Re: Open Source AHRS project: giving away hardware

2014-05-10 Thread Ben Wong
Sounds like a fun challenge. I'd take it up if I wasn't already so busy. After all, who in their life hasn't at one point wanted to write an Unscented Kalman Filter? ;-) Just out of curiosity, is OpenPilot.org not a viable solution? --Ben On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Pascal Gosselin pas

Re: mounting FR in car for GPS usage

2014-03-13 Thread Ben Wong
Years ago I found a cheap magnet mount at a truck stop and have been very pleased with it. A round, rubberized magnet is adhered to the dashboard (just pull off the backing, like a sticker) and a thin, flat, hardly noticeable plate sticks to the back of the Freerunner. Easy to snap on and easy to

Re: GTA04 work (was: Openmoko's downfall (was changing IMEI))

2014-02-22 Thread Ben Wong
place and they should be paid back with, at the least, our respect. —Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [QtMoko] new svg keyboard

2013-12-31 Thread Ben Wong
I love it. I hadn't known it was missing before, but I am glad *somebody* finally put a tea key on a keyboard. :-) (Err... I mean☺) —B On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Francesco De Vita francesco.dev...@mailoo.org wrote: Hello everybody I took advantage of the holidays and I made a new SVG

Re: Use of a FreeRunner

2013-12-22 Thread Ben Wong
I'm sure it could; your FreeRunner is a complete computer. The question is if you have the time (or money to hire someone) to write the glue script that will put all the pieces together. Let's see, the parts you'll need are: 1. Check your mail account (fetchmail or python's imaplib) 2. Do a

Re: QtMoko v58 - best way to upgrade

2013-12-22 Thread Ben Wong
I've got v58 working now (thanks to the logging kludge) and have not had a problem with resuming yet. I did have a lot of reports initially of people trying to call me and my phone not ringing, but after I turned off multiplexing in Neocontrol things seem to be better. (I've never had to turn off

Re: Larger capacity battery

2013-12-22 Thread Ben Wong
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:39 AM, joerg Reisenweber jo...@openmoko.org wrote: Maybe useful background can be found in: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=65568 jOERG, That's a pretty handy page. I hadn't realized LiIon batteries varied much by manufacturer. Is there a similar script for

Re: [gta02] cannot boot from NAND

2013-12-16 Thread Ben Wong
There must be some timing problem. It can be quite tricky to debug it, because with logging it works and with debugging enabled it works too. Timing with the AT communications? Would that be the chat script? 3/ implement better screen locking. Now if you lock screen and receive phone call

Re: [gta02] cannot boot from NAND

2013-12-14 Thread Ben Wong
Weirdly, I'm getting a panic on boot with the JFFS2 images for rootfs and u-boot. I'll try resending with dfu-util again. —B P.S. When I mentioned using 'dd' before to write directly, I meant to say 'nandwrite'. On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Francesco De Vita francesco.dev...@mailoo.org

Re: [gta02] cannot boot from NAND

2013-12-13 Thread Ben Wong
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz wrote: On Friday, December 13, 2013 02:59:01 AM Ben Wong wrote: What's the checksum supposed to be for the QTMoko files? a76072c1c9dce4eb2b07235f7cc307fe qtmoko-debian-gta02-v58.ubi 50baec96657802b5a053fa0ef6b777a2 uImage.bin

Re: [gta02] cannot boot from NAND

2013-12-13 Thread Ben Wong
The size should be ok. NAND is IIRC 256MB. Would you be interested to try jffs2? I can do it and upload quite easily. Sure, I'd give that a shot if it's easy for you to do. I seem to have more corruption problems from ubifs than jffs2, so wouldn't mind going back. —B

Re: QtMoko v58 with 2.6.39 kernel and improved power management

2013-12-12 Thread Ben Wong
Thanks for the update, Radek and Paul! I'm downloading v58 now and looking forward to having a stable system. By the way, I'm glad to see two big user interface bugaboos for me (vibration when resuming and hanging up when hitting answer twice) have been fixed. I think my only other bothersome bug

Re: [gta02] cannot boot from NAND

2013-12-12 Thread Ben Wong
Hey Joif, You're not alone. I get the same message with v58 in NAND; haven't tried on SD yet. I thought it might be DFU transferring the file system incorrectly, but seeing that you have the same problem, I think perhaps the image on sourceforge is corrupted. What's the checksum supposed to be

Re: [gta02] cannot boot from NAND

2013-12-12 Thread Ben Wong
This is my main phone, so I've reverted to v55 (the latest one I could find on sourceforge) and it seems to be working. —B On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Jorge xxo...@gmail.com wrote: Yup, same here. No booting from NAND. On 12/12/13 23:59, Ben Wong wrote: Hey Joif, You're not alone

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-23 Thread Ben Wong
suggesting now might be a good time, while people are still wondering what to do with that extra $700 PayPal just refunded to them. :) —Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: SIM card backup

2013-08-23 Thread Ben Wong
Four years ago this worked for getting data from a SIM card: http://www.mail-archive.com/community@lists.openmoko.org/msg55862.html qtmoko SMS messages are saved in an sqlite3 file under Applications/qtopiamail/ On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Алексей fl...@member.fsf.org wrote: 1) How may

Re: [QtMoko] Battery

2013-08-22 Thread Ben Wong
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:57 PM, NeilBrown ne...@suse.de wrote: On the GTA04 I just read /sys/class/power_supply/bq27000-battery/charge_full and /sys/class/power_supply/bq27000-battery/charge_full_design and divide one by the other. Does the GTA02 not have something similar? Did

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-08-22 Thread Ben Wong
Well, the deadline is up. The pledges rolled in and they got $12.8 million, which sounds amazing until you see that their goal was for $32 million. I guess that means all that money is getting refunded and there will be no Ubuntu Edge. Here's Shuttleworth's upbeat closing comment:

Re: how big is the advantage of the gta02s and gta04s regarding private data?

2013-06-24 Thread Ben Wong
of OpenMoko's greatest successes was proving that it is possible to have a sane, understandable contract and still use a cell phone. --Ben On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:57 PM, robin spielr...@web.de wrote: hi, I was just wondering what facts one would/could/should have at hand when arguing

Re: how big is the advantage of the gta02s and gta04s regarding private data?

2013-06-24 Thread Ben Wong
better privacy. Does anyone here use it? What's a good Diaspora program for the Neo? --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Bluetooth Keyboard

2013-06-24 Thread Ben Wong
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani giacomomari...@yahoo.it wrote: Thank you Radeck, I'm glad to have the Docked keyboard back: it is priceless when sending SMS via vnc! Nice tip, Giacomo. That reminds me that my biggest bugaboo with QtMoko is that I have never

Re: QtMoko packages for old input methods

2013-06-09 Thread Ben Wong
Thank you for doing this. As nifty as the idea of the translucent keyboard was, I think I would go back to the predictive keyboard (as used in SHR) if I could. --B On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz wrote: Hi, I have started packaging old input methods for QtMoko.

Re: [QtMoko] Mokofaen red signal strength icon

2012-11-14 Thread Ben Wong
Yes, I too had thought red meant super duper must be 110% signal strength. On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Neil Jerram n...@ossau.homelinux.net wrote: I've been wondering for some time what it means when the GSM signal strength icon goes red, and whether/how that's different from the icon

Re: [QtMoko] MokoFaen theme, update

2012-08-23 Thread Ben Wong
great for me. --Ben On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:45 AM, francesco.dev...@mailoo.org wrote: Hi list! I'm going to work to an update for the MokoFaen theme for QtMoko. I'm planning a few changes to it but I really would like to have some feedback from the community. Usually I just follow my taste

Re: Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-29 Thread Ben Thompson
with the pricing, and ask permission to cancel their orders. Then you could create a new group buy with fair pricing for all which I am guessing would be a price somewhere between 449 and 499 euros. Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re: Sharing TSM30 source

2011-11-28 Thread Ben Thompson
25.11.2011, 20:43, Fernando Martins ferna...@cmartins.nl: On 11/23/2011 10:57 PM, Ben Thompson wrote:  I don't speak Spanish so I am not sure if this page is actually a phone for sale :-  http://anuncios.ebay.es/compraventa/telefono-movil-vitelcom-tsm30/9052718 For sale for 9€, posted

Re: what do I install now?

2011-11-26 Thread Ben Thompson
started with Vala which should be easy to pick up for people with a little knowledge of Java. Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Sharing TSM30 source

2011-11-23 Thread Ben Thompson
18.11.2011, 04:12, Michael Sokolov msoko...@ivan.harhan.org: Martix martix...@gmail.com wrote:  Ok, no need to hurry. Openmoko community waited for more than three  years for full open access to whole GTA02 internals, we can wait another  month. The CD set destined for Cryptome, including

Re: Sharing TSM30 source

2011-11-23 Thread Ben Thompson
 * What about learning the HW by physically examining it?  Well, I    haven't found any place where one can actually buy a TSM30 phone    either!  Unobtainium...  (I would love to be proven wrong on this    one as well!) I don't speak Spanish so I am not sure if this page is actually a

Re: Announcement: new batches of GTA04 ready for (pre)order

2011-11-14 Thread Ben
know. Just think how awesome stereo speakers would be on your GTA04 :D Ben. On 15/11/2011 4:02 a.m., Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Dear all, I take for granted that you all are eagerly waiting for an annoucement that another batch of GTA04 boards becomes available. We did wait

Re: Shiftd

2011-06-10 Thread Ben Thompson
09.06.2011, 17:17, Sean Moss-Pultz s...@openmoko.com: Dear Community! Today I get to do one of the things I love most about my job; announce our next product. This time, it's very different from what we've built Here are my ratings out of 10 for Openmoko products :- GTA01 - 5 GTA02 - 10

Re: Shiftd

2011-06-10 Thread Ben Thompson
10.06.2011, 13:15, Thomas HOCEDEZ thomas.hoce...@free.fr: On 10/06/2011 12:05, Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani wrote:  Hi,  Here are my ratings out of 10 for Openmoko products :-  GTA01 - 5  GTA02 - 10  Wikireader - 0  Shiftd - 0  What does anyone else think?  GTA01 - 10  GTA02 - 7  

Re: Qi vs U-boot (was Re: QtMoko v30; UBIFS; can't boot)

2010-12-27 Thread Ben Thompson
of the environemnt.in config which they would like to share? I have tried to boot SHR using Gennady's version but it did not work for me. It seemed to boot the kernel but X did not load for some reason. Thanks Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re: Openmoko on Wikipedia

2010-11-10 Thread Ben Thompson
. Does anyone else have any thoughts on this? Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: community Digest, Vol 204, Issue 8

2010-10-06 Thread Ben Thompson
that can be sold to the masses ... . I bet such device will make Raster happy :) Gennady. I am nobody, but would just like to say that Gennady's summary sounds good to me. Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: QtMoko v26

2010-08-30 Thread Ben Thompson
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:55:10PM +0200, Xavier Cremaschi wrote: Le 30/08/2010 12:26, Radek Polak a écrit : On Monday 30 August 2010 11:25:35 Xavier Cremaschi wrote: Any idea to test it in qemu ? It seems great but I need to keep my phone operational... What about testing on SD

Re: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-13 Thread Ben Thompson
. * How much would you think you could afford to pay for such a board? Depends on how good it is (Wifi/GPS/3G/etc. support). Maybe 500 euros. -- Ben Thompson ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org

Re: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-13 Thread Ben Thompson
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:18:36PM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 13.08.2010 um 12:35 schrieb Neil Brown: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:22:02 +0200 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org wrote: Am 12.08.2010 um 14:12 schrieb RANJAN: Hi, When is the next and more

Re: is wifi-driver developed anymore?

2010-05-18 Thread Ben Thompson
to this ever came back from Atheros? Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: QtMoko wifi certificate selector

2010-04-29 Thread Ben Thompson
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:14:45PM +0200, Daniele E. Domenichelli wrote: Can someone advise how to add a server certificate? I was able to setup a WPA-EAP wireless network, I just moved my certificates in /home/root/Documents/images/jpeg and then after rescanning system documents

QtMoko wifi certificate selector

2010-04-28 Thread Ben Thompson
to add a server certificate? I don't understand what is supposed to happen when I click the padlock icon. Is the program looking in a particular directory for certificates? If so, where? Thanks Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi stopped working

2010-04-26 Thread Ben Thompson
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:42:39PM -0700, HansV wrote: lsusb gives: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub. So I suppose my WiFi is dead. No, I don't think so. My wifi is fine and I get the same output. How are you using wifi by the way? Do you use wpa_supplicant or

Re: [QtMoko] SIM's pin

2010-04-26 Thread Ben Thompson
. There is bug that GSM sometimes does not register and you need to Restart QtExtended from the POWER button menu. Maybe this is the cause? Hi Radek This does not always work for me. Sometimes I cannot get QTMoko to register no matter how many times I restart QTExtended. Ben

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi stopped working

2010-04-26 Thread Ben Thompson
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:26:18AM -0700, HansV wrote: I use Mokonnect. It doesn't seem to find the WiFi hardware. The WiFi indicator comes on in the shelf while Mokonnect is trying to power up the device. But Mokonnect waits forever. Maybe some modules are missing in my setup? Hmm, I have

Re: ventura upgrades

2010-04-19 Thread Ben Thompson
the version without these modifications. I liked the uncluttered screen before and the menu button was larger and easier to use with my fingers. Also, I don't like that fact that more of the web page is now obscured by icons. Cheers Ben ___ Openmoko

Re: Comparing A5 and A7 sound settings

2010-03-14 Thread Ben Wilson
Just my two cents. I think at this point distributions' defaults should be towards A7 users, since all new users are anyway A7 users and A5/A6 owners by now are surely aware of the ALSA setting problematics. Hi, If it really depends on the Ax model I think they should be somehow

Kernel oops with wifi (was: Problems with NWA)

2010-03-02 Thread Ben Thompson
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:58:57PM +0100, Nicola Mfb wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Ben Thompson b...@york.ac.uk wrote: [...] I can reproduce this problem using NWA but I am not sure what is going on at the D-Bus level. Maybe someone could help me (maybe Niko)? You may try

Re: Problems with NWA

2010-03-01 Thread Ben Thompson
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Re: Problems with NWA

2010-03-01 Thread Ben Thompson
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:36:01PM +0300, Paul Fertser wrote: Ben Thompson b...@york.ac.uk writes: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:52:01PM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Ben Thompson b...@york.ac.uk writes: I will see if I can reliably reproduce the problem and submit a bug report

Re: Problems with NWA

2010-02-28 Thread Ben Thompson
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:54:16PM +0300, Paul Fertser wrote: Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Ben Thompson b...@york.ac.uk wrote: [...] I think this is a different bug. It happens occasionally with me too, but it was also there with the old QT

Re: Problems with NWA

2010-02-28 Thread Ben Thompson
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:52:01PM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Ben Thompson b...@york.ac.uk writes: I will see if I can reliably reproduce the problem and submit a bug report if there isn't one (where should I do this?). http://bugs.openmoko.org is the place for kernel bugs. Set

Re: Re: Problems with NWA

2010-02-26 Thread Ben Thompson
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:39:39AM +0100, n...@el-hennig.de wrote: Martin fixed qt builds (thanks again), and Ben just reported that NWA works again after upgrading. It starts up, yes. But when I close nwa I have to reboot my FR as it does not react on any input by pressing the power

Re: [GTA02] VGA-QVGA switching - #2263 revisited

2010-02-17 Thread Ben Wilson
working in SHR that would be great. Ben. On 18/02/2010 4:47 a.m., Vladimir Koutny wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus, I'd like to ask if anyone know: - a solution that works? - a git revision which is supposed to fix #2263? - some background on #2263 so I can

Problems with NWA

2010-02-15 Thread Ben Thompson
window show at startup even if you have systray support -- alwaysshowwindow value=no/ /xml Can anyone help? Thanks Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Problems with NWA

2010-02-15 Thread Ben Thompson
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:34:28PM +0100, Davide Scaini wrote: yes.. you have to use qt libs from noko repos dalle libqt* 4.4.3-r3 (while in shr repos you find 4.6.0-r14.1.4). It's a problem in cflgs when compiling qts on shr... nicola (the developer of nwa) is aware of this, and shr guys I

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-26 Thread Ben Wong
* ^Subject:.*\bOT\b trash # Save to a file named trash. Could use /dev/null. For those who use Gmail, here's an image of how to mute the conversation: http://imagebin.ca/view/2drcc4.html --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re: How is gta01 charger ID resistor detected?

2010-01-25 Thread Ben Wilson
I could be wrong, but I thought the 47K resistor cable ID feature was one of the things they added into GTA02. I assumed GTA01 didn't have it. Ben. Andy Poling wrote: I have made a couple of custom charging cables for use with my gta01 and dumb USB chargers (selected because they were rated

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-15 Thread Ben Wong
was writing a paper which had many examples of computer users. For half of them I used female pronouns. I was amused and slightly disturbed that my co-author (from the Netherlands) fixed my mistakes by changing them all to male. --Ben P.S. To gmail users: Never want to see this thread again

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-14 Thread Ben Cadieux
volunteers - they are likely there because they care about the same things. Best Regards, Ben Cadieux ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-06 Thread Ben Cadieux
, before writing. Brevity both in writing and speech is important. You don't want to annoy or bore others with irrelevant information, nor seem boring by giving away all your thoughts. All the best to you and your endeavours :) Best Regards, Ben Cadieux

Re: reliable wifi gui for SHR

2009-12-24 Thread Ben Thompson
on SHR? I tried mokonnect, I tried NWA just now on SHR-U and it looks good but it made a lot of white noise come out of the speakers when it got an IP address. Cheers Ben Thompson ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: Costa Rica 3G and Neo Freerunner.

2009-12-07 Thread Ben Wilson
SIM cards in the phone (3G SIM card to connect to 2G network). The phone wouldn't connect or would give issues so that page was setup to list which 3G SIM cards would work on the phone (2G connection). As far as I know the latest GSM firmware fixed those issues. Ben. Esteban Monge wrote

Re: How to transfer SMS from your old phone?

2009-11-23 Thread Ben Wong
org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage \ org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy GSM disabled [ Swap SIM here, unless previous command failed ] $ mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage \ org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy GSM auto --Ben

Re: How to transfer SMS from your old phone?

2009-11-20 Thread Ben Wong
in the way). Does anyone know if it would have been safe to do that? --Ben - Start backupsim.sh - #!/bin/sh exec 1simbackup-$(date '+%Y-%h') echo GetSimInfo mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd \ /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device \ org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.GetSimInfo echo

Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Wilson
or anything to solve this problem. Thanks Ben. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Wilson
Unfortunately, i have gta01, no leds Ben. Davide Scaini wrote: maybe a led flashing... we have 3 leds! d On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Ben Wilson b...@abcom.co.nz mailto:b...@abcom.co.nz wrote: Hi, I've been using SHR unstable for my everyday phone for a while and i

Re: Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Wilson
Thanks That looks like a good place to start, i'll have a go at it. Ben. arne anka wrote: basically it should be possible, to write a rule for oeventsd in rules.yaml (incoming sms should be an event supported). if not, you could opimd-cli and do something like opimd-cli messages query

Re: Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Wilson
Good idea, Could use the accelerometers to sense it being picked up. Couldn't do it in gta01 though, since it doesn't have the sensors. Ben. Robin Paulson wrote: 2009/11/13 Ben Wilson b...@abcom.co.nz: What would be ideal is for it to keep playing the new message sound every few minutes

QVGA 240x320 in GTA01 in SHR

2009-10-29 Thread Ben Wilson
but it's all messed up, grey lines, nothing really recognisable. Have to reboot phone to get it back to readable. Thanks, Ben. My fb.modes file is the typical one and contains the following # Timings for GTA01 VGA and QVGA mode mode 480x640 # D: 26.000 MHz, H: 43.334 kHz, V: 65.657 Hz

Re: #1024-rework service available

2009-10-22 Thread Ben Thompson
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:04:33PM +0200, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Dr.H.NikolausS wrote: ??? This is not a Bass-Fix: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_bass_fix Is this planned in the future? I'd like to buy all the fixes at once... Me too. My freerunner happily went to Germany

Re: #1024-Fix in switzerland

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Thompson
Switzerland? Also, can you do the bass fix too? Cheers -- Ben Thompson ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: #1024-Fix in switzerland

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Thompson
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:27:08AM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Hi Ben, for all those outside Switzerland and inside EU harmonized market (the reason to differentiate is customs complexity with export/reimport) we offer this: http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=Buzz

Re: SHR clock reset

2009-10-02 Thread Ben Wong
test it again when I head back to the same area next week. --Ben 2009/10/1 Vasco Névoa vasco.ne...@sapo.pt: I've started experiencing the same in the last few days. The Neo's clock had always been impeccably correct, until now. Now it was half an hour late and I set it by hand. It appears

Re: fatfingershell ?

2009-09-24 Thread Ben Wong
upon the absolute tilt (left, right, up down, page up, page down, home, end) and it would otherwise work as a normal button. --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2009-09-16 Thread Ben Wong
Hello Brolin, I showed your post to a few geek girls and asked them what advice they would give. I'm CC'ing the list with their (edited) responses because I have a hunch that there are more Brolins out there. Ben ___ Overall, my advice isn't

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2009-09-12 Thread Ben Wong
be valuable for people like us who can get lost in our head-space. --Ben On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Brolin Empey bro...@brolin.be wrote: Hello list, Like most of the members of this list (AFAICT from the first names I recognise as sex/gender-specific), I am male.  I am 22 and still live

Re: Free runner opened up

2009-08-26 Thread Ben Wilson
I dunno about the freerunner but with gta01 it shipped with a guitar pick to be used to pry the case open without damaging the plastic :) Risto H. Kurppa wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:16 AM, RANJANinfi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Did anyone open their free runner up.I want to give it a

Re: Freerunner wireless internet

2009-08-26 Thread Ben Thompson
) on the FreeRunner running Koolu Android Beta 7 and OM2009. With SHR-U and Mokonnect (my current setup) it does not work. SHR-U + Mokoconnect does not work for me either. I get DHCP timeout and I have tried multiple AP's. -- Ben Thompson ___ Openmoko

Re: Freerunner wireless internet

2009-08-26 Thread Ben Thompson
have the 20090808 flash. Maybe it works better in latest SHR-U? Ben, Niels? are you using the latest SHR-U? I'm currently using vanilla SHR-U dated 08/08/2009 I was using this too so I opkg updated now and it looks like I now have a DHCP lease. Many thanks for the fix. -- Ben Thompson

Re: Mechanical Design of the Freerunner/gta02-core/gta03

2009-08-25 Thread Ben Thompson
- DWG-MOULDING-12345-GTA02_core rev 3 Instead do this :- Example PCB layout - 001 rev 3 Example CAD drawing- 002 rev 3 What does anyone else think? -- Ben Thompson ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: ZAGG invisible sheild for Neo Freerunner

2009-08-07 Thread Ben Wong
dressing?) Someone mentioned that the shield is a dust magnet. That's probably true, but my screen stays cleaner since I'm no longer worried about wiping it off on something possibly abrasive, like my shirt. --Ben P.S. Mikhail is also correct that the shiny look is cheesy

Re: Can my FreeRunner remind me to shut it down if it is still running at 22:00?

2009-07-29 Thread Ben Wong
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Brolin Empeybro...@brolin.be wrote: 2009/7/27 Ben Wong lists.openmoko@wongs.net On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Brolin Empeybro...@brolin.be wrote: I prefer to shut down my cell phone before going to bed, but I frequently forget to do so

Re: Can my FreeRunner remind me to shut it down if it is still running at 22:00?

2009-07-27 Thread Ben Wong
the hook). I'd probably also check if there had been any recent screen input. To save the battery in case you forgot to plug it in? A cron job would work to shut it down, but you could add a couple lines in the script to skip it if the battery is already charging. --Ben

Re: Anti-Whining: Happy Moko Moments

2009-07-23 Thread Ben Wong
treasure, put some items inside. * My niece and her family had a lot of fun, all thanks to my neo. --Ben On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Warren Bairdwjba...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca wrote: There seems to be a repeated theme of people posting how crappy the Freerunner is and how nothing works

Re: tango and the missing map tiles

2009-07-23 Thread Ben Wong
system, below. --Ben #!/bin/sh # Look for OpenStreetMap tiles that are size zero (TangoGPS has a bug) # and download the correct tile. Based on a one-line script by # Rask Ingemann Lambertsen r...@sygehus.dk, June 2009, # modified by Ben Wong to work with BusyBox's wget. cd ~/Maps/OSM || echo

Re: tango and the missing map tiles

2009-07-23 Thread Ben Wong
Lambertsen r...@sygehus.dk, June 2009, # Modified by Ben Wong to work with BusyBox's wget. cd ~/Maps/OSM || exit 1 find -size 0c -print \ | cut -c3- \ | awk ' { print http://tile.openstreetmap.org/; $0 -O $0; }' \ | xargs -n3 wget -U UpdateTiles On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Ben

Re: why openmoko is so slow? Is it a joke?

2009-07-13 Thread Ben Wong
to hack with. That's what I paid my money for. --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Help, bricked gta01. Anyone in New Zealand with a debug board?

2009-07-10 Thread Ben Wilson
Hi, I just bricked my GTA01 by accident and need a debugboard to reflash uboot. Anyone out there in New Zealand with a debugboard that can help? Thanks Ben (Psi) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: Help, bricked gta01. Anyone in New Zealand with a debug board?

2009-07-10 Thread Ben Wilson
David Vermeille wrote: 2009/7/10 Ben Wilson b...@abcom.co.nz mailto:b...@abcom.co.nz Hi, I just bricked my GTA01 by accident and need a debugboard to reflash uboot. Anyone out there in New Zealand with a debugboard that can help? Thanks Ben (Psi

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-09 Thread Ben Wong
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Adam Jimersonvend...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 09 July 2009 12:54:15 am Ben Wong wrote:   mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.SetSpeakerVolume 68 Are you sure that mdbus call is correct I got two

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-08 Thread Ben Wong
% actually work for anybody without distortion? --Ben On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauermic...@vanille-media.de wrote: FWIW, against my personal experience (where this setting lead to suboptimal results), people have forced me to uplevel the speaker volume in the phone

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-08 Thread Ben Wong
Mickey: Please set the default volume back down. I just confirmed (by talking to a human) that when the Speaker Volume is set to 100%, the other party hears an annoying echo of their own voice. Thank you, --Ben P.S. I don't know if it matters, but I'm using a Revision A06 Freerunner, buzz

Re: FreeRunner A7, GSM 850?

2009-07-08 Thread Ben Wong
, but even that is unlikely. --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [omgps] collect feature requests

2009-07-05 Thread Ben Wong
d) At reboot, the filesystem is automatically recovered (I'm using ext3 journaling) e) I force a fsck and check how long it takes, like so: umount /media/mmcblk0p5 time e2fsck -f /dev/mmcblk0p5 For me, it's always 42 seconds. --Ben P.S. Did you try that clock speed suggestion from BillK

Re: External GPS antenna question

2009-07-05 Thread Ben Wong
this. I've noticed the same wobbles, but only when I'm not moving very quickly. Does anybody know if setting the GPS to Pedestrian instead of Car mode helps? Or is an antenna the only solution? --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re: Anyone know a store that sells FreeRunner accs in the US

2009-07-05 Thread Ben Wong
! Is that lint stuck under the shield? --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-05 Thread Ben Wong
and SHR-unstable, and SHR-unstable is utterly unusable because people can't understand me. (Which I'm not complaining about, by the way. It is called unstable for a reason.) I'd bet that if you revert to SHR-testing, everything will be hunky-dory again. --Ben

Re: dfu_download error -62

2009-07-04 Thread Ben Wong
find the answer. The reason is that the minus sign tells Google to NOT show any web pages that contain the number sixty-two. --Ben On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Tim Vangehugtentimvangehug...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Im currently experiencing some trouble. I get a dfu_download error -62 when I

[shr, others?] Flash drive mounted with sync option

2009-06-29 Thread Ben Wong
reason to be using sync on all automounted drives. --Ben P.S. I believe this bug/feature is controlled by /etc/udev/scripts/mount.sh: automount() { ! test -d /media/$name mkdir -p /media/$name if ! $MOUNT -t auto -o sync $DEVNAME /media/$name then #logger mount.sh

Re: [shr, others?] Flash drive mounted with sync option

2009-06-29 Thread Ben Wong
: zcat openmoko-shr-image-*-om-gta02.rootfs.tar.gz | ssh -v r...@192.168.0.202 tar -C /media/mmcblk0p2 -xf - With sync: All day to untar the distribution (no exact time, xfr canceled) Without sync: 570 seconds to untar the distribution --Ben

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