Re: Help from Always Innovating ?
On 10/04/2010 06:04 PM, Chuck Norris wrote: 04.10.2010 17:08, Thomas HOCEDEZ пишет: On 04/10/2010 05:20, Chuck Norris wrote: 03.10.2010 21:05, Joshua Judson Rosen пишет: Alfa21 writes: 2010-09...@00:16 Chuck Norris I've asked them about missing this feature. Here are answer: We do not have a 3G or GSM option because we do not want to force a subscription on customers. Instead we want to focus on using wifi and free Skype calls. "force subscription"?! LOL... maybe they do not know what actually the word "option" means? fool or fail? ;) Well, `not wanting to force subscriptions' is actually the right answer if it would have been an `either/or' choice. More probably, it's because it's just not viable to include it in a device that size at that price-range--there have been in-depths discussions about this as it pertained to the FreeRunner, previously; they're probably still applicable. As far as the full-sized tablet goes, you could look into getting a UMTS/HSDPA/whatever USB stick to connect to one of those internal USB ports. I've seen ones that may be small enough for as low as $50 US, though it's not obvious how well they'd work from inside the tablet. last answer from Always Innovating to me was: Thank you for your feedback. We are aware that many customers wish to have a GSM option available, and we do our best to satisfy as many customers as possible. Unfortunately, we currently do not have any plans to release a version of the Mini Book with GSM capabilities. If that possibility opens up to us in the future, we will be sure to make note of it on our website. Argh, So sad Though, I'd like to know if the minibook is also Opensource hardware, so we can investigate on the way to insert a canibalized usb stick... Asthro, Always inventive ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community It would be very cool... I watched the specs of this device(1), and I saw there is an ISP1520(2) chip, which is an USB hub controller !! The 4 ports are used, and I think accelerometers are plugged there who really care accelerometers ? ;-) I'm more & more excited by this project ! I have t find a cool & small GSM Usb dongle... Asthro (1) http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/wiki/index.php/MID_board (2) http://www.nxp.com/acrobat_download2/expired_datasheets/ISP1520_4.pdf ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Voicerecording software needed
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > Dictator worked just fine for me a few months ago. Maybe it's a new > problem. > > Can you try to explain how or why it doesn't work? > > Rui > > > For me, saving recordings to the SD card would allow only a small percentage of a recording (the rest being clipped off). Tried with the settings in the app itself, then softlinking the default directory to the SD card. The sound also seemed corrupted. -- View this message in context: http://openmoko-public-mailinglists.1958.n2.nabble.com/Voicerecording-software-needed-tp5600120p5600847.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Voicerecording software needed
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > Dictator worked just fine for me a few months ago. Maybe it's a new > problem. > > Can you try to explain how or why it doesn't work? I first forgot to mention that I'm using the latest SHR. I installed it the way the wiki page says http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dictator My problem seems the wave support for python: o...@om-gta02 /media/card # opkg install -force-depends http://www.opkg.org/packages/dictator_0.2_armv4t.ipk Downloading http://www.opkg.org/packages/dictator_0.2_armv4t.ipk. Installing dictator (0.2) to root... Configuring dictator. Collected errors: * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for dictator: * python-audio (>= 2.6.1) * r...@om-gta02 /media/card # dictator Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dictator/diktator.py", line 22, in import main_gui File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dictator/main_gui.py", line 28, in import playPage File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dictator/playPage.py", line 25, in import alsaaudio, wave ImportError: No module named wave Alex. > > Rui > > Em 04-10-2010 18:43, Alexander Lehner escreveu: >> Hi all, >> >> I am looking for a SW to record audio. I found some (dictator, voicenote, >> monologue), but none of them seems to work properly - the development >> seems to have stopped already for a while. >> >> I try to avoid writing the 1000th script using arecord etc., also it >> should be useable by children... >> >> Thanks for any hint - >> >> Alex. >> >> >> ___ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> > > > ___ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Voicerecording software needed
Dictator worked just fine for me a few months ago. Maybe it's a new problem. Can you try to explain how or why it doesn't work? Rui Em 04-10-2010 18:43, Alexander Lehner escreveu: > Hi all, > > I am looking for a SW to record audio. I found some (dictator, voicenote, > monologue), but none of them seems to work properly - the development > seems to have stopped already for a while. > > I try to avoid writing the 1000th script using arecord etc., also it > should be useable by children... > > Thanks for any hint - > > Alex. > > > ___ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Voicerecording software needed
Hi all, I am looking for a SW to record audio. I found some (dictator, voicenote, monologue), but none of them seems to work properly - the development seems to have stopped already for a while. I try to avoid writing the 1000th script using arecord etc., also it should be useable by children... Thanks for any hint - Alex. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Help from Always Innovating ?
04.10.2010 17:08, Thomas HOCEDEZ пишет: > On 04/10/2010 05:20, Chuck Norris wrote: >> 03.10.2010 21:05, Joshua Judson Rosen пишет: >>> Alfa21 writes: >>> 2010-09...@00:16 Chuck Norris > I've asked them about missing this feature. > Here are answer: > > We do not have a 3G or GSM option because we do not want to force a > subscription on customers. Instead we want to focus on using wifi and > free Skype calls. > "force subscription"?! LOL... maybe they do not know what actually the word "option" means? fool or fail? ;) >>> Well, `not wanting to force subscriptions' is actually the right answer >>> if it would have been an `either/or' choice. >>> >>> More probably, it's because it's just not viable to include it in a >>> device that size at that price-range--there have been in-depths >>> discussions about this as it pertained to the FreeRunner, previously; >>> they're probably still applicable. >>> >>> As far as the full-sized tablet goes, you could look into getting a >>> UMTS/HSDPA/whatever USB stick to connect to one of those internal USB ports. >>> I've seen ones that may be small enough for as low as $50 US, though >>> it's not obvious how well they'd work from inside the tablet. >>> >>> >> last answer from Always Innovating to me was: >> >> Thank you for your feedback. We are aware that many customers wish >> to have a GSM option available, and we do our best to satisfy as many >> customers as possible. Unfortunately, we currently do not have any >> plans to release a version of the Mini Book with GSM capabilities. >> If that possibility opens up to us in the future, we will be sure to >> make note of it on our website. > Argh, So sad > > Though, I'd like to know if the minibook is also Opensource hardware, > so we can investigate on the way to insert a canibalized usb stick... > > Asthro, Always inventive > > > ___ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community It would be very cool... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Help from Always Innovating ?
On 04/10/2010 05:20, Chuck Norris wrote: 03.10.2010 21:05, Joshua Judson Rosen пишет: Alfa21 writes: 2010-09...@00:16 Chuck Norris I've asked them about missing this feature. Here are answer: We do not have a 3G or GSM option because we do not want to force a subscription on customers. Instead we want to focus on using wifi and free Skype calls. "force subscription"?! LOL... maybe they do not know what actually the word "option" means? fool or fail? ;) Well, `not wanting to force subscriptions' is actually the right answer if it would have been an `either/or' choice. More probably, it's because it's just not viable to include it in a device that size at that price-range--there have been in-depths discussions about this as it pertained to the FreeRunner, previously; they're probably still applicable. As far as the full-sized tablet goes, you could look into getting a UMTS/HSDPA/whatever USB stick to connect to one of those internal USB ports. I've seen ones that may be small enough for as low as $50 US, though it's not obvious how well they'd work from inside the tablet. last answer from Always Innovating to me was: Thank you for your feedback. We are aware that many customers wish to have a GSM option available, and we do our best to satisfy as many customers as possible. Unfortunately, we currently do not have any plans to release a version of the Mini Book with GSM capabilities. If that possibility opens up to us in the future, we will be sure to make note of it on our website. Argh, So sad Though, I'd like to know if the minibook is also Opensource hardware, so we can investigate on the way to insert a canibalized usb stick... Asthro, Always inventive ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Wikireader development - Ideas and improvements
Hi Patrick On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Patrick Beck wrote: > i own a Wikireader since a month now and i am happy with the base > functionality, but i have a few ideas and improvements and i am looking > for other users they owns a wikireader (and develeops for it). > > Openmoko has not stopped the development of the Wikireader, but i think > it can be useful to have a nice community around the project. Till now i > have only found the following ressources: > > http://thewikireader.com/ > http://dev.thewikireader.com/ > http://github.com/wikireader/wikireader > > and see not a list or any other communication - i think the community > list is not so wrong :) Yes currently these are the only places... if something is missing let me know. And I see what we can do. > ==Improvements:== > > - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland - There is a small block on > the right with information (population, language, capital, etc.) I think > that a very useful imformation - how can we add them to the Wikireader? Most of these are templates and within these templates there's HTML tables. Currently we remove all tables since we haven't found an elegant solution to displaying tables on our screen (it's only 240 pixels wide). You can look at: http://github.com/wikireader/wikireader/blob/master/host-tools/offline-renderer/ArticleRenderer.py And see where we parse out tables. If you have some ideas how to handle this better, we'd love to hear. > - Table of Contents would be helpful to get a overview about the content > of the whole article On our todo list... but it's still a while away. We're really just trying to get the base language support really solid. > - searching in a article could be very usefull Agreed! > - The scrolling it a bit poor, because you can't read anything on the > screen when you scroll - on the community list was a small patch > discussed: > > http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-December/058462.html > > That patch works no more, but from the descriptions i find it very > useful. A new version from maleadt was published in September: > > http://github.com/maleadt/wikireader/downloads > > It's unstable and not as inuitive as the first path but it is a start > for a nice usability on the wikireader. > > ==Problems:== > > - A other problem is that tables and other special layouts are not > interpreted from the parser. See for example: > > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kfz-Kennzeichen_in_Deutschland > > On the Wikireader you get only a list from 0-9 and A-Z without any > license plates. Yes. (see above explanation) > So how can we fix the problems and get new features in? I am only a > python programmer but i hope i can help. This Thread should be a > starting point to discuss new features and collect bugs - i think that > should help Openmoko, too. Just about everything is done in Python that has to do with parsing. So you should be fine. If you are interested in developing, get our codes from github, let us know when you have something good, and we'd love to pull it back into future releases. Feel free to email us if you have any questions! Sean ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Wikireader development - Ideas and improvements
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Christoph Pulster wrote: > > > Openmoko has not stopped the development of the Wikireader > > Sean, can you confirm this ? Hi Christoph We're still super active developing WikiReader. You can view our latest commits here: http://github.com/wikireader Over the past few months we've been working on many new language variants. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, all have working virtual keypads now. We also have a download tool under development for Windows and OS X for people who want to use an easy interface to update their WikiReader. This will be pushed to github with a formal release later this month. Overall we're quite happy with our progress on the technical side as well as the sales side. But we definitely would love to see more community involvement. I'm going to reply in detail to Patrick's email shortly. I just got back in the office. It's been a busy last few weeks for us. Sean ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Sandisk 16GB SDHC not mountable
On Sunday, 3. October 2010 14:11:25 Gennady Kupava wrote: > В Вск, 03/10/2010 в 14:38 +0200, Christian Rüb пишет: > > > > > [ 244.995000] mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/write command, response > > > > 0x0, card status 0x400b00 > > > > [ 244.995000] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 170 > > > > [ 245.01] glamo-mci glamo-mci.0: Error after cmd: 0x8120 > > > > > > You can try to add something like glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=1500 to you > > > kernel options. Try different values until your card will start working. > > > > Tried these and also showing results: > > 1500 -> partition skipped (led + vib) > > 500 -> red led forever > > 16373000 -> red led forever > > Strange. Are you booting from usd or NAND? if from nand how can it > hang? Trying to boot from SD here. Experiments with running system have been when booting from NAND though (otherwise I could not boot at all). > Would be interesting to see kernel logs. indeed, it would be interesting what is happening here at all, seems Qi tries to read partition and kernel, but I get no output :( ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: qtmoko v27
Oh, that's true, i didn't paid attention to that ... It's a relief ^^ -- Gand' On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Ole Carlsen wrote: > Den 03-10-2010 14:08, Gand' skrev: > > Since i moved to the v27, my touchscreen is kind of weird ... I can't > > draw a straight line, and when i keep the stylus on the screen, it draws > > a tiny star (more or less 9mm²) It makes the docked keyboard pretty > > unusable as when press a key, one of the surrounding key often responds > ... > > -- > >Gand' > > That was also one of the things that Radek mentioned when releasing it: > > -- > I have been testing 2.6.34 kernel for one week now and to me it looks ok. > There can be issues with SD card [6], the touchscreen driver is missing > filtering so it's a bit jittery and i think accelerometers are somehow > strange now. > -- > > As a work-around, for the keyboard, I have rotated my screen 90 degrees > and now I don't hit the wrong key very often anymore. I would though > prefer the possibility to personally decide the size of my keyboard. > > -- > Ole @ Carlsen-web.dk > > ___ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community