Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
Sales start today at http://thewikireader.com. Enjoy. Tell your
friends. And let us know what you think!
My first impression of the device - it's a Palm IIIx with 1000 times
more storage, but poorer connectivity and fewer applications.
I have an electronic subscription
Test wrote:
I am playing w/ some AT commands. If you know what are these AT commands
for? let me know, and also how to use them?
AT+CLVL sets the audio output volume from the Calypso (see for example
http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2121).
I don't know about the others but one of the
a dehqan wrote:
An important question about GPS signals ,Is not IRAN far from The
satellite that sends signals ?will not signals be weak in Iran ?How
can we be sure that GPS antenna is not needed in open area in Iran ?
The main GPS satellites are in circular orbits around the earth, so the
Cameron Frazier wrote:
Does anyone know what the current means are to force fast charging at
500mA and could they share it with the list?
I don't know if there's a dbus/frameworkd way to do it, but the direct
method is:
echo 500 /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/pcf50633-mbc/usb_curlim
Cameron Frazier wrote:
Ahh, ok. Now things seem to be working correctly. One question though
what are the differences between usb_curlim and chg_curlim? I'm not
sure I fully understand what chg_curlim represents.
chg_curlim controls the battery charger, while usb_curlim controls the
David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote:
Now the Openmoko leather case is at 29 Euros Vat included + Shipping costs
at www.tuxbrain.com/shop
Do you ship to Canada, and if so what are the costs + payment options?
If not, does anyone know of a similar product in North America?
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
AT%CTVZ=1 just enables the unsolicited result code. There is no way to
actually _query_ the time from the network.
I don't know what method it uses but my Nokia 3500 phone gets the
current time+date automatically (operator is Fido in Canada). I've
tested this by
arne anka wrote:
neo1973 had stereo, freerunner never had (and afair was never supposed to).
IIRC the second speaker was removed from the Freerunner to make space
for the WiFi module.
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The Digital Pioneer wrote:
Universal phone shutdown instructions (works on any distro):
1. Remove back panel
2. Remove battery
3. Replace battery
4. Replace back panel
Done!
0. Unplug the USB power cable. The FR is capable of operating without a
battery (although GSM and some other bits
Laszlo KREKACS wrote:
I can't express how sad I'm when I read Andy Green left Openmoko.
I do not know why he left (and it is not my business anyway), but
I know since Andy was at Openmoko the kernel side began
to form shape, and got things work. (suspend? anyone?)
You should have stopped
Ed Kapitein wrote:
I am also looking for a way to make data calls, do you know of any other
method of making a data call with the FR?
( direct AT commands to the modem etc)[...]
All pointers are welcome!
First you need to make sure that your GSM carrier supports CSD (mine
doesn't AFAIK)
Fernando Martins wrote:
1) I got the date reset to 1970 a few times. I was not paying attention
but I guess this happens when battery is removed, i.e., there's no
battery specific for the clock?
There is a backup battery. Make sure that the system time is being saved
to the hardware clock,
Vasili Sviridov wrote:
Hello All,
Since both my previous posts haven't helped me to fix my phone looks
like I need to devirginate it. Unfortunately I do not have the debug
board, and paying $100 + shipping is a bit steep for just one thing to do.
Is there anyone in Vancouver, BC that
Vasili Sviridov wrote:
Ok, that made it even worse :(
Now I only have NOR uBoot and dfu-util still gives me only 1 alternate
there which is USB Device Firmware Upgrade.
Cannot flash the NAND uBoot, since dfu-util does not see the required
partition...
Don't pay too much attention to the
Vasili Sviridov wrote:
Thanks, what's the good version of NAND uBoot to flash?
I don't know - I haven't been keeping up-to-date with Openmoko
development for several months. I'd try
http://downloads.openmoko.org/daily/testing/gta02v5_and_up-u-boot.bin
first.
Helmut Tessarek wrote:
What is gta02v5_and_up-lowlevel.bin?
The lowlevel.bin file is used with the debug board, to initialize the
Freerunner so that you can upload a copy of u-boot into RAM over JTAG.
If you don't have a debug board then you can ignore it.
Alexander Frøyseth wrote:
Does anyone know WHY it don't charge when it is off?
My logic says that it is very important to have the option charge the
battery when it is flat.
I can't give you a simple answer. Charging is controlled by the PCF50633
chip, based on configuration values that are
Daniel Selinger wrote:
This settings removes the echo for the other person completely, at
least for my hardware. I didn't hear any buzz either on my final
testcalls, could be luck.
With those settings, were the two of you still able to easily hear each
other talking? Did you test in a quiet
tokenwizard wrote:
Ok, well as soon as I have time to deal with it I'll have to try and
Frankenstein some type of power cable contraption to get this thing booted
to the point the USB charge can kick in. Seems a little premature for such a
function to kick in when the battery is only slightly
Christian Weßel wrote:
Hello
I tried to save my rootfs by wiki's way (./dfu-util -a rootfs -R -U
good-rootfs.jffs2) and failed after a lot of minutes and 246MB with
dfu_upload error -108
Sorry, I don't know what that error means. However anyone wanting to use
dfu-util -U should look at
Holly Lee wrote:
I just got one FreeRunner and want to flash its system to latest. In
buildhost.openmoko.org, there are only u-boot image for gta01 and it
was built on Aug, 07. So I wanna ask where can I find u-boot binary
for gta02?
Look in the daily directory of buildhost, e.g.
Mikael Berthe wrote:
Or is there a way to prevent opkg from flashing the kernel? It would be
nice to upgrade /uImage.bin instead!
I don't know of a way to do this at the moment, but it would be a nice
enhancement. Perhaps the flashing script could check to see which device
was mounted as
Noah Romer wrote:
William Lai wrote, On 08/08/08 04:03:
http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.8/Om2008.8.uImage.bin
Is this not the u-boot image? I thought it was and tried to flash it
using `dfu-util -a u-boot -R -D Om2008.8.uImage.bin`, but that failed
uImage is the kernel. You
Scott wrote:
Booting up... Could it be any more confusing?? First the OM screen,
then the standard linux text scrolling, then the boots, then blank, then
the boots again, then some more text, then blank again??? WTF over?
Can't we have just one damn boot screen?
The first one (OM
Dale Maggee wrote:
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/scummvm: not found
which is very odd, because I can type /usr/bin/scum[TAB], and it
autocompletes to scummvm. the file is marked as executable. I can't see
anything wrong.
does anyone have any Ideas?
For binaries this may indicate an OABI/EABI
arne anka wrote:
PLEASE NOTE: I'm going to move this thread to [hardware]-ml and join it
with
another thread of same topic from [support], in a few hours.
then i won't read it anymore -- i am already subscribed to community and
support and it's almost more than i can read ...
The
Learning It wrote:
What about reverce engineering? I saw that some ppl were doing their mobile
phones. It means somewhere exists such information.
I wouldn't bother trying to reverse-engineer the GSM firmware itself.
The technical and legal barriers are too high for this to be a practical
Ken Restivo wrote:
What is the point of having GPS anyway?
One reason for GPS on a phone is to provide location information for
Enhanced 911 emergency services.
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Lynn Nguyen wrote:
I'm using the neo1973, so I don't think it has nand?
Neo1973 and Freerunner both have NAND. Only Freerunner has NOR.
I tried using the debug board but I can't get openocd.cfg to work. It
complains about missing ftd.h. even though i followed EXACTLY all the
steps here:
Marcel MadJo de Jong wrote:
Uboot is:
(u-boot-gta02v5-1.3.1+svnr4297+gitb29661fc115106454288051bc9a488351ce8-r3.bin)
That's old (even if it was built recently, it used the SVN patchset
rather than the OM u-boot.git tree). Try this one:
William Kenworthy wrote:
Is there a list of uboot versions or a changelog? I would like to see
what changes have been done from that shipped with 2007.2?
See http://git.openmoko.org/?p=u-boot.git;a=shortlog;h=stable and the
archives for the openmoko-kernel mailing list.
Steve Leung wrote:
http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1568
I'm just not sure what I can do about it - I haven't got a debug board,
and I wasn't really planning on buying one.
You could ask if there's anyone living near you who could lend you a
debug board or do the flashing for you.
Johan Badenhorst wrote:
At the moment
that is a bit tricky because of the echo and interference when making
phone calls, but I believe that these issues aren't insurmountable. The
reason I got an open phone is because when issues like these creep up I
have the option of getting in
Michael Shiloh wrote:
Most importantly, the addition of a known issues section:
http://quickstart.openmoko.org/#knownissues
[...]
(Duplication is evil because it almost guarantees that one is wrong, or
at the very least confuses the newcomer.)
Note that there is a similar page on the wiki
arne anka wrote:
Should I think of u-boot as the OpenMoko version of Grub?
kinda. and some kind of bios, maybe.
That's correct - u-boot is responsible for initializing the hardware
(like a PC BIOS) as well as for loading and booting the kernel (like Grub).
In which
case why can't opkg
Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
There's some AT-command to send to modem
to stop sidetone path in modem. Mickey knows more on this.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]-26
Reference: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA01_gsm_modem
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ian douglas wrote:
and once on the unit's own Flash ROM as a comparison:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/card# cd /opt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/volatile/opt# /opt/iospeed2 testfile 50
Size (MiB)Write (MiB/s) Read (MiB/s)
501.577 9.530
Oh, another factor to consider is filesystem
Federico Lorenzi wrote:
Makes sense, ext3 is journaled, and using a journaling FS on flash
memory is generally a bad idea. Could you also try ext2?
By default ext3 only journals metadata, so it shouldn't have much
performance impact for large files.
SD cards are dirt-cheap these days, so I'm
ian douglas wrote:
ian douglas wrote:
Mike, your binary is 420kb ... I'm guessing that you compiled your code
with the cross-compiler toolchain?
Probably, but it was a while ago and I don't remember where I built it
(I have a MokoMakefile cross-compile environment and a native toolchain
on
ian douglas wrote:
Hey all,
Got my 8GB SanDisk 8GB micro SDHC card [1] in a few minutes ago, popped
it into my GTA02v5 (beta tester model) Freerunner and running a few
tests on it. So far, so good.
Cool. If you have time, can you post some performance numbers for it?
Jisakiel wrote:
- I understand the only problem precluding it as a DAP player is the
speaker not muting? Or *with headphones* it is mono? I understood GTA02
to have a single speaker but to be stereo capable with headphones... I'd
be devastated if wrong, or if other severe quality issues
Ben Burdette wrote:
I can't seem to figure out how to reply to messages using this interface
though. I was able to do it to the gmane.test 'newsgroup' (list?).
However, it doesn't really work for the openmoko lists. Anyone had
success with this?
The first time that you post a message
Leonti Bielski wrote:
Personally I don't like mailing list because it's not that comfortable
and I can see no advatages of using mailing list instead of forum?
I prefer to access the lists through the NNTP gateway on gmane.org, e.g.
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 using (850 or
1900), and the transmitted signal
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 and listened to that
other phone. The Neo was
Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
WAAH, they're NOT compatible to usual headphones which have tip1=L 2=R,
(3)=4=GND.
I can't guarantee the accuracy of that web page - it would be good to
find someone with an iPhone who can make a direct measurement.
In fact we already did and will follow / stay
Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
B) classic 3.5mm headphones Walkman(R) connector, where you have to DIY an
adapter for any standard cellphone headset? (or does anybody know of 3.5mm
headSET standards or adapters?)
This one, but with a 4-pin (stereo+mic) format that's compatible with at
least 1
Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
http://www.meritline.com/earphone-adapter-iphone-into-3-5mm-mic-038.html
This one is completely off topic. I'm talking about STEREO headSET(=with mic),
which usually commes with 2.5mm.
We are planning to use a 3.5mm 4-ring connector, that complies with usual
3-ring
Kevin Dean wrote:
Unscientific testing, yes. The echo is still there. :)
s/)/(/
Can you please add a note about this to bug #1267? How bad was the echo
- enough that a normal person would complain about it, or something that
would only be noticed if they listened carefully?
I'm getting
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 pin assignments. This forum post:
Crane, Matthew wrote:
I've noticed that with GSM calls in general there is sometimes an echo. It
can be very pronouced or barely noticable. It may be hw or sw, but it may
not have anything to do with either caller's phone.
If it doesn't happen consistently and is not reproducable, it's
Ian Darwin wrote:
I have been using a FreeRunner for a few days with a pre-pre-alpha
snapshot of the ASU software. [...]
Short form: functionally, it works. Among other things, the phone wakes
up reliably on incoming rings (assuming it's booted and suspended, of
course), and GSM voice works
Robin Paulson wrote:
if we're designing alarm clocks for the neo, i'd love to see something
like this implemented:
http://www.soleilsunalarm.com/
it gradually turns on a bright light, to simulate the sun coming up.
I have basically the same thing with a lamp plugged into an X10 dimmer
Jeffrey Thomas wrote:
[...] and I am to the point where I am considering unsubscribing from the
mailing list because there is no real information being written about. I don't
mind that, and I enjoy the conversation, but it fills my email box with
distractions while I work :)
I find it
Ortwin Regel wrote:
The problem might be your u-boot version. Try this one:
http://buildhost.automated.it/u-boot-good-for-sd-boot-r13_0_2632_0.bin
It's what I've been using successfully. I never could get it to work
with other u-boot versions I tried.
SD-booting in u-boot was broken for
Dan Staley wrote:
I recently got my GTA01 and am trying to get the gllin ipkg from
http://3rdparty.downloads.openmoko.org/gllin/ . However, everytime I
download it, it says it is corrupted.
Some people had similar problems in the past - they would download a
copy of the EULA rather than the
Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
Next we discovered that those reflashing tools had further issues: for
example, they would only allow loading cryptographically signed firmware
into the chipset flash memory.
I don't see why the cryptographic-signing requirement is a problem. Sure
it would be nice if
Thank you for the update. When do you expect to have results from the
850-MHz GTA01 testing?
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Michael Shiloh wrote:
I've been searching for this item but all I can find is bug # 883, which
says it's a hardware issue, interference making its way into the GSM
audio path one way or another.
Does anyone recall any software explanation for this?
I've started to play around with the mixer
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Regarding the GPS, please pay attention to the fact that the GTA-02 did
not solve this problem. It merely moved the non open source component
from the software to the firmware. This solves the supporting
libraries problem, but does not allow openness.
It solved the
Michael Shiloh wrote:
To save time, please refrain from re-opening previous discussions.
Re-opening implies that there has been some previous closure, vs. a
discussion that just trailed off into silence. Could you please provide
regular updates on important items that are still open, even
Michael Shiloh wrote:
GTA02:
--
We are entering the last phases of finalizing the design. From this
point forward there are three key milestones in the life of a hardware
platform: Prototype runs; a pilot run; and mass production. We have made
three prototype runs to test various
Federico Lorenzi wrote:
1) Will the GPS licensing _eventually_ be sorted out?
I don't know anything about the status of the official driver, but I am
optimistic that it will be possible to figure out enough of the
Hammerhead protocol to develop an open-source driver with at least basic
GPS
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
cu -l /dev/ttyACM0
GTA01Bv3 # nand erase rootfs
Many thanks for your suggestions,
but MacOS X has no cu command :-(
You can use minicom from the Darwin Ports collection. I've added a
section on the Wiki:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MacOS_X#USB_Serial
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