Well,
there are a lot of different things that could be going on and since everyone's
phone is likely to have different things installed, it is hard to come up with a
general recommendation, but that said, let me suggest a few
things.
Do you
have OpenSSH installed? It is typically the first thing I install on my
N900. It allows you to connect to your N900 from another computer, so you
have a full keyboard and screen to use when you are trying to figure things
out. This makes it much easier to figure out what is going
on.
If
not, do you have rootsh installed? It will allow you to get root
privileges from the Xterminal screen if that is all you
have.
I'm a
command line sort of guy, so I would start off by checking various things on the
command line:
First,
if you have root access, do an apt-get
clean This may get read of some old files that are
laying around. You can also try apt-get
autoclean or apt-get
autoremove
If these work,
you may be okay. If not, there are a few problems you might run
into. It might be that you aren't doing it as root, and it will give you
an error. You might also have the application manager trying to do things,
in which case it will give you a message about being unable to lock the
administration directory. Make sure you aren't running the application
manager, and that it has had a bit of time to finish any background
tasks.
To see
what the status of my file system is, I'd enter df to
see if there are any filesystems that are out of space. I'd also do
a mount to see if any file systems are
mounted read only.
If you
find any that are out of space, that is where you're memory problem is. If
you find a filesystem that is mounted read only, that could also be your
problem.
If you
have OpenSSH installed and a linux machine around, you can mount your N900 as a
filesystem on the Linux machine using sshfs. Lacking that, you should be
able to connect via the USB and the PC Connectivity software and move files off
of your N900. Personally, I don't use PCs much any more so I can't really
help a lot with that.
If all
else fails, you may have to reflash the phone. In this case, you probably
need to reflash everything to get back to an initial state, instead of just
reflashing the root filesystem which is often done when
upgrading.
Perhaps others will have additional ideas. Hope
this helps and good luck.
Aldon
-----Original Message-----Help please to sort out my N900. It may be that the problem is as simple as the resolution of the following to error messages (which are presumably related).Following the latest firmware update (which is to say having been USBd to my PC and disconnected without the proper safe procedure ...) the N900 (which otherwise seems fine) downloaded two small apps but thn refused to download anything further saying that it has 'insufficient memory' and to uninstall applications to free memory. the first claim isn't true and the uninstallation makes no difference. There is a second, intermittent, error message which says that the memory is read only and which suggests re-attaching the phone to the PC.This seems to have no effect at all. the long and short of it may therefore be the question of how to repair the memory. (And perhaps for me to be more disciplinedin detaching the USB cable in future.
From: maemo-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:maemo-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Nick Ingham
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 2:02 PM
To: maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: help please ...There have however several difficulties, some of my making, some of Nokia's. I downloaded Hide user Agent and asked the phone to report as Android. This just before a Nokia person persuaded me to re-install the software thereby wiping out all third-part apps. Since then I have been quite unable to find - never mind download - HUA despite having the extras-devel repos in app manager. Not sure if this matters although I suspect it bars me from Ovi Store.Any help with these things would come as a great relief to my poor befuddled mind.Nick
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