I have now used about a day to test the January 25. image and it looks
much better wrt. stability when compared to the January 23. image.
I have however, only done the following, which to me is the necessary
phone functionality and which now seems to work every time:
1. Starting up and seeing registration
2. Dialed in and out with voice
3. Sent and received SMS messages
The UI is messy and lacking in all sorts of places, but I can live with
that for now.
The only thing that is still a show-stopper to me is: Battery life!
Unfortunately I haven't seen much discussion about it and I would like
to know if anyone knows if it is a no-can-do on the GTA01, or if it just
needs more work with the software?
Unless this is solved, my Neo will never become a mobile phone, but just
a phone that needs a cable.
After that, there are of course as ton of issues, like:
1. The ones Marc mentions below
2. International characters on the keyboard
3. How to copy-and-paste between applications
4. Control of ringing styles and vibration depending on message and
voice caller
5. Add your own favorite missing feature :-)
Anyway, nice to at least have come this far!
Peter
Marc Verwerft wrote:
I've tried out the new image also.
The good:
- while the PIN registration works each time, I see at least two
identical network info popups
- calling seems to work (haven't tested it thorough)
- SMS kinda works. The second time I booted the Neo, the SMS
application wouldn't start anymore.
The bad:
- I managed to 'loose' the selection of home in the top left corner of each app.
- Managing and creating contacts is not working right
- I cannot select the type of phone# (work/home/...) per contact
- after adding the first contact the keyboard and the input field
for the phone number started misbehaving. The keyboard would not
disappear anymore unless I used the tiny icon at the top
- I enabled the power management and while I was in the contacts app
the screen dimmed after a while. I can't get the phone to wake up now
because the keyboard is placed over the Openmoko logo that you need to
move to unlock the phone.
It seems that this root image was not tested before published ...
On Jan 24, 2008 8:41 PM, Peter Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have now played a little more with sending/receiving SMS with the
image below.
1. What log file do I extract info from when sending SMS messages?
2. The file /tmp/gsm.log doesn't make sense to me, but I could be wrong?
3. The whole phone is actually in a big mess, because 'stability' is
just not there, unfortunately.
4. I can sometimes send a message and I can sometimes make a voice call,
and mostly just after a reboot.
5. It seems that more messages are received from another phone, than I
can send from the Neo.
6. Registering to the service provider 'seems' to happen every time I
turn the Neo on, but sometimes it seems as if it lost the connection,
anyway because I can't send receive SMS or make calls.
7. What do I do to confirm #6.?
Unfortunately bugzilla records don't seem to be dealt with, so I wonder
what to do about such issues? I entered a report January 4., but it is
still in New state.
If anyone can help me with set up a development environment on
Slackware, I might be able to help there. The info I found so far wasn't
really helpful there, so my only contribution so far has been testing
available images.
Peter
Lucas Bonnet wrote:
Peter Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
With the recent image:
http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily/neo1973/deploy/glibc/images/neo1973/OpenMoko-openmoko-devel-image-glibc-ipk-P1-Snapshot-20080123-fic-gta01.rootfs.tar.gz
I was able to make voice calls and messaging work on my GTA01, and
this is great progress seen from a user's perspective!
The Message UI is rather puzzling, though, I was able to use it.
Indeed, now it seems to be a bit more reliable, it asks for my PIN and
autoregisters at every reboot. Just in time for my OpenMoko demo next
week :)
I haven't managed to send a SMS though, the UI is quite puzzling, and
the Random Button Pressing Technique didn't get me very far.
Regards,
