Useful Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts for Nokia N9(Meego)

The Nokia N9 Meego is a beast of a smartphone but, unfortunately, many users find it difficult to optimize its usage. However, this topic is designed to lessen the problems encountered by trying to get the most out of your Nokia n9 Meego harmattan Smartphone. We all know Nokia N9 is a high-end Smartphone. In this topic, we will learn some tips and tricks for Nokia N9 Meego phone

9 Useful Tips and Tricks for Nokia N9 Meego Phone

I have compiled a list of 9 most used tips, tricks and useful shortcuts for Nokia N9 smartphone

1. How to Change standby clock color in  Nokia N9

• You can make the standby color to something else instead of white.
• I personally use blue as it doesn’t light up my room at night.
• You can also use some other simple colors such as greed, red, orange, etc.

2. To unlock, Simply Double-tap the Power button

• You can do more than just this but I personally find double-tap to unlock most useful. – This is really handy as swiping off the lock screen single-handed isn’t always so easy.
• How to  Manually Adjust the brightness control and disable the auto-light sensor
• Basically, N9 by default uses the light sensor to determine the brightness of the screen. It changes the brightness automatically depending on ambient light level and you can’t simply fix it at the brightness you want permanently.
• However, if you perform this mod, you will be able to always fix it at a certain brightness level and it will not use the light sensor at all. There is an app that is currently in the works that will allow you to make much finer changes than the 5 levels which is available in the N9 Settings.

4.How to Open Video Player  (OVP)

• This is a replacement app to the basic Video Player app that comes with N9.
• It has many features which the standard video player does not have. Such as continuous playback even when the video is minimized / phone is locked, subtitle support, different list views with smaller thumbnails, additional playback controls for better seeking, etc, playlist support, etc. However, it is also missing some critical features at present such as the resume feature. Developer “Marxian” advised that he is currently working on this so I hope it will be implemented soon.
• It’s a must-have app for those who play/watch lots of videos on the N9.

5.How to Enable Developer Mode for SSH Server/ Terminal and more  in Nokia N9

• Enabled via Settings > Security >Developer mode > toggle Developer mode on – This will install some apps and the two major ones are SSH Server and Terminal app.
• The terminal app is what it is. It allows you to do a lot more than without. So it’s good to have. N9 is very much a Debian Linux underneath its pretty
  Swipe UI. =)
• SSH Server is installed and enabled by default. You can now SSH into your N9 from your PC via WIFI network IP using an SSH client such as Tunnelier (freeware) for Windows. If you can’t log in, try reading through this thread.

6. VNC into your N9 using Netview

• This free app is made by Nokia and allows you to remote VNC into your N9 and control your N9 via mouse and keyboard from your PC.
• You can browse the web, email, SMS, etc on your N9 from your PC monitor. Mouse and keyboard response is very fast.
• It mimics your N9 display perfectly. So what you see on the N9, is what you get on your PC monitor through VNC. Even the log screen etc.

Especially relevant: [TUT] Hard Reset/Format The Nokia N9 to Factory Defaults

7. Firefox for Mobile 15 (Fennec)

• This web browser is a fully feature-packed web browser which works perfectly on the N9
• It can sync with your firefox account and supports many firefox mobiles add-ons.
• Seriously, this is a much better web browser in pretty much every way possible than the default browser on the N9.
• Also, if you install “checkCompatibility” add-on, you can then install “Phony” which allows you to change the user agent to desktop/iPhone/Android, etc!!

8. How to Record Phone Calls on Nokia N9

• Copying straight from the my-Meego’s description, “Call Recorder is an application to automatically record phone calls on the Nokia N9/N950. The audio is stored as 11,025 Hz 16 bit PCM | 128kbit/s | WAV format. ”
• I’ve tried it out with a few phone calls on my N9 and it does what it says very well. The sound quality of both parties is very clear, with no beeps during the call and doesn’t cause any extra lag, etc.
• However, it does lack a lot of features. Well, it lacks pretty much everything else. Although it lists the recorded files, that’s where it ends. You can’t play or delete them or do anything whatsoever.
• It also creates the files in a non- hidden folder so all the recordings just show up in the Music player. Not good as you now end up listening to your recordings if you shuffle play all the songs I have.
• Anyways, this is still good for those that want it. I’m certainly thankful to the developer, Cuong Le, who made this app for the N9.

9.How to  Fix the orientation Issues From landscape or portrait and override the orientation sensor

• This allows you to stop your apps from auto-rotating and fix everything to portrait or landscape.
• This can be very useful while lying in bed as it rotates the apps landscape when I don’t want it to etc.
• Currently, there is no GUI app for this. So it is a command-line based terminal app.
• Basically, you install

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