User:Jebba
Name: Jeff Moe
Email: moe@blagblagblag.org
Nick: jebba, jebbajeb, jebba900, etc...
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
Too mucha programmaz
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:
* (*) * * *
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...
Flashing N900 with 0xFFFF
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.
Thankfully, there is The 0pen Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher, which is designed for flashing Nokia tablets and is Free Software (GPLv3). Unfortunately, 0xFFFF doesn't work with the N900. There is some progress to support the device. You can grab the most recent code from the mercurial repository thusly:
hg clone http://hg.youterm.com/0xFFFF
I sent the author of 0xFFFF the output of my crash. Hopefully it will soon be a usable tool for flashing the N900.
Flashing with Nokia's Proprietary maemo_flasher
I now have a non-free program installed on my computer :(