Re: Comparing A5 and A7 sound settings

2010-03-14 Thread Ben Wilson
Just my two cents. I think at this point distributions' defaults should be towards A7 users, since all new users are anyway A7 users and A5/A6 owners by now are surely aware of the ALSA setting problematics. Hi, If it really depends on the Ax model I think they should be somehow

Re: [GTA02] VGA-QVGA switching - #2263 revisited

2010-02-17 Thread Ben Wilson
I'd just like to add that QVGA has not worked on GTA01 for a few years now (at least not in SHR) xrandr has always reported 480x640 as the only available mode. I think it may have been worked under om2007. Anyone tried it under debian? If anyone's able to have a look at getting GTA01 QVGA

Re: How is gta01 charger ID resistor detected?

2010-01-25 Thread Ben Wilson
I could be wrong, but I thought the 47K resistor cable ID feature was one of the things they added into GTA02. I assumed GTA01 didn't have it. Ben. Andy Poling wrote: I have made a couple of custom charging cables for use with my gta01 and dumb USB chargers (selected because they were rated

Re: Costa Rica 3G and Neo Freerunner.

2009-12-07 Thread Ben Wilson
That's 3G SIM cards. To support 3G a phone needs the hardware to transmit the 3G protocol and frequency (3G chip inside) and a SIM card that supports 3G The neo freerunner and 1973 don't have a 3G chip inside so cannot connect to the 3G network. A while back people were having problems using 3G

Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Wilson
Hi, I've been using SHR unstable for my everyday phone for a while and i was wondering what solutions people are using to stop sms messages arriving without being noticed. I leave me phone running and on charge next to the PC when i'm at home so the battery is always full when i go out. What's

Re: Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Wilson
Unfortunately, i have gta01, no leds Ben. Davide Scaini wrote: maybe a led flashing... we have 3 leds! d On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Ben Wilson b...@abcom.co.nz mailto:b...@abcom.co.nz wrote: Hi, I've been using SHR unstable for my everyday phone for a while and i

Re: Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Wilson
Thanks That looks like a good place to start, i'll have a go at it. Ben. arne anka wrote: basically it should be possible, to write a rule for oeventsd in rules.yaml (incoming sms should be an event supported). if not, you could opimd-cli and do something like opimd-cli messages query

Re: Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Wilson
Good idea, Could use the accelerometers to sense it being picked up. Couldn't do it in gta01 though, since it doesn't have the sensors. Ben. Robin Paulson wrote: 2009/11/13 Ben Wilson b...@abcom.co.nz: What would be ideal is for it to keep playing the new message sound every few minutes

QVGA 240x320 in GTA01 in SHR

2009-10-29 Thread Ben Wilson
Hi Can anyone help me get GTA01 into 240x320 mode in SHR unstable (latest buildhost) I've tried the following.. $ xrandr -s 240x320 Size 240x320 not found in available modes $ chvt 4 echo qvga-normal /sys/devices/platform/spi_s3c24xx_gpio.1/spi0.0/state fbset qvga LCD changes to something

Re: Free runner opened up

2009-08-26 Thread Ben Wilson
I dunno about the freerunner but with gta01 it shipped with a guitar pick to be used to pry the case open without damaging the plastic :) Risto H. Kurppa wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:16 AM, RANJANinfi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Did anyone open their free runner up.I want to give it a

Help, bricked gta01. Anyone in New Zealand with a debug board?

2009-07-10 Thread Ben Wilson
Hi, I just bricked my GTA01 by accident and need a debugboard to reflash uboot. Anyone out there in New Zealand with a debugboard that can help? Thanks Ben (Psi) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Help, bricked gta01. Anyone in New Zealand with a debug board?

2009-07-10 Thread Ben Wilson
David Vermeille wrote: 2009/7/10 Ben Wilson b...@abcom.co.nz mailto:b...@abcom.co.nz Hi, I just bricked my GTA01 by accident and need a debugboard to reflash uboot. Anyone out there in New Zealand with a debugboard that can help? Thanks Ben (Psi

GTA01 SHR Image, anyone have a good one?

2009-06-01 Thread Ben Wilson
Hi I've been using SHR on my gta01 for a while as my everyday phone. Recently I decided to try the latest testing/unstable images and ran into problems. I'd like to move back to an earlier version so I can keep using my phone but unfortunately I deleted the old image that I was using. So does

Re: How to use FR as a mass storage device?

2009-05-10 Thread Ben Wilson
samba works too. Ben. Daniel.Li wrote: On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 13:17 +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 10:20:30 +0800 Daniel.Li lida_m...@163.com said: Dear List, Well, I found that copying files to FR is quite difficult with tftp/wget. Is there any way simple,

Re: GTA01 question : what capacity of ....

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Wilson
Tilman Baumann wrote: Tim Niemeyer wrote: Hallo wim.delvaux, * wim.delv...@adaptiveplanet.com wim.delv...@adaptiveplanet.com [24-04-09 04:16]: I.e. if I buy a 8GB micro SD card, would the GTA01 be able to use it ? I have never tried it, but i have heared it supports SDHC

Re: Recommended GTA01 images?

2009-04-08 Thread Ben Wilson
enough again ;D) and use SHR Settings to connect ;) 2009/4/5, Ben Wilson b...@abcom.co.nz: try shr-lite-image-om-gta01.jffs2 from http://shr.bearstech.com/shr-testing/images/om-gta01/ Seems to work great on my gta01, dialling / suspend / sms etc.. By default it won't suspend

Re: Recommended GTA01 images?

2009-04-05 Thread Ben Wilson
Yeah. I gave up using the built in flash a while ago due to never having any free space. I run the OS on the sdcard, plenty of room there. Ben polz wrote: On Sunday 05 April 2009 05:40:50 Ben Wilson wrote: try shr-lite-image-om-gta01.jffs2 from http://shr.bearstech.com/shr-testing

Re: Recommended GTA01 images?

2009-04-04 Thread Ben Wilson
try shr-lite-image-om-gta01.jffs2 from http://shr.bearstech.com/shr-testing/images/om-gta01/ Seems to work great on my gta01, dialling / suspend / sms etc.. By default it won't suspend automatically after x seconds, but this might be easy to change. I just suspend it myself before putting it

Can't flash fso console images, error -110. Other images flash fine.

2009-03-29 Thread Ben Wilson
Hi, I have a weird problem that i just can't figure out. I'm trying to flash this fso console image to my gta01. http://downloads.freesmartphone.org/fso-stable/milestone5.1/om-gta01/fso-console-image-om-gta01.jffs2 and i always get this... $ sudo

separate mailing lists for each GTA device?

2009-02-09 Thread Ben Wilson
I'm not a heavy openmoko mailing list user but I do read some of it to try and keep up to date. As an owner of a GTA01 I find it quite tricky to keep up to date on the state-of/discussion-on GTA01 because of the massive volume of GTA02 communications. Feel free to argue either way on this idea

Cellphone sizes

2009-01-01 Thread Ben Wilson
Sean's comment that 3G modules are currently too big has got me thinking about cellphone sizes. Maybe it's just me but I don't really see the fascination with keeping phones small. I would be happy with a phone larger than GTA01/02. Something a bit smaller than a Sony PSP. Really the only size

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-23 Thread Ben Wilson
Gothnet wrote: 3G is an absolute must for the gta03, without it it's just a phone with a lousy connection most of the time. Or would be if I could be bothered to try getting GPRS working... I'm pretty sure the specs for GTA03 are set and it's 2.75G / edge. 3G will be in GTA04 at the

Re: Suspend/Resume Issue: Possible Hardware Problem?

2008-08-16 Thread Ben Wilson
Between attempts did you erase and reflash both the kernel and rootfs as well as remove all power for 30seconds (battery and usb) to completely reset the phone? Ben Robert Bieber wrote: When OM2008.8 was released, I flashed it to my Freerunner, and suspend and resume worked impeccably for

Re: Is Neo1973 truly abandoned?

2008-08-14 Thread Ben Wilson
I second this. Ben I am only aware of 1 (ONE) functioning GTA01 in the Taipei office. A bit hard to do development and testing that way. Next week we will look at the Om 2008.8 on GTA01 situation: 1. how many people want this? How many GTA01s did you sell? Gotta be a few

Re: What will be in GTA03?

2008-08-11 Thread Ben Wilson
Most of the interesting things you can do with a built-in camera are not practical if you need to actually find and plug in a usb camera attachment every time you need it. Not to mention how ugly they look. A built-in camera is at the top of my wish-list for future GTAXX products. There are

Re: A very sad story...

2008-08-08 Thread Ben Wilson
There's probably a few people here that have dead phones with other faults. Maybe one of them could sell you a dead phone cheap and you can swap the lcd panel with your phone. Ben John Koenig wrote: Hey all, Usually my first post to a community mailing list is some basic question that I

Re: Why is Qtopia much faster?

2008-07-21 Thread Ben Wilson
I don't really know for sure but if i had to guess id say it's probably because Qtopia has been around much longer and so is more optimised. Probably has much less debug code enabled as well.. Ben. Yorick Moko wrote: This might be a stupid question, but it isn't the first and will not be the

Re: Screen locking while in conversation

2008-07-19 Thread Ben Wilson
or we could require more than one click (or maybe a drag) to hang-up using the touchscreen. arne anka wrote: I think it would be a sane policy to prevent the screen from locking during a conversation so that you don't need to unlock it just to hang up. Don't you think ? nope. it would

Re: unable to start up freerunner after batterie was full down

2008-07-13 Thread Ben Wilson
So the freerunner doesn't suffer from the problem in gta01 of squealing (and potential damage) if you remove the battery while it's charging? Ben. Michael Shiloh wrote: 2. Once your phone is booted, remove the spare battery. Freerunner will remain running, powered by charger

Re: My word on GPRS

2008-07-03 Thread Ben Wilson
I wonder how feasible/effective it would be to do some extra realtime compression on the GPRS data link? Make a connection to your home Linux box to terminate the compression and connect you out to the internet from there. I'm not sure how GPRS works exactly, it may already use compression that

Re: The glamo chip and its future

2008-06-28 Thread Ben Wilson
I like the 'idea' of something programmable like a CPLD/FPGA, but I suspect adding one would be too costly, they're not cheap as far as IC's go. Ben. Michael Stather wrote: Couldn't the glamo just be driven with a highter bandwidth, or is this a chipset limitation? And if the chip just isn't

Re: photographs of box and POSSIBLE contents of Neo Freerunner

2008-04-21 Thread Ben Wilson
Will it ship with powerpack adaptors for all countries? I just noticed there's no adaptor for Australia/New Zealand in the pic. Not that it would be a problem, most of us have an adaptor lying around somewhere. Ben. Michael Shiloh wrote: Remember, Steve is still deciding what to include in

Re: photographs of box and POSSIBLE contents of Neo Freerunner

2008-04-21 Thread Ben Wilson
Good point Robin Paulson wrote: 2008/4/22 Ben Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Will it ship with powerpack adaptors for all countries? I just noticed there's no adaptor for Australia/New Zealand in the pic. Not that it would be a problem, most of us have an adaptor lying around somewhere

Re: Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-04 Thread Ben Wilson
to the attraction/repulsion between its own magnetic field and the earth's. But which coil/inductor and what's causing it to go into this state i dunno. Ben. Tilman Baumann wrote: Ben Wilson wrote: Hey Nick, I've not looked at the electronics inside the neo myself but the sound is typical

Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-03 Thread Ben Wilson
Hey, Just a reminder to everyone *NOT* to pull out the battery while the neo has USB power. You may not have heard it but the phone gets quite angry. As evident by a quiet scream the phone emits as the components in its power system begin to vibrate closer to magic smoke land. Talking

Re: Warning. Don't remove battery with usb power

2008-03-03 Thread Ben Wilson
, Yeah I've done this *once* and it freaked me out. I'm still a bit concerned I've caused some permanent damage on my Neo as I've had problems booting images on the nand ever since but sdcard images work fine - jury is still out on that one. Thanks, Tim On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:45 +1300, Ben Wilson

Re: Never getting GPS lock

2008-02-25 Thread Ben Wilson
of obstructions? You need line-of-sight with 4 (preferably more) to get a lock. On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Ben Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi My gta01 never gets gps lock, i've had it outside for over 15min on multiple occasions over the past few months with no luck. I followed

Re: Never getting GPS lock

2008-02-25 Thread Ben Wilson
the different options had anything to do with getting it to work and I have no idea why it would have been using the ‘simulator’ in the first place since I was using a normal buildhost image and standard gllin ipk In any case, it's working now so i'm happy :) Thanks for your help Ben. Ben Wilson wrote

Never getting GPS lock

2008-02-24 Thread Ben Wilson
Hi My gta01 never gets gps lock, i've had it outside for over 15min on multiple occasions over the past few months with no luck. I followed the instructions here http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-November/011916.html to get gllin installed and i do get the $GPxxx info, it

Re: Power Management on Neo1973

2008-01-10 Thread Ben Wilson
I think your jumping the gun quite a bit All we know at the moment is that there *is* a hardware bug. We dont know; A) If the hardware bug is bypassable in software B) If the hardware is fixable by us. I did read somewhere that it was an 'incorrect resistor' problem. If this is true and the

Re: New To the list

2007-12-07 Thread Ben Wilson
That's for the developer version of GTA02, not the public release flexd wrote: I believe it's called a Neo1973, not Treo. (Unless there's some other product out there). It's been said December, but i'm guessing past new years probably, because of delays and such :) -Kristoffer herve

Phase 1+ discount quantity

2007-05-14 Thread Ben Wilson
Hi everyone, The details of the P1+ discount for people who buy a P1 aren't out yet but I wanted to put forward this question anyway. Do you think this discount will be locked in a 1:1 relationship? ie, buy one P1 and get a discount on one P1+ Or do you think we will be able to buy say, two