Re: Open Source AHRS project: giving away hardware

2014-05-10 Thread Ben Wong
Sounds like a fun challenge. I'd take it up if I wasn't already so busy. After all, who in their life hasn't at one point wanted to write an Unscented Kalman Filter? ;-) Just out of curiosity, is OpenPilot.org not a viable solution? --Ben On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Pascal

Re: mounting FR in car for GPS usage

2014-03-13 Thread Ben Wong
Years ago I found a cheap magnet mount at a truck stop and have been very pleased with it. A round, rubberized magnet is adhered to the dashboard (just pull off the backing, like a sticker) and a thin, flat, hardly noticeable plate sticks to the back of the Freerunner. Easy to snap on and easy to g

Re: GTA04 work (was: Openmoko's downfall (was changing IMEI))

2014-02-22 Thread Ben Wong
ing something to make the world a better place and they should be paid back with, at the least, our respect. —Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [QtMoko] new svg keyboard

2013-12-31 Thread Ben Wong
I love it. I hadn't known it was missing before, but I am glad *somebody* finally put a "tea" key on a keyboard. :-) (Err... I mean☺) —B On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Francesco De Vita wrote: > Hello everybody > I took advantage of the holidays and I made a new SVG keyboard, cute, > only qwer

Re: Larger capacity battery

2013-12-22 Thread Ben Wong
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:39 AM, joerg Reisenweber wrote: > > Maybe useful background can be found in: > http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=65568 jOERG, That's a pretty handy page. I hadn't realized LiIon batteries varied much by manufacturer. Is there a similar script for the Freerunner whi

Re: QtMoko v58 - best way to upgrade

2013-12-22 Thread Ben Wong
I've got v58 working now (thanks to the logging kludge) and have not had a problem with resuming yet. I did have a lot of reports initially of people trying to call me and my phone not ringing, but after I turned off multiplexing in Neocontrol things seem to be better. (I've never had to turn off m

Re: Use of a FreeRunner

2013-12-22 Thread Ben Wong
I'm sure it could; your FreeRunner is a complete computer. The question is if you have the time (or money to hire someone) to write the glue script that will put all the pieces together. Let's see, the parts you'll need are: 1. Check your mail account (fetchmail or python's imaplib) 2. Do a regex

Re: [gta02] cannot boot from NAND

2013-12-16 Thread Ben Wong
> There must be some timing problem. It can be quite tricky to debug it, > because with logging it works and with debugging enabled it works too. Timing with the AT communications? Would that be the chat script? > 3/ implement better screen locking. Now if you lock screen and receive phone > cal

Re: [gta02] cannot boot from NAND

2013-12-14 Thread Ben Wong
Weirdly, I'm getting a panic on boot with the JFFS2 images for rootfs and u-boot. I'll try resending with dfu-util again. —B P.S. When I mentioned using 'dd' before to write directly, I meant to say 'nandwrite'. On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Francesco De Vita wrote: > Thank you Radek, the jf

Re: [gta02] cannot boot from NAND

2013-12-13 Thread Ben Wong
> The size should be ok. NAND is IIRC 256MB. Would you be interested to try > jffs2? I can do it and upload quite easily. Sure, I'd give that a shot if it's easy for you to do. I seem to have more corruption problems from ubifs than jffs2, so wouldn't mind going back. —B

Re: [gta02] cannot boot from NAND

2013-12-13 Thread Ben Wong
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Radek Polak wrote: > On Friday, December 13, 2013 02:59:01 AM Ben Wong wrote: > >> What's the checksum supposed to be for the QTMoko files? > > a76072c1c9dce4eb2b07235f7cc307fe qtmoko-debian-gta02-v58.ubi > 50baec96657802b5a053fa0e

Re: [gta02] cannot boot from NAND

2013-12-12 Thread Ben Wong
This is my main phone, so I've reverted to v55 (the latest one I could find on sourceforge) and it seems to be working. —B On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Jorge wrote: > Yup, same here. No booting from NAND. > > > > On 12/12/13 23:59, Ben Wong wrote: >> >> Hey

Re: [gta02] cannot boot from NAND

2013-12-12 Thread Ben Wong
Hey Joif, You're not alone. I get the same message with v58 in NAND; haven't tried on SD yet. I thought it might be DFU transferring the file system incorrectly, but seeing that you have the same problem, I think perhaps the image on sourceforge is corrupted. What's the checksum supposed to be f

Re: QtMoko v58 with 2.6.39 kernel and improved power management

2013-12-12 Thread Ben Wong
Thanks for the update, Radek and Paul! I'm downloading v58 now and looking forward to having a stable system. By the way, I'm glad to see two big user interface bugaboos for me (vibration when resuming and hanging up when hitting "answer" twice) have been fixed. I think my only other bothersome bu

Re: SIM card backup

2013-08-23 Thread Ben Wong
Four years ago this worked for getting data from a SIM card: http://www.mail-archive.com/community@lists.openmoko.org/msg55862.html qtmoko SMS messages are saved in an sqlite3 file under Applications/qtopiamail/ On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Алексей wrote: > 1) How may I backup and restor

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-23 Thread Ben Wong
we have 5% as much fail as Ubuntu? Yes. But we'd need to get the word out and I'm just suggesting now might be a good time, while people are still wondering what to do with that extra $700 PayPal just refunded to them. :) —Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-08-22 Thread Ben Wong
Well, the deadline is up. The pledges rolled in and they got $12.8 million, which sounds amazing until you see that their goal was for $32 million. I guess that means all that money is getting refunded and there will be no Ubuntu Edge. Here's Shuttleworth's upbeat closing comment: http://www.indie

Re: [QtMoko] Battery

2013-08-22 Thread Ben Wong
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:57 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > On the GTA04 I just read >/sys/class/power_supply/bq27000-battery/charge_full > and >/sys/class/power_supply/bq27000-battery/charge_full_design > > and divide one by the other. > Does the GTA02 not have something similar? Did anyone ever

Bluetooth Keyboard

2013-06-24 Thread Ben Wong
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani < giacomomari...@yahoo.it> wrote: > Thank you Radeck, >I'm glad to have the "Docked keyboard" back: it is priceless when > sending SMS via vnc! > > Nice tip, Giacomo. That reminds me that my biggest bugaboo with QtMoko is that I have

Re: how big is the advantage of the gta02s and gta04s regarding private data?

2013-06-24 Thread Ben Wong
(joindiaspora.com) has better privacy. Does anyone here use it? What's a good Diaspora program for the Neo? --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: how big is the advantage of the gta02s and gta04s regarding private data?

2013-06-24 Thread Ben Wong
ne of OpenMoko's greatest successes was proving that it is possible to have a sane, understandable contract and still use a cell phone. --Ben On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:57 PM, robin wrote: > hi, > > I was just wondering what facts one would/could/should have at hand when >

Re: QtMoko packages for old input methods

2013-06-09 Thread Ben Wong
Thank you for doing this. As nifty as the idea of the translucent keyboard was, I think I would go back to the predictive keyboard (as used in SHR) if I could. --B On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Radek Polak wrote: > Hi, > I have started packaging old input methods for QtMoko. You can find arm

Re: [QtMoko] Mokofaen red signal strength icon

2012-11-14 Thread Ben Wong
Yes, I too had thought red meant "super duper must be 110%" signal strength. On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Neil Jerram wrote: > I've been wondering for some time what it means when the GSM signal > strength icon goes red, and whether/how that's different from the icon > disappearing altogethe

Re: [QtMoko] MokoFaen theme, update

2012-08-23 Thread Ben Wong
great for me. --Ben On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:45 AM, wrote: > Hi list! > > I'm going to work to an update for the MokoFaen theme for QtMoko. I'm > planning a few changes to it but I really would like to have some > feedback from the community. > > Usually I just follo

Re: Status GTA04 GroupTour

2011-12-29 Thread Ben Thompson
s one day when you were offering the same item the day before for 449 euros. First you need to find out if my view is held by others, if so my advice would be to write to the current subscribers to the group tour explaining that you made a mistake with the pricing, and ask permission to cancel t

Re: Sharing TSM30 source

2011-11-28 Thread Ben Thompson
25.11.2011, 20:43, "Fernando Martins" : > On 11/23/2011 10:57 PM, Ben Thompson wrote: > >>>  I don't speak Spanish so I am not sure if this page is actually a phone >>> for sale :- >>>  http://anuncios.ebay.es/compraventa/telefono-movil-vitelcom-

Re: what do I install now?

2011-11-26 Thread Ben Thompson
ut connecting to FSO. The idea was to show how to get started with Vala which should be easy to pick up for people with a little knowledge of Java. Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Sharing TSM30 source

2011-11-23 Thread Ben Thompson
>>  * What about learning the HW by physically examining it?  Well, I >>    haven't found any place where one can actually buy a TSM30 phone >>    either!  Unobtainium...  (I would love to be proven wrong on this >>    one as well!) > > I don't speak Spanish so I am not sure if this page is actual

Re: Sharing TSM30 source

2011-11-23 Thread Ben Thompson
18.11.2011, 04:12, "Michael Sokolov" : > Martix wrote: > >>  Ok, no need to hurry. Openmoko community waited for more than three >>  years for full open access to whole GTA02 internals, we can wait another >>  month. > > The CD set destined for Cryptome, including the TSM30 CD, has been > writte

Re: Announcement: new batches of GTA04 ready for (pre)order

2011-11-14 Thread Ben
know. Just think how awesome stereo speakers would be on your GTA04 :D Ben. On 15/11/2011 4:02 a.m., Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Dear all, I take for granted that you all are eagerly waiting for an annoucement that another batch of GTA04 boards becomes available. We did wait with an

Re: Shiftd

2011-06-10 Thread Ben Thompson
10.06.2011, 13:15, "Thomas HOCEDEZ" : > On 10/06/2011 12:05, Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani wrote: > >>  Hi, >>>  Here are my ratings out of 10 for Openmoko products :- >>> >>>  GTA01 - 5 >>>  GTA02 - 10 >>>  Wikireader - 0 >>>  Shiftd - 0 >>> >>>  What does anyone else think? >>  GTA01 - 10 >>  GTA02

Re: Shiftd

2011-06-10 Thread Ben Thompson
09.06.2011, 17:17, "Sean Moss-Pultz" : > Dear Community! > > Today I get to do one of the things I love most about my job; announce > our next product. This time, it's very different from what we've built Here are my ratings out of 10 for Openmoko products :- GTA01 - 5 GTA02 - 10 Wikireader - 0 S

Re: Qi vs U-boot (was Re: QtMoko v30; UBIFS; can't boot)

2010-12-27 Thread Ben Thompson
learning how it all works. By the way, does anyone else have any examples of the environemnt.in config which they would like to share? I have tried to boot SHR using Gennady's version but it did not work for me. It seemed to boot the kernel but X did not load for some reason. Thanks Ben

Re: Openmoko on Wikipedia

2010-11-10 Thread Ben Thompson
ontains some nice screenshots of the latest SHR and QtMoko. Does anyone else have any thoughts on this? Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: community Digest, Vol 204, Issue 8

2010-10-06 Thread Ben Thompson
> > > I'd tend to agree > > with Raster who says "Let's get an open enough consumer device that > > can be sold to the masses and hack on it". > > Keyword is 'sold to masses'. All other words are not important, you may > rephrase Raster's idea "Let's do ... device that can be sold to the > masses ... ". I bet such device will make Raster happy :) > > Gennady. I am nobody, but would just like to say that Gennady's summary sounds good to me. Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: QtMoko v26

2010-08-30 Thread Ben Thompson
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:55:10PM +0200, Xavier Cremaschi wrote: > Le 30/08/2010 12:26, Radek Polak a écrit : > > On Monday 30 August 2010 11:25:35 Xavier Cremaschi wrote: > > > >> Any idea to test it in qemu ? It seems great but I need to keep my phone > >> operational... > > > > What about tes

Re: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-13 Thread Ben Thompson
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:18:36PM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > > > Am 13.08.2010 um 12:35 schrieb Neil Brown: > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:22:02 +0200 > > "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" wrote: > > > >> > >> Am 12.08.2010 um 14:12 schrieb RANJAN: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> When is th

Re: When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-08-13 Thread Ben Thompson
available? As long as my SIM card remains compatible with the Freerunner. > * How much would you think you could afford to pay for such a board? Depends on how good it is (Wifi/GPS/3G/etc. support). Maybe 500 euros. -- Ben Thompson ___ Openmoko

Re: is wifi-driver developed anymore?

2010-05-18 Thread Ben Thompson
hanks to Harald!) we're waiting another answer from > Atheros but do not hold your breath. Hi Does anyone know whether an answer to this ever came back from Atheros? Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: QtMoko wifi certificate selector

2010-04-29 Thread Ben Thompson
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:14:45PM +0200, Daniele E. Domenichelli wrote: > > > > Can someone advise how to add a server certificate? > > > I was able to setup a WPA-EAP wireless network, I just moved my > certificates in > > /home/root/Documents/images/jpeg > > and then after rescanning system

QtMoko wifi certificate selector

2010-04-28 Thread Ben Thompson
Can someone advise how to add a server certificate? I don't understand what is supposed to happen when I click the padlock icon. Is the program looking in a particular directory for certificates? If so, where? Thanks Ben ___ Openmoko communi

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi stopped working

2010-04-26 Thread Ben Thompson
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:26:18AM -0700, HansV wrote: > > I use Mokonnect. It doesn't seem to find the WiFi hardware. The WiFi > indicator comes on in the shelf while Mokonnect is trying to power up the > device. But Mokonnect waits forever. Maybe some modules are missing in my > setup? Hmm, I h

Re: [QtMoko] SIM's pin

2010-04-26 Thread Ben Thompson
ard just "No > > Network" or something similar. > > There is bug that GSM sometimes does not register and you need to "Restart > QtExtended" from the POWER button menu. Maybe this is the cause? Hi Radek This does not always work for me. Sometimes I cannot get QTMoko

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi stopped working

2010-04-26 Thread Ben Thompson
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:42:39PM -0700, HansV wrote: > > lsusb gives: > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub. > > So I suppose my WiFi is dead. No, I don't think so. My wifi is fine and I get the same output. How are you using wifi by the way? Do you use wpa_supplican

Re: ventura upgrades

2010-04-19 Thread Ben Thompson
se it every day. My feedback is that I preferred the version without these modifications. I liked the uncluttered screen before and the menu button was larger and easier to use with my fingers. Also, I don't like that fact that more of the web

Re: Comparing A5 and A7 sound settings

2010-03-14 Thread Ben Wilson
>>> Just my two cents. I think at this point distributions' defaults >>> should be towards A7 users, since all new users are anyway A7 users >>> and A5/A6 owners by now are surely aware of the ALSA setting >>> problematics. >>> >> Hi, >> >> If it really depends on the Ax model I think they

Kernel oops with wifi (was: Problems with NWA)

2010-03-02 Thread Ben Thompson
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:58:57PM +0100, Nicola Mfb wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Ben Thompson wrote: > [...] > > I can reproduce this problem using NWA but I am not sure what is going > > on at the D-Bus level. Maybe someone could help me (maybe Niko)? > >

Re: Problems with NWA

2010-03-01 Thread Ben Thompson
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:36:01PM +0300, Paul Fertser wrote: > Ben Thompson writes: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:52:01PM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > >> Ben Thompson writes: > >> > I will see if I can reliably reproduce the problem and submit a bug &g

Re: Problems with NWA

2010-03-01 Thread Ben Thompson
octl+0x0/0x60) from [] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c) [ 961.90] r7:0036 r6: r5:bef23bd0 r4:0003dac0 [ 961.90] Code: e1a01004 eb58 e3a02001 e1a01004 (e595002c) [ 961.94] ---[ end trace 29a5feb8a3c0ed43 ]--- -- Ben Thompson ___

Re: Problems with NWA

2010-02-28 Thread Ben Thompson
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:52:01PM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Ben Thompson writes: > > I will see if I can reliably reproduce the problem and submit a bug > > report if there isn't one (where should I do this?). > > http://bugs.openmoko.org is the plac

Re: Problems with NWA

2010-02-28 Thread Ben Thompson
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:54:16PM +0300, Paul Fertser wrote: > Nicola Mfb writes: > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Ben Thompson wrote: > > [...] > >> I think this is a different bug. It happens occasionally with me too, > >> but it was also there with the

Re: Re: Problems with NWA

2010-02-26 Thread Ben Thompson
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:39:39AM +0100, n...@el-hennig.de wrote: > > > > Martin fixed qt builds (thanks again), and Ben just reported that NWA > > works again after upgrading. > > It starts up, yes. But when I close nwa I have to reboot my FR as it does not > rea

Re: [GTA02] VGA-QVGA switching - #2263 revisited

2010-02-17 Thread Ben Wilson
GTA01 QVGA working in SHR that would be great. Ben. On 18/02/2010 4:47 a.m., Vladimir Koutny wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > >>> Thus, I'd like to ask if anyone know: >>> - a solution that works? >>> - a git revision whic

Re: Problems with NWA

2010-02-15 Thread Ben Thompson
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:34:28PM +0100, Davide Scaini wrote: > yes.. > you have to use qt libs from noko repos dalle libqt* 4.4.3-r3 (while in shr > repos you find 4.6.0-r14.1.4). > It's a problem in cflgs when compiling qts on shr... nicola (the developer of > nwa) is aware of this, and shr guys

Problems with NWA

2010-02-15 Thread Ben Thompson
me :- r...@om-gta02 /usr/share/nwa $ cat defaultconfiguration.xml Can anyone help? Thanks Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.o

Re: OM future

2010-02-06 Thread Ben Wilson
maybe, but i think i trust Nokia more than i trust the people involved in getting the units from the factory to the users hands. Package could easy have been dropped by a sales person etc. Ben. On 7/02/2010 12:52 p.m., Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:46

Re: OM future

2010-02-06 Thread Ben Wilson
All the people I know who have an n900 love it. It seems highly likely that his n900 is faulty. Ben. On 7/02/2010 11:29 a.m., Gennady Kupava wrote: > В Вск, 07/02/2010 в 05:29 +0900, Carsten Haitzler пишет: > > [cut] > >> or get a nokia n900 (though my >> experien

Re: [Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-02-06 Thread Ben Wilson
On 30/12/2009 9:30 a.m., Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? > no i use my Neo1973 > Do you use FR as your primary PDA? > same as above > What distribution you run most of the time? > SHR unstable > If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone

Re: [freerunner] compatible battery that supports charge info

2010-02-01 Thread Ben Wilson
Openmoko sell spares packs, in case you weren't aware, come with two batteries. http://us.direct.openmoko.com/products/spares-pack Ben. On 2/02/2010 1:23 p.m., jeremy jozwik wrote: > im going to be looking for a new battery shortly. > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_Free

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-26 Thread Ben Wong
Subject:.*\bOT\b trash # Save to a file named "trash". Could use /dev/null. For those who use Gmail, here's an image of how to mute the conversation: http://imagebin.ca/view/2drcc4.html --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list co

Re: How is gta01 charger ID resistor detected?

2010-01-25 Thread Ben Wilson
I could be wrong, but I thought the 47K resistor cable ID feature was one of the things they added into GTA02. I assumed GTA01 didn't have it. Ben. Andy Poling wrote: > I have made a couple of custom charging cables for use with my gta01 and dumb > USB chargers (selected because they

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-15 Thread Ben Wong
of the time I was writing a paper which had many examples of computer users. For half of them I used female pronouns. I was amused and slightly disturbed that my co-author (from the Netherlands) fixed my "mistakes" by changing them all to male. --Ben P.S. To gmail users: Never want to

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-14 Thread Ben Cadieux
common ground to start talking with other volunteers - they are likely there because they care about the same things. Best Regards, Ben Cadieux ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-06 Thread Ben Cadieux
, before writing. Brevity both in writing and speech is important. You don't want to annoy or bore others with irrelevant information, nor seem boring by giving away all your thoughts. All the best to you and your endeavours :) Best Regards, Ben Ca

Re: reliable wifi gui for SHR

2009-12-24 Thread Ben Thompson
, > > > > What's the most reliable wifi utility nowadays on SHR? I tried mokonnect, I tried NWA just now on SHR-U and it looks good but it made a lot of white noise come out of the speakers when it got an IP address. Cheers Ben Thompson

Re: Costa Rica 3G and Neo Freerunner.

2009-12-07 Thread Ben Wilson
s using 3G SIM cards in the phone (3G SIM card to connect to 2G network). The phone wouldn't connect or would give issues so that page was setup to list which 3G SIM cards would work on the phone (2G connection). As far as I know the latest GSM firmware fixed those issues. Ben. Este

Re: How to transfer SMS from your old phone?

2009-11-23 Thread Ben Wong
his next time, $ mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage \ org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy GSM disabled [ Swap SIM here, unless previous command failed ] $ mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage \ org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetReso

Re: How to transfer SMS from your old phone?

2009-11-20 Thread Ben Wong
card since that's in the way). Does anyone know if it would have been safe to do that? --Ben - Start backupsim.sh - #!/bin/sh exec 1>simbackup-$(date '+%Y-%h') echo "GetSimInfo" mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd \ /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device \

Re: Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Wilson
Good idea, Could use the accelerometers to sense it being picked up. Couldn't do it in gta01 though, since it doesn't have the sensors. Ben. Robin Paulson wrote: > 2009/11/13 Ben Wilson : > >> What would be ideal is for it to keep playing the new message sound >>

Re: Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Wilson
Thanks That looks like a good place to start, i'll have a go at it. Ben. arne anka wrote: > basically it should be possible, to write a rule for oeventsd in > rules.yaml (incoming sms should be an event supported). > if not, you could opimd-cli and do something like > >

Re: Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Wilson
Unfortunately, i have gta01, no leds Ben. Davide Scaini wrote: > maybe a led flashing... we have 3 leds! > d > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Ben Wilson <mailto:b...@abcom.co.nz>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been using SHR unstable for my ever

Received SMS going unnoticed

2009-11-12 Thread Ben Wilson
one have a cron script or anything to solve this problem. Thanks Ben. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

QVGA 240x320 in GTA01 in SHR

2009-10-29 Thread Ben Wilson
bset qvga LCD changes to something but it's all messed up, grey lines, nothing really recognisable. Have to reboot phone to get it back to readable. Thanks, Ben. My fb.modes file is the typical one and contains the following # Timings for GTA01 VGA and QVGA mode mode "480x640" #

Re: #1024-rework service available

2009-10-22 Thread Ben Thompson
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:04:33PM +0200, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: > Dr.H.NikolausS wrote: > > ??? This is not a Bass-Fix: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_bass_fix > > Is this planned in the future? > I'd like to buy all the fixes at once... Me too. My freerunner happily went to German

Re: #1024-Fix in switzerland

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Thompson
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:27:08AM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > Hi Ben, > for all those outside Switzerland and inside EU harmonized market (the > reason to differentiate is customs complexity with export/reimport) we > offer this: > > http://www.handheld-linux

Re: #1024-Fix in switzerland

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Thompson
gt; in this list. Hi Is this for people outside Switzerland? Also, can you do the bass fix too? Cheers -- Ben Thompson ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: SHR clock reset

2009-10-02 Thread Ben Wong
nfigured. I'll test it again when I head back to the same area next week. --Ben 2009/10/1 Vasco Névoa : > I've started experiencing the same in the last few days. > The Neo's clock had always been impeccably correct, until now. > Now it was half an hour late and I se

Re: fatfingershell ?

2009-09-24 Thread Ben Wong
g mokomaze in ASCII. Alternately, when not pressed, the icon and action of the single cursor button could change depending upon the absolute tilt (left, right, up down, page up, page down, home, end) and it would otherwise work as a normal button. --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2009-09-16 Thread Ben Wong
Hello Brolin, I showed your post to a few geek girls and asked them what advice they would give. I'm CC'ing the list with their (edited) responses because I have a hunch that there are more "Brolins" out there. Ben ___ Over

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2009-09-12 Thread Ben Wong
be learned, and it can be valuable for people like us who can get lost in our "head-space". --Ben On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Brolin Empey wrote: > Hello list, > > Like most of the members of this list (AFAICT from the first names I > recognise as sex/gender-specific

Re: Freerunner & wireless internet

2009-08-26 Thread Ben Thompson
+ Mokoconnect does not work for me either. I get DHCP timeout > >> and I have tried multiple AP's. > > SHR-U + Mokoconnect does not work for me, but I haven`t upgraded and only > > have > > the 20090808 flash. Maybe it works better in latest SHR-U? > > > >

Re: Freerunner & wireless internet

2009-08-26 Thread Ben Thompson
ing to my Linksys (WRT54GX v2, WPA AES) on the FreeRunner > running Koolu Android Beta 7 and OM2009. > > With SHR-U and Mokonnect (my current setup) it does not work. SHR-U + Mokoconnect does not work for me either. I get DHCP timeout and

Re: Free runner opened up

2009-08-25 Thread Ben Wilson
I dunno about the freerunner but with gta01 it shipped with a guitar pick to be used to pry the case open without damaging the plastic :) Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:16 AM, RANJAN wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Did anyone open their free runner up.I want to give it a try.Any sugg

Re: Mechanical Design of the Freerunner/gta02-core/gta03

2009-08-25 Thread Ben Thompson
Example CAD drawing-> DWG-MOULDING-12345-GTA02_core rev 3 Instead do this :- Example PCB layout -> 001 rev 3 Example CAD drawing-> 002 rev 3 What does anyone else think? -- Ben Thompson ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: ZAGG invisible sheild for Neo Freerunner

2009-08-07 Thread Ben Wong
ely, they don't mention what the other secret ingredient is. (Thousand island dressing?) Someone mentioned that the shield is a dust magnet. That's probably true, but my screen stays cleaner since I'm no longer worried about wiping it off on somethin

Re: Can my FreeRunner remind me to shut it down if it is still running at 22:00?

2009-07-29 Thread Ben Wong
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Brolin Empey wrote: > 2009/7/27 Ben Wong >> >> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Brolin Empey wrote: >> >> > I prefer to shut down my cell phone before going to bed, but I >> > frequently >> > forget to do so. >

Re: Can my FreeRunner remind me to shut it down if it is still running at 22:00?

2009-07-27 Thread Ben Wong
is "off the hook"). I'd probably also check if there had been any recent screen input. To save the battery in case you forgot to plug it in? A cron job would work to shut it down, but you could add a couple lines in the script to skip it if the batt

Re: tango and the missing map tiles

2009-07-23 Thread Ben Wong
k Ingemann Lambertsen , June 2009, # Modified by Ben Wong to work with BusyBox's wget. cd ~/Maps/OSM || exit 1 find -size 0c -print \ | cut -c3- \ | awk ' { print "http://tile.openstreetmap.org/"; $0 " -O " $0; }' \ | xargs -n3 wget -U "UpdateTiles"

Re: tango and the missing map tiles

2009-07-23 Thread Ben Wong
uld work on any system, below. --Ben #!/bin/sh # Look for OpenStreetMap tiles that are size zero (TangoGPS has a bug) # and download the correct tile. Based on a one-line script by # Rask Ingemann Lambertsen , June 2009, # modified by Ben Wong to work with BusyBox's wget. cd ~/Maps/OSM |

Re: Anti-Whining: Happy Moko Moments

2009-07-23 Thread Ben Wong
der the tree. * Found the hidden treasure, put some items inside. * My niece and her family had a lot of fun, all thanks to my neo. --Ben On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Warren Baird wrote: > There seems to be a repeated theme of people posting how crappy the > Freerunner is and how nothing wo

Re: why openmoko is so slow? Is it a joke?

2009-07-13 Thread Ben Wong
I want, a free as in freedom phone and an active community of people to hack with. That's what I paid my money for. --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Help, bricked gta01. Anyone in New Zealand with a debug board?

2009-07-10 Thread Ben Wilson
David Vermeille wrote: > 2009/7/10 Ben Wilson mailto:b...@abcom.co.nz>> > > Hi, > > I just bricked my GTA01 by accident and need a debugboard to > reflash uboot. > Anyone out there in New Zealand with a debugboard that can help? &g

Help, bricked gta01. Anyone in New Zealand with a debug board?

2009-07-10 Thread Ben Wilson
Hi, I just bricked my GTA01 by accident and need a debugboard to reflash uboot. Anyone out there in New Zealand with a debugboard that can help? Thanks Ben (Psi) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: GOT MY PHONE!!! :) Doesn't work... :(

2009-07-09 Thread Ben Wong
can do so fairly easily without needing to ssh. The instructions are here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GSM/Flashing#uSD-card_Image_.28GTA02_only.29 --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-09 Thread Ben Wong
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Adam Jimerson wrote: > On Thursday 09 July 2009 12:54:15 am Ben Wong wrote: >>   mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device >> org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.SetSpeakerVolume 68 > > Are you sure that mdbus call is correc

Re: FreeRunner A7, GSM 850?

2009-07-08 Thread Ben Wong
g partners who use 850, but even that is unlikely. --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-08 Thread Ben Wong
Mickey: Please set the default volume back down. I just confirmed (by talking to a human) that when the Speaker Volume is set to 100%, the other party hears an annoying echo of their own voice. Thank you, --Ben P.S. I don't know if it matters, but I'm using a Revision A06 Freeru

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-08 Thread Ben Wong
u all. And does 100% actually work for anybody without distortion? --Ben On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > FWIW, against my personal experience (where this setting lead to > suboptimal results), people have forced me to uplevel the speaker volume &g

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-05 Thread Ben Wong
HR-unstable, and SHR-unstable is utterly unusable because people can't understand me. (Which I'm not complaining about, by the way. It is called "unstable" for a reason.) I'd bet that if you revert to SHR-testing, everything will be hunky-dory again. --Ben ___

Re: [Om2009 t5] Some issues & ideas

2009-07-05 Thread Ben Wong
e command line (terminal) using the "date" command. date [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]] For example, date 070513302009 Would set the date to July 5th, 1:30pm, 2009. --Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://li

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