Re: Alternatives to FR

2010-01-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:12:54 + William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: What alternatives to the FR (with the same functionality) are there? I want 3G phone/sms access and the FR doesnt cut it any more ... The android phones (htc dream?) - none of which are fully functional on

Re: Ringtone request

2010-01-04 Thread Michael Smith
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:04:57 +0330 dehqan65 dehqa...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you but there was checked before a ring tone like nokia default ringtone You may be interested in my ringtones package. The source code is available from this URL:

Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Michael Smith
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:30:53 +0200 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? Yes Do you use FR as your primary PDA? No What distribution you run most of the time? SHR-U If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change over

Re: Alternatives to FR

2010-01-04 Thread William Kenworthy
I'd looked at this one but its not 3G capable. I like the physical keyboard, though being 96mm wide its a small book! 3G is almost essential as on my last holiday in northwest Australia, there were a lot of 3G only areas - GSM seems like its disappearing :( BillK On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 19:01

Re: Alternatives to FR

2010-01-04 Thread A.A.
2010/1/4 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au I'd looked at this one but its not 3G capable. I like the physical keyboard, though being 96mm wide its a small book! 3G is almost essential as on my last holiday in northwest Australia, there were a lot of 3G only areas - GSM seems like its

Re: Bluetooth PBAP support for FSO

2010-01-04 Thread Thomas Franck
Happy New Year! Thomas Zimmermann wrote: That's great. The first test resulted in a crash of the PBAP plugin, so i've to look at this. Will tell you if i have an new version, but i will wait till the new year before i do some more on this. I'm back home.. well.. at work now.. What do I

Re: Bluetooth PBAP support for FSO

2010-01-04 Thread Thomas Zimmermann
Am Montag 04 Januar 2010 11:12:11 schrieb Thomas Franck: Happy New Year! Happy New Year :) I'm back home.. well.. at work now.. What do I have to prepare in order to test your plugin? I think it's not working, because i implemented just 1 of the 3 calls. And it seems the other 2 are

Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Olivier Migeot
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? Yes. Do you use FR as your primary PDA? Yes, though my use of a PDA is a bit scarce. Mostly GPS-based functions (OSM tracks and the such). What distribution you run most of

Re: Navigation

2010-01-04 Thread Yorick Moko
c'mon, you know he meant well I can only applaud new pieces of software for our freerunners, so keep up the good work I personally think it's entirely up to you to release or not release the source files (afterall, you could also make a programme people have to pay for) but it might be

Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
Risto H. Kurppa a écrit : Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? Yes, since july 2008 (rev5, buzzfixed one year later) Do you use FR as your primary PDA? Yes. What distribution you run most of the time? SHR for a long time, Android currently (very comfy + great browser/wifi) If you

Re: [Shr-User] UBI success story

2010-01-04 Thread Christoph Mair
[sent again to reach the mailing lists] On Sunday 03 January 2010 13:11:52 Martin Jansa wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 09:25:57PM +0100, Christoph Mair wrote: Hello, I tried to use SHR the ubi images on my freerunner, but they did not work. Does someone know the parameters which are

Re: Happy New Year from FSO

2010-01-04 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de wrote: There is still hope. I like the form factor of the Palm Pre very much. If we get access to the modem, the rest should be relatively simple. Seems like the Motorola Droid is similar hardware-wise to the Palm

Re: [Shr-User] UBI success story

2010-01-04 Thread Martin Jansa
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:37:14PM +0100, Christoph Mair wrote: Quote from http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_subpage: Indeed, let's consider a NAND flash with 128KiB eraseblocks and 2048-byte pages. If it does not have sub-pages, UBI puts the the VID header at physical

Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Bernd Prünster
jeremy jozwik wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? Do you use FR as your primary PDA? What distribution you run most of the time? yes yes shr-u ___

Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Xavier Vens
no no shr-u On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Bernd Prünster bernd.pruens...@gmail.com wrote: jeremy jozwik wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? Do you use FR as your primary PDA? What distribution you run

openmoko io error

2010-01-04 Thread previdi . roberto
sometimes, with no particular cause, but always when the phone is in use (using gps, or while getting the gsm signal, or while playing mokomaze), the image on the screen become corrupted by white horizontal lines, then the enlightenment crash window appears, and if i click on the second button

Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread -= Apertum =-
* Ken Young wrote, Il 03/01/2010 07:10: Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? Yes, but always with some problems. The *biggest* problem is battery life of my FR, because some times i cannot finish a day with a full charge, doing only some short calls. It's a big issue from day 0,

[ALL] Freerunner GTA02v5 for Sale in Hungary

2010-01-04 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Dear all, after month and month of trying and always failing at one point I finally gave up on my Freerunner. I've got to admit that I prefer my phone to be unfree, but working (well mostly) right away. For those of you who stay with the FR I've got to offer: - A buzz-fixed GTA02v5, that I

GSM Network Time

2010-01-04 Thread Esben Stien
Any way to extract the time from the GSM network and have the time set based on this?. Any distro that does this or any tools available?. Many phones have this capability. It would also be nice to set the time based on GPS, when that is available, but often when indoors, only GSM works. --

Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Esben Stien
Ken Young r...@cfa.harvard.edu writes: there is really no hope at that a group of people such as the gta02-core team, working part time with no large corporate sponsor, will ever produce a product with hardware on a par with what the big players are contemporaneously offering. Do you still

Re: GSM Network Time

2010-01-04 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
SHR already does both (GSM and GPS). You should set the local timezone - http://trac.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/Tweaks#Timezone On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Esben Stien b...@esben-stien.name wrote: Any way to extract the time from the GSM network and have the time set based on this?. Any

Re: GSM Network Time

2010-01-04 Thread Marc Verwerft
The section about Date/time settings in the SHR wiki from openmoko http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR_User_Manual#Date_and_time says: Date and time are automatically set from GPS or Network Regards, Marc On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Esben Stien b...@esben-stien.name wrote: Any way to extract

Re: GSM Network Time

2010-01-04 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi, (Alex, is it really so hard for you to properly avoid top postings and to remove useless parts?) On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:29:06AM +1100, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Esben Stien b...@esben-stien.name wrote: Any way to extract the time from the GSM

Re: Buzz fix (Was: Re: [Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-04 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Friday 01 January 2010 20:35:03 Jens Seidel wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:26:37PM +0100, Esben Damgaard wrote: Yes and no. I have two Freerunners (and a gta01 that collects dust). One without buzzfix. Using it for testing, programming and playing. Other one with buzzfix and using it

FR cannot read uSD cards anymore

2010-01-04 Thread Jan Henkins
Hello all, My FR (v5) stopped reading SD cards a few weeks back. I've tested it with 9 uSD cards, 6 known to be good (brand new Kingston and SanDisk 2Gb cards). I've tried to contact my vendor (Truebox in the UK), but they have yet to respond. I think the reason for them not responding is that

Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR

2010-01-04 Thread Margo
2010/1/4 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: What alternatives to the FR (with the same functionality) are there?  I want 3G phone/sms access and the FR doesnt cut it any more ... The android phones (htc dream?) - none of which are fully functional on FSO/SHR (I think), and access through

Re: openmoko io error

2010-01-04 Thread Jan Henkins
Hello Roberto, On Mon, January 4, 2010 15:55, previdi.robe...@gmail.com wrote: sometimes, with no particular cause, but always when the phone is in use (using gps, or while getting the gsm signal, or while playing mokomaze), the image on the screen become corrupted by white horizontal lines,

Re: openmoko io error

2010-01-04 Thread -= Apertum =-
* Jan Henkins wrote, Il 04/01/2010 19:24: Hello Roberto, I seem to have a similar issue. In my case my FR does not read SD cards, and give the same error messages as above until the kernel simply disables and removes the mmcblk0 device. I seem to remember that at some point between the v.5

Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-04 Thread Esteban Monge
Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? Yes Do you use FR as your primary PDA? Yes What distribution you run most of the time? QtMoko If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change over to, and why? Sometime ago I has two phones, a Nokia 5130 and a Nokia 5310, but I

Re: GSM Network Time

2010-01-04 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 18:25 +0100 schrieb Esben Stien: Any way to extract the time from the GSM network and have the time set based on this? FSO contains support for that but so far I have not managed to receive a single NITZ report anywhere in the world. Might be a Calypso problem, then

Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR

2010-01-04 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 20:08 +0200 schrieb Margo: The Officer S101 seems interesting: http://www.road.de/en/handypcs/officer.html http://blog.hackable1.org/2009/08/running-hackable1-on-the-road-officer-s101.html Unfortunately it has been just around the corner and almost out for about 5

Re: SHR unresponsiveness

2010-01-04 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/12/27 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de What is [h]top telling? :M: It has happened again, this time with wifi turned off (never touched it after booting), but with tangogps downloading map tiles connected through the usb. I turned off my laptop, so it might have lost

[SHR-U] Wifi?

2010-01-04 Thread Iain B. FIndleton
After many spent hours trying to get wifi and bluetooth up and running on SHR-U, I am about to conclude that these features just do not work. Wifi, after doing the bind and module reload things, works for about 10 pings, then appears to just stop, hanging the USB connection as well. Bluetooth,

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi?

2010-01-04 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 20:03, Iain B. FIndleton ifindle...@videotron.ca wrote: After many spent hours trying to get wifi and bluetooth up and running on SHR-U, I am about to conclude that these features just do not work. Wifi, after doing the bind and module reload things, works for about 10

Re: Navigation

2010-01-04 Thread Petr Vanek
hi, If you want to look at progress, here is first version of MC Navi: http://www.mikecrash.com/index.php?name=Newsfile=articleid=116 Currently not for usage, only as preview for Debian users. downloaded the packages on my laptop: van...@vanek:/tmp$ ./osm2mcmap bash: ./osm2mcmap: cannot

Re: Navigation

2010-01-04 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/4 Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com: c'mon, you know he meant well Yes indeed. I apologize for raising this issue on Mike's thread; I should have started a new thread and so not have singled out Mike in particular. Best wishes, Neil

[QtMOko] Arora's problem and v.16

2010-01-04 Thread daide
Thank you Radek for your good/hard work! QtMoko v.16 is very very fast, user friendly and it's the best stuff on frerunner in my opinion... But I have a problem with arora and v.16. Arora crashes after few seconds of use(always!) I think it is a regression because I rember this issue some

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi?

2010-01-04 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/4 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak seba.d...@gmail.com: I didn't try bluetooth, but WiFi just works here with plain wpa_supplicant, with open, WPA and WEP networks. Is plain wpa_supplicant the default SHR setup? Last time I checked, I thought it wasn't. I've always wondered why not, as none of

Experimental technique for testing call audio quality?

2010-01-04 Thread Neil Jerram
From the recent survey, it seems that several people are still experiencing bad call audio quality; and I've personally had some bad reports of this recently (and my phone has been buzz-fixed). One of the problems, with trying to work on this, is finding a way to test audio quality repeatedly

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi?

2010-01-04 Thread Christian Rüb
I didn't try bluetooth, but WiFi just works here with plain wpa_supplicant, with open, WPA and WEP networks. Is plain wpa_supplicant the default SHR setup? Last time I checked, I thought it wasn't. I've always wondered why not, as none of the other options (Mofi, wicd etc.) have ever

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi?

2010-01-04 Thread Michael Smith
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:19:10 +0100 Christian Rüb christian.r...@gmx.net wrote: +1 for plain wpa_supplicant in SHR I tried several GUIs but none of them was sufficient - now I use wpa_supplicant (in roaming mode with config file, not dbus) and wpa_gui to configure my wpa_supplicant.conf.

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi?

2010-01-04 Thread Petr Vanek
Plain wpa_supplicant has been working for me for many months now (no encryption, WPA(2) PSK, WEP). Can you post a quick howto here on how you do that? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/WiFi#Using_wpa_supplicant_manually P. ___ Openmoko community

New project openmokontrol

2010-01-04 Thread hab keen oh ne
Hi community, I just published a new project called openmokontrol. Im using a TCP/IP connection to any X server to control it with the fr's accelerometers, mainly for games ;). Maybe I will create a video for a short demonstration soon, let's see. It uses the X Test extension to send input

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi?

2010-01-04 Thread Michael Smith
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:35:24 +0100 Petr Vanek van...@penguin.cz wrote: Plain wpa_supplicant has been working for me for many months now (no encryption, WPA(2) PSK, WEP). Can you post a quick howto here on how you do that? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/WiFi#Using_wpa_supplicant_manually

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi?

2010-01-04 Thread Petr Vanek
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/WiFi#Using_wpa_supplicant_manually Okay thanks. I am thinking that it should be possible to put most of that procedure into a package, with a launcher icon to initiate the i myself use iwconfig (the dbus methods just don't work for me...), but it would not be too

Re: Buzz fix (Was: Re: [Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-04 Thread Davide Scaini
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Michael Zanetti michael_zane...@gmx.netwrote: On Friday 01 January 2010 20:35:03 Jens Seidel wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:26:37PM +0100, Esben Damgaard wrote: Yes and no. I have two Freerunners (and a gta01 that collects dust). One without buzzfix.

Re: Navigation

2010-01-04 Thread Davide Scaini
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.comwrote: 2010/1/4 Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com: c'mon, you know he meant well Yes indeed. I apologize for raising this issue on Mike's thread; I should have started a new thread and so not have singled out Mike in

Re: Buzz fix (Was: Re: [Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-04 Thread -= Apertum =-
* Davide Scaini wrote, Il 04/01/2010 23:05: The fix will remove that buzz but won't fix other issues like rustling, echo or low volume. Those issues can mostly be addressed with software. The same happened to me, but i didn't find a viable software cnfiguration to use the fr as a phone.

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi?

2010-01-04 Thread Christian Rüb
Plain wpa_supplicant has been working for me for many months now (no encryption, WPA(2) PSK, WEP). Can you post a quick howto here on how you do that? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/WiFi#Using_wpa_supplicant_manually P. I use it in conjunction with a wpa_action script (from Debian),

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-04 Thread Petr Vanek
I just published a new project called openmokontrol. Im using a TCP/IP connection to any X server to control it with the fr's accelerometers, mainly for games ;). Maybe I will create a video for a short great! thank you. http://code.google.com/p/openmokontrol/wiki/Using I didn't manage to

AW: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-04 Thread hab keen oh ne
You mean the mouse cursor? Tux racer can be controlled with mouse cursors? If you mean the Up/Down keys, they should be controllable, too. Make sure the usb port is upside, now you can bend it forwards, so the display is coming up. Now the Up Key should be pressed. Bend it backwards and the Back

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-04 Thread Petr Vanek
i think now it sends only left-right with arrows? later up/down for speeding/slowing would be great too :) it certainly does send up and down, now i can see, still need to practice a bit more :) P. ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-04 Thread hab keen oh ne
I just replaced the ipk file, now it installs under SHR. Just redownload it from google code or opkg.org. Von: Petr Vanek van...@penguin.cz An: community@lists.openmoko.org Gesendet: Montag, den 4. Januar 2010, 23:20:45 Uhr Betreff: Re: New project

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-04 Thread Petr Vanek
You mean the mouse cursor? Tux racer can be controlled with mouse cursors? If you mean the Up/Down keys, they should be controllable, too. Make sure the usb port is upside, now you can bend it forwards, so the display is coming up. Now the Up Key should be pressed. Bend it backwards and the Back

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-04 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2010/1/4 Petr Vanek van...@penguin.cz i think now it sends only left-right with arrows? later up/down for speeding/slowing would be great too :) It would be cool if it were used as a joystick. Can you make fake joystick events in Xorg? ___ Openmoko

Re: Navigation

2010-01-04 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 1/4/10, Davide Scaini dsca...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.comwrote: 2010/1/4 Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com: c'mon, you know he meant well Yes indeed. I apologize for raising this issue on Mike's thread; I should have started

Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR

2010-01-04 Thread W.Kenworthy
This is one I was not aware of - looks nice but its still not 3G capable BillK On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 20:08 +0200, Margo wrote: 2010/1/4 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: What alternatives to the FR (with the same functionality) are there? I want 3G phone/sms access and the FR doesnt

Re: GSM Network Time

2010-01-04 Thread W.Kenworthy
Not quite - it should be if available - network time is not part of the base GSM standard but an extension which many (most?) networks done use. The zone is part of the standard, but if your provider crosses multi timezones as here in australia, you might not be able to properly use it. Beware

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-04 Thread Gennady Kupava
В Пнд, 04/01/2010 в 21:35 +, hab keen oh ne пишет: Hi community, I just published a new project called openmokontrol. Im using a TCP/IP connection to any X server to control it with the fr's accelerometers, mainly for games ;). Maybe I will create a video for a short demonstration soon,

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-04 Thread Denis Johnson
Great work, thanks for this. At the risk of straying somewhat off topic, I would love to have an app on the FR to allow me to use the FR as a remote control for my MythTV front-end albeit accelerometers not really needed, although some gestures could be useful down the track. Does anyone know if

Re: GSM Network Time

2010-01-04 Thread Denis Johnson
Just as a data point, I have checked the default settings in shr-t but I know I have to use the date command in an ssh session to get date and time set correctly and also do a hardware sync. Strangely it seems to keep the time until I re-connect via usb and ssh in, from there the time goes out. I

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-04 Thread Nicola Mfb
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Denis Johnson denis.john...@gmail.com wrote: Great work, thanks for this. At the risk of straying somewhat off topic, I would love to have an app on the FR to allow me to use the FR as a remote control for my MythTV front-end albeit accelerometers not really

Re: New project openmokontrol

2010-01-04 Thread Denis Johnson
Sounds perfect !! you have me salivating, many thanks for the link and prompt response... something to play with tonight :-) cheers Denis On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Denis Johnson denis.john...@gmail.com wrote: Great

Re: GSM Network Time

2010-01-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I am also on vodafone (Perth). I have not checked zoneinfo recently , but time is never sent. At one point Perth was in the eastern states zone for vodafone which was ... odd. I get a lot of: 2010.01.05 13:57:53.619 otimed INFO GSM: multiple zones found messages in the

Re: QtMoko v16

2010-01-04 Thread grimfa
Hi !! First at all I have to thanks any people working on QtMoko. This distr is really nice ! I have tried SHR and Hackable:1 but my favourite is for sure QtMoko ! (Hackable:1 could be nice, but I cannot manage to have SMS working). Secondly, I have the following questions about QtMoko : 1) In