another GPS idea - speed-sensitive voicemail

2007-07-28 Thread Mark Eichin
Use case: When I'm walking around, I'll answer the phone. When I'm driving, I won't (one phonecall == two beers worth of distraction)... but am willing to pull over if the caller thinks it's important enough. I shouldn't have to *tell* the phone what mode I'm in: GPS can provide

Re: 3G sim cards

2007-07-28 Thread Mark Eichin
and I am able to make outgoing calls successfully. Even got the audio working after some fuss ;) What fuss in particular? I can play audio with madplay, but have yet to get phone calls to use the speaker (the dialer connects and picks up fine...)

Re: Wiki application list.

2007-07-27 Thread Mark Eichin
In the meantime, here's what I'm finding works: Excellent list. Note that this varies build-to-build, or at least has in the last few days. I tried it out with my sim card, then moved it back to my old phone. I Same here - but after that (being in the US) I just dropped $10 cash at a

Re: Fwd: Wiki application list.

2007-07-27 Thread Mark Eichin
I seem to have wiped out my GPS drivers and applications in my initial flash also. Had to - I didn't know of a way to back up before doing so. Same here - though given that the kernel couldn't find init, I'm not actually convinced that they *were* on the installed rootfs... Of course, I'd

Re: whee!

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Andy Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 26 July 2007 17:08, Mark Eichin wrote: Advanced kit arrived, yay! Batteries and uSD cards were missing, boo! The phone doesn't appear to power up off of the USB cable by itself, either... Not that I want to treat you like a muppet

Re: whee!

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Frederic Kettelhoit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it be possible to get some blueprints of the device? I don't need artist drawing, but it would be really really helpful to get the blueprints for the case (inside and outside) as soon as possible. There are reasonably high res pictures on

Re: whee!

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Mark Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Advanced kit arrived, yay! Batteries and uSD cards were missing, boo! Ok, now I feel stupid. Guess you get to call me a muppet after all :-} The batteries and cards were all wrapped together in one of the foam cutouts. I don't know how I missed

Re: Ubuntu Fiesty Kernel .deb package

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Is gadgetfs separate enough that you can just use module-assistant to build it? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenMoko_under_QEMU#Setting_up_USB_connection I'll note that the later Ubuntu kernels seem to have: CONFIG_USB_GADGET=m # CONFIG_USB_GADGET_DUMMY_HCD is not set CONFIG_USB_GADGETFS=m

Re: whee!

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Marco Barreno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking at that picture, and it looks to me like there are two white batteries in the lower level right by the case handle, next to the MicroSD card(s). If those two white things aren't batteries, what are they? Those look like the batteries,

Re: whee!

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Jason Elwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark, You will find out very soon that the rootfs image you used is badly broken. gta01-20070704215706 has a bug that causes gsmd to not respond. The issue has been corrected in later builds. You can either build it yourself, or I have made a

Re: whee!

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Oh, right, doesn't need the debug board (which I left at home) to just install a new root filesystem: % wget http://buildhost.openmoko.org/tmp/deploy/images/openmoko-devel-image-fic-gta01-20070704215706.rootfs.jffs2 % sudo ./src/host/dfu-util/src/dfu-util -a 5 -R -D

Re: whee!

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Giles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They never do work on USB with no battery, it's just how the electronics are designed. That's good to know. Shame about the missing bits, this may be of interest however: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973_Battery The battery is a one 3.7V

Re: whee!

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Peter Trapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you checked this wiki? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SH1 Before you start The software installed on your device is a factory variant with very limited functionality. In fact, it may not even boot Linux. Therefore, before you start, please ...

Re: Broken Sim Card Reader?

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Harrison Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear community, I received my neo today and have been playing around with it a bunch. I can get any of the phone part of the phone to work. I have been playing around with the GSM AT command set and issuing commands to the modem manually and from

Re: Ubuntu Fiesty Kernel .deb package

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Is gadgetfs separate enough that you can just use module-assistant to build it? William Voorhees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since Ubuntu Fiesty is a pretty common distribution which doesn't encourage custom kernel building is their any possibility of having someone wrap up a .deb package based

whee!

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Advanced kit arrived, yay! Batteries and uSD cards were missing, boo! The phone doesn't appear to power up off of the USB cable by itself, either... ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: whee!

2007-07-26 Thread Mark Eichin
I'm sory to hear that $450 advanced set does not have everything it has to. I wonder if this could be more common thing. Did you try to contact anyone at openmoko? I responded to the RT ticket, reopening it. Hopefully that's a good enough starting point; I was also curious if anyone else saw

Re: Camera on GTA02

2007-07-23 Thread Mark Eichin
It's not the megapixels that matter, it's the quality of the lens and the quality of the CCD/CMOS. Right. My simple version of this is Cameras have lenses - phones, for the most part, don't. This is why, for me, being able to do USB *host* is a killer feature, so I can take *real* pictures

Re: Camera on GTA02

2007-07-23 Thread Mark Eichin
Eric van Horssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark Eichin wrote: It's not the megapixels that matter, it's the quality of the lens and the quality of the CCD/CMOS. Right. My simple version of this is Cameras have lenses - phones, for the most part, don't. This is why, for me, being able

Re: Camera on GTA02

2007-07-23 Thread Mark Eichin
Joshua Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree 100% with Coomac. Sure it would be nice if we had a Digital SLR with us at all times but that is completely impractical. Unless you are some sort of weirdo chances are you are not going to be carrying that large camera around with you

Re: Multi-touch, ...

2007-07-23 Thread Mark Eichin
Obviously multi-touch existed a few years ago (FingerWorks was around Note that Apple *bought* FingerWorks for this technology, and presumably the associated patents. (I have some of the FingerWorks keyboards, they're a great technology on the gesturing side, but as an experienced

Re: Unusual Bluetooth Gadgets?

2007-07-19 Thread Mark Eichin
Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/19/07, Mark Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Rush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was thinking this phone has so many possibilities, and one of them is neat bluetooth gadgets we could make use of. But searching I don't see a lot of innovative

Re: Support for Left handers

2007-07-18 Thread Mark Eichin
Gilles Casse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le dimanche 15 juillet 2007 à 20:43 +0100, Giles Jones a écrit : I don't think the visually impaired would be able to use the device anyway. It is not obvious, but I am confident that with good willing people it will become a reality. The

Re: Neo1973 Update!

2007-06-03 Thread Mark Eichin
Well, GTA-01 is now definitely dead on arrival. Without finished software is hasn't any chance. My bet: it won't be sold at all, nobody would buy it now. GTA-02 will be the first model on sale. Am I correct? Not a chance. It's a common mistake (sometimes called The Osborne Mistake after

USB host connector? (was Re: Battery powered charging/USB hub)

2007-05-13 Thread Mark Eichin
Speaking of USB -- the openmoko has a USB device port on the side (that's being discussed in this thread) and internally has a USB host, according to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Category:Neo1973_Hardware#USB_Host but I what I haven't seen clarified - is the USB host port brought outside at all?