GSM power management improvements

2019-02-04 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Hello what's left of Openmoko community, If there is anyone still using their FreeRunner (or GTA01) as a phone with working GSM (perhaps on a private island whose owner likes GSM and is committed to keeping it forever), there is a modem firmware update which you might find interesting:

Recalibration, band conversion and bug #1024 rework

2018-02-14 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Hello OM community, I am pleased to announce that my company Falconia Partners LLC is now offering GSM RF tract recalibration services for Openmoko's Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner devices. Like all other commercial GSM phones and modems, these smartphones had their GSM RF parameters individually

Neo FR disassembly for bug #1024 rework

2018-01-05 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Hello OM community, I know that a good number of Neo FreeRunner units have been subjected to the hardware rework to fix the infamous bug #1024, and it is my understanding that one or more shops used to perform this rework service professionally once upon a time. I am now looking into the

Re: moko13 firmware

2017-10-14 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Further on the subject of FCC type approval or lack thereof, your change log at: http://people.openmoko.org/joerg/calypso_moko_FW/all_version__CHANGELOG.txt lists "Pass the PTCRB certification" under moko5. Does it imply that there was no PTCRB certification and thus no FCC approval number

Re: moko13 firmware

2017-10-14 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Joerg wrote: > What will be your FCC approval number for [new GTA02 clones] There will be one if someone pays for it, or none otherwise. > what IS the FCC approval number (and URL to the publicly available FCC > approval report) of the devices you already built? There is none. > Just asking

Re: moko13 firmware

2017-10-13 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Stefan Monnier wrote: > Why would someone do that? I mean this as a real technical question: > what is the difference between 2G and 3G which would cause someone to > take a stand against 3G? The difference is that for GSM/2G there exists a practically usable

Re: moko13 firmware

2017-10-12 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Bob Ham wrote: > then > >the FreeCalypso firmware is not based on OM's historical firmwares. > > Therefore, the statement regarding the recently released moko13 > firmware update was not false. The person I was refuting did not say that the new fw is not based on OM's

Re: moko13 firmware

2017-10-11 Thread Mychaela Falconia
H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > Well, with necessary funding Goldelico would be mass producing a GTA17 > this year which would beat the latest iPhones and alike in quality, > user-experience, functionality and openness. The amount of funding I would need in order to turn my

Re: moko13 firmware

2017-10-11 Thread Mychaela Falconia
H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > So let merephrase: how do you think to get someone pay for it? By spreading the message as far and wide as I can that making new Calypso phones and modems (be they GTA02 clones or semi-clones, or my proposed Libre Dumbphone, or my proposed FC

Re: moko13 firmware

2017-10-11 Thread Mychaela Falconia
H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > I wonder where you want to get all the tiny glue components from... > > E.g. toppoly display, The last time I looked a few months ago, they were readily available from AliExpress. > pogo pins for speakers, Are you talking about the ones on the

Re: moko13 firmware

2017-10-10 Thread Mychaela Falconia
David Arnold wrote: > FWIW, I think the last 2G network in Australia is shutting down in > March 2018 (following the December 2016 and August 2017 closure of > the other two networks). And how many people have responded to this shutdown plan by taking a vow to live without any

Re: moko13 firmware

2017-10-10 Thread Mychaela Falconia
I forgot to add: : Option 3: new production of Neo FreeRunner (GTA02) verbatim clones. If people do desire to see new production of verbatim GTA02 clones that differ from FIC-made ones only in the manufacturing dates and the identity of the manufacturer, and someone steps forward to fund such,

moko13 firmware

2017-10-10 Thread Mychaela Falconia
n of a Linux computer in their phone. Option 3: new production of Neo FreeRunner (GTA02) verbatim clones. We are definitely interested in hearing which of the above might be of interest to people, if any. Sincerely, Mychaela Falconia Mother of FreeCalyps

Re: modem firmware

2017-08-29 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > Please advise how I may best encourage you to stop talking > and take my money. Take your money? Which product are you seeking to buy? An FCDEV3B board? I am hoping to have those boards available for retail sale by the end of September, i.e., only one month of

Re: modem firmware

2017-08-29 Thread Mychaela Falconia
joerg Reisenweber wrote: > the moral aspects of calling somebody out for removing "no parking" signs so > people would have to pay tickets for unknowingly parking there, or not telling > people that they are in danger to even *do time in jail* when they install and > use a firmware that person

Re: modem firmware

2017-08-29 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Fernando wrote: > Having said that, I find the physical threats out of proportion > for the intended benefit. Not to mention counterproductive. Please cite at least one physical threat within the last 4 y, i.e., later than 2013-08, after the FreeCalypso social justice

Re: modem firmware

2017-08-29 Thread Mychaela Falconia
joerg Reisenweber wrote: > Please carefully note that this update is not based on the original licensed > firmware for Openmoko devices, Your original licensed firmware has bugs in it; the updated firmware has some of these bugs fixed. Want examples? Here are just a few in no particular order:

Re: Openmoko IMEI survey

2017-08-18 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Ben Deering wrote: > The US GTA02 I still have (FCC EUNGTA02) uses 3546510116x. Thank you for the info! Thanks to this tidbit from you, we know now that FIC was quite lax in (not) following the official IMEI rules, using the same TAC (the first 8 digits of the IMEI) for devices with

Openmoko IMEI survey

2017-08-18 Thread Mychaela Falconia
o know about them so I can avoid stepping on those subranges and pick a subrange that has not been used at all. TIA for your participation in the survey, Mychaela Falconia Mother of FreeCalypso www.freecalypso.org ___ Openmoko community mailing list co

moko13-beta1 firmware release candidate for GTA01/02

2017-08-08 Thread Mychaela Falconia
tal-builds/moko13-beta1.tar.bz2 The Corresponding Source is here: https://bitbucket.org/falconian/fc-magnetite For help with flashing and testing this firmware update, please join the FreeCalypso community mailing list: https://www.freecalypso.org/mailman/listinfo/community Sincerely, Mychael

Modem ID strings

2016-11-17 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Hello Om community, I have a question about the slightly peculiar format in which Om's official mokoN firmwares emit their ID strings, and whether or not the modem-interfacing software in QtMoko/SHR/AoF (any others?) requires this peculiar ID response format, or if the more standard form would

New Calypso modems

2016-10-17 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Hello Openmoko community, For those of you who no longer have a GTA02 or never had one to begin with, and you wish these devices were still produced and readily available: if the one feature of the original GTA02 you miss the most is its Calypso modem, then you now have a chance to get a shiny

Re: greetings from the freecalypso project

2015-11-16 Thread Mychaela Falconia
Paul Wise wrote: > You are reminding me of this talk and cartoon by Nina Paley. > > http://blog.ninapaley.com/2015/10/22/copyright-is-brain-damage/ > https://vimeo.com/50481436 Her talk is wonderful, I agree with her 100%, she should be an inspiration to everyone here. Thanks