Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-23 Thread Fabian Henze
Am Samstag, 23. August 2008 19:04:18 schrieb Gilles Casse: > It time is very critical, it seems better to let the phone continuously on. > > Otherwise is this scenario acceptable (automatic call after 3 minutes): > the phone is off, the user still holds the power on button while the > kernel is sta

Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-23 Thread Gilles Casse
Hello, It time is very critical, it seems better to let the phone continuously on. Otherwise is this scenario acceptable (automatic call after 3 minutes): the phone is off, the user still holds the power on button while the kernel is starting (say during 5 seconds or more), when the OS is opera

Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-23 Thread Yogiz
> the point i was making is that when people are in stressful > situations they panic; even something as simple as selecting a > different option at boot-time becomes difficult. > > the point about the screen lock was an example to illustrate my main > point. there are many more i could have chos

Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-23 Thread Lothar Behrens
Am 23.08.2008 um 11:15 schrieb robin paulson: I have talked about boot options. At this time there is no locking screen. Simply there should be a button to bypass the normal boot by pressing and go into an emergency mode. This way only 8 seconds may be remaining until a emergency call would

Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-23 Thread Lothar Behrens
Am Samstag, den 23.08.2008, 10:42 +0200 schrieb Federico Lorenzi: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Clemens Kirchgatterer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC GSM audio can be routed directly through without using the CPU. > Also if you had to program an emergency number before hand, you > wouldn

Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-23 Thread robin paulson
Lothar Behrens wrote: >> problem is, you're relying on people thinking clearly, being able to >> make good logical decisions and correctly choosing the environment to >> boot into on startup. unfortunately, this is the last thing most people >> can do in the sort of high-stress situation which t

Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-23 Thread Federico Lorenzi
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Clemens Kirchgatterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yogiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Everybody has their preferences. I'd really like to see a second small >> bootable image for just emergency calls so there would be no wait. >> There's no point in forcing that

Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-23 Thread Clemens Kirchgatterer
Yogiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everybody has their preferences. I'd really like to see a second small > bootable image for just emergency calls so there would be no wait. > There's no point in forcing that kind of thing down others' throat but > that could be an optional image. If the lock is

Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-22 Thread Yogiz
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:56:35 -0400 "Chris Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/22 Lothar Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You must have a lock, since otherwise you may accidantly issue an > > emergency call. > > > > Lothar > > With my current phone, you can make emergency calls on it, even

Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Wright
2008/8/22 Lothar Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You must have a lock, since otherwise you may accidantly issue an > emergency call. > > Lothar With my current phone, you can make emergency calls on it, even if the phone is locked. It happened to me once. I got a call a few minutes later from the c

Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-22 Thread Lothar Behrens
Am Freitag, den 22.08.2008, 21:48 +1200 schrieb robin paulson: > Lothar Behrens wrote: > > besides of WindowsCE and I don't like it on my phone for dayly use, I > > like to ask another question: > > > > There were some comments when booting Linux it take about 2-3 minutes. > > And the commentary

Re: Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-22 Thread robin paulson
Lothar Behrens wrote: > besides of WindowsCE and I don't like it on my phone for dayly use, I > like to ask another question: > > There were some comments when booting Linux it take about 2-3 minutes. > And the commentary was > 'How to take an emergency call ?' > > Would such a specialized uIma

Emergency call at boot time functionality (was Re: Windows CE on freerunner)

2008-08-22 Thread Lothar Behrens
Am 22.08.2008 um 03:20 schrieb Vikas Saurabh: Totally agreed but it would still be fun have my own hello world program running. Can I have a HelloWorld named as uImage.bin and which can be loaded by uboot. Wait I would try that out myselfshould be interesting :) Hi, besides of Window