Nokia n900
About
The nokia n900 is an omap3-based smartphone which is shipped with maemo. It use uboot as boot-loader and for sure a linux kernel. maemo is based on debian, so you'll have a real command line, a package-manager and everything a linux fan needs. No problems due software limitation because everything you need, can be scripted by yourself.
Processor: TI Omap3 ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l) 500 Mhz
Hardware: Nokia RX-51 board
Board Layout: omap3
Default Kernel: 2.6.28.10
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 499.92
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x1
CPU part : 0xc08
CPU revision : 3
Hardware : Nokia RX-51 board
Revision : 2204
Serial : 0000000000000000
Linux Nokia-N900 2.6.28.10-power50 #1 PREEMPT Sun Mar 18 20:10:56 EET 2012 armv7l unknown
mtd0: 00020000 00020000 "bootloader"
mtd1: 00060000 00020000 "config"
mtd2: 00040000 00020000 "log"
mtd3: 00200000 00020000 "kernel"
mtd4: 00200000 00020000 "initfs"
mtd5: 0fb40000 00020000 "rootfs"
Flashing
To Flash the n900 you'll have to download the tools and firmware first.
eMMC
- Flash the emmc image:
/path/to/flasher -F <emmc-image>.bin -f - Hold down the "u" key on the phone
- Connect the phone to the PC
Firmware
- Flash the firmware image
/path/to/flasher -F <firmware-image>.bin -f -R - Hold down the "u" key on the phone
- Connect the phone to the PC
extra-repository (maemo)
Go to the Application Manager and create a new entry as following:
catalog name: extras
web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras
distribution: (empty)
components: free non-free
kernel
I really recommend to install the power-user kernel. You can get it after you've activated the extras repository.
Root
you can get root access via the gainroot package from the repository.
package: gainroot
repository: extra
Tethering
For a wireless hotspot, you can install the mobile-hotspot package from "extras"
package: mobile-hotspot
repository: extra
