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. > _______________________________________________ > Shr-User mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user > _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
