Saturday, July 19, 2008

N810 joy

I finally received my own Nokia N810.

Beautiful piece of work. I have been playing with it for the past week:
1) Hacking the hardware keyboard to support Hebrew and English simultaneously (ctrl+chr to switch).
2) Move parts of the rootfs to the internal card - I'm having problems with this one).
3) Setting it with the proper set of applications - There are *too* many applications out there... :(

The GPS is somewhat troublesome as:
1) It take ages to get a fix.
2) No Israel maps - this can be solved through integration with http://freemap.co.il ... but I'm still working on it.

I'm also lacking video support on skype... Or a video recording application...

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi,

Did you figured out how to use israel's maps?

Where can I get Hebrew support?

Thanks

DamagedSpline said...

Hebrew support: http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16228

Freemap.co.il - n810 - havnt tested it yet:
http://www.freemap.co.il/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8547

For Hebrew I recommend the Nachlieli light font instead of Culmus:
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/download.php/3432/culmus-nachlieli-light_1.1_all.deb

Unknown said...

Hi tried to follow the hebrew support link but the installation package has a broken link (http://gplsystems.com)

Can you help? is there another place where i can download hebrew support?

DamagedSpline said...

Kipod:

That is a shame but they took the apt down...

There is an alternative. You can install the on-screen Hebrew keyboard from: https://garage.maemo.org/frs/download.php/3431/him-hebrew_1.1_armel.deb

It is not the same as it is an additional keyboard instead of additional layout... :(

Alternatively there is the hard way of doing the right thing, by adding a Hebrew layout he_IL.vkb file to /usr/share/keyboards/.

I already created such a file and can send you the file if you wish...

Unknown said...

yes please, i like doing things right the hard way.

so if you can send the file this will be great.

btw, anything else other than copying it to the right location?

SHEHZAD said...

N810 is a classic phone ..but how i can switch it to software keyboard.. i hope u will reply my post ..

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