program didn't have the red END CALL button so I had no recourse but
to reboot.
I should mention that there are many things that I rather like about
Om2009t4. I hope you find my comments constructive. I look forward
to trying the next release of Om2009.
--Ben Wong
Seattle, WA
FreeRunner A6, T
/local/share/music/Artists/Freezepop/*
--Ben
#!/bin/sh
# Simplistic gstreamer front-end.
# Ben Wong, May 2009
# Public Domain
# Usage: playbin [ file ... ]
#
# E.g., cd /usr/share/sounds; playbin *
# When the user hits ^C, wait a bit and then continue to next song.
inthandler () {
trap
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Mirko Lindner mi...@openmoko.com wrote:
Ben Wong wrote:
2d) There is too much latency between pressing the AUX button during a
call and any indication that the system is working on changing the
volume. Ideally, what I'd like the GUI to show me is not what
Did you try $cron-get_next_execution_time($cron_entry,[$ref_time]) ?
--Ben
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote:
Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
On Fri, 29 May 2009 15:49:27 +0200, Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote:
i need a script/program that will read a
i don't know which interface udev will assign to the neo.. for
example when i connect it i get eth1, suddenly renamed to eth7 by udev, but
am i sure it will always get eth7?
I believe it depends on which distribution you run. Some
distributions, like Debian, use a persistent-net-generator
Nice! There should be more fun applets like this. Do you have plans
to make it run any faster? Right now there's significant lag before I
hear the notes (perhaps due to ESD?). Also, the sound stutters
whenever the pointer (my finger) moves, even if I'm not pressing a
different note.
Thanks
I know it's unlikely somebody will accidentally send their phone to
Cranberry, PA, but I'd like to point out that the SDG page for the
rework says,
Send phone(s) to:
SDG Systems
Attn: FreeRunner Rework Program
114 W. Grandview Ave., Suite 1
Zelienople, PA 16063
--Ben
On Thu,
by inspiration or will it be like the
IBM PC, whose framework was widely copied to become a de facto
standard?
--Ben Wong
___
Openmoko community mailing list
community@lists.openmoko.org
http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, a dehqandehqa...@gmail.com wrote:
I was a c++ PHP programmer before but now i'm not ;
and should someone be a pro programmer to use openmoko ?
You do not need to be a professional programmer to use the Freerunner.
How about keyboard? Is it possible to use
You can copy'n'paste in messages app. Just long press in place, where
you want to select, cut, copy or paste :)
Oh, neat. That's the way I had expected it to work. I think there
may be a small bug. If I press in the empty part of the text box,
nothing happens. I had to click very close to
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Sebastian
Krzyszkowiakseba.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, it works good for me ;x Do you have latest -unstable?
Ah, that's my problem. I'm using shr-testing. Thanks, again!
--Ben
___
Openmoko community mailing list
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:52 AM, a dehqandehqa...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks alot for your attentions ;
So there is a persian layer yes ?so is not possible to change layer in
another way except input methode suchlike a command or a script ?
I'll be thankfull if anyone answer the above question ?
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Mikemike...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Rene --
I just ordered the freerunner -- very exciting!
Excellent. You may want to check the GSM firmware version when you
get it. I received my phone recently and it had an old firmware on it
(version 8 instead of 11, I
Thanks alot for your attention ;
Would you send a farsi sms to me ? to this number 00989131561030 .
To know if sms will look fine here or not .
Okay, I've sent you an SMS. However, I don't know if my carrier
(T-mobile) allows me to send SMS outside of the United States. Please
let us know if
I was kind of hoping Paroli was Italian for parolee, a convict who's
been let out of jail early on condition of good behavior. That is,
someone who's (mostly) free without having to commit a jail break
first. ;-)
--Ben
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM, tammaro pamdirac
palombopamm...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:29 AM, a dehqandehqa...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you mean without that 47k resistor ,Fr will detect current lower or
higher ?what will happen after that (detect incorrectly) .
Without the 47k resistor, it will charge more slowly so as to not
overload the charger. However,
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:10 PM, a dehqandehqa...@gmail.com wrote:
How much is Fr SAR ?
In another thread on this list somebody mentioned that the specific
absorption rate for the Freerunner is average, not significantly
higher or lower than any other cell phone. Specifically, the Neo
Does a particular model of invisibleSHIELD fit FR or you had to cut an
oversized one to shape?
There is an invisibleSHIELD model made just for the Freerunner:
http://www.zagg.com/invisibleshield/openmoko-neo-freerunner-cases-screen-protectors-covers-skins-shields.php
Price is $25 for
There is an invisibleSHIELD model made just for the Freerunner:
http://www.zagg.com/invisibleshield/openmoko-neo-freerunner-cases-screen-protectors-covers-skins-shields.php
Price is $25 for full-body, $12 for just the screen. However, Zagg
almost always has 20% off coupons available, if
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Ed Kapiteine...@kapitein.org wrote:
With the full body cover, can you still easily remove the back cover to
replace the uSD card/batery/SIM ?
Yes, the shield comes precut in pieces that fit the front back and sides.
--Ben
Well, when the salesperson tells you that they will not transfer the phone
number unless you sign up for a contract there's not much you can do... At
least, that's what I got.
Which carrier told you that? I just transferred my number and didn't
have to sign up for a contract with T-mobile.
Wow, thanks for checking that out. I had no idea that was even
possible. I'm in the US but I have a world version (900/1800/1900)
for when I travel. Unfortunately, the network I'm on (T-mobile)
doesn't use 850 anywhere in the US, so I can't contribute similar
tests.
Oh wait, maybe I can. Does
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Joerg Lippmannjl_li...@donalbain.de wrote:
Then the Freerunner is not for you.
It may sound harsh, but it's definitely *not* suitable for daily use. Period.
Brolin,
I must respectfully disagree with Joerg's advice to you. There are
flaws, including the ones
That's a pretty awesome idea. It'd make typing fun.
--Ben
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Fabian Killus fab...@ji-xiansheng.de wrote:
I had the same idea over and over again. I thought it would be cool to
have such a thing controlled by the accelerometers ;)
I also took a quick look at
Hi! Can anyone help me to figure out if the following behavior is a bug or not?
Under SHR (both testing and unstable), drives and partitions not
listed in fstab are automounted using the sync option which is
*very* slow and possibly damaging to flash media.
Slowness: While attempting to untar a
Since users don't like to manually unmount their devices, and developers
really don't like when users blame them for unrecoverable data loss,
default is to mount sync.
Thank you for reminding me of that. You might be right that it is was
a developer's choice, but if so it was a very poor
Do you have a 64-bit machine? It sounds like -62 is error message one
gets when using the 32-bit dfu-util.
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing_the_Neo_FreeRunner#.231_Tools_for_flashing:_DFU-util_and_NeoTool
By the way, you may have tried to Google for 'dfu download error -62'
and didn't
Hi Laszlo,
Thanks for all the hard work you've been putting in. I have two questions:
1) If the filesystem is crashing, doesn't it seem like we should fix
the filesystem instead of making a new file format?
2) You mentioned that fsck takes an hour for you. I'm having trouble
reproducing that.
and if you are carrying the FR in a pocket, yes it gets a lock most of
the time, but the track wobbles all over the place - up to a hundred
meters. And if driving through an urban canyon, similar track errors
can occur. Ive wanted a small external powered antenna for some time to
improve
I have redone it several times, but no luck. I also hoped, that it
will disappear,
after couple of day. But didnt happened either.
I also used up all the spray (all the 20ml spray;-)
To have a clue how it looks like, here is a picture:
http://khiraly.googlepages.com/IMG_3882.JPG
Yikes!
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Michael Zanettimichael_zane...@gmx.net wrote:
Judging from the time when other people complains started I think it happened
after an upgrade of my SHR unstable. But I'm not really sure.
Yes, SHR-unstable is the culprit. I'm currently dual booting
SHR-testing and
Mickey: It seems a very bad idea to default to maximum volume if it
causes distortion. I'm not sure yet that that's the sole audio
problem in SHR-unstable, but I can say that when I turned the speaker
volume down to what it was in SHR-testing (68%), I was understood
perfectly, for the first time,
Mickey: Please set the default volume back down. I just confirmed (by
talking to a human) that when the Speaker Volume is set to 100%, the
other party hears an annoying echo of their own voice.
Thank you,
--Ben
P.S. I don't know if it matters, but I'm using a Revision A06
Freerunner,
Has the GSM-900 version been determine to work just as well in North America?
Well, my international version works fine in North America. I
actually asked T-mobile (my carrier) and they said that they don't use
850MHz in their network. They said they *might* have roaming partners
who use 850,
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Adam Jimersonvend...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 09 July 2009 12:54:15 am Ben Wong wrote:
mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device
org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.SetSpeakerVolume 68
Are you sure that mdbus call is correct I got two
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hallmad...@li.org wrote:
Hello mobiphil,
and use those phones as reference...Again, M800 has
keyboard, very usefull for a linux phone. Only drawback, it has only
64megs memory, but better have less applications running smoother, than
several
I've got a simple success to share.
My nine year old niece and her family expressed an interest in
geocaching. I said, Oh, my phone does GPS! which led to this
series of Happy Moko Moments:
* Used Midori over GPRS to create an account on geocaching.com and to
look up the latitude and longitude
system, below.
--Ben
#!/bin/sh
# Look for OpenStreetMap tiles that are size zero (TangoGPS has a bug)
# and download the correct tile. Based on a one-line script by
# Rask Ingemann Lambertsen r...@sygehus.dk, June 2009,
# modified by Ben Wong to work with BusyBox's wget.
cd ~/Maps/OSM || echo
Lambertsen r...@sygehus.dk, June 2009,
# Modified by Ben Wong to work with BusyBox's wget.
cd ~/Maps/OSM || exit 1
find -size 0c -print \
| cut -c3- \
| awk ' { print http://tile.openstreetmap.org/; $0 -O $0; }' \
| xargs -n3 wget -U UpdateTiles
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Ben
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Brolin Empeybro...@brolin.be wrote:
I prefer to shut down my cell phone before going to bed, but I frequently
forget to do so.
Hmmm... I think the solution depends on why you're shutting down your
cell phone at night.
To prevent calls from waking you? Try a
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Brolin Empeybro...@brolin.be wrote:
2009/7/27 Ben Wong lists.openmoko@wongs.net
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Brolin Empeybro...@brolin.be wrote:
I prefer to shut down my cell phone before going to bed, but I
frequently
forget to do so
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Mikhail Umorinmike...@gmail.com wrote:
It's a bit of a pain, especially the full body one. You need steady hands and
a lot of patience. The installation takes about an hour, then ZAGG recommends
to leave it overnight. Then the plastic snugs like a glove on the
Hello Brolin,
Wow. That's quite a bit of information.
I have many thoughts about your specific endeavours, moving out,
priority inversion, social anxiety, finding a geek girl, but I think
there may be a broader, more important goal that you're missing. It
occurs to me that you may find it
Hello Brolin,
I showed your post to a few geek girls and asked them what advice they
would give. I'm CC'ing the list with their (edited) responses because
I have a hunch that there are more Brolins out there.
Ben
___
Overall, my advice isn't
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:01 AM, pike pike-openm...@kw.nl wrote:
I'm not in favor of one char commands - i
like the fact that the terminal would
literally type out call if you type c[tab].
This way, getting familiar with the available
commands is really easy. Ofcourse, it implies
there
Bizarrely, my Freerunner also got the wrong time yesterday. Is there
something special about October 1st?
I'm running SHR testing, but I booted into an old copy of SHR unstable
and it also go it wrong. The first time the date was 1970 (the
epoch), the second time it thought it was 1933!
My older brother, a world traveler, had a box full of SIM cards from
which he wanted to back up all the old SMS and address books. We used
my FreeRunner to do it using a quick hack script I wrote that dumps
the info to a text file. The result was not in UTF-8, so I wrote a
tiny C program to fix
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com wrote:
When the calypso is off (and it's always off unless GSM resource is
requested), it's perfectly ok to swap SIM cards.
Thanks, Paul! That's exactly the information I was looking for. I'll
try this next time,
$ mdbus -s
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Brolin Empey bro...@brolin.be wrote:
This subject is covered in Ellen Spertus’s 1991 paper titled “Why are
There so Few Female Computer Scientists?”:
http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/pap/pap.html
Thanks for the link. Reading it reminds me of the time I
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:21 AM, ri...@happyleptic.org wrote:
I don't know how to tell my procmail to discard completely off topic
messages like these.
It's been awhile since I used procmail, but I believe the recipe to
add to your procmailrc is:
:0:
* ^From:.*commun...@lists.openmoko.org
*
Theming *is* a critical task. I use only the MokoFaen theme because
(a) it looks much better and (b) the default Finxi theme had a bug (at
one point) where if you hung up the phone with the number pad showing,
the menu was messed up the next time you were in a call. MokoFaen has
always worked
Yes, I too had thought red meant super duper must be 110% signal strength.
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Neil Jerram n...@ossau.homelinux.net wrote:
I've been wondering for some time what it means when the GSM signal
strength icon goes red, and whether/how that's different from the icon
Thank you for doing this. As nifty as the idea of the translucent keyboard
was, I think I would go back to the predictive keyboard (as used in SHR) if
I could.
--B
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz wrote:
Hi,
I have started packaging old input methods for QtMoko.
Ask them if they have actually read the contracts they have signed in order
to use their device. I have, and I actually like the ones I'm bound by
(e.g., GNU GPL).
Most people nowadays assume that there is no alternative to a lopsided
contract in which the user must cede all rights. To me, one of
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 1:04 PM, robin spielr...@web.de wrote:
and if you were into facebook it would NOT matter which device you'd be
using.
True enough. I'm getting kind of tired of The Cloud knowing everything I
share with my friends.
I've heard that Diaspora (joindiaspora.com) has
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani
giacomomari...@yahoo.it wrote:
Thank you Radeck,
I'm glad to have the Docked keyboard back: it is priceless when
sending SMS via vnc!
Nice tip, Giacomo.
That reminds me that my biggest bugaboo with QtMoko is that I have never
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:57 PM, NeilBrown ne...@suse.de wrote:
On the GTA04 I just read
/sys/class/power_supply/bq27000-battery/charge_full
and
/sys/class/power_supply/bq27000-battery/charge_full_design
and divide one by the other.
Does the GTA02 not have something similar?
Did
Well, the deadline is up. The pledges rolled in and they got $12.8
million, which sounds amazing until you see that their goal was for
$32 million. I guess that means all that money is getting refunded and
there will be no Ubuntu Edge.
Here's Shuttleworth's upbeat closing comment:
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:21 PM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote:
i am still undecided if i should admire or pity the thread starter, if he
honestly believed that this community would be able to succeed where ubuntu
failed -- and on top of that to jump from todays GTA04 to the device as
Four years ago this worked for getting data from a SIM card:
http://www.mail-archive.com/community@lists.openmoko.org/msg55862.html
qtmoko SMS messages are saved in an sqlite3 file under Applications/qtopiamail/
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Алексей fl...@member.fsf.org wrote:
1) How may
Thanks for the update, Radek and Paul! I'm downloading v58 now and
looking forward to having a stable system.
By the way, I'm glad to see two big user interface bugaboos for me
(vibration when resuming and hanging up when hitting answer twice)
have been fixed. I think my only other bothersome bug
Hey Joif,
You're not alone. I get the same message with v58 in NAND; haven't
tried on SD yet.
I thought it might be DFU transferring the file system incorrectly,
but seeing that you have the same problem, I think perhaps the image
on sourceforge is corrupted.
What's the checksum supposed to be
This is my main phone, so I've reverted to v55 (the latest one I could
find on sourceforge) and it seems to be working.
—B
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Jorge xxo...@gmail.com wrote:
Yup, same here. No booting from NAND.
On 12/12/13 23:59, Ben Wong wrote:
Hey Joif,
You're not alone
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz wrote:
On Friday, December 13, 2013 02:59:01 AM Ben Wong wrote:
What's the checksum supposed to be for the QTMoko files?
a76072c1c9dce4eb2b07235f7cc307fe qtmoko-debian-gta02-v58.ubi
50baec96657802b5a053fa0ef6b777a2 uImage.bin
The size should be ok. NAND is IIRC 256MB. Would you be interested to try
jffs2? I can do it and upload quite easily.
Sure, I'd give that a shot if it's easy for you to do. I seem to have
more corruption problems from ubifs than jffs2, so wouldn't mind going
back.
—B
Weirdly, I'm getting a panic on boot with the JFFS2 images for rootfs
and u-boot. I'll try resending with dfu-util again.
—B
P.S. When I mentioned using 'dd' before to write directly, I meant to
say 'nandwrite'.
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Francesco De Vita
francesco.dev...@mailoo.org
There must be some timing problem. It can be quite tricky to debug it,
because with logging it works and with debugging enabled it works too.
Timing with the AT communications? Would that be the chat script?
3/ implement better screen locking. Now if you lock screen and receive phone
call
I'm sure it could; your FreeRunner is a complete computer.
The question is if you have the time (or money to hire someone) to
write the glue script that will put all the pieces together. Let's
see, the parts you'll need are:
1. Check your mail account (fetchmail or python's imaplib)
2. Do a
I've got v58 working now (thanks to the logging kludge) and have not
had a problem with resuming yet. I did have a lot of reports initially
of people trying to call me and my phone not ringing, but after I
turned off multiplexing in Neocontrol things seem to be better. (I've
never had to turn off
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:39 AM, joerg Reisenweber jo...@openmoko.org wrote:
Maybe useful background can be found in:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=65568
jOERG,
That's a pretty handy page. I hadn't realized LiIon batteries varied
much by manufacturer. Is there a similar script for
I love it. I hadn't known it was missing before, but I am glad
*somebody* finally put a tea key on a keyboard. :-) (Err... I mean☺)
—B
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Francesco De Vita
francesco.dev...@mailoo.org wrote:
Hello everybody
I took advantage of the holidays and I made a new SVG
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Bob Ham r...@settrans.net wrote:
On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 08:54 +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
We ... are working on a 3.14 kernel and getting things mainline
Why? The GTA04 is not usable as a daily phone. Why would you waste
time on the kernel instead
Years ago I found a cheap magnet mount at a truck stop and have been
very pleased with it. A round, rubberized magnet is adhered to the
dashboard (just pull off the backing, like a sticker) and a thin,
flat, hardly noticeable plate sticks to the back of the Freerunner.
Easy to snap on and easy to
Sounds like a fun challenge. I'd take it up if I wasn't already so
busy. After all, who in their life hasn't at one point wanted to write
an Unscented Kalman Filter? ;-)
Just out of curiosity, is OpenPilot.org not a viable solution?
--Ben
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Pascal Gosselin
74 matches
Mail list logo