to other programers at my workplace, most are interested
in raspberry Pi, and many people have told me about it as new exciting
news, in a similar way to how I heard about Open Moko three years ago.
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to your ISP, or any other phone number.
You may find that your current phone does what you need.
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On 05/09/10 17:13, xChris wrote:
I know about it.
I had no luck, the FR does not 'see' my 3G SIM (three mobile UK).
But the WTF is that a 2005 mobile (Nokia 6320i) CAN use that SIM and the FR
can't!
Is it that the FR can't read the SIM, or can't register with the network.
Three are well
no longer worked in any phone.
In my case, my operator (Orange UK) was happy to send me a replacement.
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tools, and most
people are familiar with the commands to check MD5 sums, so if the images
come with MD5 sums they will be checked easily. If they come with another
sort of checksum, it will be harder to check, for no real benefit.
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On Sunday 30 November 2008 23:24:07 Al Iasid wrote:
Here's info on an update to auxlaunch, (finger-friendly
app launcher and window switcher). Download at [1] and
wiki page at [2]. Version 0.6 changes include:
[...]
Sounds interesting, would you care to mention which distro it is for?
From
, and feed in a new CD every few minutes.
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the same and only the hardware specific stuff gets changed.
If this is the case, I doubt they would be willing to produce a GPL driver, as
that would require them either to publish the source of their entire engine,
or to write a new one.
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On Friday 31 October 2008 12:03:33 Alexandre Girard wrote:
Hi,
I receive an empty sms each time I register with my phone provider
(Bouygues in France, Simio in Spain), with an origin address like _@.
Has anybody got the same behavior?
Is it coming from the phone or from the provider?
I
solution would be to have a small numeric keypad
that won't take much room.
Option 2: Mini Qwerty, no Touchscreen
I HATE this idea, because it will make all existing Openmoko software
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On Sunday 14 September 2008 16:10:12 Andreas Fischer wrote:
Hi all,
Yesterday I experienced a crash of the GSM firmware - my Freerunner
started to vibrate and there was a message on-screen that stated that
the GSM Firmware had crashed and that I would be unable to use phone
functionality.
I
fix the offending files or take a copy of your data.
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but not
as much as suspending. Depending on your settings, your freerunner may
suspend after a time with the backlight out.
Pressing the Aux key to lock the screen does just that. The phone will
turn out the back light or suspend according to it's settings.
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is not avalable for Ubuntu, but you can
download the rpm and extract the binary with alien
Steps are:
cat /dev/fb0 myscreenshot_001.raw
copy to your desktop
b2png myscreenshot_001.raw myscreenshot_001.png 9 480 640 16
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Fredrik Wendt wrote:
Hi.
Just wanted to know if I'd damage the hardware by doing:
0. Connect FR to computer using USB cable.
1. Turn on FR (FSO-testing), fire up zhone.
2. Open FR, remove battery, open SIM pocket, change SIM card, replace
battery, replace back cover - all while the FR is
On Sunday 31 August 2008 16:34:35 Jeff Sadowski wrote:
You would probably need a driver built into uboot to recognize a usb
network device or maybe a way in uboot to setup wifi. I know my avaya
wireless phones look for new images on my tftp server when they boot.
Maybe if there was a way to
with my E51).
It does not work properly. When connected to the Neo, I only get sound it
one ear, and it is not very loud. I have not tested the microphone
support.
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On Saturday 23 August 2008 08:25:08 Dale Maggee wrote:
If you're like me, you're a big fan of gkrellm, and you always have it
running so you can keep an eye on what your system is doing. I wanted to
have a remote display of my FR CPU usage on my host, for the same reason
- to be able to see at
On Friday 22 August 2008 02:47:00 Nick Matteo wrote:
Hello,
I intend to buy a FreeRunner. This will be my first time owning a
cell phone, though.
My service plan is offered through my university by Cincinnati Bell
Wireless, and includes a free phone. Can I expect that removing the
SIM card
OpenMoko faster
than you can say software patent.
With someone like Qualcomm, I would want all the drivers and all the docs
under a GPL license before I would consider them, preferably GPL-3 with
it's even stronger protections against software patents and similar
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it would work for the freerunner.
I would suggest that anyone else buys just the screen protector.
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Hello
I have a freerunner, which I have updated to the latest 2007.2 build using
opkg update, and I have found that it is now ignoring the hardware buttons.
I know that the buttons themselves work, and that there is not a hardware
fault because the work normally in uboot, and Qtopia.
Has
John Whitmore wrote:
Sorry can't find answer to problem.
Hello all, Well my OpenMoko has arrived and I'm very happy with it.
Thanks to all the people who've made this happen. I do hope that in the
future I can join the contributors.
Before that I've got two minor problems which somebody
projects with their clever design.
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On Saturday 26 July 2008 22:15:54 David Pottage wrote:
The SMS applet on my phone is doing the same.
If I try to start it from the command line. I get 4 coppies of the error
message:
Gtk-WARNING **:gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with
width -11 and height -11
Dimitri wrote:
Thanks guys for responding so quickly. I didn't realize that I had to hold
down the power button for 5 seconds; I was only holding it down for maybe 3
seconds.
Alternatively, you can hold down the AUX button while you press the
power button to bring up the boot menu. That
On Saturday 26 July 2008 07:53:01 stef wrote:
hello,
i've got my freerunner since thursday and it works quite fine except the
SMS applet.
At first I could open the applet and send messages but now it fails. When I
try to start the
applet it seems to be loading but it stops after a while. Is
On Saturday 26 July 2008 22:15:54 David Pottage wrote:
The SMS applet on my phone is doing the same.
If I try to start it from the command line. I get 4 coppies of the error
message:
Gtk-WARNING **:gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with
width -11 and height -11
I have
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On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:47:38 Dee Ayy wrote:
Is there no camera? After tracking my stolen phone with 2
accelerometers and GPS, my app will like a nice candid snapshot/video
of the culprit.
There is no camera. Also you can't use the accelerometers to do ineral
navigation for more than a
to.
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or circumvention technology,
especially networks who might object to you using cloned SIM cards to
do least cost routing.
See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SE-17.pdf
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sysadmins who actually find and fix the root cause.
For myself I already have a QVGA Nokia phone with PuTTy, so I can log in
remotely in an emergency, but VGA is so nice that with a Freerunner I
probably would log in in other situations as well.
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cellphone headset? (or does anybody know of 3.5mm
headSET standards or adapters?)
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emulated results back to windows.
I dare say windows would get confused if I file it had cached got changed
by Linux, but the user could probably put up with that.
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to resolve trust issues, even if you spend more on
fuel driving to the meet than you save on postage.
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OpenStreetmap, until it had deduced the map projection, scale etc to
sufficient precisson.
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access points,
and do it over VOIP, or to do VOIP over GSM, and put up with the huge
latency, which will give you a walke-talkie like connection.
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it before I plug it into the mains for the first time.
http://quickstart.openmoko.org/photographs/usbChargerAdapters1.jpg
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it
possible to sync with another cellphone without the need for a normal
computer. If we could have that as a standard feature on the consumer
version of the Freerunner it would be very cool.
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), reminding users that they are being tracked. That way
it would be hard for someone to covertly track another person. The
popup could be disabled if a stolen flag is set in the central DB.
(via a request from the police).
That is my view.
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linux. (Both the Neo 1973, and Nokia phones use ARM CPUs), but in practice
it would be a huge project, so is unlikely to happen any time soon.
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the Neo using that. The keyboard cable would pass via a
well sealed hole in a waterproof case.
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sales tax rate such
as Belgum, Europeans buying Freerunner phones could save around 10% compared
with buying from a German web shop.
Having said that, it is not a huge cost, and having a web shop any where in
Europe is a great improvement over importing from the Far East.
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update renders you Neo 1973 temporally unusable, and to charge
the spare battery. I have a Nokia 1100, as a spare, and I use it's battery
interchangeably with other devices.
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of the basic language.
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, otherwise it is similar to the N800.
They are remarkably small, more like a large smartphone than a PDA.
I work for Nokia, (but not in device development) BTW, so you may wish
to take my views with some salt.
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we should make use of them where we can. We
should not just copy the iPhone or whatever, that only uses it's
accelerometer as a tilt sensor to make the display image the right way up.
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a direct frame buffer system such as Qtopia is
sensible in an early version before the GPU device drivers are working,
but after that there is little benefit.
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code database using user
contributed information. Basicaly users are asked to type in the postocode
and location of their homes, busneses, and any other site they can find.
We many have to use similar database for other countries.
[1] http://www.freethepostcode.org/
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will be possible through Paypal or direct postal payment in
Switzerland. Shiping costs will be around 20-25EUR for countries in
Europe.
I *HATE* paypal, so in any case, if you can find another way of
receiving payments that would be good.
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or so
of inactivity.
A tickless kernel might save a few more percent on top of that, but it is
sleep mode you need to get from 3 hours battery life to 5 days.
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unauthorized firmware. (Though it will still
be helpful for virus protection and the like).
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graphics suggestions.
I don't mind being a moderator. I won't have time to moderate all the time
though.
Do you prefer phpBB or Invision ? personally i prefer the former.
Personally I am familiar with phpBB, but not Invision, so that would be my
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share an order with.
It would also create an opportunity to meet fellow hackers.
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BT devices out there, and most people
leave BT switched on, as it does not drain the battery much.
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be very easy to write the necessary demon, it might even be possible with
a few pipes in shell.
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