Hi all, I thought I'd share my experiences so far with the testing release. I've been using QT Extended 4.4.3 as my primary phone for more than 6 months now, but I decided to try putting the OM2009 TR3 build on my SD card to give it a shot.
I've only done minimal testing so far - I've been able to successfully make and receive a phone call, and the first sms I sent work, however the second one seemed to hang while saying 'sending' for quite a while. I was very happy to see that receiving a phone call while suspended woke up about as quickly as QtE 4.4.3, so I was able to easily answer the call - unlike my experience with OM 2008. However, I'd have to say that coming from QT Extended, the paroli user experience requires a *lot* of work - enough that my first thought was that my install didn't work. I saw a black screen with white text showing the time and date at the top, and 4 lines with "I/O" (or "1/0" - I can't tell for sure), "People", "Tele" and "Msgs" on it. On each of the following pages there's no real indication what to do. The first thing I did was click on the "I/O" page, and saw a blank page with an edit button at the top that seemed to do nothing. Then I tried to figure out how to get back to the main page... Took me a lot of random clicking to figure out that clicking on the date at the top takes you back to the home page. The Tele page is a little more intuitive, but again, it wasn't obvious to me that the text 'Call' near the top was an actual button. I found the msgs page very confusing. I did figure out fairly quickly that '+' tries to send a new message - and I was able to send a message and get a reply. I do actually like the IM like display showing the messages back and forth. However, I couldn't really figure out what to do to send a new message to the existing conversation. I got into a mode where it seemed to be letting me edit the sms message I had just recieved, but couldn't figure out how to just reply. It seems like OM2009 has addressed the technical problems that encouraged me to switch to QtE originally - but I must admit that unless the user experience is *substantially* improved, I doubt I'll be switching off QtE. Is there work ongoing in terms of producing a better user experience for OM2009? I'd love to contribute. I don't have piles of spare time, but I've done a bunch of python coding, am pretty good with the gimp, and worked with a Ph.D in user experience for long enough to have half a clue about user interface design. Warren On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Angus Ainslie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Max > > Thanks Risto for answering some of these. > > On May 13, 2009 04:18:47 am Max wrote: > > First of all thank you for hard work Angus. > > > > Hey I just put the lego together you should be thanking Mirko, and the FSO > team. > > > > > The very essential things I expect from om-whatever are: > > - send and receive calls to\from phones in international format e. g. > > starting with + like +790934534... > > - read and create contacts both in English and Russian from both sim > > card and internal db > > - send and receive sms both in English and Russian > > This should be fixed in the unstable feed. To get it you will need to > install > Om2009 and the bring that package in from unstable or wait for TR4 > > > - lock and unlock screen by pressing aux button > > > > AUX button has other uses > > > I guess it's pretty common expectations and it sometimes work somehow > > with om2008.12 > > > > So my question is - are above mentioned features available on om2009 TR3 > > out-of-the-box? > > Not yet > > > Is there are some packages I need to install to achieve it or some > > configuration tweaks needed? > > > > If so - how to migrate contacts db and sms message archive from > > om2008.12 to om2009? > > > > As far as I understood it's recommended to flash om2009. > > Is it possible to use sd instead? If so - where can I find instructions > > on how to do it with om2009 TR3? > > > > Yes running on an SD card is no problem, and is the method I would > recommend > if you just want to test it, and is the same as any other distro in that > regard. The instructions vary depend on what bootloader so check the wiki. > > > Going a bit further, is there plan to start supporting normal upgrade > > via something like opkg upgrade since om2009 TR x? > > > > Upgrades should start working before we get to release but there are a > couple > of minor bugs that need working out first. If those aren't resloved before > release I will try to provide an upgrade script that will do the right > thing > were opkg can't > > > There are also certain features lacking in om2008.12 which I'm really > > looking forward to see in om2009 in addition to basics mentioned above: > > - correctly receive call\sms in suspend mode e. g. wake up and work > > Part of that with any distro is to make sure you have the modem flashed to > moko11 > > > - alarm clock working in suspend mode > > - wi-fi with wpa2 working out-of-the-box > > - some media player supporting ogg and mp3 > > It is unlikely that mp3 will ever be supported out of the box. What I'm > looking at right now is to ship an mplayer or gstreamer frontend and you > will > need to install the mp3 functionality from a different distro. > > > > > It's not clear (maybe I miss something - feel free to point me to > > appropriate info) if it is in om2009 TR 3. > > > > Om2009 is pretty fluid right now but I'm trying to keep it's page uptodate > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009 > > > Angus > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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