Re: Diablo released
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So... As someone who hasn't been following Diablo, doesn't use a mail reader on my N800, already has my accounts and service providers set up, never sees Chinese characters outside of spam, and rarely/never zooms web pages, is there any reason for me to bother flashing my tablet (for the last time?) today instead of waiting for Diablo + 1? Visually, the absence of double-taps on the vkb and jerky finger panning in the browser are both big improvements that I noticed immediately. Other than that, you won't notice huge changes. Whether the seamless updates matter to you when going from major version to major version, it is certainly better having a more robust application manager that is capable of such things. I have already been impressed at how it handled reinstalling my apps after flashing and failing gracefully on the apps that were missing from diablo repositories. It is definitely more solid. Also, while Diablo will run the vast majority of apps built for Chinook today, the same cannot be said for future apps built for Diablo running on Chinook since they may require versions of libraries that got updated in Diablo; particularly those requiring libssl as security patches may make it into 0.9.8 (diablo) that won't make it into 0.9.7 (chinook). You also may have to wait a *long* time for another updated firmware to come out whereas you probably won't have to wait long for updates (feature, security and bugfixes) to start trickling through via SSU. In the end, no one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to reflash. But in my experience, after making a backup just before reflashing and letting the first-boot process restore it after, the reflash was the least painful that I have encountered so far. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: How to flash the N810 to Diablo
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Rick Bilonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new at this (N810). How does one flash the newest version of OS 2008 (which I'm assuming is named Diablo)? See the instructions at the following site if you are running Windows on your desktop: https://www.nokiausa.com/A4686323 /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Roaming connectivity (was Re: Newbie to maemo lookig for advice
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Peter Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are any other N*** users doing this? Yes. I find the FON router firmware somewhat flakey though and the router locks up after a long uptime. But if you power cycle it occationally, it works OK. I also subscribe to the Boingo Mobile as it is a pretty cheap plan and I've seem a lot of those hotspots in my travels ... especially at airports. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: gpe contacts import
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's unfair too. You have to listen to the strong voice, just not take it personally. Look at just what is the goal here. Fixing bugs, right? So snarking off on users that find the current process for initiating that difficult is counterproductive, if not damaging. Maybe some users are not computer savvy. Bugzilla is clearly for professional-grade testers/QA not for the general public. Create a test case? Yikes. TANSTAAFL Expecting someone to put the bit of effort into detailing their problems is the smallest price to pay to have them fixed. Bug tracking software allows the developers to be a lot more efficient at staying on top of diagnosing issues than juggling a bunch of unstructured, vague, ranty emails. The fact that you have to do some email validation/registration process (similar to signing up for a mailing list) and you can't just reply back to the bug tracker via email is an unfortunate consequence of our spam-infested Internet. I found it deeply ironic that the OP complained about developers not valuing his time while completely disregarding the value of the developer's time by transferring the entire burden of mind-reading/diagnosing/fixing onto the developer while the OP got to vent his spleen in a cathartic insulting email. That is not an entirely equitable trade. As some guidance from someone who doesn't think registering to a bugzilla as an insurmountable burden (and to try to steer this thread on a productive course), some of the things that, in my opinion, would be important to see in this bug report (and why they are important) would be : - What software was used to produce the multi-contact vcards? (possible buggy production of vcard file in which case you can only expect GPE to not die on garbage input) - What OS was the vcard file produced on? (possible issues with parsing different end-of-line characters among other things) - A test case, aka simplified sample, of the vcard file that is causing the issue. (would be able to quickly determine if it was bad input, bad parsing, special character encoding, etc.) - When the issue started or has it been there from day-one? (to determine if it was a regression in recent changes to quickly pin-point the source of the bad code) - What hardware/OS is GPE being used on? (to see if the developer has the right platform to test the fix or has to rely on the user to test it) Hopefully the OP can fill in these gaps because no one else can. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Can't become root :-(
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made the mistake of trying fennec on my N800. *BIG* mistake! Not only was it completely unusable without a hardware keyboard, it screwed up MicroB as well. Without access to settings in fennec, I could no longer access any web functions that require javascript. It also screwed up the login memory function - now I have to fill in the username manually, even though I've already chosen it out of the list, before it will fill in the password, thereby defeating the whole purpose of that function. (Through all this, the settings in the dialogs in MicroB remained the same, although I did try changing them and then changing them back to see if that would reset things.) I did run into the same issue. But only with a few sites and not all of them. I never drew the connection between my problems and installing/uninstalling fennec. I guess it was the sites that I visited using fennec that got their settings clobbered in MicroB. I will try to delete and remake the stored passwords and see it that helps. Not to be unsympathetic (because I am and believe that this sort of thing shouldn't happen), but if you are installing something as raw as fennec, you are living out on the bleeding edge. Expect to be cut once in a while. I don't recall warnings to that effect on the fennec installation. Just the default warning about third-party apps which everyone has been trained to ignore since you can't install much without that popping up. Having said that, the warning is sound. If you install stuff from third-party repos, you have to accept some responsibility of breakage. The QA that goes on in most of the repos needs to improve but for now you have to be aware that it is minimal. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: gpe contacts import
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Mark Haury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Markevich wrote: Strong words, snip Yeah, I apologize about that to the innocent bystanders on the list. However, that insulting, sarcastic attitude of many developers and experts gets very old very quickly, especially when one is bending over backwards to try to help. Way to bite the hand that feeds you. Developers and experts are not your slaves and have priorities and processes of their own. If your goal is to have their priorities align better with your priorities, verbally abusing them is not a sound tactic. I think you may have just taken the express route to people's ignore list. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: bugzilla not editable
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Jussi Kukkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just in case no-one's reported this yet: bugs.maemo.org has been read-only for four days. Below is an example of what happens when I try to vote (at around 11:05 UTC today). That's one way to keep the bug-count down ;] /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Internal Memory Read Only?
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Scott Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, my internal memory is now mounted as a read only filesystem. Not sure how this happened. How would I go about making it read write again? I have a 4 GB MiniSD card that I have recently put into the system. That shouldn't have caused the Internal memory to go read only though should it? Sounds a lot like the memory filesystem corruption that has hit many people. If you have trouble redownloading the maps from within the app, you can try the instructions here: http://maemogeek.blogspot.com/2008/03/maps-for-nokia-os2008.html I went through the same thing and reformatting the FAT32 internal card from my computer while I had the tablet plugged into the USB port worked like a charm. Update your OS2008 to the latest version too as there were some fixes related to this problem relative to the version that ships with the tablet. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
xournal and gnumeric not playing along (OS2008)
Hi, It seems that after installing xournal (from mango.dia.unisa.it), gnumeric (from repository.meamo.org) does not install cleanly (or vice versa) since xournal uses libart-2.0 (via libgnomeprint2.2 dependancy) and gnumeric uses libart-2.0-2 (via libgoffice-0-6 dependancy). At least that is what I am decyphering from the error output of apt-get -f install and apt-get remove libart-2.0. Could the packagers of these two apps agree on a common package name so that one could install both at once and not have both libarts stomping all over one another in providing /usr/lib/libart_1gpl1_2.so.2? Thanks, /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: New member...new help understanding how to download, and install apps....
On Feb 9, 2008 5:20 AM, Richard Mighty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, Just received my N800 Friday, I have a question regarding downloading, and installing applications. I'm currently trying to download a SSH client server app, 'Dropbear', I've tried downloading the .deb file from Dropbear site tried to install to no avail, then tried downloading .tar.gz file same thing - what am I doing wrong Take a look at: http://tabletschool.blogspot.com/2007/10/nokia-n800-finding-and-installing-new.html This tutorial is a bit outdated since it is pre-OS2008 but it is still quite relevant as the steps are still the same. They have some nice tutorials to do common tasks at Internet Tablet School. By far, the best method of installing software is through the Application Manager but the trick sometimes is setting up the right combination of application catalogues. Some of the third party ones don't play well with each other or are very OS specific. Stick with the maemo.org ones and you won't get into too much trouble. Like others have said OpenSSH is there in Maemo Extras and works very well on the N800. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: conserv battery live
On Feb 4, 2008 2:21 AM, Ryan Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andres Vargas - zodman wrote: somebody know abouts tips for make my battery during more time ? I'd suggest searching the archives and InternetTabletTalk.com for hints. What I do is turn down screen brightness and disable bluetooth and wifi if I really need battery, enabling only what I need. Along with Ryan's suggestions, the things I do are: - Set display Brightness period to the lowest setting that is usable. - Set Switch off display to lowest setting that is usable. - Make sure that the apps that you use are not constantly running processes in the background. Sometimes it means not installing the apps. Sometimes it means turning town refresh frequencies. Sometimes this means not running the desktop applet portion of applications. - When not mobile, keep the tablet plugged in so that the battery is completely full when you leave the proximity of a power socket. The charging circuit will stop charging when the battery is full. Doing these things, the only time I run out of battery is when I use my tablet *a lot* during the day. If you are running out of battery in an unusually short period of time, you might have a faulty battery. It is known to happen. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Canola2 beta2 is out!
On Feb 2, 2008 8:52 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 2, 2008 5:18 AM, Michael Wiktowy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 1, 2008 9:14 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Canola2 beta2 is out, fixing lots of issues reported by users and even adding new features. Thanks for the update. It is definitely more responsive. Start up is a little slow but at least it keeps you informed. Actually it starts up faster than the previous, but now you have a visual clue when the UI is loading so you get the impression If it's up, why don't it let me do my things already. Our major problems right now are DBus activation of Canola-Daemon (that will start yet another process) and then having it to check for DB consistency. To improve the situation here, we could do like Canola1 and not kill Canola-Daemon, it would start faster, but then we'd waste your precious RAM while we're not running. NB: atabake and canolad will shutdown themselves after a while when they notice no users are connected. Leaving persistent daemons around is definitely *not* the way to go. RAM is not in huge supply and it might interfere with all the power-saving on the tablets. My comment was to indicate that the messages keeping you informed of the startup delay progress was a good thing. The startup time is acceptable. We all want things to start up instantaneously ... but reality often gets in the way. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: videoconference on 3 os
On Jan 29, 2008 4:14 AM, Kahlil Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does gtalk has video support? Only between tablets AFAIK. Strangely enough, they haven't added video support to their Windows client as of yet. Perhaps Wengophone will work but I have not tried it yet. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N810 integrated left speakers sound quality
On 1/25/08, Jean-Christian de Rivaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I wonder if my N810 have a fault in his speaker left channel, if this is a design problem, or if this can be a software problem (error in a DSP code ?). Can someone try to test his N810 using the above URLs and share his experience ? Only the integrated speaker is to test, the line out jack sound very good. Sounds to me like an external left speaker hardware problem with your unit. Possibly a loose connection. While I have found the bass response on the N810 to be not that great, it is acceptable for the size of the speakers and even between the two. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Updating maps N810
On Jan 21, 2008 4:00 PM, Iñigo Illán Aranburu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just one link... http://www.google.es/search?ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=red+pill+mode Another option is to login as root (using the various techniques like becomeroot or installing openssh, which will prompt you to enter a root password and then logging on with that via 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]') and then just do an 'apt-get install map' Nokia screwed up in signing the original map app and then not signing the upgrade. That check that the App Manager does is for your protection from third-party apps trying to overwrite critical core bits of the OS. In this case, it gets in the way because Nokia forgot to sign the update. Has anyone put this into bugzilla yet? Seems like a simple fix. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Hosed 810's internal 2G flash drive...
On Jan 20, 2008 1:54 PM, Michael R. Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried reflashing the OS with RX-44_2008SE_2.2007.50-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin, but it's still coming up read-only. I wouldn't expect reflashing the firmware to fix a problem on the internal flash drive. That process does not touch that space. Since you were experiencing crashes before this happened, it is entirely possible that your internal flash drive was the cause of the instability (particularly if you had a virtual memory file on it) and not the consequence of it. So I guess my question is this: Is it possible to recreate the /media/mmc2/map folder if I do a mkfs on the drive? You can remove/change/download the maps from within the Navicore map application. So it shouldn't be a problem. When I installed OS2008 on my N800, the maps were not included in the firmware image. It allowed me to download the maps that I wanted without any issue. It took a while since they are large files though. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: OS2008 Damn ugly!!!
On Dec 26, 2007 8:07 PM, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: inode0 wrote: On Dec 26, 2007 6:25 PM, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I've installed OS2008, how do I get it to look acceptable? The current screen, no matter what theme I select is damn ugly and makes me want to go back to OS2007. Is there any way to restore the appearance of OS2007 to replace this crap??? Someone worked hard to create the object of your ridicule. What purpose does this sort of rhetoric serve aside from likely hurting the feelings of those who created the new theme? Would it be so hard to say I sort of like the old theme better, is there any way to restore that on OS2008 instead? Just a thought ... Some things are so ugly, it's not possible to be polite. Ugliness is subjective. Politeness is always possible and generally required on a mailing list if you want a positive response. I happen to like the new themes. I also happen to like the idea of making the old theme available in the new OS since consistency is best with users who are unfamiliar with computers and/or get freaked out by change. Perhaps you can look into converting the old one over and sharing it with others who share your aesthetic sense. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Will repository.maemo.org be fixed?
On Dec 23, 2007 9:39 AM, Jonathan Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Added my comment and vote. Just ridiculous actually at this point ... Pretty irritating indeed. Added my vote to https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2620 I have been trying everything I can think of to manually download all the packages needed for canola2 and cobble them together using apt-get and dpkg directly but akamai has a good chunk of them replaced with caches of that error page :[ Is there not a mirror of repository.maemo.org somewhere? Is it rsync-able? /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Will repository.maemo.org be fixed?
On Dec 21, 2007 7:38 PM, Michael Wiktowy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 21, 2007 8:37 AM, Laurent GUERBY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2531 That bug indicates that the issue is closed and it is fixed. I certainly isn't on my end. Found out that some of my problem is transparent web proxies caching the service unavailable html pages and constantly serving then up to me ... Stupid Sympatico :[ I managed to ssh into my home computer and downloaded the packages one by one there and transferred them from there. What a pain! /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job
On 11/29/07, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2007 01:42:19 pm Frédéric Crozat wrote: Le jeudi 29 novembre 2007 à 21:28 +0100, Laurent GUERBY a écrit : On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 23:43 +0100, Frédéric Crozat wrote: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667 Well, documentation for enabling A2DP is extremely scarce atm, even in this bug report. I'm not sure if I'll keep my BT headset or ask for a refund. On IRC I was told there was work done on it, I suggest adding a comment with your model and problem on the above bugzilla. Well, I've spend part of this afternoon at Mandriva office into fixing / enabling Audio bluetooth on Mandriva cooker and I've been successful into directing using ALSA output to headset (either in HSP or A2DP) or using gstreamer a2dp sink (from bluez-utils). Some dbus queries are needed to enable a2dp, which is why it can't work out of the box on IT2008. I'll do more test on n800 this week-end and report here. Fredric, I had my stereo phones working on OS2007 but with kagu only. Here kagu won't yet install. I'll be on mine as well over the weekend and If I get any kind of success I'll send you info. As near as I can tell the key is getting ESD to work sending sound to a device created in the .asoundrc file. Alsa seems to be where most of the docs apply information. Like I said I owe you enough from my past life with Mandrake that I'm hoping I can help you out here. James ___ 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: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job
On 11/29/07, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had my stereo phones working on OS2007 but with kagu only. Here kagu won't yet install. I was running into problems with Kagu not installing in OS2008 too. I had to install python first. Then Kagu would continue installing and runs fine. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job
On Nov 27, 2007 10:18 AM, nick loeve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Been playing with the beta. Looks awesome! Great work... the changes to make the GUI fit the form factor are very very nice... The development of the GUI over the OS releases would be a good case study for some Interaction/UI students. :) There are a few quirks but I agree. With OS2008 it is like a whole new (and better) device. Everything is blazing fast compared to OS2007 and there doesn't seem to be any glaring brokenness. A little bit of overclocking goes a long way :] The new transparent UI looks great and dragging things around on the desktop is a breeze. Photo viewing (with automatic aspect portrait/landscape adjustment) is snappy. Much smoother media/flash viewing. Much more standard infrastructure so that you can cross-compile easier. I love rtcomm and how it integrates all the IM/VoIP under one app. The mozilla-based browser works very well. Pretty spectacular guys ... well worth the wait. Two thumbs up! I'll keep digging and bugzilla things as I find them ... but it is not easy work anymore ;] /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job
On Nov 27, 2007 5:07 PM, Acadia Secure Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, its the OS2008 on the N800 faster because of software redesign or has the hardware been reconfigured by means of a different software setting to run at a higher speed than OS2007? I would assume the former but I am not familiar with the details of the N800 processor. Like Jonathan said ... It is my impression that it is a little from column A and a little from column B. The hardware that the tablets use allow you to balance power consumption with speed. Now that they are bringing power consumption down with smarter use of cpu usage, bluetooth and wifi, they can afford to bump up the cpu power to keep the same expected battery life. With my usage, I haven't noticed any effect on battery life but there is a huge difference in speed. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job
On Nov 27, 2007 5:26 PM, Jonathan Jesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 27, 2007 4:44 PM, Jason Whelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its available here - http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3910524 So it is still unsupported then? Everything I was trying to read said November 2007 so I just wondered where I could find it The firmware is available at the usual spot on Nokia's site ... it is just a painfully slow download and a much bigger firmware (130 MB vs 90 MB) so someone put up a torrent. From the announcement, this version of OS2008 is a beta and for early adopters who are tolerant of rough edges and are willing to report them. If you want something rock solid and officially supported by the Nokia help line, I think you have to wait until the 15th of Dec or so. Having said that, other than the fact that not all the extra apps are available for it yet, OS2008 has been working quite well for me. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job
On Nov 27, 2007 6:34 PM, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laurent, Stereo headphones? In my case, it worked with my Jabra 8010 stereo headset in that I could hear mono sound from the SCO profile through both speakers. But full A2DP sterso sound is not quite working out of the box yet. The pieces are appearently there but not enabled without some degree of hackery. I had the A2DP working with OS2007 with Kagu so I would imagine that it would be possible with OS2008 too but I haven't gotten to looking up how to do it yet. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N800 headphone
On Nov 3, 2007 10:59 AM, Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the link I posted previously should really be compatible (since it was a stereo headset for the n76). It certainly is a good indicator that it will work but it is not guaranteed to. The N76 could have electronics inside that detect and adapt to headphones with different ring pin-outs on their jacks where as the N800 may not ... I don't know. It would be very stupid for Nokia to not standardize their headphone pin-outs. But if the complete non-standardization of AV cables with the same plug is any indication, the great thing about standards is that there are so many of them. (1) That is an incredibly good deal though. /Mike (1) http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2006/04/zen-vision-m-video-cable-other-4pole-35mm-pinouts.php ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N800 headphone
On Nov 1, 2007 9:18 PM, Peter Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like the guy on Ebay who sold me the N800 left out the headphone and can't find it. Duuh. I can't locate a replacement (perhaps unsurprisingly) and the Nokia dealers here (Ireland) seem to be phone-only people and haven't come across the N800. Does anyone know of a place to buy a replacement? The Nokia web site is all Flash about phones and doesn't seem to deal with spares. It is an Nokia part number HS-48 Stereo Headset (1) ... which is also compatible with the N76 phone (2). The other wired headsets that seem to be compatible with the N76 phone (and presumably the N800) are: * Nokia Stereo Headset (HS-43 (in-box)), * Nokia Music Headset (HS-45/AD-43), * Nokia Headset (HS-41) It also seems that the N810 has the same headset included in its package contents (3) ref: (1) http://europe.nokia.com/A4305063 (2) http://web.nseries.com/nseries/v3/media/sections/products/tech_specs/en-R1/tech_specs_n76_en_R1.html#Contents (3) http://europe.nokia.com/A4568593 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N800 USB and radio
On 10/29/07, Peter Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short: a) yes, there is a real FM tuner. You need to have earphones plugged in to receive a signal. Aha. I got my N800 off eBay and never noticed the earphone missing. While the radio and stereo output will work will regular headphones plugged into the jack, the headphones that come with the N800 are special in that they have some extra rings on the plug that carry microphone and button push signals into the N800. I think that this may a shared feature with other Nokia phones so you may be able to pick up the right style headphones at any mobile phone shop. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support
On 10/18/07, Tilman Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! First of all: Thanks for your review! You wouldn't believe how few feedback you get these days: The mogg d/l counters show that quite some people try it, but we get no feedback. So you're tempted to believe everybody is happy. So thanks again! Steve Greenland schrieb: Current state of ogg support, 17-October-2007. Firstly, for some unknown reason there are *two* different ogg support packages. One, from Tuomas Kulve, I'll call 'ogg-support'. The second, by Marko Nykanen and Tilman Vogel (according to the garage page,but see below), is 'mogg'. Yes, this is unfortunate. I think mogg existed first and I was surprised about the second attempt, but on the other hand at that time none of the mogg people had an IT OS 2007 scratchbox set up, so nobody can be blamed. I (silently - my fault) had hoped somebody (maybe Tuomas Kulve) would contact us to join on mogg some day and support it on the N800. Anyway, I did some clean-up work on the gstreamer tremor plugin. Some of these changes make it work with the maemo audio player and kagu. The changes are documented and can easily be diffed between the upstream tremor plugin and the mogg version. I mentioned this to Tuomas Kulve and he offered me to join his project. I have not responded yet and the reason is that he tries to maintain the whole gstreamer-plugins-bad package. I didn't want to do this as I was just interested in the tremor codec and because the package is quite edgy, I decided to separate the tremor plugin into its own package. I am really not keen on going back to the bad package. Actually, as soon as tremor get's kind of maintained again, it should leave the bad package anyway. Plus, I don't have an N800, so, blame me, I am a bit egoistic about investing more work in this, but vice versa, I'd be happy to have N800 developers (Tuomas?) on the mogg project! Mogg is available from r.m.o extras. Yea. The packages file shows the maintainer for 'mogg' to be Jussi Kukkonen. Libraries are pulled from r.m.o when available, no obvious dupes. Ok, I'll update that soon. Jussi Kukkonen recently left the project out of time constraints. Onto the players. Built in media player: doesn't work. Mogg claims that it should (and maybe it does in the IT2006 version), but it doesn't even find the files on the card. (It does find MP3s.) Ok, I am interested in this because it works on IT OS 2006. Do you have any hints, which files might be missing/wrong? /usr/share/mime/packages/ogg-vorbis.xml should register *.ogg as audio/x-vorbis and it seems on IT OS 2006, the audio player shows all files of type audio/*. So, long story short (too late!) I'm using kagu with the mogg libraries. Yes, me too. Thanks again! This is good discussion. I hope that all the splintered ogg implementations come together. I have not gotten any of them to work satisfactorily on the built in media player and only maginally on some of the third-party players. The ogg/tremour codec should be pushed down the the infrastructure level ... it is a bit crazy to carry around multiple versions of it so that oggs can be played in different players ... especially on an embedded device. I would seem that everyone (including Nokia) is waiting for someone else to pull everything together. Maybe all implementors can get focused around the appropriate bugzilla ( https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176 ) and hash out a common gstreamer codec so that everyone can benefit from it and benefit from any future fixes. Now is the time since everything (including all the media players) will need to be rebuilt for Chinook. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: 4.2007.38-2 available
On 10/2/07, Gary Baribault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK then, can I beat up on them? I agree, this is a lousy way of doing the updates, I cannot suggest this device to anyone if every time there is an update, all applications have to be re-installed!! Why can't the update take a proper#full backup to a flash card, dump a list of applications, and after the flash, re-install the latest updated applications? It would have to be possible to overide, since some applications would need to be updated, and it should be possible to tell the device to go aheah and wipe everything out, but what where going to have here soon is many devices out of date because people don't want to go through with the update and then 2 - 4 hours of re-installs. That's not only dangerous but very lousy for the reputation of the device. This conversation has been had many times in the past and Nokia has resisted it since it complicates updates in a huge way. It is a fact that it is more difficult to do this on a resource constrained system like the Internet Tablets than on a regular desktop. Now Nokia realizes that users really really want this and are putting in the resources to make it happen according to their presentations. I suspect that we will see it in Chinook or (more likely) Diablo. However, I think people's perceptions that Nokia not offering this functionality in the first place is an outrage against Nature are born from their mistaken belief that the Internet Tablets are just a small desktop machine and have the same constraints and should behave the same way. Reality is that they are much closer to the resource constrains of a cell phone and I don't know of a single cell phone that doesn't just wipe everything that isn't on the SIM or external memory card on a firmware update ... if they offer a firmware updates at all. Just look at the iPhone firmware fiasco happening right now. The iPhone has about the same resource contraints as an N800. Apple is not even letting users *install* third party apps and are intentionally bricking them if they have hacked it open. So compared to that user-hostile treatment, living with a Nokia device is not so hard to take. All that being said, I am not sure how many apps you have but reloading my IT after a firmware update has never taken me 2-4 hours. There are things that you can do to make it much quicker. Make a backup on the external card. That will save your bookmarks, preferences ... pretty much everything except your installed apps. If you save the .install file (or the .deb file for those apps without one) each time you install an app, it is trivial to figure out what you need to install again after a firmware update. If you keep your application data on an external memory card, it will be nearly instantly accessible once you do reinstall. The data on the internal card will be instantly accessible once you restore the backup. Just a few thoughts to make your update less traumatic. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: 4.2007.38-2 available
On 10/2/07, Jac Kersing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Michael Wiktowy wrote: Reality is that they are much closer to the resource constrains of a cell phone and I don't know of a single cell phone that doesn't just wipe everything that isn't on the SIM or external memory card on a firmware update ... Sorry, not true. All (recent) S60 devices are firmware upgradable, backup before, flash new firmware, restore and all applications are available. (Somehow they forget to save/restore the bluetooth pairing information, but everything works just fine) I can assure you that it is true that I didn't know of a single cell phone of this type before ;] Now I do ... can you install third-party apps on it and it restores all those too or does it just restore the built-in apps like the tablets do currently? All that being said, I am not sure how many apps you have but reloading my IT after a firmware update has never taken me 2-4 hours. Having to reinstall is a pain. Enabling blue pill mode for some packages. Resetting the root password after install of sshd. It is not cool to have to do every OS upgrade. Don't get me wrong. I do agree that this needs to be fixed. In fact, I complained to Nokia pretty soon after the very first firmware update of my 770 after buying it right after coming out nearly two years ago now. My points were that: 1) Nokia has heard these complaints and have committed to acting on them. As far as I know, they have not guaranteed this will come with Chinook. It is a much harder problem than it seems involving a lot of infructructure and the cooperation of third party repos. 2) Nokia allowing massive customizability and then yelling at them for not accomodating people who tweak them to the max is not productive. The easy avenue for Nokia is to just not allow third party apps like Apple does with the iPhone. The comparison with the iPhone was just on the basis of similar hardware (CPU speed, memory, etc.) not a comparison of functionality. The apps that come with the firmware reinstall quite nicely with next to zero time for reconfiguration. However, I think that everyone would agree that this option would suck. 3) I suggested ways that would make these 2 hour+ reinstallations/reconfigurations shorter next time. I can see situations where people digging into config files and making custom tweaks and setting up the tablet to have the same private key for sshd it had the last time would take them a long time to redo. However, if people are talented enough to dig around in and edit the config using the command line, they are surely talented enough to add all those config tweaks into a script that they can save and run in a few seonds after reinstalling exactly two apps ... xterm and becomeroot. But reinstalling a few more apps? If you keep the the .install and .deb files around it doesn't take long. What app for the tablet takes so long to reconfigure once it is installed? If it takes so long to get set up right or work around problems, it is probably a problem with the app that needs to be reported to the creator of it. Most Linux apps pick good defaults right out of the box. I am sometimes frustrated at the pace of development too but helping with development is probably more effective than beating up Nokia. Even non-coders can help by filing bug reports and offering technical support to new users. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Anyone run Xournal successfully on N800?
Hello, I used to run (and enjoy) previous versions of Xournal on previous firmware for my N800 and it worked well. However, the latest version (that has been out for a while now) with more recent firmware seems to run and it detects stylus taps but as soon as I start to take notes, it bogs down, takes up 100% CPU and causes my tablet to become completely unresponsive for a time that depends on how long I scribbled with the stylus. It looks like it is working really hard to draw the lines on the screen but never does. Is anyone else having this issue? /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Anyone run Xournal successfully on N800?
On 8/1/07, Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Which version of xournal do you use? It's working fine on my N800 with the latest firmware. I've installed etrunko's version and combined it with my patch from here: http://henryykt.googlepages.com/xournalforn800. Xournal v 0.3.1 from etrunko's repo ... I didn't know about your fix. I will give it a try. What was broken for the N800? /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Anyone run Xournal successfully on N800?
On 8/1/07, Michael Wiktowy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/1/07, Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Which version of xournal do you use? It's working fine on my N800 with the latest firmware. I've installed etrunko's version and combined it with my patch from here: http://henryykt.googlepages.com/xournalforn800. Xournal v 0.3.1 from etrunko's repo ... I didn't know about your fix. I will give it a try. What was broken for the N800? Works like a charm now ... thanks a lot! das manga: check the url at the bottom of every single message you get from this list. You can unsubscribe yourself there. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Skype Update?
On 5/9/07, Rainer Dorsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With non-Gizmo servers I saw frequently the first seconds missing in a call (not sure if that is by accident). That rendered it unusable for me. I was trying with sipgate.de, all desktop VOIP clients worked well with that SIP server. That really isn't limited to non-Gizmo servers ... it happens on the Gizmo servers too. I had reported it and was told that it was a hardware CPU limitation issue that causes some time to set up the data stream once the connection is made. I am sure things could be done with setting things up while the line is ringing but they seem to be working on other things than optimizing for the 770/N800. I hope that Ekiga shows up on the 770/N800 some day ... Either way, if you can get over the few second delay on pick up with Gizmo, the call quality is good with very few dropouts (fewer dropouts than mobile phones but more than land-lines with voice quality better than both). /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Skype Update?
On 5/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I reluctantly gave up on Gizmo because I couldn't get it to work on my PC, laptop or N800. Odd, because I've had no problems with GoogleTalk, GAIM, etc. I'm hoping Skype comes out soon so I can give it a shot. That is odd. It has worked fine on every system I own. There was some SELinux issues on some test releases of Fedora Linux that I had to report and fix but other than that, it has been pretty painless to install. What were your issues? /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Skype Update?
On 5/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest one that comes to mind was the inability to login. I was successful a couple of times on my laptop, zero times on PC and N800. That randomness and inconsistency was puzzling. In the same environments (I tested 2), why was the laptop the only one that could successfully log in? And at that, why was I only successful a couple of times? Every other time I encountered uninformative system messages that I could not log in. I never received answers to my questions so I eventually uninstalled the apps. I'd be tempted to try again if I knew my problems had been reproduced, identified and corrected... But I've never seen an indication that they ever were. That does ring a bell now that you mention it. When I first installed Gizmo on Fedora, it gave me some login issues. The login message was highly uninformative since the problem was not with the login but rather with the fact that I hadn't installed the Rendevzous (aka DNS-SD aka Avahi aka Bonjour) libraries and Gizmo needs them to work properly. As soon as I installed Avahi, it worked. I did complain about that uninformative message not pointing to the correct problem on the Gizmo forums. They used to bundle those libraries separately but now they bundle them in the main install, I believe. I recall that Gizmo wouldn't login on the 770/N800 until I did a full reboot (power cycle *without* it being on the charger) so that it could start up the DNS-SD service. I think that many people don't realize that the tablets do not actually reboot if you power cycle it while it is charging. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Skype Update?
On 5/9/07, Максим Лопарёв [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is cool with opensource and open standards that there is not only one way to do something good. try http://www.gtalk2voip.com/ maybe it would work better than Gizmo I have heard many reports of this service working well on the tablets. I haven't tried it myself though since Gizmo works fine for me. I should give it a try one day though. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Accuracy of the power meter?
On 5/8/07, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eero Tamminen wrote: Omeweather turned out to be it, it looks like. I need to do some more tests to conclusively prove it, but it looks like I had set omweather (version 0.17.2) to never update, and my guess that set the interval time to 0, and that seems to have triggered some continue loop. Setting the interval time to 4 hours seems to have extended my battery life. AFAIK it can also make desktop take all the memory in the device within day or two and make some of the other applets not to work. That seems to have been fixed in one of the last updates to omweather. I haven't seen massive memory consumption from omweather during the last weeks. Good news ... maybe I will try using it again as it was causing spontaneous rebooting on my N800 when I had the applet enabled. As soon as I turned it off, my N800 has been rock solid. I think that I had it never to update too so that quirk that Theodore pointed out is illuminating. Hopefully that gets fixed too. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Instant on Loading
On 5/8/07, Igor Stoppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 09:49 -0400, ext das manga wrote: Is there a way to enable instant on loading, i use the device to read while commuting, it gets old having to clik though to get the pdf or txt file i was reading. is there a way to save a state, then when the system boots, load the saved state? Just let it on and see how long it takes to run out of battery. i like the nokia 800 but what asshat designed a portable device without instant on? some brain dead zombie i guess. b :-D I think it is more like ... gggnnn ... mre brins! ;] I think the power saving in the tablets is brilliant. I liked the screen cover of the 770 but if you don't want to wait for the screen to turn of on the N800, hit the power button followed by the middle of the direction pad to instant off and lock the keys and screen. Do the exact same thing to re-enable things. Simple and fast. ... simple enough even for someone who doesn't grasp the concept that asking for help while insulting someone is a bad strategy and extremely rude. You should probably apologize if you don't want to end up on everyone's plonk list, dasmanga. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Instant on Loading
On 5/8/07, Alan Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are they are any other combinations of key presses that result in a very handy time saving function? I use that little button in the middle in the direction pad all the time. It also selects the currently highlighted Wifi AP in the list that pops up. I can't think of anything specific but those little buttons along the side are pretty useful in a lot of apps and are mostly ignored I suspect. I only wish that that enter-button functionality would extend to the gmail password pop-ups in Opera ... then I could do more tap/poke-free browsing of my email. I suppose I could file an RFE in bugzilla but that stinks of something low gain + high trouble = low priority since it would require Nokia asking/paying third parties to add functionality. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Reading the manual (was RE: Instant on Loading)
On 5/8/07, Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, my n800 didn't come with a printed manual either, and I found the .PDF manual to be horribly optimized for screen reading. The fonts are too small such that you can't really read it until you blow it up, and then you have to cosntantly panning the viewer around to read the entire screen. It would have been really nice if the manual came in HTML format, so that the browser could rejustify the text based on the zoom level. Basically, I found the .PDF to be pretty much unusable unless I copied it over to my laptop and read it on a 1600x1200 display, or if printed it out and then read it in dead-tree format. Agreed! Even if they kept it a PDF and got rid of the *huge* margins, it would be vastly easier to use. However, the current manual is made much less painful to read by using evince since you can at least change pages while zoomed in ... something made exceedingly annoying by the built in pdf viewer. With the latest release of evince ( http://maemo.org/downloads/product/evince ... kindly polished and packaged up by etrunko http://etrunko.blogspot.com/ ) it has nearly reached the point where it is a superior drop in replacement for the built-in PDF viewer (maybe even the image viewer also as it handles images too) and Nokia should consider using this in their future firmware, IMHO. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: bluetooth GPS receiver
On 4/24/07, David Grau Serra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all list, (It's my first post and my english is getting rusty, I am from Barcelona) I'd like to buy a bluetooth GPS receiver for my N800, my friend recommend me a i-blue gps receiver -- http://www.iternet.com.tw/b-gps/ps3200-f.htm This one is with technology Nemerix and not with SiRF III. What do you think? Which one do you recommend me for N800? I have an i-Blue and have been very happy with it. It works with maemo-mapper flawlessly. Its battery works a long time. It comes with a good set of chargers and it can charge from any USB port. It works well in my vehicle when I throw it up on my dashboard. I have not had problems with drop-outs when driving around. But if that is a big factor for you, the sensitivity seems to be the SiRF III chipset's strength. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: IT2007 Hacker Edition - First impression
On 4/12/07, Kalle Valo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext Frantisek Dufka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also I changed WLAN PSM timeout to 200ms in OS2007 on n770 so maybe it is even better for networking then with OS2006. It makes a big difference. Especially if you have Jabber presence on, but I would assume that it also helps while browsing. Where can you change that setting? I suspect that was what was causing my heavy drain since my habit is to not turn off the Wifi when I put the 770 down. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: IT2007 Hacker Edition - First impression
On 4/7/07, Álvaro J. Iradier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can other people that are using IT2007 hacker edition share their comments and impressions? I noticed that the power consumption shot way up when using the Hacker Edition. Otherwise it worked impressively well. It makes me wonder even more why Nokia didn't stick with a unified software platform and just abstract out the architecture/licensing specific things as separate chunks. It would have made it much easier for third-party application developers than the current melange. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: video conferencing - ekiga
On 4/5/07, Rainer Dorsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am wondering, if the maemo video conferencing software on the N800 can talk to an ekiga on a linux box. Does voice work? Does video work? I do not want to run ekiga on the N800 (although that would probably solve my problem as well). The video won't work but the voice will. You have to be running a SIP client on the N800 like Gizmo and be calling another Gizmo user or a user on a SIP provider that openly peers with GizmoProject. I use Gizmo but I wouldn't love for someone to make a plugin for the built-in VoIP infrastructure and just adds SIP capability to it ... but I guess it is easier said than done. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Working vCard file?
On 3/14/07, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone had a working vCard file they could share... I've tried a couple that I've downloaded from different apps and each produces a file format error when I try to import it (in the default Contacts app as well as GPE Contacts). I'd love to see a file that works so that I could compare it with my own in order to see what's causing the problem. Here you go. This imported fine into the Openhand Contacts app ... I don't have the gpe one installed anymore. The one thing it can't seem to do is import more than the first contact out of a vCard with multiple contacts in it. If it could do that, had proper merging of similar contacts and vCard export, it would be perfect. /Mike BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 URL: TITLE: ROLE: X-EVOLUTION-MANAGER: X-EVOLUTION-ASSISTANT: NICKNAME:Bogus_nick X-EVOLUTION-SPOUSE: NOTE: FN:Bogus Contact N:Contact;Bogus;;; X-EVOLUTION-FILE-AS:Contact\, Bogus X-EVOLUTION-BLOG-URL: CALURI: FBURL: X-EVOLUTION-VIDEO-URL: X-MOZILLA-HTML:FALSE EMAIL;TYPE=WORK;X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=1:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TEL;TYPE=WORK;TYPE=VOICE;X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=1:555-555-1212 ADR;TYPE=HOME:;;27 Faux Dr.;Nowheresville;Stateless;H0H0H0;Antiarctica LABEL;TYPE=HOME:27 Faux Dr.\nNowheresville\, Stateless\nH0H0H0\nAntiarctica UID:pas-id-45F8BF5F REV:2007-03-15T03:37:03Z END:VCARD___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N800 and USB host mode
On 3/6/07, Larry Battraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was never a removal of the functionality since this is a new chipset and support for it was not available for it (AFAIK) in the kernel until recently. I tried it out and it's pretty rough in (the current kernel version) 2.6.18; it would crash very quickly after booting up and I couldn't get it to actually do anything as far as host-mode is concerned. So no conspiracy, just no working code :-) I expect as support firms up we'll see it made available on the n800, particularly if people are interested enough to help out. A roadmap/wishlist for changes to the platform is being created so this would definitely be a candidate for the list. That makes complete sense, thanks for the info. I did notice another related thread after I posted this giving me some hope. The absence of facts invites speculation. I wasn't speculating that there was a great Nokia conspiracy to deny us USB-hosting. I was speculating that one of the reasons could have been legitimate aversion to liability. One thing that should go on this wishlist is a link from every item to a separate page where there are reasons why a particular wishlist item isn't implemented yet and specific requests for community help. I think there is a lot of FOSS people not knowing what Nokia is already doing in-house and not knowing what to sink their teeth into that will end up being made redundant before they are done. A little note for each item saying something like Nokia internal is not working on this currently or this work is being done upstream at this URL or this work is waiting on x project to get their act in gear and support function y. I saw this new roadmap at one point but lost the link to it (the old Maemo roadmap link is horribly outdated). Can someone point the way to me? /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N800 and USB host mode
On 3/5/07, Larry Battraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that better support may be forthcoming, but that would be part of a new kernel or a back-port of the fixes. The Nokia folks seem to be strangely silent on the whole USB host thing. Maybe they are not wanting to implicate themselves in a power injection hack that could damage your tablet. That would explain why they took out the vital bits from the kernel. I didn't see USB host support on the roadmap so I don't hold out much hope for the fixing of what I would consider a major regression of the N800 functionality vs. the 770. Nokia has surprised us with bigger easter eggs though. I would appreciate some clarification from Nokia whether this functionality will return or if it was removed intentionally. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Nightly reboots
On 3/2/07, Jonathan Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My N800 has been restarting each night sometime after 2am EST (that's as late as I've been up). I leave it plugged in either on my night table or on my desk and when I go to use it in the am, it's clearly been restarted (bluetooth off, no apps open). Is there any way to see what's causing this to try and prevent it from happening? I get these occasionally and can't quite figure out what is triggering it. I often go to sleep with the N800 plugged in and Canola playing some music, sometimes I leave Gizmo running and I may or may not leave the wifi connection going. Sometimes I get woken up by the boot screen chimes :] I doesn't happen only during the night though so I don't think that it is a time thing. I have heard it rebooting in my jacket pocket during the day too. I will look for a trend but I haven't noticed it happening lately. I did capture the bootreason and various other files after it happened one time. I can dig that up. It didn't give a specific app but it mentioned the dsp. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Gnumeric spreadsheet for N800
On 2/26/07, Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:34:45PM -0500, Michael Wiktowy wrote: I had similar problems with installing Canola on the 770 even after downloading it and installing it from flash disk. I had to increase the size of my flash memory cache file and once I did, it installed just fine. Do you mean the swap file (aka virtual memory)? Yes. When I was having problems I didn't have any virtual memory enabled. I increased it 8 MB (all the space I had left on my flash card) and was able to install Canola fine after that. Just a thought as to what might be going wrong with installing a large package. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Gnumeric spreadsheet for N800
On 2/26/07, Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:04:12PM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Marius Gedminas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm now testing the installation on both 770 and N800. My, Gnumeric weighs 10 megs, what a pig. Please tell me how it goes! Installed on the N800 like a breeze. Unable to install on my 770: first it ran out of disk space (a couple of times). I removed it (the broken package icon in the app manager is pretty), removed some files, tried again, got problems again, rebooted (and had free space jump up from 18 to 24 megs), and now I get a different error from dpkg: gnumeric-common: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive. Interesting. I had similar problems with installing Canola on the 770 even after downloading it and installing it from flash disk. I had to increase the size of my flash memory cache file and once I did, it installed just fine. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Re: N800 and Bluetooth Headsets
On 2/6/07, Zoran Kolic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 22:28, Mike Klein wrote: 3rd worst problem is no 3G/cellular capability built-in. Also my wash machine lacks it. I cannot sleep for that reason. Sarcasm aside, Zoran has a very good point. Putting cellular capability on the IT would be as appropriate as putting it on a washing machine. While it would be great to be able to talk to someone while doing laundry, it is not really the purpose of the machine. I wouldn't have bought a 770 or a N800 if it had a GSM/3G/Super-duper next-gen phone built in. Reasons: - It would add $100 to the cost - It would be a purchase that keeps on costing a monthly fee and cost even more when using it traveling - I already have a bare-bones cell phone that makes calls just fine ... most people have - It would tie it to region/plan that would be difficult to transfer out of - It would tie it to some specific technology that doesn't have the longevity/compatibility of wifi/BT - It would consume a great deal more power I think these ITs make a good break from legacy tech like cellular and leave that crowded market to other models. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Re: N800 and Bluetooth Headsets
On 2/6/07, Paul Klapperich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just looking for a small, barebones phone that has bluetooth. I really think this is the way to go. I would love to find something even simpler; a barebones little box that acts like a GSM modem with a BT interface ... I don't even care if it has a keypad or a screen. Unfortunately, all the cell providers in my area like to sell bundles, don't have unlimited data-plans and gouge for data transfers. There are roll-outs of Wimax starting but that emphasizes my point about not building in a cellular technology that will be obsolete. I currently have a BT GPS that works well with my ITs and I can put it on the dashboard of my vehicle where it will get good reception. If I want to use the upcoming European Galileo or the Russian GLONASS or the Chinese Beidou system then I can buy a little BT transceiver for those systems (maybe ... I have never tried). That kind of modularity works really well and allows piece-wise replacement and mixing-matching of components if things stop working or infrastructure need/provision changes. I think the above also addresses John Holmblad's comments that came in after I started this email. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] [maemo-announce] New OS 2006 firmware released
On 2/2/07, John P. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warranty void if I install non-nokia packages?!?!?!? Please tell me this is not the case. As with all warrantees, if you do something to break it, you get to keep both pieces. So generalizing about installing anything automatically voiding warrantees is not terribly accurate or helpful. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Wired keyboard and N800
On 1/31/07, Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No power is also tied up in implementing the kernel USB OTG driver for the device. The spec says you can't advertise OTG support if the port has no power. Neither the 770 or the N800 advertises USB OTG support. A Nokia dev mentioned a few days ago that the N800 definitely does *not* support USB OTG. There were also a few threads (not sure if it was here or ITT) mentioning that the kernel included in the N800 firmware does not include the bits necessary to enable USB host mode so there is some doubts that the N800 hardware even supports USB host. Some folks are recompiling the kernel to add those bits back in but I don't think anyone has successfully had the N800 working as a USB host as of yet. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Simple camera app for N800
On 1/31/07, David Hagood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there plans for a simple camera app for the N800? It would be nice to be able to just take a quick snap or small movie. I was kind of surprised that there was nothing like that included. As it is a v4l device, it should be relatively simple for one to get ported over. Maybe one of these: http://www.linux.com/howtos/Webcam-HOWTO/framegrabbers.shtml /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Some Thoughts Regarding IT OS 2007 and the N800
On 1/29/07, Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said, we migh look into it, but AFAIK this would mean we either modify the current locale (really nasty) or create a pseudo-locale with the user setting (just nasty). Unless someone has better idea or understanding of the POSIX locales. Either way, I'd feel we would be the only UNIX system doing this (does OSX do it too?). Ideas welcome. Here's what the terminal thinks is my locale information: $ locale LANG= LC_COLLATE=C LC_CTYPE=C LC_MESSAGES=C LC_MONETARY=C LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=C LC_ALL=C I believe that the C just means that it uses the current locale for those settings. So there seems to be some mechanism for deviating from the local norms. It looks like you have not overridden those dominant local standards with your own preference of standards ... like ISO 8601 for instance ... which makes a whole lot more sense than any local variant. In the end, it is not really a big deal but rather a little constant irritant. Now that I know that I can hack the locale file, I will. But to not present that choice in the UI is a little user-hostile. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Some Thoughts Regarding IT OS 2007 and the N800
On 1/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In general: Customizability is very nice, but how to implement that in clean simple way btw? Meaning so that it does not increase too much complexity for those who don't want to customize? Seems pretty staightforward to me. Have a Custom option in the Language region - Regional Settings dropdown menu that turns all the various settings into dropdown menus containing all the options you use elsewhere for that particular setting ... and include a time format in that list. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Re: application catalog reviews
On 1/27/07, David Hagood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil MacLeod wrote: Isn't this already catered for by Single Click Install? Yes, *IF* you are running the 2007 software - in other words, if you are running a N800. If you are running a N770 you cannot use single click. What I am suggesting would work for OS2006. Well, from what I understand, single-click install has been enabled on 770s for a few firmware versions now. Just nobody has been using it. Nokia seems good at having feaures and not telling anyone about them. I remember having difficulting finding out whether the little hole on the bottom of the 770 was a microphone before I bought it. I wonder how many people jammed paperclips in there thinking it was a reset button? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] audio format experiences on n770
On 1/27/07, Sebastián [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been told that 64kbps .ogg files are as good as 128kbps .mp3 files. Is that true? That is not far off. The vorbis site has some samples at various bitrates to listen to and all of them have been reconverted back to wav so you don't have to download a bunch of codecs to hear the difference. Hear for yourself rather than take anyone's word about it (since these things are very subjective. http://xiph.org/vorbis/listen.html You won't notice much difference between audio samples that are above 128 kbps ... they all do a fairly good job. However, if you listen to the 64 kbps ogg vorbis files and compare them to the 64 kbps mp3 files, you will really notice the difference. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] how to install .deb packages
On 12/31/06, Kahlil Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you need to install XTerm on your nokia770 and also dropbear (smaller SSH) and login remotely to your n770 over the wifi network. On 12/31/06, william hatch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response. Now how do I get to the command prompt on the 770 ? I do have the latest OS update installed. Kahlil Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well you can look on the repository for dpkg or apt-get, the wiki has an howto get sources in mameo's apt-get. http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowTo_InstallAptGet?highlight=%28apt-get%29 On 12/30/06, william hatch wrote: I have been unable to find any instructions on how to install on the nokia 770 any of the .deb application packages. I need to install a sufficient set to work with the LD-3W GPS Module. Hold on a moment ... if the OP is just interested in installing something like maemo-mapper to using their BT GPS module than you certainly don't need xterm or apt-get. There are three ways to install deb files without resorting to the command-line: 1. While downloading the file via the web browser, choose Open rather than Save. 2. If you have a deb saved on your 770 somewhere, just double-tap it in the file manager. 3. You can open the Application manager and choose Package - Install from file ... from the pop-down menu in the title bar However, the best way to install apps on the 770 is not directly via the deb files but rather to set up the application catalogs (aka repositories) (via the Tools - Application catalogue ... menu) that contain the applications you want and then install the new app them via the Install new applications button in the manager. This will ensure that all the correct dependencies are satisfied and it is simple to upgrade if a new version comes out. Unfortunately, some of the more popular apps and libraries are not in the repositories included in the 770 by default so a bit of work is needed initially to add the repos you need ... then it is simple to install/delete apps as needed. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] To the Maemo-Users List Manager: Setting the default reply to: for this list
On 12/4/06, Paule Ecimovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about setting the default reply-to for the maemo-users list to maemo-users rather than to each individual list contributer. This way, replies would be posted back to the list by default rather than being sent to the one person to whose point/question/comment one is immediately replying. I mentioned that previously and some people reacted strongly (see thread titled Mailing list Reply-to). There are some out there that are passionate about having automatic list-mailers not rewriting the headers of emails. I don't care strongly enough to argue about it though. Just be forewarned :] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Mailing list Reply-to ... was: Re: Please Help-power-on/boot issue
Igor Stoppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please use the ml,it's for helping everybody Please set the Reply-to field in each of the mailing lists to their repective list address. That way the conversation doesn't stray from the ML so easily and when you hit reply, the right thing happens and don't have to do the Reply to All - CC: - To: cut-and-paste weirdness. Thanks,/Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Connecting to WIFI routers with dynamically-assigned IP addresses
On 10/23/06, Paule Ecimovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, AllI am still getting the Connecting to SSID via a local IP addressfollowed by a red ? when connecting to unencrypted publically-accessibleWIFI hotspots using Internet Tablet OS 2006. I didn't used to have this problem with ITOS 2005, (but there was not VOIP in that OS). Connecting overa mobile phone via bluetooth works fine, (albeit even 384 kbaud doesn'tmatch WIFI 10baseT or 100baseT broadband.)It doesn't seem to be router specific. Every WIFI router I tried resulted in the same state. Has anyoneposted or does anyone know of a standard fix to this problem?I know that this happens to me when I am connecting to an AP right at the edge of my range or one that is overloaded and the DHCP server is not responding quickly enough. Perhaps there is a config setting buried somewhere that increases the DHCP client timeout before if drops back to a link-local address. I did a bit of poking around on my device and it looks like a process called icd (Internet Connectivity Deamon) is responsible for setting everything up and it takes its instructions via dbus commands. You would have to get what magic incantation you send to icd to increase the the udhcpc client timeout or where the icd config file is from someone more informed than I. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Please Help-power-on/boot issue
On 10/23/06, Doug Frazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My 770 is only a couple of months old. It is primarily a touchscreen remote control for my squeezebox. After sitting for a couple of days (off the charger with cover on) it would not turn-on. After plugging it into the charger, the screen came to life with the Nokia logo then the dimmed and displayed a charging icon. Some time later, it displayed battery full. Problem is the unit will still not power-on, No white screen no vertical bars, simply no sign of life whatsoever. I'd consider it hopelessly bricked, except all seems fine when I plug it into the charger. I tried :removing/reinstalling the battery removing the battery waiting 2+ minutes prior to reinstallingturning the device on while connected to the chargermeasured battery voltage, iirc ~4.2VDC In summary, nothing works. The unit shows absolutely no signs of life when off the charger. Although the display lights and it appears fine when connected to the charger, it will not turn-on even when plugged-in. I contacted Nokia and received authorization to send it to their Texas repair facility. I'd love to get it running again without sending it in. Can anyone help? Hi Doug,I've had this sort of thing happen when I've let the bettery run completely dry when first getting it. Make sure that your battery is all charged up and the try pressing and holding the power on button for a long, long time. If you think that you have waited long enough, wait another minute and then release the button and then give it a quick press and release. Also, release the button if it starts to boot. If that doesn't work try this when the charger is plugged in. That worked for me. I haven't let the battery run dry since and I haven't had any problems./Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Sip-client application
AFAIK, there are plans to integrate the open source Sophia-SIP into the existing open source Tapioca VoIP client but the Nokia people (person?) who have that on their plate have other priorities at the moment. There were messages in the user or devel list about that a few months back. It would be wise to coordinate with the Tapioca team as it seems to have a pluggable infrustructure (and a lack of developer time) that would be conducive to your efforts. http://tapioca-voip.sourceforge.net/Ekiga, while an excellent app, might be too much to port over as it has a lot of functionality (mainly all the video stuff) that you would have to strip out. I also think it has a lot of dependencies on the full Gnome desktop infrustructure that isn't replicated on the 770 while the Tapioca frontend and jingle backend is already available for the 770. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] maemo mapper vs. satellite
Greetings.I think that sometimes the map tiles don't download cleanly from Google and mapper ends up creating a zero-size image in the map cache. Go through the cached images with the file browser and delete all the ones with zero bytes and try downoading again. Someone posted a small command-line script to clean out the empty files a while back but I cannot find it for you now. The manual process is certainly more time-consuming but less error-prone :] Hope this solves your problem.On 7/15/06, Brad Midgley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HeyI only get *parts* of the Pacific Ocean (possibly those with no land) toshow up and only from zoom 0-10. Everything else is just black screen.Maybe google treats the ocean-only tiles as a special case. Using maemo mapper 1.1, 2006 OSuri ishttp://kh.google.com/kh?n=404v=6t=%sWho has this working? Is google changing the way it behaves? Brad___maemo-users mailing listmaemo-users@maemo.orghttps://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Volume in VoIP calls
On 6/20/06, Álvaro J. Iradier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm testing IT2006 and it works great. I'm just missing one thing:the speaker in the 770 can play quite loud (for example music andvideos). However, while doing a voice call the the volume is low evenwhen both global and call volumes are set to maximum. You have to put the nokia in your ear to be able to hear something.It would be really nice to be able to have a hands free mode, thatallows to set a higher volume. The microphone seems sensible enough.I've tested and the other party could hear me perfectly even when the nokia was far from my mouth.What do you think?Thanks very much.I have noticed the same thing. I have the sense that this is mainly due to the automatic gain control for both the microphone and speaker that is built into the VOIP application. When you turn the main volume up, it decreases the internal speaker volume to avoid echo to the caller. So you end up fighting it. This definitely needs to be tweaked a bit. It seems to do the same thing on the mic too. If you make a sharp noise like a clap or tapping the 770 case, it takes quite a long time for your caller to hear you again as the VOIP app readjusts your mic capture gain back up. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] USB Host mode question
On 5/17/06, Kwadroke of The Wired [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wanting to use the USB host mode on my 770. Can it be switchedback to standard mode using the flash utility after switching it tohost mode? If not, can I do this from a XTerm? Would switching it tohost mode cause problems with upgrading the firmware when the new release comes out?I've seen the FAQ on switching to host mode, but nothing about itstill being used in standard mode after the switch.ThanksTony BatesYes the process is reversable with flasher. Yes you can switch back and forth from the XTerm but I believe that you need root access.Not sure if having it in host mode will conflict with a firmware upgrade but if it does, you can easily switch it back. I believe that you can run flasher with no args to get a list of things it can do.Search the mailing list archives for instructions on the exact /proc/ entry to change to switch to host mode on the fly as I can't remember of the top of my head ... but it was mentioned a few times on the list and I think there is some info in the Maemo Wiki. Hope this helps,/Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Panel Clock Applet - Wrong Time
On 5/15/06, Amichai Rotman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have OS v3.2005.51-13 an panel clock v0.4 Installed. The time is one hour ahead - no matter what I do. What am I doing wrong? Also, is it really imperative to upgrade the OS to the last update? can someone provide a changelog? Thanks ! Amichai RotmanUIN#: 6401746Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] It is a known issue that involves missing timezone files. There is a workaround that is mentioned in the mailing list archives that will correct this but requires root mode I think. Nokia should have respun a quick update to correct this but ... they didn't. I suppose time is best spent on getting the OS 2006 out the door which should be available within a month or so ... they say June. So if you only want to update once, I would wait until then and that should correct your clock issue too. The change log for the latest OS 2005 is pretty sparse but from my experience, the lastest OS image works a lot smoother and has less out of memory issues. I think all the changes revolved around those internal issues with very little functionality change. So while it is not critical to update, you will have a better user experience, IMHO. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Panel Clock Applet - Wrong Time
On 5/17/06, Michael Wiktowy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/15/06, Amichai Rotman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have OS v3.2005.51-13 an panel clock v0.4 Installed. The time is one hour ahead - no matter what I do. What am I doing wrong? Thanks ! Amichai RotmanUIN#: 6401746Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] It is a known issue that involves missing timezone files. There is a workaround that is mentioned in the mailing list archives that will correct this but requires root mode I think. Nokia should have respun a quick update to correct this but ... they didn't. To be exact, see:http://cassarapage.com/770/panel_clock.htmlAlthough there are rumours that there is a replacement firmware image somewhere in the Nokia support site ... I would suggest that you contact them directly to find out. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] usb-storage.ko for the Nokia
On 4/11/06, Bob Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would echo David's original question, is there any reason why the OTG modecould not be used to switch from master to slave mode, driven from a commandor voltage sensing on the 770.After all as has been noted elsewhere the 770 needs 5volts supply fed to it when in master mode so something in the 770 isalready sensing this.Or put another way why do we have to use flasher to switch USB modes?BobHi Bob, I would guess since they made the decision early on to not fully utilize the USB host mode, they didn't put in the circuitry to condition their 3.7 V (as Santeri just mentioned) up to an approriate 5 V. To save even more power the don't even power the USB circuitry internally when the 770 is on. So without it being powered, it can't be switched. That is why you need to do it through the flasher since that supplies the power at the same time.Now, having said that, I don't think that prevents someone knowledgeable enough, who has some power-hacked hub, from also hacking together a utility to use on the 770 to switch modes once that hub is connected. I would imagine it would be low level kernel hacking though. While I would love to see this utility, I would rather the Nokia devs spend their time working on stability, fixing the apps they do ship and getting in an update/install infrustructure that allows things like third-party kernel modules first. /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] unhiding known file extensions
Hello, Is there a way to unhide known file extensions? This is the first thing that I turn off on Windows and I find it unfortunate that the 770 adopted this usability enhancement. I have already ran into the situation where I added a known extension onto an file with an unknown extension and, now that is has been automagically hidden, I can't change it back (e.g changed movie.mp4 to movie.mp4.avi hoping that it would show up in the video player selection and that I could try playing it). I could install the terminal and rename it there but I would rather just see the complete filename. Extensions don't scare me and don't need to be hidden. As a side question, is there a way to have the various application *not* filter the filenames to only the ones that they think they can deal with? (as this is what leads me into banging my head against the hidden extensions wall). Thanks, /Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Re: Trouble connecting to a D-Link DI-784 with my 770
On 2/20/06, Michael Wiktowy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone else was having problems connecting to the DI-784 with their 770's? It sees the AP SSID when it scans but when you try to connect to it, the connecting W icon just keeps blinking until it times out after a few minutes. It was set up with 40 bit WEP encryption. Since I am not the owner of this AP, I am not able to change the configuration at will. I had no problems connecting to the 802.11a side of things with an available laptop but didn't have a wifi-g laptop available to try. I may have one to try soon but I was curious if anyone else has some problematic experience with this AP. Here is a link to the AP in question: http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=299 Is this the right mailing-list to discuss such things? If not, please guide me to the correct forum.I am just trying to determine if I am in the wrong spot or no one else has had trouble/experience with these Wifi a/b/g APs and the 770. Thanks,/Mike ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Trouble connecting to a D-Link DI-784 with my 770
Hello, I was wondering if anyone else was having problems connecting to the DI-784 with their 770's? It sees the AP SSID when it scans but when you try to connect to it, the connecting W icon just keeps blinking until it times out after a few minutes. It was set up with 40 bit WEP encryption. Since I am not the owner of this AP, I am not able to change the configuration at will. I had no problems connecting to the 802.11a side of things with an available laptop but didn't have a wifi-g laptop available to try. I may have one to try soon but I was curious if anyone else has some problematic experience with this AP. Here is a link to the AP in question: http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=299 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
