Our Man Inside

I have a Nokia Booklet 3G on loan from 1000 heads but was having issues with such a beautiful device running an operating system I’ve not touched for years.

In stepped @Computid Über geek, and in a couple of days he had installed Mac OSX.

The background story is linked here… http://su.pr/1hsIfN

How how did it is listed and the downloadable PDF is linked below.

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Introduction:
• We will first be installing OS X Snow Leopard onto the external drive using a Mac • We will then modify the installation to boot on the Booklet 3G • After we have booted OS X on the Booklet 3G we will proceed to add drivers/kexts for all the other hardware. • Once it is configured we will copy OSX to the internal HDD and from there finalise the installation Requirements for this hack:
•    Retail Snow Leopard Disc (10.6.0 or 10.6.1) or external HDD with the bootable installer on.
•    Apple Mac that can run/boot the SL DVD (Intel) •    External USB Flashdrive or HDD bigger then 15gb •    Nokia Booklet 3G
At this point, heres what is working correctly: •    Machine boots properly to Snow Leopard with simple push of power button. No manual keystrokes necessary during boot. •    Screen Resolution is auto-set to native 1280 x 720. For some reason, the display comes up at about 45% brightness each time, so you have to go into system preferences to bring it up to full (presuming you want too) •    WiFi comes on, quickly finds the network, but we still have the problem of having to type “sudo killall mDNSResponder” after each reboot. •    Bluetooth is defaulted to “ON”, but there is no option in the menubar to disable it. (Fn + F10 will toggle on/off all radios (GSM/BT/WiFi) •    Sound is NOT working, nor does the System Profiler show any internal sound device. I am working on this!
Creating the Snow Leopard Installation
1. Boot to the Snow Leopard Installer on the Mac
2. Plug in your external USB Disk
3. In OS X installer run Disk Utility from the tools menu
4. Reformat the External Drive as HFS+ (Mac OSX Journalled) (DO NOT FORMAT YOUR INTERNAL DRIVE!)
5. Continue with the Snow Leopard installation and customize the install to not install languages, at the same time you may want to install quicktime 7 and Rosetta, it will save you hassle later. (Removing the languages is optional, but it does cut down on space and install time)
6. Once the installer is finished reboot to the NEW Snow Leopard installation by holding down the “Option” key at boot, then select the USB Drive.
7. Download and install the 10.6.1 combo installer http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosxv1061up date.html
8. Download and install SuperDuper http://www.shirtpocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
9. Download the following Files/Applications 1. Download KextHelper. This application helps install KEXT files correctly.
http://cheetha.net/
2. Download KEXT (Kernal Extensions) vaiop20091014us.tar.bz2 from http://rapidshare.com/files/349547875/vaiop20091014us.tar.bz2
3. Download Chameleon 2 RC3 (DO NOT USE RC4, ONLY RC3). This is used to boot the
system.http://rapidshare.com/files/349330606/Chameleon_2_RC3.zip
10. Run the Chameleon 2 RC3 installer. Choose to install it to the USB Snow Leopard installation.

DO NOT INSTALL THIS TO YOUR MACS HARDDISK, YOUR MAC WILL NOT BOOT IF YOU DO!
11.Go to the root level (Top Level) of the USB drive. There will now be a folder called “Extra”.
12.In the vaiop20091014us folder there should be a folder called “Extra”. Copy the contents of this folder to the “Extra” folder on the USB Snow Leopard install.
13.Open up a terminal window and type “sudo” then drag the file “extra.sh” in the “Extra” folder to the terminal window. You should have a command string that looks similar to this: sudo /Volumes/USBDRIVE/Extra/extra.sh
14.Hit return and type in your password
15.Next open up KextHelper
16.Drag the two kext files from vaiop20091014us/System/Library/Extensions into the application. Type in your password and hit Easy install.
17. Shut down your Mac 18.Congratulations, you should now be able to boot this drive on the Booklet!
Moving the Installation to the Booklet 3G:
1. Put the USB drive into the Booklet 3G
2. Power the booklet on and press F12 until the bios boot menu appears asking what device you want to boot from. You should see the internal hard drive and the USB drive. Select the USB drive.
3. At this point the chameleon bootloader should appear, Press any key to interrupt the count down. Use the arrow keys to highlight the USB drive then type “-v -f” and press return. This will boot the USB Snow Leopard volume in verbose mode and rebuild the kext cache’s
4. This may take a little while to boot depending on your USB drive. If everything went ok, you should now be sitting at a Snow Leopard desktop (in a bad Resolution, mind you.)
5. Fire up disk utility (Applications/Utilities)
6. This is when it become permanent, this will ERASE ALL DATA ON THE INTERNAL DISK.
7. Select the internal hard drive and go to the partitions tab. Select one partition from the pull down menu, name the partition whatever you like (I used Documentallys Hackbook), select MAC OS Extended Journaled. Go to options and select GUID.
8. Hit the apply button – This will erase all contents of the internal drive!
9. Close Disk Utility
10.Open SuperDuper. Set it up as follows: 1. Copy: (your external USB drive) to: Internal (the drive you just partitioned) 2. Using: Backup – all files 3. Options: select repair permissions on Booklet 4. During Copy: Erase <destination> then copy files from <source> 5. On successful – Restart from <Destination>
11.Hit OK and then press “Copy Now”
12.Wait unit it finishes, go make yourself a coffee, this will take a while.
13.Reboot with the external USB drive still connected to your Booklet.
14.Press F12 to select the USB drive again (last time!)
15.At the chameleon screen highlight the internal drive and type “-v -f” and hit return. You are now booting Snow Leopard from the internal drive.
16.It may take a while to boot, BE PATIENT.
17.You should now arrive at the desktop! Congratulations, you’ve installed OS X on your Booklet 3G!
18.Remove “Windows7 Starter” sticker from the lower left side of netbook palmrest if you haven’t already done so. (Optional)
19.Go take a break, Grab a drink or something, then continue.
Finishing up the installation:
1. Fire up terminal 1. Type: “sudo killall mDNSResponder”. This should ensure that your Wifi is
working properly. At present, you will need to re-enter this command each
time you reboot the booklet until I get around to writing a startup script. 2. Enter your password 3. Quit the Terminal.
2. Download the following files to your desktop: 1. Download the modified boot loader file which will, when installed, set your display to its correct native resolution of 1280 x 720 on your next reboot. 1. Download the file from here: http://rapidshare.com/files/349336710/boot.nokia-booklet-gma500-v2.gz 2. When the file appears on your desktop, double click on it and it will extract to “boot.nokia-booklet-gma500-v2″ 2. Download Aboutthismac.pkg: This will make the information in “About This Mac” Correct, This isn’t needed but it is nice.
http://rapidshare.com/files/349337197/AboutThisMac.pkg.zip
3. Re-install Chameleon 2 RC3 to the Internal Disk
4. Double check in the Extra’s folder that it still contains the Kexts
5. Install the modified boot loader file to correct the Resolution: 1. Back up your original boot loader file by firing up Terminal and typing the following command: “sudo mv /boot /boot.orig” 2. Hit enter, type your password and hit enter again. 3. On your desktop, rename the “boot.nokia-booklet-gma500-v2″ to simply
“boot” 4. Now copy over the modified bootloader to replace the old one by typing:
“sudo cp /users/YOURHOMEFILENAME/desktop/boot /boot” 5. Hit enter, type your password and hit enter again. 6. Quit Terminal
6. Eject the USB Disk.
7. Restart. You should get the Chameleon boot loader now when booted to the internal hard drive.
1. NOTE: if you have trouble booting you should interrupt the the bootloader by pressing any key and boot up using the -v -f flags.
8. Install the aboutthismac package to get the correct info in “about this mac”

9. Set up your Atheros 9280 3G modem: 1. Go to: http://www.option.com/en/support/software-download/usb-modems/icon225/2. Download and install MAC Driver 2.17.0 3. Download and install the GlobeTrotter® Connect For Mac
4. In System Preferences>Network>GI40x, set up your carrier information for your 3G connection and it should begin working
5. (Optional) – Check the box at the bottom that says “Show modem status in menu bar”
10.Run the 3g modem to check the hardware initializes with the sim card installed.
Upgrading to 10.6.2:
1. Download the patched kernel from: http://rapidshare.com/files/349340631/mach_kernel_atom_with_pm_support.zip or here if you have an insanely mac account.
2. Before you update you need to backup your old kernel: 1. Open terminal and type: sudo cp -p /mach_kernel /mach_kernel.1061 2. Press return 3. enter your password 4. Press return 5. Quit terminal
3. Update your OS to 10.6.2: Apple Menu>Software Update>Update to 10.6.2
4. Upon completion of update to 10.6.2, your computer will reboot
5. During the reboot, MAKE SURE YOU INTERRUPT THE CHAMELEON BOOTLOADER by pressing any key.
6. Then, specify the kernel at chameleon’s screen by typing: mach_kernel.1061
7. Hit enter, and boot should continue until you’re in Snow Leopard.
8. Patch the kernel: 1. Expand the 106atom64.zip file you downloaded before updating. This will create a file called “patch” 2. Drag the two files (“binchg.rb” and “1062atom64.xml”) from “patch” into your root directory (Top level HDD Directory) 3. open Terminal once again and type: sudo /binchg.rb /mach_kernel /
1062atom64.xml 1. This will initiate a conversion process that takes about 20-30 minutes 2. During this time you should see:
0x000286c0 hit -> cpumodel is always 0x1e x86_64
0x005e6a83 hit-> cpumodel is always 0x0e i386 3. These messages are completely normal. Be patient, this takes a while.
When the process is completed, you will get a command prompt.
4. Now you need to replace the kernel: Run in terminal:
sudo mv /mach_kernel /mach_kernel.1062 sudo mv /mach_kernel.patched /mach_kernel sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions
9. This should complete the upgrade. Reboot the booklet and enjoy Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on your new Hackbook!

@Computid has hosted a PDF you can download from here:

http://www.atechplace.co.uk/downloads/Nokia_Booket_3G_OSX_Guide.pdf

Anyone with an iPhone loves it’s ability to carry around various flavours of multimedia whilst enjoying it’s syncability with everything Mac. Occasionally we even find ourselves drawn to play with app after app, be it some GPS twitter tool we ca’t now live without, or a game we’ve bought for a few coins.

We can’t do it for long though. The iPhone battery is rubbish. Especially if you are a blogger and have a tendency to tweet, tag, snap pix and roam for more than an hour or two.

All this may be about to change. No Apple haven’t got their act together, third party companies are designing some pretty cool bolt-on’s.

This last week my iPhone has almost been behaving like a normal handset. I can now get through the day without planning my outings from power source to power source. Trips in the car no longer start with mirror-phonecharger-signal-maneuver and I am now not even thinking about whether or not I should have wifi enabled or not.

This is all thanks to a very tidy and pocketable iPhone power booster I found online.� The ‘iPhone Power Station’.

This funky little device cost around a tenner and can be temporarily inserted into the base of your iPhone to either be charged simultaneously as the phone is being charged or when your phone battery is running low, inserted and activated to boost the power. On the occasions I have had to top my phone up from 20% empty warning this little 1000mAh lithium ion gizmo has replenished my battery to 100%. This has been enough to last out the day and I don’t mind having this little 48g device knocking about in a jacket pocket or my bag as it’s far more convenient than carrying a charger on the off chance I pass a plug socket.

As it only takes two hours to charge It’s also handy if you are off grid with a solar charger as now you can charge the booster in the sun independently of your phone.

Of course Ideally Apple will get it right third time with the third generation iPhone and actually produce a device that shoots video, has open architecture, bluetooth that works, is not tied to O2, allows memory expansion and has a battery capacity at least comparable to other phones on the market.

In the meantime.. we have the iPhone Power Station and all the other little bolt-ons that are required to satisfy our tech needs.

Just Google iPhone Power Station to see places online where you can buy.. If you need one that is..

On this very wet British morning my postman handed me a soggy jiffy bag from China. Inside was a black box containing my new iPhone Solar powered sheath (as they call it).

It was well packaged and only took a week to get here. If i remember rightly i payed around $50 including postage and packaging from a company in Hong Kong called Brando.

Here is a first look..

So far so good, the instructions are pretty easy to follow and at the moment the iPhone is sat on my office window quietly charging.

I will tell you more after a proper test.

UPDATE:

After a day of testing my solar powered case appears to have died. Do not buy one of these until I find out what exactly has happened. It appears that during heavy use whilst with the battery switched to charge, the unit over heats and the battery breaks. It got really hot during use and now the lights won’t work and it doesn’t charge the iPhone. More info when i have it.

Don’t forget you can support this blog and then i can by more juicy tech to try out.. Or you can just send me the tech.

If like me you were a little pissed off to see that many of the iPod and iPhone chargers would not work with the new iPhone 3G you may be pleased to know I have finally stumbled upon an in car charger that works with the new iPhone.

Apparently there are a few that work floating around and it is something to do with some using the firewire voltage and some using USB voltage that is the issue.

Up until now I have been using the Power Monkey Explorer and it’s iPod adapter when out and about. It only seemed to last a few minutes but it was enough to top up my iPhone till I got to a plug socket.

I have a solar panel set up I like to use when on a shoot or as I did at the Geeknbury Festival but up until now I have had to use the mains plug adapter with an inverter into the cigarette lighter socket.

Not any more though. Today whilst in Milton Keynes I managed to find something that actually works.

I had popped into town to go to the Apple store but it wasn’t there I found the working charger. When I asked them, they told me that due to the new iPhone 3G not working with any of their previous 3rd party car chargers, they had to discontinue all makes!

Sheesh.. You would think Apple would have thought of looking into supplying a mobile charger for their pride and joy prior to it’s release.

I left disheartened but just a few doors down in the O2 store they told me they had just taken delivery (2 in stock) of an new car charger called the XtremeMac Incharge Auto.

At the inflated price of �14.99 ($30) I still thought I would take a chance and after the other devices I have tried recently, this turned out to be third time lucky.

Although it works, the packaging has no mention of the iPhone 3G, just the iPhone and the iPod like all the others I have tried. Still i’m not complaining. I’m very gratefull in fact, as now I can feed my power hungry iPhone whilst on the move. And Lord know it needs it.

I have been loving the apps especially Life Cast by @SleepyDog but blogging on the move with all the GPS functionality is draining the battery before the day is out.

Forget the new plastic back.. they should have stuck some solar cells on it.

It’s been a real pain in the ass finding this basic accessory for my new phone. I hopes this will assist you if you are having similar issues and should you come across any other makes that work, please leave a note in the comments.

Thanks for reading.

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My dog is a Coltriever�and needs three good walks a day. She has a wee and a pooh on all�occasions�and I sometimes wish my�metabolism�was that fast.

I am lucky where I live to have loads of intersecting paths through the Northamptonshire countryside crisscrossing all around so there is always a choice of direction and area. Not to mention a forest only a ball throw away.

Occasionally�I tweet while I walk and throw the ball, sometimes I stream it live. Well almost live. Vodafone has not yet seen the benefit of�equipping�my part of the Northamptonshire sky with 3G.

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