EDIT: SOLD. Thanks :)

Hi fellow Pwnies, Not sure if it's okay to post this kind of content here, but unsure where else to sell this very niche device :) Apologies in advance if you don't accept this content.

I got a N900 that I'd like to sell, and I'd rather give it a new home for someone interested, rather than throw it away. I bought it second-hand in 2015 because I wanted a pwnphone, I used it for fun for one month, and then never ever used it again and it's been sitting in my drawer since then.

It still works like a charm: I just re-flashed it to PR1 (I had forgotten the pin lock...which was still 12345) and then re-flashed it to the latest available images. It comes with what I got when I bought it, which is: component cable, USB cable, power cable, and a protective cover (no box).

It seems they are going around 100$ on eBay, but I'd rather sell it on safe platforms I'm accustomed to, like LeBonCoin (so...à un Français :D) or Vinted (available in a few EU countries). If you got a good eBay rating and if nobody from Europe raises to the occasion, then I guess I'll give it a try =)

Here are some photos of the device. Don't hesitate to DM me ask for more.

EDIT: More photos with better angles.

EDIT2: The USB cable I got with it sometimes refuses to work, so be prepared to use another one (it's micro-USB standard like all Android phones got, so you probably got five of these already lying around).

Thank you for reading,

Is there any active repo or maintained or updated mirror for nokia n900?

I am interested in getting this device, just to tinker with. The overwhelming majority of listings on eBay are shipped from china and claim to be original. Any experience with these? Are they legit?

Got 2 working n900s both of these boot up fine and all was working, all of the sudden both died, as battery drained. I was trying to flash them but only yellow light blink when connecting them.

It is very strange that both died, also how do I wake them from dead 😄

https://preview.redd.it/iicmmci3lx6d1.jpg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b1e9a878d8d689e17780269b5bcd3a4fcc9daf5

Just noticed this sub in my "recommended" feed, funnily enough, after seeing my old device in the attic a couple months ago, still with Lxp's promiscuous mode wifi driver.

How is there still interest in this phone after 13 years lol?

So I got one of these phones and so far I am quite lost. I see that the official OS installed is basically not able to go to the official store, so I have no access to the original apps; which means I have no idea if I have the latest usable OS version either (the info says version 5).

I was told that the phone can run newer linux version? How can I do that without erase the current os? I would like to dual boot if possible, so I can keep the phone stock and boot the other OS when needed. Was not able to find much online, as most of the videos show the phone itself but not how to "mod it"; and the last videos are like from 5 years ago :(

Any suggestion would be welcome; I wanted this phone for so long and now that I finally found one in a garage sale, I could not resist from picking one up!

I have a N900 with a broken USB port. I got an external battery charger but I want the N900 to be able to sync my music/podcasts when I'm not using it, which is kind of impractical if I can't charge it directly.

Are there any guides for repairing the USB port, for someone who doesn't know how to solder but is willing to learn? I found this post on maemo.org but the only guide for repairing seems to be dead and is not archived on the wayback machine.

I’m trying to find a replacement keyboard for the N900, as I’ve found one at a flea market that has seen better days and I’d like to restore it to its former glory. Usual places online turned up nothing, does anyone know where I can find a kb?

to do this,

1. https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=57427
2. Do that ```xsetroot -cursor_name arrow```` thingy to get the cursor
3. install synergy from the repos. The same old version of synergy or a bit newer one in the PC/laptop.
4. run ```synergyc server_ip```` in N900
5. Done.

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Sadly this sub is rather dead, but I am very interested in the n900. If anyone is still around to answer >_>. Extremely appealing to me is the hardware keyboard, and it seems the only other option would be something like the uConsole

https://www.clockworkpi.com/shop

Which appears to be trapped in Chinese customs, and I prefer something a little less spartan.

Seems like there is some N900s on Ebay, but they are either ridiculously expensive or will take months to ship. This I am fine with, but I would be disappointed if I got it and it was borderline unusable.

So is there anyone out there left with one, still using it? I am very interested in your thoughts on it. My plan is to run full Debian on it, some research looks like the mainline Linux Kernel should support most of the things necessary to get it to work, ideally I would not have to do any kernel hacking, but I am prepared for it.

Even if your running stock Maemo I am still interested, in your thoughts options like the Pinephone are significantly less appealing to me with their lack of a physical keyboard. But if its more trouble than its worth (and the physical keyboard is really that subpar) I may move to a different option.

Praying someone is still here to answer...

hello. I bought a used Nokia n900 and after flashing it, of course, it stuck on please enter the lock code screen. How can I try to take it off?

Standard codes (0000, 1234, 4321, 12345, 123456, 000000, 00000) are not suitable.

It is loaded from the SD card in maemo leste, maybe this is the way to solve it?

hang up. I found a solution. If the links stop working, please send me a private message. I downloaded the files and instructions

https://gitea.quitesimple.org/crtxcr/rescueOS/src/branch/master/documentation.txt

I have a nokia n900 on which I installed pwnphone from pwnie express but the tools are mostly outdated. I recently found another rom which you install on your micro sd card and boot from it. It had hacking tools preinstall and had updated packages. Now I have lost the card and don't which rom I flashed on the sd card, does anyone know about the kind of rom I was using. Thanks

Either with an app, browser or something else?

Background: my son (8) needs a music player and the chinese cheapos will inevitably break down after a few weeks/months; so i thought I’d salvage my old N900 that sat unused for a decade and give him that instead.

Now, this machine is still running the stock Nokia Maemo it was shipped with. What would you recommend doing, to get it in shape for such a task (mp3 player, basically)? I’ve spent an hour uninstalling stuff like twitter clients, that he won’t need (and probably don’t work anymore either) but I have a nagging feeling I should just wipe it for good, I hacked quite a bit on it back then...

Also it would be nice if there was a way to disable the sim-card check at boot, since it will likely never get one again.

Hello,

I want to run Wi-Fi hotspot on Nokia N900 but when I try to install any hotspot app, it states that I need wireless-tools package. I tried to download every .deb file from here: http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo5.0/free/w/wireless-tools/

but all of them results in message "incompatible package" when trying to install. I have Maemo 5 so I download from that site but it does not work. Could someone tell me where to download wireless-tools from?

Thank you.

I have two n900s and one of them has lost its USB. Trying to solder another one back on but it's proving to be very hard. Any soldering tips on how to do this? N900 works fine otherwise with a bj5 battery charger.

Hello, my dad had an N900, and I liked it A LOT. And a few years back, he broke it. And we can't really find one. If you can find a link where I could buy it would be really helpful.

Thanks! Have a great day.

Hi guys, it is possible to run some kinda of webserver on N900?

Home Screen

Home!

Prologue

First of all, I've booted everything under postmarketOS, so it's mostly possible but not limited if you have Maemo Leste installed on your memmory card. I've tried Maemo Leste, but haven't tried it deep enough, I'll wait for my second sd card to come to tinker with it again, also, it is possible to install i3, I've done it before by disabling the dsme that I'll attach in link here. Both postmarketOS and Maemo Leste does have different variant of linux.

• postmarketOS is based on Alpine linux, in which is very light (initially 1MB packages excluded).
• Maemo Leste comes with devuan (Beowulf as of 2020) which is based on Debian Buster (10). I've wanted to try Arch on this device, but I've seen that Arch Linux on ARM N900 hasn't been updated so far, so I haven't tried to tinker with it. Though if you want, you can chroot on your old maemo device to Arch Linux, Bodhi Linux, Debian (Easy Debian), though I haven't tried it myself, I've only tried Easy Debian, but it's not updated since, and the server isn't maintained anymore I think, since I've got 404 Error for most of my update, if anyone knows the way around this please do comment here :) This is a small archive I've made myself to help remembering stuff, so it might be useful or not depends on the reader.

PostmarketOS

• For pmos, most of the "laptop-y" part does work, so if you intend of using it as a terminal device, you can do!
• There's static white noise when I use aplay and alsa, so I use pulseaudio. Sound is quiet and there's a bug when you play song with your headphones on, the first time you try the jack in, it'll reverb the sound into shower-room sound, so just unplug and plug it again. It is probably because of 3 and 2 pin audio jack, usage may vary.
• Bootloader doesn't seem to automatically go to postmarketOS in my installation, it might be only on my device, since I haven't tried much, so you might have to run sdboot once you boot to U-boot, I also have wrong bootm command error and wrong kernel image, I don't know what's wrong, so that's that. This is what I've been using for a couple of days: You can see available package under Alpine Package
• Tiling Window Manager // i3wm-gaps
  • To install the i3-gaps variant, just do install it with command down below. sudo apk add i3wm-gaps After that, you'll be able to add gaps to your device. Also if you didn't want gaps, but wanted to use gaps, you can specify it using floating command, with this command, your window will be treated as floating and can be resized (Warning: You'll lose tab stack function) I'll later add my i3 config so you can tinker around with device, please do BACKUP your i3 config before you try to do this! mv ~/.config/i3/config ~/.config/i3/cfg with this, if something goes wrong, you can change it again by inserting your sd card to your computer.
  • Polybar - It'll probably resource hogging, so you might use your own config for i3wm rather than using mine, but you can copy what you want from there.
  • Terminal // URxvt You can install URxvt with sudo apk add rxvt-unicode. You can use any terminal you want, this is what I've been using for most of the time. PostmarketOS does come with st, so if you want a simpler terminal you can use the one that comes with pmos. awesome-cli-apps
• Entertainment // MUSICS & VIDEOS
  • NCMPPCPP / CMUS - I've tried using ncmpcpp, mpd with mpc, it does work, sadly the stuttering will happen if the disk usage is reaching 100%, so my advice is to use CMUS as an alternative for local music instead of hogging usage with mpd. If you rather do it with mpd, be sure to see if your resources is enough using htop.
• Games // GAMES
  • Nethack - Works out of the box, if you need some refresher (or not XD) play this thing, it's awesome!
  • CDDA - if you can compile it, it'll work I think, but I haven't any luck with this one, you might, or not.
  • Zork - CLI text adventure based game.
• Networking // INTERNET
  • Telegram-Cli - You can chat through N900, the caveat is, you first have to register with your smartphone phone number, after that, it'll work flawlessly.
  • Mutt - Works out of the box, just remember to config it!
  • OpenSSH & Mosh - take one or both, the function is the same, mosh will shine when your connection isn't stable, so choose whichever you prefer.
  • Lynx - Use this to help you with browsing on terminal.
  • Netsurf - Browsing on normal site is doable, but you might want to use Lynx instead, it's better IMHO to help with cpu usage.
• Others
  • Editors - VIM does works, Emacs will work as well.
  • Timewarrior / Vim Calendar - You can use either I haven't use Timewarrior before, but I tried Vim Calendar Plugin (You can install with vim-plug).
  • Ranger / vifm - File editor, if you like vim, you'll like this also.
  • fzf - fuzzy finder for your files!
  • htop - You know what this is.

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sudo apk add i3wm-gaps timew vifm ranger vim mutt telegram-cli lynx netsurf nethack rxvt-unicode I'll update this list as I use my N900. Cheers!

Hello guys, I'm new to nokia n900,

Tl;dr

1. Install i3wm in maemo and remove hildon or alongside without using chroot distros.

2. Gpu state on pmos and maemo, is it possible to just use maemo with above case.

3. How long will this device last in the next few years, degraded and stuff, will this still usable in the near 3 -5 years (it might be won't, but if anyone knows more about this stuff, it might help to relieve this nagging curiousness)

4. This will be secondary device, what project might be good to use with n900?

I just bought one near me and I've also read a few things about n900 as a small terminal device using postmarketos as base. I wanna ask if it's possible in maemo (without migrating to pmos) to use i3wm (tiling window manager) instead of using hildon?

I read that maemo is Debian based and using hildon xorg de on the maemo leste, is it possible to remove it and then go into the command line interface first (like most Linux pre-desktop env. installation)? Or will it be better to just switch to pmos?

Also I've read some of the pmos reviews, PowerVR (GPU) isn't supported, or might be it is? I thought the GPU Will help with the processing on the maemo and pmos devices, or maybe it won't? I'm new to Linux, I've been using arch for a couple of months after tinkering with raspi and laptop, so I might be wrong if the GPU will helps at all on this small device, but I assume it'll prolly helps with watching videos (YouTube dl and mpv).

Also I thought it might be possible to remove or install alongside i3wm within the root env of the n900 instead of doing other distro chroot to use i3wm (cos I think it'll be lighter if it's using i3wm instead of doubling using chroot inside hildon) I'm not using it as primary device, so maybe I don't really bother with call functionality, it might be good if I still can get 2g or 3g despite of not using it to call at all (telegram-cli can be used instead).

Also how long will this device last (years/decade?) I'd like to tinker with this device, I know it's been a decade since, so it'll probably will hold on either 3 or 5 year most during it's lifetime? (Since technology will degraded as time goes on) but will it last more than that? (I love this kind of device much).

I'll probably used it like this

• using terminal to mostly doing terminal stuff (vim and emacs maybe?)

• fm transmitter, I've seen it's possible on the pmos also to stream musics (using spotdl in conjunction aplay or mpd with ncmpcpp)

• ssh to raspi, or stuff (might want to turn ssh on and off now and then for secs purpose?)

• some kali Linux tools for small stuff (nmap and others without the gui if possible)

• mutt for email

• maybe using protonvpn to help with the vpn stuff? Since it won't be possible to browse with better browser, or is there any browser better for this? I'm looking fo ungoogled chromium for sometime now, but haven't installed it anywhere on my device, since I've seen that pmos is compatible with chromium, i think it's still possible to use ungoogled project in this scenario.

• and many more (some other stuff for another day, although it will be limited for device like this)

Also I might be wrong here, is it possible to help with the ram management by using vram? I thought it might helps in cases that ram is overloaded (256mb) even the slightest increase I think it'll help with the ram.

I know most of this is much and far easier on Android and especially there's Geminis Pda and stuff that's already been made, but knowing how expensive it is in my place (Indonesia) it'll prolly out of my reach to get that stuff and the tax also higher, I won't prolly catch up with this new stuff.

Also I'm sorry if my words are confusing, English is not primary language 🙏🏼

Any help appreciated 😁 thank you in advance!

Update 1.0 #WARNING I haven't tried this one yet on my device, since I still wait for my device to arrive, so do it on your own risks! I'll not be held responsible for the damage dealt to your device, happy hacking!

I3wm is possible under this circumstances (maemo Leste)

https://github.com/maemo-leste/bugtracker/issues/51

Disable Hildon

mv /etc/init.d/dsme /etc/init.d/dsme_

This code will disable hildon

Then install xinit and your window manager You can't just write startx, you need to specify the wm first

startx /your/wm/path

For I3wm startx /usr/bin/i3

Again, I haven't tested this yet, so proceed at your own risk ☺️

Also another link for availability under maemo Leste

https://leste.maemo.org/Nokia_N900

I'm currently doing a refresh/referb of my n900, which I got second hand mid last year.

Unfortunately the little spring(?), that returns the switch to its normal position has snapped, is anyone here aware of a compatible part I can use to replace it?