Most of the distros require work before being usable. The asu theme in 2008.x is broken for all but token uses - switch to illume and read the wiki about the keyboards. Helps a huge amount.
Still, it will crash at least once a day with suspend failures, fails to register, BSODs, event/0 runaway, lost SMS messages, ... Even if you dont use it once registered, its only a matter of a few hours and something will go wrong. :( BillK On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 00:31 +0100, Fernando Martins wrote: > I have just flashed fso-image-om-gta02.jffs2 (20090108). It took me > several tries until it finally flashed. > > I got several dfu errors (110, 84 and plenty 71). After a couple switch > off/on it finally worked. > > Unfortunately I can't get the phone app to work. I get always Zhone > stopped running unexpectedly. > > BTW, FSO makes the phone look more computer like, than om2008 versions. > I'm not sure that's what I expect from a phone. om2008.12 doesn't seem > bad to me except that the keyboard makes it useless (I can't properly > input a contact, delete is a joke, guessing words is total bullocks). > Sorry to be harsh on the developers, but even after reading wiki/lists I > couldn't avoid the disappointment; it's 80% there, but the last 20% > truly are critical to me. > > Fernando > > Sven Klomp wrote: > > Do you use the 2.6.28 kernel from http://downloads.freesmartphone.org/fso- > > testing/images/om-gta02/ ? > > At boot time it says Bad CRC and stops booting. > > > > So I used the kernel from MS 4.1 and the Freerunner is booting... > > > > On Friday January 9 2009 17:00:39 Marcus Stong wrote: > > > >> I'd just like to say, for all the whiners using om 2008.x (I've been one > >> just recently, too), try FSO testing. I've been using it for a few days, > >> and everything seems to work like a charm compared to OM2008.x. > >> Suspend works great, battery life is killer, boot time is good, telephony > >> seems solid. Granted there's no UI for wifi and no bluetooth support, it's > >> still eons ahead of OM2008 as far as I can tell. Really, I think everyone > >> needs to get over om2008, including open moko, because it just doesn't > >> work. But I have renewed faith in my phone now that I've installed FSO. > >> Great job FSO team! > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > support mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support -- William Kenworthy <[email protected]> Home in Perth! _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
