Thread: disable Nokia Account creation
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2012-10-19 , 13:01
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#17
Originally Posted by meemorph View Post

I think this done befre account creation and means: Nokia gets a SMS on first use an after every update or flash of device software. Nokia gets at minimum your phone number and may be IMEI, thats much better than an emai-address.
The same, or something similar, happens on the N900, which is why someone created the 'notmynokia' package, which seemingly prevents sending of those SMSs.

Edit: It does that by disabling startup of /usr/bin/cherry (started in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/34cherry).
Last edited by foobar; 2012-10-19 at 13:11.
 

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