Re: [Community] GTA04A5 / Letux 2804

2014-01-18 Thread arne anka
i honestly don't get why this flares up again. the topic has been beaten to death, everybody knows where he stands on the question -- and yet whenever that bird crows again, there are always some to crow back. why can't you just let him alone? he'll get bored soon enough if nobody plays. O

Re: [Community] GTA04A5 / Letux 2804

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
joerg Reisenweber wrote: > Please can you save me from reading those walls of text filled with [...] Thinking about it more, I realize that my initial post in this thread was more inflammatory than necessary. So I do apologize for posting that on an emotional impulse without thinking some more

Re: [Community] GTA04A5 / Letux 2804

2014-01-17 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 17 January 2014 19:13:24 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: > Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > > Not everybody is weighting the factor of "freeable down to the modem" > > equally when calculating the relative position of two devices to decide > > between "upgrade" and "downgrade". You have a diffe

Re: [Community] GTA04A5 / Letux 2804

2014-01-17 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 17.01.2014 um 19:13 schrieb Michael Spacefalcon: > Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > >> Not everybody is weighting the factor of "freeable down to the modem" equally >> when calculating the relative position of two devices to decide between >> "upgrade" and "downgrade". You have a different

Re: [Community] GTA04A5 / Letux 2804

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > Not everybody is weighting the factor of "freeable down to the modem" equally > when calculating the relative position of two devices to decide between > "upgrade" and "downgrade". You have a different weighting than me. If freedom is not important to you, then

Re: [Community] GTA04A5 / Letux 2804

2014-01-17 Thread Nick
Quoth Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: > Am 16.01.2014 um 21:31 schrieb Michael Spacefalcon: > > > Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > > > >> Why do you assume that your (IMHO unlawful) procedure done to "free" the > >> Calypso is not possible for a Qualcomm modem? > > > > Because all "modern" baseband

Re: [Community] GTA04A5 / Letux 2804

2014-01-17 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
I have added back your original statement because otherwise this discussion is not completely understandable: >> So please think again if you want to upgrade your GTA02 with a GTA04A5 board. > > Upgrade? Surely you must have meant downgrade - why would anyone in > his or her right mind voluntari

Re: [Community] GTA04A5 / Letux 2804

2014-01-16 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > Why do you assume that your (IMHO unlawful) procedure done to "free" the > Calypso is not possible for a Qualcomm modem? Because all "modern" baseband processors (MTK, Qualcomm etc) have ROM bootloaders which perform cryptographic verification of downloaded fw i

Re: [Community] GTA04A5 / Letux 2804

2014-01-16 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 16.01.2014 um 17:55 schrieb Michael Spacefalcon: > Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > >> So please think again if you want to upgrade your GTA02 with a GTA04A5 board. > > Upgrade? Surely you must have meant downgrade - why would anyone in > his or her right mind voluntarily give up a device

Re: [Community] GTA04A5 / Letux 2804

2014-01-16 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > So please think again if you want to upgrade your GTA02 with a GTA04A5 board. Upgrade? Surely you must have meant downgrade - why would anyone in his or her right mind voluntarily give up a device that is 100% freeable down to the modem (GTA02) for a Qualcomm-b

[Community] GTA04A5 / Letux 2804

2014-01-16 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, it is time to take a look onto the GTA04A5 campaign. We have currently collected pledges for 19 units. This is good, but not enough to start a new production run to reach a fairly reasonable final price for those preorders. The calculation is simple. The setup cost of a new production run f