N900 charging through dumb USB charger

2010-01-29 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Hi, I have a small gadget where you put 4 AA batteries and it outputs power over USB. When plugging this into the N900 with the provided CA-101 cable the N900 doesn't start to charge. As a workaround I used a USB to round nokia plug + the round nokia to micro USB adapter provided with the N900

Reboot loop on N810

2009-02-04 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Hi, My N810 after updating three applications failed (no blue pill, no rd mode) entered a reboot loop, the boot progress bar goes up to 90% then the screen goes black then boot again, in loop until I remove the battery. Any way to get out of this loop by pressing magic keys? I don't have the usb

Re: Reboot loop on N810

2009-02-04 Thread Laurent GUERBY
: - First reflash the tablet There is no other way to restart In the flasher you can enable the expert mode that avoid the reboot loop I wish you good luck and if I find the origin of the problem ( I have a pist but I have to check ) I will let you know Didier Laurent

disk space running short on /

2008-10-20 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Hi, I'm running short of space on / (10 MB free) on my diablo N810 so I have to uninstall some apps to be able to install new apps (which otherwise fail leaving the system in an unknown state, not good). Is there a way to remove useless stuff (like translation, temporary downloads, etc...)? To

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-04 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:03 +0300, Patrik Flykt wrote: d I suspect that if I had tried with 'apt-get -f install' or 'apt-get upgrade' immediately I did apt-get -f install and didn't have to reflash indeed. Even if everything works, it looks like situation is not completely clean on my N810:

Re: WiFi borked after update

2008-10-01 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 23:37 -0600, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: Andre Klapper wrote: This might be related to the problem: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3749 thanks. that was the exact problem. Poking around with autoconnection on my N800 made it to connect to nearest known AP,

Re: USB adapter keyboard

2008-03-30 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 08:03 -0700, Randall wrote: If you look through Cyberguys catalogue www.cyberguys.com (duh) you'll find for 20 smackers a morph cable that will make ANY end to ANY end Cat5 or USB. I've two of them so I can make any combination of USB cabling I need. It does mini USB

Best internet download speed through bluetooth phone?

2008-03-26 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Hi, When connected to the internet through a bluetooth phone I can't seen to find someone reporting more than 20-25 kbyte/second even with 3G or 3.5G phones + unlimited data plans in France at least. With my Nokia 6086 which is EDGE only I get 20-25 kbyte/second spikes and overall average of

Re: USB adapter keyboard

2008-03-23 Thread Laurent GUERBY
BTW, any micro-A to female A adapter, without cable so easy to carry around, on the market yet? That's something my N810 is still missing compared to my N800. Thanks in advance, Laurent ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org

Re: USB adapter keyboard

2008-03-23 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 15:58 -0400, Scott Kelso wrote: My preference was to find something like you describe - either a micro-A to A-female adapter block or short cable. But the only micro-A-anything I could find was the cable I bought. This surprised me, given that the micro-A, by

Re: how to enable on-screen text input for N810

2008-02-04 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 17:16 +0200, Tomas Junnonen wrote: ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: Hugo Gayosso wrote: I think the hardware keyboard has to be closed for it to appear, make sure that yours is closed. In fact when you press shift+space in some text field it is enabled even if

Re: Will repository.maemo.org be fixed?

2007-12-22 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 19:38 -0500, Michael Wiktowy wrote: On Dec 21, 2007 8:37 AM, Laurent GUERBY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: on bugzilla 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. I ended up

Will repository.maemo.org be fixed?

2007-12-21 Thread Laurent GUERBY
After having downloaded the new firmware image from a non official site (!), I've been unable to reinstall packages from repository.maemo.org, I get timeout, wrong gzip or key errors most of the time. These download problems have been there for the past few days, any idea or information on what's

Re: SU-8W kbd question

2007-12-14 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Looks like you've opened the report, thanks! https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2545 I voted for it :). Laurent On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 14:08 +0100, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: 2007/12/10, Laurent GUERBY [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I have a qwerty SU-8W Nokia bluetooth keyboard which I pair

SU-8W kbd question

2007-12-10 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Hi, I have a qwerty SU-8W Nokia bluetooth keyboard which I pair with my N800/OS2008 with US keyboard layout. I've been able to generate pretty much every accented letter but eagrave; any idea on how to generate it? eacute; is done by pressing the ' (near enter) then e (or Alt-gr e) but when the

Re: I have USB host!

2007-11-30 Thread Laurent GUERBY
I bought it here (in french but there's a picture): http://www.pearl.fr/article-PE3324.html I guess for the N810 I'll need another one. Laurent On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 19:11 -0600, Paul Klapperich wrote: On 11/29/07, Laurent GUERBY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I confirm that on my

Re: I have USB host!

2007-11-30 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 23:50 +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote: Lacie USB 25 external hard drive with power USB on my PC and normal USB on the N800 started the automount process but it was not completed successfully, probably not enough combined juice to power the hard drive. Update: with 4 AA

Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job

2007-11-29 Thread Laurent GUERBY
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

Re: further beating on OS2008 beta

2007-11-29 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 13:11 -0800, Thomas Armagost wrote: Martin Grimme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still wondering why Nokia now includes an X Terminal by default. Or is it just there in the beta releases? Mac OS X installs Terminal.app by default. This is a Good Thing. Please

Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job

2007-11-29 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 22:25 +0100, Jesper Cheetah wrote: Eero Tamminen wrote: Also lot of scrolling in launch menu will need getting used to. Is there some secret gconf setting to bring old stylus optimized menu layout with small items back? AFAIK no. The good side is that you can use

Re: I have USB host!

2007-11-29 Thread Laurent GUERBY
I confirm that on my OS2008 N800 (RD mode) just after: # echo host /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode I could get recognized and working without power injector just using an small USB adaptor: - USB keyboard - Corsair flash voyager 1GB USB key (file manager started automatically) - USD LED

OS2008 on N800: probable bugs

2007-11-28 Thread Laurent GUERBY
After a bit more testing I found out: - when selecting a wifi connection the list refreshes and moves all the time: in a street in Paris with about 50 signals it's nearly impossible to select something down the list, refresh sends cursor back to beginning of list every second or so (Searching

Re: OS2008 on N800: probable bugs

2007-11-28 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Thanks to all who answered in public or privately. For connection selection in crowded wifi, it's the scrollbar that's unusable, using up and down pad is kinda okay. Situation is not that great but it might now warrant a bugzilla. Same thing for virtual finger, Home button is a good workaround

Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job

2007-11-27 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Real nice job indeed! Everything feels smooth on my N800 with RX-34_2008SE_1.2007.44-4 even scrolling graphic heavy photoblog entries like: http://www.mamicha.org/blog/index.php?post/2007/11/13/La-rigole-de-la-montagne Thumb can be used consistently everywhere to navigate without going to the

Re: OS2008 on n800 - Nice Job

2007-11-27 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 15:34 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: Laurent, Stereo headphones? I don't have bluetooth stereo headphones to test so I can't say. Some information on advanced bluetooth profiles here: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667 Laurent

Re: usb host mode (usb battery)

2007-10-14 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 09:28 +0200, Frantisek Dufka wrote: Don't know the item above but I have this http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.3205 and it somewhat works. Price and size is good but there is no indication of low voltage and no voltage converter. You get voltage straight from

Re: Battery Life

2007-08-17 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:46 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: How do we know what the actual current consumption is? You use extra hardware for that, not software. :-) I always wondered if the N800 platform made this information available. I'm still wondering what the proprietary power management

Experience with N800 portable autonomous battery charger

2007-07-22 Thread Laurent GUERBY
I've been wondering for a while how to extend the (already quite correct :) battery life on the N800 for long trips without power plug access and planned continuous use. One obvious solution is to buy another BP-5L battery for 40-50 euros (*), but changing the battery means rebooting the N800

Re: Experience with N800 portable autonomous battery charger

2007-07-22 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 10:12 -0400, James Knott wrote: Laurent GUERBY wrote: So I went another route and bought: - 4x AA NIMH batteries with charger (1), - a USB battery extender with room for 4xAA (2) - a USB to N800 power plug adapter, part of a quite complete charger and adapter

Bluetooth headset support in the plan for next official firmware

2007-07-09 Thread Laurent GUERBY
FYI. Thanks to Quim Gil for keeping up with our requests :). Laurent https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474 --- Comment #10 From Laurent GUERBY 2007-07-08 13:54:22 GMT+3 I tried to pair a bluetooth headset with 4.2007.26-8 but still no luck, after all it wasn't announced yet

Re: Possible to use the N800 as WLAN Access Point?

2007-05-20 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 15:32 +0200, Frantisek Dufka wrote: Toby Proctor wrote: Just a thought I had last night, but is it possible to reverse the polarity of the WLAN on the N800 and turn it into a small, portable hotspot which uses e.g. an HSDPA cellphone as the backhaul? Toby

Re: Possible to use the N800 as WLAN Access Point?

2007-05-20 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 21:13 +0200, Frantisek Dufka wrote: Laurent GUERBY wrote: GPRS isn't high bandwidth and there are many place with electricity (anywhere your car is for example :), GPRS coverage but otherwise without internet connection so I wouldn't dismiss so quickly

Re: N800 inflight!

2007-05-11 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On french TGV my N800 with maemo mapper and bluetooth GPS lasted about 7 hours on one charge (screen not always on, but GPS recording always on): http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/2007-April/004899.html I tried video with minimum screen brightness and the N800 stayed up playing 4 hours on

Re: bluetooth GPS receiver

2007-04-27 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 16:15 +0100, David Grau Serra 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

Re: N800 switches on by itself while recharging

2007-04-17 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:59 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: ext Eero Tamminen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ~ $ cat /var/lib/dsme/stats/lifeguard_resets /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -k -i lo -a 127.0.0.1 -z : 1 * [...] Seems that at some point dnsmasq has caused device reboot by dying too many times

Re: N800 switches on by itself while recharging

2007-04-17 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:39 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: You can enable them for all applications by creating a core-dumps directory to the external MMC. Unfortunately the cards are mounted with user user, so processes like dsnmasq which are run as user nobody cannot dump core to the MMC

Re: Wifi vrs Bluetooth power = maemo mapper experience

2007-04-12 Thread Laurent GUERBY
FWIW, my globalsat BT-359 GPS linked via bluetooth to my N800 running maemo mapper on during a whole Paris-Toulouse-Castres TGV (high speed train) trip ran on one charge taking 19910 data points from 2007-04-06T08:25:02+02:00 to 2007-04-06T15:11:46+02:00 so a bit less than 7 hours, resulting .gpx

Re: SanDisk 8GM SDHC Flash Card - we need SDHC!

2007-04-12 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 14:43 -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: I know 4GB is not even officially supported yet, but imagine the 16GB possibilities with 2 8GB SDHC cards... Movies, Music, Photos - more ebooks than you could probably even consider reading! 2x2GB=4GB = 16 hours of video already

Re: Creating my own menu entries

2007-03-26 Thread Laurent GUERBY
May be this will help: http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowTo_SimpleToggles I don't know if it's up to date for OS2007. Laurent http://guerby.org/blog/ On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 07:29 -0500, David Hagood wrote: I'd like to create my own menu entries for a few things I do (e.g. ntpdate sync, ssh to my

Re: Nokia camera app!

2007-03-24 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 10:13 -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: I've actually deactivated them all except for the standard two and still no luck. Same error every time -- Fails at Refresh -- unable to download. Application package not found. This is probably this bug:

Re: N800 as a Business Productivity Tool

2007-02-18 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:09 -0500, Acadia Secure Networks wrote: If I had had some of the standard network tools installed on the N800 (e.g. ping, and perhaps even nmap) I could have performed further diagnostic testing of the broadband router EVDO network connection (e.g. to confirm that the

community-enhancement bugzillas?

2007-02-18 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 14:00 +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote: This is not forced per se, we just don't want to think about providing a UI for it. If someone contributes one... :-) May be it would be useful to open offical bugzilla enhancement requests for developments that the Nokia team would

Re: N800 Intermittent Failure Mode Requiring Battery removal/reinsertion

2007-02-17 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 19:40 -0500, Jonathan Greene wrote: The battery trick seems to fix all odd ailments... Not sure where the magic is, but there's clearly some connection between a full power-down and a restorative state. Here is a way to reproduce a loss of functionality ending up in

Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio -- dependencies?

2007-02-10 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On my N800 libosso-help0 is there, I don't remember doing anything special: ~ $ dpkg -s libosso-help0 Package: libosso-help0 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 96 Maintainer: Jakub Pavelek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: armel Source: libosso-help

Re: [maemo-users] Abnormal power consumption on N800

2007-02-09 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 17:42 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an N800, and there are 2 wireless networks in the office, with two SSID hpcfwl and guestwl, I defined them both on the N800, but hpcfwl won't let me connect until I add the Mac

Re: [maemo-users] Rhapsody service?

2007-02-09 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 22:45 +0100, Laurent MARTIN wrote: Seen under tableteer 'Enhanced' tab, in FMRADIO section: the Rhapsody service is almost here... What is this service about? Probably this: http://learn.rhapsody.com/ Rhapsody is a membership-based music service that gives you

Re: [maemo-users] invalid signature on tableeer catalog for bora

2007-02-07 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Same thing for me, looking with the browser: http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com/certified/dists/bora/user/binary-armel/ Packages.bz2 07.02.2007 10:256060 Packages07.02.2007 10:25 10273 Packages.gz

Re: [maemo-users] Re: N800 and Bluetooth Headsets

2007-02-06 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 01:05 -0500, Mike Lococo wrote: The SINGLE worst problem with the 770/800 is NO BT headsets. It's a long standing complaint. I've come to believe it's a conscious decision. No argument here - It seems like the exclusion was conscious, but I can't figure out why.

Re: [maemo-users] Usage

2007-01-28 Thread Laurent GUERBY
FYI I filed a bugzilla about the default busybox: Wishlist: include a bit more tools in shipped busybox https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=989 May be other users can add their favourite busybox configuration. Laurent ___ maemo-users mailing

Re: [maemo-users] Usage

2007-01-27 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 18:34 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationCatalog2006 yes and filed a bug against it, for some reason if I install it I loose graphics in the themes (files are there but I'got a white border to the left and no graphics on keyboards

[maemo-users] N800: RS-MMC and mini-SD

2007-01-10 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Hi, Will the N800 read RS-MMC (those used by the N770)? Thanks in advance, Laurent http://guerby.org/blog/ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: [maemo-users] N800: RS-MMC and mini-SD

2007-01-10 Thread Laurent GUERBY
, ext Laurent GUERBY wrote: Hi, Will the N800 read RS-MMC (those used by the N770)? Yes, it reads RS-MMC with the adapter that comes in the Nokia 770 sales box. (I just tested the Nokia 64MB RS-MMC that also comes in the sales box.) BR; Kimmo

Re: [maemo-users] Using VoIP on maemo 2.0

2006-06-16 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:39 +0200, Michael Flaig wrote: Will try it with my bluetooth headset as soon as I have some free time... Did that work? Are bluetooth headsets supported now? Thanks in advance, Laurent ___ maemo-users mailing list

Re: [maemo-users] Linksys WRTG54GL + Nokia 770 connection lost

2006-02-18 Thread Laurent GUERBY
Did you set in Control Panel / Connectivity / Idle times (second tab) / Packet data and WLAN Idle time to Unlimited? I have an ASUS WL500GX (Linux inside too) and have no trouble maintaining browsing for tens of minutes. After a while (about one hour UI idle) it drops the connection though,