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Forum: Development 2011-04-04, 23:49
Replies: 31
Views: 7,867
Posted By patstew
Re: Programming digital compass

I think it would definitely make some noises apart from the FM white noise, but probably not a pure tone, and not from the speakers :rolleyes:
For a point of reference, I reckon (assuming the N900...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-04-01, 19:22
Replies: 37
Views: 9,519
Posted By patstew
Re: Is there anyway to prevent N900 from resetting when removing the battery?

Also try giving the gold bits on your sim card and phone a good clean with acetone or alcohol (isopropyl, not beer :-).
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-03-25, 00:51
Replies: 191
Views: 157,895
Posted By patstew
Re: Broken MicroUSB idea: Creating a new connection

That's an fbus or mbus connection, not USB, by the looks of it. I think your best bet is to solder to the red and black components as indicated in this image...
Forum: Applications 2011-03-01, 16:58
Replies: 11
Views: 4,465
Posted By patstew
Re: rm rt*? went wrong! eMMC removed?

Do you mean 'rm -rf *'? If so you deleted everything under the folder you were in. 'rm rt*' would only remove filenames beginning in 'rt', which shouldn't be very much/anything.
If it was the former...
Forum: Competitors 2011-02-18, 14:58
Replies: 49
Views: 13,967
Posted By patstew
Re: Winners and losers

To be charged, a phone needs to be bought first ;)
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-01-27, 07:20
Replies: 16
Views: 9,935
Posted By patstew
Re: My N900 nightmare, what can I do?

The flash on the N900 (and any decent flash memory) does 'wear leveling', so it writes to a different part of the physical flash each time, even when you attempt to force linux to write to the exact...
Forum: Accessories 2011-01-21, 18:57
Replies: 38
Views: 14,351
Posted By patstew
Re: Screen Protector or No Screen Protector?

That's the one I had. The bare screen has proved much more scratch resistant for me so far.

Those spare glass fronts from ebay look like a good option to me, given that they're about as much as a...
Forum: Accessories 2011-01-20, 20:20
Replies: 38
Views: 14,351
Posted By patstew
Re: Screen Protector or No Screen Protector?

I think you are covered by his second paragraph if you work with such strong acids.....
Forum: Accessories 2011-01-20, 19:48
Replies: 38
Views: 14,351
Posted By patstew
Re: Screen Protector or No Screen Protector?

I had a screen protector for a while, and it built up a few scratches (it wasn't one of the really cheap ones either) so I thought it was doing its job. One day the touchscreen suddenly stopped...
Forum: Applications 2011-01-09, 02:22
Replies: 38
Views: 10,851
Posted By patstew
Re: Why is my Ovi Store is ALL FREE?

Perhaps you are the one millionth visitor to the ovi store?
Forum: Applications 2010-08-02, 15:40
Replies: 3
Views: 4,791
Posted By patstew
Re: psx4m!

You can think of the playstation BIOS as a very simple operating system for the playstation. Emulators simulate the hardware of the playstation, and the BIOS interacts with this 'hardware' and with...
Forum: General 2010-05-22, 23:13
Replies: 10
Views: 8,048
Posted By patstew
Re: HOW TO: connect your N900 through your home internet connection from anywhere via ssh

ssh can do DNS requests in principle, but whether or not they are used depends on the client. Generally SOCKS 5 = DNS proxying and SOCKS 4 or 4a cannot proxy DNS requests. I don't know which the n900...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-05-06, 12:46
Replies: 2,355
Views: 1,172,872
Posted By patstew
Re: Adobe Flash Player 10: When will the update arrive?

Complaining about nokia not handing out firmware updates quickly enough is one thing, but if they're holding back software that's been developed to try and make people upgrade to N900+1 that's...
Forum: General 2010-04-16, 13:05
Replies: 42
Views: 14,209
Posted By patstew
Re: help me decide my provider in the UK

I'm on giffgaff and think it's great. They even pay you a decent amount of credit (I got about a tenner the other day) for making forum posts, and I've only posted a couple of times. Its also got the...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-02-08, 04:45
Replies: 23
Views: 7,630
Posted By patstew
Re: UK BT Openzone

The N900 supports javascript to practically the same level as desktop firefox. What it doesn't support is java. Java and javascript are completely different things, despite the names. I assume that's...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2009-12-21, 01:36
Replies: 19
Views: 16,531
Posted By patstew
Re: Fastest way to copy files to N900 over WiFi

Here's a nice little python script for serving files over http without all the hassle of setting up a real server. Makes it incredibly easy on systems with python, (ie linux)....
Forum: Buy & Sell 2009-12-18, 18:38
Replies: 4,178
Views: 634,143
Posted By patstew
Re: Mobile Phones Direct N900 Customers

You need to delete all your cookies/cache etc in the browser, then go to quidco, click the visit retailer to earn cashback link and buy the N900 through that. Sadly, it gives you no indication at all...
Forum: Buy & Sell 2009-12-18, 10:02
Replies: 4,178
Views: 634,143
Posted By patstew
Re: Mobile Phones Direct N900 Customers

Sorry, seems like the offer is over. When I ordered it on wednesday they were doing double cashback. Nokia seem to have voucher codes relatively often as well as the cashback, some people got 30% off...
Forum: Buy & Sell 2009-12-17, 22:12
Replies: 4,178
Views: 634,143
Posted By patstew
Re: Mobile Phones Direct N900 Customers

If you're interested, quidco are currently doing 20% cashback on the N900 direct from nokia, bringing it to £400 sim free and actually posted next day. Not as cheap as some got it for, but still...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2009-12-12, 16:40
Replies: 4
Views: 4,119
Posted By patstew
Re: USB to GNU/Linux-PC: SD-Card not visible? :(

Sorry, I can't speak for the N900 but I used to have a multi card reader that showed up as two drives and only one appeared under linux. The problem was a kernel option called something like "SCSI:...
Forum: Games 2009-11-30, 14:15
Replies: 5
Views: 2,165
Posted By patstew
Re: I want a developer to make this simple game

Perhaps somebody will decide this is a good idea and make it, but if they don't, you really should consider making it yourself. It would only be a slight modification to the hello world application...
Forum: Buy & Sell 2009-09-23, 12:21
Replies: 135
Views: 54,714
Posted By patstew
Re: UK N900 FREE with contract - anyone ordered?

I just had this conversation with the live help thing on mobilephonesdirect:

So you definitely get a unlocked phone with no operator crippling. I'm now seriously considering ordering it on Combi...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-09-19, 10:55
Replies: 125
Views: 52,645
Posted By patstew
Re: DIY digital compass: electronics experts needed!

Have a look at these, some are quite cheap http://www.ssec.honeywell.com/magnetic/products.html. For example the full 3 axis/I2C interface (it can give a 3D compass bearing) hmc5843 is only $20 here...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-09-01, 10:36
Replies: 176
Views: 57,902
Posted By patstew
Re: N900 Questions for Nokia World Attendees

It definitely has a backlit keyboard (I saw a photo of it on flickr which seems to have gone), and the tv-out will only support composite given the type of cable it uses. You can't do vga over one...
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