Re: Android on freerunner useable as daily phone?
Hi, I am using Android on Freerunner cupcake as daily phone without problems; my version is 20100130 (released on 30th gen 2010), is a bit bugged but has no important problem, the main defect is with mp4 and youtube player. Bettery life is around 12-14h in standby and about 8h with some calls (without #1024 fix); also, wifi takes a lot of battery (about 4h with wifi on and no standby). On the other hand, i can use market and a lot of apps ;) mp3, gps, sms and calls work good, but video player (as i said before) has some problem. I hope this can help you. Bye, Sanvy PS: sorry if i will not reply for some days, but i'll leave city for holiday and i'll have no internet connection. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [wikireader] update experience
On Sat, 25 Dec 2010, Jeff wrote: There are 2 different wikireaders available. One with a 2gb card and one with a 4+gb card. As I understand it, the 2gb only supports a single language, and the English version is a special one that will fit in 2gb. The 4+gb version will do multiple languages and other things. Since I am from the USA, I am a pin head and only speak one language ;) . I therefore have the full English wiki, along with wikiquotes and the wiktionary and no other languages. The 4gb version supposedly can use micro-sd up 16gb. Also, to make sure you are running the correct version of software, there should be a globe icon on the main screen. You use that to select other languages/wikis. That's exactly what I'm missing. My first WR has the globe icon, the second doesn't. But then, where can I download those two different images? Hope that helped. Jeff Yes, a bit, thanks! Do you have other pages of information than the github? Alex. On 12/25/2010 3:53 PM, Alexander Lehner wrote: Sorry for posting this here, I don't know if there's already a list for the WR. I've got a WikiReader now for some month and my 10y daughter surprisingly likes it, so I finally decided to get one for my parents as christmas gift. The one I've got came with english, german and netherlands wikis, so I assumed the new one would do so, too. But it didn't, so I had to update the german language package. The Update software so far is really easy and it recognizes the SD card without choosing it from any USB device. It told my to update the base image and the german language, it took about 3-4 hours to download the 1.7GB. After starting the WR again, even the english language was gone, only an empty search window showed up. So I looked at the content of the SD card and still the timestamps of the base files seemed wery old to me. The german language package seemed ok. Then I downloaded the base image from the .torrent file, which seemed to me the only up-to-date source I could get. It was quite a pain, because the only torrent client I had on my parents computer was the torrent downloader from Opera, which is quite slow compared to other torrent clients. After putting the new base files to the SD card, at least the german language was there. I don't know what happened with the english. According to the docs there seems to be a single-language installation (all lang files at root directory) and a multi-lang version with each language in a subfolder. Obviously the do not co-exist. And the well-known problems: Touchscreen is hard to handle (but learnable), backlight for people of higher age is really missing because of their eyes. At least the contrast setup (which seems only to appear if you boot the device without sd card) could/should be part of the usual sdcard-'OS'. (for example pressing the power button short instead of holding it for power-down?). So far I'm now happy with it, I like the device, if my parents do - we will see ;) Alex. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
[ANNOUNCE] release candidate 1 for new SHR-testing 2011.1
Hello First of all: great work; thanks a lot for reviving SHR. SHR-testing 2011.1 is joyous fast, compared to older SHR-Releases. One thing I mentioned so far: after installing shr-theme-neo everything works really fine and is in neo-look. But after a reboot, the old default-theme gets active and in the top-shelf the Buttons X are not shown anymore after pressing at the expected location of the display. To repair it, i did the following: - saving the file /home/root/.e/e/config/illume2-shr/e.cfg as soon as neo-theme is installed, configured and working nicely - after a reboot: restore this saved file - restart xserver-nodm But after next reboot, I have to to this again if I want to use the neo-themes and these usefull buttons... Another possibility to get the X -button back to life after rebooting: - choosing the Default profile in Settings Profiles this revives this usefull button. One more thing: I would really love to use shr-launcher again. the launcher made the daily-usage much more simpler. Are there plans to bring this app back into the SHR-feeds? Regards Alois -- -- NEU: FreePhone - kostenlos mobil telefonieren und surfen! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Top-shelf buttons in SHR (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] release candidate 1 for new SHR-testing 2011.1)
2010/12/26 mokoal...@...: after installing shr-theme-neo everything works really fine and is in neo-look. But after a reboot, the old default-theme gets active and in the top-shelf the Buttons X are not shown anymore after pressing at the expected location of the display. the buttons disappeared also after the first reboot after a fresh install Another possibility to get the X -button back to life after rebooting: - choosing the Default profile in Settings Profiles this revives this usefull button. thanks for mentioning this, I wasn't able to change profile with the GUI (apparently nothing happened and enlightenment_remote -default-profile-get was still showing illume2-shr) but the following command changed it, surviveing to reboot: enlightenment_remote -default-profile-set default -- Daniele Forsi ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [ANNOUNCE] release candidate 1 for new SHR-testing 2011.1
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 06:51:23PM +0100, mokoal...@gmx.net wrote: Hello One more thing: I would really love to use shr-launcher again. the launcher made the daily-usage much more simpler. Are there plans to bring this app back into the SHR-feeds? waiting for upstream: http://code.google.com/p/shr-launcher/issues/detail?id=13 Regards, -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Top-shelf buttons in SHR (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] release candidate 1 for new SHR-testing 2011.1)
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 08:30:23PM +0100, Daniele Forsi wrote: 2010/12/26 mokoal...@...: after installing shr-theme-neo everything works really fine and is in neo-look. But after a reboot, the old default-theme gets active and in the top-shelf the Buttons X are not shown anymore after pressing at the expected location of the display. the buttons disappeared also after the first reboot after a fresh install see http://trac.shr-project.org/trac/ticket/1105 and please try proposed bash wrapper -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
dfu-util doesn't list NAND partitions
Hi, the issue described at http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2348 is still there. Tried with 2 versions of dfu-util dfu-util --intf 0 -l dfu-util - (C) 2007 by OpenMoko Inc. This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY Found Runtime: [0x1d50:0x5119] devnum=53, cfg=0, intf=2, alt=0, name=USB Device Firmware Upgrade ./dfu-util --intf 0 -l dfu-util - (C) 2005-2008 by Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc. This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY dfu-util does currently only support DFU version 1.0 Found Runtime: [0x1d50:0x5119] devnum=55, cfg=0, intf=2, alt=0, name=USB Device Firmware Upgrade ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: QtMoko v30; UBIFS; can't boot
From: Ivan Matveev supp...@monicar.ru To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: QtMoko v30; UBIFS; can't boot Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:30:57 +0300 X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Organization: MoniCar Btw, don't know where this is set in qi, but you may try u-boot: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/U-boot-gena2x Thank you for your replies. I don't want to go back to u-boot. I think my problem started after I'v installed debian to SD per instructions found at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner with install.sh(http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/freerunner/install.sh). I'v told the install.sh to configure Qi. Probably that was the mistake. Now I'm trying to figure out what can be configured wrong. I'v read the script... Its long... Can't find anything suspicious. According to this: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi#Installation Qi...is mount the identity partition and get from there the globally unique MAC address for the USB over Ethernet function instead of the random one that is otherwise used (If this doesn't work (like with a GTA01) you may use kernel-commandline parameters g_ether.dev_addr= and g_ether.host_addr= for the mac in device and host mode of the usb-ether module). bad kernel options can be in identity or in u-boot environment partitions. QtMoko v30 booted from SD. neo:~# cat /proc/mtd dev:size erasesize name mtd0: 0020 0001 physmap-flash.0 mtd1: 0004 0002 qi mtd2: 0004 0002 depr-ub-env mtd3: 0080 0002 kernel mtd4: 000a 0002 depr mtd5: 0004 0002 identity-ext2 mtd6: 0f6a 0002 rootfs mount -t ext2 /dev/mtdblock5 p1 ls p1 bt imei lost+found sn usb wlan echo 'rootflags=compr=zlib' p1/append-GTA02 No joy. Same result: kernel complains that lzo is not compiled in. Maybe it misses some modules? Maybe I shell put them in identity-ext2? Have to research more... BTW tried Gennadys script to decode u-boot environment(http://www.bsdmn.com/openmoko/gpsfix/env/envedit.pl). It complains that crc32 function is not defined. Can I modify u-boot environment from QtMoko running from SD? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: QtMoko v30; UBIFS; can't boot
To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: QtMoko v30; UBIFS; can't boot Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:30:57 +0300 X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Organization: MoniCar Btw, don't know where this is set in qi, but you may try u-boot: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/U-boot-gena2x Thank you for your replies. I don't want to go back to u-boot. I think my problem started after I'v installed debian to SD per instructions found at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner with install.sh(http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/freerunner/install.sh). I'v told the install.sh to configure Qi. Probably that was the mistake. Now I'm trying to figure out what can be configured wrong. I'v read the script... Its long... Can't find anything suspicious. According to this: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi#Installation Qi...is mount the identity partition and get from there the globally unique MAC address for the USB over Ethernet function instead of the random one that is otherwise used (If this doesn't work (like with a GTA01) you may use kernel-commandline parameters g_ether.dev_addr= and g_ether.host_addr= for the mac in device and host mode of the usb-ether module). bad kernel options can be in identity or in u-boot environment partitions. QtMoko v30 booted from SD. neo:~# cat /proc/mtd dev:size erasesize name mtd0: 0020 0001 physmap-flash.0 mtd1: 0004 0002 qi mtd2: 0004 0002 depr-ub-env mtd3: 0080 0002 kernel mtd4: 000a 0002 depr mtd5: 0004 0002 identity-ext2 mtd6: 0f6a 0002 rootfs mount -t ext2 /dev/mtdblock5 p1 ls p1 bt imei lost+found sn usb wlan echo 'rootflags=compr=zlib' p1/append-GTA02 No joy. Same result: kernel complains that lzo is not compiled in. Maybe it misses some modules? Maybe I shell put them in identity-ext2? Have to research more... BTW tried Gennadys script to decode u-boot environment(http://www.bsdmn.com/openmoko/gpsfix/env/envedit.pl). It complains that crc32 function is not defined. Can I modify u-boot environment from QtMoko running from SD? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Android standby time
What is exactly standby? Disabled gps, bluetooth, wifi, locked screen and a powered off display? Can you receive calls and sms in this mode? In QtMoko I have around 1 day and a few hours standy time... do you know if android on freerunner is going to improve its battery life? I read disabling widgets (drains power from cpu even in stand by) helps. Did you do it? Greetz rashid Hi, I am using Android on Freerunner cupcake as daily phone without problems; my version is 20100130 (released on 30th gen 2010), is a bit bugged but has no important problem, the main defect is with mp4 and youtube player. Bettery life is around 12-14h in standby and about 8h with some calls (without #1024 fix); also, wifi takes a lot of battery (about 4h with wifi on and no standby). On the other hand, i can use market and a lot of apps ;) mp3, gps, sms and calls work good, but video player (as i said before) has some problem. I hope this can help you. Bye, Sanvy PS: sorry if i will not reply for some days, but i'll leave city for holiday and i'll have no internet connection. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: QtMoko v30; UBIFS; can't boot
Hi, I don't want to go back to u-boot. I disagree - going to Qi is going back, going to u-boot is going forward :) echo 'rootflags=compr=zlib' p1/append-GTA02 Are you sure qi is really reading this? i am sure it is not. No joy. Same result: kernel complains that lzo is not compiled in. It is really not compiled in, and it is OK, you have no need in lzo ATM in qtmoko. Maybe it misses some modules? Maybe I shell put them in identity-ext2? Have to research more... No, you need ensure that this options REALLY passed to kernel somehow. I almost sure they not. BTW tried Gennadys script to decode u-boot environment(http://www.bsdmn.com/openmoko/gpsfix/env/envedit.pl). It complains that crc32 function is not defined. It is not mine, it is part of http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/host/devirginator/ and uses crc32 from it, it's not good idea to get random files from server and complain they not working :) Can I modify u-boot environment from QtMoko running from SD? u-boot can boot any known distro without problems, from sd, ubi or jffs2. in hard cases of unusual fses you can just put kernel to splash NAND partition (named 'depr' in your qi) and boot it with rootfs on sd. I think it is also possible to make such config that appends kernel params load from file on external fs, like in qi, but who needs this... If you need some help in u-boot setup, you can join #qtmoko at freenode irc. If you really enjoy Qi, use radek's qi from qtmoko site http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/Experimental or fix kernel parameters in qi source code and recompile it. Gennady ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
