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This page is a collection of instructions how to repair Maemo OS if it is acting up. Steps go from mildest to the most extreme solution: reflashing (see the last title)
This page is a collection of instructions how to repair Maemo OS if it is acting up. Steps go from mildest to the most extreme solution in order.





Revision as of 19:21, 20 October 2009

This page is a collection of instructions how to repair Maemo OS if it is acting up. Steps go from mildest to the most extreme solution in order.


Check if unnecessary applications run in background

There are many ways to do this, but the easiest is to toggle task switcher and close all applications that aren't needed.

Remove possible unstable applications

This step can be ignored if you haven't enabled Extras-devel -repository. If you have, you should look at the list of extras-devel programs and see if you have something installed from there.

Last straw

Updating the tablet firmware is the last straw. It deletes all user data and reverts all settings to default.