Warren Baird wrote: > Well, I've been running QtE for a bit over a week now, and I wanted to > give kudos to Lorn and the QT team for making the FR something close to > a usable phone... It's not perfect yet- I'm still using the original > images, so I don't have bluetooth working, and there are a few other > gaps, but at least I haven't missed any calls due to slow responsiveness. > > I've been rebooting the phone every day or two, and perhaps that's why I > haven't yet seen the strange instablities I was seeing earlier with FDOM > and QtE 4.4.1 - but the basic phone functionality has been pretty > reliable - I used the phone on a short business trip, and aside from > having to reboot to get out of 'airplane' mode, it worked well. > > QtE also has *way* better battery life than anything else I've tried - I > can go 36 hours or more without having to plug in the phone.
really, mine is out of power in about 8 hours :( but I'm using 4.4.2 with mwester's kernel. > > For the first time, I'm starting to feel like I can use my FR as a phone. > > Of course, I haven't had time to install any interesting software on the > phone, get wifi or gprs working, get the gps working, or anything like > that, so things may get more interesting at that point - but I've gone > more than a week without feeling the need to put my Sim back in my old > cell phone. > > Warren > > > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Warren Baird <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I've been trying out QT Extended 4.4.2 for a few days now, and I > thought I'd share my observations so far: > > - Stability seems better than I originally thought - After my one > experience seeing it not wake up from suspend on a call, I haven't > noticed any other issues - I've received a fair number of calls and > sms's, and the phone has always woken up. > > - The biggest issue for me atm is that I don't get an audible ring > tone for either calls or sms messages - This is a regression since > QtE 4.4.1 - any suggestions on how to resolve it would be very welcome. > > - I've missed one un-expected phone call because by the time I > noticed the vibration and got the phone out of my pocket, all I saw > was the dreaded 'view missed calls?'. However, I think this is > more related to the lack of an audible ring, rather than the problem > I saw in OM2008.8 where by the time the phone woke up from suspend > the call had gone to voice mail. I was able to sucessfully answer > an unexpected call this morning, which I don't think *ever* happened > with OM2008.8 > > - Battery life is *much* improved over OM2008.8 - I went more than > 24 hours without recharging and still had two bars of battery left. > > There are a few minor issues I've noticed: > > - the lack of an icon for the terminal in the apps list is > annoying. Does QT Extended provide a 'run' capability, which would > allow a user to directly enter an application to run? > > - 4.4.1 provided 3 different appearance themes - but 4.4.2 only > provides 1, and unfortunately it's not the one I preferred. > > - speakerphone mode didn't work - I think this is also a > regression from 4.4.1. <http://4.4.1.> > > > Even with the various annoyances and regressions, QT Extended is the > closest I've seen so far to making my OM usable as a daily phone. > > I haven't seen the behaviour I saw once with OM2008.8 and once with > 4.4.1 where the phone gets into a strange state where it can no > longer make or recieve calls - we'll see if I bump into that one > eventually or not... > > Warren > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
