Re: CSD calls from Neo Freerunner

2014-01-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 20 January 2014 07:31:55 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: For those who don't know what CSD is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_Switched_Data [snip test call logs] CSD calls may be placed from a GSM mobile either to a land line or to another mobile. (I don't know if it's

Re: Bitcoin Client

2013-05-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 06 May 2013 13:32:29 Allan Savolainen wrote: On Mon, 06 May 2013 11:27:53 +0300, Patryk Benderz patryk.bend...@esp.pl wrote: [cut] no, mining is not an option, but being able to use it as a wallet could be! That would be something :). I suppose you should be able to

Re: Invitation to indicate interest in next batch of GTA04A5 boards

2013-03-26 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 26 March 2013 16:13:43 joerg Reisenweber wrote: Encrypted GSM calls are basically not feasible to transfer encrypted voice you need a data link between the both ME, GSM creates GSM-codec voice path, not a data path. Means your data gets mangled by carrier's audio processing. You

Re: bt slide keyboard

2013-02-08 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 08 February 2013 16:03:14 Alfa21-mobile wrote: do you know if there is something similar usable with gta? http://www.usbgeek.com/collections/iphone/products/iphone5-case-slideout-key board Bluetooth keyboards ought to work. I used to use a Stowaway with an old SHR image on GTA02 but

Re: Enhancing an RPi with phone capabilities

2013-01-24 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 24 January 2013 16:18:38 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: jcomm...@math.leidenuniv.nl writes: capabilities. And with that, I do not mean only SMS, but also phone calls (calling and receiving). Just plug in a USB 3G modem? Assuming it's one with voice capability and software

Re: Ubuntu / Firefox OS for Openmoko

2013-01-11 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 11 January 2013 19:00:37 Radek Polak wrote: On Friday, January 11, 2013 05:04:28 PM Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: Ubuntu and Firefox OS may be good opportunities to use for marketing. Yup, i think if we were the first HW that runs Firefox OS and Ubuntu this could make our phone

Re: is my GTA02 getting old?

2012-12-11 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 10 December 2012 23:52:56 Ed Kapitein wrote: Are the batteries with the coulomb counter for the GTA02, still produced, or are they of the same age as the original FR's? If so, they must be near the end of their shelf life, is a compatible battery (with a coulomb counter) available?

Re: Where is the design and electric scheme of gta04?

2012-11-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 12 November 2012 22:40:30 Nadav Vinik wrote: Hello Where is the design and electric scheme of gta04? http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/page/Manual/ Also, Is there any guide how to open the case of new freerunner? I open the two screws of the case and it still not open

Re: [Gta04-owner] No gta-04 available

2012-11-09 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 08 November 2012 23:11:06 Michaël Parchet wrote: Le 30 oct. 2012 à 17:27, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk a écrit : On Monday 29 October 2012 20:16:34 Michael Parchet wrote: Hello, The switzerland mobile phone providers will prepare the LTE (4g) network. Do you

Re: [Gta04-owner] No gta-04 available

2012-11-09 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 08 November 2012 23:11:06 Michaël Parchet wrote: Le 30 oct. 2012 à 17:27, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk a écrit : On Monday 29 October 2012 20:16:34 Michael Parchet wrote: Hello, The switzerland mobile phone providers will prepare the LTE (4g) network. Do you

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 06 November 2012 15:29:52 mauve wrote: On 06.11.2012 11:37, robin wrote: hi daniele, maybe you can help me with your code: what I get snip dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freesmartphone.GSM.DeviceFailed: OK any ideas why the call does not work? Because FSO

Re: Help needed with GSM Geolocation without GPS

2012-11-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 06 November 2012 08:09:58 robin wrote: Sounds good. I wonder what the trade-off is between implementing something like this from scratch for GTA04, and trying to integrate an existing partial solution such as GeoClue? hi neil, as far as I understand geoclue comprises a

Re: [Gta04-owner] No gta-04 available

2012-10-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 29 October 2012 20:16:34 Michael Parchet wrote: Hello, The switzerland mobile phone providers will prepare the LTE (4g) network. Do you think to make a 4g matherboard gta05 ? Option now have LTE modules, but they are a little bigger than the gtm601u in the GTA04 so aren't quite

Re: Problems using recent Rogers Wireless (Canada) SIMs in GTA02

2012-09-27 Thread Al Johnson
Have you tried the new SIM in any other 2G-only phone? SIMs from 3(UK network) seem to work only in 3G-capable devices. I never looked into how or why, but it's possible Rogers are doing this with new SIMs either by accident or design. On Wednesday 26 September 2012 21:53:14 Pascal Gosselin

Re: Tracfone? Sim Card?

2012-08-25 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:27:28 Travis Bachelder wrote: Is it impossible to use a Tracfone Simcard in a GTA02 FR? It sounds that way according to their wikipedia entry: TracFone service is limited to TracFone-branded handsets (all TracFone handsets are pre-programmed by the manufacturer;

Re: sandwich case idea

2012-07-27 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 27 July 2012 14:58:11 Alfa21-mobile wrote: hello, what do you think about a multi layer case like this one, but made for GTA* ? http://www.pibow.com/ I suggested that method some time ago. I started started modelling it but ran out of cad skill. Perhaps I should have started with

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-06-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 06 June 2012 09:38:58 robin wrote: what did you have in mind for the geolocating via gsm towers and wifi? http://openbmap.org ? do you know any projects which make use of such data (triangulation). this might be very interesting to enhance navit's routing possibilities if it

Re: Discussion: what are your dreams for the Openmoko Community

2012-04-30 Thread Al Johnson
Nice list. Comments below... On Sunday 29 April 2012 18:59:34 Benjamin Deering wrote: A threaded/prepared camera hole for attaching a microscope or telescope lense would be nice. Is there any suitable standard for this? GPS program displays heading information from a digital compass, but

Re: GTA04_This is my Fantasy

2012-04-23 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 23 April 2012 10:02:17 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Hi Travis, Am 23.04.2012 um 01:39 schrieb Travis Bachelder: [snip discussion of SD types and limitations] If the micro SD is limited on it's storage space, then is the GTA04 board even capable of supporting a built in

Re: Keyboard for GTA04

2012-03-15 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 15 March 2012 12:57:23 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: During the Openmoko Stammtisch Munich yesterday, we have once again discussed options to build a special GTA04 keyboard. And now I think we have found a way to really square the circle. The square being functionality and the

Re: Keyboard for GTA04

2012-03-15 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 15 March 2012 15:30:34 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 15.03.2012 um 15:10 schrieb Al Johnson: On Thursday 15 March 2012 12:57:23 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: During the Openmoko Stammtisch Munich yesterday, we have once again discussed options to build a special GTA04

Re: what to with 02 when upgrading to 04? was: Re: How to bring forward the community?

2012-03-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 04 March 2012 12:51:08 arne anka wrote: (but i would be willing to donate/add a couple of euros if it will help someone to buy a GTA04 who can't afford the full or even the rebated price) myself and others in this list have made the same offer... that's very good to know.

Re: [Om2008.9] screen locking application?

2012-03-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 05 March 2012 11:37:12 Hrabosh wrote: BTW .. would it be possible to run TrueCrypt on FreeRunner? It looks possible in theory. There are reports of it running on other arm platforms. Debian apparently don't package it for licensing reasons, but do have instructions for building

Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04-Custom: EAGLE schematics and board file blueprint for developing expansion/adapter boards

2012-03-03 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 03 March 2012 10:00:27 Lionel Broche wrote: Coming back to the original message, is it possible for an averaged-skilled person to carry out the customisation of the GTA04 board to change the connector? Also, would it be feasible to make a GTA04 module that could be connected to

Re: How to bring forward the community?

2012-03-02 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 01 March 2012 13:35:34 Gerald A wrote: Hi, On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.ukwrote: On Wednesday 29 February 2012 11:55:46 Gerald A wrote: I've had a few bluetooth keyboards and a bluetooth mouse paired and function with my Neo. I

Re: shr-2012.01-rc1, please test

2012-03-02 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 02 March 2012 11:55:27 Martin Jansa wrote: Hi, on FSOSHRCON'11 we decided that we should do first official release. We expected to ship it in January, but everybody was quite busy so only now we have something to call at least rc1. Of course there are still some bugs, some are

Re: shr-2012.01-rc1, please test

2012-03-02 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 02 March 2012 18:34:20 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 18:25, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: I can't see any rootfs to test. Am I looking in the wrong place? From the docs linked above it looks like it should be in: http://build.shr

Re: How to bring forward the community?

2012-03-01 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 29 February 2012 11:55:46 Gerald A wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani giacomomari...@yahoo.it wrote: I own a similar one ( http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-Pocket-Bluetooth-Keyboard-PC-PDA-Phone-/2 60694344470 ) but I've never been

Re: How to bring forward the community?

2012-02-29 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 28 February 2012 21:22:40 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 28.02.2012 um 09:47 schrieb Davide Scaini: I think that the success of spark [1] explains the failure of GTA04. My 2 cents d [1] http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2012/02/spark-pre-orders-closed.html May be, but I am

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 30 January 2012 15:42:14 Patryk Benderz wrote: [cut] This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. It is written 200 EURO, not dollars ($). Makes a difference. No mention of tax either. It's certainly interesting, especially in light of the Lima driver project

Re: New $200 tablet?

2012-01-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 30 January 2012 18:52:19 Thomas Gstädtner wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 17:53, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: On Monday 30 January 2012 15:42:14 Patryk Benderz wrote: [cut] This look very interesting. Can’t wait to get my hands on one. It is written 200

Re: Openmoko Community Survey 2011 – Results

2012-01-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 16 January 2012 09:31:23 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Let me describe my first observations from these figures (not deeply elaborated): 1. this result shows that we have a very large bandwidth what we see as an acceptable price. For some of us the current price (which is

Re: [Shr-User] SHR: no audio in headphone

2012-01-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 14 January 2012 08:54:32 Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Friday, January 13, 2012 a las 09:58:20PM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: El día Friday, January 13, 2012 a las 09:35:22PM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: Hello, From one day to the other I lost audio in my FR

Re: [Marketing] Ideas / Plan

2011-12-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 29 December 2011 22:39:01 Alishams Hassam wrote: Things to mention: 1. The GTA04 *requires* an FR / NEO1974. This should serve as a request to get people who have these collecting dust, selling them online. Maybe this should be made more explicit? This isn't strictly true. The

Re: Anyone has done a Comparison GTA02 GPS Antenna vs. Nokia N95?

2011-12-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 05 December 2011, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Hi, Am 05.12.2011 um 15:51 schrieb rakshat hooja: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: We have seen that the N95 has a quite simple flexible PCB GPS antenna instead of the ceramic

Re: what do I install now?

2011-11-28 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 26 November 2011, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: dmatthews.org m...@dmatthews.org writes: I've no idea - how is that done? Try passing the following parameters to linux: glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=500 glamo_mci.sd_drive=3 Remember that sd_drive=3 can cause problems for GPS first

Re: The idea of making the MOKO tab

2011-11-11 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 10 November 2011, SZENTE Balint wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:44:00 + Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: That's about all you can expect with the current state of openness on embedded GPUs. If you want acceleration you get a binary blob if you're lucky

Re: The idea of making the MOKO tab

2011-11-10 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 10 November 2011, SZENTE Balint wrote: Hello! On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:19:23 +0530 RANJAN infi...@gmail.com wrote: 25$ Linux computer at the size of a USB Flash stick http://www.raspberrypi.org/ http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/pcb1.jpg I am worried

Re: [Gta04-owner] Clarification

2011-11-08 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 08 November 2011, Radek Polak wrote: On Tuesday 08 November 2011 13:00:41 Antonio Murdaca wrote: So, it's a dream to have a full GTA04 with case,battery,screen etc etc in a real near future? :( I mean, i have to buy a GTA01/02 and do the stuff to replace the mothherboard to have

Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2011-10-24 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 24 October 2011, Xavier Cremaschi wrote: Did somebody try to use a 3D printer to see what can be done with this kind of device ? Could we use one to make a case ? It has been looked into. You should find the discussion in the list archives.

Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2011-10-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 21 October 2011, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Hi Wolfgang, Am 18.10.2011 um 04:00 schrieb Wolfgang Spraul: Ranjit, hey, thanks for noticing :-) Happen to see the case of Milkymist one[1], it is a transparent material and would prefer GTA04 embedded in case like that,

Re: My VoIP experience in Freerunner

2011-08-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 29 August 2011, Paul Fertser wrote: Be warned though, afaict the FR case (especially if you have both screws properly secured, i personally use my device without those for several years without any issues) provokes echo, so you might need to find an acceptable way

Re: Freerunner and Wayland

2011-07-13 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 13 July 2011, Neil Jerram wrote: Hi Tom, Thanks for your answer... On 13 July 2011 10:01, Thomas White t...@bitwiz.org.uk wrote: acceleration pathways. A lot of the performance difficulties with the X pathway (not just on our hardware) seem to be because the server can't

Re: FreeRunner screen/case improvements (was: Shiftd)

2011-06-11 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 10 June 2011, Martix wrote: Speaking about screen I prefer AMOLED displays. Advantages: higher contrast on sunshine and generally less power consumption than backlit LCD, especially with GUI based on theme with white or colored text and icons on black background. AMOLED with red GUI

Re: Freerunner as a mobile gateway

2011-05-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 17 May 2011, Eric Smith wrote: Hi I am considering using the Freerunner as a mobile gateway to track GPS on a vehicle and to receive data from wireless sensors in the vehicle and send the sensor data and GPS data through GPRS. We may need to plug a customised wireless device

Re: Freerunner as a mobile gateway - shipping container

2011-05-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 18 May 2011, Eric Smith wrote: Thanks Al, Main application here is in a sea shipping container. Good luck getting a signal when they're stacked! I guess you can find somewhere to stick the antennae where they won't be too vulnerable and have a fair chance of getting a signal.

Re: Bluetooth keyboards

2011-05-02 Thread Al Johnson
An alternative could be the one from the wiki: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Freedom_Slim_Keyboard But there is no mention of qtmoko support? The distro only has to serve the needed bt-tools, then everything will work. I recently bought the following one:

Re: Have I fried my freerunner?

2011-03-09 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 09 March 2011, John O'Hagan wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Chuck Norris wrote: 04.03.2011 06:27, John O'Hagan пишет: On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Thomas HOCEDEZ wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 13:16:54 + John O'Hagan resea...@johnohagan.com wrote: Hi, After a couple of

Re: 2.5 vs 3.5 jack

2011-02-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 16 February 2011, David Lanzendörfer wrote: Hi list, Hello list-user :-) is anybody here from GTA04 developers? yes if it's not late, would be great to hear some case concerning 2.5 jack retention. That's only thing I found objectionable in the current tech.

Re: Audio path gain, was: Re: Bluetooth module

2011-02-04 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 23 January 2011, Hrabosh wrote: Al Johnson píše v Pá 21. 01. 2011 v 10:34 +: On Friday 21 January 2011, Hrabosh wrote: Hi guys, yesterday I opened my freerunner to check whether mine FR is affected by R3004 issue [1]. It was, I put a piece of wire there instead

Re: It's not a camera

2011-02-04 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 04 February 2011, Benjamin Deering wrote: http://jeepingben.homelinux.net/index.php?level=albumid=26 After attempting to use a bmp085 as a temperature sensor for my skiwax program (http://jeepingben.homelinux.net/wax/) and not getting good results (at least partially due to thermal

Re: Bluetooth module

2011-01-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 21 January 2011, Hrabosh wrote: Hi guys, yesterday I opened my freerunner to check whether mine FR is affected by R3004 issue [1]. It was, I put a piece of wire there instead of those two caps and volume got better! I have also connected sine wave from generator to the WD8753

Re: QtMoko v31

2011-01-17 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 17 January 2011, giacomo 'giotti' mariani wrote: Hi! thank you for this new release! [...] - a message to confirm that an sms was sent; [...] greetings! Joif Hi, I think that SMS confirmation messages are a service offered by phone company (not for free).

Re: QtMoko v31

2011-01-13 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 13 January 2011, sferic wrote: Thank you for the hint!. I followed the references and boot v31 with Qi. For this I created the empty file 'noboot-GTA02' and put it to /boot in the partitions for debian and shr-u. This works just fine. But: After I use Debian on the 1st Partition

Re: The epoch is upon me.

2011-01-11 Thread Al Johnson
set, or that ffalarms isn't being called on wake among other things. Does the phone wake but not sound the alarm? If you wake the phone and immediately run 'date' in the terminal do you see the correct time, or the time when the phone suspended? On 12/22/10, Al Johnson openm

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-23 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 23 December 2010, W. B. Kranendonk wrote: --- On Wed, 12/22/10, Alfa21 freerun...@my.is.it wrote: 2010-12...@14:21 W. B. Kranendonk That reminds me... The BeagleBoard can provide up to 1280*1024 or 1280*720 if I recall correctly. Do we have options to channel that power

Re: The epoch is upon me.

2010-12-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 21 December 2010, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: Em 21-12-2010 12:55, Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) escreveu: The last time my FreeRunner's battery died, the clock reset to epoch. Now, it no longer keeps time during suspend either. I'm guessing this means the clock

Re: [Debian] 2.6.34 Openmoko kernel package available

2010-12-17 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 17 December 2010, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2010/12/16 Neil Jerram neiljer...@gmail.com: Even after removing the /dev/input files as you suggested (in /etc/rc.local), my observation is that XOrg still eats all CPU after an initial boot-up, but that if I then do /etc/init.d/nodm stop and

Re: No plans for fennec on the FR

2010-12-03 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 03 December 2010, Thomas Gstädtner wrote: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 13:17, Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/3 Delian deli...@gmail.com: Seems there's no hope of seeing a native FR version of fennec right now. [0] Well, we already have nice browsers so, it's not a

Re: Interesting new 'Open' Hardware how do I build shr for it?

2010-12-02 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 01 December 2010, Gennady Kupava wrote: В Пнд, 29/11/2010 в 01:24 -0800, c_c пишет: Hi, I was looking at arowboat.org - which is a project at getting Android working on all TI OMAP series boards and I saw a link to opensourcemid.org. Apparently, Embest (who also make

Re: qtmoko.org?

2010-11-25 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 25 November 2010, Radek Polak wrote: On Thursday 25 November 2010 16:47:42 Ole Carlsen wrote: It seems like someone has broken qtmoko.org pages. Anyone aware of what is going on?? The status devel page got broken, so i banned the user and it's now ok. FAQ page is also messed

Re: [e-users] Someone is trying to patent Quickwriting

2010-11-23 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Daniele Ricci wrote: Hello Carsten, thanks for your reply. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:02, Carsten Haitzler ras...@rasterman.com wrote: themselves. they are forgeable. if you have an overwhelming set of such data from multiple sources and witness statements

Re: Someone is trying to patent Quickwriting

2010-11-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Daniele Ricci wrote: Cross-posting for broadcasting Justus idea. [snip...] On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 00:00, Justus Winter Would anybody care to join me on this one? We could create a message or a message template and ask everyone send this message to the person

Re: MeeGo 1.1 for FreeRunner?

2010-11-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) wrote: Does anyone know how difficult it would be to port MeeGo to the FreeRunner? After all, we don't have enough distro's yet (-= http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_Porting_Guide All looks rosy until you get to the bit about

Re: WM8753 Speaker Playback ZC Switch

2010-11-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 12 November 2010, Ed Kapitein wrote: Hi All, I am happily hacking on my FR and was toying with the wolfson. I happen to notice that in order to get any sound from the earpiece i had to switch on the Speaker Playback ZC Switch. That switch is mentioned in the statefile, but i can't

Re: Address the WM8753 directly

2010-11-11 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 11 November 2010, Ed Kapitein wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 12:57 -0800, W. B. Kranendonk wrote: --- On Wed, 11/10/10, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: From: Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk The ultimate goal is to make a FR to FR modem

Re: Address the WM8753 directly

2010-11-10 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 08 November 2010, Ed Kapitein wrote: Hi All, I want to hack a bit on the Wolfson sound chip. The ultimate goal is to make a FR to FR modem conection, using the GSM voice band. Why? Is this just to see whether it's possible, or how bad the voice channel is as a data connection

Re: Where can I buy a replacement LCD screen for a Neo?

2010-11-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 06 November 2010, Ori Pessach wrote: The title pretty much sums it up. My screen cracked, seemingly unprovoked. Just do a search on the part number TD028TTEC1 to find a number of suppliers at a wide range of prices. Ebay has them between $16 and $91.

Re: Always Innovating

2010-11-03 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 03 November 2010, Thomas HOCEDEZ wrote: On 02/11/2010 16:44, Al Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Thomas HOCEDEZ wrote: Le 01/11/2010 12:40, Al Johnson a écrit : On Monday 01 November 2010, Chuck Norris wrote: 01.11.2010 16:41, Ed Kapitein пишет: Hi All

Re: Always Innovating

2010-11-02 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Thomas HOCEDEZ wrote: Le 01/11/2010 12:40, Al Johnson a écrit : On Monday 01 November 2010, Chuck Norris wrote: 01.11.2010 16:41, Ed Kapitein пишет: Hi All, A while ago there was intrest in the MID of always inovating. They seem to be shipping the devices

Re: Always Innovating

2010-11-01 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 01 November 2010, Chuck Norris wrote: 01.11.2010 16:41, Ed Kapitein пишет: Hi All, A while ago there was intrest in the MID of always inovating. They seem to be shipping the devices as of today. [1] So get them while they'r fresh ;-) Kind regards, Ed [1]

Re: Anyone still have the case CAD files?

2010-10-29 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 28 October 2010, David Lanzendörfer wrote: Try FreeCAD Its also able to open this format. The freecad ebuild in the gentoo science overlay has an unresolvable dependency at the moment. Is it significantly better than brl-cad? I'll answer this one myself. FreeCAD does a much

Re: Openmoko on Wikipedia

2010-10-29 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 29 October 2010, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 10:27 +0200, Eric Ehlers wrote: Hello, I added a new section (2.5) to the Openmoko page on wikipedia in an attempt to reflect the latest status of the project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko

Re: Anyone still have the case CAD files?

2010-10-28 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 28 October 2010, David Lanzendörfer wrote: Try FreeCAD Its also able to open this format. The freecad ebuild in the gentoo science overlay has an unresolvable dependency at the moment. Is it significantly better than brl-cad? If you convert it to stl, you can print it with a

Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-10-27 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 27 October 2010, Radek Polak wrote: Another idea - i wonder if i could make the case of wood. That would be very environment friendly and wood is also good material. But that's just idea. Laser cutting works with wood, though you do get slightly charred edges. Milling works well

Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-10-26 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 26 October 2010, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 26.10.2010 um 10:58 schrieb Patryk Benderz: [cut] To say more of the price, it is necessary to have the design available. This question you asked Boudewijn, is very important. Nikolaus, do you have some design

Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-10-25 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 23 October 2010, David Arnold wrote: On 23/10/2010, at 9:40 AM, Al Johnson wrote: high quality design doesn't have to be expensive to manufacture. I suspect something attractive could be made in low volume at a reasonable price using laser cut plastics. I'll try to ask the local

Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-10-25 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 23 October 2010, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 23.10.2010 um 15:40 schrieb Al Johnson: On Friday 22 October 2010, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 22.10.2010 um 02:17 schrieb Al Johnson: On Friday 22 October 2010, EdorFaus wrote: On 10/21/2010 07:59 PM, Alfa21 wrote

Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-10-25 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 25 October 2010, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Well, we have anlysed approx. 5 or 6 different methods and none was inexpensive for low volumes. The only one that came down below 50 EUR per case is injection moulding. But I would be happy if you can guide the GTA04 to a

Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-10-23 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 22 October 2010, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 22.10.2010 um 02:17 schrieb Al Johnson: On Friday 22 October 2010, EdorFaus wrote: On 10/21/2010 07:59 PM, Alfa21 wrote: you should try 3d print like this: snip made in ABS which is a good plastic and up to 0.01 inches

Re: I2C fm/am radio

2010-10-23 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 23 October 2010, giacomo mariani wrote: Hello everyone, I'm willin if such a component exists and is suitable for our mobile... Does some of you have any experience, hint or idea? There doesn't seem to be a shortage of suitable chips. The problem will be integrating it into

Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-10-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 21 October 2010, Andreas Fischer wrote: Hi, One question: Do you only consider upgrades of existing Freerunners or would a complete phone also be an option? My (probably naive) impression is that you're only missing the case plastics to provide a complete GTA4 phone. Most of

Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-10-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 21 October 2010, W. B. Kranendonk wrote: The LCD comes in handy at times, was my first thought... True, but they're available from many more suppliers than moko plastics! Shame there isn't a transreflective version though... ___ Openmoko

Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-10-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 22 October 2010, EdorFaus wrote: On 10/21/2010 07:59 PM, Alfa21 wrote: you should try 3d print like this: snip made in ABS which is a good plastic and up to 0.01 inches resolution Unfortunately, that's not quite good enough (different units). 0.01 inches = 0.254 mm, which is

Re: [Debian] 2.6.34 Openmoko kernel package available

2010-10-18 Thread Al Johnson
thanks for the package. to ssh in the device i must add 'g_ether' in /etc/modules. you should builtin this module in kernel. That's fine for you, but not for anyone who wants to use one of the other gadget modules. If you need it autoloading then autoload it as you are doing now.

Re: soldering tutorial, was: Re: [Shr-User] uSD hosed, on every unstable.

2010-10-15 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 15 October 2010, Alfa21 wrote: 2010-10...@15:58 jeremy jozwik yah thats what i was wondering, frying components. but it is surely a common technique, this is the first ive seen with a hot plate. most use a hot air gun. hot air is used to unsolder components for replacement.

Re: [Shr-User] uSD hosed, on every unstable.

2010-10-13 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 13 October 2010, jeremy jozwik wrote: for those who care: today, for some reason, i decided to tear down my freerunner. when i got the PCB board out i took a moment to look at the sd card reader. i noticed of the 4 little black squares just next to the sd card reader, only 3 of

Re: [Shr-User] uSD hosed, on every unstable.

2010-10-13 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 13 October 2010, jeremy jozwik wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: Judging by your photo and the component placement doc that would be R7507 which according to the schematic is 75R, and connects the SD_DATA0 pin

Re: New Phone Project (MiniMoko) : Which functionalities ?

2010-10-10 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 09 October 2010, Thomas HOCEDEZ wrote: On 10/09/2010 06:15 PM, Al Johnson wrote: On Saturday 09 October 2010, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2010/10/6 Eddered...@tkwsping.nl: Will it support headphone, with a microphone? I think it's safe nowadays to just assume Bluetooth headphones

Re: New Phone Project (MiniMoko) : Which functionalities ?

2010-10-10 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 10 October 2010, Maksim 'max_posedon' Melnikau wrote: Looks like we have 2 different opinions here: 1. attach-all-possible-staff-to-MID add new holes new connectors and so on, e.g. people dreams about open extra-cool phone. I'm a bit confused by such unrealistic direction of

Re: New Phone Project (MiniMoko) : Which functionalities ?

2010-10-10 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 10 October 2010, Alfa21 wrote: And one more note: attaching anything via external 40pin port, will make device impossible to attach to Smartbook. The MiniBook can be connected as normal after removing the module. We could design the module so that it can connect everything

Re: New Phone Project (MiniMoko) : Which functionalities ?

2010-10-09 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 09 October 2010, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2010/10/6 Edder ed...@tkwsping.nl: Will it support headphone, with a microphone? I think it's safe nowadays to just assume Bluetooth headphones, ie. not all devices need the extra plugs if something has to be sacrificed. The 40 pin

Re: New Phone Project (MiniMoko) : Which functionalities ?

2010-10-08 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 06 October 2010, Thomas HOCEDEZ wrote: Hi, As you might have read, Always Innovating (A.I.), is opened to think about a collaboration between them and us (Openmoko community) to build a phone based on their MiniBook. This device is a MID, without phone capabilities (except

Re: QtMoko v26

2010-09-17 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 16 September 2010, Jim Morris wrote: Ori Pessach wrote: I didn't mention it, but I did just that. I stood in a field, looking at grasshoppers for 5 minutes. That's when I decided to take a walk. Â This weekend, I left my FR on a table in the back yard for 20 minutes. Still

dbus moving into kernel?

2010-09-16 Thread Al Johnson
kdbus is proof-of-concept at the moment, the idea being to reduce the number of context switches needed for each dbus message. One synthetic benchmark shows a 3x speed increase on the n900 but speedup in real world applications seems much more modest.

Re: ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v2 is finally available

2010-09-13 Thread Al Johnson
Looks good. It'll be a month or so before I can order one. On Sunday 12 September 2010, Christoph Mair wrote: Dear list, after lots of hard work I'm happy to announce that the Freerunner Navigation Board v2 is finally available! The team from handheld-linux.com [1] kindly offered to handle

Re: [Shr-User] uSD hosed, on every unstable.

2010-09-08 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 08 September 2010, jeremy jozwik wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Gennady Kupava g...@bsdmn.com wrote: SD initalisation in kernel look strange and fact that we need different rootwait/rootdelay in kernel, while u-boot can read SD card almost instantly seriously puzzles

Re: FS Freerunner

2010-09-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 05 September 2010, David Pottage wrote: On 05/09/10 17:13, xChris wrote: I know about it. I had no luck, the FR does not 'see' my 3G SIM (three mobile UK). But the WTF is that a 2005 mobile (Nokia 6320i) CAN use that SIM and the FR can't! Is it that the FR can't read the

Re: [Community Updates] 2010-09-01 is out

2010-09-01 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 01 September 2010, Maksim 'max_posedon' Melnikau wrote: Because of FR's NOR bootloader, better to have some hacks in kernel, imho. The NOR bootloader is only intended to allow you to fix a broken NAND bootloader. You can do this perfectly well with the slower timings the NOR

Re: WikiReader sales and the future of Openmoko

2010-08-19 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 19 August 2010, Jim Ancona wrote: On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Christoph Pulster openm...@pulster.de wrote: Please note Android is a Google(TM) product. TM stands for total monopol. Or terrible monster. Google is evil. Android is no free OS. By what definition of free is

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