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How to do EVERYTHINGon your N900

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Table of ContentsWhere to get Free Software (Repositories)....................................................................3

Repository Extra........................................................................................................3Repository Extra-Testing...........................................................................................3Repository Extra-Devel.............................................................................................4

Best Nokia N900 Maemo Apps......................................................................................5ANSELA FOR THE N900........................................................................................5BLESSN900 for the N900.........................................................................................6CuteTube-QML.........................................................................................................7

Best Nokia N900 Maemo Games...................................................................................9VGBA........................................................................................................................9Galaga......................................................................................................................10Blocks......................................................................................................................11

Best Nokia N900 Maemo Themes...............................................................................12Nokia NSeries..........................................................................................................12Humanity.................................................................................................................12Hitech Theme...........................................................................................................13

Installing Meego to N900 on external MMC card.......................................................14Installing Google Android on the N900.......................................................................17



Where to get Free Software (Repositories)

Repository Extra

In the N900 the repository Extras is pre-configured. Extras is a repository where they are applications that are tested properly and compatible, with a perfect functionality.

In applications manager we create the catalogue with the following information: Catalogue name: Extras Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ Distribution: fremantle Components: free non-free

Repository Extra-Testing

This repository adds manually. Extras-Testing contains the new applications that have not yet been tested and verified.

In applications manager we created the catalogue: Catalogue name: Extras-Testing Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing/ Distribution: fremantle Components: free non-free



Repository Extra-Devel

In Extras-Devel we find applications in the early stages of development or version “alpha”. This repository is the least indicated for the end users, since its operation can have too many bugs.

To install the repository Extras-Devel we are going to applications manager and created the catalog with the following information:

Catalogue name: Extras-Devel Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ Distribution: fremantle Components: free non-free



Best Nokia N900 Maemo Apps

ANSELA FOR THE N900

Always wanted to edit photos on Nokia N900 without having going through Adobe Photoshop and all those complicated multi-functions editing software? Now you have Ansela on the N900 – the Photoshop for Nokia N900.

Brightness/Contrast Edit

It is a simple photo editing software and also quite useful for creating different tones and colour contrast. The controls are made simple with scroll bars to make things simple for newbie. Photos can be edited on a go.

Easy File Selection and File Info

Well no more hassle to find where all your photos are kept. The photo browser at the startup assist you in choosing which photo you want. It also tells you when the photo was taken and the application used to take the photo. Sweet.

Desired Rotation Angle



Photos can be rotated at fixed right angles or can be rotated with a wheel up to your own likings. However the degree of accuracy on rotating the wheel might not be so desirable as it is a resistive touchscreen. It might be off by a degree or two but the defects are practically negligible.

BLESSN900 for the N900

BlessN900 has been receiving alot of updates and well over the past few months, it has overtaken the FCAM itself in my own opinion. One big advantage it has over the FCAM is that it has 4x zoom capabilities. I will let the pictures do the talking

HQ (High Quality) MODE

See? After 4 times zoom the picture is still quite clear compared to a picture zoomed into for 4 times. The concept used in this image processing method is that the camera takes a few shots and combines them together to form a less noisy image. Only under the HQ mode, the BlessN900 can zoom

Here is the original picture with 1x zoom



Again I’ve managed to create the Bohkeh effect by focusing on a near object which makes the background looks quite blur to provide a good contrast for the focused image.

WHITE-BALANCE

Above is a close-up picture with a white balance setting on AUTO.



Above is the same close-up but with a white balance on fluorescence mode. It gives out a pale blue tone to the picture

HDR MODE

Above is a picture with no HDR turned on when taking photos at separate exposure. Realize that the lower part of the picture is in dark.



Above you can see that with HDR on the picture shows a clearer image on the whole surroundings

NORMAL MODE

This is just a simple photo with all the settings on Auto mode. Perfect for beginners. That’s myMacbook Pro i5 core if you guys are just curious.

So there you have it. A few pictures to describe what quality pictures the BlessN900 could take.



CuteTube-QML

This new version of CuteTube is a much better improvement to the previously used Cutetube. It fixes a lot of errors and here is a few screenshots and thoughts on it compared to the old CuteTube.

Well this is the new Cutetube-QML with much smoother interface and nicer design and also works very well. In fact you can sign into your Youtube account properly this time

Since I was unable to sign into Youtube using the old Cutetube therefore unfortunately I can’t show you how the My Channel part looks like. So here you are the My Channel menu for the Cutetube-QML



Here is where they list down the videos that you previously favourited under Favourites

Here is the Uploads section

Here is the search menu. One tip for you guys set the search preferences to Relevance to get the videos you want.



When downloading a video this is what you get. You have to start the download yourself. Just click on it and there is a DOWN button just click on it.



Best Nokia N900 Maemo Games

VGBA

Short form for Virtual Gameboy Advance, it is an emulator more of a game. The number of games you can play is practically limited to the number of titles released for the Gameboy Advance. You would need to get the ROMs yourself.

Here are the screenshots:



Galaga

Here is my review on the remake of the classic Space Invader game.

I would like to comment on the gameplay. Playing on a resistive touch screen was never fun for me. But in this case, it is quite easy and relaxing I think. The whole process of picking up a gameand start playing it was fun.

One of the good ways to kill time when you’re bored. Due to the resistive touchscreen of the N900, it still lacks multi touch control such as shoot and move at the same time. But fortunately NAMCO has included a way to overcome this.



See the red button with two arrows? Pressing it on the red left button would make your ship move to the left and shoot. The same goes for the right. The yellow button is to move left and right while the big red circular button is for you to fire.

The problem comes in here. Mistakenly pressing the RED LEFT or RIGHT button forces you to move when you don’t want to. This could be frustrating to some who has big thumbs to play with. And again, they added another feature. The slider.

You practically need to slide using the green button and shoot by tapping on the playing screen itself. One disadvantage of this slider is that it tends to move when you let go your thumb to enable another thumb to shoot. So there you have it, the brief review on the game itself.



Blocks

The original Tetris game on the N900 itself. Takes awhile to get used to the resistive touchscreen to master the game. But it’s addictive.



Best Nokia N900 Maemo Themes

Nokia NSeries

For those who have been tweaking their themes till the max would have forgotten how does the original Nokia NSeries theme looks like. Here is just a reminder:



Humanity

This theme is based largely on the desktop ubuntu. It has very nice features and also icon pack. The theme gives you a really warm feeling of using your N900.

One of the most complete theme I have used so far. Here are the screenshots of it:



Hitech Theme

This theme is for Tron lovers but the downside is that it doesn’t have it’s own icon pack. But the whole interface is very geeky and tech-oriented.





Installing Meego to N900 on external MMC cardYou would need a 4GB MicroSD card and also it must be class 6 or higher. I have a class 4 MicroSD card and it seems quite unresponsive towards a lot of stuff. Here are the steps for installing it on a MACOSX.

You would need to download the correct files and corresponding kernels from http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/releases/

Insert your MicroSD card with the adapter into your Mac and run this on the MacOSX Terminaldiskutil list

This would be an example output of the command

/dev/disk2 would be my MicroSD partition in this example

Then type this:bzcat <raw_image>.bz2 | sudo dd bs=4096 of=/dev/diskX

Where X is the number of the disk where in this example it is 2

Most of you or maybe all of you would get this Resource busy error. To solve this you must unmount your /dev/disk2 using this the Disk Utility app.



Select the SD card and click Unmount. Try again the command and you should have something like this

Where the square thing would blink until the whole process completes. And you would receive this message

475136+1 records in 475136+1 records out 1946157057 bytes transferred in 2606.033611 secs (746789 bytes/sec)

You will get a popup message of The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer. Just click ignore.

Now pop in your MicroSD card and close the back cover. YOU NEED THE BACK COVER TO BOOT UP the MEEGO.

Remember the kernel you downloaded? Now it is time to use it to load your Meego. You would need to do this everytime you want to boot up Meego.sudo flasher-3.5 -l -k <kernel> -b

Where <kernel> is the location of your kernel file. For example this:

Turn off your N900 and hold onto the button “U” while connecting your N900 to the Mac using the USB cable. Your MeeGo would be booted.



Installing Google Android on the N900

Installing it on the EMMC which is also the internal memory would increase the running speed on the N900 itself. So I’m gonna show you guys how to install the NITDroid directly onto the internal EMCC itself with explanations.

1. First you would need to install all these for it to workrootsh from application manager and wget from the following command in X-Terminalapt-get install wget

2. Make sure you have backed up all your necessary data just in case you screw up as we are dealing with the internal EMMC.

3. Next is obtaining fdisk which is also the formatting disk utility. To get this type the following command in X-Terminal followed by a enter after each line of commandmkdir -p /home/user/util-linux /home/user/bincd /home/user/util-linuxwget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/util-linux_2.13.1.1-1_armel.debdpkg-deb -x util-linux_2.13.1.1-1_armel.deb rootcp root/sbin/fdisk /home/user/bin/cd ..rm -rf util-linuxNOTE: note that the second last command is “cd” then 2 full stops

4. This will put fdisk in /home/user/bin/fdisk

5. Unmount /home/user/MyDocs using the following commandumount /home/user/MyDocs

6. Launch fdisk and telling it which MMC to use using the following command. mmcblk0 is the main internal EMMC/home/user/bin/fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

7. Press p and this would list the following. Note that it might differ from those who are had partitioned their EMMC before and also using a memory card in their deviceDevice Boot Start End Blocks Id System/dev/mmcblk0p1 2 884865 28315648 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)/dev/mmcblk0p2 884866 950401 2097152 83 Linux/dev/mmcblk0p3 950402 974977 786432 82 Linux swap / Solaris

8. /dev/mmcblk0p1 is the 27gb /home/user/MyDocs and this is the one we will be resizing.

9. Follow these commands closely



press “d” then it will ask which partition then press “1″ and enterthen press “n”then “p” for primary partitionthen it will ask start and endstart “2″end “622721″then press “n”then press “e” for extended partitionthen press “4″ for partition 4, we already have 2, and 3 so 4 is next.start “622722″end “884865″ (bigger or smaller depending on size you want)then press “n”then press “5″start “622722″end “775310″ (can omit to 884865 for making only 1 extra partition for 8gb) this will be /dev/mmcblk0p5 (5gb)press “n” if you want then start be “775311″ and end be “884865″ (3gb) this will be /dev/mmcblk0p6press “t”then “1″then type in “76″repeat “t” for 5 and 6 to “76″This is the last bit before the point of no return, after we do this the memory will be wiped and new partition table will be used. so you can press “q” to quit without saving.

10. Press “p” to see if everything is correct you should see thisDevice Boot Start End Blocks Id System/dev/mmcblk0p1 2 622721 19927040 76 Unknown/dev/mmcblk0p2 884866 950401 2097152 83 Linux/dev/mmcblk0p3 950402 974977 786432 82 Linux swap / Solaris/dev/mmcblk0p4 622722 884865 8388608 5 Extended/dev/mmcblk0p5 622722 775310 4882840 76 Unknown/dev/mmcblk0p6 775311 884865 3505752 76 Unknown (may not be there if you omit the 2nd partition before)

11. If everything looks the same and good then press “w” this will write the table and can’t return from here.

12. We then need to reboot the device to pick up the new partition table. Should be at terminal root command and type in “reboot” and let phone reboot.

13. need to run fdisk again and change partition back to 0c./home/user/bin/fdisk /dev/mmcblk0press “t”press “1″type in “0c”then press “w”



14. Should be in the terminal and need to format the partition to fat32mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/mmcblk0p1

15. Reboot your phone and mount the /home/user/MyDocs using the following commands in X-Terminalrootmount /home/user/MyDocs

16. Time to format the partition that you just resizedmke2fs -L NITDroid -j -m0 /dev/mmcblk0p5

17. Time to get the necessary files for installationapt-get install nitdroid-installer

18. Once done it will have installed multiboot and other apps needed for this.

19. Now we going to create a directory and mount the mmcblk0p5 to this directory and downloadNITDroid packagemkdir -p /andmount -o noatime,rw /dev/mmcblk0p5 /andcd /home/user/MyDocswget http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/NITDroid-0.0.9.tar.bz2rm -rf /and/*bzcat NITDroid-0.0.9.tar.bz2 | tar xvC /and

20. Now we going to get the NITDroid kernel and install it. This will also create your multiboot file and everything so no need to create it yourself. If you have installed it on the memory card previously, just do the dpkg command.wget http://downloads.nitdroid.com/Jay-c/kernel/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel.debdpkg -i nitdroid*deb

21. Unmount /and and reboot using the following commandcd /umount /andreboot

22. Remember to slide keyboard open when turning on the phone to select the NITDroid boot.

23. For those having the guru meditation error when booting into NITDroid, boot back into Maemo and ssh into your phone and go to /etc/multiboot.d edit the NITDROID multiboot item toITEM_NAME=”NITDroid 2.6.28.NIT.06 no SD in slot”ITEM_KERNEL=2.6.28.NIT.06ITEM_MODULES=ext3ITEM_DEVICE=mmcblk0p5ITEM_FSTYPE=ext3ITEM_FSOPTIONS=rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro



24. Hope you get the installation guide well.


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