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Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by j16sdiz »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #6

Why go through that device-breaking battery dance when you can still get a BL-5J battery pretty much everywhere? Booting from an SD card, while possible, is rather impractical on N900 because it gets disconnected whenever you open the back cover. The N900 that lays next to me right now still works as a phone. I have to replace its screen though, as recently it took some damage in my pocket and got a small crack in it…

> The N900 that lays next to me right now still works as a phone.

It soon won't be. 3G and 2G network are being depreciated quickly around the world

Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by qingcharles »

stego-tech wrote: post #9

Man, I miss my N80ie. The towns I lived in didn’t get UMTS/3G until the ‘10s, but the EDGE radios were enough . Loved Symbian, miss it.

My first Internet phone was the Nokia 9000, which was limited to GSM (9600bps). I built and debugged one of the first major music streaming services on that connection because I was working remote and my DSL got cut off. I had to add a 2Kbps stream option to the production servers for myself just so I could test it.

Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by seba_dos1 »

j16sdiz wrote: post #11
seba_dos1 wrote: post #6

Why go through that device-breaking battery dance when you can still get a BL-5J battery pretty much everywhere? Booting from an SD card, while possible, is rather impractical on N900 because it gets disconnected whenever you open the back cover. The N900 that lays next to me right now still works as a phone. I have to replace its screen though, as recently it took some damage in my pocket and got a small crack in it…

> The N900 that lays next to me right now still works as a phone. It soon won't be. 3G and 2G network are being depreciated quickly around the world

Should still be fine for at least a few years here.

Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by jacquesm »

I still have an N800-tough, it still works. It even holds a five day charge. This is from after the reboot, it runs linux and so far it has been ultra reliable. I have an older one as well that still works but this one is just a little more useful (it can serve as a wifi access point).

Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by ahartmetz »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #15
stego-tech wrote: post #9

Man, I miss my N80ie. The towns I lived in didn’t get UMTS/3G until the ‘10s, but the EDGE radios were enough . Loved Symbian, miss it.

N900 has nothing to do with Symbian.

Fortunately - Symbian was painful. It was designed with a half-baked C++ standard and devices with 1-2 MB of RAM in mind and apparently never thoroughly upgraded.

Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by yaky »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #6

Why go through that device-breaking battery dance when you can still get a BL-5J battery pretty much everywhere? Booting from an SD card, while possible, is rather impractical on N900 because it gets disconnected whenever you open the back cover. The N900 that lays next to me right now still works as a phone. I have to replace its screen though, as recently it took some damage in my pocket and got a small crack in it…

Where's the fun in that?

Maemo wiki states that Maemo Leste should be run from SD card. I am actually surprised that the phone can use the SD slot at high enough speed.

Re: Nokia N900 Necromancy

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Post by yaky »

internet2000 wrote: post #5

Buddy, just buy a replacement battery https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=BL-5J

I looked, but TBH, not sure what to make of "genuine" and "OEM" claims for a battery for a 16–year-old device (or 10-year-old if you count compatible Lumias). Descriptions usually do not mention manufacture dates either.
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