Getting started with a 770, tips?

2010-02-11 Thread chombee
Hey, I just got a second-hand Nokia 770. There's quite an overwhelming amount of information on maemo.org and elsewhere, and much of it probably refers to the newer tablets, so I thought I'd ask for some pointers on getting started. First of all, how can I find out which firmware and OS version t

Re: Getting started with a 770, tips?

2010-02-11 Thread chombee
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:08:29AM +0200, Ville M. Vainio wrote: > Perhaps searching for "OS2008 Hacker Edition for Nokia 770" could help > you get going with more modern stuff. Thanks. Do I want OS2008HE though? I don't want the most recent software a 770 can possibly run if that software is goin

Re: Getting started with a 770, tips?

2010-02-11 Thread chombee
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:12:10AM +0100, sebastian maemo wrote: > 2010/2/11 chombee Hi chombee: > > I do not recommend you to use OS2008HE... Nevertheless, I think I can > really help you, since I'm still using 770 and a real fanboy of this > device... I (still) use it

Re: Getting started with a 770, tips?

2010-02-12 Thread chombee
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:19:39PM -0500, Jake Wasdin wrote: > > I don't know about the N770 in particular as I had the N800, but I > can say I had much better results with the Minimo browser than I did > with the built in Opera-based browser before I upgraded to OS2008. I > see it's available for

gPodder on OS2007?

2010-02-13 Thread chombee
Hey, I noticed that gPodder is only available for OS2008 and later: http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/gpodder/?org_openpsa_qbpager_net_nehmer_comments_comment_page=2 Has anyone got it working on OS2007? Do you think it's possible? Actually I can add podcasts to the feed reader applicatio

Re: Getting started with a 770, tips?

2010-02-23 Thread chombee
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:40:10AM +0100, sebastian maemo wrote: > > First of all, how can I find out which firmware and OS version the > > tablet is running? And how can I upgrade to the latest versions that > > will run on the 770? > > > > I'm still using OS2006, but I think you're already using

Re: Getting started with a 770, tips?

2010-02-23 Thread chombee
I flashed the 770 with OS2007HE and am pretty happy with the result. Everything seems to work better, run faster and crash less. I'm pretty sure the OS2006 it came with had corrupted the file system and memory card (which I reformatted in OS2007). There are a couple of problems. 1. The device occ

Re: Getting started with a 770, tips?

2010-02-23 Thread chombee
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 06:05:16PM -0500, Jake Wasdin wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:50:57 + > chombee wrote: > When I was on OS2007 I used Minimo for most stuff (I recommended this > before for OS2006, but I know it works on OS2007 as I used it!). You > may want to see if

Re: N900: Git / symlink weirdness on ext3 sd card?

2010-03-18 Thread chombee
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:06:32AM -0700, John Sullivan wrote: > 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 sym

Re: N900: Git / symlink weirdness on ext3 sd card?

2010-03-18 Thread chombee
Also I think you should try your question on the git mailing list too. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users