Hack-A-N900

Hack Sessions

• Season 1 (Apr.7 2010)
• Season 2 (Mai.4 2010)
• Season 3 (Jun.3 2010)

Howtos

• First Steps
• Usb Recovery Mode
• Resize vfat Partition
• Development
• UnionFS Overlay
• Backup
  • Dump and Restore Rootfs Image
  • Rsnapshot
• Apps entwickeln
  • Uploader-Account auf Maemo.org beantragen

Mini Hacks

Browser - Portrait mode

Open the web browser on you n900. slide out the keyboard and press ctrl+shift+o. slide the keyboard in. There you go.

Nat2Nat udp tunnel

pwnat

Screen rotation

xrandr -o left

Or easier with current firmware PR1.2: - have application set _HILDON_PORTRAIT_MODE_SUPPORT - close the keyboard (!) - rotate phone

Extract firmware from the device

Use the 0pen Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher directly on the device. Check out the docs.

Links

• Know your N900 (commented hardware specs)
• Omap Power Managment