Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-19 Thread Jim Ancona
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Christoph Pulster openm...@pulster.de wrote: Please note Android is a Google(TM) product. TM stands for total monopol. Or terrible monster. Google is evil. Android is no free OS. By what definition of free is Android not a free OS? Jim

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-19 Thread Jim Ancona
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:43 PM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: Please note Android is a Google(TM) product. TM stands for total monopol. Or terrible monster. Google is evil. Android is no free OS. By what definition of free is Android not a free OS? by free as in speech. it's not

Re: T-mobile even more plus

2010-06-22 Thread Jim Ancona
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: Hi, I want to get a t-mobile even more plus unlimited data plan in the USA. Is there anyone with hands on experience with this plan? It says, unlimited web access, does that mean unlimited access to web sites, or can i

Re: Two queries about Android installation

2010-04-26 Thread Jim Ancona
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.comwrote: On 24 April 2010 21:59, James Ancona j...@anconafamily.com wrote: The installer puts all of Android in NAND. After installation the SD card is only used for extra storage (web downloads, media, etc.) Any FAT

Re: [Android] Help needed: adb, WiFi and terminal

2010-01-25 Thread Jim Ancona
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Åsmund Stavdahl smu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello fellow Openmokonians, I recently installed Android on my FR, and so far I am very pleased with it's performance. Sadly I am having some problems: 1.: I have trouble connecting my Android to Ubuntu Karmic. This is

Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR

2010-01-07 Thread Jim Ancona
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2010, 17:28 +0100 schrieb Laszlo KREKACS: What do you think which mobile phone has the most likeliness to RE or somehow put fso on it? - Google Nexus http://www.google.com/phone/

Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR

2010-01-06 Thread Jim Ancona
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Laszlo KREKACS laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com wrote: What do you think which mobile phone has the most likeliness to RE or somehow put fso on it? - Google Nexus http://www.google.com/phone/ The Nexus One has an unlockable bootloader built-in--just agree to the

Re: [freerunner] data plan USA

2009-11-11 Thread Jim Ancona
ATT (formerly Cingular) has prepaid voice and data. The details of the various plans are on their web site at: http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/go-phones/pyg-plans-phones.jsp They offer two add-on data feature packages: 1 mb for $4.99 100 mb for 19.99 More detail on the feature

Re: Some questions about android on Freerunner

2009-11-10 Thread Jim Ancona
, 2009 at 01:00:34PM -0500, Jim Ancona wrote: It appears that Google is actively blocking access to Google Code from Iran and several other countries. See their TOS: http://code.google.com/tos.html and these threads on their groups list: http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting/search

Re: new Android Cupcake release for Freerunner

2009-10-13 Thread Jim Ancona
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Steven ** montg...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Jim Ancona j...@anconafamily.com wrote: And in fact, almost all of the (non-Google) apps I've tried seem to run on my Freerunner. Jim Although not necessarily well. I tried some puzzle

Re: new Android Cupcake release for Freerunner

2009-10-12 Thread Jim Ancona
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Levy levy.santa...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 20:34, Aditya Gandhi aditya...@gmail.com wrote: That is so sad to hear google android without maps, gmail, etc... is there anyway to get those binaries and have them run on freerunner?? One time I

Re: new Android Cupcake release for Freerunner

2009-10-12 Thread Jim Ancona
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: On Monday 12 October 2009, Levy wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 20:34, Aditya Gandhi aditya...@gmail.com wrote: That is so sad to hear google android without maps, gmail, etc... is there anyway to get those

Re: new Android Cupcake release for Freerunner

2009-09-22 Thread Jim Ancona
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen tin...@gmail.com wrote: Is there instructions for installing Android manually on your SD card anywhere? There isn't yet. You can follow this issue if you want to know when an SD installable version is available:

Re: DANGER, koolu's Qi is incompatible with other systems (was: Re: new Android Cupcake release for Freerunner)

2009-09-21 Thread Jim Ancona
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com wrote: Niels Heyvaert nielsheyva...@hotmail.com writes: ... It installs the Qi bootloader, reboots, the kernel, reboots, then installs the system image. I want to warn everybody that the Qi version provided by Koolu is some

Re: Android Donut on FreeRunner (was Re: Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS) on Neo FreeRunner + Debian)

2009-08-21 Thread Jim Ancona
AFAIK, Michael still hasn't published his changes in a public repository. To improve the speed of the Koolu build, see the patch in this email: http://android.koolu.org/pipermail/android-freerunner-koolu.org/2009-July/001149.html Jim On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Chris

Re: good bye google code

2009-07-21 Thread Jim Ancona
If your code is released under an open source license, _anyone_ can keep it even if you don't want them to. By applying a FLOSS license to your code, you gave everyone in the world that right. Jim On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Patryk Benderzpatryk.bend...@esp.pl wrote: You can. I have done -

Re: root almighty

2009-05-19 Thread Jim Ancona
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:23:38AM -0700, Gothnet wrote: What's proprietary about android? The DRM locking you out of applying changes to phones. The excuse of oh, its the phone maker/operator that does it is a

Re: root almighty

2009-05-19 Thread Jim Ancona
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org wrote: Well, since Freedom 0 is hampered in practice, as well as freedom 3, and without freedoms 0 and 3, 1 and 2 aren't of much use, I can't label software oriented towards being DRM friendly as Free Software, in practice.

Re: Debuzzing

2009-04-30 Thread Jim Ancona
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org wrote: Am 28.04.2009 um 22:30 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: 2) Therefore we plan to offer this service to all Openmoko owners within the EU harmonized market / tax union (to avoid re-import/ export hassle).

Re: [android] com.android.phone unexpectedly quits

2009-04-29 Thread Jim Ancona
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Braydon Fuller cour...@braydon.com wrote: Hi, I am running Koolu B6 on my Freerunner, and have been getting com.android.phone unexpectedly quits error popups many times. Any ideas on how to patch/fix this? I've seen this with beta6 after setting up an APN for

Re: Android on freerunner, GUI responsiveness

2009-04-27 Thread Jim Ancona
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio jldoming...@prodevelop.es wrote: Hi List. To those who have installed Android on the Freerunner: how responsive is the GUI? Is the Google maps application available? If so, is the panning (for maps and menu lists) as smooth as with 

Re: Sean's speech at ESC about making a 3G device

2009-04-02 Thread Jim Ancona
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: He also explains what it would take to put 3G in the phones, saying that they'd do it (but the 3G part would be closed) if a customer put in a large enough order (ie 50,000 units). You've just convinced me that,

Re: Freerunner, Jalimo, rxtx, GPS

2009-03-05 Thread Jim Ancona
You don't say which distro you are trying this on, but my guess is that you are fighting with gpsd or frameworkd for access to the GPS serial port. You probably should be talking to gpsd/ogpsd or via dbus to the framework, rather than directly to the serial port. Jim On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:48

Re: Spam

2009-01-23 Thread Jim Ancona
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Steve 'dillo Okay armad...@gothpunk.com wrote: Hmmm. It would appear that somebody's desktop system or server has been compromised. No, looking at the headers, almost certainly not. Someone simply forged Mickey's address using their email client. I receive

Re: [android] inital thoughts

2009-01-22 Thread Jim Ancona
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Davide Scaini dsca...@gmail.com writes: which boot loader? (is there a version of uboot already patched for kernels of more than 1.8mb?) U-boot has been able to load large kernels from ext2 for a long time

Re: [Android] Can't boot from current git

2008-12-18 Thread Jim Ancona
Radek Polak wrote: Hi, yesterday i updated and built latest adnroid sources from http://git.koolu.org/. While the previous versions were working fine, this one does not boot. It hangs somewhere in init. These are last lines i see: init: cannot find '/system/bin/playmp3', disabling

Re: [android] How can I configure WLAN and Bluetooth on Android/Freerunner

2008-12-11 Thread Jim Ancona
이종국 wrote: Hi, I'm using Android/Freerunner built by following the instructions described in http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Android#Building_the_Koolu_Android_Source. That is, I'm using a system image from Koolu, and the kernel from andy-tracking. Everything looks good until now.

Re: [android] Maps application

2008-12-08 Thread Jim Ancona
Cédric Berger wrote: I see no reason why google would not allow the use of this API. Not open sourcing it is one thing, but it is an important piece of their framework, and their goal is to spread the use of android and its applications... I agree completely! Now if someone from Google would

Re: [android] Building Android from the Koolu Source

2008-12-05 Thread Jim Ancona
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Have you been able to get the emulator working with the build sysimage? In my experience, the emulator came up but the phone stays always with a black screen while my CPU us over-used. I've waited some minutes but nothing happens... Is this maybe due to the

[android] Building Android from the Koolu Source

2008-12-04 Thread Jim Ancona
I've been able to successfully build an Android rootfs from the Koolu repository. When flashed to my phone with the kernel that Sean provided, it runs with just about the same set of issues as the images that Sean has put up. I've documented how I did it on the wiki at:

Re: First impressions on new Android rootfs

2008-12-02 Thread Jim Ancona
Cédric Berger wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 14:27, Gothnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Improvements since the first release are evident, the graphics are now pretty glitch free where they used to occasionally flicker. However, since the last image I flashed, bluetooth has stopped working, I now

Koolu announces open-source Android port

2008-12-02 Thread Jim Ancona
Just noticed this on the Koolu site: http://koolu.com/Press-Release/ Koolu is proud to announce availability of Google's Android Platform source code for the Openmoko phone FreeRunner. ... The code will be located in a git repository at git.koolu.org and the instructions and other information

Re: [Android] Soft keyboard

2008-11-20 Thread Jim Ancona
Denis Galvão wrote: What about this soft keyboard? http://groups.google.com/group/android-dotphone/ This one requires that programs be modified in order to use it. So it can't be used with Android's built-in programs, unless you first modify their source and rebuild them. Walter's keyboard

Re: [Android] Soft keyboard

2008-11-20 Thread Jim Ancona
Yann neveu wrote: Does anybody know if i can make the rootfs rw to allow change system apps? adb remount is supposed to do it, but doesn't seem to work on my device. Instead, it returns remount failed: Unknown error: 0. Besides the suggestion of booting another distro from SD and updating

MokoMakefile make toolchain error

2008-11-05 Thread Jim Ancona
I'm trying to use MokoMafile to build a toolchain (make toolchain), and I'm getting the error below. I can do other operation (e.g. make image) without errors. Thanks in advance for any help! Jim NOTE: package meta-toolchain-openmoko-1.0: started NOTE: package meta-toolchain-openmoko-1.0-r1:

Re: RFC: split away 'open sourced' Android in a new mailing list (was: Re: Android open sourced)

2008-11-04 Thread Jim Ancona
Marcel wrote: At least it's not as open as it could be. (Of course this is Google's software and their decision, but I don't think Android is as open as in free software.) By what definition of free software does Android not qualify? Another suggestion: treat Android like every other

Re: Need help to run java apps on openmoko

2008-10-31 Thread Jim Ancona
Peter Neubauer wrote: Mmh, it seems your jvm is not finding the Java base classes. Do you ave Classpath installed? You could try to explicitly point out the classes.zip file of your JRE using cacao -cp PATH/TO/classes.zip .jar myJar.jar HTH, probably others on this list know more ... I

Re: Android open sourced

2008-10-28 Thread Jim Ancona
Peter Neubauer wrote: Thanks for the fast reply, will keep an eye on that! Some more links: Ben Leslie's blog: http://benno.id.au/blog/ Google's android-porting mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting Jim ___ Openmoko

Re: Android open sourced

2008-10-21 Thread Jim Ancona
Didier Raboud wrote: Hey... it says open-source (you can read the code) not free software (you can do whatever you want)... It appears to be Open Source in the sense that it uses OSI-approved licenses, Apache 2.0 for most code, GPL for kernel patches. Note that both of those licenses are

Re: Android open sourced

2008-10-21 Thread Jim Ancona
Tarandeep Gill wrote: What my belief is that the Linux license means that anyone who obtains a copy of the Linux Kernel in binary form, irrespective of how they obtained that copy, has a right to the source code used to build that exact Linux kernel binary. Derivative works of the Linux kernel

Re: Android open sourced

2008-10-21 Thread Jim Ancona
Jim Morris wrote: I suspect there will be kernel work required, I'm more comfortable with Java so will work on that end, any volunteers to work on the kernel part of Android? I believe there was a working kernel port last year: http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/21/android-neo1973 The problem

Re: Idea for Openmoko application: Tide updates

2008-09-17 Thread Jim Ancona
Michael Shiloh wrote: Surfers, fisherpeople, and I'm sure others care about the tides. Turns out there are websites and applications that provide this data. For a nice review: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003037.php Something like this would seem to be ideal for Openmoko,

Invicta Wireless?

2008-08-12 Thread Jim Ancona
Has anyone heard of/bought from these guys? http://invicta.myshopify.com/products/neo-freerunner I found them on Google Shopping. Their live chat said they didn't have the Freerunner in stock, but they expected it in about two weeks. Jim ___

Re: Android

2008-08-10 Thread Jim Ancona
arne anka wrote: sure? i expected the embeddedubuntu people to embrace the freerunner as first really available device -- but they still do their stuff for armv5 There seems to be a lot of interest in running Android on other platforms (see the android-internals group[1] and this post[2]),

Re: Android

2008-08-09 Thread Jim Ancona
Martin Vyšný wrote: We have two options: either wait for Dalvik to be open-sourced and recompiled on ARM4, or wait for android.jar to be open-sourced and modified to run on top of Cocoa+SWT. Either way, we just have to wait :) Correct! My guess is that once Google releases the source,