Someone is trying to patent Quickwriting
Greetings, Some weeks ago a new software for Android has come out, the 8pen: http://www.the8pen.com/ the video clearly introduces a modified/simplified version of Quickwriting, an open (ie unpatented) input method invented a few years ago. Now they are trying to put a patent on it, even on variations! This is outrageous, since the idea has already been thought. I think we still apply against this patent, and move for a request to make it void (it's still in pending state). Here is the patent request: http://www.the8pen.com/legal.html Please help the open source community against this ridiculous attempt to make money on an already invented thing. Thanks, -- Daniele Ricci p.s. I already have a working implementation waiting to be pushed, so let's not waste time! :-) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Another so suitable for freeruner?
Helo community. Today I've read an article about a new so for mobile phones with android installed. Its name is Replicant (http://replicant.us/). It comes from android, and the intention of the developers is to clean android from closed source code and provide a completely free/open environment. They say, now they support HTC Dream / ADP1 and Google Nexus One, and are willing to port Replicant to other devices. I've written a post on their website to let them know about the freerunner. What do you think? urodelo ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Another so suitable for freeruner?
Hello urodelo. If I recall correctly, Replicant folk are quite familiar w/ FreeRunner the OpenMoko phones. They are already using the GSM interface library written by OpenMoko. It should be fairly easy to port back collaborate. On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 15:55 +0100, urodelo wrote: Helo community. Today I've read an article about a new so for mobile phones with android installed. Its name is Replicant (http://replicant.us/). It comes from android, and the intention of the developers is to clean android from closed source code and provide a completely free/open environment. They say, now they support HTC Dream / ADP1 and Google Nexus One, and are willing to port Replicant to other devices. I've written a post on their website to let them know about the freerunner. What do you think? urodelo ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- --Brian Kemp brian.k...@gmail.com PGP Key fingerprint: 1E5BF363 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Another so suitable for freeruner?
Hi Brian. They already know the FR, as we could guess. Actually they are looking for somebody willing to collaborate on that project. I'm reading they look for testers too, but I think any kind of help would be appreciated... Anybody interested? I don't know them but imho it looks worth to have a kind of partnership between Replicant and openmoko community... urodelo On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:37:14 +0100, Brian Kemp brian.k...@gmail.com wrote: Hello urodelo. If I recall correctly, Replicant folk are quite familiar w/ FreeRunner the OpenMoko phones. They are already using the GSM interface library written by OpenMoko. It should be fairly easy to port back collaborate. On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 15:55 +0100, urodelo wrote: Helo community. Today I've read an article about a new so for mobile phones with android installed. Its name is Replicant (http://replicant.us/). It comes from android, and the intention of the developers is to clean android from closed source code and provide a completely free/open environment. They say, now they support HTC Dream / ADP1 and Google Nexus One, and are willing to port Replicant to other devices. I've written a post on their website to let them know about the freerunner. What do you think? urodelo ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Creato con il rivoluzionario client e-mail di Opera: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Backup batteries installed
Hi, Benjamin and list Yesterday i followed suggestion about capacitors and installed them. Huge thanks for suggestion - one big annoyance fixed for me too! Now my time is kept while i am replacing battery without any troubles, for far i tested only few minutes of life without battery. I did some measurements, that according to our pcf setup (qtmoko v28, uboot), charge current is 200uA. According to my measurements with multimeter capacitor were fully charged after 6 minutes. Also it may be useful to note that self-discharge of capacitor is much higher than li-ion battery and actually it is chaged only than our PMU is in Active state (FR turned on or suspended). So it may discharge if it were laying for a while _with_ main battery installed and then main battery removed without turning on device. I think also my story of finding capacitors may be helpful. Given that digikey delivery for my country costs $120, i tryed some nearby shops and internet in attempt to find this part without any luck. But it turned out (from forums) that such capacitors are common in other phones (like N70 and btw common reason to problems). So, i finally just walk to nearby mobile repair service on nearby cheapest marketplace and bought 2 used capacitors from broken phones for $3. I left with feeling i payed too much :) Soldering were not really easy especially that after reading docs i understood that part should be heated with extreme care, but i followed suggestions, put it upside-down and cut some outputs. Thanks and regards, Gennady. В Чтв, 04/11/2010 в 21:23 -0400, Benjamin Deering пишет: I have had the capacitors installed for a few days now and they are still working well. I left the FR with a dead battery overnight and when I plugged it in in the following day, it had the correct time. The digikey part number is: 728-1037-1-ND and the manufacturer's number (seiko) is: XH414H-II06E. I would recommend looking around on the site to see if you can find one with the correct bracket. Ben On 10/30/2010 03:03 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 29.10.2010 um 19:05 schrieb Benjamin Deering: Hello, I finished installing capacitors as replacements for the dead backup batteries in my Freerunners today at lunch. They seem to be working, though I've only tried removing the main battery for under a minute so far. Someone on the GTA-02-core list said a 220uf capacitor would power the RTC for 2 minutes. If that is correct, the .07f caps I used should work for about 10 hours. Please report some test results. The parts I got from digikey weren't an exact fit, but I was able to make them work. Looks interesting. Do you have the exact order num...@digikey? Be sure to wear safety glasses if you try this, I had one of the old batteries explode when I was removing it. Oops! So it was not really dead an had enough energy inside. Maybe, just the voltage was too low to run the RTC? Pictures: http://jeepingben.homelinux.net/index.php?level=albumid=20 Good work! Nikolaus ___ 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: Another so suitable for freeruner?
Hi. Thanks for the answer. So you both are already working on replicant? That's good. I either don't like the android license, that's because I've thought that having a free android, as the replicant is intended for, would be nice. I personally use qtmoko and shr, but for me more choices we have thebetter is. Of course it's a challenge even because gta02 is now getting a bit old (no flame!) compared to other devices, but because of its diffusion, it would be a good thing for me to have it available for our fr and for next generation gta. free sw in free runner. urodelo On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:45:26 +0100, David Lanzendörfer david.lanzendoer...@o2s.ch wrote: I don't know them but imho it looks worth to have a kind of partnership between Replicant and openmoko community... You know GNUtoo, and he knows me. So you know someone of the project. Replicant has moved Android-only right? I'm not so fan of Android, because of it's license strategy... Have you had a look? There is already SHR, with nice 3D and good usability growing. But if you wanna port Android onto the new OpenMoko. I'm sure GNUtoo will be pleased to do this too, as soon as he got a new OpenMoko. ATM we are still experimenting with the PCB. And soldering wildly around, because the board gives us some riddles. best regards leviathan ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Address the WM8753 directly
Hi All, I want to hack a bit on the Wolfson sound chip. The ultimate goal is to make a FR to FR modem conection, using the GSM voice band. But the first step would be to generate a sine wave and feed it to the wolfson chip. I know i can use the alsa driver, but i would like to experiment a bit by addressing the hardware directly. Does anyone have pointers on how to address the hardware and its registers etc? I want to write the program in C and need a starting point. Example programs would be great, but all help is welcome! Kind regards, Ed ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Address the WM8753 directly
Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org writes: Does anyone have pointers on how to address the hardware and its registers etc? I want to write the program in C and need a starting point. I think you need to write kernel space code to use it since there are shared resources like i2c that can not be used without proper locking (just guessing here). ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
