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Nokia N9 Devkit (N950) instructions

(Basic information as copied from https://meego.com/community/device-program/devices/nokia-n9-devkit)

The Nokia N950 is a platform available now for developers targeting the Nokia N9 and MeeGo handset apps in general. Technical details are available at http://developer.nokia.com/swipe. Questions & comments: http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=3597. IMPORTANT: commercial developers are encouraged to apply directly at http://developer.nokia.com - thank you for your understanding.

Open issues

List the open issues here, preventing the release of CE for N950.

  • What about N9? A: No solution yet, working on it.

How to use Community Edition on N950

Assumption: you have N950 device with working Harmattan setup. You should also have the skills required, similar to required by using N900 CE: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/GettingStarted.

The procedures described here will void any warranty (if there was any), and can very likely detroy your Harmattan setup, loosing any data you have there. However, that is not the intention and the procedure here should result in a working "dual-boot" configuration and should not affect your Harmattan installation.

Download release

Coming.

Enable boot to CE

The flasher for N950 is available at http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/d3.php . Installation packages are available for OSX, Windows and Linux deb. For rpm based Linux distributions, extract the files from deb package with following command:

 ar p flasher_3.11.5_amd64.deb data.tar.gz | tar zx

Bootloader? TBD soon

Write CE to device

After flashing MOSLO, boot device by disconnecting and re-connecting USB cable to PC. When MOSLO starts, you will get a welcome screen and some messages about making MeeGo partitions. Wait for the text "Rootfs now exported via USB". Your device should be now visible in PC as USB drive. Write the CE .tar.gz to the mounted device with eg.

cd /media/<mountpoint of your N950>
gunzip -c <path>/<CE_package>.tar.gz | sudo tar xf -

Boot to CE

After previous step, device should start booting to MeeGo right away after disconnecting the USB cable.

Boot back to Harmattan

While powering on, press volume down HW key until you see the disclaimer and the device will restart (disclaimer is showing for 20 seconds). Device will reboot to Harmattan after that (it will load MOSLO and reboot to Harmattan).

How to remove MeeGo

Connect USB cable while device is powered off, to see the text "Rootfs now exported via USB". In your PC issue do the following:

echo YES | sudo tee /media/<mountpoint of your N950>/remove-meego

or directly in device shell once booted to MeeGo (as root):

echo YES >/remove-meego

After that, restart the device and moslo will self-destruct (including erase itself from NAND and resize back the content partition). You will now have Harmattan only setup.

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