Re: GSM Power Control

2009-03-23 Thread Mike Montour
Joel B. Land wrote: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/support/2008-August/001121.html What about the Freerunner? It has the same GSM chipset as the Neo1973 so there should be no difference. ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org

Re: GSM Power Control

2009-03-21 Thread Mike Montour
Joel B. Land wrote: Is the phone’s GSM modem doing power control? [...] I can change the received field strength (rxlvl) by moving in and outside, but not the txlvl. This because the power is always the same? The phone's actual transmitted power level does change - I tested this in the

Re: More than 7 partitions on the SD [entering OT]

2009-03-15 Thread Mike Montour
Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano wrote: If you read that file, there are the specs about mmcblk files, major and minor number, it's ok, nothing new, but reading that it's explained that scsi disks devices should be at most 16 devices, am i correct? There are 16 SCSI disk devices available with

Re: BrokenMoko (burnt)

2009-03-15 Thread Mike Montour
Werner Almesberger wrote: Another theory is that the bead doesn't like 1 A for extended periods of time. But then, if this was a general problem, we'd see more units with that issue. As far as I know, yours is the only one that did this. Yet another theory (by Joerg) is that your power

Re: Stylus

2009-01-22 Thread Mike Montour
Marc Rios wrote: Anybody knows where can I buy another stylus?? http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.849 ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support

Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick / pcf50633 defaults

2009-01-07 Thread Mike Montour
Andy Green wrote: There's two interesting ideas from Mike though, one is that disable USB insert as ON will help by giving longer for VB_SYS to charge and the other is leave charger enabled. For both of these, they are defeated (USB insert is ON action, charger disabled) by NOPOWER and we

Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick

2009-01-05 Thread Mike Montour
Gothnet wrote: I still find it amazing that the FR doesn't charge when off and empty. Every phone (and every other portable device) I've ever owned does this. It's not even a software thing - there ought to be some direct hardware way to charge the battery from totally dead without the need

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Montour
Dale Maggee wrote: Hi, currently when I have my freerunner plugged into USB, it will charge to 100% and then start (slowly) discharging. If I unplug the USB cable and plug it back in, it charges back up to 100 percent, then starts discharging again. That might be normal - the charger in

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Montour
Angus Ainslie wrote: It doesn't completely turn off charging. It drops to a 100mA trickle charge which is insufficient to keep the battery topped up with the GSM radio turned on. That's why the batteries state of discharge is slower when its plugged into the charger ( even the wall charger

Re: using openocd

2008-09-01 Thread Mike Montour
Lynn Nguyen wrote: An easily made but devastating mistake is to forget to actually activate the CPU. Just connecting power is not enough ! Press and hold the power button until the boot loader does its count-down, or, in case there is no runnable boot loader, the CPU keeps

Re: using openocd

2008-09-01 Thread Mike Montour
Lynn Nguyen wrote: I tried the sequence but still the same errors. Should I have a /dev/ttyUSB1 when I plug in the debug board? because i dont... You should, as long as you have the ftdi_sio module loaded with the right vendor/product IDs for the debug board (0x1457/0x1458). Here's what I

Re: updating uboot while the phone's running

2008-08-26 Thread Mike Montour
robin paulson wrote: in a bid to do away with dfu and usb networking altogether - it all seems a bit clunky to be honest - is it possible to update uboot while the phone is running? It's not supported yet (AFAIK) but I think that it would be possible. It's not as easy as flashing the kernel

Re: Support for pre-paid system notifications

2008-08-21 Thread Mike Montour
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Once I know his this works, I'll be glad to add it to the framework. Can you give me a dump of the AT commands? With my carrier (Fido Prepaid in Canada) these notifications are sent as USSD messages. http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1226 has a couple of

Re: Can't Boot Qtopia from microSD

2008-08-06 Thread Mike Montour
Andy Green wrote: setenv bootcmd mmcinit \; ext2load mmc 2 0x3200 uImage.bin \; setenv bootargs \${mtdparts} rootfstype=ext2 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 console=ttySAC2,115200 loglevel=4 init=/sbin/init \; bootm 0x3200 ; boot Notice on ext2load the first number is the partition index it

Re: Buzzing sound

2008-08-05 Thread Mike Montour
Joerg Reisenweber wrote: BS decides on this depending on signal-quality of MS as BS sees it. It would be *very* helpful to confirm this, by using some RF-meter (e.g. microwave leakage tester?), and/or reading the battery current, while observing the noise come and go- I tested this a while

Re: Is a 12 MB/s microSD overkill for what the glamo driver does?

2008-07-31 Thread Mike Montour
Jim Colton wrote: Hi Mike, I looked at the code your wrote. It doesn't do anything that 'time dd' already can do. It includes an fsync() in the timing measurement when writing the file, and does a posix_fadvise() before reading it back (both intended to make sure that the I/O is going to

Re: mkfs.vfat on 2007.02

2008-07-25 Thread Mike Montour
Aaron Sowry wrote: However the problem as it stands currently is that there doesn't seem to be a package containing mkfs.vfat, or at least I can't find out what it is. Anyone? It's in dosfstools. You can bitbake it yourself with OE/MokoMakefile or download one that I've built from