On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Davide Scaini <[email protected]> wrote:
> just on the problem of signal strength in shr today : > it's because when you boot it locks before getting signal. > two ways i found to fix this: > 1-remember when i boot first time to not lock until i get gsm signal > or > 2-restart xserver and it works > give a try > d > > On 12/22/09, Sebastian Spaeth <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just pushed an update to the shr-testing repository. How to upgrade > > and what has changed? > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Make big upgrades work > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > This upgrade will unfortunately require manual attention. Why? opkg > > downloads all upgrades to /tmp (which is in RAM), so for big upgrades > > your RAM will be full even before it starts upgrading. > > > > There are 2 solutions for this: > > > > 1. Only install one package at a time, calling opkg multiple time. > > This is quite easy and described here: > > http://trac.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/opkg#Installonepackageatatime > > 2. Create a swap file that allows to swap out the downloads on the > > SD card. I recommend this anyway: > > http://trac.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/swap#Createaswapfile. If you are > > afraid that your SD card will die soon because of this, I don't think so > > and they are cheap anyway, so if you need to buy a new one every 2 > > years, what the heck. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Remove SHR-TODAY > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Before starting the upgrade do "opkg remove -force-depends shr-today". > > Opkg *should* be removing this automatically, however according to some > > reports opkg failed to do so (due to opkg stupidness), and keeping > > shr-today seems to cause weird lockups. So get rid of it in advance. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Safety tipp: screen session > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > - Do run this upgrade (as in every upgrade) in a screen session. My FR > > display froze during the upgrade (access through ssh still worked) > > - It's a big upgrade unfortunately which takes some time. All kernel > > modules and all the efl stuff seems to have been bumped. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > What is new: > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > - Plenty of changes to the shr phone apps... > > - Dimming is now done with a dim phase rather than the simple on/off. > > Timeouts can be set for the Idle and Idle_dim timeouts. To make these > > changes persistent, modify the values in /etc/frameworkd.conf > > - python-based shr-today is no more. It is now rewritten in C and > > integrated into the shr UI. It's reportedly faster than the old lock > screen. > > > > Bugs that I have seen: > > - The new idle screen does not show the signal strength for me > > - During the opkg upgrade process my phone suspended and this aborted > > the upgrading.... Annoying, I know. I now tap on the screen while > > updating which is pretty silly but.... Of course, what you should be > > doing is to automatically request the CPU resource while running updates > > using this technique: > > http://trac.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/opkg#Preventsuspendwhileupgrading > > > > To sum it up: if you see mysterious screen hangs, you have still > > shr-today installed and/or running. > > _______________________________________________ > But it still, for some reason, does not update according to signal strength... (or does it?) -- Tom.
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