Re: Will my phone buzz?
If you remove the two tork screws and remove the front cover you will se the board rev. In anycase if you have A5 or A6 you are susceptible to the buzz issue. If you bought 900 and dont experience it it is likely that you are communicating on 1900 which doesnt, according to anecdotal reports, suffer from the buzz symptoms Shachar Shemesh wrote: Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz writes: Can anyone tell me how I can find out? Is there some way to look at the board of a phone and tell whether it has the fix? cat /proc/cpuinfo If it says 0305 you have V5 and need a fix. I'm sorry if I'm asking a silly question. When I do cat /proc/cpuinfo I get Revision: 24420360, so presumably I'm okay. Then again, while trying to figure out what field I was supposed to be looking at, I stumbled upon http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Hardware. From there, it seems that the user space gets that data from the kernel, which in turn gets it from the boot loader, which doesn't get it from anywhere at all hardware related. I've upgraded my boot loader with an image I downloaded from the Internet (so I could boot from ext2 partitions on a microsd card). So now I have to wonder whether the fact that it says 24420360 actually means anything other than I upgraded my u-boot? I have the debug board, which implicitly means I have the screw driver needed to open the device (already did once). I was more looking for something that says this is the change you need to do in order to fix the buzz, and then just open the device and have a look whether that change is already in place. Thanks, Shachar P.s. This is somewhat academic, as I'm fairly certain that my phone is a V6 ___ 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: Will my phone buzz?
Johny Tenfinger wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:47, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: If it says 0305 you have V5 and need a fix. You're wrong. GTA02A5 and GTA02A6 don't differ regarding buzz. Now only A7 and A8 differs. Assuming I need the fix, where do I get the right capacitor? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Will my phone buzz?
Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz writes: Can anyone tell me how I can find out? Is there some way to look at the board of a phone and tell whether it has the fix? cat /proc/cpuinfo If it says 0305 you have V5 and need a fix. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Will my phone buzz?
Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz writes: Can anyone tell me how I can find out? Is there some way to look at the board of a phone and tell whether it has the fix? cat /proc/cpuinfo If it says 0305 you have V5 and need a fix. I'm sorry if I'm asking a silly question. When I do cat /proc/cpuinfo I get Revision: 24420360, so presumably I'm okay. Then again, while trying to figure out what field I was supposed to be looking at, I stumbled upon http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Hardware. From there, it seems that the user space gets that data from the kernel, which in turn gets it from the boot loader, which doesn't get it from anywhere at all hardware related. I've upgraded my boot loader with an image I downloaded from the Internet (so I could boot from ext2 partitions on a microsd card). So now I have to wonder whether the fact that it says 24420360 actually means anything other than I upgraded my u-boot? I have the debug board, which implicitly means I have the screw driver needed to open the device (already did once). I was more looking for something that says this is the change you need to do in order to fix the buzz, and then just open the device and have a look whether that change is already in place. Thanks, Shachar P.s. This is somewhat academic, as I'm fairly certain that my phone is a V6 -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Will my phone buzz?
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 02:18:57PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'm sorry if I'm asking a silly question. When I do cat /proc/cpuinfo I get Revision: 24420360, so presumably I'm okay. Then again, while trying to figure out what field I was supposed to be looking at, I stumbled upon http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Hardware. From there, it seems that the user space gets that data from the kernel, which in turn gets it from the boot loader, which doesn't get it from anywhere at all hardware related. It _is_ read from the hardware by the kernel. Please see function gta02_get_pcb_revision() in arch/arm/mach-s3c2442/mach-gta02.c. I have the debug board, which implicitly means I have the screw driver needed to open the device (already did once). I was more looking for something that says this is the change you need to do in order to fix the buzz, and then just open the device and have a look whether that change is already in place. Easy enough. Unscrew the two screws, remove the front cover and check the area left of the mic. If there isn't a huge (relatively - 3.2 mm by 1.6 mm or more) capacitor left of or above the small resistors and capacitors, then you don't have the buzz fix. Examples: http://anyotherkey.googlepages.com/c http://vanous.penguin.cz/files/om/SOP/ Note: This does not apply to the GTA02v8 which is buzz-fixed differently. Btw, do we really need two wiki pages for the same thing? https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GSM_buzz https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Buzz_Fix -- Rask Ingemann Lambertsen Danish law requires addresses in e-mail to be logged and stored for a year ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Will my phone buzz?
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:47, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: If it says 0305 you have V5 and need a fix. You're wrong. GTA02A5 and GTA02A6 don't differ regarding buzz. Now only A7 and A8 differs. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Will my phone buzz?
Johny Tenfinger seba.d...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:47, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: If it says 0305 you have V5 and need a fix. You're wrong. GTA02A5 and GTA02A6 don't differ regarding buzz. Now only A7 and A8 differs. I didn't say A6 would not need a fix, only that A5 needs one :-) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Will my phone buzz?
Hi all, I fairly recently bought a freerunner. My cellular provider uses 900MHz, and I (and my call partners) do not complain of any buzz. However, I understand that the buzz mostly happens with 1800 and 1900 cellular networks, and so the fact I hear no buzz does not mean my phone is buzz free. For the next few weeks I have high access to SMT soldering equipment and people who know how to work them. I'd prefer to find a way to find out whether my phone needs the buzz fix now (and how to apply it), rather than later (when I will have no capability to actually fix it). Can anyone tell me how I can find out? Is there some way to look at the board of a phone and tell whether it has the fix? Thanks, Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
