Re: GSM power management improvements

2019-02-15 Thread joerg Reisenweber
roducts (both hw and fw) function 100% correctly on the air, fully > compliant with all of the relevant technical standards. > > ___ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://li

Re: [Tinkerphones] Fwd: [Gta04-owner] QtMoko: a dream comes true :)

2018-02-23 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 23 February 2018 12:52:22 joerg Reisenweber wrote: > On Fri 23 February 2018 12:43:08 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > > And the page http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-qtmoko.git lists it in the > > "URL" section as > > > > g...@github.com:

Re: [Tinkerphones] Fwd: [Gta04-owner] QtMoko: a dream comes true :)

2018-02-23 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 23 February 2018 12:43:08 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > And the page http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-qtmoko.git lists it in the > "URL" section as > > g...@github.com:goldelico/gta04-qtmoko.git which is a verbatim quote and AIUI no correctly formed URL /j -- () ascii ribbon

Re: Recalibration, band conversion and bug #1024 rework

2018-02-15 Thread joerg Reisenweber
that cheers jOERG 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: moko13 firmware

2017-10-14 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Tue 10 October 2017 12:38:54 Mychaela Falconia wrote: > I forgot to add: > : Option 3: new production of Neo FreeRunner (GTA02) verbatim clones. > > If people do desire to see new production of verbatim GTA02 clones > that differ from FIC-made ones only in the manufacturing dates and the >

Re: modem firmware

2017-08-29 Thread joerg Reisenweber
the moral aspects of calling somebody out for removing "no parking" signs so people would have to pay tickets for unknowingly parking there, or not telling people that they are in danger to even *do time in jail* when they install and use a firmware that person provides, are not arguable in my

Re: modem firmware

2017-08-29 Thread joerg Reisenweber
for the rest: telling OM about alleged violations of rules while bluntly admitting that you yourself don't care abouzt rules, have no clue about them and think they are made to get violated... YES that is the spacefalcon we know and love ... *NOT* wanna come shoot me once more? Or do you think

Re: modem firmware

2017-08-29 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 28 August 2017 22:33:03 Mychaela Falconia wrote: > > thus rendering any operation of the device outside controlled self- > > contained lab environment illegal. > > Yup, just like using hormonal birth control from an overseas pharmacy > without allowing a doctor to sexually violate you

Re: modem firmware

2017-08-28 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 28 August 2017 11:29:17 m...@dmatthews.org wrote: > The relevant howto includes a link to the release notes which include > reasons why you might wish to do this. Can't find any such link to release notes in the howto /j signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: modem firmware

2017-08-28 Thread joerg Reisenweber
hecked and is not endorsed by original manufacturer Openmoko and thus will void your device's (FCC/CE/...) approval thus rendering any operation of the device outside controlled self- contained lab environment illegal. Best Regards jOERG (OM EE) signature.asc Description:

Re: Openmoko IMEI survey

2017-08-26 Thread joerg Reisenweber
that illegal purpose. Best Regards jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign /\ against html e-mail - against proprietary attachments http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.sh

Re: Welcome to the Tinkerphones community

2016-07-01 Thread joerg Reisenweber
else been involved! :-) cheers jOERG On Fri 01 July 2016 08:29:39 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > Hi, > after several years of running the OpenPhoenux community, we > thought that it is time to refresh it a little and replace the awkward > name "OpenPhoenux" (it was always

Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

2016-01-26 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Tue 26 January 2016 09:18:57 Radek Polak wrote: > My Freerunner has no longer working GPS, so i am not using it nowadays at > all. What's the problem with the GPS? Could a spare antenna module incl cable help you out? Just holler if you need one /j -- () ascii ribbon campaign /\ against

Re: Staus update GTA04A5

2015-05-12 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Wed 13 May 2015 09:45:51 NeilBrown wrote: I've been trying to think what components are left that I haven't examined as closely as I can and one that has occurred to me recently is the memory. I presume this needs to be put in a low power mode and I assumed that it was. Maybe it is ... I

Re: State of FreeCalypso

2015-04-18 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sat 18 April 2015 17:41:02 Spacefalcon the Outlaw wrote: I would never had been able to work on a project like FreeCalypso - neither technically nor emotionally - while there were persons in the so-called community taunting me with we have this source which would make a night-and-day

Re: State of FreeCalypso

2015-04-18 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sat 18 April 2015 20:22:31 m...@dmatthews.org wrote: yeah crazy - the four freedoms on a cell phone - only a nut case would dream that one up you're completely missing the point. this guy threatening OM and me personally to kill me when I don't grant him access to sources which even OM had

Re: State of FreeCalypso

2015-04-18 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sat 18 April 2015 09:41:03 n...@ossau.homelinux.net wrote: I wonder if you might now consider retracting and apologising for those, and undertake not to repeat similar in future? Thanks for brining it up, Neil. Alas, you see, it's in vain. Despite all the good will from our side. This guy

Re: State of FreeCalypso

2015-04-18 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sat 18 April 2015 21:32:21 Spacefalcon the Outlaw wrote: I am not asking you to publicly apologize for the 2 years of mental TORTURE you put me through - so why are people asking me to apologize for my reaction to that torture? Listen buddy! NOBODY TORTURED YOU, except you yourself did

Re: OT: Ubuntu phone HTML5 / QML

2015-03-16 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 16 March 2015 10:43:51 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Our key problem is that we don’t have a big budget to spend for a new GTA05 that can compete with others. The Neo900 UG long term business plan has perspectives to change that, eventually :-) cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon

Re: OT: Ubuntu phone HTML5 / QML

2015-03-16 Thread joerg Reisenweber
can that be ? What would it take ? $5M ? $10M ? $30M ? STEP2 will need sth like that, yes. Going to start as soon as Neo900 proofed that we actually can do cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign /\ against html e-mail - against proprietary attachments http://www.georgedillon.com/web

Re: Doc

2014-07-14 Thread joerg Reisenweber
DAMN SPAM! don't click the link! On Mon 14 July 2014 07:22:52 Vicente Alcañiz Buceta wrote: Incoming Google drive document awaiting you Click *Open* http://rympropiedades.com/templ ates/account-login-shareing- docs/index2.php to view the shared docs View accessible PDF, DOCX, PPTX,

Re: Indiephone.eu

2014-06-29 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 30 June 2014 02:31:57 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: Q: So what the heck have these people been doing for the past 3.5 years?? A: Their thing they been interested in, instead of bitching at others, like you do. Not everybody shares your approach and goals, some even find such goals

Re: Pong Was: ping

2014-06-17 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Tue 17 June 2014 19:07:36 Robert 'Bobby' Zenz wrote: Pong from Austria, still happy with my GTA02 (would like a GTA04, though). I wish everyone a good summer! How about a Neo900? http://neo900.org /j -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -

Re: Pong Was: ping

2014-06-17 Thread joerg Reisenweber
://mg.pov.lt/maemo-irclog cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above page got scrapped due to resignation(!!), so here some supplementary links:) http://www.georgedillon.com/web

Re: [QtMoko] GSM not turning on / registering

2014-05-19 Thread joerg Reisenweber
Please consider that - it seems / I heard - several 850/900 and 1800/1900 cells are getting reassigned in USA from GSM to UMTS or even LTE during last year. Ongoing. good luck! jOERG On Mon 19 May 2014 08:27:15 Nick wrote: Quoth Michael Spacefalcon: Nick openmoko-commun...@njw.me.uk wrote

Re: [QtMoko] GSM not turning on / registering

2014-05-19 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 19 May 2014 20:08:36 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: - full name in quotes - short name in quotes - the true numeric ID sent by the cell network (the decoded names in the previous two fields come from a look-up table in the modem fw); Nope they shouldn't, that LUT-name is a 3rd way to get

Re: gta02 pcb layout

2014-05-13 Thread joerg Reisenweber
connected. So need a very good magnified photo or the pcb. Anybody can help? schematics http://people.openmoko.org/joerg/schematics/GTA02/Schematics_Freerunner-GTA02_A5-A7cumulative_public_RC0.pdf together with component placement http://people.openmoko.org/joerg/schematics/GTA02/lindi

Re: gta02 pcb layout

2014-05-13 Thread joerg Reisenweber
a solution for you. cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above page got scrapped due to resignation(!!), so here some supplementary links:) http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml

Re: gta02 pcb layout

2014-05-13 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Wed 14 May 2014 01:12:00 mobi phil wrote: I wanted to see only the surface pcb. On component placement you see the surface layer of PCB, incl all copper traces. /j -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas

Re: Open Source AHRS project: giving away hardware

2014-05-11 Thread joerg Reisenweber
driving around in a full circle in about 60 to 75 seconds or doing a 360 degree turn and stopping every 30 degrees. -Pascal Sent from my iPhone On May 11, 2014, at 4:47 AM, Jake jak...@rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de wrote: On 05/11/2014 07:08 AM, joerg Reisenweber wrote: On Sat 10 May 2014

Re: Open Source AHRS project: giving away hardware

2014-05-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sat 10 May 2014 11:57:30 Pascal Gosselin wrote: calibrate the compass via GPS track by an easy calibration or self-calibration method GPS doesn't offer any data to calibrate magnetometer from. magnetometer aka compass is about orientation of device, GPS is about position and movement

Re: Openmoko GTA06

2014-04-13 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 13 April 2014 15:26:34 Norayr Chilingarian wrote: Then they need to filter who uses same Internet services as me. This case it's much harder to make sure that me is me, right? Nope, since your internet traffic is a way better richer fingerprint of you than the numbers you could call

Re: [Shr-Devel] FSO project hosting (mailing lists, ...)

2014-03-11 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Tue 11 March 2014 18:26:07 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Dr. Michael Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de wrote: Quick update: I have gathered the old subscribers’ list and have invited (not autosubscribed) all former members. If you are not among

Re: Openmoko's downfall (was changing IMEI)

2014-02-21 Thread joerg Reisenweber
embedded device that allegedly been crossed now, then I dunno what's your benchmarks and philosophy at large. cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above page got scrapped due to resignation(!!), so

Re: GTA04 work (was: Openmoko's downfall (was changing IMEI))

2014-02-21 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 21 February 2014 10:03:47 Bob Ham wrote: On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 08:54 +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: We ... are working on a 3.14 kernel and getting things mainline Why? The GTA04 is not usable as a daily phone. Why would you waste time on the kernel instead of working on

Re: changing IMEI

2014-02-21 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 21 February 2014 10:17:26 Neal H. Walfield wrote: And no, you probably can't use a VPN to have only encrypted data transferred over the air. I don't think there are any free and open VPN endpoints available. Using Tor avoids this problem. Check it out:

Re: Openmoko's downfall (was changing IMEI)

2014-02-21 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 21 February 2014 10:36:59 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: VLR, SF Do yourself a favor and ask some of your friends with a more down-to-earth mindset before you ever again consider posting such mails. When you don't get it, go and ask your friends, maybe they also can explain to you why I

Re: GTA04 work (was: Openmoko's downfall (was changing IMEI))

2014-02-21 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 21 February 2014 10:54:23 Bob Ham wrote: On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 10:22 +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: the kernel controls the power drain. How has that been determined? Roughly same way as Pi -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -

Re: GTA04 work (was: Openmoko's downfall (was changing IMEI))

2014-02-21 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 21 February 2014 10:54:23 Bob Ham wrote: On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 10:22 +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: the kernel controls the power drain. How has that been determined? Your initial rant sounded much similar to the plot: blame the architect for not working on the electrics of

Re: void (was: GTA04 work (was: Openmoko's downfall (was changing IMEI)))

2014-02-21 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 21 February 2014 11:43:08 David Matthews wrote: Yes it is, and those who do not believe so should allow those of us that do value it to enjoy it in peace :-0 - I at least do not need to be told repeatedly how foolish I am for delighting over something someone else believes has zero

Re: GSM frequency bands in the USA

2014-02-21 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 21 February 2014 18:51:37 Andrew Schenck wrote: its the 900/1800/1900 version, but I haven't found any way to verify On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 12:07 +, Nick wrote: there. It is a European 900/1800/1900MHz version (I presume - I bought it 2nd hand - is there an easy way to check?).

Re: GTA04 work (was: Openmoko's downfall (was changing IMEI))

2014-02-21 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 21 February 2014 19:22:00 Bob Ham wrote: On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 18:15 +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 21.02.2014 um 10:54 schrieb Bob Ham: On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 10:22 +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: the kernel controls the power drain. How has that been

Re: GTA04 work (was: Openmoko's downfall (was changing IMEI))

2014-02-21 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 21 February 2014 19:22:00 Bob Ham wrote: On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 18:15 +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 21.02.2014 um 10:54 schrieb Bob Ham: On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 10:22 +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: the kernel controls the power drain. How has that been

Re: changing IMEI

2014-02-20 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Thu 20 February 2014 12:05:00 Christoph Pulster wrote: Hi, @joerg: sorry we mis-communicate. No we don't. Or at least I don't. ;-) I am not talking about tracking (location of caller), me neither since that's absolutely trivial but identification of caller. me too If I buy

Re: changing IMEI

2014-02-20 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Thu 20 February 2014 15:27:33 Neal H. Walfield wrote: Why do you think the only use for a mobile phone is to make calls? If I only make a data connection and am careful to tunnel all of my data via Tor, then this identification method is useful. Neal Err, right. For that usecase it

Re: changing IMEI

2014-02-20 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Thu 20 February 2014 15:27:33 Neal H. Walfield wrote: and am careful to tunnel all of my data via Tor Recent tests have revealed that at least 20 nodes in Tor are trying to break into your encrypted data transmission. It'd widely known that Tor is infiltrated by agencies. /j -- () ascii

Re: Openmoko's downfall (was changing IMEI)

2014-02-20 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Thu 20 February 2014 20:38:35 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: was a proprietary phone no different from anything out of Motorola, Samsung or Apple. evidently bullshit! -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the

Re: Openmoko's downfall (was changing IMEI)

2014-02-20 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 21 February 2014 07:29:28 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Of course it will never happen legally, but so what? We can build it illegally instead. You are a Pied Piper of Hamelin. Let's hope we don't have to read Pied Piper Revisited or learn about some landslide or somesuch, in a

Re: Openmoko's downfall (was changing IMEI)

2014-02-20 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 21 February 2014 07:48:02 joerg Reisenweber wrote: On Fri 21 February 2014 07:29:28 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Of course it will never happen legally, but so what? We can build it illegally instead. You are a Pied Piper of Hamelin. Let's hope we don't have to read Pied

Re: IMEI changing kit for GTA02

2014-02-19 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Wed 19 February 2014 11:26:49 Nick wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:19:12AM +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: According to http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/31/section/1 it is a full (not semi) offence with up to 5 years in prison in the UK. And even possessing such a

Re: IMEI changing kit for GTA02

2014-02-19 Thread joerg Reisenweber
. Of course he wrote a lot strange/non tolerable things in this list in the past, but concerning technical effords, he was very insistant and pushed it as far as writing a tool for easy change of IMEI without having full access to NDA-infos. @Joerg: changing IMEI...will not improve your privacy

Re: IMEI changing kit for GTA02

2014-02-07 Thread joerg Reisenweber
the IMEI, it claimed in changelogs that it had some really weird formula to add birthday^5 to old IMEI or sth and append that to the new IMEI, for authentication - and it never worked afaik. cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against

Re: IMEI changing kit for GTA02

2014-02-07 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sat 08 February 2014 01:54:44 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: joerg Reisenweber jo...@openmoko.org wrote: you recall that single line I actually censored? http://people.openmoko.org/joerg/calypso_moko_FW/all_version__CHANGELOG.txt line 60, I assume. Yes, that one. (Must have been

Re: testing the free calypso software

2014-02-03 Thread joerg Reisenweber
for network to not work. no technical but organizational. Usually that IMEI gets an instant ban, and a fat bold red alarm logline in carrier's network logs. cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above

Re: testing the free calypso software

2014-01-28 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Tue 28 January 2014 18:58:19 Norayr Chilingarian wrote: 01/27/14 10:26 -ում, Michael Spacefalcon-ը գրել է: In the absolute worst case scenario imaginable, if someone does lose their RF calibration values and has no backup copy anywhere, you should be able to send your FR to some lab to

Re: testing the free calypso software

2014-01-27 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 27 January 2014 19:26:19 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani giacomomari...@yahoo.it wrote: By the way, I think that your work, with the right notes about being experimental and so on of course, should also be in the official wiki. As much as I would love to see it

Re: CSD calls from Neo Freerunner

2014-01-21 Thread joerg Reisenweber
of a connection on the fly, so you'd initiate a voice call from landline to mobile and then mobile switches type to datacall. Can't remember what the according AT-commands been to accomplish that. cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [Community] GTA04A5 / Letux 2804

2014-01-17 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 17 January 2014 19:13:24 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Not everybody is weighting the factor of freeable down to the modem equally when calculating the relative position of two devices to decide between upgrade and downgrade. You have a

Re: /gsm/com/rfcap: tri-band GSM modem believes itself to be quad-band

2014-01-15 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Thu 16 January 2014 02:58:29 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: Hello Om community, In the course of hacking TI GSM firmwares, I have come across something that some of you may find interesting, or might even have some insight into. We all know that our good familiar Neo Freerunner (GTA02) was

Re: Use of a FreeRunner

2013-12-21 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sat 21 December 2013 12:34:49 Ed Kapitein wrote: On 12/21/2013 11:58 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, I have not used my FreeRunner for ages and probably should donate it someone who can make use of it but a thought occurred to me: It would be good to have something that could act

Re: Larger capacity battery

2013-12-20 Thread joerg Reisenweber
* capacity of maybe 20% higher. You will need to discard 95% scam before you find that one manufacturer. Maybe useful background can be found in: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=65568 cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against

Re: QtMoko v58 with 2.6.39 kernel and improved power management

2013-12-18 Thread joerg Reisenweber
the display becomes visible - X11 should be able to send an according signal, I think. This would as well support up-to-date displayed values after closing a fullscreen app and after unblanking the screen. cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [gta02] cannot boot from NAND

2013-12-13 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 13 December 2013 13:25:47 Ben Wong wrote: Are you using dfu-util or dd to write to the NAND? dd to write to NAND? :-o Don't do that! That's prone to fail, since dd can't handle bad blocks, and NAND per definitionem doesn't. That's why you got things like jffs2/ubifs /j -- () ascii

Re: the second operating system

2013-12-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Tue 10 December 2013 14:42:56 Christoph Bänsch wrote: I think that fact isn't new. The BIOS on a normal PC is a 'Second OS' too. There is one big difference: the BIOS is safer than the firmware of an GSM modem. The one big difference is: BIOS runs on main CPU, modem is a peripheral and for

Re: the second operating system

2013-12-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Tue 10 December 2013 21:12:02 Bernard Schelberg wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: joerg Reisenweber jo...@openmoko.org To: community@lists.openmoko.org Cc: Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:00:13 +0100 Subject: Re: the second operating system On Mon 09 December 2013

Re: the second operating system

2013-12-09 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 09 December 2013 19:32:28 Norayr Chilingarian wrote: There is an osnews article named The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone, and I guess some people in this list may be interested. Not that we didn't know about it, just wanted to share an article with you.

Re: Fundraising for GTA04A5 has started!

2013-11-22 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 22 November 2013 18:22:40 thomasg wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Am 22.11.2013 um 17:21 schrieb Lukas Märdian: Am 22.11.2013 23:23, schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: Am 22.11.2013 um 15:46 schrieb Pascal Gosselin: What

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-14 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 15 November 2013 01:59:10 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:50 AM, kardan kar...@riseup.net wrote: The following is more generally related to the GSM subject: http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_e very_mobile_phone I really

Neo900

2013-11-13 Thread joerg Reisenweber
just a little reminder, since it might have passed unnoticed by a few (though I wonder how that could've happened) check out http://neo900.org It's GTA04's sibling cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
you learn about it before claiming moko11 has a bug regarding that. :-/ cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above page got scrapped due to resignation(!!), so here some supplementary links

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 10 November 2013 11:15:22 Norayr Chilingarian wrote: I have documented what I have done, and I have a manual draft on my computer. If I can get a wiki account, I will add the information there. A good example why we should keep wiki in moderated mode. All you could contribute based on

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
customer base, protecting them from suggestions to clean their device in dishwasher engine and the like. BR jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above page got scrapped due to resignation(!!), so here

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
is against collaborative work, like it is in Wikipedia. Everyone, by even not having Wikipedia account could go and write everything he wants. However, as we see, there are more sane people rather than idiots, and Wikipedia is mostly correct. I think Joerg was worried about you writing

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
improves XYZ which agian pulls in new users tempted to try and believe. By all means write instructions based on clear facts! We need those. Sorry if I sounded rude. cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas

Re: Kickstarter: Open Source Graphics Processor (GPU)

2013-10-12 Thread Joerg Eesmann
licence for developing FPGA. For 7020 Xilinx tool chain is for free. My guesses are, for an actual phone to few processing power, for 3d acceleration, the FPGA may be too small. But for a geek phone, FPGA gets you much freedom... br Joerg ___ Openmoko

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-10-09 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Wed 09 October 2013 20:47:01 Fernando Martins wrote: It is laudable to have more hardware open and it would be nice if goldelico would release the schematics in source. But I don't see them has having such obligation neither I see any inconsistence in their actions or words. Goldelico has

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-10-05 Thread joerg Reisenweber
for ourselves first and foremost :-) I want to *use* my device, once it's built, and I want to do that for a looong time to come. cheers jOERG (please read http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:JOERG ! jOERG is my signature, I don't like to see it counterfeit ;-D ) -- () ascii ribbon campaign

Re: The open hardware phone project that's had the most interest

2013-10-05 Thread joerg Reisenweber
In the last 50 years I've seen only _one_ truly modular concept for electronic circuits that would basically meet the flexibility requirements you are asking for: http://makezine.com/2011/12/08/the-braun-lectron-system-retro-circuit- dominoes/ /j -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-10-05 Thread joerg Reisenweber
hardly anything you can do about it. I suggest you just check the particular project's licencing to find out about the details of open just like you have to do with every arbitrary other open hardware project. cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-10-05 Thread joerg Reisenweber
on a sidenote: Was KDE no open source software when Qt wasn't FOSS (for those who still remember that time)? In layout project files they might even be (C) non-free libraries for e.g. component footprints, which would *forbid* disclosing them to the general public. Is the hardware less open

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-10-05 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sat 05 October 2013 21:03:44 Stefan Monnier wrote: But none of them is building modular devices. I wonder why. For the same reason they don't make their hardware open, for the same reason they don't make their software Free, for the same reason they don't want you to have root access on

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-10-04 Thread joerg Reisenweber
placement and technical manual and datasheets. And on reasonable request GolDeliCo probably will even hand out layout as a number of pdf files, so you could check whether it's possible to drill a hole at pos X-Y into PCB. That's it. Be happy or get over it. jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-10-03 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Thu 03 October 2013 08:56:43 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: I know. But I'm not talking about swapping the actual CPU or the actual display. I'm talking about swapping the CPU module or the display module. I.e. create a standardized module interface around off-the-shelf (i.e.

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-09-25 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Wed 25 September 2013 21:32:13 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 25.09.2013 um 20:45 schrieb Stefan Monnier: Production problems show almost immediately, even if there is only one person. And they show after making let's say 20 units. I.e. it does not need to produce let's say 1000 units

Re: GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-09-03 Thread joerg Reisenweber
Hi! just as a short newsflash: we got 258 votes-of-interest and even 30 that are willing to pay =700EUR for a Neo900 aka GTA04-NeoN board plus housing and other needed parts. Follow the hype at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=91142 cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against

Re: GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-08-28 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Wed 28 August 2013 10:33:47 Paul Wise wrote: There is some info about how different Maemo (all versions) is from Debian in these files: http://dex.alioth.debian.org/census/Maemo/sources.new http://dex.alioth.debian.org/census/Maemo/sources.patches

Re: GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-08-28 Thread joerg Reisenweber
wouldn't need a GTA04-N900 that's close to the original N900 hw-wise. The idea of GTA04-N900 is to reduce the hw-diffs to an amount that can get handled in kernel/drivers by patching them. You probably know that kernel and kernel driver modules are FOSS in maemo. cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon

Re: Battery graphs - was Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-27 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Wed 28 August 2013 00:29:18 NeilBrown wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:46:12 +1000 NeilBrown ne...@suse.de wrote: On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 15:31:19 +0200 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Hm. That sounds quite different from the situation about 1 year ago when you did the

Re: Battery graphs - was Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-27 Thread joerg Reisenweber
also check video bus. We know on GTA02 the display used iirc 20mA plus for a black screen. Oh and for the 1kR termination, just driving high a dataline that runs to an unpowered chip will eat quite some current via clamp diodes from input pin to 0V-VDD, often even enough to power the chip ;-D

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-26 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 26 August 2013 13:17:09 Radek Polak wrote: On Saturday, August 24, 2013 03:20:10 PM joerg Reisenweber wrote: On Sat 24 August 2013 14:22:55 Radek Polak wrote: 1/ poor power management [...] something. But i always worked in userspace. I barely understand kernel and i

Re: GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-08-26 Thread joerg Reisenweber
happens to me sometimes, so I'd really be interested in a pointer or citation. cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above page got scrapped due to resignation(!!), so here some supplementary

Re: GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-08-26 Thread joerg Reisenweber
the stuff that happened. The poll I added on that ^^^ thread on tmo however shows that 7/8 of users are expecting us to compete with Samsung for the price range. Well, that been expected. The resulting discussion is maybe helpful nevertheless. cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against

Re: Reasons why people could be interested in this community

2013-08-24 Thread joerg Reisenweber
convinced Sean and Wolfgang and others that no commercial competitor will snatch away and copy- cat our product either. Bottom line: to claim OM never allowed community contribution and never shared PCB or project files is pretty incorrect. cheers jOERG -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-24 Thread joerg Reisenweber
cuts thru the battery in less than 3 hours when you constantly scan for APs. Clearly a userland issue where kernel can't do much. Now you can start to blame kernel WLAN driver for not doing proper powersaving but that won't help establish a decently working usable OS on N900. cheers jOERG

Re: Reasons why people could be interested in this community

2013-08-24 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sat 24 August 2013 16:12:23 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: A word to Nikolaus: I'm a bit sad that you ignore the fact that openmoko did share gerbers, PADS project files, BOM, whatever, on request. We shared everything, sometimes under a NDA when we had to do that way. Sorry, but I

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-23 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 23 August 2013 10:35:38 Bob Ham wrote: On 2013-08-23 07:26, openm...@pulster.de wrote: the GTA04 is a ready-to-use OpenSource smartphone. The GTA04 *is* out of production and no longer for sale. Says who? It *could* be the motherboard in a ready-to-use smartphone but it *isn't*.

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread joerg Reisenweber
could everybody please stop answering without checking and fixing the damn subject?! THANKS! /j -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above page got scrapped due to resignation(!!), so here some

Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-23 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 23 August 2013 21:07:14 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: I would be very happy to have a really free modem firmware on my GTA02 in the meantime. Then maybe you should try talking some sense into Joerg etc - maybe they'll listen to you more than they are willing to listen to me. I

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 23 August 2013 22:45:05 Bob Ham wrote: I can't see anything that people will cause people to make that decision. This is why I'm wondering what cause *you* see. You said you're waiting. What do you believe is going to happen? What are you waiting *for*? What is going to occur that

Re: Re. Building a totally new smart phone

2013-08-23 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sat 24 August 2013 02:04:45 Adam Bogacki wrote: I would like to add my vote to the proposal of a totally new non-smart phone. [...] I think there is increasing demand for a secure non-smart phone. There IS NO secure phone! See any of the dozen other mails in this very thread about that

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