First official OS2008 update

A few more bugs for those considering upgrading; there is significant keyboard bounce when typing so tthe same letter comes up twice for one click every 10 words or so, the Java page on Philips.co.uk now causes the device to run out of memory, the touchscreen sometimes goes dead, you can't insert text or over-type text, the Navicore software is stuck in KMPH, you will loose all your back-uped bluetooth pairings, the SU-8W nokia bluetooth keyboard won't pair, the handy Caapslock has been replaced with a useless language select menu and the RSS home screen applet has huge borders, nobodylonger has a click-to-expand and only displays 4 feeds due to massive gaps between items.

Welll, no-one knows the answer to my question in the post and below I've since been disappointed with the loss of voices and camera alerts in Navicore. I'll be reverting to OS2007 and won't be ordering an N810.

I've just installed the 2008 software on my n800. I don't likee the browser one bit. I've lost my finger scrolling, overtyping doesn't work, my favourite forun doesn't paginate as well as before and chatrooms flicker on refresh. Can I reinstall Opera?

go to http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php/piega/2007/12/19/torrent_for_n800_firmware for N800 and N810

maemo SDK installation is now impossible thanks to intermittent service coming from repository.maemo.org

For those who want to download from an untrusted third party, tablets-dev says:

89e0661318f60420c691f4e1dd0c6ba3 RX-34_2008SE_2.2007.50-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin 141226188 bytes

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2531

as for the torrent, if only the file was GPG signed, because md5 digest are known to be "breakable"

Since I have plenty of bandwidth to spare, I put the update for the N800 up for download on

http://randomweirdness.com

The download link is right on the top of the page.

With all of the links and torrents for the N800, I can't believe there aren't any for the N810. What gives?

i can't see any at mininova, but there's one at the piratebay ;)

I see there is one on mininova. Ask google, there is a link.

Thankfully (extracted from internettablet) Noneus.de has it mirrored... use at your own risk though but initially reports seem to be positive.

http://repo.noneus.de/RX-34_2008SE_2.2007.50-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin

The md5sum from Nokia tablets-dev.nokia.com shows RX-34_2008SE_2.2007.50-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin should of hash value of ???? (cant get back in to copy the hash value...sorry)

If you head over to the internettablettalk on the comment thread for the OS2008 update there are a few (currently for the N800 only) alternate sources...

Has anyone found a torrent for the download? This is painful going through tablet-dev.nokia, the download dies about 5% of the way in.

Wonder if Nokia have decided to host the image on an N800 via a bluetooth/gprs connection - even a wet piece of string would be faster than this....

Would be nice if the images were hosted on a server with some bandwidth. Or Nokia could get over their proprietary obsessions and just make a torrent available.

The current inaccessibility is hardly worthy of a global telecommunications company.

Many thanks for package changes. Also some sort of global changelog with major changes or next column with links to changelog flies of individual deb packages would be nice :-)

In the last months there were rumours about the compatibility with standard Debian armel repositories from OS2008, please someone can confirm / deny?