Hi Gunnar, I guess your openmoko from pulster came with 2007.X (like mine did). First of all - you can flash it to 2008.08 for a different set of bugs :) Although it's not there yet - most development seems to happen on 2008.08 and this will at least improve. If you also use the testing repository [1] for updates you can also get a sensible keyboard, I think? If not, you can use the themes and keyboard from [2] to make it beautiful and semi-usable.
The other issues I know nothing about - GPS works fine for me - even with the SD card in. This being said - I was also a bit disappointed how far openmoko still has to go - especially with 2008.08 which is based on qtopia, which I believed was already quite mature at least basic phone stuff should be semi-usable. Oh well :) It will come soon enough! - Gunnar [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Download#The_bleeding_edge:_Om_.22base_.2F_empty.22_images [2] http://52grad.de/.stuff/freerunner/ Gunnar Stahl wrote: > Hi, > i received my fr on friday (thanks to christoph from pulster) and > although I am pretty good with linux in general and debian in particular > I do have a couple of questions / concerns. > > At first, after the first outbursts of joy, some frustration started to > creep in. Although I knew that fr was not really ready I find it somehow > embarassing to see how many of the standard features of a standard phone > do not work. > > I searched around the wiki and in the mailing lists, but the questions > remained: > > - Sound: How do I adjust the speaker volume? Currently it blows my ears > into oblivion when it is too close to my head. > - Ringtones: Although this is not really important it annoys me to have > to set it to vibrator for just not to wake up everybody in the office > when someone calls me. > - Whenever I have to plug out the battery for one of the various reasons > like total freezes of the fr then the clock sets to 0:40 or something > - Keyboard: This thing is ridiculously unusuable. As in ridiculous. I > know there are developments going on, but it would be a heck of a lot > more usuable if a fragging stylus had been on board (grrrr) (sorry). > - Is there any user-friendly way to turn on gprs/edge? > - GPS: No fix at all, even with sd-card miles away from the fr > > Any usefull suggestions? > > Yt, > > Gunnar > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes gunnar.grimnes [AT] dfki.de DFKI GmbH Knowledge Management Trippstadter Strasse 122 D-67663 Kaiserslautern Germany Office: +49 631 205 75-117 Mobile: +49 177 277 4397 _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
