Plankton – An excellent theme – very clean & elegant … and a nice looking email client. I gave Claws email a try before setting up the default client… but since they are being ported from a desktop base, the toolbars/menus occupy much of the reply window’s screen. This default email client (picture above) is [...]
Dual booting your N800 has many advantages… You can always have a backup of your original OS (on the flash) When booting off the Memory card, you have full 1/2 gig at your disposal! Experimenting with distros like sardine is worth it! So… how to go about it? A few tips for you – so [...]
Managed to get the dual boot working perfectly! Expect a How-To first thing tomorrow morning! A big thanks to [s-ndh-c]
Its been more than 6 hours at a stretch that i’m trying to dual boot the N800 – planned to get stable Hildon App Framework (HAF) running from flash & get Sardine (Bleeding edge HAF) running from the mmc. But after first trying the initfs method my device was rebooting endlessly! Now am giving the [...]
As Laurent mentions here in his post to maemo-users, getting ping/telnet/traceroute to work without resorting to install a new busybox package is easy. Infact, here is the data.tar.gz file in question (N800 dosn’t has “ar” & I was planning to do all of the mentioned steps on my device itself). Ping on my N800 – [...]
Boy… HowDoiBecomeRoot2 really saved me from the hassles of reflashing my device to gain root. Once you have Xterm & Dropbear on your system running, gaining root is as simple as ssh’ing to your device’s localhost from the xterm as root & using password – “rootme”. You should follow HowDoiBecomeRoot2 for exact steps if you [...]
First – thanks to everyone who helped me in getting the device… The Nokia team – without whome this couldnt have started in the first place… Sunil Uncle – without whome, I wouldn’t have had any chance to buy this device! Thanks Uncle Darryl – Who brought the device from US… thanks man! [edit] Oh [...]