Re: Mapless GPS

2008-05-22 Thread W.Kenworthy
Cetus GPS (http://www.cetusgps.dk/ - for Palm) is a good implementation of this (see web page above for screenshots). Also keeps a track history every few seconds and has some other options like averaging to get a reasonably accurate reading vs a rough and ready. Speed is dead accurate (or my

Re: GTA03 case should incorporate stylus holder

2008-06-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
As I have short, fat fingers stylii are are a neccessay evil - I find fingers on most smart phones a pain. The only evilness my stylii have is a propensity to hide when they are really needed! - they are so so much faster than my fingers on a treo650 for instance :) And trying to use the dialler

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

2008-06-11 Thread W.Kenworthy
Is there an 'official' designation of the target market for the GTA03? i.e., freerunner is geeks/early adopters BillK ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

bands

2008-06-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
How is the freerunner switched between the two frequency band triplets? Software, new image, link, factory only, ... Asking because what happens if you move carriers and they support the other combination? BillK ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: bands

2008-06-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
:( Thanks, Billk On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 03:01 +0200, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: Am Fr 27. Juni 2008 schrieb W.Kenworthy: How is the freerunner switched between the two frequency band triplets? Software, new image, link, factory only, ... Asking because what happens if you move

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
Another data point. I dont have my FR yet, but looking at this thread got me to fire up an external bluetooth BT74R GPS and connect it to my treo650 using cetus gps to display a satellite map. the GPS is on a SE facing windowsill with one floor above me so everything behind the building will be

Re: questions about our mailinglists

2008-07-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
I thought someone has already set up a forum - but few can be bothered using it so perhaps thats your answer. I cant see the point of so many mailing lists - it just complicates the procmail recipe so they all sort into the same mailbox :) BillK On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 22:09 -0700, Ben Cadieux

Re: which list to write to (was Re: x offset in landscape mode)

2008-07-10 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 15:41 +0100, Stroller wrote: Or to merge them? Yikes! Please no! Keep in mind that: The more lists you have, the more fragmented the data is and the harder it is to both find relevant data (generally you have to be a member of the list), and get participants to

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-20 Thread W.Kenworthy
Use /usr/bin/hcitool scan from net-wireless/bluez-utils (gentoo) - this picks up any promiscuous bluetooth transmitters in range. BillK On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 09:54 -0500, Steven ** wrote: I've noticed significantly reduced runtime when using one of the ... build completely drained the battery

sound

2008-07-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
Ive just realised that I have never heard my OM ring, or make a sound when an sms comes in just vibrate. The annoying 'tick' on the keyboard comes and goes (mostly is gone thank goodness :) Is this normal? - shouldnt think so! Using 2007.2 Billk ___

Re: sound

2008-07-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
X) restores sound. There's a thread on the support list about this. Perhaps you're seeing the same thing. -Steven On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:34 PM, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ive just realised that I have never heard my OM ring, or make a sound when an sms comes in just

Re: sound

2008-07-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
and ring/vibrate? - or do I have to turn GSM off? BillK On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 10:30 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Certainly sounds like the same problem. BillK On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 21:14 -0500, Steven ** wrote: Do you have it set to dim, then lock? In my experience, a suspend kills sound out

Re: sound

2008-07-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
It worked for a few times, but has now gone silent. Maybe it will get more stable. BillK On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 20:14 -0700, Scott Petersen wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: Certainly sounds like the same problem. BillK On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 21:14 -0500, Steven ** wrote: Do you have

Re: uboot versions or a changelog?

2008-07-30 Thread W.Kenworthy
Thanks,much appreciated. BillK On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 07:50 -0700, Mike Montour wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a list of uboot versions or a changelog? I would like to see what changes have been done from that shipped with 2007.2? See

Re: Warranty after fix for GTA02 GPS rework for SD card interference issue

2008-07-30 Thread W.Kenworthy
and a negative - I moved the maps in tangoGPS from /tmp to the (orig freerunner) sdcard and it only works partially or not at all. This is offline usage. If I am online and I delete the map cache so tango starts clean, it loads the maps fine - probably caches them in ram. If I go offline to

Re: Warranty after fix for GTA02 GPS rework for SD card interference issue

2008-07-31 Thread W.Kenworthy
After a reboot, it worked ok so its a false alarm - sorry! BillK On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 08:38 +0100, Andy Green wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | and a negative - I moved the maps in tangoGPS from /tmp to the (orig |

battery again

2008-07-31 Thread W.Kenworthy
While in a meeting, I let the battery run down to 0% (as read by apm) Now when I plug it into usb, I get cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/chgmode gives play-only and cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/charger_type gives host/500mA usb mode 100mA Is it charging (at 100ma) and I

Re: battery again

2008-08-01 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 02:04 -0400, Matthew Lane wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: While in a meeting, I let the battery run down to 0% (as read by apm) ... I believe the neo sometimes can use more than 100mA to operate, so just plugging it in without enabling fast charge could STILL discharge

alarm clock for 2007.2?

2008-08-04 Thread W.Kenworthy
Is there an alarm clock pkg for 2007.2? Something that plays a sound at a particular time off the calendar? I even tried to search the repo for cron and at without luck - so I suppose these are manual build/installs? BillK ___ Openmoko community

Re: How to see how full my battery is?

2008-08-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 18:20 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Hi, kazaam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's some symbol in the try looking a bit like a black battery with a lightning symbol in it. Is this meaning it's loading? And where do I see how full it is? I tried acpi -v in the

Re: How to see how full my battery is?

2008-08-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
Something wasnt right - the next resume X didnt come back leaving a console display without any means of data entry. Required the battery to be removed to reboot it. And it was ~1hr when I discovered it and the battery had lost 30% in that time - was down to 4% :) Now its drawing ~166000 when I

Re: receiving SMS messages

2008-08-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
This is what seems to happen for me on 2007.2 on the Oz vodafone network. Sent an sms (didnt ask for rx) to the phone after it had been in dimlock for a couple of hours. No indication of message - phone didnt wakeup. On actually waking phone, by pressing pwr button some 10 minutes after

Re: Feed updates

2008-08-11 Thread W.Kenworthy
I tried to do this with 2008.8 to see if the keyboard mod would make it usable. What I ended up with was a broken X display - dont know if it fixed the phone issues (unable to register, where 2007.2 works fine) that I have as I havent put the SIM in it yet. I have a white background with icons

Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 18:43 -0700, tokenwizard wrote: I have one for you... I have been using my freerunner for about three weeks now. I ordered it ... and the Power/Aux and Aux/Power combos. I've tried these thing both with and without the AC adapter attached and after pulling the battery for

Re: Cpoying image to internal flash

2008-09-01 Thread W.Kenworthy
I partitioned the SD card with 2G vfat for p1 and the rest as ext2 as p2 (8G card) Then copy the files you want accessible from (in my case) 2007.2 into the first partition. The uboot will start from the SD image fine from the uboot menu (picks up the uImage.bin file and seems to not care there

Re: Copying image to internal flash

2008-09-01 Thread W.Kenworthy
Thanks, the link is much appreciated. BillK On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 08:24 +0200, Olivier Berger wrote: Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying out 2008.9 and am impressed that its almost usable. Before I put too much effort into configuring

Re: FDOM updated

2008-09-14 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 15:17 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: This has become a saga. After failing to get FDOM-13092008 working from the SD card, I decided to try flashing it. ... I don't use fdom but it sounds suspiciously broken seeing as noone else has

FSO/ASU not registering on the Australian Vodafone GSM network

2008-09-16 Thread W.Kenworthy
I am having a problem registering anything ASU/FSO based with the Australian Vodafone GSM network. Its not the SIM card but ASU/FSO as 2007.2 works fine. I also believe that other Aussies are having the same problem. I found some pages describing how to manually talk to the GSM chip, but they

Re: FSO/ASU not registering on the Australian Vodafone GSM network

2008-09-16 Thread W.Kenworthy
mode on the command line. Doesnt appear to be asking to register. I dont have a pin set, so have just set it in my Treo to see if that is the problem. BillK On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 10:51 +0100, Al Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2008, W.Kenworthy wrote: I am having a problem

What packages have cu and socat?

2008-09-16 Thread W.Kenworthy
What packages have cu and socat? BillK ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: What packages have cu and socat?

2008-09-16 Thread W.Kenworthy
/sbin/uusched [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# BillK On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 11:01 +1000, Neil Caldwell wrote: 2008/9/17 W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What packages have cu and socat? BillK ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re: FSO/ASU not registering on the Australian Vodafone GSM network

2008-09-16 Thread W.Kenworthy
I set a pin but it only asked for it once(still no connection), and never again. I deleted 2007.2 so cant test it with that anymore, howver everything works as expected on my Treo. BillK On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 12:37 +1000, Sarton O'Brien wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 19:22:59 Dale Maggee

Re: FSO/ASU not registering on the Australian Vodafone GSM network

2008-09-16 Thread W.Kenworthy
Query - is there anything you do to get the pin dialog up? Have the dialler onscreen? - or just let it boot and it comes up automaticly? Billk On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 12:37 +1000, Sarton O'Brien wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 19:22:59 Dale Maggee wrote: I'm on the Aussie Vodafone network,

Re: FSO/ASU not registering on the Australian Vodafone GSM network

2008-09-16 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 13:06 +1000, Sarton O'Brien wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2008 12:48:05 W.Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 12:37 +1000, Sarton O'Brien wrote: Oh and as we are all supposedly enforcing mailling list rules now, please don't top post. Well done on the subject

Re: FSO/ASU not registering on the Australian Vodafone GSM network

2008-09-16 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 13:11 +1000, Sarton O'Brien wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2008 13:00:31 W.Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 12:37 +1000, Sarton O'Brien wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 19:22:59 Dale Maggee wrote: ... Query - is there anything you do to get the pin dialog

kobodeluxe - how do you quit?

2008-09-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
I installed the kobodeluxe game for the kid, but we cant figure out how to exit it :( Even if you go through 5 new lives and get the menu, hitting quit with a stylus just takes you back into the game. Ended up removing the battery. How? BillK ___

Re: email

2008-09-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
Thats qtmail :) Cant handle 6-7000 messages going back 5 years (I regard this as medium, 5+ is large :) I had to delete the account as it slowed the whole messages app so much SMS was a problem. And it wont allow itself to be selective as to what mailboxes it syncs, so its trying to

Re: email

2008-09-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qtmail might help to get SSL working. BillK On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 19:17 -0700, Shawn prjktdtnt Thompson wrote: nickd wrote: Have you tried to use the default Qtopia Messages client? I see it has room for emails but I havne't tested it myself. -Nick

Re: email

2008-09-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
Tried it - at the small screen setting and smallest I could set font the email got only 2 -3 words per line! Almost useless. Rather than have something adapted from the PC world, we need something designed for a PDA. e.g., Palms Versamail gets quite a panning in general, but its still far

Re: console command history

2008-10-13 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 22:21 -0400, Joel Newkirk wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:29:59 +1100, Sarton O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2008 12:17:06 Joel Newkirk wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:21:18 +0200, Fox Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use bash on OM than

Re: Back to the basics: improving user experience

2008-10-16 Thread W.Kenworthy
2008.9 + updates A phone that works: reliably make and receive calls reliably make and receive sms's At the moment, totally losing sms messages (phone sometimes hangs/crashes when one comes in) or not waking up if suspended when one comes in means that its almost unusable as a

Re: suspend quality (was: Re: [FDOM] best kernel to use for new release)

2008-10-27 Thread W.Kenworthy
because when the phone suspends you lose calls/sms messages ... BillK On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 17:36 +0100, Marcel wrote: Why do you all turn off suspend? I can clearly understand (and I do this also) that autosuspend is a mess if ___ Openmoko

Re: Web based WIFI authentication

2008-10-27 Thread W.Kenworthy
I think links works with ssl ... BillK On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 07:31 +1300, Robin Paulson wrote: 2008/10/28 Leonti Bielski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A lot of WIFI networks uses web based authentication - network is open, you connect to it, but in order to actually use internet you have to provide

Re: no icons in 2008.testing

2008-10-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
Flashing the images for 26/27 and 28 showed icons. Unusable for me though as only the 26th ever registered (rarely, seems to be due to installing the gsm mux by default - none of the distros I tried that uses it works for me) and then the illume theme continually segv's which is a real pain.

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-12 Thread W.Kenworthy
try `iwconfig eth0 power on txpower off` to minimise power consumption, and the inverse `iwconfig eth0 power off txpower auto` to turn it back on. While not removing power, it certainly reduces consumption. Also, while using wireless with power saving on sounds good when running on battery,

Re: Compatible earphones ...

2008-12-01 Thread W.Kenworthy
Have to find something first - thinking bluetooth may be better. BillK On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 19:19 +0100, Marcel wrote: Am Monday 01 December 2008 13:00:15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just broke my freerunners original headset. Is there a list of

Re: Crackly Calls and Battery Tips!

2008-12-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 20:26 +0100, Leonti Bielski wrote: Hello and welcome to OM community :) ... 2.) From what you've written it seems like you don't suspend your phone. What image do you use? Anyways, you have to enable autosuspend - so phone will go to sleep while not being used and

Re: perl for OM

2008-12-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
opkg list|grep perl opkg install perl BillK On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 13:30 +, Graeme Gregory wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 16:20 +0300, Ivan Shirokoff wrote: Hello. Has anyone managed to compile perl for FR? Yes it successfully compiles in OE, so if you log a feature request bug and

2008.testing (2008.9 upgraded) - Settings not running

2008-12-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
I am using 2008.testing (2008.9 upgraded) and the Settings app wont start - same if I run exposure.py in a terminal, and no debug is printed. A ps aux shows exposure running, but no window appears and the command line returns without printing anything. Is there a way to debug python apps and see

Re: qwerty keyboard

2008-12-11 Thread W.Kenworthy
Change to the illume theme - instructions on the wiki To stop the other kb's from appearing unexpectedly: opkg list_installed|grep keyboard. Uninstall the numbers and default - leave only the terminal one. I cant be more specific as I have already done so! You will get an occasional flash as

Re: qwerty keyboard

2008-12-11 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 01:17 +0100, Bernd Prünster wrote: W.Kenworthy schrieb: Change to the illume theme - instructions on the wiki To stop the other kb's from appearing unexpectedly: opkg list_installed|grep keyboard. Uninstall the numbers and default - leave only the terminal one

Re: Acustic 'empty battery warning' ?

2008-12-17 Thread W.Kenworthy
What distro? - clock doesnt work on 2008.9 through to the current testing. BillK On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:12 +0100, Lothar Behrens wrote: Hmm, using the clock to wake me up in the morning would be an option to check the battery. It even wakes up, or boots, if I have shut down the

alsa problem after resume

2008-12-17 Thread W.Kenworthy
Any ideas on this: Forced audio codec: mad Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio decoder AUDIO: 16000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 16.0 kbit/6.25% (ratio: 2000-32000) Selected audio codec: [mad] afm: libmad (libMAD MPEG layer 1-2-3)

[2008.testing] Re: alsa problem after resume

2008-12-17 Thread W.Kenworthy
Should have added - using 2008.testing, and it used to work. Stopped at some point after installs and upgrades, dont know when :( BillK On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 14:54 +0900, W.Kenworthy wrote: Any ideas on this: Forced audio codec: mad Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio

Re: [2008.testing] Re: alsa problem after resume

2008-12-17 Thread W.Kenworthy
, W.Kenworthy wrote: Should have added - using 2008.testing, and it used to work. Stopped at some point after installs and upgrades, dont know when :( BillK On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 14:54 +0900, W.Kenworthy wrote: Any ideas on this: Forced audio codec: mad Opening audio decoder: [libmad

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 12:24 +0100, Michael Zanetti wrote: As It seems this thread is becoming more and more some sort of a whish-list, I will put my 2ct here also: - Please don't add a camera: Has ever anyone made a picture with a mobile phone camera that doesn't suck? Get a real camera

Re: [OM 2008.12] Enlightenment Drop Shadow Performance

2008-12-21 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 10:04 +1100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:13:59 +0100 Bernd (Jesus McCloud) Prünster bernd.pruens...@gmail.com babbled: Dylan Reilly schrieb: FWIW, I have been able to reduce the CPU usage of Enlightenment on my OM testing build device by

Re: qwerty keyboard

2008-12-22 Thread W.Kenworthy
Crashes are a VERY well known problem with LOTS of emails on the list. switch to the software engine, or remove the dropshadow module. BillK On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 22:50 +0100, Pander wrote: Yeah the default keyboard is not the Illume one, hope this will be changed soon. And also the Terminal

Re: [0m2008-9] Trying to partition the uSD card but unable to umount the partition that has been created

2009-01-14 Thread W.Kenworthy
lsof will tell you that qtopia uses the file. Stop the xserver and it should free up. By the way, it would be worth your while to read up on the qtopia indexing problem which the sqlite file is a result. BillK On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 11:22 -0500, john dowd wrote: Would anyone know which

Re: [Freerunner] Access GPS chip's parameters and navigational models?

2009-01-14 Thread W.Kenworthy
because the qtopia indexing stops with it ... Its probably possible to just stop the app doing the indexing (mediaserver I think), but I am not sure if it would create problems to knock out a low level part of qtopia or not. An alternative is to change the config so on the next boot, it wont

Re: Wiki page - which file system in sd card?

2009-02-01 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 15:03 +0100, arne anka wrote: systems. Since not many people are recommending reiserfs nowadays due to lack of maintenance, regardless of being considered better than ext2/3, ext3 remains as the choice. it's not only lack of maintenance and reiserfs is not considered

yaml rule to stop suspending when using gps

2009-02-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
I'am using a recent shr-unstable and trying to work out a way to stop the thing suspending when using GPS. I think I also saw an email in the past asking how to do this using a yaml rule but cant find it - can someone point me in the right direction please. BillK

Re: [SHR] Suspend / Resume speed

2009-02-27 Thread W.Kenworthy
Only part of the problem :( There is also firmware upgrade - since moko11 (tried ~1 week) I did not lose any calls/sms. I then moved to shr-unstable and its finally working almost like a phone BillK On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 17:50 -0500, Warren Baird wrote: Interesting! Would this

Re: [SHR] Suspend / Resume speed

2009-02-27 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 22:31 +0100, Florian Hackenberger wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:08:54 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Check your uboot commandline loglevel value... It highly impacts on the suspend/resume time. I've set it to 3 (but some time ago was set by the system to 8,

Re: [SHR] Suspend / Resume speed

2009-02-27 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 17:20 +0900, W.Kenworthy wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 22:31 +0100, Florian Hackenberger wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:08:54 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Check your uboot commandline loglevel value... It highly impacts on the suspend/resume time. I've set

Re: [QTE 4.4.3] Determining which version of GSM firmware I have.

2009-03-10 Thread W.Kenworthy
It did for me - absolutely refused to upgrade in every way I tried until I downgraded (as per the wiki page) and then the upgrade worked fine. This happened with moko10 and trying to upgrade to moko11 - yes doesnt make sense, but the fact I ran into it, and the wiki page had a fix that

Re: [SHR-Testing] Slow response when answering a call

2009-03-12 Thread W.Kenworthy
I found this is mainly due to enlightenment using too much cpu - a workaround was posted a couple of weeks back. copy a desktop file from /usr/share/applications to /tmp, wait a few seconds and copy it back. Yes, I know it is black magic, but ... it works! A few minutes later cpu will drop back

Re: [SHR-Testing] Slow response when answering a call

2009-03-12 Thread W.Kenworthy
annoying, since the caller probably hears my ringtone still going which has to be odd for them... W.Kenworthy: Does that need to be done periodically, or just once after the phone has been running for a while? ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: [QtExtended] some things

2009-03-15 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 14:48 +1100, Dale Maggee wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorn Potter wrote: Typing numbers are not 'suggested'. ... As I said, if you can easily switch to the qwerty keyboard. bwahahaha, that's a funny joke. Have you ever tried actually

Re: [QtExtended] some things

2009-03-15 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 16:12 +1100, Dale Maggee wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 W.Kenworthy wrote: Disable it - find the keyboard files and copy terminal.kbd over the top ... It's kinda like having to choose between death by disemboweling or death by dismemberment

Re: [Debian] Usable alarm clock/timer app?

2009-03-24 Thread W.Kenworthy
And mine on shr-testing annoyed the family so much THEY wanted to kill SHR, the FR and me in whatever order it took to shut it up in the early hours of the morning ... :) BillK On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 14:03 -0500, The Digital Pioneer wrote: Yeah, I'd love to see one for SHR-Unstable too, as the

Re: shr- avoid suspend and dim screen

2009-03-24 Thread W.Kenworthy
Taken from the replies to a similar post of mine (I think!) some time back. Replace the exec call in the desktop file (/usr/share/applications/tangogps) to this script. The exports work around where tango cant seem to find its home config This is my car script - sets up the FR so I can place it

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

2009-04-02 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 11:10 +1100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:35:58 +0100 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org said: On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 06:13:36PM +0100, Justyn Butler wrote: 2009/4/2 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org: ... 3g can be done - just like the 2g

Re: Graphics Performance

2009-04-03 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 10:29 +0200, joa...@verona.se wrote: ri...@happyleptic.org writes: -[ Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 09:45:37AM +0200, Miguel Ángel Calderón ] What really surprises me is the fact that if this is so clear, why is Comunity not working on qvga graphics yet? (...) I'd

Re: [SHR] latest unstable with problems!

2009-04-03 Thread W.Kenworthy
on the FR ifdown usb0;ifup usb If you are trying to change the default map directory: rm -rf ~/Maps ln -s YourMapDir ~/Maps BillK 0On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 11:58 +0200, Tony Berth wrote: Dear Group, just tried the latest SHR unstable (both kernel and jffs) and found

Re: on recurring alarm and simulating a down

2009-04-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 12:32 +0200, Łukasz Pankowski wrote: kimaidou kimai...@gmail.com writes: ... Thanks anyway, great soft ! When you do the rewrite, can you lose the 1..2..3..4.. thing! - or at least make it an optional setting in favour of a large (red) single button saying STOP! Woke

Re: [SHR-testing] hope this isn't a stupid question...

2009-04-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
What version? shr-testing prior to the current one had enlightenment using 30+% of cpu slowing everythingdown. The fix is to move a desktop file in/out of /usr/share/applications. Black magic - search the list for the details. BillK On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 16:19 -0500, Young wrote: I just

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration - definitely a kernel problem

2009-04-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
The older kernel works for me as well - on latest shr-testing. What I did find is that the busybox tar and gzip seem broken - the extracted modules seem corrupt. I ended up extracting on the local machine and rsyncing across to the FR. BillK On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 19:29 +0200, Nicola Mfb

Re: ffalarms 0.2.1 and atd-over-fso (now works on SHR-testing)

2009-04-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
Configurable, configurable, ... Everyones use case is different! - I usually wake with the click and display glow when the FR comes out of suspend, even before the alarm starts to sound, so I find the very low start fine as do the rest of the household (see next). I would also like to have a

Time from the calypso chipset

2009-05-01 Thread W.Kenworthy
I am playing with the calypso :) Can read the chipset time, but cant seem to set it (from mickyterm). Tried lots of variations, and from what googling finds it *should* work, but doesnt. Is there something I am missing? (using moko11 firmware) OK AT+CCLK? AT+CCLK? +CCLK: 0/1/1,0:0:14 OK

Re: Time from the calypso chipset

2009-05-03 Thread W.Kenworthy
Just some further info to this: I was hoping to use the time from the SIM as a reference to keep a check on the FR time which is rarely correct, often being at least a few minutes out, and sometimes days/years out after a crash unless I notice it. Unfortunately, once you set the SIM time, it

Re: Ain't it funny..

2009-05-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
Cant let this pass ... On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 11:33 +0200, arne anka wrote: Hmmm ... I do contribute and I do use my freerunner (sometimes, mostly yeah, and there we are again. _i_ for one do not have complaints (at least no significant amount different from other phones i used) about the

Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 08:52 +0200, David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote: Nice app :) I know it should be no easy, but a feature that I miss both in Tango and this is the ability to rotate the maps accordingly the direction I am still waiting for gps lock (actually just got it ... in the office

Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-22 Thread W.Kenworthy
Hi mgy, good little app. I tried it in the car yesterday and found that the cursor moved off the map unless manually centred - is there a way to make the cursor fixed and the map move under it as does tangogps? Its not possible to continually hit centre whilst driving/biking. I do like the way

Re: is 0.4A sufficient for charging?

2009-06-23 Thread W.Kenworthy
What is the power_center tool ? Is it an application, part of a distro, ... BillK On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 08:09 +0200, Alexander Lehner wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, ivvmm wrote: going to buy a device from a local store that will convert alternating current from my bicycle's front hub

Re: [omgps] collect feature requests

2009-06-30 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 23:32 +0200, Laszlo KREKACS wrote: ... But, it was reproducible. If the device freezed or I removed the battery, many tile maps got unreadable. I couldnt even list some directories or cd into them! (it rules out heavy CPU load, and not getting enough power) ... So

Re: [omgps] collect feature requests

2009-06-30 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 07:13 +0200, Laszlo KREKACS wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:12 AM, W.Kenworthybi...@iinet.net.au wrote: Yes, thats over 2 million files :) TangoGPS works fine ... Are you brave enough, that when you use tangogps for lets say a half an hour, you remove the battery

Re: [SHR-unstable] The date in Dates is incorrect

2009-07-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 15:05 -0400, Adam Jimerson wrote: On Wednesday 08 July 2009 01:50:04 am jeremy jozwik wrote: its no minor bug. in the PST8PDT timezone the day would get switched after 6 pm. which is completely unhelpful. i put an email on the pimlico mailing list and have no response

Re: Screen in FR goes black and white after resume from suspend

2009-08-09 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 19:21 +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 01:43:31PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: tb bumbl...@gmail.com writes: Or use uboot and not qi If there's a real problem to debug please do not suggest to hide it with various work-arounds! Do you know any

Re: Screen in FR goes black and white after resume from suspend

2009-08-10 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 11:17 +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: W.Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au writes: Seems to me that both uboot and Qi are missing the initialisation of something important on startup. And with resume, is Qi or u-boot involved at all? Qi doesn't touch jbt at all. On boot

Re: [shr-u] first impressions

2009-09-10 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 19:12 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 07:39:02PM +0200, arne anka wrote: Then where do you have any OK button? ok, it's called quit. And it's utterly useless, in fact I'm thinking of writing up a few small-screen usability

Re: 1024#

2009-10-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 11:36 +0200, Thomas HOCEDEZ wrote: David Garabana Barro a écrit : On Wednesday 07 October 2009 10:57:02 Christ van Willegen wrote: Hi, On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Ivan Shirokov ivanshirok...@gmail.com wrote: I've been wondering if all the

Re: Tips when GSM doesn't work

2009-10-12 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 20:58 -0500, Cristian Gómez wrote: Hi guys, I've post this question on the IRC channel andunfortunately I face that the IRC is abbandoned, only KenYoung answered (Thanks for being there). I think that IRC makes our lifes more easier. PLEASE DON'T LET IT DIE! After

Re: Xfbdev+ALSA - which phone?

2009-10-15 Thread W.Kenworthy
Thats ok if you want to make a call out, but how can you call in if the phone is suspended - leaving it running will probably give a battery life of about 4 hours or so if not less. There is also the problem of how to attach the dongle - would look kinda weird with one of those silver usb cables

Re: SHR status

2009-10-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
are you using the latest moko11 GSM firmware? - anything else and missed messages are a distinct possibility. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GSM/Flashing BillK On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 20:49 +0200, Michal Brzozowski wrote: 2009/10/18 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org I'm

Re: SHR status

2009-10-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 21:46 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 08:49:02PM +0200, Michal Brzozowski wrote: 2009/10/18 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org I'm using SHR Unstable as a daily phone. Has quirks, but IMHO SHR Testing should become what SHR

Re: SHR status

2009-10-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
-on-Freerunner to fix the glamo issue so it's not laggy and increase the sound quality of calls, and the Freerunner will be making its way to stardom. -Tonym W.Kenworthy wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 21:46 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 08:49:02PM +0200

Re: SHR status

2009-10-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
of the kernel, the one here making the kernels default scheduler behave more like the BFS scheduler that hit the news a couple of months ago, creating a far more responsive device including when it rings. BillK On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 09:03 +0200, Michal Brzozowski wrote: 2009/10/19 W.Kenworthy bi

Re: ffalarms 0.3 -- recurring alarms

2009-10-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 22:48 +0100, Łukasz Pankowski wrote: William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au writes: Can I add to that request? - Ive just upgraded to ver2 and forgot I had knobbled the puzzel on the old version ... so once .3 hits the shr feeds I will have to spend more time

Re: [Shr-User] Alternatives to FR

2010-01-04 Thread W.Kenworthy
This is one I was not aware of - looks nice but its still not 3G capable BillK On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 20:08 +0200, Margo wrote: 2010/1/4 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: What alternatives to the FR (with the same functionality) are there? I want 3G phone/sms access and the FR doesnt

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