Re: Login screen on firmware upgradation

2011-03-19 Thread halbtaxabo-om
You know, folks, I think it's time to admit that the Openmoko project was a failure, and move on. It was a great idea and a lot of us supported it with our money as well as our time, but the device as eventually sold was poorly designed and badly implemented. Even the people who bought it

Re: Login screen on firmware upgradation

2011-03-19 Thread halbtaxabo-om
Sorry if I offended you, Dr Schaller. However, I respectfully suggest that you look up the word rant in a dictionary before using it. I found your message offensive. Nick From: Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org To: Support for Openmoko Device Owners support@lists.openmoko.org Sent:

Openmoko (was Re: Login screen on firmware upgradation)

2011-03-19 Thread halbtaxabo-om
No contempt for anyone was either expressed or implied. However, I do see that it was a mistake to reply to a post, instead of opening a new thread. - Original Message From: arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de To: Support for Openmoko Device Owners support@lists.openmoko.org Sent:

Re: need sugestions

2009-11-22 Thread halbtaxabo-om
From: Iurii y...@reverseenterprises.com To: support@lists.openmoko.org Sent: Mon, November 23, 2009 8:04:29 AM Subject: Re: need sugestions btw can somebody say me can i use windows terminal? to browse the os for example Hyper terminal ?or any which runs on windows maybe you can

Re: Neo FreeRunner

2009-11-04 Thread halbtaxabo-om
- Original Message From: Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk To: support@lists.openmoko.org Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 11:48:42 AM Subject: Re: Neo FreeRunner On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Iurii wrote: Michael Zanetti wrote: On Wednesday 04 November 2009 10:05:53 Iurii

Re: MP3 'capable' [was: Meida player.]

2009-09-10 Thread halbtaxabo-om
--- On Thu, Sep 10, rakshat hooja raks...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Yes I did follow the Openmoko Mp3 patent issues a long while back.  I just wanted to ask you if things are ok re MP3 patents in the following scenario Given that you're interested in Free software, why have anything to do

Re: help for newbie, and some python

2009-06-03 Thread halbtaxabo-om
--- On Wed, 6/3/09, Ovidiu Gavril ovidiu_gav...@yahoo.com wrote: Sorry, I forgot to say that I'm using om2008.12 release. I have the impression that most active development recently has gone into the om2009 release: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009#Installing I think the om2008.12

Re: Call quality - Paroli, SHR, QT Extended

2009-05-22 Thread halbtaxabo-om
--- On Fri, 5/22/09, Paul pault...@gmail.com wrote: Difficulty I had with paroli  * Call to other people were filled will static and echo.  Cycling through volume did not help.  This is a deal breaker for me. Cycling through volume did not help: I'd put it more strongly than that. This

Re: Om2009 testing Release 2

2009-05-07 Thread halbtaxabo-om
-- On Thu, 5/7/09, Angus Ainslie nyt...@openmoko.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 01:47 -0700, halbtaxabo...@yahoo.com wrote: Did that, then in the settings menu, chose 'phone', and set the 'message-volume' to 100 which seems to be the max. I assume this is the setting for the loudness

Re: Om2009 testing Release 2

2009-05-02 Thread halbtaxabo-om
--- On Fri, 5/1/09, Angus Ainslie nyt...@openmoko.org wrote: Hi, After flurry of activity in enlightenment, paroli and oepnmebedded we have a new testing release. There were some problems with the gta01 images so tarballs only are released at this point. Please read

Re: [Om2009] What needs to be installed to make it usable?

2009-04-28 Thread halbtaxabo-om
--- On Mon, 4/27/09, Angus Ainslie nyt...@openmoko.org wrote: [snip] With the current testing image that is what is expected. If you want to wait a couple of days I'm trying to get another testing image out that addresses some of your concerns. Great! I can certainly wait a few days.

[Om2009] What needs to be installed to make it usable?

2009-04-27 Thread halbtaxabo-om
Since the Openmoko with Om2008.12 isn't really usable as a mobile phone, I thought the most useful thing for me to do was to load Om2009 as described at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009 and then test it and report bugs. On that page it tells you which kernel, filesystem and bootloader to

Re: The myth of missed phone calls (was: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?)

2009-04-23 Thread halbtaxabo-om
Paul pault...@gmail.com wrote: The distro I've used that missed phone calls the most was FSO, zhone was pretty unstable. But I have missed calls on SHR and OM2008.12. OM2008.12 has terrible echo and is unusable last I tried. It's true that Om2008.12 is unusable (for mobile phone use). But

Re: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?

2009-04-12 Thread halbtaxabo-om
On Thursday, April 9, 2009 10:44:13 PM Angus Ainslie nyt...@openmoko.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 13:34 -0700, halbtaxabo...@yahoo.com wrote: I think sections 4 and 5 of the Getting started document (i.e. most of the document) need to be rewritten, unless there's already an updated

OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?

2009-04-09 Thread halbtaxabo-om
The first thing I did wth my Freerunner after getting it charged, finding how to enter the PIN for the SIM, etc was to flash the 2008.12 uImage and rootfs from: http://downloads.openmoko.org/distro/releases/Om2008.12/ So I'm running a more stable system than the one that was preloaded, but the

Re: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?

2009-04-09 Thread halbtaxabo-om
Sean Chadwell smchadw...@gmail.com wrote: I found Tom Yates' pages really helpful. Start with More fun with our Openmoko (it's about 2008.9), but most of it will apply to 2008.12, as well, which he covers here (albeit in less detail). Thanks, they look really useful! Don't waste all your

Re: Entering the PIN for a SIM card

2009-04-08 Thread halbtaxabo-om
Yes, and nothing happened. Then I tried to double-tap on the assembled digits, and that worked... --- On Wed, 4/8/09, Johny Tenfinger seba.d...@gmail.com wrote: From: Johny Tenfinger seba.d...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Entering the PIN for a SIM card To: halbtaxabo...@yahoo.com, Support for

Re: [FSO] FSO unfunded?

2009-04-08 Thread halbtaxabo-om
My understanding of the news was that just one thing has changed: development of the GTA03 (successor to the Freerunner) has been dropped. One reason was to be able to focus more on the current, GTA02, platform (and on the mysterious Project B). --- On Wed, 4/8/09, Sargun Dhillon