Thursday, 20 December 2007

Root me in OS2008 for N800

2007-12-18 Nokia released update version OS2008 for N800 and N810. I flashed my N800 with this new image (RX-34_2008SE_2.2007.50-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin).

The OS2008 for N800 is still developer beta. Some community packages are not mature enough to support it. For example the CJK support is essential for me to read Chinese fonts. However, it currently doesn't support OS2008 for N800. I installed it regardless. Then tablet can read Chinese fonts but the scim actually locked virtual keyboard (the virtual keyboard never pop out) therefore it is useless because you cannot type anything in. The only way I can think about is to ssh login N800 from my pc and kill the process of scim and apt-get remove it. Installed ssh and try to connect it as root but it seems doesn't accept "rootme" as default password for root like OS2007. By searching mailing list, you need to enable R&D mode:
http://maemo.org/community/wiki/rdmode/
At first I saw this document I think you need to reflash image to enable it. But Actually the
"sudo ./flasher-3.0 --enable-rd-mode" command doesn't need to reflash image instead it just enable device to boot into R&D mode.

Ok, now I get root prompt via SSH, killed the processes of scim and apt-get remove the scim packages. And my N800 /OS2008 is perfectly (at least usable for me) to read Chinese fonts based webpages and documents (that's all I need).

UPDATE: The fonts only package from MaemoCJK can be found on the following link:
http://maemocjk.garage.maemo.org/dists/chinook/test/binary-armel/

The Chinese fonts is:
http://maemocjk.garage.maemo.org/dists/chinook/test/binary-armel/ttf-arphic-newsung_1.3.0-1maemo1_all.deb

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