Which apps in use 2019 in N900?
I'm interested to know which apps are usable and are in use with members. I'm new here so I haven't got a clue which apps have problems and can't be used because of this or that and which can with some unknown secret tweaks. So I hope if people list on this thread under different headers the apps in use and if they have been tweaked put a description of the tweak in () after the app. I will make another thread about asking usable and neccessary tweaks and patches but if there would be another member who knows how to make a list of them with links to download and instructions how to install or make to work I would really appreciate that. I use this as my main phone and have been spreading the word of N900 and trying to get my friends to use too so any help to make this magical device more usable would be great. I take is as a default that CSSU is installed but if not I would like to here benefits of not using.
My apps: Browsers: Opera 12 testing, Fennec for email, not using micro-b as haven't been able to make it open pages or be as fast as opera. Camera: BlessN900 (probably installed some driver for it to work) Email: I use startmail and haven't yet found a good email app with imap support. Tried claws or something but was a buggy. Using email through Fennec browser. RSS feed: Haven't found a working solution. Only some feeds gave a feed to a widget and could not open the plain text. Solution was when it starts to download the page instead of feed that I halt the downloading, change the address to http instead of https to get the page open. Too difficult and cybersecurityfeeds not working. Mediaplayer: Default (is there any benefit of using other?) Youtube: Cutetube2 testing. Can't open anything to stream and haven't learned how to able that but works through downloading to N900 first. A bit annoying. Map: ??? Would like to have. Internetradio: Soma. Are there other good ones? Internet tv/podcasts: ??? Would be nice. Whatsapp: No go. Haven't yet tried with easy debbie + netsurf browser. Telegram: Used a while through Pidgin but was buggy and slowslowslow and other problems too. Tried through browser and I think I even managed to make it work and sent a message but browser did not remember the configure key and it takes 10 minutes to make a new key so a no go for now. Hope to find a solutions to telegeramweb. Maybe easy debbie + netsurf. Instagram: Maybe could work through easy debbie + netsurf. Multimedia messages: FMMS works. Hotspot: MobileHotspot works with usb. Kernel: PowerKernel with CSSU + overclocked to 900 with powerpatch installed. Swap: Would like to learn to make the machine more usable by tweaking the swap but not sure how or which have real benefits. I do not like to have to shutdown the device to free memory. Easy debbie: There are updated instructions of how to install latest debian with netsurf 3.8 but not yet tried it. Any other distros in use with members? An if why and what are benefits? |
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I only use my N900 as backup phone by now, even with its nostalgic bonus the system is a bit to old and slow for a daily driver. With Leste this might change, although I hope for Leste on a more modern device.
Still I have some apps on my N900 which I deem useful: Chromium Browser: When others don't work mBarcode: Barcode reading, fast and reliable. Leafpad: Texteditor, as simple as it gets and just as useful. PenPen: Quickly draw something to show it. Or hand it to kids/grilfriends for doodling. TimerJinni: All your simple timekeeping needs Speedcruch: When you have to do real calculations Pierogi: To mess with many TVs Evopedia: Wiki at your hands even without network. useful when travelling, less useful year by year as the wiki images are severely outdated by now. Games ScummVM: For Monkey Island and other Lucasart Gems Puzzles: Many little logic puzzles. Wagic: Magic the gathering game which works for a limited number of cards up to the year 2011. VNC Viewer: Well... for VNC GPSjinni: To give you hope when the GPS takes to long to get a fix And many others which I do not use anymore. Marble Maps (unreliable), AGTL(broken), Cleven(WEP is rare now), Evilalarm(Teenager me needed it), FBReader(N9's OLED defeats the n900 by miles), Meecast, Modrana, Mypaint, Navit, Netstory, nQaap, Orechiette(808 Pureviews recording Quality is so much better), qMetro, SleepAnalyzer, Transmission Edit: Forgot your map comment. As said, marble (sometimes) works with Openstreetmap. otherwise you can get Nokia Maps from here, they should work on the N900 too. However the last update for them was 2015. |
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Browsers:
Netsurf (fast, mostly up to date, but limited web features), Midori (slow but acceptable, pretty complete feature-wise, outdated) Both via Easy Debian, but I try to avoid web browsing on the N900 wherever I can. Camera: mixed Nokia's original app (what was its name?) and BlessN900. But always having a pretty decent compact camera never made me actually consider the N900 for that task. Actually, whenever I look at pictures I took with it, I regret not having had my actual camera with me at that time. Email: Claws mail via ED or web interface via Midori (depending on account) Mediaplayer: moc via ED. There's no actual reason for that. I just use moc wherever I can and it works well on the N900 too. The one thing moc does better than Nokia's player is that it doesn't slow down with lots of files. Map: mainly Marble (mostly via ED, some via Fremantle) Fremantle's version is too old to create tracks (but still can import them) but it's easier accessible than in ED. Kernel: PowerKernel with CSSU + overclocked to 900 with powerpatch installed. Um, yeah, 900MHz give or take and something with "power" sounds about right. I haven't checked for too long. Swap: 2GB on µSD card. My previous 64GB card died around Xmas so I just got a new one. (Wow, 200GB have really become cheap!) vpnc/ssh: Really, this has always been my main reason for getting and having the N900 in the first place. And it still works. Everything else besides phoning is really just for fun, because I can. Quote:
A: Those based on glibc, like ED, Debian derivatives (e.g. Kali) or basically any major Linus distro B: Those based on anything else, e.g. musl, like Alpine Group A has been in a coma for two years (Debian Stretch release) and is currently dying for good (Jessie fades into oblivion) because glibc doesn't like Fremantles ancient kernel anymore. Anyone who still uses these is basically riding a dead horse. I'm just hoping my zombie horse still gets me far enough to find a living one in the form of an N900 successor. Group B is not affected because musl doesn't care for the kernel version. But this group is largely unexplored, I guess because it doesn't promise easy accessibility of vast amounts of popular desktop software. |
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Hi,
for me my n900 is in everyday use so I tried to make it to fit my needs. I'm on CSSU Testing. I. On my SD card I have: 1. Full maemo sdk development environment,II. On the device: 1. Widgets:- one for weather data,2. Maps: |
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Stellarium brings my Core2Duo notebook to its limits and is close to unusable on my EEE 901. Granted, this is the current version from the stretch-backports (0.18.3), but I can't remember this being any better with earlier versions down to 0.12, so I wouldn't imagine 0.10 would be any lighter (especially on the graphics part). |
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I am using Stellarium N9 0.3.6 on the N9, which is not faster than an overclocked N900. Its based on Stellarium version 0.11.4.
It works flawlessly and with the OLED screen its totally awesome. In night mode you can point it to the stars and see their name on the display without any disturbance to your night vision. |
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Gnumeric: because a real (and really usable) spreadsheet can be super-useful, e.g. when buying and financing a car.
Sunvox: On a phone-sized screen, using a stylus with resistive screen is essential. Xterminal, with keyboard because of course. |
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However, there are some features missing to make it actually useful for me. Quote:
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