I think the older 'tablets' too.
There is flasher-3.5 from Nokia and 0xfff a FOSS implementation of flasher which is on most linux repositories but...
Forum: Nokia N900 2022-04-14, 12:54
Replies: 5
9
Views: 2,547
Posted By biketool
9

Way off topic, does anyone still have the '9' movie trailer on their N900?
I sometimes feel like that was a prescient choice, way before the burning platform and all....
Forum: Nokia N900 2022-04-14, 12:51
Replies: 11
Views: 2,936
Posted By biketool
Re: Help! Have to read last SMS with broken touch screen

Mouse and KB should work with a microUSB adapter.
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2022-04-14, 12:43
Replies: 9
Views: 3,477
Posted By biketool
Re: What is your easiest way to reinstall N900?

this is my how-to form a while back.
Cloning a N900 from backupmanager restore files
https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=100595
If you can find the posts by JeorgRW on how to directly extract...
Forum: Maemo 7 / Leste 2022-04-14, 12:32
Replies: 3
Views: 2,409
Posted By biketool
Tow-Boot and Leste

https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2022/03/30/universal-images/
Mobian is moving to tow-boot to standardize images, I wonder what Leste users think of this solution and the ability to jump distros easily.
Forum: Nokia N900 2022-04-09, 16:58
Replies: 19
Views: 4,084
Posted By biketool
Re: The Dreaded SIM-X Death - forced everyday N900 to Pinephone/Mobian

The bad 1% is stuff like removing from pocket and finding that the phone has rebooted from a kernel panic and waiting for the disc password to boot or the audio is wonky maybe coming from the phone...
Forum: Nokia N900 2022-04-07, 10:16
Replies: 19
Views: 4,084
Posted By biketool
Re: The Dreaded SIM-X Death - forced everyday N900 to Pinephone/Mobian

It has a reasonable sound quality, still some backround noise but that might be fixed in software, calls work probably 99% of the time, reliable incoming wakeup works better than the N900, SMS in and...
Forum: Nokia N900 2022-04-05, 17:34
Replies: 19
Views: 4,084
Posted By biketool
Re: The Dreaded SIM-X Death - forced everyday N900 to Pinephone/Mobian

Seriously though if anyone can help me with the Bluetooth Network Access Point PAN profile UUID I could use eyes on the problem.
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16343
We have it working...
Forum: Nokia N900 2022-04-05, 12:35
Replies: 19
Views: 4,084
Posted By biketool
Re: The Dreaded SIM-X Death - forced everyday N900 to Pinephone/Mobian

No MMS yet everything else you ask about is good.
The camera is now working 100% the last few days since they got the QR reader working in-app. Strangely many apps cant access the camera and the...
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