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HowTo: Fix the annoying ‘Unable to connect via USB. Device storage in use’ error on the N900 without rebooting

archebyte — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:19:49 +0000

If you connect the N900 to a computer via USB frequently, you will sooner or later encounter this error where the N900 will refuse to be used as external media.

This is because a program (or programs) is accessing files in the /home/user/MyDocs folder. To fix the problem, the program(s) in question needs to be found and stopped. To find the program(s), open a root terminal and type

 lsof | grep MyDocs

This will display the programs accessing the MyDocs folder something similar to this:

Nokia-N900-42-11:~# lsof | grep MyDocs
sh        3474       user  cwd    DIR      179,1    65536       4326 /home/user/MyDocs/tmp

The second column displays the process-ID of the program (in RED above). Now, terminate the program with this command (repeat for multiple programs):

kill 3474

Now, run the lsof command again (press UP arrow to go back) and make sure the program is not displayed. If it is still running, execute this:

kill -9 3474

Reconnect the USB cable and you should now be able to use the N900 as external media.

Nokia N900 Showing it can function on Portrait Mode – Pictures and Video

Satz — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:23:34 +0000

Now we have some interesting news for you all

Here are the pictures showing N900 can be used in portrait mode too, So it seems like they have already implemented and now taking their time to make it work flawless on accelerometer

It just matter of weeks to get the portrait mode working.

Here is the video

http://share.ovi.com/media/Guyver95.PortraitMode/Guyver95.10009?sort=0

Source

HowTo: Create a shortcut to a file on the N900’s desktop

archebyte — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:58:40 +0000

Being able create a file-shortcut on the desktop is a standard feature of all desktop environments like XP, GNOME, KDE, OS X etc. Unfortunately, the N900’s desktop doesn’t allow putting any kind of link on the desktop except if its a bookmark. So if you like having quick access to certain files from the desktop, there is a workaround through the browser.

In the following example, I will create a shortcut to the agenda.pdf file. Open the file-system from the browser (see my previous post) and navigate to the folder of the file’s location.

Press and hold on the filename to bring up the menu. Select Add Bookmark. Give it a name and Save.

This will create a bookmak to the file. Now add the bookmark on the desktop.

Thats it. The file can be launched directly from the desktop.

Not so nice parts of this hack:
Web-browser launches, bookmark-folder inflates with the links, and the shortcuts on the desktop are deceptive without the thumbnail.

created using MaStory on the N900