Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?
Quoting "Risto H. Kurppa" : > 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 No SHR ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Bluetooth fail (poll?)
The jurisdiction where I reside recently implemented a law banning handheld devices while driving. I bought a Jabra BT125 because someone reported success with it and the Freerunner. I've gone over the SHR manual web page and the manually using bluetooth page and everything else Google could find with both SHR Unstable and SHR Testing. Finally bought a Motorola phone and have set aside the Freerunner for now. :-( I've never used bluetooth before, but it seems the Freerunner (GTA02) pairs with either the Jabra or with my truck's Sync, but does not connect. The headset beeps twice and exits its pairing mode, but does not make another beep that it does make when I pair it with my Motorola phone. The truck saves om-gta02, but does not say it is connected to the phone as it does when I pair it with the Motorola. In either case the Freerunner says "New device (/org/bluez//hci0/dev_xx_xx_xx_xx_xx_xx)" (not really x's of course). I am wondering if only a few people have got bluetooth to work with headsets for GSM calls while lots of us lose sleep over it, or have most got it going and I'm just missing something? IanS ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: WikiReader / PDF, TXT or HTML?
> Patryk Benderz writes: > > I ain't no clue, but would be nice to have *nix ManReader :) Very often > Wikipedia (so I assume WikiReader) has pages on most of the *nix utilities. Not quite a ManReader, but close. IanS ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Linux PDA with wifi?
On May 31, 2008, Mike wrote: > If I wanted a PDA the runs linux and has wifi, and gets good battery > life, any suggestions? I've got a Nokia N800. Much less expensive than the N810, but 810 has some things 800 doesn't. Battery life is from 1 day to 1 week or so depending on how I'm using it. Wifi reception is the best of any device I've used. 2 SD slots that are SDHC compatible so plenty of storage. Fits a jacket or shirt pocket just fine. I use GPE calendar, todo, timesheet; camera, gnumeric and Maemopad+ daily. PDF viewer occasionally. Am very happy with it. Look forward to getting a bluetooth keyboard (perhaps iFrog). One regret is that I didn't put a screen protector on right away. Now has a scratchy feeling place on screen where I write the most. Oh, and the hand-writing recognition works much better for me than Palm's Grafitti 2 does. One gotcha to watch for is that Maemopad+ db main table data is lost if the device battery runs out with the application open. In my case I was able to recover the db with data from its backup table using a cli sqlite3 client. IanS ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
usb charging rates
Charging my Freerunner on a dual boot laptop. Freerunner is running Qtopia from microSD card. Under Windows XP, on Freerunner cat sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/charger_type reports "host/500mA usb mode 100mA" But under Ubuntu it reports "host/500mA usb mode 500mA" Ran cat sys/devices/.../charger_type repeatedly while rebooting the laptop from Windows to Ubuntu and the charging mode changed from 100mA to 500mA very near the beginning of Ubuntu booting. Does Windows not speak the same USB protocol as the Freerunner? Can't all computer USB ports provide 500mA? IanS ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: QTopia and WiFi
On August 15, 2008, Cédric Berger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 20:22, Jim Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway bottom line is does work. > Thanks, I'll try again > Well I manage to have it say "connected", but have no network > access... will keep trying > I also have to try other settings of my modem wifi (TKIP, AES, or TKIP+AES > ...) I just tried again with mine, having failed to get a connection earlier. This time noticed that under wireless settings the access point mac address was wrong on the last digit. Once I corrected that the FR connected right away and I was able to ssh to the FR. IanS ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Android call volume still an issue ?
Quoting Chris Samuel : > I'm pondering trying out Android on my FR but was worried by some of the > comments on the Wiki about very low volume during voice calls - is that still > an issue with the latest builds ? I am using Koolu's beta 6 release and call volume is no more quiet than it was using OM2008. Perhaps better in fact as with OM2008 I always had to turn up the slider as soon as a call was connected while with Android the call volume is OK. I'm not even sure there is a way to adjust it. Will have to look for that. Battery life seems short. With OM2008 it had become good enough that I didn't think about charging the phone all the time. Using Android I have to remember to plug the phone in during the day again. Speaker phone seems to turn off all volume, though I haven't tried it with a headset. There seems to be more buzz than with OM2008 or perhaps it is just more apparent because of battery life being shorter. With any distribution, my Freerunner seems to buzz more when battery is low. I haven't tried wifi or gps and observations are not quantified in any way as I am just using the phone rather than really thinking about testing. Cheers, IanS ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: External battery charger
Quoting Jan Henkins : > Hello all, > > Hope somebody can help: > > I perpetrated the "cardinal sin" to let my FR battery run completely > empty, > In the meantime, is there any (non-destructive) way to coax the FR into > life with the flat battery, so that I can charge it? What I've done is boot the Freerunner with the spare battery, plug in the wall charger that came with the Freerunner (or force 500 mA charge on a suitable USB charger supply) then remove the spare battery and put in the FIC battery. The Freerunner will run without battery when the wall charger is plugged in and will charge the FIC battery once it is inserted. IanS ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: New Rasterman Image...
Quoting Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:32:34 -0600, "Ori Pessach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I have a question about the "predictive" keyboard shown in one of those > > movies > > > > --Ori Pessach > > Intended, you just have to understand what it's doing. > > Unlike T9 and other predictive inputs that are familiar from cellphones, > the keyboard predictive process looks at neighboring keys, 'predicting' > that periodically you may hit the wrong one. (if you're using your finger > that's pretty likely, especially if they're as wide as mine) At first look I thought this keyboard was useless. Coming back to it later I started to see how it worked, but still switched to a full dvorak layout with stylus all the time. Seeing this thread I took another look ... stylus ... finger...! Now I love it! I can mash all over the keyboard with my fat fingers and it makes the right words available almost every time! No more squinting in poor light trying to get exactly the right key with the stylus. I think I'll be using this predictive keyboard a lot more. IanS ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GTA03 - buttons or touchscreen
Quoting JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ok Community, > > vote and tell OM what you want for the next phone > 1) touchscreen (no qwerty buttons) - freerunner, HTC Orbit, iphone > 2) qwerty keyboard and tracker ball - blackberry curve > 3) combination touchscreen plus qwerty - G1 > In order of preference; 3) combo : if it's a slide out with big keys ie HTC Touch Pro 1) touchscreen : not quite as deep set as GTA02 2) qwerty & tracker ball : I'd rather not physically reduce screen space IanS ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?
Quoting abatrour : > > Hey, I live in the lower mainland as well. I have om2009 installed and I can > send and receive text messages just fine. I don't do actual calls yet > because I don't have the buzzfix, FYI (in case you weren't aware) you can get the buzz fix from SDG Systems if the phone is sent to them by 15 July. Just pay postage there and shipping back and you get a battery for your trouble. http://sdgsystems.com/estore/cart.php?target=product&product_id=269&category_id=17 (watch the URL-wrap) IanS ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
