Nokia N900 is a great smart phone but not without its hiccups. When you are having long conversations, sometimes your messages start disappearing. sometimes the messaging doesn’t work and shows the in progress but the message has already been sent. But once you restart the phone, you get all the pending messages which were lost…
I decided to switch off my Nokia N900 while going into some meeting room, but it refused to switch back on. I assumed initially that battery might be low or dead so decided to charge but even that did not make any difference. Pressing power button would not have any effect at all! No charge…
Nokia N900 has numerous exciting open source applications but not all of them are available in the Official Application Catalogs. But if you are feeling adventurous, you can add and enable these other catalogs such as Maemo Extra-devel Catalog and try lot more applications. There are many more repositories listed below. To add a new…
With Linux based Operating System,Nokia N900 is very powerful smart phone, and best IMO, available in the market. It’s not just a phone rather a mini laptop but there are few things whcih are not that obvious and straight forward that one usually finds in other smart phones. For instance, creating playlists using the default…
While updating few files in a game on Nokia N900 using X-Terminal, files did not copy when I used cp command, it gave ‘omitting directory’ error. FIrst of all gain root access by typing following command: ~$ sudo gainroot ~$ cd MyDocs ~/MyDocs $ cp directory-name /opt/application-name/ cp omitting directory ‘directory-name’ You can fix it…
Setting up Gmail POP email account in Nokia N900 requires some work because it requires enabling POP in Gmail an then setting up ‘outgoing email server requires authentication’ information, secure authentication and specifying ports for both pop and smtp servers on POP client Nokia N900. These options need to be defined correctly before you can…
Although setting up email account in Nokia N900 is quite straight forward, but if your outgoing email server requires authentication, there are few options which need to be defined correctly before you can start sending emails. If you see ‘Failed’ message for attempting to send email, following are the steps which will resolve this problem,…