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Tweakr Helps Add Custom Profiles To Your N900

By - Vaibhav Sharma On 9 January 2010 11 Comments

As you may have experienced, the N900 is limited to only two profiles – ‘General’ and ‘Silent’ and there are occasions where only two are not enough and you couldn’t be bothered with editing the profiles from the settings menu every time; this is where an application called ‘Tweakr’ comes in. According to its developer Siovene, ‘Tweakr introduces the concept of Profile preset. Presets are Profile settings which can be saved, deleted and assigned to the General profile. This allows you to practically use as many profiles as you want on the N900.’

Tweakr Helps You Add Custom Profiles To Your N900

It basically adds a menu to the N900′s status bar with all the presets that you have defined via its settings and applies them to the ‘General’ profile once you tap on each.

Tweakr Helps You Add Custom Profiles To Your N900

This way you can have as many profiles as you want and keep switching with ease. But to this the integration a level further, I used an application called ‘Powatool’. It allows you to define the entries that will show up in the N900′s status bar and using it I removed the ‘Profiles’ menu and just let Tweakr’s ‘Profile preset’ remain. This reduces the clutter and makes the app more seamless.

Tweakr Helps You Add Custom Profiles To Your N900

Note: For some reason the icon for ‘Tweakr’ did not show up on my N900, despite a re-boot. Your mileage may vary.

HOW TO INSTALL TWEAKR

Unfortunately, Tweakr is not yet available in the Application Repositories and we will have to install it manually. Here is how to do so:

  • Download the latest version of Tweakr from this page. Download the .deb under the ‘Tweakr’ head and ignore others. Here’s the direct link to v12-3, the latest as of 9.1.2010.
  • Save this under the MyDocs section of the N900.
  • Rename this to something like “Tweakr1″ so that its easier for your to enter the name in the terminal.
  • Install an application called “rootsh” from the Application Manager.
  • Next, launch the Terminal application on the N900 and enter “sudo gainroot” and hit enter.

Tweakr Helps You Add Custom Profiles To Your N900

  • Now type “cd MyDocs” and hit enter.
  • Then type “dpkg -i tweakr1.deb” and hit enter.

Tweakr Helps You Add Custom Profiles To Your N900

  • You will see a screen similar to the above. This means that the application has been installed.

HOW TO CONFIGURE TWEAKR

  • You will find an entry called ‘Tweakr’ under Extras in the ‘Settings’ menu. Click on it.

Tweakr Helps You Add Custom Profiles To Your N900

  • You will see the above screen, scroll down to ‘Save current General profile to new preset’.

Tweakr Helps You Add Custom Profiles To Your N900

  • Click on it, enter a name to your choice for the profile and hit Save.
  • Next edit the general profile from the settings to your liking and save that as another preset e.g. Night and use this option to save that as another preset.
  • Do this for as many presets as you wish. From now on simply hit ‘Profile presets’ to switch profiles.

REMOVING THE PROFILES MENU FROM THE STATUS BAR WITH POWATOOL

Tweakr Helps You Add Custom Profiles To Your N900

  • Select ‘Status bar’ and scroll to ‘Profiles’.

Tweakr Helps You Add Custom Profiles To Your N900

  • Uncheck ‘Profiles’ and exit.
  • Bonus: You can even use ‘Powatool’ to remove the Nokia hands animation when the N900 boots up.

That’s it. You have now replaced the N900′s profile menu with a box that gives you a lot more options. Please keep in mind that all the applications above are alphas or very early betas and may cause damage to your device and force you to reflash. I take no liability for anything whatsoever.

With that being said, enjoy!

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11 Comments »

  • Faz said:

    Nice!!
    Shame it doesn’t (currently) automatically change profles based on GPS / GSM location.

    Will wait untill it’s in the dev repo before trying.

    # 9 January 2010 at 3:12 pm
  • Watergate said:

    HI there,

    Thanks for a wonderfull website ;)

    I have tried to add custom profiles at my N900 but somehow I can`t proceed after entering the filename in the terminal. I used fully your guide renaming file + commands ( dpkg -i tweakr1.deb )

    I receive this messegage: cannot access archive:no such file or directory. I use Danish as language on my N900 and the name of MyDocs is Dokumenter. I have also tried to cd Dokumenter but sudo doesnt recognize this folder name only cd MyDocs.

    Is there something you think I am doing wrong?

    thanks for helping me on advance.

    Good day

    Watergate

    # 10 January 2010 at 5:40 am
  • Salvatore Iovene said:

    Hi, I wrote Tweakr, thanks for the article :) Just wanted to add that as of today, you don’t need to use another app to hide the default “Profile” button, as Tweakr does it. Version 0.0.13 can be downloaded here:

    https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=1160

    It should also soon reach extras-devel, finally :)

    # 10 January 2010 at 7:33 am
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  • Vaibhav Sharma (author) said:

    Salvatore, That’s awesome. I just installed the new version and it took care of the icon not appearing bug as well. Will update the post with the changes as soon possible! :)

    # 11 January 2010 at 1:47 am
  • Gary Shainberg said:

    Hi there,

    I have just tried to install this and all appears to work OK however I do not get the extra’s option in the settings menu, am I missing something ?

    Thanks

    -Gary

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  • Colm Smyth said:

    Hi there,

    Great app but having problems, I have saved Tweakr to MyDocs in the N900 folder, after it type “dpkg -i tweakr1.deb” and hit enter.

    I get error messages saying “dpkg cannot access archive: No such file or directory exists”

    Any ideas ?

    Thanks

    Colm

    # 28 May 2010 at 4:11 am
  • courtney hayman said:

    hi there i have tried to do this and it does not work. how do you save tweaker to the ‘my docs’ on the n900, as when i use a usb cable to transfer it on the n900,i cannot find a ‘my docs’ section anywhere.their is only a ‘documents’ section.pls help.

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