Migrating from N900 to N950

Revision as of 09:00, 13 July 2011

Should this go as a page under Community Office/Community device program/Nokia?

Introduction

Lots of developers will be transitioning from an N900 to an N950 as their primary device as part of the device programme. This transition allows people to get a feel for Harmattan and work out what itches they need to scratch.

The following is a small list of points which helped the author(s) get started. It is not indicative of steps necessary on the N9, and is based on the initial steps taken by the author when he received his pre-production, developer device.

Other channels: IRC:freenode.net #harmattan

Events feed

1.2011.22-6 is a pre-production, developer edition. It only has Facebook integration for chat and events, no Google Talk or Twitter. RSS feeds can be set, in the Feeds application, to appear here.

Contacts

Some N900s are unreliable with Bluetooth connections. To transfer all the contacts from your N900 to your Harmattan device, including avatars:

• Delete any Facebook accounts on your Harmattan device
• Delete all contacts
• Do not try to use the "sync your phone" feature from the N950 (if you've tried it, delete the channel on both the N950 and N900)
• N900: go to Settings > Transfer & sync > New. Define a new send-only, contacts-only channel to the N950 (which should have Bluetooth switched on and visible)

Email

Replying/quoting is FUBAR in 1.2011.22-6 (no ability to edit quote, forced top posting). With Gmail over IMAP, Delete now deletes messages, rather than archiving them (as it did in Modest). To "archive" email, move it to the All mail folder.(There's definitely an opportunity for someone to write a good Gmail client!)

Syncing multiple Google Calendars

This Harmattan build supports multiple Mail for Exchange and multiple CalDAV accounts. For Google Calendar:

• Go to Accounts > Add accounts > CalDAV
• Username should be your full Google Calendar username (e.g. jbloggs@gmail.com) and password.
• The URL is:
  • For your primary calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/
  • For other calendars: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/uuid@group.calendar.google.com/
    

The uuid can be found on the calendar settings page within Google Calendar, and is a long string of characters & numbers.
The trailing slashes are crucial for Google.

• The primary calendar claimed to sync, but no events showed up. So I deleted the CalDAV entry for my primary calendar and set up Mail for Exchange:
  • Username is your full Google Calendar username and password
  • Server: m.google.com

Conversations

Unknown at this time

Map loader

Maps contains a Manage Maps feature which downloads, but doesn't expand. It is possible to do it manually, though:

1. Connect your device as USB mass storage
2. Open cities/MapLoader/catalog-....xml
3. Find the region you want to download
4. Take the Link element and append it to http://static.s2g.gate5.de/map5/. For example, the UK maps are at http://static.s2g.gate5.de/map5/maploaderzip-00.02.42.122/48210.zip
5. Copy the contents of the zip file to cities/diskcache/

Music

Hopefully this is a bug in 1.2011.22-6: Maps' voices, and gPodder podcasts, appear in the Music app; and will play on an all songs shuffle.

root

The default root password is rootme (as in the 770 days ;-)). You can get root to change it (using passwd) using:

 ssh root@localhost

...or:

 devel-su

Hardware related bits

The N950 comes with a quick start guide, USB cable and device. To charge, the N900 wallwart fastcharger works like a charm.

The screws holding the battery cover are Torx TX4, pry off the cover with your fingernails starting at speaker both directions to the other end, and "hinge" around USB and then off.

Screenshots

Launch Boosted Widget Gallery from the applications list, and select Debug tools > Take a screenshot. They can be shared from Gallery (where are they stored on disk?!) Or just click ctrl+shift+p like in N900.

Task switching

Accesssing

In addition to the swipe, the up-right arrow & backspace shortcut works similarly to Ctrl-Backspace on the N900.

Rotation

Out of the box, applications which use Qt Components and lock themselves to landscape, still get rerendered in portrait in the task switcher if the keyboard is closed. Bug #231 has been reported.

It is possible to modify the themes for the home screens and lock screen to support portrait, but this is obviously only a developer-only workaround.