User:Kotczarny

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few tips/notes

5 dot syndrome (no boot to desktop), possible reasons

1/ missing /home/user

2/ initscripts fail for hildon-desktop (happened to me when there was an error in /home/user/.profile *doh*)

stuck orange

stop mce; sleep 10; start mce

stuck usb status bar plugin

ke-recv-test p; sleep 1; ke-recv-test c

misc links

http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_shortcuts_and_gestures

irc wisdom

~flatbatrecover

Remove battery for 1 minute. Insert battery. Plug powered ***NOKIA WALLCHARGER*** to device. Watch steady amber. Let sit and charge. Do NOT try to boot. After 30 min, you got either

a) a booted up N900,
b) flashing amber which means you can boot,
c) steady amber shut off -> start over again with ~flatbatrecover while already searching for a new battery.

CAVEAT! Only works when ~rootfs OK (no ~bootloop)

~flashing

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware, or (on linux PC) download&extract http://maemo.cloud-7.de/maemo5/patches_n_tools/maemo-my-private-workdir.tgz, cd into it, do sudo ./flash-it-all.sh

win7 64bit: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=849980&postcount=20

~usbnetworking

http://wiki.maemo.org/USB_networking http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_USB_networking

~jrtools

http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Joerg_rw/tools (some nice tips and hacks)

~keyremap

http://wiki.maemo.org/Remapping_keyboard