OS2007 Hacker Edition – Is That An N800 I See Before Me?

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Nope – its still the 770, but this morning I followed a link out of Paul Browne’s post on upgrading the N770 to an N800 (OS2007) and presto, you’re looking at a new interface. Called the ‘hackers’ edition of OS2007 you’ll need to input your 770’s WLAN code here in order to get the upgrade. The binary is hosted by Nokia so I can’t imagine there’s too much to worry about in the security of the download (or at least I didn’t worry anyway).

So, what do you do?

Back up everything on your N770 as the update will restore the tablet to Nokia 800 factory settings
Downlad and install the Nokia Internet Tablet Software Update Wizard
Download the binary for the OS2007 Hackers Edition for the N770 (the .bin file once you’ve clicked through the hackers edition link and entered your serial) and save it to a location on your computer.
Run the install wizard and change the path to the binary to your local copy of the hackers edition.
Continue and follow instructions when prompted on inserting USB cable / powering on and off device.

That is pretty much it. The whole install itself should take less than two minutes and the device will reset itself on completion. When you boot up the next time you’ll notice a brand new Nokia N800 interface and the tablet identifying itself as an 800 model.

Things to note…

No problem in pairing up with bluetooth devices again (spotted my K800i straight away)
No problem connecting via WiFi again (simply re-entered my wireless key)
Some flash renders but you won’t be watching YouTube videos straight off the bat
Noted that the grazr seen here on Eirepreneur renders well and works lovely on the new Firefox based browser.
Could be me but text input seems faster. Application switching speed shows no notable increase
gMail appears to be fine and smooth (bar missing contacts); Google Reader doesn’t like me and Google Calendar is a disaster…

If I spot anything during the course of the day I’ll be sure and update…

Comments

10 responses to “OS2007 Hacker Edition – Is That An N800 I See Before Me?”

August 6, 2007

James Corbett

Grazr works?!? Woah… excellente! And gMail? Now I’m sold. I can make do with the mobile versions of gReader and gCal. Pleeeeease tell me there’s some left on Expansys……
August 6, 2007

Ken McGuire

Was hoping to get video of it earlier but stuck for time (and still out). Grazr from your food blogs post zipped in and out in slider mode while sending of emails via gMail (and button functionality – reply, forward etc.) all working out fine. Nice to get proper gmail use on the go.

Plus, for the contacts list you can add your gmail address / jabber address to inbuilt contacts / chat / IM service, pull all your google contacts down and use Google Talk standalone.
August 6, 2007

James Corbett

Cheers Ken. You know you guys should all be on a hefty commission from Nokia ! 😉
August 7, 2007

Ken McGuire

That’d certainly be nice anyway. I’ve no problem taking a commission from them… or a free N95 to review and *cough* keep *cough*.
August 7, 2007

Paul Browne

You got firefox to work out of the box (or is that now the default browser with the N800)?

Paul
August 7, 2007

Ken McGuire

Paul – must correct that. Was convinced Nokia 800 update was a Firefox based browser, Statcounter showing Opera 8.02. Currently looking at getting Mozilla based browser onto the tablet, based on Firefox 3 rendering engine.

See http://browser.garage.maemo.org
August 17, 2007

Dillon Carter

Hello, I could not get the setup wizard to run

it said there was an application error

any ideas on a fix?

get back to me
August 17, 2007

Ken McGuire

No suggestions at present Dillon, have you tried any Nokia 770 user forums? I had no problems at all with the installation having followed the install guide step for step.

Do watch for the step to initiate USB mode (for updating) when you need to hold the home key on the front and switch on the device (on the top).
August 23, 2007

helper

dillon, you’ll need to have microsoft net 2.0 framework installed on the windows machine… free from ms webpage. then it installs fine.
August 23, 2007

Marek

Sounds pretty cool. Does the “Hackers Edition” work with the bora repositories?

Just wondering if I’ll lose eVince and other installed software if I try to upgrade.

Any idea if the installed PDF viewer works any quicker than the mistral version?