Re: Om2009 testing release 4
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Mirko Lindner mi...@openmoko.com wrote: Ben Wong wrote: 2d) There is too much latency between pressing the AUX button during a call and any indication that the system is working on changing the volume. Ideally, what I'd like the GUI to show me is not what the current volume is, but what it will be once it has finished processing all the button presses. This is an issue happening in several places in paroli. The interface is very honest in the sense that it only shows what actually happened. Of course this means that changes are visible a bit later than in other interfaces. Should this paradigm be changed? Yes, I believe so. As others have said, honesty includes not only the past but what is planned for the future. I think changing the gauge immediately (40%, 60%, 80%) but having it be grayed-out would be a good way to represent that the volume change is queued up for later action. 2e) When ending a call, pressing END CALL does light up the button, but then it unlights before the call is actually ended making one think it needs to be pressed again. I suggest changing the text to ENDING after the button has been pressed. The relates to the last point. Paroli could remove the call window as soon as the user ends the call and it could also stop all sounds and just don't worry whether or not the call is actually ended. I agree sth has to change here, which way is better a) showing that the call is ending and keeping the call window until the call is actually ended or b) closing the window right away and letting the user move on before the call is actually finished Plan A would be acceptable, but B would be better. The user interface should waste as little of the user's time as possible. However, plan B also sounds like it'd be tricky to do correctly. What happens if the user immediately tries to make another call (or use GPRS or SMS) and the previous call hasn't yet finished? Thanks for your detailed response, Mirko. I look forward to testing your next release. --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Om2009 testing release 4
2009/5/30 Ben Wong lists.openmoko@wongs.net: B also sounds like it'd be tricky to do correctly. What happens if the user immediately tries to make another call (or use GPRS or SMS) and the previous call hasn't yet finished? as it's unavoidable at this point to interfere with the user's time, a please wait message would be preferable to nothing happening. in the case of the user not making another call immediately, there's nothing lost in 'pretending' to finish the call whilst the hardware is still busy. here, however, it could cause a problem, so make them wait, but tell them what's happening ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: QT Improved - sms messages stop being received
2009/5/30 David Ford da...@blue-labs.org: Are you certain that is the reason? Are you sure your SIM card isn't full? 20, or 30, is a common number for the number of SMS storage slots on a SIM card. does qtei store messages on the sim card, or in ~? is there any way to change this behaviour, if it stores them on the sim? i would suggest a sensible behaviour would be to store them on both devices, until the sim is full, when it continues storing them only in ~, perhaps with some unobtrusive notification ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: mokogeocaching...can someone help me please?
Steffen Winkler wrote: Hi guys, the program does not run on my freerunner. I've tried with SHR/unstable and SHR/testing and the newest hackable version, but everytime I click on search I get this error message: [code] http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?origin_lat=55.6307origin_long=12.6454dist=3submit3=Search getting data Traceback (most recent call last): File ./mokogeocaching.py, line 814, in search result = self.downloader.search(self.inputLat.get_text(), self.inputLon.get_text(), self.inputRadius.get_text()) File ./mokogeocaching.py, line 469, in search self.get_search_result() eventtarget = self.searchHTLM[start-37:start-7] UnboundLocalError: local variable 'start' referenced before assignment [/code] I've tried the program on my desktop pc (ubuntu 9.04) and it worked. So I looked after the python versions and it seems clear: python on pc: 2.6.4 or 2.5.4. So I downloaded the 2.5.4 python version from debian//sid and installed it on my hackable. After installation I thought, it have to work...but...I failed, the error is the same as with 2.5.2. Now I don't have any clue what causes the error. Hope someone could help me. Oh and before I forget: It works still on my ubuntu pc (I've not tried to import the data, but I get a message box which says that there are xxx caches in this area...on the freerunner I'm not getting this message box because of the error) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community I'm the developer of MokoGeocaching and gonna look into this problem right away. Hope i can fix the problem. Regards Jesper Vestergaard ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: QT Improved - sms messages stop being received
On Sat, 30 May 2009 19:15:16 +1200 Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/30 David Ford da...@blue-labs.org: Are you certain that is the reason? Are you sure your SIM card isn't full? 20, or 30, is a common number for the number of SMS storage slots on a SIM card. does qtei store messages on the sim card, or in ~? is there any way to change this behaviour, if it stores them on the sim? i would suggest a sensible behaviour would be to store them on both devices, until the sim is full, when it continues storing them only in ~, perhaps with some unobtrusive notification for now, it stores the sms only on the phone, not the sim. But this behaviours wasn't there in the first versions of qtei. So the question is: what version of qtei are you using, and what kernel? Franky ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
[all] problems with opkg.org
i've noticed over the last few weeks, that updates to packages on opkg.org aren't getting downloaded when i do opkg update, and upgrade. does anyone know what's happening, is the maintainer working on it anymore? it's a shame if not - it's very useful, and there are lots of great packages on there ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: PISI 0.2 released
2009/5/4 Michael Pilgermann kichka...@gmx.de: Maybe this is python-2.6 related? Absolutely. The packages I assembled for vobject (you used the one from opkg.org?) have static links to the python 2.5 site-package folder inside. For testing purposes you might move them (under /usr/lib/python ...); I have to sort this out by assembling the dependend packages properly. or use ln -s. slightly more elegant ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [all] problems with opkg.org
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: i've noticed over the last few weeks, that updates to packages on opkg.org aren't getting downloaded when i do opkg update, and upgrade. does anyone know what's happening, is the maintainer working on it anymore? it's a shame if not - it's very useful, and there are lots of great packages on there There has earlier been some problems with broken packages and some errors in the opkg.org/packages/Packages -file. You might want to contact Tobias (Maintainer of opkg.org) what's going on. r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [android] new cupcake image (Panicking)
On Thu, 21 May 2009 03:29:44 am Russell Dwiggins wrote: Just tested this, but having a problem. Kernel seems to boot OK, and the Android splash comes up, but then seems to loop (animation starts, pauses, then starts again). I've been experiencing just the same issue with this image, and trying the 14.6 image is even worse, that white screens then reboots cyclically. :-( This is with and SD card created as per: http://www.newlc.com/en/freerunner-mobile-which-support-android-cupcake *apart* from the fact that parted tells me the 3rd partition is too large to be a FAT16 partition, so I've set it to be 256MB in size. I'm beginning to wonder if it's related to the fact that it's a large SD card, so I'm going to try it with a much smaller one. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [android] new cupcake image (Panicking)
On Sat, 30 May 2009 10:57:19 pm Chris Samuel wrote: I'm beginning to wonder if it's related to the fact that it's a large SD card, so I'm going to try it with a much smaller one. Nope, same behaviour with freerunner-cupcake-snapshot-v6.jffs2, following the instructions to the letter.. :-( -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Debuzzing
Am 29.05.2009 um 17:24 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: I should add the status of the Buzz-Rework: * I have received back today all devices that we have received so far until approx. beginning of this week. They will now go to testing and then shipment. All units have passed the tests and will be shipped after this (long) weekend. Nikolaus ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: QT Improved - sms messages stop being received
On Sat, 30 May 2009 22:48:42 +1200 Glen Ogilvie n...@linuxsolutions.co.nz wrote: I am running your release built on May 2. QT Extended version 4.4.3. kernel: 2.6.29-rc2, and qte_20090502.tgz I'll update the latest version, as I see the is a new version out by the looks of it. Oh, one thing I noticed is it seems that the predictive dictionary on the keyboard is disabled.. Is that intentional? yes it is, but you can reactivate again by sliding diagonal: left down to right up (I think). Franky ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Android] Koolu Beta7 was: Some problems with Android on GTA02
Has anybody else had problems receiving SMS ? I flashed to Koolu Beta 7 the other day and can send w/ no problem but haven't received any text messages since I reflashed. Calls seem fine for me. ---Steve ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [android] new cupcake image (Panicking)
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2009 03:29:44 am Russell Dwiggins wrote: This is with and SD card created as per: http://www.newlc.com/en/freerunner-mobile-which-support-android-cupcake hi i am the author of this page *apart* from the fact that parted tells me the 3rd partition is too large to be a FAT16 partition, so I've set it to be 256MB in size. it can probally be shrinked sure I'll test latest image soon... what would be neat is to install the whole system on the sd card and boot on it , there are some hints on om wiki Regards -- Related Obsession : http://rzr.online.fr/q/openmoko ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [android] new cupcake image (Panicking)
it would be great, if possible, to have some hint on how to install it on a sd card... imho it's more straight forward for testing (i guess people uses the flash for main distro and sd for testing). thanks d On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:00 PM, RzR www.rzr.online.fr www.rzr.online.fr@ gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2009 03:29:44 am Russell Dwiggins wrote: This is with and SD card created as per: http://www.newlc.com/en/freerunner-mobile-which-support-android-cupcake hi i am the author of this page *apart* from the fact that parted tells me the 3rd partition is too large to be a FAT16 partition, so I've set it to be 256MB in size. it can probally be shrinked sure I'll test latest image soon... what would be neat is to install the whole system on the sd card and boot on it , there are some hints on om wiki Regards -- Related Obsession : http://rzr.online.fr/q/openmoko ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Android] Koolu Beta7 was: Some problems with Android on GTA02
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Steve 'dillo Okay (Roadknight Mobility Labs) armad...@gothpunk.com wrote: Has anybody else had problems receiving SMS ? I was properly able to send/receive SMSes. I had sent 4 sms and received 8 -- Regards Shashank As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it - Albert Einstein ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Shr-User] millestones
2009/5/30 piratebab pirate...@hotmail.com: I am happy to see some milestones appearing in the roadmap: http://shr.bearstech.com/trac/roadmap? What a good idea! We can have a better visibility of the evolution, and on the remaining bugs; I just suppose MS1 was the stable milestone, I guess this by date (22/5). Roadmaps and plans were asked on the lists many time in the past, but it seems that all the openmoko world has not the capacity to achieve that, not only SHR. But seriously may someone at least reports what happened at FSOSHRUDCON? Regards Nicola ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Recommend Openmoko Android course. Europe
Has anyone been on either the BigNerdanch Android course or the RootDSP.eu embedded course? Can they recommend either? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Help with gstreamer for python needed
How long is a while? Does the application freeze or does sound simply stop playing? Can you play sound through other means after this occurs? What do you do to get music playing again? Are you using playbin or a set of specific sinks? Is the device suspending? Gstreamer has issues resuming after a suspend. On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Andreas Hennig andreas.hennig@googlemail.com wrote: Hi All! Does one of you have expirience with gstreamer? I use gstreamer for my music player pyRok. Initialy it works fine but after a while it locks up and i don't see a reason. There is no error message ot something. The music just stops. I compared pyRok with pythm but i cant see any difference regarding gstreamer. PyRok uses pygame as UI. Maybe pygame interfeares with gstreamer somehow... Maybe somebody have an idea... rgds Andreas ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Dylan Maxwell Reilly ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: cronjobs
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Fri, 29 May 2009 15:49:27 +0200, Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: i need a script/program that will read a crontab line ( * * * * * some_action) and output the date and time the job will run. Does anyone know of such a tool? This way i can un-suspend the FR a few seconds prior to the start of that cron job. I already made a script that sort of works, but it is limmited at best and i hate to reinvent the wheel again. You might want to look at this: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Schedule-Cron Hi Alexey and all the others I did take a look at perl, but i am a real perl noob. This is what i have so far: #!/usr/bin/perl use Config::Crontab $event = new Config::Crontab::Event( -data = '*/5 3 * * 5,6 /bin/blech' ); print $event-minute . \n; print $event-hour . \n; print $event-dom . \n; print $event-datetime . \n; print $event-command . \n; print $event-dump . \n; And if i run that i get: */5 3 * */5 3 * * 5,6 /bin/blech */5 3 * * 5,6 /bin/blech Perhaps i am missing the obvious here. Is there someone out there who can make a script that can read a crontab line and give the time and date of the next time it will be executed ? output in the form: secs_since_epoch,-mm-dd,hh:mm,command would be *great* Many thanks in advance, Ed ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [android] new cupcake image (Panicking)
Hello, On Sun, 31 May 2009 12:00:45 am RzR www.rzr.online.fr wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2009 03:29:44 am Russell Dwiggins wrote: This is with and SD card created as per: http://www.newlc.com/en/freerunner-mobile-which-support-android-cupcake hi i am the author of this page Thanks for that! *apart* from the fact that parted tells me the 3rd partition is too large to be a FAT16 partition, so I've set it to be 256MB in size. it can probally be shrinked sure It's only necessary for me because of the size of the SD card and, as I mentioned, using your parted command with the SD card that ships with the FR I get the same behaviour too. I'll test latest image soon... I'd love to hear what you find! what would be neat is to install the whole system on the sd card and boot on it , there are some hints on om wiki Agreed. All the best! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Android] Koolu Beta7 was: Some problems with Android on GTA02
On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:56:41 pm Chris Samuel wrote: I found that with both beta7 and beta6 that all calls were automatically diverted to voicemail and if I tried to change that in the Android call forwarding settings I would get the message that it was sending the new settings to the network and then, a while later, I'd get a message saying that there had been an unexpected response from the network. :-( I had a query from Brian at Koolu about the logcat -b radio output and I've passed that information, but for the rest this seems to be where the issue lies: D/RILJ( 893): [0083] SET_CALL_FORWARD 0 0 10 D/RIL ( 785): onRequest: SET_CALL_FORWARD D/AT ( 785): MUX[1] AT+CCFC=0,0,61414121000,129,1 D/AT ( 785): MUX[1] +CME ERROR: 4 D/RILJ( 893): [0083] SET_CALL_FORWARD error: com.android.internal.telephony.gsm.CommandException: GENERIC_FAILURE Apparently CME ERROR 4 is an operation not supported error, so I'm not quite sure what's going on there! :-) cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: cronjobs
Did you try $cron-get_next_execution_time($cron_entry,[$ref_time]) ? --Ben On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Fri, 29 May 2009 15:49:27 +0200, Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: i need a script/program that will read a crontab line ( * * * * * some_action) and output the date and time the job will run. Does anyone know of such a tool? This way i can un-suspend the FR a few seconds prior to the start of that cron job. I already made a script that sort of works, but it is limmited at best and i hate to reinvent the wheel again. You might want to look at this: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Schedule-Cron Hi Alexey and all the others I did take a look at perl, but i am a real perl noob. This is what i have so far: #!/usr/bin/perl use Config::Crontab $event = new Config::Crontab::Event( -data = '*/5 3 * * 5,6 /bin/blech' ); print $event-minute . \n; print $event-hour . \n; print $event-dom . \n; print $event-datetime . \n; print $event-command . \n; print $event-dump . \n; And if i run that i get: */5 3 * */5 3 * * 5,6 /bin/blech */5 3 * * 5,6 /bin/blech Perhaps i am missing the obvious here. Is there someone out there who can make a script that can read a crontab line and give the time and date of the next time it will be executed ? output in the form: secs_since_epoch,-mm-dd,hh:mm,command would be *great* Many thanks in advance, Ed ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
SHR testing won't boot - jffs2 error ?
Hi all, In my continuing time of playing around with distros on my FR I thought I'd give SHR a pop, but I'm not having much luck. The latest unstable SHR image file shr-image-om-gta02.jffs2 won't boot, I get the Qi related messages about unknown boot options for it trying to set the MAC address, and then nothing more. So I tried SHR testing but (as well as the above messages) I get this: Argh. No free space left for GC. nr_erasing blocks is 0. nr_free_blocks is 0. (erasableempty: yes, erasingempty: yes, erasependingempty: yes) Error garbage collecting node at 0016! Any thoughts ? cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Om2009] a community effort
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 21:07 +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org wrote: Is Qi reliable enough already to migrate from u-boot? Yes r no, fails to boot occasionally, and because it doesnt print anything to screen you dont know until much later ... so not unless things have changed and it seems currently unmaintained. Be nice to be corrected as uboot seems essentially in the same boat, but at least its more reliable. BillK -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth! ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: SHR testing won't boot - jffs2 error ?
On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:05:44 am Chris Samuel wrote: The latest unstable SHR image file shr-image-om-gta02.jffs2 won't boot I get very similar behaviour to this with the shr-lite-image-om-gta02.jffs2 testing release image. I don't get the GC error that the full testing version gives, just three non- Qi related kernel messages, one about pcf50633-rtc being unable to read the hardware clock and two others about regulators and then it just hangs. :-( -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: cronjobs
Ben Wong wrote: Did you try $cron-get_next_execution_time($cron_entry,[$ref_time]) ? --Ben No, i had no idea i could ! But now that i try it i get: Can't call method get_next_execution_time on an undefined value at ./ff.pl line 11. Can you make an example perl script? a real simple one? Thanks ! Kind regards, Ed On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Fri, 29 May 2009 15:49:27 +0200, Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: i need a script/program that will read a crontab line ( * * * * * some_action) and output the date and time the job will run. Does anyone know of such a tool? This way i can un-suspend the FR a few seconds prior to the start of that cron job. I already made a script that sort of works, but it is limmited at best and i hate to reinvent the wheel again. You might want to look at this: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Schedule-Cron Hi Alexey and all the others I did take a look at perl, but i am a real perl noob. This is what i have so far: #!/usr/bin/perl use Config::Crontab $event = new Config::Crontab::Event( -data = '*/5 3 * * 5,6 /bin/blech' ); print $event-minute . \n; print $event-hour . \n; print $event-dom . \n; print $event-datetime . \n; print $event-command . \n; print $event-dump . \n; And if i run that i get: */5 3 * */5 3 * * 5,6 /bin/blech */5 3 * * 5,6 /bin/blech Perhaps i am missing the obvious here. Is there someone out there who can make a script that can read a crontab line and give the time and date of the next time it will be executed ? output in the form: secs_since_epoch,-mm-dd,hh:mm,command would be *great* Many thanks in advance, Ed ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Solar charger (was Re: News Openmoko Shop Pulster)
I thought I would provide some of my experience with using solar power. My experience involves using a 12v panel. You can get 12v panels from all kinds of places. In order to step down 12v to the required 5v you will need an efficient dc converter: http://us.100y.com.tw/PNoInfo/21207.htm Do NOT use a 5v regulator as you will dump half the power directly into the regulator as heat. That is not only a waste of power but potentially a fire risk. From there you can get a connector to the NEO USB and simply wire in the power. I actually had a PhidgetServo board and wired the power directly into it. To get my NEO to charge I had to turn on the external charging and set to 500ma. The point here is that you will need 5v x 500ma = 2.5W in order to supply that kind of juice. This power is only available in full exposure. It also does not account for any conversion loss. I recommend using a 5W panel. Obviously if you can get a 6v or 5v panel you could use a basic regulator without much trouble. This is not a kind of panel you can carry around easily. Some 'chargers' on the market have such low surface area they have no realistic chance of supplying the kind of juice required for charging in a realistic time frame. Here is panel I'm using: http://www.dse.co.nz/dse.shop/4a21d7f801e681262741c0a87f3b06ee/Product/View/O3345 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: SHR testing won't boot - jffs2 error ?
On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:05:44 am Chris Samuel wrote: In my continuing time of playing around with distros on my FR I thought I'd give SHR a pop, but I'm not having much luck. The latest unstable SHR image file shr-image-om-gta02.jffs2 won't boot, This might be a false alarm, I just put OM2009 TR4 back on and noticed that when I ssh'd in it was running 2.6.29-rc2, not the 2.6.28 TR4 kernel I'd just flashed. I'd previously installed Android Koolu7 and it had left the kernel on the first partition and I'd forgotten that Qi will load a kernel off the SD card before the internal flash! Oops.. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
