Life after my Nokia N900.

April 12th, 2013 Mike Posted in N900 | 2 Comments » | 1,217 views

Some of you might know that after my Nokia N900 I went over to the dark side and got the Android Samsung Galaxy S II.

N900 & SGS2

I can’t rave enough about the SGS2, but my journey with this awesome Smartphone comes to an end hopefully in 2 days and 17 hours time (now = 12/04/2013, 20:14), when some lucky new owner wins my SGS2 on EBAY.  If you are on the fence on whether to stick with the Nokia N900 or move to Android or Apple and happen to live in the UK, do consider my Ebay Auction.

$T2eC16NHJGkE9no8gFnyBRUfQkhLOQ~~60_12

The phone is rooted (of course), unlocked (to any network) and has the latest version of Android, Jellybean 4.2.2 loaded and is updated nightly via CyanogenMod 10.1. Everything in the photo above is included.

My next phone might be the Jolla phone, if they would hurry up and release something, anything.

It might be the Ubuntu phone or the Samsung Galaxy S4 or even Samsung Galaxy Note 2. There is plenty of choice available.

Nokia N900 + Raspberry Pi via USB networking.

April 6th, 2013 Mike Posted in Hardware, N900 | No Comments » | 985 views

Staying with the Raspberry Pi theme, I stumbled upon a fantastic post written by Jeremy Ehrhardt of Bat Country, that gives a detailed account on how to connect a Raspberry Pi to a Nokia N900 using USB networking?

RPi and Nokia N900

There is a lot to learn from Jeremy’s post even if you are not interested in the Raspberry Pi, as he goes on to describe in great detail how to prep the Nokia N900 before setting up the Raspberry Pi network interface config and these steps have been the building blocks to setting up my Nokia N900 Smartphone in the past.

  • Reset N900 to factory state.
  • Flash eMMC image.
  • Flash rootfs image.
  • Install community-maintained Maemo (CSSU).
  • Maemo wiki: N900 USB networking.
  • Useful apps such as ‘OpenSSH Client’ and Server or ‘rootsh’.

An example of what Jeremy has to offer on his website.

How to connect my Nokia N900 to a Raspberry Pi?

January 28th, 2013 Mike Posted in Hardware, How to, N900 | No Comments » | 9,890 views

raspberry-pi-model-b-512mbThe Raspberry Pi will definitely be the next BIG “small thing” and it will prosper because of the massive Linux community supporting it.

If only the Nokia N900 could have been as cheap as the Raspberry Pi is today, then even more people could have had the opportunity to experience this awesome device (the N900 that is ;-) ).   I mean the RPi is not that small (85.60mm x 56mm x 21mm), when you add all the extras needed to run it (keyboard, cables, network cable, screen, case etc), which just goes to show how remarkable my Nokia N900 is in its 180g, 110.9mm x 59.8mm x 18 mm case.

So what if you have a Raspberry Pi and a Nokia N900 and wanted to put both awesome devices to good use, well you can thanks to a great article in the August 2012 edition of the Linux Journal, titled “N900 and a slice of Raspberry Pi” by Kyle Rankin, who describes how to connect my Nokia N900 to a Raspberry Pi in a private USB network, share the N900′s mobile network and even use the N900 as a pocket-sized remote display.

RPi

It is a great article.

#RaspBerryPi #N900 #Linux

 

Yappari v0.0.28. is Whatsapp on my Nokia N900.

January 27th, 2013 Mike Posted in Communication, Maemo Community | 25 Comments » | 14,706 views

Gintoki-AvatarScorpius over at talk.maemo.org has been coding a Whatsapp client called Yappari.

It is a very Alpha version although you will find it to be quite stable.

So being stable ;-) I decided to go ahead and install it on my Nokia N900. All the instructions are from the #1 post on http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84605 so please visit and re-visit this post/thread for updates as things change.

Prerequisites:  

You need to have Qt and Qt-Mobility installed, so type the following commands as “root” to install or determine if you have them:

apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-dbus libqt4-xml

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apt-get install libqtm-contacts libqtm systeminfo libqtm-messaging

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Download the .deb file: http://uppit.com/a59od2ryq07z/yappari_0.0.28_armel.deb and install it.
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REBOOT YOUR NOKIA N900.
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The first time you run the application you have to type in your country code and mobile number.
Note: DO NOT TYPE IN ANY LEADING ZEROS IN THE PHONE NUMBER SPACE, therefore if your number is 0712345678 then type in 712345678.

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You will see a message saying your number will be verified, press ‘Save’ or ‘Close without Saving’. I found you had to press Save to continue.
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It then shows the following screen and at the same time you should receive a six digit code via SMS.
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And sadly this is where my journey ended because at the time of registering, I didn’t have my correct SIM card in my Nokia N900, nor was my phone set to the correct time or date (doh!). I received the pin code on my other mobile phone, but it would not accept the code on the N900. I quit Yappari through the menu, shut the phone down, put in my correct SIM card and restarted and repeated the above steps with little success. I think I will leave it for a day or two when I next get some time to tinker.

Update 30th January 2013: I switched my SIM card into my Nokia N900 and it now works. :-) After getting past the registering screen I saw a message saying “contacts will be synchronized in the background” and I could see the three friend groups I had created on my Samsung Galaxy Android Whatsapp.

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Yappari icon in notification bar

I send a test message from my ‘Sunny London’ group chat and have received multiple replies so it definitely works.
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Tapping on the menu reveals some specific options for the group such as “Delete All Messages, Mute, Leave Group, Send Multimedia and Change Subject”. I already tested the “Send Multimedia” and it works well.

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Yappari icon in notification bar

You can see in the above screenshot Yappari is running depicted by the blue icon with black telephone. This is what Yappari looks like from the notification bar:
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I guess if you have managed to get Yappari working on your Nokia N900 then please give generously to Scorpius via his donate button especially since he is happy to continue working on this application, remember this is the only working Whatsapp client available for the Nokia N900. ;-)
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For a Changelog visit  post #1 on http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84605

#N900 #Maemo #Nokia

An OSU! game called HITS for my Nokia N900.

January 27th, 2013 Mike Posted in Game, Maemo Community | No Comments » | 1,743 views

According to the FAQ page, Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan is a rhythm game for the Nintendo DS. The game play consists of only three elements: tapping circles on the touch-screen, dragging a ball across a fixed path and rotating a spinner very fast. All these elements are timed to (covers of) popular Japanese songs.

With that said I found a really cool game for my Nokia N900 called Hits created by  () for the Maemo Coding Competition in 2012. It is based on the OSU! game.

Note: All images below belong to  () of http://ftpud-apps.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/hits-nokia-n900-rhythm-game.html

Quoting bober12′s blog;

The game is very easy and simple to play – you have to touch circles according the music.
You have to push hit-circle, when the outer circle is same size as the inner circle for maximum score. If you push later or faster you will get less score.

Beatmaps are compatible with OSU! & PC game beatmaps. You can get more beatmaps at the OSU! website or at beatmaps mirror websites.

Installation & Download Links:
To install beatmaps you have to unzip .osz file content to /MyDocs/Hits_maps/any_folder_name[1]/
*[1] - You can use folders to organize beatmap files.

Fremantle/N900: 

 Last [mirror]- 0.9.5
Old versions: Download  [mirror] – 0.9.4

Please visit  blog for updates or if you wish to drop him an email. His details are on his website.

Solution for failed Nokia N900 catalogues.

January 22nd, 2013 Mike Posted in Advice, Maemo Community | No Comments » | 3,568 views

If you are trying to get into the repository catalogs but can’t, it is because there is a known problem. I only found out today much to my frustration. I should have just visited the good folk at talk.maemo.org since they already had a temporary solution in place. In case you have not visited them yet, check out the thread titled [FOR DUMMIES] Add temporary mirrors of repo.maemo.org to N900 by thedead1440. It explains how to get around the problem and offers a whole bunch of mirror sites to the various repository catalogues. I won’t bore you with the details as they are all available on the thread, but if you have being experiencing something similar to the screen shot below then the solution is there.

Note: This is a temporary solution, so don’t go and delete your current catalogues, follow the instructions and disable them.

Image Source: talk.maemo.org

 Related thread: Some repositories are already disabled!

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