Other Nokia N900 GNU mobile phone tips

There is load-applet in the Nokia N900, however it is currently nonfunctional. According to developers discussions, it is apparently due to some gstreamer issues.

A recent 0.4.4 version works, if one library is also copied to the root file system.

Until the load-applet is fixed, I've put together a .deb package of the working load-applet with the library.

To be able to record video screencasts with audio, and also to take screenshots, on the Nokia N900 GNU mobile phone:

1. Download the fixed load-applet-ximagesrc to the N900 folder on the phone.
2. If you don't have the `rootsh' application installed, open Application Manager and install `rootsh'.
3. Launch the X-terminal application.
4. In X-terminal, gain root priviledges:

   $ sudo gainroot

5. As root in the X-terminal, install the downloaded file. Assuming you saved it to your N900 directory, it is in /home/user/MyDocs/

   # dpkg -i load-applet-ximagesrc_0.4.4-2_armel.deb # apt-get -f install

6. Reboot.

Now you will have a load bar in your top bar, if you tap it you will see two icons, one is for taking screenshots, one for recording screencasts.

The screenshots are saved in: /home/user/MyDocs/.images
The screencasts are saved in: /home/user/MyDocs/.videos