I have one 770 that I played with a little bit. I have OS2007HE on it and it works pretty good. I got skype working on it, but could not get the built in SIP client (RTCOMM beta) to install. Anyone got this working on OS2007HE?

On the other hand, does Skype run on OS2008HE and how about the SIP client? (It should be already built in?) Any experience how well these work?

Skype has some problems with the recording codecs in 2008HE.

I installed 2008HE but my 770 was freezing and rebooting with everything (browser, media player etc) the virtual memory was set to maximum (64mb)
I don't know what's wrong. (any help to make it work is really appreciated)
After one hour I installed 2007HE and it looks a bit heavier than 2006 but seems to work. Again veeeeery low sound without headphones on some streams.

@p900, just done mine today but immediately transferred OS to 2G MMC (using penguinbait deb). So far looking good.

Does anybody know what are those files on the 2008He folder from Nokia,

INSTALL 67 "One liner"installation intruction for the FIASCO image
hacker2008-patches.tar.gz 4326 patches for OS2008
hacker2008-sources.tar.gz 10897820 sources for OS2008
hacker2008-tools.tar.gz 1098 perl script to find vfp compiled binaries
18 2008HACKER 4.2007.50-6 OR F5 MR0 ARM.bin Hacker Edition for Nokia 770 Internet Tablets

And what does it do and how to use them? TIA,

bun

I vote 2007HE or OS2006 (to be controversial)!

After having played with OS2008HE over the past week and installing it on the MMC with the fanoush speed patch I'm impressed with how it looks but it's very clunky.

Skype doesn't work, I haven't been able to get any media players working, I've had a number of instances where the application manager and browser have crashed and a few unexpected reboots too.

Sound is the biggest issue. Fine through the headphones but not through the speaker.

The browser is well-featured but sluggish. I installed flash 9 although some video works, there's no sound and it often crashes the browser.

I don't care about flash that much but I do want a useable Internet Tablet and the sound issue combined with lack of skype and slow browser means mean that OS2008HE isn't for me.

I'm sure in time some enterprising people will figure out how to patch the issues with this release but it's only a curiosity at the moment. When the issues are fixed I'll be the first to upgrade...until then, once you know what your device is capable of it's impossible to go back - even for eye-candy!

Interesting - I too flashed to 2008HE on my 770 and there are no sound issues...

Different hardware builds?

Not fair. My 770 also has sound issue. Please do all 770 users a big favor, how did you upgrade and what is in your app manager? I would clean the 770 from top to bottom to get the sound. No sound is really a big problem. TIA,

bun

yes, please, can you post the results of this:

uname -a

dpkg -l

thanks very much!

It's pretty disappointing that more hasn't been done or discussed on the os2008 front, especially regarding this sound issue.

There doesn't appear to be one bit of vaguely useful information on tweaking this version of the OS to make it more useable or any coherent threads on fixing problems that people have.

There doesn't seem to be a defined way to refer to the OS (2008HE , OS2008HE, 2008 Hackers Edition, Chinook on N770) so it's even a big hassle to try all the combinations of words to see if there has been any new developments on this forum.

Is it finally the case of OS2008HE/N770 RIP?