Re: GTA02 Battery Capacity (Was: Re: More about the GTA02)

2008-02-10 Thread David Pottage
On Saturday 09 February 2008, Shawn Rutledge wrote: > At least the 1973-compatible Nokia batteries will probably be > available for a long time (as I'm hoping the Nokia 770 batteries will > be), but there is still the problem with charging them (the phone > cannot do it). The rule of thumb is tha

Schematics, circuit diagrams

2008-02-10 Thread joerg
Hi hardware-hackers! Anybody interested in my story? "How i completely disassembled my GTA01, put everything on a needlebed-tester, and checked the parts" "(including reconstructed schematics)" Paperprint only, about 5 pages DIN-A2. No digital data. $79,90 Sorry for this price, i have to buy a ne

Re: when we can buy GTA02 developer kit?

2008-02-10 Thread Leo
Thanks, I've checked that it says spring of 2008, I guess that might mean a couple of month form now. On 10/02/2008, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9 Feb 2008, at 22:36, Leo wrote: > > ... I understand > > that openmoko is developing GTA02 stage of hardware. just wondering > > when de

Re: Schematics, circuit diagrams

2008-02-10 Thread Ortwin Regel
How about a different deal: We collect donations to get you a new phone and you make your findings public under a free license? On 2/10/08, joerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi hardware-hackers! > Anybody interested in my story? > "How i completely disassembled my GTA01, put everything on a > nee

Re: Schematics, circuit diagrams

2008-02-10 Thread joerg
Sounds good, however there's been (will be ;) more expense than just one destroyed GTA01. I estimate the break-even point at 3 to 5 devices equivalent value, work not included. Donnation of (broken) devices might relax this figure a little. Am So 10. Februar 2008 schrieb Ortwin Regel: > How ab

community updates

2008-02-10 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi, I apologize for not providing my bi-weekly update. I've been very busy answering email and updating GSM firmware, and have not had a chance to gather information and write the update. Briefly, we continue to test revision 5 of FreeRunner, GTA02A5. There are still items remaining to test,

Power management questions

2008-02-10 Thread Ivo Anjo
Hi. I've been following openmoko for the last few months, and as the freerunner seems to be closer and closer I have some doubts/ideas regarding power management: - When the phone is on standby what happens with the screen? Does the backlight get turned off? Or does the screen get turned off comp

Re: solar power

2008-02-10 Thread Andy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the long e-mail, hopefully it will help folks work out possible applications of cell phones/solar. I also added it to: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Hardware:Neo1973:Alternate_Cases:Solar_power#Design_options Trickle PV charger integrated i

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-10 Thread joerg
Am Mo 11. Februar 2008 schrieb Schmidt András: > Today we were talking about new generation of portable personal > computers (yes, that is OpenMoko :-) with friends. Our idea was to use > it as cyclocomputer (That idea has already appeared on the wiki or in > the list somewhere). We were wonder

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-10 Thread Robin Paulson
On 11/02/2008, Schmidt András <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today we were talking about new generation of portable personal > computers (yes, that is OpenMoko :-) with friends. Our idea was to use > it as cyclocomputer (That idea has already appeared on the wiki or in > the list somewhere). We were

Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-10 Thread Schmidt András
Today we were talking about new generation of portable personal computers (yes, that is OpenMoko :-) with friends. Our idea was to use it as cyclocomputer (That idea has already appeared on the wiki or in the list somewhere). We were wondering whether it would be possible to charge the phone us

brainstorming/organisation software

2008-02-10 Thread Robin Paulson
i'm looking for some software to eventually go on my neo, but i've no idea what it would be called i often come up with ideas/problems/thoughts that i want to record, and i've been typing them into my current phone as simple notes up to now, but that isn't really satisfactory - they are all isolat

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-10 Thread Denis
I have a sort of it on my bike. My dynamo gives 6W @ 12V, which is exactly 500mA that Neo needs for fast charging. I use a standard car charger and a four transistors-converter to direct current with it. I don't have a Neo yet, but my phone does charge. The problem is you hardly would ride more th

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-10 Thread Robin Paulson
On 11/02/2008, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a sort of it on my bike. My dynamo gives 6W @ 12V, which is > exactly 500mA that Neo needs for fast charging. I use a standard car > charger and a four transistors-converter to direct current with it. I > don't have a Neo yet, but my phone do

Re: Power management questions

2008-02-10 Thread JW
Ivo Anjo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - When the phone is on standby what happens with the screen? Does the > backlight get turned off? Or does the screen get turned off > completely? Both options are available AFAIK and both will be used in different usages/according to different rules. > - Wi

Re: A bit of fun - freerunner and the wisdom of crowds

2008-02-10 Thread Tim Kersten
The site is up. It's mostly untested. See it here: http://openmoko.hobby-site.com/ It has the features that were mentioned in the original opening email of this thread. It's not possible to edit entries at the moment, but I can add this if it's needed. I figured it doesn't need any authentication.

Re: brainstorming/organisation software

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff Andros
On Feb 10, 2008 6:42 PM, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm looking for some software to eventually go on my neo, but i've no > idea what it would be called I think mind mapping might be what you're looking for, check out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map for software the gol

Re: proprietary firmware

2008-02-10 Thread Mike Montour
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 e

Re: A bit of fun - freerunner and the wisdom of crowds

2008-02-10 Thread Jeremiah Flerchinger
A scatter plot would be cool with some more sales to a given month period that could be guessed. At least additional guesses for sales in first 6 and 12 months would be interesting. Tim Kersten wrote: The site is up. It's mostly untested. See it here: http://openmoko.hobby-site.com/ It has

Re: A bit of fun - freerunner and the wisdom of crowds

2008-02-10 Thread Jeremiah Flerchinger
can you change my guess (Flerchjj) to 3000? Tim Kersten wrote: The site is up. It's mostly untested. See it here: http://openmoko.hobby-site.com/ It has the features that were mentioned in the original opening email of this thread. It's not possible to edit entries at the moment, but I can a

brainstorming/organisation software

2008-02-10 Thread Charles Edward Pax
> > i'm looking for some software to eventually go on my neo, but i've > > no > > idea what it would be called > > > > i often come up with ideas/problems/thoughts that i want to record, > > and i've been typing them into my current phone as simple notes up to > > now, but that isn't really satisf