well, there's probably a lot of people finding _your_ message both
unneccessary and offensive!
- you hijackd a thread completely unrelated to vent your individual
frustration insdtead of respecting the request of the op
- you tried to force your personal opinion about the state of om on
everybody, completely ignoring that the people still active an the list
very likely think otherwise
- you claim to be the one who after a long time of joint self-deception
finally speaks the truth -- which is both materially and factually
nonsense. the discussion about om being a failure or not is recurrent and
monitoring silently the list for month now after a rather lively interest
before, i think i safely can say, that those people still active
completely disagree with you (certainly the op, which you regarded with
such contempt, does)
if whath you posted is your honest opnion, you are free to move on and
leave.
if you think you have new points to make about om's state and future, you
are free to open your own thread -- but, please, check the archives before
...
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 <[email protected]>
To: Support for Openmoko Device Owners <[email protected]>
Sent: Sat, March 19, 2011 9:17:11 AM
Subject: Re: Login screen on firmware upgradation
Hi Nick,
it must be said that your rant does not help at all to answer
the original support question.
Hi Rijul,
please check that your downloaded image is not corrupted.
You can download and compare it with our copy which we
have used successfully an uncounted number of times:
http://download.goldelico.com/gta02/Moko11/
You must also flash the image on the flat memory card
(e.g. /dev/sdb) and not into a partition (and not /dev/sdb1 or
/dev/sdb2).
To boot from NOR flash, press the AUX button and
then power on. The boot menu should appear within
a second. Choose "boot from SD (ext)".
Hope this helps,
Nikolaus
Am 19.03.2011 um 07:53 schrieb [email protected]:
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 after several rounds of
hardware
bug-fixes got a clunky device with pathetic battery-life. Since the
hardware is
crap, it's not surprising that software developers didn't exactly
flock to it.
Trying to make it usable is flogging a dead horse.
The nearest thing we will get to an "open" cellphone will probably be
something
made by Samsung, Motorola, or one of the other big consumer-device
companies,
running Android.
I don't want to offend people, but I think it's time somebody came out
and said
this. If you want to put your time and effort into Free Software, then
pick a
platform that has a future. Your time and effort are valuable even if
you don't
get paid for them; don't waste them.
Nick
From: Rijul Jain <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sat, March 19, 2011 5:43:27 AM
Subject: Login screen on firmware upgradation
Hey,
i recently got a neo free runner and wanted to upgrade the firmware
to openmoko
11 so i downloaded the image , wrote it on my uSD card and tried to
boot it from
the phone . It boots up file but after 2 mins , a Green Coloured
Angstrom screen
came and it is stuck at om-gta02 login :_
its been stuck there for hours and i dont know what to do
Anyhelp would be appreciated . Thanks
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