> 1. Disabling standby sounds like a good (but temporary) solution. BTW, > how long does the battery last in such cases? >
This is something I've been trying to figure out. It's highly dependant on how many times the screen gets touched (and thus turns itself on for a few seconds) in your pocket, which will depend on how much you move around and how secure it is in your pocket. In my experience and from my estimates, I would say you should get 3-4 hours, though I have personally had it disconnected from power for about 5.5 hours in this fashion (for most of that time it was in my jacket pocket hung over a chair, thus not moving very much at all - fewer screen touches). Your mileage *will* vary. On this note, I'd love to come up with a way to disable the screen powering back up until I push one of the buttons or something, to stop the screen from turning on everytime I hit a bump on my motorbike. Another solution would be some kind of flip down screen protector like on my ipaq, which prevents the screen from being touched by keys / inside of pocket / etc: http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/ppct-ipaq6900-preview-large-01.jpg > 2. Also, is there a way to disable or enable 'ringtone'? I need the > phone in silent mode most of the times during the day (so, right now > the standby kind of helps :) ). > I don't believe so via the gui, but you could probably achieve this through the use of the alsa states. i.e: to create a "silent" state: 1. run alsamixer, and fiddle until you've muted the ringer volume 2. alsactl -f ~/silent.state store then to put the phone in silent mode, use: alsactl -f ~/silent.state restore to put it back into normal nonsilent mode: alsactl -f /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios/stereoout.state restore > Not so important one: I hope to load the 2008.8 into the sd-card and > have a dual boot configuration. Let me know if this is not possible, > > take a look at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Moving_current_system_from_flash_to_SD I haven't tried it yet though... > This solution is interesting: > http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-August/025388.html > will give it a try, thanks! > I hope it works with the official freerunner distro, i.e. 2007.2 also. > Yeah, I have this page bookmarked for me to try playing around with when I have time, I'd be interested to know how it turns out. > 5. Also, is there a wiki page or something where 'how tos' for > tweaking of settings are mentioned? Like the standby idle-time, > silent-mode, screen brightness, etc? > there are lots of wiki pages with lots of little tidbits scattered through them... ;) finding them seems to be a whole other matter, the search isn't great by all accounts. > 6. I have installed media player, debug tool, gps, calc, calendar, ... > The phone's become slower - boot time is higher and application (eg. > dialer) loading takes a lot of time. Is this normal? It sure was > faster before I updated/installed those. > I haven't seen this, and I have a similar raft of apps installed, except I've not seen any debug tool in the repos...? Granted, it's not the fastest thing I've ever seen, but I don't think it's much/any slower than it was when I got it. HTH, -Dale _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
