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To be completely power-proof, use a synchronously mounted sdcard. Slow
fs, but gps logging is low volume anyway.
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On 26. juli 2010 20:43, David Garabana wrote:
O Luns, 26 de Xullo de 2010 11:13:09 Helge Hafting escribiu:
On 23. juli 2010 21:43, David Garabana wrote:
O Venres, 23 de Xullo de 2010 21:25:50 Sylvain Paré escribiu:
I take this thread about GPS to give my feed back too.
From my personal
.
If swapping to the card silently fail, then surely there is
trouble when the stuff is swapped back in.
Do the sdcard and the glamo share a bus? Maybe glamo can handle a
speed that the sdcard cannot?
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(or
longer delays) should compensate for unknown timing sensitivities in the
hardware. Maybe evn 1+4+2 timing can be used eventually.
The video mode change is a rare operation - it won't matter much
if it gets slower. Not if graphics painting operations gets faster. :-)
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On 20. juli 2010 16:52, Helge Hafting wrote:
[...]
On reboot, the screen went white, and nothing more happened.
Solution for bricked phone:
Somehow, the kernel partition got wrecked during flashing. So,
reflashing the kernel brought the phone back to life. (No, I did not
make the mistake
screen rotation does not seem to work well.
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the simple stopped due to missing gps signal. In particular, the
odometer will know when you are standing still - you can only loose
precision when moving.
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deteriorates into
uselessness.
This may not take long with a cheap accelerometer - but the software
will automatically work for much longer if more precise equiopment is
connected.
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, but seems impossible to get working.
Am I doing this wrong? One of my qi files is the one that worked before.
But not now. Is there hope of using this device any more?
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is also an option.
Is the touchscreen the only FR component that can be reused?
The gps unit is rather good - could it be connected to
the new board with only simple soldering?
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exits.
And then there are cities with too many tall buildings, and things like
parking houses.
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happen in a car. But
you do want to notice if this happens to your plane . . .
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Märta wrote:
As I’ve understand you can
modify the Frerunners code by writing scripts into the phones terminal. Is
that correct, you don’t need a linux computer to be able to do these tweaks
(for example setting the time)?
While a linux computer is nice to have, it is not necessary. There
to 100%, and that doesn't work well.
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- is that what you mean?
I do my upgrades using usb power, so the phone doesn't get a chance
to sleep until I leave the pc anyway. Maybe that masks such
problems for me.
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to not follow the gps around.
So if I quit tangogps while the map is centering on current position, then it
will
keep sentering on the gps position when tangogps is restarted. That way, it
won't be necessary
to press that button everytime I restart tangogps as a map display in the car.
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Neil Jerram wrote:
On 10 February 2010 11:57, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote:
[...]
That did the trick! Thanks for the tip - an easy repair when
one knows.
Could you explain more, because I think I have this problem too. How
do you make a suitable glue strip, and how and where
is necessary for so many
non-english languages. A top row ending in 'p' is useless.
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the occational breakage as well. But no freezes, just particular
apps/functionality that fail
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up before the next retry. The sleeping is necessary to avoid busy waiting.
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Stefano Cavallari wrote:
On Friday 22 January 2010 20:13:58 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no writes:
the same quality as this, by tweaking volume settings. Calls are digital
The audio data is fed to the GSM chip in analog form however.
If the FR sound quality
can replace that card whenever I want to.
Debian is perfect when you have a few gigabytes, or more. I use it on
servers, big laptops and tiny minimalist laptops. But debian is not what
you want to cram into 100MB, at least not today.
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and speaker volume. (And then reboot the phone,
so the settings are saved.)
If the FR sound quality is too bad, consider a BT headset. Sound quality
should then depend on the BT headset only. The FR's problems with buzz,
bad bass, and possibly other analog issues shouldn't matter at all.
Helge
have been tracked:
http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2327 (also see post by Timo).
That ticket seems to describe a similiar problem with wifi, it doesn't
mention GSM. Or are both handled by a common piece of hardware?
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On Monday 18 January 2010 16:52:11 Helge Hafting wrote:
[...]
Too bad this kernel didn't work, it seemed very interesting.
I don't know what is causing gsm to not register, but it's not kernel, for
sure.
It may be some kind of race condition in the SHR
the freerunner with openmoko for helping freedom
of the press.
What part of Europe would that be? Definitely not western Europe.
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Download all the maps you need once when you're online.
Tangogps will work fine offline after that.
(The same goes for navit - you have to give it a map
to work with. Tangogps merely has the option of downloading
maps when needed.)
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.
Nothing helped. In the end, I flashed the latest shr-unstable kernel,
booted, and got a GSM connection just fine. (I use shr-unstable of today.)
Too bad this kernel didn't work, it seemed very interesting.
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they called me while nothing happened on the device.
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. It could help - if
it is a kernel problem.
If nothing helps, consider trying a different phone company. The problem could
be there too.
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connection to its SDcard, and
slow graphics. It is useable, but a really snappy phone could be
tempting. IF it runs a user-modifiable linux, that is!
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the remaining connection.
And bluetooth is just not there (no GUI == not there for the user).
Does anyone else have trouble doing opkg ugrade over gprs? mine hangs
after a bit.
I never tried that - but make sure the thing doesn't suspend.
Plug in power, or turn suspend off.
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Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
But there is a problem. The user may switch between several apps with
different rotation needs. (xmahjongg needs landscape, tetris needs
portrait, ...) How will omnewrotate be notified about
will need a way to get notified about
focus/foreground changes. Fast polling will slow down
the phone, slow polling will be too slow. So
notification is necessary.
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be updated 11 times per second if need be. In theory, anyway.
Anything updating a smaller
portion of the screen could be even more responsive.
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it for a while, and wifi has been
useable instead of dies randomly all the time, only comes up now and then.
# uname -a
Linux om-gta02 2.6.29-rc3 #1 PREEMPT Tue Sep 1 23:03:59 CEST 2009
armv4tl unknown
It is definitely not built by me.
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does the wifi antenna keep eating power while suspended or does it turn
off?
I have no way of measuring that.
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Helge,
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote:
Wifi used to be very unstable and quirky, but is much improved now.
I agree!
I can now run a script that powers up wifi, loads the kernel
driver module, and then runs wpa
microscope:
http://vanous.penguin.cz/files/om/SOP/
Assuming this works out well - what fixes are you going to offer?
All 3 (buzz, #1024, bass)? Or the first two?
Will it be possible to send in a phone from Norway?
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managing the connection after resume. I had to restart
udhcpc, but that is of course not a driver problem.
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Actually, I got a mail once telling me not to do that. Seems there were
limited room on servers, and too much of my tracks were known stuff.
So now I only edit with josm, I don't upload tracks.
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anybody got any experiences with
- attaching a Freerunner to a bike (maybe even incl. sun protection)
The sun is tricky - polarized sunglasses may remove reflected light
though. The same problem exists in boats, have a look at sun covers for
boat instruments. Might need some work though.
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to save power
whenever no apps happen to be interested.
And of course, apps that can't use the information shouldn't need to use
the cpu time either.
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? Looks like this has to be
done in the route command, but I have not found where
gprs actually sets its default route.
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of software? It needs some new ALSA
functionality of 2.6.3x. Plenty of people might be interesting in
making that kernel. Some will even package it in some user-friendly
package management system. But they can't - because of proprietary
concerns. And so the end-user misses opportunities.
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up static
192.168.0.200 for eth1 on the computer. This avoids running a dhcp
server on the rather limited phone.
Still, the dhcp server may be easier if you regularly connect to many
different computers.
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persons time. If you just let the phone ring, perhaps with the
sound off, then they will be waiting hoping that you eventually
pick it up. Well, perhaps we want that when the call is IDed
as a telemarketer . . .
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/ringtone/whatever. That'd be nice to have. Others now and then
send images to FR owners, not knowing that it isn't implemented.
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Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:19:52PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
1. The wireless does not work after the phone wakes from suspend.
[...]
Just this morning, with SHR 2009/08/08:
1. resume
2. enable wifi in shr-settings
3. use mofi to connect
as predefined.
Continue sniffing: if the phone is turned upside down, go silent, stop vibra.
And reject the call too, I guess?
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Ben Wilson wrote:
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 :)
The freerunner is easy enough to open with a fingernail.
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the essid first.
My workaround is to set the encryption key first.
The simplest (but not necessarily the best) kernel fix would be
to have driver initialization explicitly set some key as the last
step. Then users wouldn't have to.
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shh to that address. I cannot imagine this working...
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(SD-card), and you can start
reasonably quick after changing the battery.
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is bigger, which is convenient for looking at
maps.
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ip address 192.168.0.202
Set up your laptop gps software to use the gps unit at
192.168.0.202:2947, instead of the default localhost:2947.
It worked well last time I tried it.
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2009/8/3 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no
mailto:helge.haft...@hist.no
Michal Brzozowski wrote:
Litephone beta1 is available here:
http://pvtrace.com/litephone/litephone_0.0.1-r2_armv4t.ipk
Beta impressions:
* When the phone rings
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 06:06:55PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
Go to their website - read their policy.
tile.openstreetmap.org is not to be used for bulk downloads.
URL?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tile_usage_policy
I can understand
/if the email address confirmation
comes through. :-/
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: messages.getRow(i).getValue(Content, content):
Deleting the messages through shr-messages did not help.
I'll try again when there is an updated version.
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new string goes on the block list - or perhaps your IP address.
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Warren Baird wrote:
I like to try turning that around and start a thread for people to talk
about their successes. Maybe if we get enough good ones we can push it
onto the wiki.
It is a nice gps device, with its high-resolution screen.
Good for OSM mapping, good for having a map display
be coded to send a new sms every 5 min or so, until
you recover the stolen phone and reconfigure it. :-)
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Two reasons - here in Australia using a prepaid card you can run up a
huge bill making test calls.
Is making testcalls _to_ the phone expensive too?
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Isn't that why it's called default?
Default is what you get after flashing. default is what you
get when you don't customize. And that is fine.
The phone is not supposed to revert back to default just because
the user boots it. If you make _changes_, they should stick!
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echoes too.
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and get more from a weak signal. For example, if you
move around in heavy rain in a forest.
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.) to areas that are already well
mapped, so making OSM directly won't work for me. The road is already
there, for example. GPX comments makes it easy to add only the stuff
that is new.
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be the low render speed for
vector maps though which navit suffers from... Maybe there are ways to
speed it up?
For the freerunner, make sure you do all tour drawing calculations with
integer math only. No floating point coordinates.
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question is definitely on-topic, because you are using a
freerunner. Don't worry about that. :-)
For detailed help, note that navit has a mailing list, and openstreetmap
has several mailing lists/forums where they can help you with rendering
questions and other tech stuff.
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but this is fine now. It will not last 16 hours if you don't
let it suspend though - for example if you do gps logging all the time.
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the stuff. And this helps, for generally, lots of people wants the
same stuff.
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to be downloaded from the satellites before
the first fix - but downloading requires better signal quality than
merely tracking. You may or may not get the better quality signal inside
the plane.
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reported 10038 meters and 740 km/h last saturday.
I got the first fix at about 9km height, and tracked the plane as it
went up. Then i had to stop due to the battery running out.
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a
script that copies some particular tile (or other png image) over any
size=0 file. Yaouh will then notice the wrong hash and fix it.
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together.
Of course, the keys are already very small, so this is problematic. They
could get harder to hit. But triangles have the same problem, although
they may look cooler to some.
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that downloading detail maps for all of europe will simply be
too much. So go for the places you actually will be going.
Navit maps are much more compact, so all of europe is realistic on a
large SDcard. Whether navit will perform fast enough on a FR is another
problem.
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Johny Tenfinger wrote:
DON'T PANIC
uBoot splashscreen
If you are using SHR from microSD an Qi, you can use that bootsplash
when whole system is booting just in just 2 steps:
Is it necessary to boot off the microSD? I have SHR in the internal
flash, as it fits nicely there.
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uninstalling fso-gpsd, installing normal gpsd and
somehow persuading frameworkd to not touch the gps (don't konw if
setting the GPS to off is enough...)
And the ideal fix would be framework support, so you just tell it you
want 4HZ updates and from then on you get that.
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unless it persists. I.e.
report the last good value for a while until it can be sure that a
drop isn't just a fluke.
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will limit charging for you. such a
charger can not be used for a battery without a phone.
If you can get your hands on one of those freerunners with a broken
display, then that can be used as a charger too.
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and hope that someone else will use them for drawing.
A problem with this approach is that others won't know how the track was
recorded, so they might make a wrong road where you crossed a lawn and
things like that.
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. If you get rid of any trapped water and corroded
gunk, then the touchscreen might improve.
There is the risk of breaking the thing further, but it seems
sufficiently broken alredy.
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that expects
the old mac address will fail, so just change it!
I guess other windows users can help you out with the details on how
this is done?
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Nelson Castillo wrote:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote:
Nicola Mfb wrote:
2009/4/28 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no:
Helge Hafting wrote:
[..]
It is a kernel problem, because going back to the older kernel
uImage-2.6.28-oe1
Nicola Mfb wrote:
2009/4/28 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no:
Helge Hafting wrote:
[..]
It is a kernel problem, because going back to the older kernel
uImage-2.6.28-oe1+gitr34240a1c06ae36180dee695aa25bbae869b2aa26-r3-om-gta02.bin
fixes the WIFI problem.
Unfortunately, using this older
fixing.
Messing around with modprobe commands is too cumbersome on such a device,
slightly more tolerable on PCs that have real keyboards.
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Ruben Leote Mendes wrote:
Hi,
I followed the Freerunner schematics and the heaset button seems to be
connected to EINT7/GPF7 so it seems it is possible to find out in software
if the button is pressed.
What is the best way to do it?
Check to see if it is interpreted as a normal key
ever connect to any access point. Similiarly, iwconfig
may claim there is no support for setting the essid.
Having low-level stuff like iwconfig fail is what makes me suspect a
kernel problem.
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through 5 min. :-) 15 min won't hurt the battery much.
Also, consider using the vibrator when the ringing gets loud. That helps
if the phone is inside a pocket, in a noisy place.
Thanks for a fine and useful app!
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