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== Firmware == | == Firmware == | ||
- | You may wish to consider whether to re-flash your phone's firmware. Even if you are already on the latest firmware (40.2012.21- | + | You may wish to consider whether to re-flash your phone's firmware. Even if you are already on the latest firmware (40.2012.21-3), you may need to re-flash if you are interested in the following: |
* '''Open-Mode Kernel''' disables Nokia's Aegis security system. This is easier to install on a freshly re-flashed device. | * '''Open-Mode Kernel''' disables Nokia's Aegis security system. This is easier to install on a freshly re-flashed device. | ||
- | * '''[[ | + | * '''[[UbiBoot]]''' allows you to boot alternative kernels or operating systems. Requires the use of the Open-Mode kernel. |
* '''Changing Firmware Variant''', e.g. in order to gain localised applications. There are limitations to which firmware variants you can change to/from. See [[Flashing N9]] for further details. | * '''Changing Firmware Variant''', e.g. in order to gain localised applications. There are limitations to which firmware variants you can change to/from. See [[Flashing N9]] for further details. | ||
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''See also: [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82693 Firmware flashing discussion thread]'' | ''See also: [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82693 Firmware flashing discussion thread]'' | ||
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+ | == Inception origin fixer == | ||
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+ | In case you do not wish to touch your system more than just strictly necessary, you might consider [http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1359379&postcount=1 this hack-installer]. It is a package that will offer you a way to fake "this package comes from Nokia" to any package with an expired signature. | ||
== Nokia Store and Repositories == | == Nokia Store and Repositories == | ||
- | A | + | A mirror of Nokia's software repositories is hosted on [http://openrepos.net OpenRepos.net]. This contains copies of the free system software and apps for the N9, including most (if not all) of the free apps that were available on the Nokia Store (which no longer works). Another mirror, [http://mirror.thecust.net/harmattan-dev.nokia.com/ thecust.net] contains the developer packages required for enabling Developer mode. |
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To use these repositories, you must disable Nokia's repositories, and replace them. Installing the '''N9 RepoMirror''' package will do this for you. | To use these repositories, you must disable Nokia's repositories, and replace them. Installing the '''N9 RepoMirror''' package will do this for you. | ||
* On your phone, open Settings/Applications/Installations, and enable the option 'Allow installations from Non-Store sources'. | * On your phone, open Settings/Applications/Installations, and enable the option 'Allow installations from Non-Store sources'. | ||
- | * | + | * From your PC, navigate to [https://openrepos.net/content/ancelad/n9-repomirror https://openrepos.net/content/ancelad/n9-repomirror]. |
- | * On your N9, in the notification view, touch the transferred file, it should | + | * Download the .deb file onto your PC and transfer it to your N9 through Bluetooth. |
+ | * On your N9, in the notification view, touch the transferred file, it should trigger the installation of n9-repomirror. | ||
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- | + | Some users have reported problems with the latest version (0.7.2). Using an older version (0.6.0) seems to help in this instance. | |
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- | + | ''See also: [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=96018 N9 RepoMirror discussion thread]'' | |
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- | + | === Warehouse === | |
+ | Warehouse is a package browser for OpenRepos. It allows you to browse, select and install packages directly from your device, in a similar way to the Nokia Store app worked. It can be downloaded from OpenRepos [https://openrepos.net/content/basil/warehouse here]. | ||
== Developer Mode == | == Developer Mode == | ||
- | Enabling Developer Mode requires the installation of additional developer packages. As the original Nokia repositories are no longer available, you must install | + | Enabling Developer Mode requires the installation of additional developer packages. As the original Nokia repositories are no longer available, you must install RepoMirror first. |
To enable Developer Mode: | To enable Developer Mode: | ||
- | * Connect your N9 to your | + | * Connect your N9 to your wifi |
* Open Settings/Security/Developer mode, and enable the option 'Developer mode'. | * Open Settings/Security/Developer mode, and enable the option 'Developer mode'. | ||
* After downloading the base packages, your phone will restart. You will find some extra apps such as Terminal are now installed. | * After downloading the base packages, your phone will restart. You will find some extra apps such as Terminal are now installed. | ||
- | * You can now enable further options, including logging, power analysis and IPv6 from Settings/Security/Developer | + | * You can now enable further options, including logging, power analysis and IPv6 from Settings/Security/Developer mode. |
== Performances == | == Performances == | ||
- | Pre-requisites: developer mode must be activated. | + | Pre-requisites : developer mode must be activated. |
*Install N9 QTweakAll : | *Install N9 QTweakAll : | ||
- | ** | + | ** From your PC, navigate to [https://openrepos.net/content/schturman/n950-quicktweak here] |
- | ** | + | ** Download the .deb file onto your PC and transfer it to your N9 through Bluetooth. |
+ | ** On your N9, in the notification view, touch the transferred file, it should run the installation of n9-qtweakall. | ||
*Run N9 QTweakAll, press <Enter> key twice (for passing the PDF part) and follow this steps: | *Run N9 QTweakAll, press <Enter> key twice (for passing the PDF part) and follow this steps: | ||
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**Letter KK : change the priority of smartsearch (option 7) then select Change (option 1). This will decrease the priority of smartsearch from 100 to 10 and therefore prevent the known issues of smartsearch (CPU work load). | **Letter KK : change the priority of smartsearch (option 7) then select Change (option 1). This will decrease the priority of smartsearch from 100 to 10 and therefore prevent the known issues of smartsearch (CPU work load). | ||
- | == | + | == Apps == |
+ | Many of the N9's apps still work fine out of the box. | ||
- | + | Most of them are no longer installable from Warehouse because certificates are TOO old. The install process fails. However a solution exists: | |
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- | + | *Download the .deb file from openrepos on your PC then copy them into a folder on the device, say the /Downloads folder | |
+ | * Then run the Terminal and run aegis-dpkg | ||
+ | sudo aegis-dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/Downloads/myapp.deb | ||
- | + | Edit : I recommand you to activate the ROOT-SSH mode, it enable you to open an SSH connection from your PC onto your N9. From this SSH connection, you can run any command you need. User: user , password : user's password (default is rootme ) | |
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=== AccuWeather === | === AccuWeather === | ||
- | '''Not | + | '''Not usable''': locations and weather updates are not available. |
- | + | MeeCast is a good replacement. The MeeCast widget can replace AccuWeather on the events screen, as well as the lock and standby screens. (Install the widget via MeeCast's Settings/Appearance menu.) | |
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=== Calendar === | === Calendar === | ||
- | ''' Partially Working ''' | + | '''Partially Working ''' |
- | + | Almost everyone abandon CalDAV. Fortunately Mail for Exchange option works very well with simple basic outlook accounts (!). The trick is to define the domain with THIS value : office365.com (see mail section). It provides Calendar and Contacts synchronization. | |
- | + | I didn't find other tricks for other cal providers. | |
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=== Contacts === | === Contacts === | ||
- | ''' Partially Working''' | + | '''Partially Working''' |
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- | + | See Calendar section about synchronization of contacts. | |
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=== Cloud === | === Cloud === | ||
- | ''' | + | '''Only Google Drive is accessible through FilePlus ''' |
- | In | + | In 2021, no file manager are still able to connect to closed Clouds (SkyDrive-OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive ) as well as to WebDav resource (NextCloud...) . |
- | + | The only exception is FilePlus that can still connect to the Google Drive (and fetch the files... of course). | |
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=== Drive === | === Drive === | ||
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=== Facebook === | === Facebook === | ||
- | ''' | + | '''Not working anymore''' |
- | + | '''*** Facebook is deprecating XMPP support so it does not work anymore. [https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=10153420636883090] ***''' | |
- | + | For memories, here was the procedure that made Facebook usable : | |
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- | + | "The N9 app will work if you de-select 'Chat and Contacts' when adding a Facebook account. If you don't do this Facebook will continually ask you to sign in. The main advantage of using the inbuilt app is that it will add notifications to the N9 feeds page. | |
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+ | Alternatively the Facebook website can be browsed through a web browser, or by installing one of the third party apps available on [https://openrepos.net/category/social-networks OpenRepos.net]. | ||
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+ | Facebook chat can be used on the N9 as a Jabber account, as they both use the same XMPP protocol. In order to do so: | ||
+ | * Install [https://openrepos.net/content/ekze/extraplugins extraplugins] to add support for more accounts, including Jabber | ||
+ | * In Accounts, add a Jabber account with the following credentials: | ||
+ | ** Username: your-facebook-id@chat.facebook.com | ||
+ | ** Password: your-facebook-password | ||
+ | ** Server: chat.facebook.com | ||
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+ | === Hangouts === | ||
+ | ''' Working in a very limited way and furthermore you have to decrease the security level of your Google account''' | ||
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+ | * Install from openrepos the hangouts plugins. | ||
+ | * Then run the account manager and add your hangout account here. | ||
+ | * That's all. You can chat through the native message app but in a very limited way (only text and no auto discovery of contacts that use Hang Outs !) | ||
=== Mail === | === Mail === | ||
'''Working''' | '''Working''' | ||
- | + | My basic outlook account works well with the Mail for Exchange option. The main trick is to enter this as domain : office365.com. Doing that, I get Calendar and Contact synchronisation. Hurrah ! | |
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- | + | Gmail accounts seems unreachable since recent security "enhancements". | |
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- | + | My others pure mail accounts work well as soon as I found their SMTP and IMAP servers settings. | |
- | === | + | === MAPS === |
'''Working''' | '''Working''' | ||
- | + | See the Drive section for the first (and required) step. | |
- | + | The second step is to download the Maps (2013), the POIS and the Voices. | |
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- | + | '''Maps :''' | |
- | + | As OVI server are down, you have to download maps here : http://nokiamaps.ct8.pl/nokia_maps_v_00.02.54.223.html | |
- | + | But this site is almost down : it does no longer contain itself the ZIP files. However, fortunately, the WAY BACK MACHINE mechanism works well for the SECONDARY link (web.archive.org). | |
- | + | Installation : Unpack downloaded zip archive(s) to cities/diskcache folder. | |
- | + | Advice: each time you run Drive, go in Parameters and UNCHECK Online. This will enable the search of cities and addresses. | |
- | As almost all BIG companies abandoned this protocol (see Facebook section...), you | + | '''POIS :''' |
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+ | Go here : http://nokiamaps.ct8.pl/nokia_maps_poi_00.02.54.223.html | ||
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+ | Installation : Unpack downloaded zip archive(s) to cities/diskcache/ClientIndex/ folder. | ||
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+ | '''Voices :''' | ||
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+ | Go here : http://nokiamaps.ct8.pl/nokia_maps_voices_v_00.02.54.223.html | ||
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+ | Installation : Unpack downloaded zip archive(s) to cities/diskcache/voices/ folder | ||
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+ | === Message === | ||
+ | ''' Partially functional ''' | ||
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+ | ExtraPlugins provide many plugins for ICQ, AOL, MSN, QIP, Yahoo, Jabber/XMPP accounts. But ICQ, AOL, MSN, QIP, Yahoo are NOT working anymore. Only Jabber/XMPP is usable. It's an open source messaging system. Anyone can install its own jabber/xmpp server. | ||
+ | As almost all BIG companies abandoned this protocol (see Facebook section...), you can only connect to confidential, almost "private" servers (muc.xmpp.org, jabberix.com...). | ||
+ | I recommand you to use Pidgin of Gajim on your PC for discovering them. | ||
Procedure: | Procedure: | ||
* Install ExtraPlugins, it provides a plugin for Jabber/XMP account management. | * Install ExtraPlugins, it provides a plugin for Jabber/XMP account management. | ||
- | * Add your Jabber.XMPP | + | * Add your Jabber.XMPP accounts (Account Manager). |
- | * | + | * Install Multi-User Chats (harmmucs). |
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=== Music Store === | === Music Store === | ||
'''Not working anymore''' | '''Not working anymore''' | ||
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- | '''Not | + | '''Not usable''': The Nokia Store was closed down in March of 2015. |
- | + | Much of the Nokia Store's free content is available on [https://openrepos.net OpenRepos.net]. The [https://openrepos.net/content/basil/warehouse Warehouse] app allows you to browse and install apps from OpenRepos in a similar manner to Nokia's Store app. | |
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=== Phone === | === Phone === | ||
- | ''' | + | '''Fully functional''' |
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=== Podcast === | === Podcast === | ||
- | ''' | + | '''Fully functional''' |
- | Install gPodder. | + | Install gPodder or PodCatcher. |
- | Edit: gPodder requires a lot of additional | + | Edit: gPodder requires a lot of additional library (python-***). If you encounter errors during installation, run this command for automatic installation of missing libraries : sudo apt-get -f install |
=== Radio (internet) === | === Radio (internet) === | ||
- | ''' | + | '''Fully functional''' |
- | *Install | + | *Install MeeRadio. |
- | + | *Create one .m3u file per station (no space in this file name, please). | |
- | + | *Copy yours .m3u files into /home/user (no space in its name). | |
- | + | *Go in the List tab of MeeRadio, your should see your .m3u files here. | |
- | + | *You may add some station into the "Preferred stations" tab IF the name of the .m3u file does not contain any SPACE. | |
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=== Radio (FM) === | === Radio (FM) === | ||
- | ''' | + | '''Fully functional WITH handset''' |
*Download the following 4 files from openrepos into a folder on the device, say the /Downloads folder: | *Download the following 4 files from openrepos into a folder on the device, say the /Downloads folder: | ||
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=== Reddit === | === Reddit === | ||
- | ''' | + | '''Functional ''' |
- | Quickddit | + | Just install Quickddit. It provides most of basic functionalities. You can connect with your Reddit account. |
=== Search === | === Search === | ||
'''Fully functional''' | '''Fully functional''' | ||
- | I strongly recommend you to decrease the priority of the smartsearch Cron. You can do that easily with | + | I strongly recommend you to decrease the priority of the smartsearch Cron. You can do that easily with QTweak in the Files Tweaker section. It decreases the prio to 10%. This avoids some lags. |
=== Skype === | === Skype === | ||
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=== Telegram === | === Telegram === | ||
- | ''' | + | ''' Very partially functional ''' |
- | + | Telegram-cli still works but it's very limited and works in command line (only text msg is possible ina one to one way). | |
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+ | MeeTelegram is a BETA version, it works well but in a very very limited way as well. | ||
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+ | A new alternative arrived in 2021 : meegram2. In Beta but promising. Source code is on GitHub. | ||
=== Twitter === | === Twitter === | ||
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'''Partially Working''' | '''Partially Working''' | ||
- | + | With time, some of the SSL root certificates have expired. This can be mitigated by manually adding the relevant certificates to the certificate store. | |
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- | + | Additionally more and more websites require TLS 1.2 - which the meego browser does not support; however, Opera mini does. | |
- | + | The only easy solution to browse the sites implementing TLS 1.2 is to install PhoneMe (Java VM) then the midlet Opera Mini 8.0 | |
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- | + | Opera Mini 8 works in a client/server way with an Opera "proxy" server in the middle (between you and the site, this proxy server seems to be located in Nederland). The web Pages are not running on your device but on the Opera proxy server and the HTML output is then send to your n9. Because of that, many sites does not work properly. | |
- | + | You may find the Opera Mini 8 on https://openrepos.net/ | |
- | Opera Mini | + | Without Opera Mini, you must find some pure HTML 2.0 sites. Here are some I know : http://lite.cnn.io/en , http://www.msn.com , http://68k.news (Google news). |
- | + | The other solution is much more difficult. See here : https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=101156&highlight=polishing | |
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=== Whatsapp === | === Whatsapp === | ||
- | '''Not | + | '''Not Working anymore''' |
Wazapp uses a too old authenfication method. It fails at login. | Wazapp uses a too old authenfication method. It fails at login. | ||
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=== YouTube === | === YouTube === | ||
- | ''' Partially | + | ''' Partially functional ''' |
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+ | The stock client and CuteTube2 can no longer play Youtube videos. | ||
+ | Luckily, Meefox 1.0.5 still works. It lags but it works ! | ||
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