Re: iPad

2010-01-28 Thread Brad Midgley
do something like this it seems Google is already headed in this direction with android. -- Brad Midgley ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: iPad

2010-01-27 Thread Brad Midgley
that is more generally useful than iPad (multitasking apps, background processes, no need to jailbreak, usb host, etc.) -- Brad Midgley ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Internal memory card is read-only

2009-09-08 Thread Brad Midgley
is corrupt. Some time ago I struggled with this and found the easiest solution was to back up and reformat the card rather than try to repair the fs. -- Brad Midgley ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman

Re: Intel, Nokia announce mobile pact

2009-06-23 Thread Brad Midgley
://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10270711-64.html?tag=nl.e703 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users -- Brad Midgley ___ maemo-users mailing list

Re: howto transfer GPS log data via BT? (Was: Re: Looking for gps logger for n810)

2009-04-06 Thread Brad Midgley
that idea forward. -- Brad Midgley ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Ihpone on Steroids to IT G5?

2009-03-13 Thread Brad Midgley
John all this most likely done to keep the battery drain to a minimum... This is one of Apple's mantras, but the primary motivation for the arbitrary limitations is to maintain tight control over the platform. -- Brad Midgley ___ maemo-users mailing

Re: Iphone + tethering - No Way

2009-03-10 Thread Brad Midgley
laptops, N810, netbooks ... no issues. I've cleared 2Gb a few times, but 5 would be more like your only connection ... -- Brad Midgley ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: tracks on maemo-mapper

2009-02-08 Thread Brad Midgley
Olavo how to export/convert my tracks saved in memo-mapper to googleearth (xml to kml)? IIRC, it looks best if you leave out labels, something like... gpsbabel -t -i gpx -f in.gpx -o kml,labels=0 -F out.kml Brad ___ maemo-users mailing list

Re: N810 with GSM radio

2009-01-13 Thread Brad Midgley
coverage areas of the partners in Clear, including any network type. An actual WiMAX coverage map would have looked pretty dismal. -- Brad Midgley ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: N810 with GSM radio

2009-01-13 Thread Brad Midgley
One more aside... as far as I could tell, Nokia was only showing off symbian devices at their CES booth. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: miniSD Cards - Hot Pluggable?

2008-08-02 Thread Brad Midgley
Rick The cards are hot plugable. That's why the door has a switch in it, to give the system an idea of how it should manage the mount. It is a good idea after opening the door to check the screen for a moment to make sure there's no error message about unmounting the card. On Fri, Aug 1, 2008

Re: Diablo released (AGPS)

2008-07-03 Thread Brad Midgley
guys the fact that it wants a data connection through a cell (wifi isn't good enough) suggests that it might look to see which gsm towers are around. out of curiosity I ran hcidump so I could watch the negotiation with the cellphone. my n810 does not get cell tower info as it connects to get

Re: Diablo released (AGPS)

2008-06-25 Thread Brad Midgley
guys So assuming that AGPS _is_ included, would that be usable by an N800 with a bluetooth GPS? not without vendor-specific hacking for the specific gps. in other words, no. Hmm, just installed Diablo. No network traffic when starting wayfinder map - I thought the AGPS patch was going to

Re: Cell Phone As Modem

2008-06-02 Thread Brad Midgley
Nick Just as another data point... I can use either DUN or PAN through an ATT tilt. You do have to hard-reset the phone as soon as you get it and hit the reset button when it says something like installing additional sowftware since it is apparently installing something to disable DUN. I am

Re: Cell Phone As Modem

2008-06-02 Thread Brad Midgley
Nick I installed the PAN software on the N800 and was able to connect to the internet. Life is sort of good. pan is preferable. On some umts/hspa phones you can do data and voice simultaneously. Windows mobile can't do these at the same time if you use DUN however. -- Brad

Re: Best internet download speed through bluetooth phone?

2008-03-26 Thread Brad Midgley
guys a few more data points for DUN rates. these are all gsm phones in a umts network in the US (att). htc tilt 580kbps lg cu500 600kbps samsung sync 320kbps moto razr v3xx 550kbps I believe the tests were all using a bt1.2 adapter on one side or the other so the lg for example might be hitting

Re: N810. Bluetooth networking

2008-03-12 Thread Brad Midgley
Guys I would like to see PAN being used for that - using DUN from Linux device to Linux device seem pretty brain dead to me, sorry. Just to spell out some of the brain damage Nils is talking about... PAN is made for multiple access as a proper access point (using a dhcp service) but using

Re: bluetooth headsets

2008-02-06 Thread Brad Midgley
fwiw bluez-utils 3.25 has the best sbc codec performance yet on the omap processor. Cidorvan Leite has been combing over generated code and working in reorganization assembly to make it hum along much better. :) there's still integration to be done with maemo of course. When it's all done, we

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-11-24 Thread Brad Midgley
Andrew the alang param can take a list of languages and choose your most preferred language that is available. Two-letter tags here only work for dvd, but the list could probably have both 2- and 3- letter variations for the languages you're interested in. is there a case this wouldn't cover?

Re: Using 'bora' repos on tabletOS2006?

2007-11-23 Thread Brad Midgley
Norman Hacker edition is quite usable. You should give it a shot. Be sure to turn on lots of swap and try not to run too many things at once. No, you won't be able to use any bora apps on os2006. And no, there almost certainly won't be anything more official than hacker edition for 770. Brad

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-11-23 Thread Brad Midgley
Marius That was a good idea to look at mencoder. For some reason it gets the wrong audio track sometimes. I think this might be best for a dvd and it works on that problematic title: tablet-encode -m -alang -m en -2 -p average dvd://4 out.avi Brad On Nov 23, 2007 6:54 AM, Luca Olivetti [EMAIL

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-11-23 Thread Brad Midgley
Luca could you try -m -aid -m 0 instead of -m -alang -m en ? the result was no audio... the audio id was 128 on the title I noticed. Not sure if that's typical. -- Brad ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-11-22 Thread Brad Midgley
Hey I'll reask since I meant to ask on-list. dvd://1 and dvd://2 get the english audio, but for some reason dvd://3 and dvd://4 came out spanish. This disk has csi-ny tv series... $ lsdvd -a Disc Title: DVD_VIDEO Title: 01, Length: 00:40:48.120 Chapters: 06, Cells: 06, Audio streams: 02,

Re: New, renamed version of 770-encode video converter now available

2007-11-20 Thread Brad Midgley
lsdvd give some useful output here too. On Nov 20, 2007 2:35 PM, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 November 2007 01:30:51 pm Peter Flynn wrote: Andrew Flegg wrote: Many of you use my script 770-encode to transcode videos for your Nokia Internet Tablet. This name is

Re: Problem with maemo-mapper on N770

2007-11-01 Thread Brad Midgley
Magnus, fwiw, I was having similar problems in mm after upgrading to 2007he. After tinkering I found a reformat of the flash card was what cleared things up. Brad ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org

Re: a crank charger is dangerous for 770?

2007-10-26 Thread Brad Midgley
hey I've got the sidewinder crank charger (~$30). I've seen a generic model that looks very similar to the branded sidewinder for less (~$10). Apparently the cheaper no-name version does not have a voltage regulator on the output I finally got around to putting a voltmeter on this sidewinder

Re: N810 and future directions for Maemo

2007-10-22 Thread Brad Midgley
David I would also like to suggest that the built-in GPS software allow for time-syncing the device: perhaps not necessarily a full NTPD implementation, but even doing the occasional ntpdate sync from the GPS would be nice to keep the clock set. maemo uses gpsd. ntp can set the time using

Re: n810 GPS API?

2007-10-20 Thread Brad Midgley
Mihamina It's possible it uses gpsd but I haven't really seen any details yet. gpsd clients use a simple client library to talk to the daemon. Power management of the gps is also an unknown. gpsd can close its connection to the gps when no clients are connected, but I don't know if that's enough

Re: a crank charger is dangerous for 770?

2007-10-13 Thread Brad Midgley
Antonio I've got the sidewinder crank charger (~$30). I've seen a generic model that looks very similar to the branded sidewinder for less (~$10). Apparently the cheaper no-name version does not have a voltage regulator on the output so the voltage varies as you crank faster/slower. I'm not sure

Re: N800 gpsbabel supporting the WBT-201

2007-10-10 Thread Brad Midgley
Guys I made a patch for maemo-mapper to give it menu options to load or erase the wintec log. Much easier than the command line, especially on a hiking trip :) https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1193group_id=29atid=188 If you want to try it and you don't have scratchbox

Re: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices

2007-10-10 Thread Brad Midgley
Nicholas Regarding music, I have never gotten the FM radio to work fyi the headphones have to be in to act as an antenna even if you're using the speakers. since I'd rather have fewer wires I've been enjoying the itech bluetooth headset with an fm radio of its own. This will be great once the

Re: [Fwd: Re: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices]

2007-10-10 Thread Brad Midgley
hey Even when they do have the profile, MS DUN performance is too pathetic to get excited about. I've never seen over 128Kbps using 3 different ppc devices. This was on a network that should be hitting the bt1.2 ceiling of 600+kbps. Strangely, their desktop DUN *client* is slow too, even when

Re: The MMC issues (was: 4.2007.38-2 available)

2007-10-05 Thread Brad Midgley
Patrick If you were able to revive the card then it's not the same problem. Brad On 10/5/07, Patrick Ohly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 10:15 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: The issue was not about SDHC compatibility but power management. There were several 2GB Sandisk Ultra

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-03 Thread Brad Midgley
Fred What I'm not understanding is the big rush to update for a few minor fixes, especially if there's the known potential of extra user overhead getting the update and apps all sorted out. If it aint broke, ... but 4.2007.38 does fix a situation that can brick an sdhc card. Brad

Re: 4.2007.38-2 available

2007-10-02 Thread Brad Midgley
guys It takes longer to read this thread than it does to reinstall my apps. At least it's improving... I used to have to restore sources.list too... brad ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org

Re: Bluetooth headphones and mp3's

2007-09-27 Thread Brad Midgley
Ryan Keep in mind there are at least 2 bluetooth audio protocols: A2DP is stereo audio for (example) listening to music. There's an entirely separate one for hands-free headsets (like phones - do the Maemo devices support these with internet calls?) Not in the current release. However Nokia

Re: Bluetooth headphones and mp3's

2007-09-26 Thread Brad Midgley
James Severe drop out problem. Almost as if the dang thing was constantly buffering. it helped in at least one case to make the n800 prefer to be bluetooth master. in hcid.conf: lm accept,master; lp hold,sniff,park; let us know if that impacts the quality. Brad

Re: Bluetooth headphones and mp3's

2007-09-26 Thread Brad Midgley
Simon Even without avrcp, a combo headset should pause the a2dp stream when taking a voice call. The underlying avdtp protocol has messages for stream suspend. btw, the a2dpd and bluetooth-alsa stuff is an experiment. If you can afford to upgrade bluez-utils, you'll find a new audio service

Re: Bluetooth headphones and mp3's

2007-09-26 Thread Brad Midgley
hey one more thing regarding mp3 streaming and battery life. If you have a set that supports mp3 decoding such as the itech r35 then we should eventually be able to ship the raw mp3 across the bluetooth link. this will require the gstreamer bluetooth plugin. this also means less time spent in

Re: Bluetooth headphones and mp3's

2007-09-26 Thread Brad Midgley
Simon I'm interested in moving the SBC encoding to a DSP task. we could do more on the general-purpose encoder. It's doing some boneheaded stuff currently that probably overflows the program cache (long unrolled loop) and data cache (moving around memory unnecessarily). Brad

Re: Possible to use the N800 as WLAN Access Point?

2007-05-18 Thread Brad Midgley
Toby Just a thought I had last night, but is it possible to reverse the polarity of the WLAN on the N800 and turn it into a small, portable hotspot which uses e.g. an HSDPA cellphone as the backhaul? This came up before--basically you need to be able to choose master mode in the wifi driver.

Re: N800 gpsbabel supporting the WBT-201

2007-05-06 Thread Brad Midgley
Guys I can also say I've had not trouble from a desktop to my wbt-100 over bluetooth. All the lights go out on the gps when it's busy but that seems to be normal. It shouldn't be too tough to put hooks into maemo mapper to give it a menu option to suspend the bt gps connection, execute

Re: gpsbabel

2007-05-02 Thread Brad Midgley
Rainer, I am wonding if anybody has build gpsbabel on the maemo plattform. I would want to use it to download log data from a wintec WBT-201 GPS mouse and display it with maemo-mapper. get it working on a desktop first... I understand that wintec changed the protocol in this model and

Re: gpsbabel

2007-05-02 Thread Brad Midgley
doh... spoke too soon... Andy is handing out binaries for people to test but not likely armel binaries :( http://www.nabble.com/WBT201-support-tf3663624.html#a10236945 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org

Re: bluetooth GPS receiver

2007-04-28 Thread Brad Midgley
hey given the price of that product, why is the Nokia GPS so much more expensive? Is it simply the Brand name or is there some material difference in GPS resolution/flexibility/performance, etc? it's the brand name probably. every gps uses one of just a few chipsets to receive the signal. if

Re: bluetooth GPS receiver

2007-04-27 Thread Brad Midgley
fwiw... If you are buying a new gps now, you can get built-in logging with no real impact on the price. And it looks like wintec fixed the signal quality problem in their data logger: http://www.semsons.com/wiwbmu3gpsre2.html I have the wbt100 model and I like it because it can store a log

Re: [maemo-users] Verizon BT DUN?

2007-02-15 Thread Brad Midgley
Jonathan I am using a treo 700p this way, but it feels a little goofy when what I really wanted was just a simple flipphone. Also, it doesn't perform as well as my last phone, maxing out just short of 400kbps. I had a motorola e815 that was working great with a typical 600kbps. After a mandatory

Re: [maemo-users] audio format experiences on n770

2007-01-26 Thread Brad Midgley
Kahlil I suspect only the mp3 decoding is done in the dsp. Brad I have seen that the N770 had problems playing ogg podcasts, I wonder if there is a way to optimize the apps or the codecs. On 1/26/07, Jorge Salamero Sanz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've tested 3 audio formats on the n770.

[maemo-users] logging gps works, exploring Helsinki doesn't

2006-10-18 Thread Brad Midgley
Hey I finally traded up and got a wintec wbt-100 gps to use with maemo-mapper. This gps keeps a log of tracks internally and the cvs version of gpsbabel can read and clear the log. I've been running gpsbabel on my linux laptop to access the log. It would not be hard to get gpsbabel running on

Re: [maemo-users] US users of Nokia 770 - compatibility with Bluetooth-enabled cellphone as modem

2006-09-28 Thread Brad Midgley
david I am preparing to replace my cell phone (on the verizon network, hence the US-specific question). First off, none of the pocketpc phones can reliably deliver high-speed DUN to a linux client. My guess is that the windows xp DUN client intentionally slows things down so the phone doesn't

Re: [maemo-users] Good GPS Bluetooth module

2006-08-25 Thread Brad Midgley
Marius If I had done some more research before buying it I would probably have chosen the Nokia one that uses a compatible charger. If we're doing would have then I might have gotten a logging gps. The nokia still sort of locks up when reading gps data and having reliable logging inside the

Re: [maemo-users] Presentation to Local LUG

2006-05-23 Thread Brad Midgley
Guys Don't bother with anything that doesn't have sirf III and waas. I'm quite amazed with my itrek m3... it works indoors some places (even in the local one-story supermarket) and it easily works anywhere in the car, not just from the dashboard. Brad On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:45:59AM -0400,

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding script

2006-04-13 Thread Brad Midgley
Ville Here's a simple video encoding script to encode videos easily to 770 format. Maybe it'll be useful for someone: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~ranki/projects/encode770/ fwiw, I tried a couple of these with video that had no audio sync problems and it always played on the 770 with sync problems.

Re: [maemo-users] Bad unjustified reputation ?

2006-01-20 Thread Brad Midgley
Guys _http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/02/01OPopenent_1.html_ I read it through, and I have to say I may have 10% of the problems mentioned here. Not more ! I have to agree with a recent poster that the article is not that far off. We developers love the thing because

Re: [maemo-users] problems after 'swapon /dev/mmcblk0p2' with 3.2005.51-13

2006-01-13 Thread Brad Midgley
Eero to make a comment on the original thread... activating my 30mb swap will cause the nokia to start displaying memory-low warnings and eventually reboot. i'll try 24mb next. yes, see my update at www.dillernet.com/apple I noticed this on your site: The only annoying thing is that the

[maemo-users] two mailboxes?

2005-12-17 Thread Brad Midgley
Hi I created two mailboxes on my 770 but can't figure out how to switch to reading the second one. I noticed the send/receive action appears to use the default mailbox but I'm not totally sure since I have never seen the contents of the other mailbox. Brad