Maemo, Android & the Nokia N900

The MeeGo project today announced the availability of the MeeGo 1.2 release. This release is intended to provide a solid base line from which device vendors and developers can start creating software for a range of device categories. In this sense it can be seen as the first mature release of the core platform. Also available today is version 1.2 of the MeeGo SDK and the first MeeGo tablet developer preview release (Tablet UX).

The MeeGo 1.2 Core OS is described as providing a complete set of enabling technologies for mobile computing. Highlights include reference kernels for a number of Intel Atom and ARMv7 platforms, a QML application framework, QT Mobility APIs and enhanced telephony and connectivity capabilities (HSPA, SIM toolkit, additional Bluetooth profiles, improved multimedia support and more).

More details are available in the release notes.

The MeeGo 1.2 release also contains updates for a number of the UX releases and the MeeGo SDK:

• Netbook UX 1.2, with a complete set of core applications.
• In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) UX, including a sample IVI homescreen and speech recognition enabled application launcher.
• Tablet Deverloper Preview (see below)

MeeGo SDK 1.2 (see below)

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Android 2.3.3 (GRI40)

• New Gapps preinstalled (market should be downloaded automatically after login to google account)
• USB Mass Storage support
• Accelerometer ‘agressive mode’ for games.
• Wi-Fi RSSI fixed (signal strength icon in status bar)
• Video playback (youtube, mediaplayer) fixed
• Ofono 0.45. Improved ofono/ril startup logic in init.rc script (no endless no-network anymore)
• ElectronBeam effect
• Latest media from CyanogenMod (ring-tones, notification sounds etc)
• Emergency reboot (press shift+Fn(blue arrow) + R + B on hw keyboard for quick reboot without confirmation)

Known issues:

• Market fix wouldn’t work anymore. I hope solution will be found by community:)

http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/N11_Vostok.tar.bz2

Size: 65596191

MD5: 5dc990b8c4a79f4b0c348da53ae4849b

Mirror:

http://bildschirmtext.org/stuff/N11_Vostok.tar.bz2

Forum post on Nitdroid.com

For update on your installed NITDroiD use below code:

sudo gainroot

cd /home/user/MyDocs

wget http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/N11_Vostok.tar.bz2

bzip2 -d N11_Vostok.tar.bz2

mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /and

cd /and

rm -rf * (this removes all the files from the old installation. there is a "space" between f and the * symbol)

tar xvf /home/user/MyDocs/N11_Vostok.tar

cd /home/user/MyDocs

wget http://downloads.nitdroid.com/e-yes/nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel.deb

dpkg -i nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel.deb

umount /and

reboot and enjoy!

As seen on this website Kubuntu Mobile: Maverick Meerkat 10.10. Or better known as :”Kubuntu Mobile Tech Preview” for ARM/i386 distro’s.  Kubuntu has a couple of releases which  are preinstalled (for N900 anyway). I haven’t got it working so far, will keep you posted if I ever will get it working!

For 10.10, Kubuntu has merged the Desktop and Netbook images into one featuring both the Plasma Desktop and Plasma Netbook workspaces. The appropriate workspace for your machine will be launched at login; you can also change the workspace in System Settings.

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Nitdroid released an highly experimental version of Android Gingerbread for N900.

What is working:

• 3D
• GApps
• accelerometer && orientation policies
• lights HAL
• hardware keyboard
• sound
• charging, battery status indication
• modem/data, SMS receiving, USSD, calls/signaling
• A2SD
• wi-fi connectivity
• bluetooth
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Nokia’s N900 is starting to feel a bit long in the tooth. Sure, it’s powerful, but with all these new versions of Android and iOS popping out almost every few months now, Maemo 5 is beginning to show some signs of aging. We’ve seen the Nokia N9 already, and Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-Review has called the hardware “near perfect” while the software on the other hand, unsurprisingly, is a bit lacking. So what’s going to tide people over between now and early next year when Nokia’s first MeeGo device ships? How does a firmware update that lets you dual boot MeeGo and Maemo on your N900 sound?
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