N900 Tips & Tricks & Shortcuts
 

Collection of N900 Tips & Tricks.
Feel free to contribute.

CTRL+SHIFT+P takes a screenshot.

CTRL+BACKSPACE brings up the Task Switcher

Long press on Task Switch icon brings you back to desktop

CTRL+SHIF+X brings up an X Terminal

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CTRL+SHIF+X brings up an X Terminal

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Nice thanks, cant wait to get my hands on the N900 :).

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The terminal one is pretty.

Follow the tag #n900tipstricks for more...

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Lots of keyboard and other goodies listed here! :)

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:DHi, check out the Nokia Exports blog for more Tips & Tricks.

http://nokiaexperts.com/tips-shortcuts-handy-tidbits-nokia-n900-user-guide/

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id love to check out the 'exports' blog! wheres my phone dammit?!?

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CTRL+SHIFT+S activates the self-destruct.

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Is there anything that activates self shipping?

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ctrl a+u+t+o, open a window and in there u re yelling: SHIP!!!!

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browser shortcut
BACKSPACE takes you back to the previously visited web page.

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hit ctrl and at the same time r (receive) and p (phone) and this will magically give the phablet to the next person waiting for their N900 to arrive.
Yes i said it.....it's a phablet! and a phabulous one at that.
a phabulous phablet.

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I try to look at this thread to see some tricks this phone can do and all I see is B****ing about the phone not shipping.
Quit hijacking threads there are enough threads of people complaining.

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way to complain dude.

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From the phone app drop down menu "turning control" allows you to set orientation, but also set it to launch the phone app when you turn the device to portrait. Seems to only work from the desktop.

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in gnome terminal, CTRL + I is "tab" for filename autocompletion

CTRL + FN brings up special symbols missing on keyboard

If your N900 is bricked and battery is dead, you cant reflash OR CHARGE BATTERY: You must get another charged battery or external charger (mine was 27euro)

Keep an eye on your free space on the root filesystem with the "df" command. Do not allow this to fill up. User data should be somewhere under MyDocs

If you find something broken or not to your liking, contact the author or maintainer or file a bug report. if you are used to other commercial products, your inclination might be to first whine about a problem in a forum such as this one. In the case of Maemo and open-source apps, you have an opportunity to directly improve applications and help shape the future in a positive way.

That is an amazingly empowering feeling, and it is the most important N900 "tip" that i can pass-on.

cheers :)

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If you lack a sense of humor I think the internet is the wrong place for you to surf...

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Hey there, what external charger did you get? you can just charge the battery directly? Is it an official Nokia OEM product? (vs. some cheap charger from ebay/china).

I ask because I really go through the juice on the phone, would be nice to keep a standby battery around, but charge it externally and not through the phone.

Thanks,

-chris

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How about just turn up the power of the cell tower and use that to charge your phone whenever it is powered on?

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The USB charging is "smart", but what about the dumb charger?

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I just read the extra's feature isn't enabled and this could be one of the problems of why widgets and such aren't working properly.

Can someone post on how to enable it?

I've looked through the downloaded manual and for some ******ed reason Nokia failed to list it, just like they have with all the shortcuts for the phone.

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I've just tried to wikify the shortcuts and gestures at http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_Shortcuts_and_Gestures based both on this thread and from various links.
Could someone please correct/merge the E-mail client and Conversations section, if they are the same?
Please feel free to add to it/correct it, in the spirit of wiki :)

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bitcrusher,i will have to print that when i get my N900 as a quick reminder. :) Btw thanks!

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That's horrendous!
So basically, that's like having a jailbroken iPhone with the new baseband, NEVER LET THE PHONE DRAINED
I don't want that..

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So if a firmware update has failed and your battery is flat, you can't switch the phone on to reflash it? How is this news exactly? Do you expect the N900 to suddenly acquire some sort of energy transfer capability all by itself?

Both of the N-series handsets that I've owned (N93 and N95 8GB) plus the N97 (which I spent 10 minutes playing with) will not allow you to carry out a firmware update on battery power alone.

Besides which, the box that your N900 comes in includes an external charger, yes?

Apologies if I've misunderstood what you're trying to say, but isn't this just a one to file in the "No s**t, Sherlock" drawer?

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I think you did misunderstand him.

If the root fs is filled and the phone basically won't boot because root is full and the battery has run down so you can't charge the battery.

So you have two problems, the root is full, you need to clear out so me of root so the OS will run, but you can't boot because maybe you had just bad luck and have a run down batt at the same time.

This is a problem, because having a process go rogue on you and fill up /var with a zillion messages happens. This fills up root and locks the file system. If this happens while you're snoozing and your batt runs down, ohh well...

If this can happen, I would put this in the "Real Bad" category.

That's how I interpreted "Bricked". It's been mentioned that if you fill root, your phone gets bricked.

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is it safe to delete the debs in /var/cache/apt/archives? I could free up 20MB doing so.

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Reflow = Ctrl + Shift + i

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kopte3, my pleasure :) Recently, in relations to my work, where I created a wiki for all our internal info/knowledge, I found out I really like Wikis :) I also made an N900 accessories wiki entry not long ago http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_Accessories

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Yes. The following command (from the root prompt) will also clean the archives:

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Unless things have changed in Maemo 5, the application manager will automatically do apt-get clean for you. It's only when you're doing manual operations that you could end up with files in /var/cache/apt/archives/
that can be removed with apt-get clean. It is, in any case, a safe operation though. The only reason to leave files there would be if you wanted to re-install something without having a network connection (it could read the .deb from the cache).

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CTRL+SHIFT+B automatically bricks your device :p

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Ctrl + Right Arrow = Move cursor to next text-input box. Cursor must be in an input box to begin with.

Ctrl + Left Arrow = Move cursor to previous text-input box. Cursor must be in an input box to begin with.

wiki updated

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Also, setting your username to "nuknuk" will kill your microphone.

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Someone mentioned you can set up the phone so when you change from panoramic to portrait the phone automatically goes into the phone application. Anyone have the steps to do this?

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A full list can now be found here - http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_Shortcuts_and_Gestures

Please update this list as you find them.

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Slightly off topic... People say type this in root command (i'm a noob...) Where's the root command?

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It's the Terminal

Also they mentioned root, I believe they meant running as the command as root

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1. open the Phone app.
2. click the drop down menu. select Turning Control.
3. check 'Launch by Turning'

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Something I just discovered. If your N900 is unlocked, double clicking the power button will lock the screen and keyboard no matter where you're at.