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Nokia N900 Necromancy

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328 points yaky | 3 comments | 12 Dec 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.013s | source
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seba_dos1 ◴[12 Dec 25 01:02 UTC] No.46239655[source]▶
Why go through that device-breaking battery dance when you can still get a BL-5J battery pretty much everywhere?

Booting from an SD card, while possible, is rather impractical on N900 because it gets disconnected whenever you open the back cover.

The N900 that lays next to me right now still works as a phone. I have to replace its screen though, as recently it took some damage in my pocket and got a small crack in its bottom middle. Touch still works perfectly though, so I'm not in a hurry :D

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1. Retr0id ◴[12 Dec 25 03:05 UTC] No.46240422[source]▶
> it gets disconnected whenever you open the back cover

Does it? I don't recall mine doing so.

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2. seba_dos1 ◴[12 Dec 25 03:10 UTC] No.46240465[source]▶
Yes it does (based on a hall sensor), though looking up it turns out that it's actually the Nokia's kernel that does it, so other OSes may not do it.
3. tetris11 ◴[12 Dec 25 09:07 UTC] No.46242258[source]▶
Yep, I remember there being a magnet hack placed on the kickstand so that it would be detected properly