Maemo, Android & the Nokia N900

With these new updates we have a way to get portrait calling and browsing back on the N900!

Modified base on CSSU master source and can lock N900 display in portrait mode or landscape mode. Using “Orientation lock” applet can switch between auto rotation mode or the current orientation(landscape or portrait).

How to install:
Using the following command in terminal

root
dpkg -i file.deb
killall hildon-desktop

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TwimGo is an open source ​Twitter client for Symbian and MeeGo devices written entirely in Qt Quick. The app provides both the basic functionality you’d expect, including home screen, mentions, favourites, timelines, search, lists, trends, along with more advanced functionality like searching for mentioned hashtags and opening tweet detail. The project moderation team think this is one of the best twitter clients available on Symbian.

We recommend you try this app – you can download it from the project summary page or from ​Nokia Store.

It also rewarded the first Featured Project of the Month (@nokia)

Meet ‘Ubuntu for Android’ – a side-by-side pairing of the Android and Ubuntu OSes on a single phone, the latest part of Canonical’s ‘multi-device’ future for Ubuntu.

Designed to coexist with Android on users’ multicore smartphones, the new version of Ubuntu is designed to launch the full Ubuntu desktop when the phone is docked with a keyboard and monitor. The rest of the time, the phone runs Android as usual.

All data and services are shared between the Ubuntu and Android environments, so Android data and applications such as contacts, telephony, and SMS/MMS messaging are accessible from the Ubuntu interface.

The desktop is the killer app for quad-core phones in 2012,” said Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth in the Canonical announcement. “Ubuntu for Android transforms your high-end phone into your productive desktop, whenever you need it.”

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According to a e-mail send by the CEO of Nokia, providers are more interested in the Windows Mobile phones. He doesn’t said those exact words, but there must be something going on. Since the N900 was kinda a succes with Maemo on it.

Right now, many of the larger operators are showing a strong preference towards WP…

This guy has made by far the best and easiest script/tweak for the N900.  Together with power-kernel 47 and Uptimes up to 20 days. My N900 has been extended with some life juice For the whole story check Maemo.org to be sure what you are doing.

For those who can’t wait here let’s begin!  

DOWNLOAD

Part I: Scripts

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Community SSU released an new update

Changelog

• a null related segfault
• Use camera key to close preview window
• Added icons for iso 800 / 1600 / Auto mode (fixes #12135)
• Added sound effects (focus done, capture, start recording)
• Fixed 15 seconds timer only going for 10 seconds
• Fixed free device space related errors

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Section 1:

1. Download the 3 attachments from here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p…postcount=2322

Save them to an easy to access location, such as desktop.

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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!

YIEEEHAAAA! For all the N900 users this is GREAT news. While some departments of the Nokia brand, have discarded the n900 in updates, now the olympic flame is carried by MeeGo (in my opinion). So for all us developers and test users, we have some work to be done. I really like the n900 comparing to most of the alternatives (iPhone, Nexus and etc.) but the N900 has the ‘freedom’  to install other OS like MeeGo, Linux-based distributions and Android. While the rest of the world sits on their ass and just buy new phones, we make this versatile N900 maximize it’s potention!

Since the new updates from the Maemo Community the SSU update for the N900. I’m thrilled i even have this phone. Hell it’s even an honor i made the right choice to buy one!

source: http://myn900.wordpress.com/

Nokia N900 receives it’s first community firmware update PR 1.3.3.7-1.This updates fixes some bugs which were present after official PR 1.3 firmware update.This update brings one new feature now you can use status menu in portrait mode also.

According to community this update is for-

Long-term: all N900 users/owners.

For now: power-users, developers, Nokia/Maemo/MeeGo engineers, testers, documentation writers and those willing to risk a re-flash in order to help.

Full changelog here

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