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

2008-08-23 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 if the phone

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 easy,

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 kind of

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

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't

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 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 chosen,

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

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

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

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 uImage.bin

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 was

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 call