Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Di 15. Juli 2008 schrieb thomasg: Hi ppl, I write this to community, not to devel or owners because everyone should know: *sbeh*, one of the people in #neo1973-germany IRC-channel found the reason for the GPS problems. The problem only occurs if a SD card is set in. Doesn't matter if

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Di 15. Juli 2008 schrieb Jonathan Spooner: but one thing that was not expected was that people would be spending money on a device that could have potential hardware issues. You're kidding, no? You ever bought a piece of HW you were guaranteed there is *definitively* no hardware bug in

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Di 15. Juli 2008 schrieb Jay Vaughan: You ever bought a piece of HW you were guaranteed there is *definitively* no hardware bug in it? None, or you get a billion$? c'mon! Ever heard of Consumers rights? Lemon Laws? You can't sell hardware that you know has bugs in it,

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mi 16. Juli 2008 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño): Mikko Rauhala wrote: We're about to verify a hw-fix so you could even watch video and still have GPS positioning during that. Excellent. One would hope official retailers *cough*pulster*cough* would be able to perform such an

Re: GTA01BV4 died, please help me.

2008-07-15 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mi 16. Juli 2008 schrieb Michael Shiloh: The OP says it fails to boot even with a full Nokia battery, so it's unlikely to be the dead battery problem. Yep The two other failures mentioned are (1) removing the battery while plugged into USB and (2) corrupting Flash memory Does

Re: unable to start up freerunner after batterie was full down

2008-07-14 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 14. Juli 2008 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño): Joerg Reisenweber wrote: Am Mo 14. Juli 2008 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño): Michael Shiloh wrote: The final method involves charging the battery manually, enough to allow Freerunner to boot. This requires an external power supply

Re: unable to start up freerunner after batterie was full down

2008-07-14 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 14. Juli 2008 schrieb Ben Wilson: So the freerunner doesn't suffer from the problem in gta01 of squealing (and potential damage) if you remove the battery while it's charging? No reports so far. Seems we fixed that ;-) /j signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: Can't boot Freerunner without battery - Was: Re: unable to start up freerunner after batterie was full down

2008-07-14 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 14. Juli 2008 schrieb Steven **: Perhaps it's been said before and I missed it... But why can't the Neo boot off USB power alone? Boils down to sth like powering up a whole town after blackout. All components drawing a spike of energy same moment, which USB can't deliver. -next

Re: GPS

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Antenna is pointing front longaxis. You have to hold device upright (lanyard hole to ground, AUX-key to sky)! /jOERG Am Sa 12. Juli 2008 schrieb Jonathan Spooner: I've been playing with my GPS and finally got a fix using agps diag tool. I stood the gta02 up on my garden table using a pop

Re: GPS

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Antenna is pointing front longaxis. You have to hold device upright (lanyard hole to ground, AUX-key to sky)! /jOERG Am Di 8. Juli 2008 schrieb atweb: Hello, On Monday, I had a fix after an hour (eating by mom and laying FR in my card at the north side of the house). Today, the GPS found

Re: GPS issue related to GPS antenna selector ?

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 13. Juli 2008 schrieb Philippe Guillebert: Hello, Thanks to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Freerunner_Hardware_Issues , I ran into the following (and quite scary) thread : http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2008-April/55.html So I was wondering, maybe the poor GPS

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

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 10. Juli 2008 schrieb Stroller: On 10 Jul 2008, at 07:17, Michael Kluge wrote: It is probably the best idea to write to both lists (I was not aware of the other list up to now). Urg, if you must, for the present. IMO it's better if the correct list was simply addressed in the

Re: SanDisk micro SDHC 8GB card under testing

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 10. Juli 2008 schrieb ian douglas: Shawn Rutledge wrote: What about on the GTA01? The biggest I have tried so far is 2 gig because I wasn't sure if SDHC was working. I sold my GTA01 months ago earlier this year, so I can only test on my GTA02v5. I imagine someone with a v6

Re: AW: RE: unable to start up freerunner after batterie was full down

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
No use in connecting a FR to any source to charge bat, as long as it doesn't boot up. Actually it drains battery even further, instead of charging. Battery is only charged when booting succeeds. Jumpstart the battery is very unlikely to help you out. Get FR booted by any means 1.:Remove

Re: Anyone using FR as a phone?

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 14. Juli 2008 schrieb Scott Derrick: I don't get some people have experienced audio issues? Is this an indication of the level of quality control in manufacture ring? Scott This is a short form of description of the *very* random and statistic nature of this issue. We got some

Re: wiki:gps: rephrasing?

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Antenna is pointing front longaxis. You have to hold device upright (lanyard hole to ground, AUX-key to sky)! /jOERG Am So 13. Juli 2008 schrieb arne anka: hi, i found http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GPS_Problems#Basic_GPS_debugging which starts as follows: ... (the screen the right way

Re: Qtopia Speakerphone

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 13. Juli 2008 schrieb Yochai Gal: Hi all, the qtopia image makes the FreeRunner almost a usable phone, but I have a problem. I was able to get the audio to work by creating the symlink below, but the speakerphone still doesn't work --- it emits a loud beep sound instead. Any ideas?

Re: AW: Re: AW: RE: unable to start up freerunner after batterie was full down

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 13. Juli 2008 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It mean the same as one know this from a car with a very low battery... (bridged ) just put another battery (I think it`s important, that the second battery have the same Volt) parallel to the original battery. If so, the FR can take the

Re: Anyone using FR as a phone?

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 14. Juli 2008 schrieb Tim Schmidt: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Joerg Reisenweber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile we are about to improve the hw to cope with this (a little difficult without exact idea of the way this happens). Meaning, the improvement will show up in a new

Re: unable to start up freerunner after batterie was full down

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 14. Juli 2008 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño): Michael Shiloh wrote: The final method involves charging the battery manually, enough to allow Freerunner to boot. This requires an external power supply of about 4.5 Volts and should be done only if you feel comfortable with

Re: Anyone using FR as a phone?

2008-07-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 14. Juli 2008 schrieb Yaroslav Halchenko: then why not to ask Randy S (who already steadily experiencing such an issue without much of fiddling with weather/location/manner of holding) to do additional troubleshooting and if it is unit specific, just to send the unit back for the

Re: External Cell Antenna

2008-07-08 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
The GSM-antenna connector is near hole and near one of the two screws, inside of Neo. You see when opening back-lid. HTH jOERG signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-08 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Di 8. Juli 2008 schrieb Jeffrey Ratcliffe: Tried 4 more German SIMs - none of the them worked: D2 Mannesmann (7 years old) Vodafone O2 T-D1 (T-Mobile) I don't see any pattern. Who has a German SIM working in their FR? I tried o2 (9Y old): ok Vodaphone (unknown but probably

Re: questions about our mailinglists

2008-07-08 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
here we go again XD let's stop it NOW! /j signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 7. Juli 2008 schrieb thomasg: Btw. - I took a picture of my GPS_antenna, and I just can't imagine, that this will be able to get a GPS signal without siginficant loss to the reciever (that has only a sensitivity of -155 dBm in the best case). http://c.imagehost.org/0230/gps_antenna.jpg

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Sa 5. Juli 2008 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño): btw has ever written the howto (we was talking about some months ago) for adding an ID resistor to a standard USB charger? Too many different usb-connectors out there, most of them molded and break when you open. So any howto very

Re: Dallas/Austin Group Purchase

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 3. Juli 2008 schrieb Josh Valdez: Just wondering if there is any more interest in the Dallas area for a group purchase. So far there are only three people. Also, we might be able to work something out with the Austin purchase as they almost have 20. To anyone in Austin, have you ordered

Re: applying screen protector

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Sa 5. Juli 2008 schrieb arne anka: hi, after a sight seeing tour cross town ups gave my om on thursday, yesterday they dropped off the parcel! now, i'd like to apply a screen protector -- how do i disassemble the freerunner so the protector fits the whole screen? i found

Re: applying screen protector

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 6. Juli 2008 schrieb Joerg Reisenweber: hole? one has a sticker on top -- what does that mean? nothing, I guess. just force screwdriver thru it btw: these are torx! Don't spoil with a phillips driver!!! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Dual Band GSM

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Sa 5. Juli 2008 schrieb Mikko Rauhala: la, 2008-07-05 kello 14:01 +0200, Sean Lynch kirjoitti: Does anyone know if there are any plans for a Dual Band GSM openmoko phone? It'd be nice to have an 850/900 phone for use in the States or in Europe. You're confused. The phones are triband

Re: discount on invisibleshield protectors

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 7. Juli 2008 schrieb Steven **: I don't have my Neo yet, but the case doesn't look like a material that would easily scratch. Am I mistaken? I posted my findings some weeks ago. No, I don't consider to protect Neo's housing (if it's only for I get a new one easily [sorry]. Or maybe I'd

Re: Assassin visiting the morgue...

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
+1 need a dictionary to figure out what a particular app (diversity, assassin...) is meant for :-( Just ridiculous, no? Please!!! Can we have decent names?! Even amaroK managed somehow. ;-) /j Am Mo 7. Juli 2008 schrieb Kevin Dean: How about Morbid and Macabre? On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 6:41

Re: Battery life case design

2008-07-02 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Di 1. Juli 2008 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wonder, is it just me or are there enough people out there who are interested in having more power? Enough people to make it worth while some company (maybe openmoko) to tool up to produce a new back cover for the gta02 thats a few mm

Re: Battery life case design

2008-07-02 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mi 2. Juli 2008 schrieb Francesco Cat: FR only accepts 100 or 500 mA current I think. Nope, FR sets MAXIMUM USB current to either 0.1, 0.5, or 1A depending on what's detected to be connected. This doesn't mean it won't work with 600mA. Either you set FR to 500mA and lose ~100mA of power

Re: not being able to use Skype is a big problem

2008-07-02 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 3. Juli 2008 schrieb Greg Bonett: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: ...there are plenty of open alternatives. :) On that note, has anyone been able to run any open voip software running on the FR? You might try to crosscompile twinklephone.com. When stripping out (by

Re: not being able to use Skype is a big problem

2008-07-02 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 3. Juli 2008 schrieb Carsten Haitzler: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:56:43 -0500 Forrest Sheng Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: they both use ARM. freerunner is armv4, n8xx is armv5. (think of it like a pentium vs pentium-mmx - it has extra instructions in v5 compared to v4, but the vast

Re: To clone a SIM via Freerunner ?

2008-06-29 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 29. Juni 2008 schrieb Steven Le Roux: Hi all, I plan to clone a future SIM to have a sports phone to preserve my freerunner... But changing all the time from a unit to another will quickly get me bored... Is there a way to clone the SIM with the phone ? No way, neither with phone

Re: Ordering Free-for-all?

2008-06-28 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 29. Juni 2008 schrieb Dylan Semler: On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 3:45 PM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The units are already shippin to EU. So see your disty there. The units for the US are on the docks, The USA office is closed 2,3,4 july Who gets three days off for the fourth

Re: Slashdot post but no web store?

2008-06-26 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 26. Juni 2008 schrieb Kevin Dean: *** audio quailty on the headphone is lousy due to a hardware bug - as mp3 player useless *** Quality rating is prone to individual bias. Well, for nerds there will be projects similar to this one http://www.redwineaudio.com/iMod.html or this one

Re: bands

2008-06-26 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
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 carriers and they support the other combination? different build, factory only. No way to

Re: bands

2008-06-26 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 27. Juni 2008 schrieb W.Kenworthy: :( Well, there's probably no single provider using more than 1 (maybe 2) band. The allowed bands depend on national regulations, usually 900/1800 or 850/1900. So switching provider is what 3-band is made for. If you try to find a reality example for

Battery life [was: Re: Can the Freerunner now be charged with 1 or with 2 Amp ?]

2008-06-24 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Di 24. Juni 2008 schrieb Yorick Moko: It is known that the way you charge a battery influences the lifetime. Have there been any tests as to which is the best way to charge the freerunner? Nope, didn't find the time to do the expected 500 charge/discharge cycles ;-) Honestly, this is

Re: GPS

2008-06-24 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Di 24. Juni 2008 schrieb Jisakiel: As a matter of fact that database would not even be needed, as we *do* have a GPS to get positions. So, for instance: - A location is defined somehow, and *beforehand*. Say manually while being there, perhaps with some precission range attached (high:

Re: GPS

2008-06-23 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 23. Juni 2008 schrieb Francesco Cat: the FreeRunner will have a true GPS integrated, not only an AGPS system, wouldn't it? Because I was given the address of this flyer: http://www.pulster.de/info/pdas/openmoko/freerunner-flyer.pdf and I hope it is just out-dated

Re: GPS

2008-06-23 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 23. Juni 2008 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As I get it the AGPS is a 'true' GPS. The only differense is that agps is faster - it additionally uses signals from gsm stations for faster positioning. That's why it's called 'assisted gps'. Nope, it uses info from a AGPS-server somewhere in

Re: 2.5mm or 3.5mm

2008-06-18 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
The vote is closed. We decided to use 3.5mm. Please see original thread! /jOERG signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Possible Camera

2008-06-18 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mi 18. Juni 2008 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i don't think it would be a problem. Simple avr processor can handle this camera. Yep, handle via I2C, no problem. But what are you going to do with the RGB-data-stream??? And here we have 400Mhz processor with i2c support. The question is do

Re: OEM market,any thoughts about that??

2008-06-17 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 16. Juni 2008 schrieb Al Johnson: On Sunday 15 June 2008, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: Am Sa 14. Juni 2008 schrieb steve: A big percentage of requests I get are for this, however, they always want some hardware twist. They don't exactly know our hw, I guess (e.g it's not commonly

Re: Anyone working on a cron port?

2008-06-15 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 15. Juni 2008 schrieb Peter J. Holzer: On 2008-06-15 02:29:48 -0700, ian douglas wrote: Suppose I could check the project page, but it's 2:30am and I'm tired and lazy. I was updating and installing some software on my Freerunner tonight to test mp3 playback and noticed again that

Re: moko running everything as root

2008-06-15 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 15. Juni 2008 schrieb Mikael Lammentausta: User John running sudo rm -rf /* is better than root running rm -rf /* because...? Because sudo can be configured to accept users in certain groups to run certain commands with or without a password. rm can be restricted, whereas opkg can

Re: Anyone working on a cron port?

2008-06-15 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 15. Juni 2008 schrieb arne anka: anacron see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron #Drawbacks Also anacron doesn't address the rtcwake topic. We should plan for something more versatile that's merging cron(/anacron), at/batch, rtcwake, and the other powermanagement and wake-from-suspend

Re: moko running everything as root

2008-06-15 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
If you have root AND user, root can make a backup copy of user's valuable data every once in a while, and user or the virus she imported while browsing the web can NOT destroy this backup. I can't follow your arguments. It's NOT an evil person we need to fence in, it's bad behaviour of

Re: When it will be possible to buy OpenMoko?

2008-06-14 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Sa 14. Juni 2008 schrieb Rok Jaklič: Hi. I am sorry to be just one of the other 2 billion people who want to buy this phone, but since I have to buy new phone, time is a pretty hard limit for me. Since phone is already being produced in factory does anyone has some estimated date

Re: OEM market,any thoughts about that??

2008-06-14 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Sa 14. Juni 2008 schrieb steve: A big percentage of requests I get are for this, however, they always want some hardware twist. They don't exactly know our hw, I guess (e.g it's not commonly known we have a low-voltage-RS232, I2C, and separate power feed on internal debug-con /

Re: Invisible Shield

2008-06-14 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 15. Juni 2008 schrieb Ajit Natarajan: Hi Steve, I recall a message posted a few days ago that Invisible Shield is willing to make a custom full body protector for FR if they can get a unit in house. Any update on whether a unit can be sent to them or if a unit has already been

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

2008-06-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 13. Juni 2008 schrieb Chris Wright: Since the alternative to using QVGA is using VGA with a faster GPU and processor, One last time: ...OR USING VGA IN QVGA MODE WITH SAME PROCESSOR, AND SWITCH TO VGA WHENEVER YOU NEED THIS RESOLUTION. It's all about nothing else than just saving some

Re: Why not use foru

2008-06-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 13. Juni 2008 schrieb arne anka: Plus, forums usually have provisions for storage and selective notifications. you mail client doesn't store your email? wow! :) do you store everry mail? No, kmail does (since I managed to do pop3-alike msg-retrieving over imap. IMAP SUCKS)

Re: Why not use forum?

2008-06-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 13. Juni 2008 schrieb AVee: On Thursday 12 June 2008 17:30, Leonti Bielski wrote: Hi! I was wondering - why are we not using forum for community? It's much better to view, you can subscribe and unsubscribe to the topics you want and etc. The main Personally I don't like

Re: moko running everything as root

2008-06-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Sa 14. Juni 2008 schrieb Flemming Richter Mikkelsen: On 6/13/08, Robert Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Nijs wrote: no problems. what i don't want is people to get their hopes up. this was in the context of people asking if they can play vga video and me going good luck!.

Re: Why not use newsgroup?

2008-06-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 13. Juni 2008 schrieb Martin Bernreuther: Am Freitag, 13. Juni 2008 schrieb Alexey Feldgendler: By default you just download the headers without having to get the text of every message, You can do that with IMAP, which is the modern protocol for accessing your mail. You

Re: OEM market,any thoughts about that??

2008-06-13 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
I thought about similar things some time ago. This device makes for a nice embedded controller for industries etc. For sure it will be no big problem to sell without housing, and save a few bucks per device. cheers jOERG signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Click Feedback?

2008-06-12 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 12. Juni 2008 schrieb Esben Stien: That would be an extremely negligible latency and it would give us real time dropout less audio on the device, which is pretty crucial on such a thing as a phone. You really want dropouts in the audio when you use your system during a call?. There

Re: Acceleration in our pockets

2008-06-12 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 12. Juni 2008 schrieb Peter Nijs: Isn't the shared bus an advantage because now it can use DMA? Maybe that's why it is possible to hook up an sd-card to the glamo anyway. I see no other explanation why one would put an sd cardreader in a graphics ship. Please tell me if and why

Re: Dual SIM?

2008-06-12 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 12. Juni 2008 schrieb Bumbl: would it, in theory, be possible to emulate a 2nd sim-card which was inserted and saved on the flash memory before and switch between it and the inserted one? SIM cards implement an on-board crypographic authentication mechanism that simply can't be

Re: Dual SIM?

2008-06-12 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 12. Juni 2008 schrieb Yorick Matthys: this should do the trick: http://ucables.com/ref/2-SIMS-IN1 or http://ucables.com/ref/SIM-CLONE you still need the IMSI and Ki numbers, but those can be obtained (at least that is what i read a long while ago) but emulating would be much

Re: Dual SIM?

2008-06-12 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 12. Juni 2008 schrieb David Pottage: On Thu, June 12, 2008 3:21 pm, Bumbl wrote: would it, in theory, be possible to emulate a 2nd sim-card which was inserted and saved on the flash memory before and switch between it and the inserted one? In theory this is possible if you can

Re: [OT]Re: Why not use forum?

2008-06-12 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 12. Juni 2008 schrieb Andy Loughran: The developers must prefer mailing lists. The day these lists go web-forum, I probably have to quit my job. /jOERG signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko

Re: GTA03 speculation [UNOFFICIAL]

2008-06-12 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 12. Juni 2008 schrieb Ron K. Jeffries: I am the one who predicted GTA03 in December 2008 here's my reasoning for targeting that date. as an aside, I think December is the LATEST date GTA03 will see the light of day. With the modest changes being made in GTA03, it would almost be

Re: GTA03 speculation [UNOFFICIAL]

2008-06-12 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 12. Juni 2008 schrieb Ken Young: Ron K. Jeffries wrote: GTA03 is a fairly small re-spin of GTA02. They are not doing anything very risky. The biggest change is a new GSM radio that supports EDGE, which is much faster than GPRS that GTA02 has. Do we know if the problem

Re: Dual SIM?

2008-06-11 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mi 11. Juni 2008 schrieb Adilson Oliveira: So, cells like the samsung d880 just swap electrically between the 2 SIM cards? The spec say you can use both cards at the same time but don't say exactly what same time means. There are phones out there that use 2 or 3 cards true-concurrently.

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

2008-06-10 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Di 10. Juni 2008 schrieb Carsten Haitzler: On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:16:06 +0800 Wilkinson, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: 0n Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 01:43:08PM +0800, Carsten Haitzler wrote: we are in a world where to get gfx support to run such high resolutions means we

Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 - product management, features assumptions

2008-06-10 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
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Re: No 3G for GTA03, 2G/EDGE only?

2008-06-10 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mi 11. Juni 2008 schrieb ian douglas: As an aside, when comparing 2G and 3G: Even according to Apple, the new iPhone 3G model will get up to 10 hours of talk time on 2G but half as long (5 hours) in 3G mode. I'd love to learn more about how voice quality differs between 2G and 3G --

Re: Is case design changing for GTA03?

2008-06-09 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 9. Juni 2008 schrieb Flemming Richter Mikkelsen: On 6/9/08, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/9 Robert Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With a modular design like that, then you could have one device shipped out with many configurations possible. You could then buy the

Re: Is case design changing for GTA03?

2008-06-08 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 8. Juni 2008 schrieb rakshat hooja: We also got a camera on GTA03. cheers jOERG Any specs of the camera. This was a quote of a previous posting of another OM-engineer (Carsten IIRC). Honestly I'm designing on the actual schematics and I have no idea yet about any camera

Re: InvisibleShield screen protectors

2008-06-08 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 8. Juni 2008 schrieb Yorick Matthys: Does anybody know if the FreeRunner's case is adequatly scratch-resistant? (I'll post this question on the device-owner list) It's like every of those mockup-rubber softtouch-surfaces: amazingly insensitive to small scratches, but especially on aged

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

2008-06-07 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 8. Juni 2008 schrieb Carsten Haitzler: but there is definitely a i want as insane a dpi as i can get group here. this is for sure. the question is - is it really the majority of users. :) No it's not at all the question - other than for academic insight. If a VGA-screen isn't much more

Re: Is case design changing for GTA03?

2008-06-07 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 8. Juni 2008 schrieb Ron K. Jeffries: I'm almost sure I read a comment saying (in passing) that Freerunner case design will change for GTA03. Is the change strictly to accommodate the new 3.5mm plug for the headset, or are other changes being considered? We also got a camera on

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

2008-06-06 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 6. Juni 2008 schrieb Flemming Richter Mikkelsen: When it comes to GTA03, I will not buy one (because I buy the GTA02), so I will not be the target. Maybe QVGA is a good solution, or maybe it should be an option when you buy If I got that right, we just need to tune some of the

Re: GPS -- AGPS

2008-06-05 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 5. Juni 2008 schrieb Lally Singh: AFAIK, the AGPS allows you to upload additional information into the onboard correlator (the CPU that does the actual location calculations for GPS) to enhance the accuracy over what you get with simple satellite triangulation. It's about reducing

Re: GPS -- AGPS

2008-06-05 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 6. Juni 2008 schrieb Flyin_bbb8: just wanted to add, Differential GPS is mainly for aircraft GPS systems to get better guidance on the ILS (Instrument Landing System). Aaaaha, I seen it being used for all sorts of archeology and buildings construction purposes. And from the info in

Re: using the openmoko neo101 in mass storage mode

2008-06-04 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mi 4. Juni 2008 schrieb Andy Green: Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:53:29AM -0700, Matt Mets wrote: | I believe this has been discussed at some point, but there is a | file-storage module that emulates a mass storage device: |

Re: using the openmoko neo101 in mass storage mode

2008-06-04 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mi 4. Juni 2008 schrieb Andy Green: Somebody in the thread at some point said: Yes init 1 sounds like the kind of medicine that matches the problem, but actually doing telinit 1 when you want to share storage is pretty harsh. I know it's a bit unfair but imagine if that was how things

Re: duplicate mail

2008-06-04 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mi 4. Juni 2008 schrieb Philippe Guillebert: Hi list, Am I the only one to get some of the e-mails on this list twice ou more ? looks like the issue is back ... didn't motice it lately. But it's individual issue, seems we won't fix it. I do an occasional CTRL-* on my mail-UA to delete

Re: OT: TinyURL [Was: OT: ajax image galleries]

2008-06-04 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 5. Juni 2008 schrieb AVee: On Wednesday 04 June 2008 22:55, Andy Powell wrote: tinyurl is useful instead of typing in twattishly long urls which many sites insist on using. Generally you don;t want to click on a link provided by someone you don't know/trust. Not only that but if I

Re: OT: TinyURL

2008-06-04 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Do 5. Juni 2008 schrieb Stroller: On 4 Jun 2008, at 18:12, Joseph Reeves wrote: ... TinyURL on the other hand... Why would anyone ever use that? I never click on links unless I know where they link to. Here's a plan for abuse: 1: Discover browser 0-day exploit 2: Put up a

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-03 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
I'm just working on improving the schematics (like quite some other guys of OM staff), but we at EE are not deciding on key features of future products, we are provided with specs on what to design. Anyway your suggestions and requests will be noticed when posted in this list. cheers jOERG

Re: Our new Main page of wiki

2008-06-02 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 5. Mai 2008 schrieb steve: Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sita.openmoko.org) by sita.openmoko.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K32Dg-0001Yg-F5; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:04:32 +0200 Received: from smtp115.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.88]) by

Re: gsmd correctness question

2008-06-02 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 2. Juni 2008 schrieb Bin Chen: Hi, I am just looking at the code of gsmd2, I doubt whether a condition has been processed. Suppose a command is send but during the wait time of the response, another unsolicited command sent to the AP and the name is the same: AT+CREG? +CREG: 2

Re: Our new Main page of wiki

2008-06-02 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 2. Juni 2008 schrieb Joerg Reisenweber: Am Mo 5. Mai 2008 schrieb steve: Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sita.openmoko.org) by sita.openmoko.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K32Dg-0001Yg-F5; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:04:32 +0200 Received: from smtp115

Re: gsmd correctness question

2008-06-02 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Mo 2. Juni 2008 schrieb Michael 'Mickey' Lauer: On Monday 02 June 2008 11:34:07 Bin Chen wrote: I am just looking at the code of gsmd2, I doubt whether a condition has been processed. Suppose a command is send but during the wait time of the response, another unsolicited command sent to

Re: Question about future devices (GTA03,04)

2008-06-02 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
I'm not sure about my NDA, but this topic has been around quite some while now. So mickeyl says it's about evolution, not revolution. GTA03 -the recycled name- (which I'm working on the electric schematics of the device right now) is an improved version of GTA02 (if plans don't change ;),

Re: Private data protection.

2008-06-01 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am So 1. Juni 2008 schrieb Kim Alvefur: On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 10:55 +0300, Ilja O. wrote: Also portable self-destruction hardware would be nice. echo overload /sys/devices/blaha/battery LOL :-) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Freerunner test

2008-05-31 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Sa 31. Mai 2008 schrieb Mike Montour: Kevin Dean wrote: I'd like to reconfirm this before reporting, or at least kill my theory before reporting on it and creating a false lead. It seems that the SIM itself is important. Two likely factors affecting GSM buzz are: which band it's

Re: using the openmoko neo101 in mass storage mode

2008-05-31 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Sa 31. Mai 2008 schrieb Lally Singh: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Ilja O. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wild speculation Having two memory card slots (one for OS, one easy accessible for usage with changeable memory cards) could be nicer than standard (current) architecture. You

Re: 2.5mm or 3.5mm

2008-05-31 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Sa 31. Mai 2008 schrieb Mike Montour: Joerg Reisenweber wrote: your link: that's it Thanks for sharing your thoughts and giving this link If you do choose a 4-pin 3.5mm connector to be compatible with iPhone (or with another major vendor), please double-check that you use the same

Re: Freerunner test

2008-05-31 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Sa 31. Mai 2008 schrieb Mike Montour: Joerg Reisenweber wrote: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA01_gsm_modem#Serving_Cell_Information_.282.2C1.29 you read this field during a call when actually transmitting audio (NO silence)? I called the Neo from my other (non-GSM) phone

2.5mm or 3.5mm

2008-05-30 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Hi community! A short poll: on a future GTA0x (2), would you prefer to have A) standard 2.5mm headset (mic+phones) connector, where you have to buy a cheap adapter if you want to use your old headphones, (the way like it's for GTA01/02) or B) classic 3.5mm headphones Walkman(R) connector, where

Re: kids phone

2008-05-30 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 30. Mai 2008 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I'm contemplating making a kids phone from a Freerunner. I'm supposing the software part will be doable: - interface with a few large icons - it should be possible to make a call to the phone and it will answer automatically in a

Re: 2.5mm or 3.5mm

2008-05-30 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Fr 30. Mai 2008 schrieb niclone: Joerg Reisenweber a écrit : Hi community! A short poll: on a future GTA0x (2), would you prefer to have A) standard 2.5mm headset (mic+phones) connector, where you have to buy a cheap adapter if you want to use your old headphones, (the way like it's

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