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

2010-02-11 Thread Warren Baird
I haven't turned my FR on since I got a nokia n900 a few weeks back.  It has
all of the things that appeal to me about the FR - I can 'apt-get install'
the software I want, I can ssh into it, etc. *BUT* it's better in so many
ways.   The UI is so much more responsive, the phone is so much more
reliable.  I can confidently make and receive calls!   It has fantastic
built-in email and IM apps, and I can run pidgin for IRC.   Evince works
great, and the wide screen display is gorgeous for reading e-books.  It very
reliably connects to wifi...  It does a great job of playing SD TV episode
video.  I could go on for a while longer...

About the only real negative I've noticed is that the battery life isn't
great - I get maybe 12-14 hours on a charge --- it doesn't seem to be
suspending at all in the sense that the FR does - I think it just blanks the
screen and maybe slows the processor down...

Oh, and the equivilent app to 'openmoocow' isn't quite as nice - which is
almost a deal-breaker for my 2.5 year old daughter - she definitely prefers
the FR.

Warren

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 What distribution you run most of the time?

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?


 Thank you :)


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

2010-02-06 Thread Neil Jerram
On 6 February 2010 21:16, Ed Falk f...@efalk.org wrote:
 I bought my Freerunner over a year ago.  On the first boot, it made a
 very loud raucus sound which, as far as I know, blew out the speaker, as
 I have never heard an undistorted sound come out of it. [...]

Hmm, sounds like a few possible hardware issues there.  However...

 Is there a how to document on the wiki that might tell someone in my
 shoes how to bring the device up to date so that I can try again?

Step 1: Try turning it on and plugging in the wall charger - to find
out if it is working well enough to get charged up.  (In the early
days, there were serious problems if the battery became completely
empty...)

Step 2: Once fully charged, follow the instructions for flashing and
trying out SHR-Testing.

Regards,
Neil

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

2010-01-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:

 AFAIR there was some problem like that with GSM firmware. Do you have
 it upgraded?

Yes, but I upgraded it long before the first time I tried GPRS. So
perhaps there were problems before that. The phone functionality
improved with the GSM firmware update - no more people complaining
they called me while nothing happened on the device.

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Re: Buzz fix (Was: Re: [Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-04 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Friday 01 January 2010 20:35:03 Jens Seidel wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:26:37PM +0100, Esben Damgaard wrote:
  Yes and no. I have two Freerunners (and a gta01 that collects dust). One
  without buzzfix. Using it for testing, programming and playing.
  Other one with buzzfix and using it as primary phone.
 
 I'm curious, do you notice any difference between the buzz fixed one and
  the other? I read that only a few phones are affected by the buzz problem
  but nearly all (including the buzz fixed ones) have major problems with
  audio quality (noise, echo).

I own a rev. A5 freerunner and was seriously affected by the buzz problem. 
After applying the hardware fix the audio quality improved a lot. Before the 
fix there was no chance to use the FR as a phone.

However, the audio quality was never as good as on a friends rev A7 FR 
(without buzz-fix).  I did a lot of experimenting and tweaking with all 
possible audio parameters but the volume has always been either too low or 
distorted. He just uses the default audio configs and has nearly no problems 
with sound quality.

 
 So I wonder whether it's worth to get such a fix.
 

It is definetly worth it if you, or better said your call partner expierences 
a rather loud buzz. The fix will remove that buzz but won't fix other issues 
like rustling, echo or low volume. Those issues can mostly be addressed with 
software.

Hope that helps,
Michael



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Re: Buzz fix (Was: Re: [Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-04 Thread Davide Scaini
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Michael Zanetti michael_zane...@gmx.netwrote:

 On Friday 01 January 2010 20:35:03 Jens Seidel wrote:
  On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:26:37PM +0100, Esben Damgaard wrote:
   Yes and no. I have two Freerunners (and a gta01 that collects dust).
 One
   without buzzfix. Using it for testing, programming and playing.
   Other one with buzzfix and using it as primary phone.
 
  I'm curious, do you notice any difference between the buzz fixed one and
   the other? I read that only a few phones are affected by the buzz
 problem
   but nearly all (including the buzz fixed ones) have major problems with
   audio quality (noise, echo).

 I own a rev. A5 freerunner and was seriously affected by the buzz problem.
 After applying the hardware fix the audio quality improved a lot. Before
 the
 fix there was no chance to use the FR as a phone.

 However, the audio quality was never as good as on a friends rev A7 FR
 (without buzz-fix).  I did a lot of experimenting and tweaking with all
 possible audio parameters but the volume has always been either too low or
 distorted. He just uses the default audio configs and has nearly no
 problems
 with sound quality.

 
  So I wonder whether it's worth to get such a fix.
 

 It is definetly worth it if you, or better said your call partner
 expierences
 a rather loud buzz. The fix will remove that buzz but won't fix other
 issues
 like rustling, echo or low volume. Those issues can mostly be addressed
 with
 software.


 The fix will remove that buzz but won't fix other issues
like rustling, echo or low volume. Those issues can mostly be addressed with
software. 
The same happened to me, but i didn't find a viable software cnfiguration to
use the fr as a phone. What about you? I'm really looking forward to replace
my nokia N70 with fr for calls...
d


 Hope that helps,
 Michael


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Re: Buzz fix (Was: Re: [Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-04 Thread -= Apertum =-


* Davide Scaini wrote, Il 04/01/2010 23:05:

  The fix will remove that buzz but won't fix other issues
 like rustling, echo or low volume. Those issues can mostly be
 addressed with
 software. 
 The same happened to me, but i didn't find a viable software
 cnfiguration to use the fr as a phone. What about you? I'm really
 looking forward to replace my nokia N70 with fr for calls...


I agree.

Me too i have especially the low volume problem (i'm with QtMoko). I
tried everything via mixer software, but without any success: phone
calls are always with tiny volume, in an open space or also in a car,
it's really difficult to ear the call. My phone it's a V6 release and
without any buzzfix.

Any suggestion?

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

2010-01-02 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 16:44, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
seba.d...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 14:07, Petr Vanek van...@penguin.cz wrote:
 P Perhaps some remaining users and developers
 P from others FreeRunner distributions will be persuaded by the result
 P to also migrate to SHR.

 and that would be a good thing? not sure everybody would want to reboot
 everytime after gprs usage [1] and not have sent sms storage [2],[3]...

 Petr

 [1] http://trac.freesmartphone.org/ticket/474
 [2] http://trac.shr-project.org/trac/ticket/231
 [3] http://trac.shr-project.org/trac/ticket/386

 WTF? Sent sms storage is implemented for quite long time... They are
 just displayed together with incoming ones, as there is no different
 view for sent messages yet.

 And thanks for reminding us about 386, it probably should be closed now :)

Ok, looked at that ticket more carefully and edited it. But still, it
doesn't make your point valid ;)

And that strange GPRS issue (which is even more strange to me, because
I never had that on my FR :x) is going to be resolved soon with
ogsmd-fsogsmd transition (which is also going to give us nice
performance boost)

(But I don't think it's good to have everyone using one distro. Of
course as SHR developer I would like more users, but as free software
developer in general I think it's really important to have choice. And
to not spread FUD :P)

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

2010-01-02 Thread Petr Vanek
 WTF? 

Not necessary here IMHO.

Sent sms storage is implemented for quite long time... They are
 just displayed together with incoming ones, as there is no different
 view for sent messages yet.

 And thanks for reminding us about 386, it probably should be closed
 now :)

thanks for reopening the bug for the missing view. i am testing this
now and for some reason i can receive sms from other people, i can also
send sms and yes, can see them in the inbox (great, thank you) but when
sending sms to myself, never seem to receive (or perhaps just see?) the
message in inbox. this led me to the conclusion sent messages are not
saved because for a message from me to me i can see just one message
and not two. this is on shr-u, upgraded today.

And that strange GPRS issue (which is even more strange to me, because
I never had that on my FR :x) is going to be resolved soon with
ogsmd-fsogsmd transition (which is also going to give us nice
performance boost)

just because you never had it does not mean it doesn't exist. i know
about the ogsmd-fsogsmd transition and am eagerly waiting for it,
holding by breath and wishing Mickey will manage to have it done before
jumping to his other duties.

strangely enough, i didn't have the GPRS issue for some time before
Christmas, now it bites every time i use gprs.

 And to not spread FUD :P)

looking at the tickets (reopened and existing), i am aware of being
constructively critical but not FUD spreading.

cheers

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

2010-01-02 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 19:33, Petr Vanek van...@penguin.cz wrote:
 WTF?

 Not necessary here IMHO.

Sorry, I'm not native speaker, so this doesn't have such strong
meaning for me, maybe WTH could be better ;)

Sent sms storage is implemented for quite long time... They are
 just displayed together with incoming ones, as there is no different
 view for sent messages yet.

 And thanks for reminding us about 386, it probably should be closed
 now :)

 thanks for reopening the bug for the missing view. i am testing this
 now and for some reason i can receive sms from other people, i can also
 send sms and yes, can see them in the inbox (great, thank you) but when
 sending sms to myself, never seem to receive (or perhaps just see?) the
 message in inbox. this led me to the conclusion sent messages are not
 saved because for a message from me to me i can see just one message
 and not two. this is on shr-u, upgraded today.

That can be bug then, I'll try to check it (I'm sure it doesn't happen
when sending from opimd-utils)

And that strange GPRS issue (which is even more strange to me, because
I never had that on my FR :x) is going to be resolved soon with
ogsmd-fsogsmd transition (which is also going to give us nice
performance boost)

 just because you never had it does not mean it doesn't exist. i know

I perfectly know that, read again what I wrote and don't worry :P

 about the ogsmd-fsogsmd transition and am eagerly waiting for it,
 holding by breath and wishing Mickey will manage to have it done before
 jumping to his other duties.

 strangely enough, i didn't have the GPRS issue for some time before
 Christmas, now it bites every time i use gprs.

 And to not spread FUD :P)

 looking at the tickets (reopened and existing), i am aware of being
 constructively critical but not FUD spreading.

Well, both of SHR tickets you mentioned were closed when you wrote
that mail. One of them I reopened after I read it, but due to other
reasons than mentioned in your mail (as I removed storing sent
messages and also few other already implemented things from this
ticket). Maybe, again, FUD is too strong wording, but still your point
wasn't valid ;)

 cheers

 Petr

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

2010-01-02 Thread Klaus 'mrmoku' Kurzmann
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Risto H. Kurppa wrote:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
yes
yes

 What distribution you run most of the time?

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
SHR unstable


 Thank you :)


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

2010-01-02 Thread Helge Hafting

   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.
   

 The problem happens somewhere between the wget application and the kernel 
 stack.
 It shows up with larger files being downloaded. Not too large, a few dozen kB 
 is enough.
 When I see it happening,  I repeat the wget download that opkg was trying to 
 do, and I can see that wget is 
 actually in stalled state after the first kB. If I retry the download with 
 the continue option, it 
 eventually downloads the whole file, retry after retry, chunk by chunk.
 This only happens with GPRS, so I assume it is related to kernel or pppd or 
 around this...

Have you tried a different kernel? The kernel is in a separate flash, so 
upgrading the root filesystem
doesn't change the kernel, it must be installed separately. 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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Re: [Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2010-01-02 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 1/2/10, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote:

  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.
  

 The problem happens somewhere between the wget application and the kernel
 stack.
 It shows up with larger files being downloaded. Not too large, a few dozen
 kB is enough.
 When I see it happening,  I repeat the wget download that opkg was trying
 to do, and I can see that wget is
 actually in stalled state after the first kB. If I retry the download
 with the continue option, it
 eventually downloads the whole file, retry after retry, chunk by chunk.
 This only happens with GPRS, so I assume it is related to kernel or pppd
 or around this...

 Have you tried a different kernel? The kernel is in a separate flash, so
 upgrading the root filesystem
 doesn't change the kernel, it must be installed separately. It could help -
 if it is a kernel problem.

 If nothing helps, consider trying a different phone company. The problem
 could be there too.

 Helge Hafting

AFAIR there was some problem like that with GSM firmware. Do you have
it upgraded?

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Buzz fix (Was: Re: [Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-01 Thread Jens Seidel
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:26:37PM +0100, Esben Damgaard wrote:
 Yes and no. I have two Freerunners (and a gta01 that collects dust). One 
 without buzzfix. Using it for testing, programming and playing.
 Other one with buzzfix and using it as primary phone.

I'm curious, do you notice any difference between the buzz fixed one and the
other? I read that only a few phones are affected by the buzz problem but
nearly all (including the buzz fixed ones) have major problems with audio
quality (noise, echo).

So I wonder whether it's worth to get such a fix.

Jens

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Re: Buzz fix (Was: Re: [Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-01 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Jens Seidel jenssei...@users.sf.net wrote:
 I'm curious, do you notice any difference between the buzz fixed one and the
 other? I read that only a few phones are affected by the buzz problem but
 nearly all (including the buzz fixed ones) have major problems with audio
 quality (noise, echo).

im curious how many people have played around with there mickeyterm settings.
my phones audio is just as bad as any other phone ive had. not buzz fix.

with audio as low as it may be.

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

2009-12-31 Thread Rafael Campos
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
NO
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
Yes

 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-Unstable with own apps

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
A little more stabilitiy, but i consider it as a hacking device, and
you could not hack it if you are using it as a daily phone ;)
Maybe with some distro evolution I lack time to test all the distros.


 Thank you :)

You are wellcome

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

2009-12-31 Thread Vasco Névoa
Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
   
YES.
It's my only phone for over a year. I did the buzzfix and gps cap myself 
and got no complaints there.
Adjusting the call volume is a sorely missed feature, though.
But the slowness of the software does tend to screw up things when more 
than one thing happens at the same time (simultaneous incoming calls, etc.)
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
   
YES.
GPS, password vault, the occasional Mokomaze.
GPRS and WIFI are too unstable for any real connection, so no web or email.
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.
 What distribution you run most of the time?
   
SHR-U (currently the old one from September, which works stable enough 
as a phone.)
The new Testing is quite broken, and I couldn't understand why the new 
Unstables where older than the Testing ones. Now that I see a lot of 
people is using the Unstable, it's probably meant to be like that -- and 
just opkg upgrade all the time. Will try it today...
 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
   
I haven't switched out because it is good enough as a simple working 
phone and a very basic GPS. Other than that, it is crap.
I don't blame the community for the state of things; I think that 
Openmoko.com started by biting off much more than it could chew, failed 
to build a solid community, then realized the dead end which they put 
themselves into, and backed out on all of us into plan B. I understand 
the economics that forced OM to reboot and start over with the 
Wikireader, but I will always resent the fact that I spent 300 EUR on a 
badly designed and even worse tested hardware. I cannot forgive them for 
releasing this HW into the public without a fully patched kernel and 
drivers and a full list of known caveats after an honest effort to 
completely test the device. They somehow thought that time-to-market was 
more important than quality and reliability. Personally, I think there 
is no forgiveness for them because of this. Having said that, I am 
admired at this community that still keeps kicking the dead horse with a 
passion, and there is a small thread of hope inside my heart that this 
brick will someday fulfill at least half of its promises. And if it 
does, it will all be due to the work of these last few heroes - and I 
thank you so much.
The Openmoko project is to me a disappointment as big as the 
cancellation of SG-1 and Firefly: there was still so much to do and say, 
but economics had the last word. Well, at least there are positive 
things left behind like the FSO and the colorful ecosystem of other 
distros and apps.
Have a nice 2010 everyone!! :D
May the source always be with you.

 Thank you :)


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

2009-12-31 Thread Dan Staley
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?


Yes


 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 YesI guess.  Though I don't use it in the PDA sense for much other than
playing games and ssh'ing into my home pc.


 What distribution you run most of the time?


SHR-U/T until recently.  I've started trying some of the other distros
available.  Currently am playing with Android.


 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?


 Thank you :)


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

2009-12-31 Thread Davide Scaini
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?


Not yet hoping to fix the audio quality issue (I had a buzz fix but still
not usable in calls - if you have some idea how to configure frameworkd.conf
please reply to the thread on shr-users list [shr-user] fine tuning audio)


 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 Yes


 What distribution you run most of the time?

 SHR-U (and shr-t on nand).
I have to say that i used a lot debian (but missing a confortable input
system, because of very old illume); tried several times android, and latest
one from community was great, but I don't want to flash it on my nand.


 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

 A dumb phone just to call. I hate smartphones and fr can't place a call
with good quality (and i suspect i'm affected from 1024 bug).



 Thank you :)

 you're welcome :P


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

2009-12-31 Thread Helge Hafting


 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
Yes
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
Yes

 What distribution you run most of the time?
SHR-unstable. I upgrade often, except that I wait when others
run into some new problem. Then I wait for resolution, which normally
don't take long.

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

If I change, it will be to correct various problems:
* Buzz and bass problems. Can be fixed with capacitors, but
  that won't be free and it won't help with the slowness problem.
  A BT headset will probably solve my sound issues, and can be carried
  over to future phones. But it means an extra device to bring, and another
  battery to charge. :-/
* Slowness. Of course, the new SHR-U helped. And we may still see
  improvements in X and elsewhere. Still, it seems the device
  has a slow memory bus, a slow 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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RE: [Shr-User] Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-31 Thread Helge Hafting



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

[...]
 Adjusting the call volume is a sorely missed feature, though.

The new SHR-U has that for you. :-)
[...]
 GPRS and WIFI are too unstable for any real connection, so no web or email.

My experience is that GPRS has been stable for a long time, and WIFI
is fine _if_ the phone don't suspend. So keep it on, either by
plugging in power, or by turning suspend off in shr-settings.

There is one annoying problem if several of GPRS/USB/WIFI
is used - the last one to be used changes /etc/resolv.conf,
and if that connection quits then the remaining ones
may fail to look up names. Can be fixed by restarting 
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.


Helge Hafting

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

2009-12-30 Thread Ales Horak
Hi Risto,

Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

I was using it as my primary phone for more than 1 year.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

the same as above.

 What distribution you run most of the time?

first Om2007, Om2008, then SHR testing

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

two weeks ago I switched to nokia n900 and I like its
responsiveness :-)

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

2009-12-30 Thread Jakob
On 12/29/09, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
yes
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
yes
 What distribution you run most of the time?
SHR-U
 Thank you :)
You're welcome

Jake

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

2009-12-30 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 21:30:53 Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

No

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Yes.

 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-u

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

Using my old Nokia, waiting for better PIM on FR.


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

2009-12-30 Thread Maksim 'max_posedon' Melnikau
On 12/29/09, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

 What distribution you run most of the time?

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?


 Thank you :)
Yes
Yes
SHR-U/playing with Gentoo

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

2009-12-30 Thread Ali
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 22:30 +0200, Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
yes
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
 
yes
 What distribution you run most of the time?
 
SHR-U/qtmoko
 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
 
 
 Thank you :)
 
 
 r
 


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

2009-12-30 Thread Russell Dwiggins

|Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Sometimes

|Do you use FR as your primary PDA?


No

|What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-U

|If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
|over to, and why?

No changes yet, but still use Treo 650 because of PIM and Bluetooth headset.
Once these things are stable, I think I can make the daily move.  Since my
Treo is falling apart, and since the distros are taking a long time to be
ready (I don't blame anyone), the n900 is looking attractive.  I'd rather
stay open, though.
|
|Thank you :)

Thank YOU!
 [Russell Dwiggins] 
|
|


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

2009-12-30 Thread Hans Zimmerman
Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

yes

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

yes

 
 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-Testing

 
 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
 

I need to switch to another phone when calling my grandmother, surely 
she doesn't hear very well any more but there still seems to be a 
audio/voice quality. I'm surprised so many people in this thread mention 
this.


Hans


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

2009-12-29 Thread Pander
Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

yes

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

yes

 
 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR

 
 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
 
 
 Thank you :)
 
 
 r
 


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

2009-12-29 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 21:30, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Yes. I'm even programming on it ;)

 What distribution you run most of the time?

Of course latest SHR-unstable, being upgraded constantly for about
year without reflashing ;)

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

2009-12-29 Thread Peter Fey
Am Dienstag, den 29.12.2009, 22:30 +0200 schrieb Risto H. Kurppa:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
yes
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?
yes, if downloading + listening to podcasts counts as pda usage
 What distribution you run most of the time?
an old shr unstable (from september or so)



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

2009-12-29 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 22:30 +0200, Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

Yes, lately with great satisfaction.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

No, an N800 (which I owned way before my FR).

 What distribution you run most of the time?

SHR-testing (the revived one, ;-)

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?
 
 
 Thank you :)
 
 
 r
 

I'm looking forward to the results!

David



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

2009-12-29 Thread Vaudano Luca
1) Yes
2) Yes
3) SHR-testing

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

2009-12-29 Thread A.A.
2009/12/29 Vaudano Luca vaud...@gmail.com

 1) Yes
 2) Yes
 3) SHR-testing
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1) No
2) No
3) Debian or Qtmoko.

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

2009-12-29 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:30:53 +0200 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi said:

 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?

no. gathering dust.

 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

no. gathering dust.

 What distribution you run most of the time?

no to both the above. but on other devices a mix of openembedded, debian,
ubuntu or do it yourself.

 If you don't use FR as your daily phone/PDA, what phone did you change
 over to, and why?

1. i'd like something not crawlingly slow
2. i'd like to use the 3g data rates telcos offer here, but where their 2g data
rates are much more expensive
3. i'd like it to work when i travel (going to korea and japan for example only
3g phones will work).
4. i want a touchscreen that is large enough to be really usable (as such the
2.8 lcd is really more like 2.2 or 2.4 thanks to the bezel - for input).
5. again speed, capacity, screen, baseband, usability.

 Thank you :)
 
 
 r
 
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