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* Name: Jeff Moe
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Name: Jeff Moe
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* Email: moe@blagblagblag.org
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Email: moe@blagblagblag.org
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* Nick: jebba, jebbajeb, jebba900, etc...
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Nick: jebba, jebbajeb, jebba900, etc...
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[http://jebba.blagblagblag.org Long Neglected Blog...]
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I have stopped development on Meego/Maemo, so these pages are getting quickly dated. Ciao!
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Usually I dot my laptop with READMEs in various ~/devel/ subdirs, but in this case I decided to write up some notes here. These are mostly for my own reference, but perhaps they will be of use to you.
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=Debrick=
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* [http://maemo.org/profile/view/jebba/ Maemo profile]
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==Too mucha programmaz==
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I bricked my N900 by adding the extras-testing + extras-devel repos and then installing lots of applications. I hit 100% on / (root filesystem) and on reboot the system hung at the "dots" part, ala:
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* [https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailreporter1=1&emailqa_contact1=1&emailcc1=1&emaillongdesc1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=moe%40blagblagblag.org&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Bug+Number&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= "My" bugs]
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[[Image:Jebba-oldfone.jpg|left|thumb|alt=My old nokia|My old Nokia phone, replaced by N900. Makes a nice background :)]]
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I had filled up to 100% a number of times before and rebooting the phone had '''cleared''' up space (e.g. 100% full before reboot, 96% full after reboot). This is likely because 5% or so is reserved for root. Anyway, the most recent time it didn't come back alive...
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==Flashing N900 with 0xFFFF==
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Many parts of the N900 are Free Software, but lamentably, many parts are still closed proprietary shit. Nokia's maemo_flasher program is an example of a closed application that Nokia makes for use with the N900. I understand why some parts of their suite are still closed (e.g. pre-ofono GSM stack), but why the flasher has to be closed I have no idea. Gar.
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* Usually I dot my laptop with READMEs in various ~/devel/ subdirs, but in this case I decided to write up some notes here. These are mostly for my own reference, but perhaps they will be of use to you.
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Thankfully, there is [http://www.nopcode.org/0xFFFF/ The 0pen Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher], which is designed for flashing Nokia tablets and is [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Free Software] (GPLv3). Unfortunately, 0xFFFF doesn't work with the N900. There is [http://www.mail-archive.com/0xffff@lists.nopcode.org/msg00072.html some progress to support the device]. You can grab the most recent code from the mercurial repository thusly:
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hg clone http://hg.youterm.com/0xFFFF
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* Feel free to take any of these pages and copy them over to the main wiki namespace (here or in any other wiki, for that matter).
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I sent the author of 0xFFFF the output of my crash. Hopefully it will soon be a usable tool for flashing the N900. I built RPMs for Fedora 12 x86_64 running the latest mercurial code--the ones in the Fedora repo aren't even the lastest tarball release (0.3.9 vs. 0.4.0).
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=Package Building HOWTO=
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==Flashing with Nokia's Proprietary maemo_flasher==
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I [http://wiki.blagblagblag.org/Roadmap now] have ONE non-free program installed on my computer  :(  It's the only way I know how to debrick the phone.
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The [[User:Jebba/Package Building HOWTO|Package Building HOWTO]] now has its own page. :)
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See also: [[Updating_the_tablet_firmware | Updating tablet firmware]] on this wiki.
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=Kernel=
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* To get the most recent image from Nokia, go here: http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/nokia_N900.php
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The new [[User:Jebba/Kernel|kernel page]]
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* Enter product ID inside the phone (without "/"s)
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* Grab RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin or whatever is current.
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=Freemoe git=
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* To get the proprietary stinking pile of poo, go here: http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/maemo-dev-env-downloads.php
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* [http://gitorious.org/freemoe freemoe git repo at gitorious.org]
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* Grab maemo_flasher-3.5_2.5.2.2.tar.gz or most recent.
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* In Fedora 12 x86_64 I had to install some i686 libraries since my system is 64-bit. So:
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git clone git://gitorious.org/freemoe/freemoe.git
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yum -y install glibc.i686 libusb.i686
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* Untar the files....
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=SDK=
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* Power off phone and unplug USB.
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* Hold down "u" on N900 keyboard and plug in USB cable between computer and N900. A USB icon will appear in the upper right corner--you can let go of "u" on the keyboard at this point.
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[[User:Jebba/SDK| The SDK page]].
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* Run this as root:
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./flasher-3.5 -F ~/devel/maemo/FLASH/RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R
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=Repositories=
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* Done.
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* [[User:Jebba/Repositories|Info about repositories]]
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* [[User:Jebba/Etch]] - The Debian Etch rebuild.
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=Flashing=
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Separate [[User:Jebba/Flash| page about flashing]], for your perusal.
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Note, the [[User:Jebba/Flash|flash]] page has the info about "debricking" easily.
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=Wifi Hotspot=
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How to set up your N900 as a [[User:Jebba/NAT|wifi hotspot]] to share it's connection with other computers. :)
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=Mer=
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[[User:Jebba/Mer| Jebba Mer]]
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=Fedora=
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[[User:Jebba/Fedora| Fedora 12 on Nokia N900]] (!!)
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=VNC=
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Over at [[User:Jebba/VNC]].
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=Backups=
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See [[User:Jebba/Backups]]
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=Video=
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More space for talking about [[User:Jebba/Video|video]] at the new page.
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=Mirrors=
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I have shut down my mirrors.
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A [[User:Jebba/Mirror| mini-HOWTO set up mirroring maemo repository content]]
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=DBUS=
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Now at [[User:Jebba/DBUS]].
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=Gripes=
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I [[User:Jebba/Gripes| gripe over here now]].
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=Freemoe=
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I have a server co-located at [http://www.netdepot.com NetDepot] with a SDK installed. If you would like an account on there send me an email at moe@blagblagblag.org.
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* [[User:Jebba/Freemoe|Freemoe wiki]]
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* [http://www.freemoe.org/ Freemoe web server]
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=Bugs=
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[[User:Jebba/Bugs|Bugs]] now has its own page.
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=My Packages=
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There is now a separate [[User:Jebba/Packages by Jebba|Packages by Jebba]] page.
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=VoIP=
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See: [[User:Jebba/VoIP]].
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=ofono=
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[[User:Jebba/Ofono]]
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=Cryptsetup=
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[[User:Jebba/Cryptsetup]] - HOWTO use crypto filesystem on N900.
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=Setup=
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I have [[User:Jebba/Setup| move setup]] to its own page. A bit antiquated already!
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My [[User:Jebba/Sbdmock|sbdmock page]].
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=Tweaklets=
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* [[User:Jebba/Tweaks|Simple changes that make everything better.]]
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* [[User:Jebba/Keymap|Keymap]]
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=Random=
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Punted over to [[User:Jebba/Random| the new Random page]].
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