Re: Import Contacts

2008-07-17 Thread Alexander Lehner
I'm currently working on a way to get my SQL address database into the phone and therefore making heavy use of the scripts mentioned here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Import_Vcf_Contacts Thanks to the contributors so far, here's my part: - ssh/BT session: dbus-launch script doesn't seem to

Re: Import contacts

2008-07-18 Thread Alexander Lehner
I've attached a script that I use to convert tab-separated data (as generated from mysql) into a vcard file. Alex. On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Al Johnson wrote: On Friday 18 July 2008, Markus Schlichting wrote: Am Freitag, 18. Juli 2008 07:14:13 schrieb Curtis Vaughan: I use Thunderbird for

RE: Web server on the phone?

2008-07-20 Thread Alexander Lehner
I was also using HTML as a GUI frontend for some application. Some time ago I extracted the WebServer into a single project, here (written in c++): http://sourceforge.net/projects/webgui-cpp/ There is no CGI, PHP or whatever, all handling is done inside extendable callback functions. The most

Re: qwerty keyboard

2008-12-11 Thread Alexander Lehner
Try installing vnc, much better if you don't need the keyboard function out in the wild: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Host_OS_Tips#VNC A. On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Bernd Prünster wrote: Will Siddall schrieb: Hey Tony, One thing you my consider would be try install the

Re: is 0.4A sufficient for charging?

2009-06-23 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, ivvmm wrote: going to buy a device from a local store that will convert alternating current from my bicycle's front hub dynamo to 5V 0.4A. Is that sufficient for charging my Neo? I have soldered such a device by myself and it works. I think the phone needs only a

Re: is 0.4A sufficient for charging?

2009-06-23 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, W.Kenworthy wrote: What is the power_center tool ? Is it an application, part of a distro, ... See this page where several force-fast-charge solutions are listed: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Forcing_fast_charge_mode I have patched the power-center python script for

Re: is 0.4A sufficient for charging?

2009-06-24 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, ivvmm wrote: Alexander Lehner wrote: BTW: Could you please send a link to the shop where you found this DC converter? Yes, I can. But here are two problems. First: they have not published it still on their website. Second: it is in Russian only. the link: http

Re: no wifi on openmoko fso

2009-07-06 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, flecktor wrote: hi, i got fso installed on the free runner and i cant get the wifi to work. same result for hackable:1. can anyone tell me how to check the wifi? (other then connect to another network or open network). i do iwconfig and the result is lo no

Re: Anti-Whining: Happy Moko Moments

2009-07-18 Thread Alexander Lehner
My 2 Cents: My goal is to have the FR with me on a one week outdoor holiday without power plants, without battery shops etc. (Mainly is GPS tracking, and some GPRS/UMTS connects). So I was trying different ways to keep the phone charged 24/24 + 7/7 by alternative resources: solar power,

Re: reliability of resistive touch screens

2009-07-19 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Brolin Empey wrote: could make the touch screen work again. My dad suggested wrapping my disassembled Palm Z22 in a plastic bag to protect it from frost and leaving it in the freezer. I tried this: the touch screen worked again while it ^ :-- I

Re: Commercial alternative to MintyBoost

2009-08-04 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Angus Ainslie wrote: On August 4, 2009 12:35:12 am Laszlo KREKACS wrote: Hi! So Im looking to something more professional look, I want to buy between 10 and 30 pieces. So the home-made version is a no-go (no matter how nice electrical-wise). Here is one, that I CAN

Re: Freerunner in real world

2009-09-15 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Cry wrote: BTW: Next gen freerunner should use OLPC style screen. Low power digital ink screen would be perfect for daytime phone use. Thats perfectly true. I've got one OLPC and the screen is really amazing. Unfortunately, the lady who did the screen development,

browsing: enforce layout for mobile devices

2009-09-21 Thread Alexander Lehner
Hi, there are many web seriveces, that offer a special compressed layout for mobile devices (gmx for example). I think they do this by reading some HTTP header fields like browser-Id or similair. Does anyone have experience with that? Or suggestions which browser to use (I currently use

Re: tangogps 0.9.7 release

2009-09-21 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Yorick Moko wrote: I used googlemaps to do the routing, converted the road to gpx and loaded it in tangogps I'm not sure whether the gpx import is part of tangogps by default. I once wrote a hacked version that did that. In fact it was not a real XML parser, but only a

Re: fake nmea device

2010-01-09 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Christian Rüb wrote: Hi as I am still debugging my Qt dbus problem I installed DSO packages from [1] on my local Debian box. But I do not have a real GPS and no blueetooth. So, is there a way to fake a GPS device (something like cat'ing a NMEA log to a FIFO) to trick

Re: Thinking about a german data offer (GPRS) from Klarmobil

2010-03-16 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:58:32PM +0100, Lothar Behrens wrote: Who knows about usable and cheap providers in germany to get at least a GPRS volume contract? Blau.de does 100Mb and 1Gb per 30 days for ?4 and ?10 respectively. I am using the

Re: T-mobile even more plus

2010-06-22 Thread Alexander Lehner
Hi Ed, I have something similair here in Germany (with t-mobile, take-away flat) and they say in the 'contract': only web-access by 'suitable' mobile phones. I don't know how they want to find our whether the FR is a suitable mobile phone or not. What I discovered is, that ssh'ing from the FR

Some questions to new SHR images (ubifs, gps)

2010-07-23 Thread Alexander Lehner
Hi, maybe I've missed something in the past - I have freshly installed Qi and the lastest SHR kernel and rootfs as ubi filesystem. - It seems that the ubifs is read-only. How do I install applications then? - If that's not possible (and I really would like a writeable fs), can I still

Re: Some questions to new SHR images (ubifs, gps)

2010-07-23 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Christ van Willegen wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Alexander Lehner leh...@edv-buero-lehner.de wrote: - It seems that the ubifs is read-only. How do I install applications   then? It shouldn't be read-only, and you get lots of problems if it is! OK, after

Re: Some questions to new SHR images (ubifs, gps)

2010-07-23 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, David Garabana wrote: O Venres, 23 de Xullo de 2010 21:25:50 Sylvain Paré escribiu: I take this thread about GPS to give my feed back too. From my personal feedback I will not speak about half a year but since March or so And I do make it works but it takes more time

Re: Some questions to new SHR images (ubifs, gps)

2010-07-28 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Sylvain Paré wrote: I did some quick tests Removing AGPS data did not chang a lot. It gets a fix quite normaly but it is stil not as good as before. At best I fix 4 gps (never more) over 10 visible and so my hdop stays around 4.5 So realy not very good.. Before I already

SHR Qi booting: alignment trap, broken UBIFS

2010-07-28 Thread Alexander Lehner
In earlier posts I mentioned that my ubifs filesystem was mounted readonly, which shouldn't be the case. I've trace this down now: Flashing kernel and rootfs freshly (July-21 version), having Qi installed, I longer press the Power button to see debug messages. There are millions of 'alignment

Using freerunner as webcam display

2010-09-03 Thread Alexander Lehner
Hi, I've got a TrentNET wireless webcam and just found out how to access its mpeg4 video stream and am using now my GPS-broken freerunner as permanent display for this webcam: mplayer -nosound -vf rotate=2 -vo fbdev rtsp://webcam-ipaddr:554/mpeg4 I had to turn down the cam's fps to 2 for a

Re: Using freerunner as webcam display

2010-09-03 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Patryk Benderz wrote: Dnia 2010-09-03, pi? o godzinie 13:52 +0200, Alexander Lehner pisze: Hi, I've got a TrentNET wireless webcam and just found out how to access its mpeg4 video stream and am using now my GPS-broken freerunner as permanent display for this webcam

Re: Using freerunner as webcam display

2010-09-03 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Gennady Kupava wrote: ? ???, 03/09/2010 ? 19:03 +0200, Alexander Lehner ?: I think it's the CPU which is around 90% already at 2fps. Another problem is, that the mpeg stream sometimes seems to be corrupt which crashess mplayer after some time. So I did a 'while

Re: Using freerunner as webcam display

2010-09-05 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sat, 4 Sep 2010, Denis Shulyaka wrote: 2010/9/3 Alexander Lehner leh...@edv-buero-lehner.de: On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Gennady Kupava wrote: Hi Alex! I think that video filters you use take too much cpu. Try -zoom instead of -vf scale and also try `xrandr -o 2` before running mplayer

Got also a WikiReader now

2010-09-08 Thread Alexander Lehner
Since 'Pulster' recently posted, that he has Germanized WikiReaders, I could not resist and ordered one. Now I've got it and started playing around (first removed the cap to see the connector to the debug serial interface - disappointed, I need a special adapter to it). But what really

Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience

2010-09-14 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Brolin Empey wrote: [some lines deleted...] Anyway, I probably forgot to mention something important, but I have already spent probably close to 2 hours writing this message. And me another 2 reading it - When I broke the USB connector of my FR, I failed to solder it

Re: QtMoko v26

2010-09-16 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Ori Pessach wrote: I'd also like to mention that I was able to get GPS fix before with this hardware, but that was a while ago. I don't know if this is available on QtMoko and don't know the package managing system - on SHR I did in such cases: opkg install gps-utils

Voicerecording software needed

2010-10-04 Thread Alexander Lehner
Hi all, I am looking for a SW to record audio. I found some (dictator, voicenote, monologue), but none of them seems to work properly - the development seems to have stopped already for a while. I try to avoid writing the 1000th script using arecord etc., also it should be useable by

Re: Voicerecording software needed

2010-10-04 Thread Alexander Lehner
-2010 18:43, Alexander Lehner escreveu: Hi all, I am looking for a SW to record audio. I found some (dictator, voicenote, monologue), but none of them seems to work properly - the development seems to have stopped already for a while. I try to avoid writing the 1000th script using arecord etc

Re: Voicerecording software needed

2010-10-05 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: Am Montag 04 Oktober 2010, 19:57:40 schrieb Alexander Lehner: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: Dictator worked just fine for me a few months ago. Maybe it's a new problem. Can you try to explain how or why it doesn't work

Re: Voicerecording software needed

2010-10-05 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: Am Dienstag 05 Oktober 2010, 12:10:19 schrieb Alexander Lehner: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: Have you tried to install the version of dictator wich is in the SHR feed? I did not find it. It's in the SHR-u feed: http

dictator crashes

2010-10-05 Thread Alexander Lehner
Hi, after I successfully installed 'dictator' it now crashes my X-server upon startup. I have the latest SHR from Oct/2. Any ideas? Alex. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

wiki.openmoko.org unreachable?

2010-10-06 Thread Alexander Lehner
I'm wondering if I've missed some announcement but wiki.openmoko.org seems unreachable since yesterday evening. a 'traceroute wiki.openmoko.org' shows an endless loop: 22 111 ms 111 ms 111 ms static.88-198-58-1.clients.your-server.de [88.198.58.1] 23 111 ms 113 ms 111 ms

[SHR] Desktop icons de-arranged with recent image

2010-11-01 Thread Alexander Lehner
Today I flashed the Nov-01 shr and now all desktop icons are arranged only one column wide. Has anybody else seen this? A. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-11-13 Thread Alexander Lehner
Nikolaus, if you need a XRAY machine again, I could probably help you; I work for a company which produces those XRay inspection machines. A. On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Hi all, time for another update. Am 06.11.2010 um 12:35 schrieb Sylvain Paré: Thanks for

[wikireader] update experience

2010-12-25 Thread Alexander Lehner
Sorry for posting this here, I don't know if there's already a list for the WR. I've got a WikiReader now for some month and my 10y daughter surprisingly likes it, so I finally decided to get one for my parents as christmas gift. The one I've got came with english, german and netherlands

Re: [wikireader] update experience

2010-12-26 Thread Alexander Lehner
, a bit, thanks! Do you have other pages of information than the github? Alex. On 12/25/2010 3:53 PM, Alexander Lehner wrote: Sorry for posting this here, I don't know if there's already a list for the WR. I've got a WikiReader now for some month and my 10y daughter surprisingly likes

Re: QtMoko v31 Voice Notes volume

2011-01-05 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, Is there some way to increase the playback volume of recorded voice notes? Sorry, no solution but another question: What software are you using for recording voicenotes? I have SHR installed and did not find one single application (out of

Re: QtMoko v31

2011-01-07 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, sferic wrote: Hi, I would like to use the new QtMoko v31 as my Dailly-Phone on NAND parallel to two other Distros and a big Documents-Partition on my SD-Card. Till v26 I could boot QtMoko over U-Boot 1.3.2-moko 12 (AUX + Power) and the other two over Qi (Power with or

[SHR] Missing 'close application' button

2011-01-08 Thread Alexander Lehner
Sorry, I'm too lazy to search for this in the mailing list archive: I remember there was a posting about the missing ability to close an, or switch between application(s) by clicking the top-bar free space (showed ' X ' in previous releases). And this should be able to re-enable by some

Re: [SHR] Missing 'close application' button (partially solved myself)

2011-01-08 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, David Lanzendörfer wrote: Can someone give me a hint? Tap onto the bar between clock and tork. Then a cross and two arrows should appear Nope - that's exactly what I'm missing. And that's one of the most outstanding features that makes the FR better than a

Re: [SHR] Missing 'close application' button (partially solved myself)

2011-01-08 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, pwerken-...@a-eskwadraat.nl wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:25:08AM +0100, Peter van de Werken wrote: add a line with 'shr_elm_softkey.desktop' to ~/.local/share/applications/startup/.order that should be: ~/.e/e/applications/startup/.order That's true, and it's

Re: [SHR] Missing 'close application' button

2011-01-08 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, sam tygier wrote: On 08/01/11 22:30, Alexander Lehner wrote: Sorry, I'm too lazy to search for this in the mailing list archive: I remember there was a posting about the missing ability to close an, or switch between application(s) by clicking the top-bar free space

Re: [WikiReader] what's up with Wikitravel?

2011-02-03 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Doug Jones wrote: I just added Wikitravel to my WikiReader. But it doesn't appear on the menu. Does it require a newer base file? Perhaps this one? http://wrmlbeta.s3.amazonaws.com/base-20110106.7z?torrent Maybe... I'm using this base file:

Re: Openmoko / Medion Wikireader?

2011-03-20 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Christoph Pulster wrote: Pulster - Wikireader with 8 GB card - 109 eur Medion - Wikireader with 4 GB card - 80 eur A 16 GB microSD card is 19 eur. This pushes me out of business. This is an opensource community where people work and help together. So I'd vote to buy

Re: [openmoko-announce] Neo RoadRunner

2011-04-01 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Delian wrote: Even considering it was sent from an anonymous webmail service :D.. That's the only point that confused me. Otherwise the collection of ideas seems very realistic, and I guess, each of us would have ordered one ;) Well done! (I remember back to the days

RE: Potential buyer

2011-06-06 Thread Alexander Lehner
... and it has an (in my experience) excellent GPS receiver. I use it with/for OpenStreetMap and there is a lot of nice navigation and map software around that you cannot get easily on 'closed' phones or on Garmin devices. The price is about the same for an Etrex Legend and for the

Re: Broken Freerunner - repairable?

2011-08-04 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Hrabosh wrote: Patryk Benderz pí?e v ?t 04. 08. 2011 v 10:02 +0200: [cut] I left it on the windowsill with battery removed (but was too afraid to open the case). Do yoy think it was enough? definitely not. You need to open the case and clean the residue. Especially if

Re: [Gta04-owner] QtMoko running on GTA04

2011-10-17 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Gennady Kupava wrote: Radek, very impressive case :) n++ It should even be harder to get such one than to make one with shapeways and others. A. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Open moko GPS pin connection

2011-11-09 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, RANJAN wrote: Hi, Does any one know about the OpenMoko GPS chipset pin connection. After I opened it I could find only one grey wire which appears to be the antenna. Where are the Vcc,Gnd and Rx-Tx pins? I guess you mean this part:

Re: The idea of making the MOKO tab

2011-11-09 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, elf Pavlik wrote: Someone have just showed me yesterday this one: http://wetab.mobi/en/ It says 'Open Software, Open Hardware' but don't seam to me like open source hardware... Still it runs version of MeeGo as you can see on this video

Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04 Group Buy - Status - 2 old phones for free

2011-12-01 Thread Alexander Lehner
If someone's in need of the case: I have a Neo 1973 and a Freerunner (with probably some HW-glitches on GPS) which I would give away for free (as they are, including electronic parts and battery) to people who preorder a GTA04 from Nikolaus. I have a third phone and already ordered the

Re: How to bring forward the community? Group Tour Donations Hub

2012-03-08 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 06.03.2012 um 07:58 schrieb Christ van Willegen: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 23:02, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: I have prepared a Wiki page: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA04_Group_Tour_Donations_Hub

Re: [Gta04-owner] How to bring forward the community? Group Tour Donations Hub

2012-03-08 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: It looks as if we are in the strange situation that there are more donations than persons who want to have one... Even if subsidized. [...] I hope I could clarify some aspects. Great, thanks. I put myself on the wiki. Thinking about this

Re: Advance OpenStreetMap surveying with GTA04? / compass

2012-03-18 Thread Alexander Lehner
Mayeul, respect for the tour that you planned. I'm an OSM'ler as well and know a lot of alpine 'freaks' which are not related to OSM at all - so this journey seems a lovely marriage between both projects, but... How do you want satisfy power consumption of the device(s) that you will need?

Re: [Wikireader] updates not working?

2012-07-05 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: I see there are some new Wikireader updates available: http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ But I can't download them -- the tracker times out. Anybody else having this problem? yes, me. Tried it with the german depedia and using

Re: [Wikireader] updates not working?

2012-07-07 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: I can see the tracker now. Thanks to whoever fixed it. I am seeding a bunch of these files now. Partiall - enpedia works, but depedia for example not. Alex. ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: [Wikireader] updates not working?

2012-07-07 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: [...] I used the trick mentioned earlier in this thread. I trimmed the ?torrent off of the end of the URL and started downloading the entire file through Firefox. After a few megabytes I paused the download, copied the partial file into the download

Re: [Wikireader] project gutenberg - was: updates not working?

2012-07-07 Thread Alexander Lehner
Gutenberg WikiReader files seem to got lost completely. http://dev.thewikireader.com/2010/06/26/project-gutenberg/ Sad - I liked that one. Any chance, to get it updated? A. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Money makes the world go round? Yes: new paid developer program for OpenPhoenux/Goldelico

2012-07-10 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Radek Polak wrote: On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 01:14:26 PM Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: The idea is that there is a mailing list where we (the project leading team) propose subtasks needing development (e.g. camera driver, bug fixing etc.) and interested developers can

Re: [Wikireader] project gutenberg - was: updates not working?

2012-07-11 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote: On 07/07/2012 04:28 PM, Alexander Lehner wrote: Gutenberg WikiReader files seem to got lost completely. http://dev.thewikireader.com/2010/06/26/project-gutenberg/ Sad - I liked that one. Any chance, to get it updated? A. The links

Re: OT: Apple Stories: iSlave

2013-02-24 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Last night, because of being lazy, I watched TV channels and zapped into a documentation about Apples factories in China, Foxcon, and the stories about how the iPhones are made; for the Germans in this list, it was that:

Re: Fairphone

2013-04-03 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, pike wrote: Hi Fairphone aims ... supply chain for conflict minerals, poor working conditions or environmental destruction The Neo FreeRunner is a Linux-based touch screen smart phone ultimately aimed at general consumer use (...) will appreciate the total freedom

Re: [Community] [Limesco-leden] OpenPhoenux@FOSDEM2014 (photos)

2014-02-09 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, Boudewijn Kranendonk wrote: Hi, On Thursday 06 February 2014 11:00:48 Parchet Michaël wrote: Is there some video or photo of this weekend ? There are some photos of the stand; Nikolaus offered hosting at: http://www.openphoenux.org/events/fosdem2014/images.php

Re: mounting FR in car for GPS usage

2014-03-07 Thread Alexander Lehner
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Has someone a good idea or solution how to mount the FR device in the car, visible by the driver to be used as GPS maps? I think the best place would be near the windshield in the drivers corner. I'm using something similair like this one: