Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-03 Thread Michael Shiloh
with a freerunner have such a card as most other offers for data is more expensive. Michael Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008 08:04:08 schrieb Michael Shiloh: Do we have any other Freerunners who are e-plus customers in Germany? Need to get some information here. Michael Arne Zachlod wrote: Hi

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-03 Thread Michael Shiloh
will send me one. Now i have to wait, but im not sure that this will help me. bye, Arne Michael Shiloh schrieb: Don't give up yet - let's try to gather some more information. If your card is more than a few months old it would be very interesting to try a new card on the very same

Anyone attending Foo Camp?

2008-07-03 Thread Michael Shiloh
I'm setting up an Openmoko hack-a-thon and would love to know if anyone from this list will be there. Michael ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Need screenshots of ASU, FSO

2008-07-03 Thread Michael Shiloh
Can someone point me at any screenshots of ASU and FSO? Thanks, Michael ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-02 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Arne, Who is your network provider? Where are you located? Michael? Arne Zachlod wrote: Hej guys, I had got my today and i have tested it, but my 3G card doesn't function with it. he can't find a network and is unable to get the pin. (i have disabled pin with another phone, then there

Re: Which image

2008-07-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
Jay Vaughan wrote: What would be the best image to use currently. Is the FSO an option? Any advice? In my opinion, try them all and find one you like. There really needs to be a *much* better degree of pimp'atude coming from OpenMoko on the images to run This is my

Re: Inter-Freerunner Connectivity

2008-06-30 Thread Michael Shiloh
Jay Vaughan wrote: And just for fun... Would there be any practical purpose for communicating through the headphone/mic jack? No. AUDIO Routing! Yes! There are practical purposes: multiple freerunners being used to create a symphony of soft-synths, with an audio routing

Re: Convert Freerunner CAD Files - IGES or STEP?

2008-06-30 Thread Michael Shiloh
steve wrote: ask michael or will -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Claus Christmann Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 8:42 AM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: Convert Freerunner CAD Files - IGES or STEP? Please

Re: data collection for GSM coverage mape is COOL idea

2008-06-28 Thread Michael Shiloh
Great idea +1 Fabian Off wrote: Hey, maybe then we should create something like a plugin (or extension) for openstreetmaps, so we can append many kinds of meta-data (such as radar positions, gsm coverage, whatsoever) to existing maps... kinda points of interest (?) :) I think this

Re: FreeRunner Quick Start User Guide

2008-06-27 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hey! This is great. Thanks. I'll check this out. Note that the quickstart guide is due for a serious update. Michael Shakthi Kannan wrote: Hi, I have prepared docbook format documentation for http://quickstart.openmoko.org/. The .xml and generated .html is available from: svn

Openmoko at Irish Open Source Technology Conference

2008-06-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
Sorry for the late notice, but I thought I should let you know that I'll be talking about Openmoko today at the Irish Open Source Technology Conference in Dublin: http://iotc.firstport.ie/lecture/36/ (Since I was traveling and didn't get the description to the conference organizers in time,

Re: Password safe

2008-05-29 Thread Michael Shiloh
Uncle Kridley wrote: Ian Darwin wrote: The only two things I really need the Blackberry for (apart from stable calling :-)) are the password safe (which I have written a replacement for, and others exist)... I'm totally dependent on gnukeyring on my Treo, so this is good news. I'd been

Re: Converting Blackberry contacts into QTopia

2008-05-29 Thread Michael Shiloh
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Ian Darwin wrote: I won't say it was easy or pretty, but I did it. Cool... I want do it also with my Motorola phone importing contacts, SMSs and events from the binary seem files... Maybe I could use some of your advices! Marco, and others: I'm going to

Re: Neo as cellular modem?

2008-05-29 Thread Michael Shiloh
Joerg Reisenweber wrote: hmmm you really have a talent to ask interesting questions I'll take that as a compliment, although most people find it irritating :-) In this case it's actually my job :-) dunno... yet I understand. It's not a trivial question. I know that you won't claim

Re: Neo as cellular modem?

2008-05-29 Thread Michael Shiloh
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008 08:59:10 +0200, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're helpless unless Atheros decided to implement Master mode in their closed firmware. Unfortunately the power advantages of having the bulk of the ieee80211 actions managed in the firmware

Re: Neo as cellular modem?

2008-05-29 Thread Michael Shiloh
Joerg Reisenweber wrote: Am Do 29. Mai 2008 schrieb Michael Shiloh: Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008 08:59:10 +0200, Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're helpless unless Atheros decided to implement Master mode in their closed firmware. Unfortunately the power

Re: Neo as cellular modem?

2008-05-29 Thread Michael Shiloh
if the usb 1.1 doen't allow the 54 Mb/s.it can be very probable that can even use monitor mode with that dongle ;) even without external power it can be doable for a shorts periods of time (well battery will decide the timeframe) --- El *jue, 29/5/08, Michael Shiloh /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/* escribió

Re: Neo as cellular modem?

2008-05-28 Thread Michael Shiloh
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2008 02:15:16 +0200, Matt Mets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might also be cool to have the Freerunner act as a wireless router! Instant (slow) internet anywhere... In ad-hoc network mode only. AFAIK the WiFi chip used in the Freerunner doesn't

[Fwd: u-blox binary protocol boilerplate code]

2008-05-27 Thread Michael Shiloh
Since this question might be of general interest, I've taken the liberty of answering it on the list. Joseph asked about u-blox code, and Andy pointed us to the DM2 test code:

Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-22 Thread Michael Shiloh
Lorn Potter wrote: On Thursday 22 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had some further discussions with headquarters, and have edited my blog to try to explain the new software a little better. The important facts are that the new software: * Switches the Window Manager from

clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
I have had some further discussions with headquarters, and have edited my blog to try to explain the new software a little better. The important facts are that the new software: * Switches the Window Manager from Matchbox to Enlightenment (E17) * Ported Qtopia to Xorg, so it is

ASU: Qtopia PIM info stored in sqlite database

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
Lorn Potter wrote: Qtopia contacts are stored in the sqlite database. Thanks for the info Lorn. Can you tell where the sqlite database is stored or is that not Qtopia determined? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: ASU: Qtopia PIM info stored in sqlite database

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
Thanks Lorn Lorn Potter wrote: On Thursday 22 May 2008 08:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qtopia contacts are stored in the sqlite database. Thanks for the info Lorn. Can you tell where the sqlite database is stored or is that not Qtopia determined? The users database is

Re: Will GTK be used in Openmoko?

2008-05-20 Thread Michael Shiloh
Marc Bantle wrote: ... I am aware that communicating decisions still is a challenging task and can easily leave some parties disaffected, once an organization has reached a certain size. So, no flame here. ... Marc, Very well put. I think this is the best way to read these events. No

Re: ASU software - pre-pre-release impressions

2008-05-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
Ian Darwin wrote: I have been using a FreeRunner for a few days with a pre-pre-alpha snapshot of the ASU software. For those who have been off-list for a while, or who have not been looking at the Wiki much, the April Software Update switches the Window Manager from matchbox to Enlightenment

My Openmoko blog is aimed at helping Freerunner users get started

2008-05-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
I've just posted about the software update that has been discussed here today, so I figured I'd take this opportunity to tell you all about my blog: gettingstartedopenmoko.wordpress.com I welcome comments but please be gentle. I'm new to blogging. Seriously, feedback and suggestions

Re: My Openmoko blog is aimed at helping Freerunner users get started

2008-05-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
blogging is great :) -- Brandon Kruse On May 19, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just posted about the software update that has been discussed here today, so I figured I'd take this opportunity to tell you all about my blog: gettingstartedopenmoko.wordpress.com I

Re: My Openmoko blog is aimed at helping Freerunner users get started

2008-05-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
14:54:56 -0700 Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just posted about the software update that has been discussed here today, so I figured I'd take this opportunity to tell you all about my blog: gettingstartedopenmoko.wordpress.com I welcome comments but please be gentle. I'm

Re: Freerunner on a Mac ...

2008-05-16 Thread Michael Shiloh
Christ van Willegen wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Rod Whitby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point was that the dfu-util program used to flash the Openmoko device is a very portable utility, and can be compiled on just about any reasonable OS, including OS-X. In fact, it's already

Re: Searching OpenMoko Archives

2008-05-15 Thread Michael Shiloh
Very nice. Can you pop this onto the wiki? Thanks, Michael Andrew Bruno wrote: Thought this might be of some interest to the community. I contacted the guys over at MarkMail, a search engine for mailing list archives and they kindly loaded the OpenMoko lists. They have a slick web interface

Re: IAX2/Asterisk + Openmoko FreeRunner

2008-05-15 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Brandon, Thanks for the update. This might be the excuse I'm looking for to set up Asterisk at home. Although I tested your phone before I sent it to you. Unless I made a mistake, it worked then. What concerns me is that I do have one other phone that doesn't seem to take sound in via

Re: Seat in embedded Linux training session offered to a contributor

2008-05-15 Thread Michael Shiloh
Wow. That's very generous. I should expect someone will be able to take advantage of this. I know I've seen a couple of community members with addresses in Nice. Thanks for your support of Openmoko! Michael Michael Opdenacker wrote: Hello, This could be useful for contributors to the

Re: The most baffling part of the GTA02 Quickstart page...

2008-05-14 Thread Michael Shiloh
Not to spam the list, but to add to the quickstart web page. It's perfect Ian. Your camera is much better than mine at closeups. Thanks Ian, Michael Ian Darwin wrote: Micheal have your daughter do a video for the page. ... is the MicroSD card. Having had my mitts on a pre-release GTA02

Re: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May)

2008-05-14 Thread Michael Shiloh
Julian wrote: Guillaume Chereau : It worked on my computer, but I check again now and you are right : it uses the host header files. It just appends to work on my computer because I have all the header files in my host computer already (for example in your case I think you need to install the

Re: Quickstart web page my first manual readed before product release

2008-05-14 Thread Michael Shiloh
David Samblas Martinez wrote: Since I was a young wannabe I like to read manuals, I allways remember my first full specification readding at 13 years reading the full Epson ms-dos manuals (full command list especification included) 1 night before I can even start my first computer (an 8086)

Re: Alarmclock puzzle

2008-05-13 Thread Michael Shiloh
Way off-topic, but the best alarm clock I've ever seen is one that shoots a little flying disc out of the top when the alarm goes off. You have to get out of bed, find the disc (perhaps this would encourage my daughter to clean up her room before going to bed?), and insert it correctly in the

Re: Alarmclock puzzle

2008-05-13 Thread Michael Shiloh
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Michael Shiloh writes: Way off-topic, but the best alarm clock I've ever seen is one that shoots a little flying disc out of the top when the alarm goes off. You have to get out of bed, find the disc (perhaps this would encourage my daughter to clean up her room before

Re: Alarmclock puzzle

2008-05-13 Thread Michael Shiloh
+1 Very clever. This is the kind of innovation I look forward to from this group. It should be possible to distinguish between intentional shaking and being thrown across the room, which would not reset the snooze but would keep on ringing. Arne Kristian Jansen wrote: Or you could use

Neo to Physical Devices (was: Re: Alarmclock puzzle)

2008-05-13 Thread Michael Shiloh
award 5 t-shirts for this! Mo Abrahams wrote: So, will there be one of these plastic disc slots in the freerunner? or do we have to wait till the next gen of openmoko? =P On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 08:55 -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote: Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Michael Shiloh writes: Way off-topic, but the best

Re: Alarmclock puzzle (Slightly OT)

2008-05-13 Thread Michael Shiloh
Years ago I imagined such a pill with a known delay (e.g. the time it would take for the outer casing to dissolve). Pills would be available with different delays (different thickness of casing). Thus, you would take a caffeine tablet with say an 8 hour delay and go to sleep. 8 hours later

Re: Alarmclock puzzle

2008-05-13 Thread Michael Shiloh
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Michael Shiloh writes: Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Michael Shiloh writes: Way off-topic, but the best alarm clock I've ever seen is one that shoots a little flying disc out of the top when the alarm goes off. You have to get out of bed, find the disc (perhaps this would

Re: Caffeine

2008-05-13 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hugo Mills wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:36:58AM -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote: Years ago I imagined such a pill with a known delay (e.g. the time it would take for the outer casing to dissolve). Pills would be available with different delays (different thickness of casing). Thus, you

Flexible software (was: Re: Alarmclock puzzle)

2008-05-13 Thread Michael Shiloh
I always start with the assumption that EVERYTHING should be designed to be pluginable by default, and only fixed if there are compelling reasons to do so. Alexander Fr?yseth wrote: Good idea Nice Piotr Duda skrev: with all these crazy ideas Im begining to think, that maybe OM alarm clock

Re: A few questions about the games

2008-05-12 Thread Michael Shiloh
yeah, but pacman has cooler sounds. i want those for my ringtone. ian douglas wrote: There's another real-world game involving getting a marble through a maze without dropping through holes by tilting the maze-board to get the marble to the end of the maze. Sounds like it'd be a good game

Re: Freerunner games

2008-05-12 Thread Michael Shiloh
+1 for both of these. I can see Snake like this being quite exciting. I will award a t-shirt for a decent implementation of either of these. Same for the Labyrinth game. Start coding. You'll be getting your Freerunners soon(ish)* Michael * for some definition of soon Ron K. Jeffries wrote:

Re: Freerunner games

2008-05-12 Thread Michael Shiloh
Another t-shirt for this one! Michael Heinrich wrote: Something like this? http://sketchesapp.com/Home.html Michael On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Ron K. Jeffries [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Etch-a-sketch using accelerometers would rock the classic Snake

Re: When will you update the Production Status, steve?

2008-05-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
And then we will buy each other a tall cold beer, and brace for the flood steve wrote: You're welcome matt. When the product hits the floor in Fremont California I will drive to the wharehouse. I will review the incoming QA. And then I will announce to you guys, open the shop and take

Re: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-05 Thread Michael Shiloh
How about a stylus holder for the rear window of your pickup truck? steve wrote: I’m goingto fashion a vertically mounted gun rack type holder on my back panel. Have you used emachine shop? * From: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Crane, Matthew

Re: mobile gps gaming

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
Was this organized by the group area code? M ian douglas wrote: Robin Paulson wrote: i just listened to an interesting piece on the bbc about gps gaming on mobile phones: There was a group of people in some major American city a year or so ago that played a city-wide game of PacMan using

Re: youtube freerunner vid is up

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
When you get your Rreerunner, you are welcome to hand it over to your kids/parents/dog/whatever to do the review for you :-) Just be sure to post the video Michael Steven ** wrote: If you've been reading steve's emails ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), he said he handed a Freerunner over to his sons

Re: Community Update???

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
Justyn Butler wrote: 2008/4/29 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyway I do prefer they're working on shipping the Frerunners to us, than on writing here... Michael Shiloh is the community manager - he keeps the community updated so the devs don't have to take time off from

Re: youtube freerunner vid is up

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
I was going to challenge my daughter (age 13) and her friends to improve upon the video done by your boys, but now I'm not so sure. At least she can't drive to Weird Stuff yet.. Michael steve wrote: Well it was fun thing. I didn’t tell them what to do. After a few Days I bugged them

Re: 10 PACK UPDATE!!!

2008-04-28 Thread Michael Shiloh
Ok, everyone, this type of content must stop right away. It will not be tolerated. Michael David Samblas Martinez wrote: We maybe must stop this or freerunner will be the first mobile phone with a PARENTAL ADVISORY tag in its case. :) In oderside it can be a very agresive marketing campaing

Re: 10 PACK UPDATE!!!

2008-04-27 Thread Michael Shiloh
I'm going to talk to Steve and see if there isn't some way to combine some of you into one order. Is it easier to ship electronic goods from one of your country to the other, with regards to import duty etc.? What about Jordan? Michael Flyin_bbb8 wrote: well mohamed hazem i'm also left

Re: 10 PACK UPDATE!!!

2008-04-25 Thread Michael Shiloh
Mohamed, Where are you located? Perhaps we can combine you with something. Michael Mohamed Hazem wrote: What about us the poor people with no one around interested in the FreeRunner ... How are we going to get our pouches and earphones ? On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Flemming Richter

Re: photographs of box and POSSIBLE contents of Neo Freerunner

2008-04-25 Thread Michael Shiloh
Somehow appropriate that an archaeologist ended up with this one :-) Michael Joseph Reeves wrote: Number 83 is my favourite: http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/20080425 ;) On 21/04/2008, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember, Steve is still deciding what to include

Re: What US plans are people using?

2008-04-24 Thread Michael Shiloh
I have a further question, perhaps best for someone who knows something about how the cellphone system operates: I notice that with my T-Mobile SIM card, my GTA01 camps on the home network, but my ATT card shows roaming. Is it possible that in roaming mode, the system keeps scanning and

Re: What US plans are people using?

2008-04-23 Thread Michael Shiloh
ian douglas wrote: Travis Tabbal wrote: This implies that a GTA01bv4 can NOT use 850 mhz. But my Neo1973 works PERFECTLY in the USA, which means either it DOES support 850mhz OR that the LACK of 850mhz is irrelevant. As I understand it, 850 will matter or not depending on where

Improved page of photographs of Freerunner

2008-04-23 Thread Michael Shiloh
Thanks to Mikael Lammentausta, quickstart.openmoko.com/photographs now has a web page and thumbnails, and slightly reduced big images that still capture the essence. Thank you Mikael! (The huge originals are at quickstart.openmoko.com/photographs.originals in case you want to use them for

Re: Steve on V5 versus v6

2008-04-22 Thread Michael Shiloh
steve wrote: Anybody can take a seam ripper to the old pouch and reverse engineer it. Hmm. That's a problem, perhaps I should have people sign EULAs to prevent pouch poaching. *Groan!* ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Steve on V5 versus v6

2008-04-22 Thread Michael Shiloh
Ian Darwin wrote: steve wrote: Anybody can take a seam ripper to the old pouch and reverse engineer it. Hmm. That's a problem, perhaps I should have people sign EULAs to prevent pouch poaching. Apparently the dog you see reflected in one of Michael's preliminary photos did chew up one of

Re: Steve on V5 versus v6

2008-04-22 Thread Michael Shiloh
ian douglas wrote: Ian Darwin wrote: steve wrote: Anybody can take a seam ripper to the old pouch and reverse engineer it. Hmm. That's a problem, perhaps I should have people sign EULAs to prevent pouch poaching. Apparently the dog you see reflected in one of Michael's preliminary photos

photographs of box and POSSIBLE contents of Neo Freerunner

2008-04-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
Remember, Steve is still deciding what to include in the box. These are just a bunch of stuff that fit, from which he is making decisions: http://quickstart.openmoko.org/photographs/ If someone with more skills than me at web page design would like to turn this into a nice web page with

Re: photographs of box and POSSIBLE contents of Neo Freerunner

2008-04-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
- Richard Reichenbacher escribió: The pictures are too small. Can you make post up bigger ones? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Shiloh Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 12:38 PM To: List for OpenMoko community discussion Subject: photographs

Re: Steve on V5 versus v6

2008-04-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, steve wrote: The pouch, alas, did not fit into the box. When Michael gets his photos done, or my spawn get their video done, then you will see that we have greatly reduced the size of the box. Partly for aesthetics, and partly to create a product

Re: photographs of box and POSSIBLE contents of Neo Freerunner

2008-04-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
Anyone wishing to send me a better camera is welcome to do so :-) Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot for those photographs helping us waiting for the device. PS : Your camera doesn't seem to be a very good one ;) Michael Shiloh a écrit : Remember, Steve is still deciding what

Re: 99

2008-04-20 Thread Michael Shiloh
So with every n Neos you get a free beer? A weird frequent buyer program? Peter Kraker wrote: I see those 2€ as some kind of twisted way of openmoko giving me a free beer ;) Alexey Feldgendler pravi: The prices for GTA02 and the debug board are $399 and $99, respectively. While there's

Neo Freerunner Quickstart Guide

2008-04-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
Since Steve dropped the hint that I've been working on a user guide of sorts for the Neo Freerunner, some of you have been asking me about it, so we've decided to push it to the website before it's really ready. The intended audience is a reasonably technical developer, but a newcomer to the

Re: Neo Freerunner Quickstart Guide

2008-04-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
and install).. Looks good so far... Regards Neil Davey Michael Shiloh wrote: Since Steve dropped the hint that I've been working on a user guide of sorts for the Neo Freerunner, some of you have been asking me about it, so we've decided to push it to the website before it's really ready

Re: Neo Freerunner Quickstart Guide

2008-04-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
Andy Powell wrote: On Saturday 19 April 2008 08:04, Michael Shiloh wrote: Since Steve dropped the hint that I've been working on a user guide of sorts for the Neo Freerunner, some of you have been asking me about it, so we've decided to push it to the website before it's really ready

Re: Neo Freerunner Quickstart Guide

2008-04-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Alexey, I appreciate your input. Comments below: Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:04:49 +0200, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you will see, I have a lot more to fill in, but I would welcome your feedback on what is already there, and suggestions for topics you

Re: Charging Neo Freerunner via USB port

2008-04-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Michael Shiloh wrote: Andy Powell wrote: On Friday 18 April 2008 18:34, Michael Shiloh wrote: The Neo Freerunner can charge most rapidly when it can pull 1 Amp from the power supply connected to the USB socket. However, not all chargers or computers can

Re: Freerunner will be GTA02v5 or GTA02v6?

2008-04-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
I'll ask Steve to say something about this. He's much more in the loop regarding our manufacturing process than I am. Michael Tim Niemeyer wrote: Hello Michael Shiloh, can you please clear this? * Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [18-04-08 17:45]: I'm re-posting here some mails

Re: Charging Neo Freerunner via USB port

2008-04-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
specific charger which is incompatible with anything else. Michael Shiloh wrote: In summary, the Neo can charge at 3 different rates: 100mA, 500mA, and 1A. Just to be absolutely clear, are these 3 rates hardwired into the circuitry? I'm pretty sure this is all software, but might depend

Re: Getting Things Done with Openmoko

2008-04-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
There's a whole cult around this book. Isn't lifehacker essentially an offshoot? Hans L wrote: Oh there's also this video of the author David Allen discussing GTD at Google. I decided to get the book after watching this video. I think he makes a lot of good points.

Re: Getting Things Done with Openmoko

2008-04-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hans L wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a whole cult around this book. Isn't lifehacker essentially an offshoot? I think cult is a harsh word with very negative connotations. I'm not sure why you consider it a cult. Because a lot

Re: Neo Freerunner Quickstart Guide

2008-04-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Powell Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 1:03 AM To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: Neo Freerunner Quickstart Guide On Saturday 19 April 2008 08:04, Michael Shiloh wrote: Since Steve dropped the hint that I've been working on a user guide of sorts for the Neo

Charging Neo Freerunner via USB port

2008-04-18 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi everyone, With input from the experts who designed the system, I've tried to document precisely how charging works on the Neo Freerunner. I welcome your feedback: The Neo Freerunner charges the battery when 5VDC is provided at the USB port, whether from a computer USB port or from a

Community Member of the Week winner for Week 2, Monday, 7 April

2008-04-18 Thread Michael Shiloh
First, my apologies for being late again. Second, thanks all of you who nominated and voted, and thanks to the nominees for their excellent contributions. All of you did excellent work, whether nominated or not, winners or not. The winner for Week 2, which started Monday, 7 April is Kevin Dean,

Re: Charging Neo Freerunner via USB port

2008-04-18 Thread Michael Shiloh
Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:06:26 +0200, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * you mention 'other manufacturers' that 'identify their own chargers' with various resistors... if I have one of those chargers, is there a way to get the phone to ID

Re: Charging Neo Freerunner via USB port

2008-04-18 Thread Michael Shiloh
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: This could be done even more simple: - Download and install the program - Connect the charger with the unknown resistor - Click on the button Get charger ID - If a valid charger ID is found, the button Add this charger becomes clickable, else it is grayed

Re: Charging Neo Freerunner via USB port

2008-04-18 Thread Michael Shiloh
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: On 4/18/08, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This could be done even more simple: - Download and install the program - Connect the charger with the unknown resistor - Click on the button Get charger ID - If a valid charger ID is found,

Re: HAPPY DANCE version .9. Teenagers stop fighting!

2008-04-17 Thread Michael Shiloh
Actually I had stopped thinking about pictures once you told me they had found the charging station. But I can take some pictures. Michael steve wrote: hehe. Michael will probably post some pictures before the clowns figure out the camera power cord problem ( then again, they did make a call

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-15 Thread Michael Shiloh
charge me. | | | | | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Shiloh | Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 1:33 PM | To: List for Openmoko community discussion | Subject: Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update | | My daughter requests pink. | | Maybe

Custom cable and custom charger (was: Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update)

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Shiloh
IIRC, the custom cable is actually part of the charger, i.e. charger and cable is one unit. If you think about it, this makes sense: If the cable were a separate unit, you might plug the cable by accident into a charger (or worse, your laptop) that could not deliver 1 Amp, the phone would

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Shiloh
I use toothpicks. Free in most restaurants, every Swiss army knife has one, and impossible to accidentally shine the laser into your eye. :-) steve wrote: Ha, Dont go encouraging me with wacky ideas I like. *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *JW *Sent:*

Re: What should be included in packaging

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Shiloh
I'm working on the official documentation, and this topic will certainly be covered. The official documentation will not be on the wiki, for this reason. Regarding power issues, it turns out it's very hard to nail this down. I have been gathering information and hope soon to have it all

Re: FreeRunner Pricing and PVT update

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Shiloh
My daughter requests pink. Maybe the only one. I suggest we make them all white and include a pack of magic markers, so you can color them any color you wish, or decorate to your heart's content. Half jokingly, Michael steve wrote: Ok, Well I apologize for killing the orange/white

Re: CAD file

2008-04-09 Thread Michael Shiloh
It's a packaging problem. I think whoever created the original zip file must have had the files twice, so the second copy got the .1 extension. I'll fix that when I get a chance. Meanwhile, simply rename it to remove the .1 extension: mv gtc02-msh01.prt.1 gtc02-msh01.prt or whatever

Re: Hardware update

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Steven, It is my understanding that this is the intention, but I haven't yet received positive confirmation. I'll try to get an answer soon. Michael Steven Kurylo wrote: PVT testing is in process, and I'll ask Steve to send an update within the next few days. A little while ago when I

Re: openmoko on ebay, usb board works with gta2?

2008-04-04 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Matthew, I have checked with the experts. GTA01 debug board will work with GTA02 (Freerunner), with some exceptions: 1. You can not program NOR FLASH 2. I2C and SPI aren’t available on the debug board The main functions, JTAG and serial console, will be just fine. And you CAN program NAND

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Shiloh
Andy Powell wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2008 17:01, Michael Shiloh wrote: snip By the way, if someone nicely documents step 3, including the resistor value, and how to identify which wires go to which pins, with excellent drawings or photographs, I'll nominate that for a developer of the week

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Shiloh
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Michael Shiloh ha scritto: A generic solution can be built this way: 1. Locate a generic USB car charger e.g. http://www.daydeal.com/product.php?productid=10892. Make sure it can supply at least 1A. Note in my example that the specs don't say

Re: Community announcement: poll for Openmoko Community Member of the Week

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
or not. Michael Sven Klomp wrote: Great idea, Michael! I don't know how the voting should be handled. However, I want to start with a nomination: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Member_of_the_Week Greetings Sven On Friday 28 March 2008 19:32:22 Michael Shiloh wrote: Dear community, I'd

Re: support win mobile

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
ROTFL! John Lee wrote: Dear Community, A decision has been made _today_ that Openmoko is going to support Windows mobile. We, the distribution team, want to provide our customers the maximum freedom in choosing whatever platform they want, even the close source ones. We will make necessary

Re: support win mobile

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
ROTFLMAO! Ryan Prior wrote: This really shows how little the OpenMoko community understands the Neo. Why port Windows Mobile when we could be porting Windows 3.1? Windows 3.1 is a lightweight OS which has excellent application support from a broad and stable base of industry, and which has

Re: Wireless charger for Neo

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
That is priceless. Too good! Thanks for the laugh, Michael Alexey Feldgendler wrote: Hello! Some mobile phone vendors are now looking into wireless charging. A wireless charger technology is more user-friendly than the traditional wired phone chargers. However, users will only truly benefit

Re: FreeRunner mass market phone, status?

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Matt and all of you, I'll be meeting with Steve on Thursday and will ask him for an update. He's usually in touch with the factory and finds out how things are going. Michael Matt Manjos wrote: Well, the mass market phone itself won't be available for a long time. The next date should be

The problem with non-standard USB charging (was: Re: Price of the Freerunner spare parts)

2008-03-28 Thread Michael Shiloh
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the big problem is that there is no standard for reporting current capacity other than the USB protocol, which is not supported by dumb chargers. What this means is that the various tricks that we and others play (shorting unused data pins, adding

Community announcement: poll for Openmoko Community Member of the Week

2008-03-28 Thread Michael Shiloh
Dear community, I'd like to initiate a weekly poll for you, our community, to nominate a fellow community member who has contributed substantially to the project, whether an application, a bug fix, testing work, How-To guide, whatever. The intent is clearly to identify and appreciate those

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