Every morning I record the Radio 1 morningshow as an ogg-file, and transfer it to my mobile to listen to it in the car on the way to work. This way I am not depending on coverage the whole way, and I can skip the commercials. With the builtin FM-s…
Tag: N900
N900: Problems with tracker?
The tracker is a pretty smart daemon that runs in the background, and indexes all your music, photos and so on. The problem for me, was that this process either took all the cpu all the time, or it did nothing, and no music or photos was being ind…
N900 – Watch movies with mplayer+SiB
The N900 is more than capable of playing most non-HD videos. However, the built-in mediaplayer isn’t all that great, so you should go and install mplayer. Then install SiB which is a front-end for mplayer, and you’re set to go. This is especially …
N900 – Add a reboot button to the quick-menu
When you press the power on/off-button, a quick-menu appears. It has poweroff, but not reboot. This can be easily fixed: 1) Open /etc/systemui/systemui.xml in your favourite editor 2) Move the comment over the line with “Reboot” down a few lines b…
N900 – Custom bootup video(s)
The hildon-welcome is fully configurable. You don’t even need to replace the original Nokia animation, you can choose to run that and something else, or just something else. How to do it: 1) Copy the video to /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media/ 2) Go…