This article has a parent article. It contains some preliminaries to the topics here. Manual changes in system directories can be overwritten by updates. To avoid that, one should use Patchmanager patches to implement such changes. Doing Things on the Command Line MTP (the same protocol Android ...

Email Recently (?) the HTML view of emails became tiny, and zooming does not work properly either. The size can be adjusted by editing ~/.cache/com.jolla/email/.mozilla/prefs.js, adding or editing this line: user_pref("layout.css.devPixelsPerPx", "3.0"); If your eyes are better than mine, "2.0" migh...

Re-visiting this older post because I got a new device & needed to install SFOS on it & get a new license. Some chapters still need more effort. Previously, I was lucky to get a device that already comes with Sailfish OS 3 preinstalled. This is the most recent free version of Sailfish OS; ...

Process, pitfalls The phone will alert you that there's an update. Go to Settings => Sailfish OS Updates. As always, backup first. Download the update and choose to install it. Once again it complains that I don't have enough space on the root filesystem. This time I decide to bite the bullet and...

Nokia 130 Warning: This phone's OS contains trial games, i.e. they have a "Buy" option in their menus. I can refrain, and I don't know if and how it would even work if clicked, but this is definitely a damper, e.g. if one plans to give this phone to a child. New for 35€. I happened to still have a...

This article has a parent article. Some suggestions are taken from this and this wiki article. Power Kernel Just a better kernel. I'm not going to overclock. http://wiki.maemo.org/Kernel_Power#Installing_the_Stable_Kernel $ root # apt-get install kernel-power-settings The article then says shut do...

This article has a parent article. Podcasts After lots of trial & error and testing various apps I can now say: gPodder does not work with most HTTPS feed URLs the stock RSS app does not want to add feeds at all one or two other apps from extras-testing did not work either In the end I got c...

Some Chapters have been split off to their own pages: Applications and Tweaking. The legendary N900. I was surprised that a sufficient number is still being sold on various auctioning platforms, and they can be had cheaply - definitely under 100€, though mine was quite a bit cheaper, and in really...