Re: GTA01 Machine Config Renamed

2008-03-27 Thread andy selby
The machine config file for gta01 and gta02 machines has been renamed to om-gta01 and om-gta02 to reflect better the manufacturer of the phones is actually Openmoko. I thought FIC made the phones? Openmoko is software only. ___ Openmoko community

Anything new with date when freerunner will be available for mass market?

2008-03-27 Thread Kristijan Krsteski
Q: Do You have some possible date when should We OpenMoko community buy freerunner as mass market phone? Q: Is there some new info. on current manufacture status ? Thanks ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

GTA01 battery life

2008-03-27 Thread Gilles Casse
Hello, Does the recent image improve the neo1973 battery life? In particular, when the phone is stopped, is the gsm chip still working? Sorry for these questions, I use a image from January plus other apps installed and hesitate to switch :-/ Thanks, Gilles

Re: GTA01 Machine Config Renamed

2008-03-27 Thread joerg
Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb andy selby: The machine config file for gta01 and gta02 machines has been renamed to om-gta01 and om-gta02 to reflect better the manufacturer of the phones is actually Openmoko. I thought FIC made the phones? Openmoko is software only. AFAIK OM has an own

TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Sebastian Hammerl
Hi, as far as i know on the TomTom go devices is running Linux. So would it be possible to rip out the TomTom applikation and get it to work on Openmoko phone? It would be a great GPS application. http://opentom.org/ - Projekt runnling apps on the TomTom Device. Why not do it the other way?

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread joerg
Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Sebastian Hammerl: Hi, as far as i know on the TomTom go devices is running Linux. So would it be possible to rip out the TomTom applikation and get it to work on Openmoko phone? It would be a great GPS application. Suggest this to TomTom, they probably can do

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Christ van Willegen
Hi, On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Sebastian Hammerl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as far as i know on the TomTom go devices is running Linux. So would it be possible to rip out the TomTom applikation and get it to work on Openmoko phone? It would be a great GPS application. Why not use

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, joerg napisał: Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Sebastian Hammerl: Hi, as far as i know on the TomTom go devices is running Linux. So would it be possible to rip out the TomTom applikation and get it to work on Openmoko phone? It would be a great GPS

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, Christ van Willegen napisał: Hi, On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Sebastian Hammerl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as far as i know on the TomTom go devices is running Linux. So would it be possible to rip out the TomTom applikation and get it to work on

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread ramsesoriginal
I am of the idea that a navigation system would be THE killer-app for the openmoko, and I personally know many persons that would also pay extra money to have a navigator on a phone. We have various possibilities: we could try to make some sort of deal with TomTom, write our own system based on

Cooperative Differential GPS

2008-03-27 Thread beren
Hi all! After hours of searching the web for information about the new Antaris GPS chip I am still not sure if it will be possible to use the raw data output of the ATR0635 (message type RXM-RAW) on the Neo FreeRunner. This message should, according to the protocol specification [1], contain

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Joseph Reeves
Navigation and OSM data submittal? What's wrong with tangogps? Sounds like it already does what you ask for: http://www.tangogps.org/ Joseph On 27/03/2008, ramsesoriginal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am of the idea that a navigation system would be THE killer-app for the openmoko, and I

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread joerg
Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Marcin Juszkiewicz: Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, joerg napisał: Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Sebastian Hammerl: Hi, as far as i know on the TomTom go devices is running Linux. So would it be possible to rip out the TomTom applikation and get it to

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Christ van Willegen
Hi, 2008/3/27 Marcin Juszkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, Christ van Willegen napisał: Why not use tangoGPS and OpenStreetMap maps? Because OSM maps suxx? Lack details, lack streets, lack too many things to be usable? OSM is nice idea but it is only idea. It

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Tim Shannon
Does tangogps submit data to OSM as well, because that would be great. I'd imaging that the quality of data in OSM would greatly increase after the Freerunner gets released. 2008/3/27 Joseph Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Navigation and OSM data submittal? What's wrong with tangogps? Sounds like

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread ramsesoriginal
Ok, this is really cool. I don't even noticed it 'till know :D 2008/3/27 Joseph Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Navigation and OSM data submittal? What's wrong with tangogps? Sounds like it already does what you ask for: http://www.tangogps.org/ Joseph On 27/03/2008, ramsesoriginal

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Sander van Grieken
Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, joerg napisa³: Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Sebastian Hammerl: Hi, as far as i know on the TomTom go devices is running Linux. So would it be possible to rip out the TomTom applikation and get it to work on Openmoko phone? It would be a great GPS

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Tim Shannon
Does anyone know how m 2008/3/27 Marcin Juszkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, ramsesoriginal napisał: I am of the idea that a navigation system would be THE killer-app for the openmoko, and I personally know many persons that would also pay extra money to have

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, Marcus Bauer napisał: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:05 +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: Because OSM maps suxx? Lack details, lack streets, lack too many things to be usable? OSM is nice idea but it is only idea. It will never replace commercial maps. Hey,

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:38 +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, ramsesoriginal napisał: I am of the idea that a navigation system would be THE killer-app for the openmoko, and I personally know many persons that would also pay extra money to have a navigator

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, Christ van Willegen napisał:  OSM is nice idea but it is only idea. It will never replace commercial maps. Have you seen the progress that's been made in The Netherlands? Have you seen how it was done? http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=223 Automotive

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And working phone operating systems can be bought from Symbian, Apple and even Microsoft. And yet we develop a new one! The whole point of Open Source is the freedom (and fun) to participate. That's why I am opposed to

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Ian Darwin
ramsesoriginal wrote: I am of the idea that a navigation system would be THE killer-app for the openmoko, and I personally know many persons that would also pay extra money to have a navigator on a phone. We have various possibilities: we could try to make some sort of deal with TomTom, write

OSM maps (was: Re: TomTom on Openmoko?)

2008-03-27 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:46 +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: The coverage of the Netherlands has already commercial quality (go and have a look) - actually it is already better than commercial data and in the US the governments TIGER data has been imported. Compare that with other parts

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Christ van Willegen
2008/3/27 Marcin Juszkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, Christ van Willegen napisał: OSM is nice idea but it is only idea. It will never replace commercial maps. Have you seen the progress that's been made in The Netherlands? Have you seen how it was

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:57 +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: It was not done by community but by commercial company... But *now* it is Creative Commons licensed! And to see what the community does within one year, here another nice link, showing how Munich grew in an animated gif.

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Sander van Grieken
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And working phone operating systems can be bought from Symbian, Apple and even Microsoft. And yet we develop a new one! The whole point of Open Source is the freedom (and fun) to participate. That's why I am opposed

submit data to OSM (was: Re: TomTom on Openmoko?)

2008-03-27 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 08:36 -0500, Tim Shannon wrote: Does tangogps submit data to OSM as well, because that would be great. Yes, you can to load the track logs into the JOSM editor, give them a quick check and upload to OSM. I'd imaging that the quality of data in OSM would greatly increase

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Marcin Juszkiewicz ha scritto: Because OSM maps suxx? Lack details, lack streets, lack too many things to be usable? OSM is nice idea but it is only idea. It will never replace commercial maps. hahaha! have you seen Holland on OSM recently? haha! pc -- Paolo Cavallini, see:

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread wim . delvaux
On Thursday 27 March 2008 15:05:58 Christ van Willegen wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And working phone operating systems can be bought from Symbian, Apple and even Microsoft. And yet we develop a new one! The whole point of Open Source

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Sebastian Hammerl
Joseph Reeves schrieb: Navigation and OSM data submittal? What's wrong with tangogps? Sounds like it already does what you ask for: it is NOT a navigation software and it will take long time to get it really stable. tomtom is really good software and the maps are really better.

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Marcin Juszkiewicz ha scritto: Automotive Navigation Data (AND) is a leading provider of location, routing, mapping and address management are donating a street network of the entire Netherlands. Yes, an entire country. It was not done by community but by commercial company... so what?

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread joerg
Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Sander van Grieken: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And working phone operating systems can be bought from Symbian, Apple and even Microsoft. And yet we develop a new one! The whole point of Open Source is the

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Andy Powell
On Thursday 27 March 2008 13:57, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: It was not done by community but by commercial company... So what. It's the license that counts. The only thing that surprised me was that OSM didn't shout it from the rooftops. If all it took was a bit of free publicity to get other

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, Andy Powell napisał: On Thursday 27 March 2008 13:57, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: It was not done by community but by commercial company... So what. It's the license that counts. Sure that license is what counts. But I am tired of people telling that

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread ewanm89
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:41:16 +0100 Paolo Cavallini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcin Juszkiewicz ha scritto: Automotive Navigation Data (AND) is a leading provider of location, routing, mapping and address management are donating a street network of the entire Netherlands. Yes, an entire

Re: GTA01 Machine Config Renamed

2008-03-27 Thread Harald Welte
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:43:19AM +, andy selby wrote: The machine config file for gta01 and gta02 machines has been renamed to om-gta01 and om-gta02 to reflect better the manufacturer of the phones is actually Openmoko. I thought FIC made the phones? Openmoko is software only. as

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Harald Welte
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:54:15PM +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, joerg napisał: Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Sebastian Hammerl: Hi, as far as i know on the TomTom go devices is running Linux. So would it be possible to rip out the TomTom

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Marcin Juszkiewicz ha scritto: Here in Poland I would never try to navigate from point X to point Y with data only from OSM as they are very fragmental now. never!=now pc -- Paolo Cavallini, see: http://www.faunalia.it/pc Noi ci troviamo con parecchie difficoltà con NGI http://www.ngi.it/

Re: Openmoko strives for openness

2008-03-27 Thread ewanm89
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:02:54 -0400 Lally Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The openness is much appreciated!! The hack value of this phone is really mind-boggling. IMHO It could become to this generation's young hackers what the old Apple IIs and Commodores were to my generation. As for the

Re: Anything new with date when freerunner will be available for mass market?

2008-03-27 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 3/27/08, Kristijan Krsteski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q: Do You have some possible date when should We OpenMoko community buy freerunner as mass market phone? Q: Is there some new info. on current manufacture status ? Thanks On 3/25/08, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have some

Re: Openmoko strives for openness

2008-03-27 Thread Andy Green
Somebody in the thread at some point said: 2. Actually, is there any hope of getting 3d acceleration out of the graphics chip, or is that too bogged down with NDA-ness? Are we stuck porting Mesa3D? Chance, sure, but the NDA situation is pretty bad it turns out for the Glamo. 4. Personally,

RE: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread steve
Maybe I just create a spares product? with 3 batteries, and some other goodies thrown in? What goodies would go in that bag? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ian douglas Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:19 PM To: List for Openmoko

RE: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread steve
I don’t believe the replacements have the columb counter. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joerg Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:05 PM To: Clare Johnstone; List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: Price of the Freerunner spare

Re: Openmoko strives for openness

2008-03-27 Thread Lally Singh
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody in the thread at some point said: 2. Actually, is there any hope of getting 3d acceleration out of the graphics chip, or is that too bogged down with NDA-ness? Are we stuck porting Mesa3D? Chance, sure,

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread Nils Faerber
steve schrieb: Maybe I just create a spares product? with 3 batteries, and some other goodies thrown in? What goodies would go in that bag? Well, if would have to decide I would like to see a spare LCD/touch kit. The LCD is the most (mechanically) sensitive part and thus the easiest to

RE: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread steve
Hi Kevin, Libertarian as well here. The first charger I want to test is my iGo as well. A while back I discussed the fast charging issue with Engineering. I'll revisit that issue and get back to you guys. My understanding ( rememeber I'm marketing and have been appropriately lobotomized) is that

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread richard5
I've been using my GTA01 as my regular phone for quite a while and I've got some chips, a crease and a dim spot on the screen where I always tapped it to bring the back light on. Having spare LCDs would be a good idea. Quoting Nils Faerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: steve schrieb: Maybe I just

RE: headphone (was: RE: Price of the Freerunner spare parts)

2008-03-27 Thread steve
Will, On the web shop and the wiki I would like to see a list of suitable replacements for the batteries ( nokia bl4,5,6 and clones) the charger, the stylus, the headsets. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joerg Sent:

Re: Cooperative Differential GPS

2008-03-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
(Please note that I am copying this message to the OpenStreetMap folk: http://openstreetmap.org as we will hopefully find more GPS/mapping experts there. Please edit the list of recipients if you need to.) On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:24:56 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! After hours of

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | I'm marketing and have been appropriately lobotomized) is that our device | checks the ID of the charger and then determines whether or not we can fast | charge. ( greater than 750ma I think... ) Right,

Re: Openmoko strives for openness

2008-03-27 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Somebody in the thread at some point said: | | 2. Actually, is there any hope of getting 3d acceleration out of the | graphics

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Trapp
On Donnerstag, 27. März 2008, steve wrote: Maybe I just create a spares product? with 3 batteries, and some other goodies thrown in? What goodies would go in that bag? In one of the first announcements there was a car holder (including a car charger). Do they still/already exist? cheers

Re: Openmoko strives for openness

2008-03-27 Thread Lally Singh
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No the host controllers for 12Mbps and 480Mbps USB -- and firewire the same -- are all set up around DMA, so bulk transport isn't so expensive in CPU for any of them. As the

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
If the goal is to have only one kind of spares kit, I would put in: 1-2 batteries (100% original) 1 battery cover (100% original) 1 USB charger (if that is a special one) no LCD no other components (e.g. no USB cables, memory chips, they are commodity) I think resellers can put 2 or 3

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:05 PM, David Pottage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, March 27, 2008 1:33 pm, Christ van Willegen wrote: Have you seen the progress that's been made in The Netherlands? i.e.: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.375lon=5.24898zoom=17layers=B0FT (yes,

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread joerg
Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb steve: Hi Kevin, Libertarian as well here. The first charger I want to test is my iGo as well. A while back I discussed the fast charging issue with Engineering. I'll revisit that issue and get back to you guys. My understanding ( rememeber I'm marketing and

More than a phone with a GPS navigator

2008-03-27 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
Hello! What always fascinated me in multi-functional devices like Neo is that you can do more with them than with separate devices. Some examples of such synergy have already been discussed. Here are a few more ideas of this sort: “more than a phone with a GPS navigator”. Sorry if some of

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread joerg
That's exactly what i wrote... Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb steve: I don’t believe the replacements have the columb counter. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joerg Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:05 PM To: Clare Johnstone; List for

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread Kevin Dean
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:58 PM, joerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct, it checks for 48k-OHM resistor on ID-pin of mini-USB, then enables 1A instead of 100/500mA USB-standard. You also may enable 1A-mode (and 500mA mode) via some small GUI-app IIRC. This is possible via userspace with

WAG about spares ratios

2008-03-27 Thread Ron K. Jeffries
Steve wrote: ~~ From: steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'List for Openmoko community discussion' community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:30:33 -0700 Subject: RE: Price of the Freerunner spare parts Yes, The information about returns and defects etc needs to be shared. First,

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread JW
OSM - sorry about offtopic - growth of OSM data animations http://www.jabberworld.org/osm/ - from a standing start only 3 years ago i think progress is impressive - fast flash viewer for OSM - http://www.afcomponents.com/components/umap_as3/ - GTA03 (with camera) will be ultimate OSM tool

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Ortwin Regel
On 3/27/08, David Pottage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, March 27, 2008 1:33 pm, Christ van Willegen wrote: Have you seen the progress that's been made in The Netherlands? i.e.: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.375lon=5.24898zoom=17layers=B0FT (yes, there are houses on there...)

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread Federico Lorenzi
I was just about to ask, what would happen if I enabled 1A charging when the Freerunner was plugged into a normal USB port? AFAIK some devices do draw more then spec (USB laptop hdds come to mind), and these seem to work fine. Cheers Federico On 3/27/08, Kevin Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: WAG about spares ratios

2008-03-27 Thread andy selby
After reading the subject line, I almost flagged that as spam ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Virtual QWERTY Keyboards to be used with Fingers...

2008-03-27 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 3/1/08, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:50:14 +0100 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] i WANT to type waste. i press w - but really my finger may easily hit q,e,a or s - maybe even r, d, z or t. as such every key has a center

RE: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread steve
ok, let me noodle on this a bit. I have some ideas. -Original Message- From: Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:41 AM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Cc: steve Mosher Subject: Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts If the

Re: More than a phone with a GPS navigator

2008-03-27 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: * Track recall: if the device stores all your movements (or a rough list of areas visited) for the last few days, you could recall where you've been, when you came somewhere and when you left, which is sometimes handy. This includes finding that place again if you

RE: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread steve
Thanks, At one point I suggested that an ingenious person might change this particular resistor check so that other chargers would work in fast mode ( if they were capable) I can't recall where that discussion ended up. So for example, My moto mini usb is 850ma, So I would just turn off the

RE: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread steve
Thanks Kevin, I recall asking engineering what would happen if somebody disabled this check ( hey its open source) and the general impression was that if the charger was not capable of fast charging then you would not have nice outcomes. I think the worse case might be if you tried to draw more

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Michele Renda
| it is NOT a navigation software and it will take long time to get it really stable. tomtom is really good software and the maps are really better. If you think is so good write to TomTom firm and ask them to make a port of their software to OpenMoko: I think it is a work of their programmer

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread Andy Green
Somebody in the thread at some point said: Thanks Kevin, I recall asking engineering what would happen if somebody disabled this check ( hey its open source) and the general impression was that if the charger was not capable of fast charging then you would not have nice outcomes. I think the

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Alessandro Iurlano
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: ... as for navigation.. well, isn't there a libgarmin that can read garmin maps directly? Can't NavIt do this now? There is and NavIt can use it. In fact, this is the right

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread Al Johnson
Depends on the USB port. You may end up blowing some protection on your motherboard, or worse. OTOH it may be just fine - my HP laptop has one port rated at 2A to power external DVD and HDD. Most devices that draw 500mA have a Y-cable so they can pull power from 2 sockets. On Thursday 27 March

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Alessandro Iurlano wrote: Anyway I accept the idea of using commercial apps/maps until there's nothing of usable for free and freely, since generally such tools become useful when we're traveling in unknown places, and so that we can't map on OMS without the help of others! If everyone

Userspace app for fast charge (was Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts)

2008-03-27 Thread Bobby Martin
I just want to make it clear: my python userspace app (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/CheckFastCharge-script) *won't* automatically send you into fast charge mode. It automatically *asks* you if you want to go into fast charge mode whenever a slow charger is recognized. It also goes through a

Re: TomTom on Openmoko?

2008-03-27 Thread ramsesoriginal
I can't do anything but quote Marco on this: If you look at the area where I live (South Tyrol, Italy), there are entire valleys missing. I am more then willing to upload data to OSM, bnut till the data is there, i have to navigate somehow.. On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Marco Trevisan

High current USB charging ( was: Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts)

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Shiloh
(PLEASE CHANGE SUBJECT WHEN TOPIC CHANGES!) I don't think the Neo would get damaged. I think the only damage might occur to the charger, whether the charger is a computer or a charger only. A charger (or computer) designed to provide, say, 200mA might overheat if more that 200mA is drawn,

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread joerg
Engineering says: you can't have both, 1A charging _and_ protection for every case of missmanagement (DAU, stupid user). USB is specified for 500mA MAX. Period! (and devices have even to announce when they want more than 100mA). Anyway a stupid charger consisting of a transformer, a diode

Re: Userspace app for fast charge (was Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts)

2008-03-27 Thread joerg
Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Bobby Martin: I just want to make it clear: my python userspace app (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/CheckFastCharge-script) *won't* automatically send you into fast charge mode. It automatically *asks* you if you want to go into fast charge mode whenever a slow

Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts

2008-03-27 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Steve, Right, they don't. Wolfgang On Mar 28, 2008, at 1:04 AM, steve wrote: I don’t believe the replacements have the columb counter. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joerg Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:05 PM To: Clare Johnstone;