Nokia N900 Prototype Build B3
 

Hello everyone,

Here is the Nokia N900 Prototype Build B3.

The OS is dated: 15th calendar week of year 2009.
On commercial version, earliest published is 42th of 2009

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/567...otobuildB3.jpg

I had never seen a N900 proto. It's the first time.:)

In charge...

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/571130N900charg.jpg

If you have some questions we can try to discover it...

Regards,
Trevor.

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slighltly offtopic but we havent seen much from the original maemo 6 N950 ( before swipe ) . Anyway congrats and keep up showing prototypes :p

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Hi,

Some news screenshots:

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/847292201406163434.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/906788201406163436.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/806920201406163437.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/613142201406163438.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/293692201406163439.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/149237201406163440.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/582460201406163441.jpg

When I boot the device for the first time I have a mouse cursor on the screen and after it disapear.
What others pictures you want to see?

Trevor.

Re: Nokia N900 Prototype Build B3
 

Extract the image and upload it

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EDIT:

How to make a print screen?
combination of touch please?

Re: Nokia N900 Prototype Build B3
 

he meant a disk image of the software.. not a picture :p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_image

Re: Nokia N900 Prototype Build B3
 

ok I have tried Hold Ctrl and Shift and “P” without success

How to make a disk image with n900?

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you can use gstreamer command to take screenshots: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=141

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Why do you need a disk image? It's the same as the released one unless the proto is flashed with the RnD image.

And BTW you shouldn't have the proto in your hands.

N950 pre swipe from a sw point of view was more or less like N900 with a bit more eye candy.

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Now that would have been awesome. :)

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gst-launch-0.10 not found.
I need to install it but where can i download it?
and how to install it?

What version can i install?
http://maemo.org/packages/view/gstreamer-tools/

Thanks.

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Take photos with a camera :p also tell us what are visual diffrences in it

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i love the charge screen when device is switched off. can we have one for public N900's if possible ?

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I think that dump of nand memory could be usefull for that charge info on screen...

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Pali, how to dump NAND? I am sure with good instructions he can provide us that dump...

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An easy way is to use my last version of 0xFFFF tool. On N900 just call

$ 0xFFFF -E dump.fiasco

and it will dump & pack all images into one fiasco image in current directory under name dump.fiasco

0xFFFF thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=87996

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Just unpack file src/0xFFFF-arm from tarball 0xFFFF-0.6.tar.gz, copy to phone and run.

Re: Nokia N900 Prototype Build B3
 

Hello,

Thanks for all your helps :-)

Here are news pics: (first part)

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/136181201406173447.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/774566201406183454.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/824487201406183455.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/326293201406183456.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/463010201406183458.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/905775201406183459.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/964601201406183460.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/331694201406183461.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/158818201406183463.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/814703201406183464.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/695205201406183466.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/459032201406183467.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/250168201406183468.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/714001201406183469.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/649723201406183470.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/942439201406183471.jpg

There are a lot of differences between final and proto comparing OS.
If anybody can find all differences and post it here comparing pictures?

Thanks

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Pictures (second part):

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/380142201406183472.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/311824201406183473.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/995687201406183474.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/540153201406183475.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/268424201406183476.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/952458201406183477.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/290214201406183478.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/199538201406183479.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/618556201406183480.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/851156201406183481.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/327386201406183482.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/809502201406183483.jpg

Enjoy...

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Pictures (third part):

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/457494201406183484.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/232490201406183485.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/424072201406183486.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/887809201406183487.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/983933201406183488.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/596995201406183489.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/338022201406183490.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/796651201406183491.jpg

End :P

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You need to provide a dump as instructed by pali it will help more to discover things. :) thanx fox pictures :-)

Re: Nokia N900 Prototype Build B3
 

hey, is that an equalizer visualization in the right bottom corner of the media player?

i also like the desktop images

+1 for the dump

ot: with all that pictures, viewing the page 2 of this thread from the N900 it freeze the device and i have to kill the browser process :o

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For the dump, i need to connect the n900 to the pc or directly in n900? with his application.

I have here only windows seven.

can you explain me step by step please? to have an image.

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yes it's an equalizer to access to the music.

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Download 0xFFFF-0.6.tar.gz from that thread. Unpack it (e.g. in total commander). Then connect n900 in mass storage mode and copy unpacked file src/0xFFFF-arm to top level directory.

After that disconnect phone from computer, open xterm. Move copied binary to home folder, make it executable. After that become root and create dump:

$ mv MyDocs/0xFFFF-arm 0xFFFF
$ chmod +x 0xFFFF
$ sudo gainroot

After that you should see:

Root shell enabled

If not stop here! Post of all commands to this thread and we could help you.

If everything is OK, you are root, than continue:

# cd /home/user
# ./0xFFFF -E MyDocs/dump.fiasco

When program finish (it can take about 20 minutes!!) close everything and connect phone via mass storage mode. Than you should see file dump.fiasco and this is what we want :-)

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[OT]So I am not the only one! But my device does not freeze:
it does a nice reboot! :cool:
And this is not the first time but always on pages with that huge amount of picture MBs.
So now we are two (I am on PR1.3.1 non-CSSU, kp52).
Anyone else? So we might start a new thread about it? Or, as pali is actively reading ;), any idea how to solve that?[/OT]

--edit
This page here makes problems (as some other I do not remember too). But this and that do show without problems!

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i dont think the n900 could render anymore pages of this kind :( sure proxy browsers like operamini can handle with ease :)here firefox with 1gig ram on ubuntu ate 290 mb swap and cpu sky high fans guzzling on my 1.6ghz netbook?? Sure unity would get the bashing and kde on opensuse was good just 70mb swap with music and gazzilion tabs open i dont have widows anymore dont know what perfomance it could provide :D

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I have the same. killall browserd helps. Look at memory usage:

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Yeah, checked also with conky while letting browser load the page in background. It took some time but then swap usage increased up to around 700MB. And BANG (reboot)! :(
Possibly our little device cannot handle more than 768 MB of actively used swap?

Re: Nokia N900 Prototype Build B3
 

how about installing backupmenu and make a backup of everything? the charging ''thing'' it's using o different nolo version?

Re: Nokia N900 Prototype Build B3
 

0xFFFF backup eveything (xloader, nolo, kernel, initfs, rootfs)

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But not optfs where possibly the modified apps reside...

Re: Nokia N900 Prototype Build B3
 

yes, but additional /opt backup is easy and can be done via tar. btw, due to this fact it is probably not possible to restore backup of rootfs (from fiasco dump) via flasher...

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I want that charging with percentage and time :D

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@N950 dont mess with the proto much dump now :D and what the 32gb contains ?

Re: Nokia N900 Prototype Build B3
 

Here is my another N900 proto B3

Different OS version:

The OS is dated: 20th calendar week of year 2009.

I have one more but not check yet what OS version inside :p

Re: Nokia N900 Prototype Build B3
 

How many of these do u have now?

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Will you dump the nand for Pali and other devs?

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I have 3 N900 prototypes devices.

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Yes please! It's quite possible that this prototype build may include binaries built with debugging information. This would potentially be very useful to the Fremantle Porting Task Force. Both NAND and eMMC dumps would be great!