Re: N800 Locking up regularly, even after reimage.

2011-03-11 Thread david . hagood
Have you probably also tried to use a different SD card? Maybe the card is a little flaky - I had quite some by now too. I have tried several cards, with repeatable results. So either all my cards are bad, or there is some other problem. ___

N800 Locking up regularly, even after reimage.

2011-03-09 Thread David Hagood
I have a N800 that locks up on a far too regular basis, even though I've reflashed it several times. I normally run with root on the internal SDHC card, to save wear and tear on the internal flash to have a larger rootfs to install more stuff. The symptoms are maddingly variable, yet

Can somebody give me the needed permissions on files?

2009-07-13 Thread david . hagood
I was having some problems with my N800 - I have the file system on the internal SD card, and I felt the filesystem was having problems, so I shut it down, put the card into my computer, and copied the files off the card, then reformatted the card and copied the files back. I forgot to keep the

Re: Facing Dilemma about N800/N810

2009-01-03 Thread David Hagood
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 08:06 -0800, Tim Ashman wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2009 06:28:07 am Ryan Abel wrote: I ended up purchasing a replacement screen from mytrendyphone. Looks like an overseas (in in usa) company so I'll be interested to see how long it takes. That's interesting, as I

Cannot install OS2008 Feature upgrade?

2008-10-21 Thread david . hagood
I keep showing the following in my Available to install list: OS2008 Feature upgrade 4.2008.36-5 7 kB OS2008 Feature upgrade 4.2008.36-5 9.1 MB OS2008 Feature upgrade(unlocked) 4.2008.36-5 9.1 MB Attempting to install these gives the following error: Conflict with application packages:

RTCOMM beta install issues?

2008-08-26 Thread david . hagood
I've been getting an update available notice for RTCOMM beta, but it would not install due to missing packages. In order to try to clear it, I removed the package and tried to re-install, but now I am getting missing packages on: libdaemon0 bind9-host | host telepathy-haze It seems to be a

XRandR, rotation support in Diablo?

2008-07-02 Thread david . hagood
Does anybody know if the kernel patches and Xomap patches to support XRandR (specifically, rotation support) made it into Diablo? If not, are there any plans for them to go in? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org

Re: Postal address in Contacts?

2008-06-18 Thread David Hagood
I've pointed out to both Nokia and Wayfinder that if the Contacts app would support all fields that Evolution will support (and Evolution most certainly will support physical addresses) and that if Wayfinder were to integrate that, then you could have all your contacts as waypoints, and easily

Re: Audio connection problem

2008-03-13 Thread David Hagood
I have found that running the N800 through a ground loop isolator helps immensely - especially if you are charging the device as you use it. The Radio Shack ground loop isolator (RS #270-054) works well for this. ___ maemo-users mailing list

Re: SU-8W kbd question

2007-12-14 Thread David Hagood
I think we should file a bug. Please post the bug # - I want to add the inability to generate function keys as well. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Keyboard for N800

2007-12-10 Thread david . hagood
DZ wrote: I'll second this. I have Nokia's SU-8W because it fits in my camera Does anybody know how to generate a function key from the SU-8W? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Generating F(n) keys with SU-8W

2007-12-06 Thread david . hagood
I just bought a Nokia SU-8W keyboard for my N800 and N770, and have it paired up with the N800, but I cannot figure out how to generate an F(n) key - e.g. I cannot figure out how to generate a CTRL-F4 to close a window. I've tried CTRL-Fn then key, Alt-Fn then key, Fn+key, to no avail.

Re: N800 simple soft case mod

2007-10-23 Thread david . hagood
I find it a bit heavy for my shirt pocket for an entire day, as I stated I modified the grey soft case for my belt, but I think that this is a short term solution that will eventualy break/rip/fall off! Here's what I use:

N810 and future directions for Maemo

2007-10-21 Thread David Hagood
I think the idea of having built-in GPS is pretty good. It's a shame they had to lose the FM radio, but since it really needs an external antenna to work, it's not such a loss. However, the loss of the 2 full size SD/SDHC cards is a big loss IMHO. I like having 16G of storage on my hip. I

Re: N800 simple soft case mod

2007-10-21 Thread David Hagood
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 18:19 -0700, Mike Klein wrote: Sometimes that little N800 feels like a slippery stick of butter in my hands. I just flip the stand out, and put the fingers of my left hand through the stand. That puts my index finger over the zoom and power keys, and leaves my right

Support for Crypto engine in OMAP/OMAP2 processors

2007-10-05 Thread david . hagood
Does anybody know if any work is being done to make the crypto engine in the OMAP/OMAP2 processors available under Linux? Last night I was copying a bunch of files into my N800 via SFTP, and noticed that SSHD was burning over 60% of the CPU doing the crypto. (yes, I could have used other means to

Hangs writing to SDHC?

2007-08-19 Thread David Hagood
Over the past couple of days, my N800 has developed a problem writing to one of the two 8 gig SDHC cards I have in it (the external card). I can format the card and all is well, but as soon as I try to write any significant amount of data to the card, the writing process will block and never

Re: Sprint's N800 with WiMAX

2007-08-12 Thread David Hagood
I cannot see how they can put WiMAX on the N800. On a next generation device, sure, but unless the WiFi chip in the N800 is a hell of a lot more flexible than I think it is, I don't think they can make it do WiMAX. Of course, I'd love to be proven wrong.

Command or message to enqueue a clip in the media player?

2007-07-28 Thread David Hagood
I've noticed that using gpodder, it is not possible to enqueue several items into the media player at a time - if multiple items are selected the play button does not work. One simple work-around for this would be if there was a way to tell the media player add this to the end of the current

Re: How to download applications to target Nokia-800 device

2007-07-21 Thread David Hagood
On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 09:59 -0500, Paul Klapperich wrote: If you just want to test the application runs, then it's fine just to copy the binary. Do the following: 1) Plug your N800 into your computer with USB. Copy the binary to the internal memory card 2) Install the XTerm application on

Re: my two big fustrations with the N800 - please help me find aworkaround!

2007-07-20 Thread David Hagood
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 18:29 -0400, James Knott wrote: Paul Klapperich wrote: Another problem I've encountered, is with remote X apps. On my desktop linux systems, I can remotely run apps, via ssh and X. While I can start and display those apps on my N800, I can't use the keyboard or hand

Re: my two big fustrations with the N800 - please help me find aworkaround!

2007-07-20 Thread David Hagood
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 21:20 -0400, James Knott wrote: When I use a remote app on my desktop system, the keyboard and mouse work with that application. As they do with the N800. Hook a Bluetooth keyboard up, and it works just like you said. You might try actually READING what I posted.

Nokia SU-8W keyboard availability?

2007-07-17 Thread david . hagood
Does anybody have any information on why almost everybody who sells the SU-8W keyboard is out of stock? Has Nokia stopped making these? Did Godzilla eat the container ship with the latest shipment? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org

WTF!?! Camera did not support taking movies?

2007-07-10 Thread David Hagood
I submitted the following bug: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638 The camera app in the latest software, while behaving MUCH BETTER for taking still pictures, no longer seems to support recording movies. If this feature is being deleted for some reason it would be nice if it were noted

Re: Bluetooth file transfer

2007-05-27 Thread David Hagood
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 19:40 +0200, Hans J. Koch wrote: Am Sonntag 27 Mai 2007 schrieb David Hagood: Oh yes! Thanks a lot for that hint. Stupid, I spent hours looking for a solution, and then find out the 770 can do it out of the box... Thanks again, Hans Be thankful your network

Re: Slow SSH connect to N800.

2007-05-15 Thread David Hagood
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:30 +0100, Matthew J Hendrickse wrote: Has anyone that has used SSH with their N800 had any speed issues? I can connect to any machine using SSH *from* my N800 and it's the same nice speed that I get when I connect from my main PC. However if I try to SSH *to* my N800

Re: Instant on Loading

2007-05-06 Thread David Hagood
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 09:49 -0400, das manga wrote: Is there a way to enable instant on loading, Yes - don't turn the device off. Don't close the apps you use, just minimize them - in other words, use the device as it was intended to be used. You don't need to turn it off, it will power save

Quick launcher and non-DBus commands

2007-03-28 Thread David Hagood
Well, I've worked out how to launch a given program in a shell and to create a .desktop file to allow that command to be added to the menus. The key is to provide the command in the Exec= entry, and to NOT provide a X-Osso-Service= line. If you provide the service line, then the Exec will be

Camera app slow, locks up?

2007-03-28 Thread David Hagood
Does anybody else find that the Camera application is slow, and occasionally locks up the unit? What I see is that for the first several seconds after starting, the camera app's update rate is fairly fast (though not as fast as the video call app - about one-half as fast). After a few seconds,

Re: [ANN] Simple Launcher -- Home applet to launch your apps

2007-03-24 Thread David Hagood
Paule Ecimovic wrote: Hi, Misha, Could you enable launching command-line apps from the desktop as well, i.e., all those apps that currently require launching from an xterm? Cheers, Seconded! I have several scripts I run (ntp sync, ssh to my server, etc) that I would love to be able to

Re: Nokia camera app!

2007-03-24 Thread David Hagood
I find it interesting that the update rate on the camera app is MUCH slower than the update rate on the VOIP app - anybody know why that is? It would also be nice to have the option of making the camera app start automatically when the camera is popped out. Also - are there any hardkeys for

Creating my own menu entries

2007-03-24 Thread David Hagood
I'd like to create my own menu entries for a few things I do (e.g. ntpdate sync, ssh to my server, etc). Most of these will just be invoking osso-xterm with the appropriate command passed to /bin/sh. So where do the files that define the menu live?

Re: FTP app for OS 2007?

2007-03-14 Thread David Hagood
Tim wrote: First, I'm talking client not server -- sorry I didn't specify that. I guess I could go the SCP route, but having a user interface is nice (and a little easier for multiple files). I can upload to my server via http, but FTP is quicker and more reliable. Thanks, The GPE

Re: Bluetooth mouse.

2007-03-06 Thread David Hagood
I cannot speak for Bluetooth mice, but I tried a USB mouse via a powered hub on my N770 running the latest production OS2006. In fact, on the hub I had: A USB to PS/2 keyboard+mouse adapter, with both mouse and keyboard in place. A USB to RS-232 adapter with a GPS on it (through a serial

Re: Re : N800 and USB host Mode

2007-03-05 Thread David Hagood
bidon02 wrote: Hi David, I would be pleased to help for beta testing GMFSK on my N800 and my YAESU FT-890. Are you not planning to use the onboard sound card rather then a external USB sound card ? 73s I am planning on requiring an external USB sound device and an external USB serial device

Exporting and successfully importing address book

2007-03-04 Thread David Hagood
I am trying to export and import the contents of my address book from my N770 to my N800 and vise-versa. I have been unable to find an export format that will capture ALL the data in the address book correctly. Am I missing something? ___

N800 and USB host mode

2007-03-03 Thread David Hagood
Has anybody played around with trying to get the N800 to support USB host mode? Yes, I know that this won't work without a modified USB hub to inject +5V onto the USB port. The reason I ask is that I was planning on trying to port a program over, and I'd really like to have USB host mode support

gnome-vfs-sftp and sftp uris?

2007-02-19 Thread David Hagood
I've installed the GPE filemanager and the gnome-vfs-sftp package into my N800, so that in theory I should be able to enter sftp URIs. I can enter FTP URIs and they work, but SFTP always gives me an invalid URI message. I've tried URIS of the form: sftp://host sftp:///host sftp:///[EMAIL

Re: [maemo-users] 'Locking down' software installation

2007-02-15 Thread David Hagood
Marius Vollmer wrote: We would like to get your feedback on these plans, both from the end-user point of view and from the point of view of package developers. Thank you for asking. That attitude is one of the reasons I like this platform. There is going to be a 'meta' package that

Re: [maemo-users] N770/N800 Equivalent to Soti Pocket Controller Professional

2007-02-05 Thread David Hagood
You need the VNC server - if you are running an N770, it is available directly from the Application page. The N800 port doesn't seem to have been done yet. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org

[maemo-users] Maemo mapper for OS2007?

2007-02-04 Thread David Hagood
Is it just me, or is it not possible to install MaemoMapper on OS2007? ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: [maemo-users] n800 and ThinkOutside stowaway bluetooth keyboard

2007-01-31 Thread David Hagood
Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: Any comments/thoughts on which is better - the Nokia SU-8W BT Keyboard or the ThinkOutside Stowaway BT keyboard? I see the ThinkOutside keyboard has a separate row for the numeric keys but don't know how each works or functions. Regards, Nick Shaw I had a

[maemo-users] Simple camera app for N800

2007-01-31 Thread David Hagood
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. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

[maemo-users] Re: New OS 2006 firmware released

2007-01-27 Thread David Hagood
I just got done installing the new firmware, and then re-selecting all the repositories and re-installing all the software I had. My quick impression is that the WiFi is much improved - I had a torture test where I loaded a web page with a BUNCH of images from a local server - before this

Re: [maemo-users] application catalog reviews

2007-01-27 Thread David Hagood
Ferenc Szekely wrote: The current phase 2 plan will be added to garage this weekend, ie. tonight or tomorrow. May I make a small suggestion for usability? Having just reflashed my 770 to the lastest official firmware, then spent a fair amount of time reenabling the various repositories,

Re: [maemo-users] Re: application catalog reviews

2007-01-27 Thread David Hagood
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.

[maemo-users] Nav Kit for 770 - Available in US?

2007-01-27 Thread David Hagood
Is the nav kit available for the US yet? Also - has anybody from Nokia actually tried to go to the nav kit link using a 770? The nav kit link won't let you go unless you have Flash 7 - which the 770 does not! ___ maemo-users mailing list