Re: N900 GPS Recalibration
GPS was developed by the United States Department of Defence and was intended for military use. Civilian access was granted in 1983 by US President Ronald Regan with a downgraded accuracy of +/- 100 metres. However, consumer grade GPS access has benefited since the year 2000 from the lifting of this restriction and now has an accuracy of +/- 10 metres, compared to the survey grade accuracy of +/- 10mm. The GPS system is still funded and maintained by the United States Department of Defence. The European Union is currently scheduled to launch a Global Navigation Satellite System by 2013. This system will be called ‘Galileo.' http://www.trackcompare.co.uk/how-does-gps-vehicle-tracking-work ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Go to beginning of document, N900?
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Frantisek Dufka wrote: Tommy Persson wrote: How do I go to the beginning of a document with the N900? It is very annoying when you for example scroll down on Facebook to read the new thing and then want to get back to the top of the page. The only way I have found is pressing shift-space many times but can it really be that this is the only way? One can edit platformHTMLBindings.xml file (as root) and add own keybindings. I don't have my N900 here so I don't know exact path but you can get it by running 'dpkg -L microb-engine-common | grep platformHTML'. Or maybe it is in microb-engine package. For N810 the file is in /usr/lib/microb-engine/chrome/toolkit/content/global Document top/bottom (cmd_scrollTop/cmd_scrollBottom) is currently set to ctrl+home/end which is not that helpful for N900 :-) Actually Home and End used to work in N900 (and it is easy to map some key combinations to those keys), but it was broken in PR1.1. The bug is marked as fixed for a few monthes: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7567 , but we still do not know whether N900 users will get to enjoy this fix. -- Matan. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Media Player in N900
On Monday 15 Mar 2010 10:00:01 maemo-users-requ...@maemo.org wrote: From: fluke box gentoomail.d...@gmail.com Hi All, Do we have something in Maemo File Browser, where we can add a file to current playlist ? Moreover, in N900 media player, there is nothing like add file to current playlist :-( (Or may be i am unaware). I would like to have nautilus like script based thing in maemo file browser for adding a file to current playlist. Moreover, i would like to write the same if that is not currently available. You can add files to the current playlist within the media player by pressing on the title until a context-menu pops up (I suppose the equivalent of a right-click) and that gives you the option you're looking for. At a higher level, you can do the same thing with a whole album. -- Tony Green Ipswich, Suffolk, England www.beermad.org.uk/ www.suffolkcamra.co.uk/pubs/ My PGP public key: www.beermad.org.uk/cgi-bin/pgp.cgi * No Micro$oft products were used in the generation of this communication ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
N900: Git / symlink weirdness on ext3 sd card?
I have my micro-sd card formatted as ext3. On that card, I have a git repository. In that git repository, I have some symlinks. On other computers with the same repository, the symlinks are symlinks. On the N900 however, the symlinks have become just files, whose only content is the name of the file they are supposed to target. So, foo should be a symlink to bar. But instead, foo is a file with contents bar. git status shows everything as normal -- it does not think anything has been modified or is weird. git reset --hard HEAD does not change anything. The filesystem does not appear to be otherwise corrupted. Any ideas what the heck is going on here? -- -John Sullivan -http://wjsullivan.net -GPG Key: AE8600B6 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900: Calibrating the accelerometers?
The accelerometers measure the acceleration along the 3 axes. When the N900 lies on the table, the z-axis points downwards, measuring the acceleration of gravity, which is 1g. If you tilt the device, portions of the gravity vector get measured by the x and y sensors. With the camera on it's back, the N900 does not lie flat on the table, so these values look OK. Martin 2010/3/15, Marcel tan...@googlemail.com: Am Montag, den 15.03.2010, 09:13 -0700 schrieb l...@soeiro.com.br: When my accelerometer is working (it gets stuck every time the N900 runs out of battery and is recharged) and I place it on a flat table, AccDisplay shows: X: 0.02 Z: -0.95 Y: 0.02 I could find any position where all variables become close to 0. Anyway, I don't know yet how it works. I guess the variables might be related to the current angle on that axis, but the angle is expressed from -1.00 to 1.00. Since it is called an accelerometer, isn't it supposed to tell the current acceleration in any axis? Yes, it is. Therefore it's correctly showing acceleration of -0.95m/s² downwards - which is the accel/force that makes you stay on the ground. I'd say the accelerometer is working perfectly well. (Implying the 0.02m/s² on x/y axes are caused by jitter.) Hello Marcel Did you intend to reply only to me or to the maemo-list? Sorry, I meant to reply to the list. CC'ed it now. Last time I checked, earth gravity's acceleration was 9.81m/s^2 ;-) Sounds reasonable actually... Joking aside, if it is measuring acceleration indeed it must be in another unit, right? If it's any unit at all. Maybe one could just convert it for human readability. Those values of 0.02 can be attributed to either small vibrations in the building where the table is placed or just hardware fluctuation. I just would like to make sense of the readings. If you get the same -0.95whateverunititis in every direction while rotating the N900, I'd guess at least the hardware works okay. Marcel ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Testing non-working FM transmitter
Hello, I have n900 with FW 3.2010-02-8 with Polish settings. My phone has been in service. After it returned I flashed it with PR1.1.1 and after few days noticed that FM transmitter is not working. When I try to enable it in Settings, all I can see on the screen in window with message FM transmitter disabled (Polish: Nadajnik UKF FM wyłączony) and OK button - no way to change frequency or enable it. I have changed regional settings to German, and got basically the same message. FM receiver seems to work - at least when I installed FM Radio I was able to receive station. How can I check if transmitter is not working because service broken something or it is some disabled setting? If so - how to enable it? Nokia Poland (to which I wrote about problems with service of my device) is silent about this problem. Best regards. -- Tomasz Rybak bogom...@post.pl GPG/PGP key ID: 2AD5 9860 Fingerprint A481 824E 7DD3 9C0E C40A 488E C654 FB33 2AD5 9860 http://member.acm.org/~tomaszrybak signature.asc Description: To jest część wiadomości podpisana cyfrowo ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N900: Calibrating the accelerometers?
Hi! Tuomo Tanskanen wrote: Is there really noone who knows how to calibrate the sensors? I can't find find the Talk thread right now, but IIRC the way to reset sensors was to shut down device and unplugging battery for a minute. I just tried and still get the same tilted readings (0.09, -1.04, 0.09) from the accelerometers. :-( Greetings, Gunter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
RE: N900: Calibrating the accelerometers?
When I set mine on a table, I get X: -.04 Y: 0.00 Z: -1.07 When I shift it onto the edge of a table so it isn't propped up by the camera lens cover, the numbers stay essentially the same, although X does fluctuate down to the -.02 to -.03 range. All of that said, for my purposes that seems to be more than close enough. Aldon -Original Message- From: maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org]on Behalf Of Gunter Ohrner Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 6:55 PM To: maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: Re: N900: Calibrating the accelerometers? Luis Listas wrote: When my accelerometer is working (it gets stuck every time the N900 runs out of battery and is recharged) and I place it on a flat table, AccDisplay shows: X: 0.02 Z: -0.95 Y: 0.02 Mine show X: 0.09 Z: -1.02 Y: 0.09 which translates to all applications using the accelerometers to consider the unit to be slightly tilted when it's lying flat an the surface of a table. (And yes, the table is not tilted. ;) On the contrary, I need to tilt the unit to let X and Y become zero ar to center XEyes' pupils. A friend's N900 shows the XEyes' pupils as expected, ie. centered while the device lies on its back. I do not know this device's raw values, however. According to a mail from Nokia I got today, there's no way to recalibrate the sensors... What accDisplay-readings do other units produce? Maybe some other N900 owners could post their values? Greetings, Gunter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: n900 merged facebook contacts reappear
Am 13.03.2010 20:29, schrieb daniel young: I have the same problem. Once I merge them then I get multiple instances of some facebook friends. On 3/13/10, Alexander Schröteraccou...@computational-chemistry.org wrote: Hi I have a problem with my N900. I use conversation with facebook. So automaticly all my facebook contacts get added to my phone. My problem is after merging them with their previous existing contacts they come back. They just appear again in the top level of my contacts. Can anybody confirm that behavior or tell me how to fix it on my device? Hi again I have found a bugreport. https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6859 As far as I can tell the Bugreport is a little chaotic and it is possible that 2 Bugs got mixed together. But it is very much possible that they are at least related if not the same. In my case the Bug seems to only be present with the facebook app from the package Extra protocol plugins for Conversations and Contacts version 0.8 which requires the Pidgin protocols plugin for Conversations and Contacts. And as a couple of people wrote the merged IM-account (facebook) does not get unmerged but recreated. Which suggests that there is something wrong with the check whether the IM-account already exists. If you too experience this problem please vote for the Bug https://bugs.maemo.org/votes.cgi?action=show_userbug_id=6859#vote_6859 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Testing non-working FM transmitter
Hmm, using FM transmitter should be legal in Poland http://europe.nokia.com/support/fm-transmission Have you tested if this works http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/simple-fmtx-widget/ hartti 2010/3/15 Tomasz Rybak bogom...@post.pl: Hello, I have n900 with FW 3.2010-02-8 with Polish settings. My phone has been in service. After it returned I flashed it with PR1.1.1 and after few days noticed that FM transmitter is not working. When I try to enable it in Settings, all I can see on the screen in window with message FM transmitter disabled (Polish: Nadajnik UKF FM wyłączony) and OK button - no way to change frequency or enable it. I have changed regional settings to German, and got basically the same message. FM receiver seems to work - at least when I installed FM Radio I was able to receive station. How can I check if transmitter is not working because service broken something or it is some disabled setting? If so - how to enable it? Nokia Poland (to which I wrote about problems with service of my device) is silent about this problem. Best regards. -- Tomasz Rybak bogom...@post.pl GPG/PGP key ID: 2AD5 9860 Fingerprint A481 824E 7DD3 9C0E C40A 488E C654 FB33 2AD5 9860 http://member.acm.org/~tomaszrybak ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
