>> I bought my Freerunner over a year ago. On the first boot, it made a >> very loud raucus sound which, as far as I know, blew out the speaker, >> as I have never heard an undistorted sound come out of it. > If your speaker really is broken, your Freerunner will probably not be > much use as a phone unless you use hands-free with it. I suggest you > install the latest software so you can be sure it's not a software > problem. If it isn't you'll either have to get the speaker repaired or > live without sound.
Is it repairable? > If you want more control, then currently the best > idea is to run alsamixer yes, either remotely or from local terminal. Glad to hear that there's been progress on volume control, but more than a year later and we still need alsamixer for some things? This is not a good sign. >> I tried to develop a GPS application for it, but GPS would not work >> if there was an SD card installed. > I have not heard of such a problem so if It's not exclusive to your > hardware, it is fixed by now. http://n2.nabble.com/Reason-for-GPS-problems-found-tp528814ef1958.html In a nutshell, electrical noise from the SD card slot interfered with the GPS. Your choices were either to remove the SD card or solder in a tiny little capacitor between two of its pins. I also understand that there's a software work-around which turns the SD card off when it's not being used. > Currently, using the Freerunner as both a phone and a PDA I usually can > go for two days before plugging it in overnight. If I use a lot of GPS > for example, the time is shorter but it's not bad at all and suspending > works very well currently. Excellent news. Hopefully, this is because of improved software (which I can install) and not improved hardware (which I can't do anything about). > Well, my suggestion would be to start playing around with the latest > SHR-Unstable. Thanks for the pointers. If I can find the time, I'll give it a try. -ed falk _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
