Re: Where are the Om2008.8 Updates?

2008-08-13 Thread Hans L
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Cliff Brake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Geoff Ruscoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to +1 this. No battery status only the charging lightning bolt (even when its not plugged in). Not sure if this is related, but I noticed, after

Re: dfu_util and preflash-Backup

2008-08-12 Thread Hans L
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Christian Weßel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a look at the ticket and I searched for a button to add information to it, sadly not found. I hope, that someone of the dfu_util developer will read here too. You will need to register an account with Openmoko

Re:

2008-08-01 Thread Hans L
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Lynn Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay so I just did something really stupid I nand erased u-boot, kernel, and rootfs and turned off the phone... now it won't boot... what do i do??! I think you should still be able to get to NOR uboot. That's the

Re: Ringtone Question

2008-07-28 Thread Hans L
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:21 PM, reaper527 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how people have generated their ringtones for use with the openmoko. I have mp3's, which according to what i've read, aren't compatible to use as ringtones. i ended up clipping the mp3's to get the sections i

Re: Ringtone and vibration configuration

2008-07-26 Thread Hans L
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Matthew Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you finish these scripts, can you add them to the wiki document your change in the mailer so I can find it? thanks! Howdy folks. I happened to be playing around with this sort of stuff last night, and wrote a little

Re: Application list scrolling

2008-07-26 Thread Hans L
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Charles-Henri Gros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I scroll the application list (on 2007.2), it keeps going for a while, very slowly slowing down until it comes to a stop. This makes it very difficult to hit the applications in the middle of the menu. Is there a

Re: openmoko-panel-applet for custom scripts

2008-07-24 Thread Hans L
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Michael Kluge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, is there already an applet for the panel that loads some string scriptname pairs from a config file and shows string in the menu and executes scriptname if I click on string? Or should this be integrated into

Re: How can I solve the TS Calibration in Landscape mode?

2008-07-22 Thread Hans L
Hi Alexander, This issue is in the bug tracker: http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1244 Though, I'm not sure if there has been any progress towards a fix yet. Looks like Tony Tu is possibly working on it? (it is assigned to him) -Hans On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Alexander Syring [EMAIL

Re: Timezones not used everywhere?

2008-07-18 Thread Hans L
Does openmoko get any time/date information from the cell towers? With previous phones I have owned, I don't remember ever having to set a timezone. And when traveling across timezones, it seems to automatically pick up the change from the cell phone towers. Is there a way we can make openmoko

Re: Proper mixer settings for music playback, or hardware fixes?

2008-07-18 Thread Hans L
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Timo Jyrinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found that Bass Filter has a scale going from most normal (200Hz @ 8kHz) to most thinny voice (130Hz @ 48kHz), but how those settings should be interpreted? Just a guess here since I haven't even had a chance to look at

Re: microSDHC class 4 or class 6?

2008-07-18 Thread Hans L
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Andrew Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been able to find 4GB class 6 microSDHC cards and 8GB class 4 cards. Can the Freerunner make use of the class 6 speed? If not I'll go for the max size. According to

Re: Ears and FR - Display Locker

2008-07-17 Thread Hans L
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really like that - it just appears right to me. Comparing it with the slidelocker page linked to, it just seems better. I think a cool use of a slide locker would be an image of an old Model

Re: Ears and FR

2008-07-17 Thread Hans L
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:31 PM, AVee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should be fairly doable if I understand the accelerometer stuff correctly. During a call the phone should be unlocked when its horizontal or vertical. Any other angle probably means your holding it against your ear... I don't

Re: Web server on the phone?

2008-07-16 Thread Hans L
I think the idea of designing interfaces with existing web technologies is not such a bad idea. But I would not automatically make the assumption that a web server must be involved to do so. You might be interested in trying to develop in a XUL interface( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL ), which

Re: Found it.(GSM antenna port)

2008-07-10 Thread Hans L
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Vinc Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Perfect then. You might have to find the alternative back but that should be possible. My coworker says, burn a little hole in the back you have with a hot soldering iron. He likes those straightforward hardware mods. I'd

Re: Error while paying

2008-07-03 Thread Hans L
I also received this error, which I originally thought was because I was having trouble remembering my password for the visa verification page. I got an automated call from my credit card company(WaMu) a minute later to confirm it. Hans On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Michael T. Dean [EMAIL

Re: Inter-Freerunner Connectivity

2008-06-30 Thread Hans L
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Charles Pax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds interesting. Will you be doing this through cables or IR with a device similar to the one featured at http://features.engadget.com/2004/07/27/how-to-turn-your-ipod-in-to-a-universal-infrared-remote-control/ What's

Re: Fast questions about GTA03

2008-06-28 Thread Hans L
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday June 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking of asking the very same thing. When dialing or using a calculator or sending a text message, the glamo would only slow us down. Or am I mistaken? Maybe it's a very

Re: humor

2008-06-27 Thread Hans L
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xkcd.org/440/ describes a use case for the neo:) Is it possible to use the WiFi in the FreeRunner as an access point? -Hans ___ Openmoko community mailing

Re: Fast questions about GTA03

2008-06-27 Thread Hans L
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Yuval Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my personal interest for the OpenMoko is as a device to display Virtual Reality (VR). That's a 3D application where a picture is mapped on a sphere or cube and rotated by the user. 3D-accelerated displays have a much higher

Re: Fast questions about GTA03

2008-06-27 Thread Hans L
That would be pretty cool to use the FreeRunner as a window to a 360 scene like this. Hold the phone in front of you and spin around: the accelerometers could detect movement, and adjust the view as you rotate. Angle it up or down, and the view would again correspond. Hans Hehe, I just

Re: Font type and size was (QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03)

2008-06-16 Thread Hans L
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Dale Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your current display is around 150dpi, you can see what QVGA would be like with something like this: xterm -fn '*-clean-*--6-*-c-40*' This will give you a terminal window with a 4x6 font cell (3x5 for characters +

Re: :-) Re: Alarmclock puzzle

2008-05-13 Thread Hans L
I would like something that tightens Spacetime a little bit so I can sleep an hour or two longer. Someone to implement it on Openmoko? When I was in college, I once woke up to find that I was late for class. In my tiredness, it seemed logical to reset my alarm to an hour earlier, and go back

Re: Alarmclock puzzle

2008-05-13 Thread Hans L
An interesting alarm would be a Simon( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game) ) clone. Instead of a monotone beep or music of a normal alarm, the sound you wake up to could be the game beeping the notes at you. It could beep the sequence and wait a couple seconds for you to try to repeat it,

Re: Re: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-02 Thread Hans L
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Nicanor Babula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that a magnetic stylus would be such a good idea, because any movement of the pen would create a current into every conductor existing in its magnetic field (freerunner's circuits included). This current

Re: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-01 Thread Hans L
You also might be interested in a stylus that attaches to your fingertip, as opposed to pen style, as discussed previously: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-September/010165.html Hans On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Tom Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like to have both a

Re: Recognition of Handwriting

2008-04-30 Thread Hans L
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:23 PM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. can't use it with a finger Sure you can, just grow out your fingernail and file it into a nice point :-P ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Shipping questions, customer organized distribution in Europe

2008-04-28 Thread Hans L
All this talking about shipping made a lightbulb go off in my head. I'm not sure if this has already been considered, but would it be possible to distribute through Amazon.com? They seem to be very efficient about distributing things, and shipping costs have always been very reasonable(if not

Re: Charging Neo Freerunner via USB port

2008-04-19 Thread Hans L
Great summary Michael, and a good discussion. It would be nice to see the ability to support other fast chargers in the future. That is one of my pet peeves about cell phones is that it seems every single company(and often even every model made by that company) has it's own specific charger

Re: Terminology (was: Charging Neo Freerunner via USB port)

2008-04-19 Thread Hans L
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Erland Lewin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you call 'standby time' doesn't seem like a very important state to me... I would disagree that this state(regardless of what you want to call it) is unimportant. I think that, while this may be true for the majority

Re: Getting Things Done with Openmoko

2008-04-19 Thread Hans L
Oh there's also this video of the author David Allen discussing GTD at Google. I decided to get the book after watching this video. I think he makes a lot of good points. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo7vUdKTlhk ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Getting Things Done with Openmoko

2008-04-19 Thread Hans L
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a whole cult around this book. Isn't lifehacker essentially an offshoot? I think cult is a harsh word with very negative connotations. I'm not sure why you consider it a cult. Because a lot of people are excited

Re: Neat GPS

2008-04-14 Thread Hans L
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:12 AM, christooss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know how much you watch XKCD but this comic was drawn few days ago. http://xkcd.com/407/ Maybe this is feature request for TangoGPS? Or other GPS programs in openmoko. Hehe, this sort of idea could possibly be

Re: Web Browser?

2008-04-13 Thread Hans L
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:29 PM, enaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Shannon schrieb: I would think it would be as simple as having a toggle button that toggles from touching the screen to scroll around (up, down, left, right), and interacting with a webpage. If your in interaction mode,

Re: Data over normal GSM call

2008-04-13 Thread Hans L
This thread gave me an idea which I haven't seen discussed before, though it's probably not useful for the situation the original poster had in mind. Although the transfer of audio data over cell phone audio is very lossy, there is at least one standard, proven way of transferring data by phone:

Re: video/graphics on GTA02

2008-03-25 Thread Hans L
rakshat hooja wrote: I had three specific questions - 1) will 30 fps VGA res playback be possible? 2) will it be possible to have 2d transition effects (like MAC OS/ Vista) be possible on the GUI without noticiable wait times. 3) Is any form of 3D acceleration support possible in the future

Re: A bit of fun - freerunner and the wisdom of crowds

2008-02-21 Thread Hans L
Does anyone know how many GTA01 devices were produced? As far as I know all the ones they produced were sold. I wonder how long it took before they had enough orders to sell all the devices(I understand there were some production/distribution delays even after orders were taken). If anyone

Fwd: Camera idea

2007-07-24 Thread Hans L
-- Forwarded message -- From: Hans L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 24, 2007 9:24 AM Subject: Re: Camera idea To: Cailan Halliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't seen the XPS camera up close, so I can't comment on it. But something that is closer to our application would be the LG

Re: OK, the forum is coming..

2007-07-24 Thread Hans L
On 7/24/07, Ted Lemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Worrying about your email address being exposed is pretty silly. That's like worrying that the ice on a pond will break when it melts in the spring and your house will fall in. Don't build your house on ice. Exactly, build it on solid ground (a

Re: Brainstorm: less functionality per device, more devices

2007-07-05 Thread Hans L
I really like this sort of lego block approach to mobile devices. Some people want bluetooth, some want gps, some want cameras, some want wifi, extra storage, IR, etc, but not everyone necessarily wants all those things. I think this is a situation where mobile devices could take an example

Re: Brainstorm: less functionality per device, more devices

2007-07-05 Thread Hans L
Well, in my version of this idea, everything is contained in one case. The case holds all modules inside it. Open up the case and you can add or remove little module blocks. Dropping the device would not lose any modules unless your case split in half. I'm just thinking that instead of a

Re: Specs and Docs

2007-05-27 Thread Hans L
Have you looked here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MokoMakefile ? MokoMakefile is the standard way to get your dev environment built, and if you follow the instructions is not too difficult. It includes support for building QEMU setup. Hans Loeblich On 5/26/07, Varga-Háli Dániel [EMAIL

Re: accelerometer in neo?

2007-05-16 Thread Hans L
in addition to it's accelerometer), but it definitely couldn't fully emulate the remote. Hans L On 5/16/07, Bradley Hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this mean we can solder one of these in and turn our moko into an enhanced Wii remote? :P ~Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was ~$14. Dirt

Re: tomtom on the Neo1973

2007-04-02 Thread Hans L
On 4/2/07, Andrew Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Right, but the bigger question is if Google wanted to develop support their GmapsMobile for OpenMoko. This will be difficult. I think this is a common misconception. Google Maps Mobile runs on Java(J2ME), so as long as the phone can

Re: tomtom on the Neo1973

2007-04-02 Thread Hans L
I just thought of another (yes, probably unlikely) possibility, but maybe worth considering. A map provider could keep their data in a closed format and provide a closed source binary library API for interfacing with the data. This way open source developers could have their own front-end