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Forum: Nokia N900 2016-05-23, 18:44
Replies: 8
Views: 5,624
Posted By tfj
Re: 900 won't boot: gives bright LED/"Nokia" screen for 30 seconds, then quits

I noted that the (2) batteries are newish, but maybe their internal charging-circuitry has locked-up?
I'm not sure, but when the N900 is turned off, the battery may drain 'rapidly'.
When connected...
Forum: Nokia N900 2016-05-17, 22:04
Replies: 8
Views: 5,624
Posted By tfj
Re: 900 won't boot: gives bright LED/"Nokia" screen for 30 seconds, then quits

The batteries are pretty new. This is the Maemo 5 OS; I'm on a public Windows 8 Pro machine. The Flasher I was going to use is the 'flasher-3.5 for windows', I was following one of this site's...
Forum: Nokia N900 2016-05-17, 16:26
Replies: 8
Views: 5,624
Posted By tfj
900 won't boot: gives bright LED/"Nokia" screen for 30 seconds, then quits

N900 won't boot: gives bright LED/"Nokia" screen for 30 seconds, then quits (likely not a low-battery problem)
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When I press the power-on button, the LED lights up bright-white,
a...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2016-03-28, 16:14
Replies: 4
Views: 3,833
Posted By tfj
Re: N900 partition-table problem: table has vanished, 'No space left on (not-full) device'

READ-ONLY FS

After the fix, </dev/mmcblk0p1> was left in a read-only state;
this was explained in dmesg:

[ 55.107116] slide (GPIO 71) is now open
[ 82.010894] FAT: Filesystem error (dev...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2016-03-15, 16:06
Replies: 4
Views: 3,833
Posted By tfj
SOLVED: N900 partition-table problem: table has vanished, 'No space left on (not-full) device'

It turns out I downloaded too much source-code into a directory
on </home/user>. Removing about a dozen large files fixed things.
So this was an out-of-memory, rather than out-of-inodes, problem?...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2016-03-09, 17:01
Replies: 4
Views: 3,833
Posted By tfj
N900 partition-table problem: table has vanished, 'No space left on (not-full) device'

This seems be a bootrecord-erasure problem, rather than an
inode problem.

Recently, when I try to edit a file on </home/user> with
nano, it refuses to save the file, saying 'Error 22: No ...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2015-09-10, 13:07
Replies: 11
Views: 7,745
Posted By tfj
Re: apt-get install wants to remove everything? N900

SOLVED

Correct, the man-db-n900 package, in the extras-devel repo, installed
fine (but with lots of "dangling symlink" warnings, dang it) and seems to work great.
What happened is, when I...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2015-09-08, 21:53
Replies: 11
Views: 7,745
Posted By tfj
Re: apt-get install wants to remove everything? N900

I believe I'm using the basic maemo repos. apt-get just says this is what it's going to do. It also lists a bunch of 'osso', 'hildon' and the like programs for deletion.

man-db's apparently in the...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2015-09-08, 20:45
Replies: 11
Views: 7,745
Posted By tfj
apt-get install wants to remove everything? N900

When I try to install Maemo's man-db, which I thought might
let me view man-pages, on my N900, apt-get says it's going
to remove 283 MB of what looks like around 300 programs,
including...
Forum: Nokia N900 2015-04-08, 15:06
Replies: 4
Views: 5,408
Posted By tfj
Re: N900 shuts down prematurely, saying 'battery dead'

I suspect you're right.

Ideally, rather than suddenly collapsing and turning off, the OS
should detect this situation, then throttle-down or pause some
processes, and give the user a warning;...
Forum: Nokia N900 2015-03-30, 18:49
Replies: 4
Views: 5,408
Posted By tfj
N900 shuts down prematurely, saying 'battery dead'

I'm having a problem where the N900 says 'battery empty' and shuts
down, then, after I wait a moment and start the phone back up, the
battery still has around 40% charge left (as determined by...
Forum: Nokia N900 2014-11-24, 16:15
Replies: 8
Views: 5,197
Posted By tfj
Re: Pulled battery while booting, stuck on Five-Dot

Aha - turning the phone on with the keyboard open displays "Loading BOOT MENU..." on the Nokia logo screen, then shows the three boot-choices - is this a standard n900 feature? (Incidentally, I...
Forum: Nokia N900 2014-11-24, 16:12
Replies: 8
Views: 5,197
Posted By tfj
Re: Pulled battery while booting, stuck on Five-Dot

@reinob - There's Recovery mode, but that isn't working ... I'll try re-editing /etc/profile when I regain control, but I wouldn't think that would cause such a problem - I was getting some common...
Forum: Nokia N900 2014-11-10, 16:32
Replies: 8
Views: 5,197
Posted By tfj
Re: Pulled battery while booting, stuck on Five-Dot

@malfunctioning, it's likely the Backup Menu; I think it isn't something original. As far as I know, I can't get the phone to do anything except what I described - is there some special way to...
Forum: Nokia N900 2014-11-03, 17:43
Replies: 8
Views: 5,197
Posted By tfj
Pulled battery while booting, stuck on Five-Dot

I was trying, without success, to set up a simple shell alias (alias ls = '/usr/bin/gnu/ls --color=auto', in /etc/profile?). I knew it might need rebooting to activate, so I tried the phone’s Switch...
Forum: Applications 2014-09-30, 16:09
Replies: 0
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Views: 1,868
Posted By tfj
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2014-03-24, 16:16
Replies: 0
Views: 1,736
Posted By tfj
MicroB makes no attempt to connect to cellular network?

I started noticing a microB browser 'non-connecting' problem a while
ago, and it seems to be getting more frequent (maybe due to
something installed?).

Starting from the bookmark page, if I...
Forum: Applications 2014-03-18, 16:07
Replies: 2
Views: 1,547
Posted By tfj
Re: Web browser auto-open links in new window?

Other advantages of opening a new window, are: you can leave
interesting windows open for a later, closer look-see - with back-arrow, it's pretty much "use it now or lose it" (you *can* download...
Forum: Applications 2014-03-10, 15:21
Replies: 2
Views: 1,547
Posted By tfj
Web browser auto-open links in new window?

(Nokia n900)

Is there a way to make microB open links in a new window
by default (instead of by long-pressing and selecting)?

With a new window, you can simply close it and immediately ...
Forum: Applications 2014-01-27, 16:27
Replies: 3
Views: 2,161
Posted By tfj
SOLVED (I think)

OK, the correct name for the package is "python2.5-doc". It's
a separate package from the main python2.5 pkg, and appears to be absent from the main Maemo repos.

@saponga: Thanks for the...
Forum: Applications 2014-01-21, 21:27
Replies: 3
Views: 2,161
Posted By tfj
How to install python docs on n900?

How do you install the python documentation (Python2.5 or maybe 2.7)?. apt-get can't find python2.5-docs (correct name?). Some help features are missing without docs installed.
Forum: Applications 2014-01-21, 17:44
Replies: 19
Views: 29,028
Posted By tfj
Re: Give n900 screen a yellowish tint

If that's correct, inking the bare surface may be a bad idea. I thought
the digitizer might be under, or even melted into, glass.
Forum: Applications 2014-01-21, 17:32
Replies: 19
Views: 29,028
Posted By tfj
Re: Give n900 screen a yellowish tint

Just the thing - but how do you buy from these Chinese agglomerates?
Forum: Applications 2014-01-21, 17:29
Replies: 19
Views: 29,028
Posted By tfj
Re: Give n900 screen a yellowish tint

Yes, that's the one that talks about a transparent image overlay;
the other main thread goes into detail about changing values in a
mce file, but I think it's for n9/harmattan, and not...
Forum: Applications 2014-01-15, 14:49
Replies: 19
Views: 29,028
Posted By tfj
Re: Give n900 screen a yellowish tint

I never removed the original protective film you're supposed
to peel off, so there's protection there. Some kind of yellow
marker may dry properly. Isn't the screen just glass, or is there
some...
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