Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Helge Hafting
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: Am I completely daft or isn't the focus on FSO and Paroli et all precisely what you're whining about? If you have to whine, do so at serious problems like the White Screen of Death (which is now apparently solved, at least worksforme). There is a kernel image

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Michel
Steve Mosher wrote: Hi Steve, A list on the wiki of all severe problems and the end user details would be great, especially for future reference. Some of the problems, like Buzz, 1024 (recamp) seem to happen to some people and not others. I never had the buzz problem, go figure. I've

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:49:03AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: Am I completely daft or isn't the focus on FSO and Paroli et all precisely what you're whining about? If you have to whine, do so at serious problems like the White Screen of Death (which is

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:49:03AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: | Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: | Am I completely daft or isn't the focus on FSO and Paroli et all | precisely what you're whining about? | |

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Vasco Névoa
I'm kinda confused here... is this buzz issue the one where the caller (not the neo) hears the GSM buzzing? The one that has a SOP repair paper with the Big C?... or is it something else? Citando Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Steve Mosher wrote: Hi Steve, A list on the wiki of all severe

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Andreas Fischer
Hi All, I added another column to indicate echo problems - I think it would be good to get info on both of these issues. With regard to buzz, do you think it is necessary to differentiate between no buzz at all, always buzz, and buzz only with headset? My understanding was that using a headset

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread rakshat hooja
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Andreas Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I added another column to indicate echo problems - I think it would be good to get info on both of these issues. With regard to buzz, do you think it is necessary to differentiate between no buzz at all,

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Stroller
On 10 Dec 2008, at 16:01, arne anka wrote: ... android g1 ... i don't want to support any effort in that way. +1 Stroller. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Didier Raboud
arne anka wrote: om provides and develops only one distribution! if there are more than this one it is done by community effort -- people who bought the freerunner exactly because the _could_ do that. i for one don't see any sense in helping google to do their homework -- and control

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Gothnet
Didier Raboud wrote: arne anka wrote: the facts known about google's remote control of the android g1 (privately owned devoces, mind you!) are absolutely horrible, and i don't want to support any effort in that way. +1 from me too. Don't use Big Evil Google ! I don't want

Proposal for new mailing list was: Re: Get rid of the Buzz Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Stroller
On 10 Dec 2008, at 19:22, Michel wrote: ... You just state what I already stated, that there is an unofficial fix but not an official one, so I have been reading the archives. I say in my e-mail Yes there are several soldering hacks around, but not one is official. And I know that OM

Re: Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread rusolis
arne anka wrote: om provides and develops only one distribution! if there are more than this one it is done by community effort -- people who bought the freerunner exactly because the _could_ do that. i for one don't see any sense in helping google to do their homework --

Re: Proposal for new mailing list was: Re: Get rid of the Buzz Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread roguemoko
Stroller wrote: On 10 Dec 2008, at 19:22, Michel wrote: ... You just state what I already stated, that there is an unofficial fix but not an official one, so I have been reading the archives. I say in my e-mail Yes there are several soldering hacks around, but not one is official. And

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Steve Mosher
The Buzz is introduced into the Neo mic. ( Rf enters the mixer, and you will see a ripple on the DC coming out to the mic) consequently the far end of the call may hear a buzz. There are two potential fixes: The rework Joerg is drafting ( adding a CAP) smooths the ripple and theoretically

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Andreas Fischer
Rui Castro wrote: Hi, Like many people in this community I have my Neo resting comfortably in my desk because there isn't a stable OS with the basic phone funcionalities available at the moment (I already tried all the distributions available). Some distributions provide some of the basic

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Giorgio Marci
I'm completly agree with Rui. The fact is that today, after several months, we have a phone that is not (yet) fully working. As my experience i tried all the distributions and the better one (in my very personal opinion) is the SHR that (unfortunately) doesn't include a phone calls manager, an

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Jurg van Vliet
people, i tend to agree with Rui as well. i understand it is difficult to 'kill your darlings' but what is the (business) sense to have '8 distributions for 10.000 phones'? (the only reason i can think of is some innovative user interface, and not one of the current distributions has

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread DJDAS
Andreas Fischer ha scritto: I totally disagree. First, I do not think that phones age that quick. I used an age-old Nokia phone (I think it was a 3510 - ca. 2002) until I got my Freerunner this summer. Unless something unforeseen happens, next summer the two Neos will _still_ be the only fully

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Michel
Andreas Fischer wrote: Hi, I'm sorry if this sounds a bit harsh, but I am a bit confused by people constantly complaining: Either you have a completely different phone or you came here with the wrong expectations. To me at least it was clear when I got the phone that it wouldn't be

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread arne anka
'kill your darlings' but what is the (business) sense to have '8 distributions for 10.000 phones'? (the only reason i can think of is om provides and develops only one distribution! if there are more than this one it is done by community effort -- people who bought the freerunner exactly

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Andreas Fischer
Michel wrote: Maybe we could have a page on the wiki where people can tell in which country they are, which provider and if they have the buzz bug or not. That would be a good idea. Let's start this wiki page and also record the echo issue in it (which also seems to vary among people). Anyone

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread arne anka
Maybe we could have a page on the wiki where people can tell in which country they are, which provider and if they have the buzz bug or not. That would be a good idea. Let's start this wiki page and also record the echo issue in it (which also seems to vary among people). Anyone knowing

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Gothnet
I agree with Rui, and as a Software Engineer with about a decade of C under my belt I should be able to help out. It's just getting motivated and getting started that are the problems here The nice thing about Android is that it seems like the interface stuff is basically there, it's sharp

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Andreas Cyberfrag Fischer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 10.12.2008 17:17, arne anka schrieb: Maybe we could have a page on the wiki where people can tell in which country they are, which provider and if they have the buzz bug or not. That would be a good idea. Let's start this wiki page and also

Get rid of the Buzz Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Michel
arne anka wrote: Hi, i wish, you guys would check archives and wiki before posting this stuff. Maybe you should read my message a bit better before replying. :) the buzzing issue is _technically_ solved. the cause has been found a long while ago. fixes where tested and brought down to a

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Warren Baird
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Rui Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Like many people in this community I have my Neo resting comfortably in my desk because there isn't a stable OS with the basic phone funcionalities available at the moment (I already tried all the distributions

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Warren Baird
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Rui Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Like many people in this community I have my Neo resting comfortably in my desk because there isn't a stable OS with the basic phone funcionalities available at the moment (I already tried all the distributions

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Rui Castro
Hi, English is not my primary language and that's the reason, I think, for some people that replied to my message, totally missing the point of it. I support the Openmoko initiative as much as everyone in this community, that's why I bought a Neo Freerunner and that's why I contributed with a

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Rui Castro wrote: So, my idea with my first message was to try to encourage people from the community (and from Openmoko too) to put a little effort to make Android stable in the Freerunner so that Openmoko and the community could benefict from having another alternative OS, in the SHORT term.

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Steve Mosher
A list on the wiki of all severe problems and the end user details would be great, especially for future reference. Some of the problems, like Buzz, 1024 (recamp) seem to happen to some people and not others. I never had the buzz problem, go figure. 1. problems: WSOD, recamp, Buzz, echo (

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread rakshat hooja
Hi Steve, Please start the page on the wiki with your phone info and I (and hopefully many others) will add there info there. I would start the page but not too sure where to start it or if bots clear out orphan pages on the wiki. Rakshat On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Steve Mosher [EMAIL