Bill Sun, Los Angeles Group Sales

2008-07-07 Thread ian douglas
Does anyonw know Bill Sun from the LA Group Sales wiki page? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GroupSales#Los_Angeles He's our 10th buyer and the only person I have not heard from yet. If I can't get a response from him in a week, I've got a buyer from San Diego who is interested in picking up the

Turkish openmoko users/wannabes?

2008-07-07 Thread Atilla Filiz
If there are other Turks other than me, please PM me, i'm just curious. Cheers -- - Bu mesaj UTF-8 ile kodlanmıştır - Atilla Filiz Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Embedded Systems,

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Kai Römer
Hi Al, Sounds really convincing, but how do you explain the constantly fast fix via external antenna then. I really think its an antenna issue. Also the difference of the GPGSV values support this idea. Tomorrow evening i will ask a specialist to check the antenna signal qualities. Maybe a

Re: questions about our mailinglists

2008-07-07 Thread arne anka
1) Combine 'openmoko-devel' and 'distro-devel' into one list -- called 'devel'. 2) Remove 'device-owners'. 3) Remove 'hardware'. +1 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-07 Thread Joachim Steiger
Chaosspawn23 wrote: [unlurk] Having the same problem with my O2 SIMCard, I too would like to offer my help in tracking down the problem. Just tell me if I can do something to help. [/unlurk] hey there i've done a few quick tests with a borrowed O2 3G-sim and ran into the same problem. BUT

Re: ancient hardware?

2008-07-07 Thread AVee
On Monday 07 July 2008 05:02, Ajit Natarajan wrote: Hello, ... So, I don't understand the comments on ancient parts. What have we compromised on by choosing these parts? Hardware choice will always be a compromise. In this case it's largly between performance, price, size and energy usage.

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Kevin Zuber
Hi, I did some tests yesterday and here are my experiences with Freerunner's GPS: First I put the Freerunner on a window sill in a penthouse, no high-rise around. I got a fix after ~20 minutes. Disappointing. Later on I walked along in a big city between a lot of high-rises. After 15 minutes,

Re: questions about our mailinglists

2008-07-07 Thread Erland Lewin
2008/7/7 Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We want to simplify around key communication points. What do you think of the following: 1) Combine 'openmoko-devel' and 'distro-devel' into one list -- called 'devel'. 2) Remove 'device-owners'. Sounds good. 3) Remove 'hardware'.

Re: ancient hardware?

2008-07-07 Thread Andy Selby
So, I don't understand the comments on ancient parts. What have we compromised on by choosing these parts? There was a previous discussion on this subject that boils down to the latest components needed to be bought in bulk, i.e. 500,000 peices, FIC couldn't justify buying so much so went

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Al Johnson
I've seen the same sort of thing. If the signal is at all poor getting the initial fix will be very slow if i happens at all. Once it has the fix it manages to keep it in locations my Garmin won't, and when it drops the fix it will reacquire quickly so long as it is kept powered. This is why I

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-07 Thread shawn_lin
Joachim Steiger 提到: Chaosspawn23 wrote: [unlurk] Having the same problem with my O2 SIMCard, I too would like to offer my help in tracking down the problem. Just tell me if I can do something to help. [/unlurk] hey there i've done a few quick tests with a borrowed O2 3G-sim

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Al Johnson
I'm not saying there isn't an antenna issue, but that we may be able to mitigate the effects on startup time. On Monday 07 July 2008, Kai Römer wrote: Hi Al, Sounds really convincing, but how do you explain the constantly fast fix via external antenna then. I really think its an antenna

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-07 Thread Arne Zachlod
shawn_lin schrieb: Joachim Steiger 提到: Chaosspawn23 wrote: [unlurk] Having the same problem with my O2 SIMCard, I too would like to offer my help in tracking down the problem. Just tell me if I can do something to help. [/unlurk] hey there i've done a few

Re: ancient hardware? - Software matters

2008-07-07 Thread Tilman Baumann
I never had a phone for the last decade. Mostly out of protest against the ridiculous data rates and prices on GSM. And because all phones sucked. I had sworn me, when UMTS would comes out and the prices are ok, i will buy a phone. UMTS came, the prices where ok but the phones still sucked. And

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-07 Thread shawn_lin
Arne Zachlod 提到: shawn_lin schrieb: Joachim Steiger 提到: Chaosspawn23 wrote: [unlurk] Having the same problem with my O2 SIMCard, I too would like to offer my help in tracking down the problem. Just tell me if I can do something to help. [/unlurk]

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-07 Thread Kevin Zuber
Am Montag, den 07.07.2008, 11:56 +0200 schrieb Joachim Steiger: Chaosspawn23 wrote: [unlurk] Having the same problem with my O2 SIMCard, I too would like to offer my help in tracking down the problem. Just tell me if I can do something to help. [/unlurk] hey there i've done a few

Accelerometer

2008-07-07 Thread Andreas Kemnade
Hi, I have tried to do get some values from the accelerometers. I get from /dev/input/event3 these values: 000b070: 5de6 7148 4108 0200 0200 ee08 ].qHA... 000b080: 5de6 7148 7b08 0200 0200 0100 1200 ].qH{... 000b090: 5de6 7148 9608 0200 0200 0200 2a03

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Kai Römer
Hi Al, If you need testers, please contact me. I have several gta02v5 available and can do tests in Germany Munich. thanks Kai 2008/7/7 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not saying there isn't an antenna issue, but that we may be able to mitigate the effects on startup time. On Monday 07

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-07 Thread Konstantin
Joachim Steiger wrote: Chaosspawn23 wrote: [unlurk] Having the same problem with my O2 SIMCard, I too would like to offer my help in tracking down the problem. Just tell me if I can do something to help. [/unlurk] hey there so: if your O2 3g sim does not want your (supposedly correct)

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Federico Lorenzi
An interesting idea would be to acquire a fix, then bring the phone under cover, so it loses the fix, then bring it back in the open and see how long it will take to reacquire the fix. On 7/7/08, Kai Römer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Al, If you need testers, please contact me. I have several

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-07 Thread Joachim Steiger
thanks for testing that, even if it didnt help. after reading shawn lin's testreport i believe we really have a problem with the 1.8V sim cards then. too bad the one i tested has no voltage printed on (some sims have, this sadly doesnt). will try to find out next time i get near that sim.

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-07 Thread Kevin Zuber
Am Montag, den 07.07.2008, 14:25 +0200 schrieb Joachim Steiger: thanks for testing that, even if it didnt help. after reading shawn lin's testreport i believe we really have a problem with the 1.8V sim cards then. too bad the one i tested has no voltage printed on (some sims have, this

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-07 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 04.07.2008 um 17:19 schrieb Kevin Zuber: Any news here? I got the same error with the commands: AT STR=`AT' RSTR=`OK' AT+CPIN? STR=`AT+CPIN?' RSTR=`+CPIN: SIM PIN' AT+CPIN=MYPIN STR=`AT+CPIN=MYPIN' cme error: 3 RSTR=`+CME ERROR: 3' What could be the reason? Thanks alot. I got

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-07 Thread Kevin Zuber
Am Montag, den 07.07.2008, 14:46 +0200 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: Am 04.07.2008 um 17:19 schrieb Kevin Zuber: Any news here? I got the same error with the commands: AT STR=`AT' RSTR=`OK' AT+CPIN? STR=`AT+CPIN?' RSTR=`+CPIN: SIM PIN' AT+CPIN=MYPIN STR=`AT+CPIN=MYPIN'

Re: [Fwd: questions about our mailinglists]

2008-07-07 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Joachim Steiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fwd, please answer to community@ 2) Remove 'device-owners'. Please keep device-owners and community. The way I see it, the community list is a thriving discussion place for the whole community, which is good.

Re: freerunner unable to work with 3G SIMCards?

2008-07-07 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 07.07.2008 um 15:05 schrieb Kevin Zuber: Am Montag, den 07.07.2008, 14:46 +0200 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: Am 04.07.2008 um 17:19 schrieb Kevin Zuber: Any news here? I got the same error with the commands: AT STR=`AT' RSTR=`OK' AT+CPIN? STR=`AT+CPIN?' RSTR=`+CPIN: SIM

Re: [Fwd: questions about our mailinglists]

2008-07-07 Thread arne anka
Please keep device-owners and community. shouldn't community members and device owners more or less be congruent, now the freerunner is in the world? and who of the newlyweds joined device-owners? i for one, didn't -- because i don't want to split my time and attention between multiple

Re: ancient hardware?

2008-07-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Jul 2008, at 04:02, Ajit Natarajan wrote: ... The Calypso GSM chip dates back to 2000. This is from the leaked hardware definition manual revision history [3]. ... I haven't looked at the other chips. From the above, the GSM chip looks ancient. ... So, I don't understand the

shipping very expensive

2008-07-07 Thread Flyin_bbb8
hey everyone i live in Qatar, and just to see how much the shipping would be for the 900 MHz i just tried to check out the 850 version and shipping to Doha - Qatar ( where i stay ) with UPS worldwide expedited is 97.59 USD, and UPS saver 101.23 USD, that's just unacceptable and very expensive.

Re: ancient hardware? - Software matters

2008-07-07 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
thank you so much! You cannot believe how hard people at Openmoko work and getting a mail like yours rewards many of us for 12+ hours working days. It's a long way, lots of hardware and software bugs, we know it. I like your 'bad teeth' analogy :-) Wolfgang On Jul 7, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Tilman

Re: ancient hardware? - Software matters

2008-07-07 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
Tilman Yeah, I feel exactly the same way as Wolfgang. Actually I've forward this email to many of our internal people just to make absolute sure they read it. Your comments seriously made my day. -Sean Wolfgang Spraul wrote: thank you so much! You cannot believe how hard people at

Re: shipping very expensive

2008-07-07 Thread Federico Lorenzi
Ha, only 100 dollars for you. Shipping to South Africa is $160 On 7/7/08, Flyin_bbb8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey everyone i live in Qatar, and just to see how much the shipping would be for the 900 MHz i just tried to check out the 850 version and shipping to Doha - Qatar ( where i stay )

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 07 July 2008, Kai Römer wrote: Hi Al, If you need testers, please contact me. I have several gta02v5 available and can do tests in Germany Munich. First stab uses the example perl functions from ublox for generating the aid-ini data, replacing their hardcoded x,y,z with values for

Re: shipping very expensive

2008-07-07 Thread Flyin_bbb8
:p i wouldn't call it only, but $160 is definitely crazy, watsup with UPS? On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Federico Lorenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ha, only 100 dollars for you. Shipping to South Africa is $160 On 7/7/08, Flyin_bbb8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey everyone i live in Qatar,

Re: shipping very expensive

2008-07-07 Thread Flyin_bbb8
Federico, did you already order from the openmoko shop? or you're waiting for the 900 MHz version? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: anyone know when the phones are actually shipping within the US?

2008-07-07 Thread Vinc Duran
I got a nice mail from openmoko: Our warehouse in Fremont, CA will be back to work on Monday (7/7) and start shipping process. Your order number should be ready to ship by Tuesday. Thanks. My order number is 1562. If I read a lot into the email I might conclude order counts. I asked about

VMWare Freerunner Flash

2008-07-07 Thread Johan Badenhorst
Hi guys, I was just wondering if anyone has flashed their Freerunners using VMWare Player on Windows and if that would even be possible? Alternatively would it be possible to use colinux or a similar tool? I've been developing for Maemo using VMWare successfully because I am stuck without a

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Mathias Ballner
hi all, today i tried to get the gps running, but i didn't get a gps fix i tested it with tangogps (nice tool!) and openmoko-agpsui the only output i got was: $GPVTG,N*30 $GPGGA,,0,00,99.99,,*48 $GPGSA,A,1,99.99,99.99,99.99*30 $GPGSV,1,1,00*79 $GPGLL,,V,N*64

Re: VMWare Freerunner Flash

2008-07-07 Thread Tilman Baumann
Johan Badenhorst wrote: Hi guys, I was just wondering if anyone has flashed their Freerunners using VMWare Player on Windows and if that would even be possible? Using USB devices attached to the host cmputer usually works. As far as i know. -- Drucken Sie diese Mail bitte nur auf

Re: shipping very expensive

2008-07-07 Thread ian douglas
He said he was checking the web site and started an order for the 850 just to check what the shipping cost would be. -id Flyin_bbb8 wrote: Federico, did you already order from the openmoko shop? or you're waiting for the 900 MHz version?

Re: anyone know when the phones are actually shipping within the US?

2008-07-07 Thread ian douglas
They gave me no estimation on my order (1843) but said I'd get an Email from UPS when our package is in transit. -id Vinc Duran wrote: I got a nice mail from openmoko: Our warehouse in Fremont, CA will be back to work on Monday (7/7) and start shipping process. Your order number should be

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:24 +0200, Mathias Ballner wrote: hi all, today i tried to get the gps running, but i didn't get a gps fix i tested it with tangogps (nice tool!) and openmoko-agpsui the only output i got was: http://scap.linuxtogo.org/files/6d11990f0c82d92f0252742d7ef44950.png what

Laptop Replacement

2008-07-07 Thread Michael
After seeing the pictures of the Neo connected to a battery powered hub, I looked around the internet to see if there were any that could hold more batteries, but couldn't find any. Then I thought that it would be nice to have a battery powering the hub and fast charging the Neo at the same

Re: Freerunner @ pulster.eu Shop

2008-07-07 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2008-07-02 10:36:00 +0200, Christoph Pulster wrote: many thanks for your big interest in our Freerunner 299 eur offer. We started sales Friday 9:00 and 10:30 all the units from our first batch are sold out. I really have to excuse myself to all the persons who made a order but did not get

Nokia BL-5C (was: Re: Broken battery protection circuit) problems?)

2008-07-07 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Tobias Diedrich wrote: Looking at the battery circuit schematics I now think that the battery protection circuit on this battery is probably broken. Discharging is still possible (now at 2.8V at the terminals), but it does not accept any charge (I tried current-limited 4.2V/200mA at the

Re: Freerunner @ pulster.eu Shop

2008-07-07 Thread Jan de Haan
Yes! I've got mine! (From http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=Neo%20Freerunner) Jan. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Not just a phone (was: Re: ancient hardware?)

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Shiloh
Peter, your email below is the one I've been trying to write for the past few months. Like you, what got me excited about this project was NOT the possibility of building better cellphone applications, but rather the possibility of creating radically new uses for a general purpose, location

Re: Not just a phone (was: Re: ancient hardware?)

2008-07-07 Thread Steven **
I'm hoping to use it not just for in-car navigation, but also data readout. I intend to rig it to display voltage and current in my electric car. I'd like to see someone do that with an iPhone :-P -Steven On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, your

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Yogiz
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:37:08 +0100 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the testing. Keep doing the good work. Hopefully this idea can solve the long fix problem. First stab uses the example perl functions from ublox for generating the aid-ini data, replacing their hardcoded x,y,z

Re: Hampshire group purchase

2008-07-07 Thread Joseph Reeves
Users in Hampshire, as well as other parts of the UK (I'm from Portsmouth originally), may be interested to learn that you will very soon be able to buy FreeRunners from us at Oxford Archaeology [1]. We special in sales to academic/research groups, LUGs and in producing custom solutions based on

Re: VMWare Freerunner Flash

2008-07-07 Thread Lorn Potter
On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Johan Badenhorst wrote: Hi guys, I was just wondering if anyone has flashed their Freerunners using VMWare Player on Windows and if that would even be possible? Alternatively would it be possible to use colinux or a similar tool? I've been developing for Maemo

Re: Not just a phone

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Shiloh
Excellent. I look forward to blogging about your setup. Please keep me/us informed. One fun thing to do: send this data to a web server, and plot it (using GPS) on a map showing your current consumption as a function of location? Steven ** wrote: I'm hoping to use it not just for in-car

Re: Accelerometer

2008-07-07 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Andreas Kemnade wrote: I have tried to do get some values from the accelerometers. I get from /dev/input/event3 these values: 000b070: 5de6 7148 4108 0200 0200 ee08 ].qHA... 000b080: 5de6 7148 7b08 0200 0200 0100 1200 ].qH{... 000b090: 5de6 7148 9608 0200

Re: Hampshire group purchase

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Shiloh
Thank you Joseph! This is very exciting news. Michael Joseph Reeves wrote: Users in Hampshire, as well as other parts of the UK (I'm from Portsmouth originally), may be interested to learn that you will very soon be able to buy FreeRunners from us at Oxford Archaeology [1]. We special in

Re: Laptop Replacement

2008-07-07 Thread Jakob
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After seeing the pictures of the Neo connected to a battery powered hub, I looked around the internet to see if there were any that could hold more batteries, but couldn't find any. Then I thought that it would be nice to have

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Francesco Cat
Another thing that might help: If the FR is connected to any network one should also be able to use IP Locator services like http://whatismyipaddress.com/ to get another extimation of the location of FR. They are usually quite accurate. Would this help? 2008/7/7 Yogiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon,

Re: Posible Bluetooth Keyboard

2008-07-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Diego Fdez. Durán wrote: Hi all! At the moment my FR is travelling to me, so I'm looking for a good portable bluetooth keyboard. What do you think about BT KB? what about Nokia SU-8W? The Stowaway from iGo / ThinkOutside works nicely for me.

Re: Freerunner @ pulster.eu Shop

2008-07-07 Thread Peter Thorin
Jan, did you get any tracking information on the order status page before receiving it? I have ordered it from handheld-linux.com also, and the order status page tells me it has been shipped, but also Tracking: data not yet available. I'm mostly wondering if I should get my hopes up of getting it

GSoC Project Status Update 05: Speech Recognition in Openmoko

2008-07-07 Thread saurabh gupta
Hello everyone, Here is the project status update for Speech Recognition for Openmoko. This week passed in testing phase only. I tested the various subroutines of speech recognition code with various sound samples. The main part was the vector quantization one which is showing somewhat good

Re: shipping very expensive

2008-07-07 Thread Flyin_bbb8
Yea, i did the same thing, just wrote an email to see if theyll ship the phone to qatar On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:44 PM, ian douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He said he was checking the web site and started an order for the 850 just to check what the shipping cost would be. -id Flyin_bbb8

Re: shipping very expensive

2008-07-07 Thread Flyin_bbb8
sorry i meant i wrote an email to the indian distributor. On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Flyin_bbb8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea, i did the same thing, just wrote an email to see if theyll ship the phone to qatar On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:44 PM, ian douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He

Re: Freerunner @ pulster.eu Shop

2008-07-07 Thread Jan de Haan
Hi Peter, I got a status change on 2-7 and it arrived today. I've checked the tracking at least twice a day since then, but it never changed from no tracking available or such. But it did arrive today, I'm as happy as my son on his first birthday ;-), I am looking at the first boot right now.

Re: Freerunner @ handheld-linux Shop

2008-07-07 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi all, we have shipped all devices we did have on Tursday and Friday. Depending on destination, delivery may need 1-4 working days. Jan's package was sent on Thursday to the Netherlands, while Peter's did go to Sweden on Friday. Unfortunately, tracking information has to be transferred

Shipping dates

2008-07-07 Thread Matthew Lane
Does anyone know when the open moko's online store begins shipping? I don't imagine the US post office has begun working until today (Monday)? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Nokia BL-5C (was: Re: Broken battery protection circuit) problems?)

2008-07-07 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Tobias Diedrich wrote: With this battery I could now switch the Freerunner on again. Apparently it is also being charged by the pcf50633 power management controller: After switching it on, the battery volate according to /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/battvolt was

Re: anyone know when the phones are actually shipping within the US?

2008-07-07 Thread Jon Pomeroy
Vinc and Ian, When did you get email for OM? I ordered Thursday and only received a confirmation of my order. Nothing about when shipping would start or UPS notification. Did you have to do any prompting to get this info? Thanks, -Jon On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:46 -0700, ian douglas wrote: They

Re: Freerunner @ pulster.eu Shop

2008-07-07 Thread Peter Thorin
Hi again Jan, That's brilliant news, I got the status change on 3-7, so that means it could show up tomorrow! Have fun, I just compiled the openmoko-sample2, exciting! ;) Best regards, Peter On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Jan de Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, I got a status

Different hardware in the future?

2008-07-07 Thread Ole Kliemann
Hi everyone! I'd first like to say how excited I am about the Freerunner. I am an enthusiastic linux user who likes to customize every aspect to create a workflow that just fits. So a customizable phone is what I have been looking for. A big thanks to all involved in the project, you are doing

Re: Shipping dates

2008-07-07 Thread ian douglas
USA shipping is starting today. A message earlier today stated that orders around #1500 should ship Tuesday. I'm order 1843, so I expect my shipment to get out either late Tuesday or some time on Wednesday. -id Matthew Lane wrote: Does anyone know when the open moko's online store begins

Re: Different hardware in the future?

2008-07-07 Thread c_r
On Mon Jul 07, 2008 at 10:00:50PM +, Ole Kliemann wrote: Hi everyone! I'd first like to say how excited I am about the Freerunner. I am an enthusiastic linux user who likes to customize every aspect to create a workflow that just fits. So a customizable phone is what I have been looking

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Chris
Hi, thanks for your work, but it didn't work for me. I used your spreadsheet to calculate the values. Is there something I can do wrong? It sets the time, but I still don't get a fix. $posx = 3784209.3; $posy = 901525.8; $posz = 5037577.6; Are my values for Berlin/Germany (52.516667,

gta2 crashes completely

2008-07-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Sometimes I have the problem that the GTA2 crashes completely,.. I did nothing (I assume the device was in standby),... and when I try to reactivate it,.. nothing happens... Even when I press the power button very long nothing happens... I have to remove the battery (which is very annoying,

Re: Different hardware in the future?

2008-07-07 Thread Tilman Baumann
Ole Kliemann wrote: Hi everyone! I'd first like to say how excited I am about the Freerunner. I am an enthusiastic linux user who likes to customize every aspect to create a workflow that just fits. So a customizable phone is what I have been looking for. A big thanks to all involved in the

Re: anyone know when the phones are actually shipping within the US?

2008-07-07 Thread Tilman Baumann
Come on. Could you please all stop abusing this mailing list to track your orders? What do _we_ have to do with your order? Jon Pomeroy wrote: Vinc and Ian, When did you get email for OM? I ordered Thursday and only received a confirmation of my order. Nothing about when shipping would

Signature check failed

2008-07-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. When I update (opkg update) I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/opkg# opkg update Downloading http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily-feed/all/Packages.gz Downloading http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily-feed/all/Packages.sig Signature check failed Downloading

Re: anyone know when the phones are actually shipping within the US?

2008-07-07 Thread Andrew Bennett
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Tilman Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come on. Could you please all stop abusing this mailing list to track your orders? What do _we_ have to do with your order? Actually, I appreciated seeing that information. I submitted an order and, other than the

Re: Signature check failed

2008-07-07 Thread ian douglas
The fact that the .gz files didn't download means your /etc/resolv.conf doesn't point to a valid DNS server. The signature files are definitely missing though, and should be corrected. -id Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hi. When I update (opkg update) I get the following: [EMAIL

Re: Signature check failed

2008-07-07 Thread arne anka
It seems that this sig files are missing,... Am I doing something wrong here? nope. signature files seem to be non-existent, opkg probably checks for them by default. the miss of Packages.gz is more worrisome, because opkg computes the list of available packes from it. did you try again

Re: Freerunner @ pulster.eu Shop

2008-07-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Got mine last friday :-) from Pulster ... Everything worked well :) Regards, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Signature check failed

2008-07-07 Thread ian douglas
arne anka wrote: the miss of Packages.gz is more worrisome, because opkg computes the list of available packes from it. Would be handy if opkg could detect if a valid DNS connection exists and fail gracefully with a warning like Cannot resolve buildhost.openmoko.org instead of taking the

Re: Signature check failed

2008-07-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 22:45 +0200, arne anka wrote: nope. signature files seem to be non-existent, opkg probably checks for them by default. Uhm should we perhaps bring this to the attention of the developers? Having signed packages is IMHO very important for security. the miss of

Re: anyone know when the phones are actually shipping within the US?

2008-07-07 Thread Stephen Shelton
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:32:45PM +0200, Tilman Baumann wrote: Come on. Could you please all stop abusing this mailing list to track your orders? What do _we_ have to do with your order? Frankly, I think this thread is very relevant to a large portion of the community. I've been following it

Re: gta2 crashes completely

2008-07-07 Thread Andreas Kemnade
Hi, On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:31:02 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Sometimes I have the problem that the GTA2 crashes completely,.. I did nothing (I assume the device was in standby),... and when I try to reactivate it,.. nothing happens... Even when I press

Re: Signature check failed

2008-07-07 Thread ian douglas
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: The miss of those was just because I (as always) forgot to setup resolv.conf (as Ian guessed correctly ;) ) It's simple to automate this: In my /etc/networking/interfaces, for the USB connection, where the up command does an echo to resolv.conf, something

Re: Not just a phone

2008-07-07 Thread Steven **
That's a crazy/interesting idea. I would not do it real-time though. Data rates are rather high for my tastes. I could do a daily dump. But either way, it'd be really boring with my route. The same 2 miles every day... :-/ -Steven On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 07 July 2008, Chris wrote: Hi, thanks for your work, but it didn't work for me. I used your spreadsheet to calculate the values. Is there something I can do wrong? It sets the time, but I still don't get a fix. $posx = 3784209.3; $posy = 901525.8; $posz = 5037577.6; Are my

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread thomasg
I also did some testing with all the pieces of hardware the freerunner has. The GPS is very disappointing. I could get a fix in about 2 minutes with my Neo1973 with a cold start. This works inside my car (maybe a bit slower), at my room's window (bit slower), and everywhere outside. I still

Re: Laptop Replacement

2008-07-07 Thread Charles Pax
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After seeing the pictures of the Neo connected to a battery powered hub, I looked around the internet to see if there were any that could hold more batteries, but couldn't find any. Then I thought that it would be nice to have

Re: Shipping dates

2008-07-07 Thread Stephen Shelton
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:13:15PM -0700, ian douglas wrote: USA shipping is starting today. A message earlier today stated that orders around #1500 should ship Tuesday. I'm order 1843, so I expect my shipment to get out either late Tuesday or some time on Wednesday. -id I'm order ~

Re: Not just a phone

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Shiloh
1. Thank you. Crazy/interesting is exactly where innovation comes from, I think 2. Same route every day is good - then you smooth out any aberrations and get a realistic average. A low-pass filter. Steven ** wrote: That's a crazy/interesting idea. I would not do it real-time though. Data

Re: Not just a phone

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Shiloh
Let's see more crazy/interesting ideas! Steven ** wrote: That's a crazy/interesting idea. I would not do it real-time though. Data rates are rather high for my tastes. I could do a daily dump. But either way, it'd be really boring with my route. The same 2 miles every day... :-/

Battery loading ...

2008-07-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I've looked a bit into the following: 1) The battery seems to be charging: But why is the value POWER_SUPPLY_CURRENT_NOW negative? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat# cat uevent POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=bat POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE=Battery

Re: Battery loading ...

2008-07-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Ah,... and it's intersting that, after the battery has been fully loaded,... the POWER_SUPPLY_TIME_TO_FULL_NOW becomes 3932100 ?! smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Battery_Settings_Contacts

2008-07-07 Thread atweb
Hello, I´ve a few Questions with my Freerunner: a) Does the battery always charge when the power-supplier is connected to the USB-Port? b) Who are the Settings of the openmoko-*-Packanges saved? I want to change the default-volume of a phone-call, the background-light and activate the

Re: Posible Bluetooth Keyboard

2008-07-07 Thread michael irons
The Stowaway from iGo / ThinkOutside works nicely for me. I was looking at that, but they seem to not be selling them anymore... Any ideas where to find one in US Michael Irons ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: anyone know when the phones are actually shipping within the US?

2008-07-07 Thread Jay Vaughan
Come on. Could you please all stop abusing this mailing list to track your orders? What do _we_ have to do with your order? aren't you interested in how enthusiastic your peers are to catch up with those of you that have the nice hardware and are happily hacking on it? ; -- Jay Vaughan

Reviews?

2008-07-07 Thread sumstultussedesquoque
Hi all, Does anyone know if there are any good reviews floating around for the FreeRunner yet? (And if not, does someone who already has theirs want to write one?) I'm a college student so money's very tight and I'm trying to justify purchasing one, but I want to know exactly what I'm getting

Re: Freerunner @ handheld-linux Shop

2008-07-07 Thread Jay Vaughan
A new batch has already been ordered and will need some days to arrive and prepare. Happy Freerunning, Nikolaus Schaller great - can you tell me if i'm in this new batch or did it go out last week? the reason i'm nervous about it (besides the obvious) is that its difficult to track

Re: shipping very expensive

2008-07-07 Thread jeff
FWIW Buenos Aires, Argentina was $140 (2 fones + dev board). Federico Lorenzi wrote: Ha, only 100 dollars for you. Shipping to South Africa is $160 On 7/7/08, Flyin_bbb8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey everyone i live in Qatar, and just to see how much the shipping would be for the 900 MHz i

Re: questions about our mailinglists

2008-07-07 Thread Piotr Duda
well, I have to say Im terrified... I was quite busy lately and have a week vacation so in my _community_ message box there is almost ~1400 unread mails... ufff... Sean Moss-Pultz pisze: [...] 1) Combine 'openmoko-devel' and 'distro-devel' into one list -- called 'devel'. no problems

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