#70 posted on Sat Feb 20 00:00:00 2010
Disable or modify system sounds on the N900
My N900 is always online and connected to Skype, Google Talk, Facebook chat and Ovi. When on the move I am connected by 3G, when home or near a familiar wifi, the device automatically switches to wifi. This produces an annoying problem with the 'presence online/offline' system sounds that are played once for each IM account during the connection switch. I generally want to keep system sounds on, but wanted to disable these sounds.
Maemo.org has a great wiki and from there I found a collection of tips & hints relating to modding the N900. For example, to disable any particular sound, just do the following;
Since the files do not exist in the name Maemo is expecting, the sounds will just be ignored by the system. Any other sounds can be silenced or changed in the same way, just cd to the directory as root and see what's there. I suspect that the exercise needs to be repeated after any system reflashes as the backup program will not backup these changes to system files.sudo gainroot
cd /usr/share/sounds
mv presence-online.wav presence-online.wav.old
mv presence-offline.wav presence-offline.wav.old
exit
This post was entirely written on the N900 :)
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