Re: comparing Apples and Oranges $199 iPhone Freerunner GTA02

2008-06-10 Thread Brian C
cedric cellier wrote: [snip] So, how does the Freerunner UI stand in front of the iPhone's ? What about the MobileMe initiative ? Do we have anything like that ? [snip] The MobileMe initiative was a far bigger announcement yesterday than the 3G iPhone. Once one uses a Treo or similar linked to

Re: Vote! Zimbra Mobile on the Openmoko

2008-06-23 Thread Brian C
Joseph Reeves wrote: Dear all, I'd like to bring this poll to your attention: http://www.zimbra.com/forums/zimbrame-j2me-client/12642-vote-phones-zimbra-j2me-client.html I voted for this. I want something that will synchronize my email/contacts/calendar between my Freerunner and my

Re: upgrade memory card

2008-06-24 Thread Brian C
ian douglas wrote: [snip] Did anyone else test an 8GB card yet? If not, I'll order another one on the weekend. [snip] I bought an 8GB Sandisk MicroSD card. I'm part of a group purchase for the San Francisco Bay Area and we plan to pick up in Fremont, so as soon as the Freerunners arrive I will

Re: FreeRunner Quick Start User Guide

2008-06-26 Thread Brian C
BrendaWang wrote: Here is the getting start guide from wiki. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Getting_Started_with_your_Neo_FreeRunner In the Flashing the Freerunner section it says, You can use the USB cable and Openmoko provided tool to flash Neo FreeRunner. I'm curious about the use of the

Re: Fast questions about GTA03

2008-06-27 Thread Brian C
Lucas Bonnet wrote: Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I encourage you to get involved today. We need your help. Waiting for GTA03 is a possibility of course, but keep in mind how long it took us to go from 01 to 02. Sure, how can we help? Well, from the looks of the

Re: Openmoko Webshop Reopen NOW!!!

2008-07-03 Thread Brian C
Harry wrote: Dear All, Sorry for delay long time!!! So far, only GSM850 Freerunner is available in stock, Debug board and spare also!!! http://www.openmoko.com/store.html Freerunner is running Thanks and BR For those who wish to pick up in Fremont, there doesn't seem to be an

New Wiki Page: Latest Images

2008-07-05 Thread Brian C
2007.2, ASU, FSO, SHR -- if you're head is starting to spin at the options available on an open platform, then, like me, you need a summary of all these in one place that includes links to the files for the brave and links to screenshots and/or videos for the merely curious. Thus, I tried to

Re: questions about our mailinglists

2008-07-10 Thread Brian C
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: 2) Remove 'device-owners'. 2) is a bit more controversial. But, being somebody that loves change, I would like to try it as well. I think device-owners should be removed. It is easier, especially for newbies, to locate a single list community where they can expect

Mediaplayer on 2007.2: gstreamer failed to initialize

2008-07-11 Thread Brian C
The FreeRunner Getting Started Guide suggests: # opkg install openmoko-mediaplayer2 # wget http://abraxa.dyndns.org:81/random/openmoko-mediaplayer-theme.tar.bz2 # tar xjf openmoko-mediaplayer-theme.tar.bz2 -C /usr/share/themes/Moko/gtk-2.0 I did that, but when trying to start Mediaplayer I get

Web Browser Form Entry?

2008-07-11 Thread Brian C
On FreeRunner 2007.2, I did: opkg install openmoko-browser2 and also installed the full keyboard per instructions here: http://www.ginguppin.de/node/15 Now I browse to Google or any site with a form entry box and I cannot figure out how to enter text into the form. What am I missing? Brian

Re: Web Browser Form Entry?

2008-07-11 Thread Brian C
Michael Kluge wrote: Brian C schrieb: On FreeRunner 2007.2, I did: opkg install openmoko-browser2 and also installed the full keyboard per instructions here: http://www.ginguppin.de/node/15 Now I browse to Google or any site with a form entry box and I cannot figure out how to enter text

Re: Import Contacts

2008-07-11 Thread Brian C
Brian C wrote: [a long error message because he didn't run the script from the OM terminal] Ok, so the script runs now that I realize it must be run from the OM terminal. However, it appears to have entered all null contacts and so far none of them appear to have any actual contact info in them

Re: Web Browser Form Entry?

2008-07-11 Thread Brian C
Alexander Syring wrote: I have a symbol in my panel add the following to /etc/matchbox/session matchbox-panel-2 --start-applets systray,startup \ --end-applets openmoko-panel-clock,keyboard,openmoko-panel-battery,openmoko-panel-gsm,openmoko-panel-gps,openmoko-panel-usb,openmoko-p

Web Browser Zoom?

2008-07-11 Thread Brian C
I can't figure out how to zoom in/out while using the web browser (and/or change the font size). Is this functionality not yet coded or am I missing something? Right now the fonts are too big and I see far too little of the page for it to be really usable. Brian

Congratulations to the OpenMoko Team

2008-07-11 Thread Brian C
Steve's recent message indicating that this first batch of FreeRunner's has sold out (in approximately a week's time) is, I hope, well-received news among the OpenMoko team. I am sure you all have been working hard for a long time to get to this point, and clearly the world has been waiting too,

Re: minimo (browser on freerunner)

2008-07-13 Thread Brian C
arne anka wrote: i just built minimo and cellwriter for the freerunner (gta02), which went surprisingly well ... for ipk see http://www.ginguppin.de/node/16 Thanks very much for the .ipk, which installed fine for me. However, I have not yet been to an https secure site that hasn't crashed

Re: Claws Mail

2008-07-15 Thread Brian C
arne anka wrote: as promised, i uploaded a tar ball with everything belonging to claws-mail to ginguppin.de/node/17 included are libetpan11 and ibgnutls, at least libetpan11 (whatever it does) is not available from the feeds. if dependencies are missing, drop a mail. Thanks very much

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread Brian C
thomasg wrote: The problem only occurs if a SD card is set in. Doesn't matter if it's mounted or in use, it just has to sit in the socket. Testresults from other people appreciated. I can also confirm this. I never got a fix on FreeRunner before, even leaving it on all night (albeit

Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-15 Thread Brian C
john wrote: If there is an interest in this I could package it up for Openmoko. There is also potential for developing a native GUI local search tool using hyper estraier because it comes with a C API and other language bindings. This would remove the web server dependency. Please do package

Re: NEWBIE : beginning development in openmoko

2008-07-15 Thread Brian C
Rahul Ramasubramanian wrote: hi hope this is the right place for this query.. i am a newbie as far as openmoko is concerned , but have abt 2 years of mobile handset dev expirience. i want to try my hand at openmoko development.. i have worked on Linux based phones and also on phones with

Re: Calendar events

2008-07-17 Thread Brian C
Curtis Vaughan wrote: I've noticed a strange issue with the calendar. So I created the same event again, but left it at it's default time of 09:00. OK, it was there. So then I changed the time to 14:00 and closed out it. It was still set at 09:00. Any clues on what's up? Thank you for

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-18 Thread Brian C
Andy Green wrote: Yes GPS chip is very sticky, even when depowered for some time it seems to hold state and not act in a deterministic way. It makes it hard to know if the last thing you changed is responsible for the behaviour staying the same or changing, or if it was going to do that

Re: pdf in openmoko?

2008-07-19 Thread Brian C
arne anka wrote: i put epdfview up to http://www.ginguppin.de/node/18 I installed epdfview (thank you!) but neither the openmoko-browser2 nor minimo knows to hand off a pdf link to another program. Neither even gives a Save As option. These results should probably be filed as bugs unless

Re: USB connector not Mini-AB?

2008-07-20 Thread Brian C
Joerg Reisenweber wrote: see: http://www.electronicproductonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1781 /j Yes, something like this should be added to the contents of the FreeRunner box. Would likely be cheap to buy in bulk, but amazingly useful for users who could instantly connect a

Re: Terminal for ASU

2008-07-20 Thread Brian C
Ken Restivo wrote: Crap. I was considering opening a bug report (enhancement, probably) on this-- the ASU needs a terminal. But I don't want to get smacked down with a ASU will never have a terminal, it's not a supported use case closure for it. *Will* the ASU have a terminal app

Re: Has anyone tried the invisibleSHIELD on the freerunner?

2008-07-23 Thread Brian C
Søren Kristiansen wrote: Hello As the subject says, has anyone tried the invisibleSHIELD on the freerunner? I received the full-body invisibleSHIELD recently. I don't have a lot of patience for tasks like this, but I found the back cover useful and the screen protector good. The front

Re: Volume?

2008-07-24 Thread Brian C
Bastian Muck wrote: julien cubizolles schrieb: | Le jeudi 17 juillet 2008 à 17:53 +0200, papa-piet a écrit : | Hi, | I didn't tested it yet but maybe this will help: | | http://freeyourphone.de/portal_v1/viewtopic.php?f=5t=170start=75#p3277 | | I thinks it's the original one. I adjusted

Suggestion: default /etc/resolv.conf

2008-07-24 Thread Brian C
Suggestion: The rootfs should contain a resolv.conf that lists some publicly-available dns servers so that people with new FreeRunners would have a chance of getting net access without editing that file first. Despite clear instructions on the wiki, this issue continues to cause people problems

Re: Public build host (proposal)

2008-07-24 Thread Brian C
Marek Lindner wrote: Hi, since it seems to be extremely difficult to build software for the OpenMoko on my home machine, perhaps it would be usefull if someone (within OpenMoko?) would set up a globally reachable build host with an openembedded and toolchain environment on it. could you

Re: Community contributions to core apps features. (Was: Terminalfor ASU)

2008-07-29 Thread Brian C
steve wrote: If you want to start a wiki about OM. Sean is the CEO, I am the VP of marketing, Wolfgang is the VP of Engineering. we announced this a long while ago in the press. First attempt: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Employees Based on review of all press releases at

Re: Openmoko on Design

2008-07-29 Thread Brian C
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Dear Community Design. This is a long, careful response to Sean's Openmoko on Design post. If one goes back to the beginning of the Terminal for ASU thread, what you find is that several users were just getting things set up and mostly working in ASU and then they

Re: mark a missed call as seen

2008-07-29 Thread Brian C
On Tuesday 29 July 2008, reaper527 wrote: is there any way to mark a missed call as seen? I've seen the same thing, and deleting the missed calls is the only thing that's worked for me. I should have checked for bug reports I suppose, or better yet dug out the source and patched it. Ticket

Re: minimo (browser on freerunner)

2008-07-30 Thread Brian C
henrikz wrote: arne anka wrote: does it happen with the charger only or everytime you connect usb? It happens both with the AC charger and the usb-cable. Intrestingly it doesn't freeze the keyboard when using i.e. the terminal, however it messes up the key-bindings e.g.: With usb

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-23 Thread Brian C
I've had my Freerunner since day 1 and sadly have to agree with almost everything Joerg has said. The surprising thing to me is that we haven't seen more significant improvement on the software side in the last year. I'm not saying things haven't improved, I've just had the following in the back

Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Brian C
Robin Paulson wrote: yes, but the packages i need require a long chain of dependencies from sid/squeeze, and i don't want to do that - i'll get a broken system very quickly. i'd rather get the whole OS is there way in lenny to reliably upgrade to sid/squeeze? i've heard the idea of