Sunday, January 5, 2014

Quick guide to install SailFish in your Nokia N9 with Windows PC


This article helps you flash your N9 to a Dual boot Device with MeeGo and Jolla SailFish. I am using Windows 7 machine, without a Linux Virtual box or Linux installation in my PC

Disclaimer : I am just sharing my experience on Flashing Nokia N9 with Jolla Sailfish. If you follow the steps below correctly, you may get your N9 working fine with Jolla Sailfish and MeeGo in it. Please note, the following steps would tamper your Nokia N9's warranty. I will not be responsible if you fail in some steps or brick your lovely N9. **Do it at your own risk! **

Requirements :
  •         Windows 7 machine with admin rights
  •         Nokia N9 and USB DataCable - Ensure your N9 is not Operator locked
  •         Basic Technical knowledge, handling the Terminal in N9, working with DOS prompt in PC.
  •         Please take back up of all your data in N9
  •         Ensure your N9 is charged 100% and then reset to factory settings (This is important!!)
  •         This guide expects you have a Wifi Internet connection available.
  •         This guide expects you have 7Zip installed in your PC
Step 1:
Update your N9's firmware to MeeGo PR 1.3:
Download your product specific Firmware files here 
Download Flasher here : use only version v3.12.1
Install Flasher on your laptop.
Copy all the downloaded Firmware files to Flasher folder
Open Command Prompt, Navigate to the folder where Flasher is installed

Give command : flasher -i
Now Connect N9 to your laptop / PC
The current firmware version of your phone should appear
Give command : flasher -f -F Firmware_filename.bin  (There should be one file with size above 1GB and file extension .bin use it here)

It will take a while, don’t remove or disconnect your Phone now.
After the process is complete, it will show "Success" message, Restart the phone and confim the firmware is upgraded to the new one ( v40.20xx.xx)

Step 2 :
Download Kernals to Flasher Folder:
Download OpenMode kernel from here 
Download MOSLO kernel from here
Download Ubiboot SailfishOS-preconfigured ubiboot from here

Step 3 :
Download SailFish Image :
Download URL here

Step 4:
Now Go back to command prompt :
Flash the OpenMode kernel and reboot your phone with:

Give command : flasher -i
flasher -a Firmware_filename.bin -k zImage_2.6.32.54-openmode_l2fix --flash-only=kernel -f -R

Step 5 :
Get Ready with Harmattan
You need to get Harmattan load completely and run for a few minutes set your date and time in the N9 and check if its working fine.
Install Developer Mode and all its packages on Harmattan (N9) so Terminal mode is made available as it is required as we are flashing with Windows PC

Step 6 :
Re-partition your handset :
Unzip the MOSLO kernel to Flasher folder
Now back to command prompt
Flash the MOSLO kernel using command :

flasher -k zImage-moslo -n initrd-moslo -l -b

Allow MOSLO to repartition your handset.

Step 7 :
Install Ubiboot :
Unpack ubiboot-02_0.3.5_131213_SFOS.tar using 7Zip 
Copy the extracted ubiboot_035_sailfishos.tar to your device e.g into the "MyDocs" folder by connecting it in Mass Storage Mode.
Go to Terminal on your device, and obtain root access, then extract the archive:

devel-su
cd /home/user/MyDocs/
tar -xvf ubiboot_035_sailfishos.tar -C /

Power off your device and flash it in the usual way:
flasher -a Firmware_filename.bin -k zImage_2.6.32.54-ubiboot-02_301013 --flash-only=kernel -f -R

** If you get a prompt asking you to format the newly mounted partition, DO NOT FORMAT THE PARTITION.

Step 8 :
Install Sailfish:
Rename the downloaded Sailfish image name to sailfish.tar.bz2
In Harmattan, install Developer Mode if you haven't already and install all the packages. Connect the phone to Windows in "USB Mass Storage Mode ".
Copy sailfish.tar.bz2' to the root of your N9 (X:\, where X is the letter of the drive).
Disconnect the phone from the PC and remove the USB cable.
Launch Terminal on Harmattan(N9) and type the following commands:

devel-su
rootme # Or your root password
cd /home/user/MyDocs/
ls # Here, you should see all your MyDocs and sailfish.tar.bz2
mkdir /sailfish
mount /dev/mmcblk0p4 /sailfish
tar --numeric-owner -xvjf sailfish.tar.bz2 -C /sailfish/ # This will take a while as it extracts Sailfish onto the handset, wait till its completed
sync

Step 9 :
Now exit Terminal and reboot the device.
While Phone is booting you can select which OS to boot , Tap on SailFish logo !

Congrats! You are now a proud owner of a SailFish powered device!


Known Issues

  • No text correction engine
  • No Android capability as of present.
  • Camera does not work.
  • Opening browser crashes the device at times
  • Accelerometer does not work. 



Cheers

PS :This is not something I have invented (I am just sharing what I have did!), all credits to :  rzr, souran, Martin Brook, vgrade, coderus, Nad, mikecomputing, TMavica, krnlyng/liar, max83, flotron, juiceme, piratepad and everyone who contributed for this project!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

MobiQuil Blogs go Live!

Hurraay!!! I have invented earth! naah! neither I have invented a Mobile phone.. But today I have found out how to redirect and host a so called "Blog" to our own space in the web. Its never been a great story so far. But it took several years for us to ateast get the blog live.

All the junk ideas coming to our mind, I can share it here..what ever I may see around and looks interesting will be posted here.. Hmm... atleast 5 visitors a day or 10 visitors a day or a week or better a month, could serve some purpose.

It was way back in 2006 we started MobiQuil.com registered the domain, rented a server had hella lotta ideaas to help developers, upload brainstorming ideas.. put all the damn code that could help a fella developer.. huh.. damn busy we were or call us lazy guys... It reached some place.. we have got few thousand visitors.. we were happy , but guess what ? Visitors were not.. LOL some one might have even looked for the author of the pages.. Well, its not me :D


This is neither a new start nor another chapter, but trying to do some God damn thing in the space we have got! :) Am I writing all mad.. Gosh its late night dude! get back to bed... Catch you all back soon!

Hope to come back with some better content, which my mighty readers would find the so called "worth reading"

Cheers!
Team MobiQuil!