FOR SALE: Two batteries and neoprene case

2009-04-26 Thread Ken Restivo
I have an OpenMoko neoprene carrying case and two (2) OpenMoko batteries for sale if anyone wants them. Make me an offer. I'm in San Francisco so if you're local to the Bay Area I'll meet you somewhere. Otherwise I suppose I can ship it US mail reasonably cheaply. Thanks. (Sorry about the

OpenMoko batteries and carrying case

2009-04-22 Thread Ken Restivo
I have an OpenMoko neoprene carrying case and two (2) OpenMoko batteries for sale if anyone wants them. Make me an offer. I'm in San Francisco so if you're local to the Bay Area I'll meet you somewhere. Otherwise I suppose I can ship it US mail reasonably cheaply. Thanks. -ken

Re: GPS application (was: Request for help: Would like community applications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld)

2008-08-02 Thread Ken Restivo
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:38:07PM +0300, Mikko Rauhala wrote: ti, 2008-07-29 kello 20:53 +0200, Marcus Bauer kirjoitti: I'm a huge Openstreetmap fan but until OSM is ready for routing this will take at least five more years, probably ten. That's probably true _if you drive a car_ (though

Re: Removing SMS Messages from OM

2008-08-01 Thread Ken Restivo
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 08:45:28PM +0100, David Pottage wrote: John Whitmore wrote: Sorry can't find answer to problem. Hello all, Well my OpenMoko has arrived and I'm very happy with it. Thanks to all the people who've made this happen. I do hope that in the future I can join the

Re: GSM detection/identification

2008-07-31 Thread Ken Restivo
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:57:01PM -0400, Paul Buede wrote: Dimitri wrote: Are you able to make and receive calls? If not, perhaps the sim isn't touching all the phone's connections. At least, that's the problem I had when I tried to connect to ATT. It would show that I had 5 bars,

Re: Which ATT data plans are compatible?

2008-07-31 Thread Ken Restivo
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:05:53PM -0700, ian douglas wrote: Just don't try tethering (using your phone as a modem) on their cheap data plan, or they'll hit you with overage fees or tell you to convert to the smarthphone plan. Is there a specific limit? How do they *know* you are tethering?

Re: Openmoko on Design

2008-07-31 Thread Ken Restivo
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:38:07AM +0800, John Lee wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 01:47:29AM +0100, Al Johnson wrote: I'll snip most of it to keep the length reasonable. same here :) On Tuesday 29 July 2008, William Lai wrote: It already is. We've offered a couple of different

Re: Which ATT data plans are compatible?

2008-07-31 Thread Ken Restivo
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:25:45AM -0700, ian douglas wrote: Ken Restivo wrote: Is there a specific limit? How do they *know* you are tethering? What are the overage fees and where are they detailed? From what I've read, they watch your traffic for things like user agent strings

Re: Openmoko on Design

2008-07-31 Thread Ken Restivo
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:28:13AM +0800, Marek Lindner wrote: On Wednesday, 30. July 2008 10:18:33 Al Johnson wrote: I agree with everything you say here. The keyboard should just appear when I want it and disappear when I don't. The absence of a manual override means that whenever it gets

Re: Any sales at Linuxworld?

2008-07-31 Thread Ken Restivo
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:33:12PM -0300, Adilson Oliveira wrote: Hi. I believe Openmoko itself will not be selling GTAs at Linuxworld next week (piti) but is anyone going to do it? I'll gladly buy my there it's available. If mine isn't sold by next week, then yes, absolutely, mine is for

Re: Now that you have your phone, what are you doing?

2008-07-27 Thread Ken Restivo
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, andres wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 17:30 +0300, Breakable wrote: Hi there, Just wondering those of you who have the device already, what are you doing with your new device? Right now I'm trying to sell it. Is there any aftermarket for these

Re: When are the sale gonna start?

2008-07-26 Thread Ken Restivo
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:02:21AM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alexander_Fr=F8yseth_ wrote: Like the topic, when are the sale gonna start? It is 26. July here (Norway) and the clock shows 10:00 AM (and since the US is about 9 hour after us, the time is about 01:00 AM). I almost can't wait any

Re: Is there some way to turn the predictive dictionary off?

2008-07-25 Thread Ken Restivo
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:33:50AM +0200, David Samblas wrote: Hi raster, If this fork of this is how Carlsten and many others here thinks ilumme has to be ever is created count with a tester/user/brerly developer. I like ASU a lot but this fuzzy, not argued nor defended design desitions

Re: Which distribution to use on FR?

2008-07-25 Thread Ken Restivo
at 10:50 PM, Ken Restivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:10:05PM -0700, Katrin Tomanek wrote: Hi, I am new to OM and just received my new FR a couple of hours ago. I've been playing around with different distributions/images and am now wondering which distribution

Finding hardware revision number in ASU

2008-07-25 Thread Ken Restivo
The method of finding the hardware revision of a FR described here will not work on ASU: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Finding_hardware_revision 1) There is no gsmd or libgsmd-tool on AS 2) The qpe process locks the TTY of the GSM modem, and won't let go of it! So I can't even cu into it, even

For sale: one GTA02

2008-07-25 Thread Ken Restivo
I'm selling a barely-used, two-week-old FreeRunner GTA02. No time to work on it. I have all the accessries and almost all of the original packaging for it. I'd prefer someone in the Bay Area, and ideally someone in San Francisco proper. I'm not going to mess with PayPal and shipping and all

Re: Terminal for ASU

2008-07-24 Thread Ken Restivo
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 07:40:49AM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:54:49 -0700 Ken Restivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:16:22PM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: IMO it's crazy for you (the senior developer to ASU? you're surely

Re: Free Beer

2008-07-24 Thread Ken Restivo
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:31:33PM +0200, Kalle Happonen wrote: Stroller wrote: On 24 Jul 2008, at 06:22, Kalle Happonen wrote: John Mark Walker wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Yorick Moko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: by gratis he means without cost

Re: Which distribution to use on FR?

2008-07-24 Thread Ken Restivo
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:10:05PM -0700, Katrin Tomanek wrote: Hi, I am new to OM and just received my new FR a couple of hours ago. I've been playing around with different distributions/images and am now wondering which distribution you guys prefer, use, and/or recommend: - OM2007.2 -

Is there some way to turn the predictive dictionary off?

2008-07-24 Thread Ken Restivo
The dictionary prediction is driving me crazy. I'm trying to type ls, and the damned dictionary is trying to be smart, and is changing it to is. So I'm sitting here in a terminal, typing ls, and is is all I can get. Also, I lost track of where the Full-QWERTY keyboard layout was for ASU, and

Re: Is there some way to turn the predictive dictionary off?

2008-07-24 Thread Ken Restivo
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:10:57PM +0100, Michael Sheldon wrote: Ken Restivo wrote: The dictionary prediction is driving me crazy. I'm trying to type ls, and the damned dictionary is trying to be smart, and is changing it to is. So I'm sitting here in a terminal, typing ls

Re: gpsd not in ASU repository?

2008-07-24 Thread Ken Restivo
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:42:10AM +, Christopher White wrote: I recently pointed opkg towards: http://downloads.openmoko.org/openmoko-repository/ASU/armv4t I notice that gpsd in not there. I installed it from http://downloads.openmoko.org/snapshots/2007.11/ipk/armv4t Is there

Re: Is there some way to turn the predictive dictionary off?

2008-07-24 Thread Ken Restivo
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:41:11AM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:58:15 -0700 Ken Restivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I really liked that Illume keyboard :-( It was perfect. sorry - i will work on it. i will add a way to turn it on again later... but for now its

Re: Is there some way to turn the predictive dictionary off?

2008-07-24 Thread Ken Restivo
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:27:02PM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01:47 -0700 Ken Restivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: directly in. the idea is that full-qwerty is for terminal junkies or those with a stylus and who

Re: Terminal for ASU

2008-07-23 Thread Ken Restivo
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:16:22PM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: IMO it's crazy for you (the senior developer to ASU? you're surely the most active?) to have his hands tied by these shadowy designers who can interfere apparently on a whim. Especially when they're coming up with

VTE font size

2008-07-22 Thread Ken Restivo
How can I adjust the font size in the VTE terminal? I'm using it with the ASU. Is it the same xrdb/.Xresources style way that is used on, say, xterm or rxvt? There doesn't appear to be any options menu or other settings available for VTE. The default font is too big though, there's not even

Re: Terminal for ASU

2008-07-22 Thread Ken Restivo
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:01:24AM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric_Berger_ wrote: Indeed I fail to see the advantage of having no manual triggering of keyboard. On my desktop PC, I have never dreamt of my keyboard popping out of a drawer when it thinks I should need it... And this morning,

Re: Terminal for ASU

2008-07-22 Thread Ken Restivo
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:36:27PM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:05:48 +0100 Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On 21 Jul 2008, at 19:47, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: ... the problem is the designers decided that ASU is not to have any manual

Re: Project Proposal: Dead man's switch

2008-07-21 Thread Ken Restivo
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:05:55PM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Diego_Fern=E1ndez_Dur=E1n_ wrote: Hi all, Sorry, a week of sinusitis[1] is the cause of this crazy idea. What do you think about a little app that works as dead man's switch[2] (DMS since now) in the FR? It can have the

Re: Terminal for ASU

2008-07-20 Thread Ken Restivo
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 07:56:58PM -0700, C R McClenaghan wrote: I think I tried vte from the repos and it worked. I couldn't get the built in keyboard to come up so I abandoned ASU for the time being. Since I didn't have a keyboard, by worked I mean I could start it. Chris On Jul 20,

Re: Terminal for ASU

2008-07-20 Thread Ken Restivo
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 08:20:46PM -0700, Brian C wrote: Ken Restivo wrote: Crap. I was considering opening a bug report (enhancement, probably) on this-- the ASU needs a terminal. But I don't want to get smacked down with a ASU will never have a terminal, it's not a supported

Re: Which Distro?

2008-07-19 Thread Ken Restivo
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:05:59PM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:46:15 -0700 Ken Restivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: i repeat... why ONE? why does everyone think we HAVE to support just ONE? why? 1) reliability, bugfixes, fit and finish 2) critical mass

Re: Better keyboard?

2008-07-19 Thread Ken Restivo
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:46:00PM -0400, Matthew Lane wrote: Jeremiah Flerchinger wrote: Do you want to redesign the matchbox keyboard or use a different one? Feel free to modify any of the keypads on the projects page. I can actually help with gtKeypad and have a patch in the works that

GSM AT command to disable/change caller ID?

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
My old, cheap 7-11 ATT pay-as-you-go Nokia phone had a neat feature which would disable the Caller ID. Are there any AT commands I can issue on the FR to do the same feature? I'm guessing it was a feature of the GSM modem, or maybe it was an instruction to the carrier network, issued via the

Re: GPS external antenna socket

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:38:48AM -0700, C R McClenaghan wrote: Joseph Reeves schrieb: It's mmcx; there's plenty of commercially available antennas available for cheap that will fit. What's the connector that is on the *outside* of the FR? And is that for GPS? Or WiFi? Or GSM? Or

Attachment: application/x-qtopia-sms-1

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
I'm getting SMS's on the FR (using the ASU image). Some look great, and others are in some weird MIME format: Attachment: application/x-qtopia-sms-1 How do I decode and read these? Why are some SMS's OK and others are not? Is this a bug and should I report it? Thanks. -ken

Re: GPS problems, summary

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
Not the greatest bit of WIKI formatting, but it's there at least and linked from the GPS page: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_GPS_Problems -ken -- On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:49:43PM -0700, Justin Wong wrote: Great post. Maybe you can put it on the wiki somewhere, so it's visible

What is exposure?

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
On my phone (with ASU software), there is an app called Exposure. Clicking on it does nothing. What is this app and what is it supposed to do? -ken ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Which Distro?

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:17:07AM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:28:52 -0700 Vijay Vaidyanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Hi Carsten ... On Jul 16, 2008, at 6:14 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: all are included. learn the one u like most - that

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 04:18:42PM +0200, Benedikt Schindler wrote: hi, i think the openmoko team is doing a great job. and everyone was onto it, to have a fast and good solution. so i think the real interesting question now is: Had someone tested Andy's

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:33:18AM -0700, Adam Talbot wrote: dimlock != suspend :-) If the screen is off, the system is still fully running, and sucking down power. When you suspend, all running processes are cashed into ram, then the rest of the hardware is turned off, with the exception

CRCFAIL?

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
Poking around in dmesg output, I see lots of these: CRCFAIL 0x1a3f CRCFAIL 0x1a3f But no indication of where they're coming from. They seem to occur at random times during boot. What is CRC failing, and what, if anything, might be broken by that? -ken

Re: GSM AT command to disable/change caller ID?

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:12:51AM +0200, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:50:48 +0200, Ken Restivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My old, cheap 7-11 ATT pay-as-you-go Nokia phone had a neat feature which would disable the Caller ID. Are there any AT commands I can issue

Re: Replacing ASU/Qtopia keyboard with matchbox keyboard?

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:05:06PM +0200, nick loeve wrote: Hi On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Ken Restivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:04:11PM +0200, nick loeve wrote: Hi On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:17 PM, thomasg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008

Re: tmobile wifi voice calls

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
First we need a phone app that supports SIP. I would very very much like to use the FR as a SIP phone. I don't need T-Mobile for that (and neither does anyone else), we just need a working phone app that supports VOIP as a back end, and access to open WiFi AP's (plenty of those around). I

Re: GSM AT command to disable/change caller ID?

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:09:19AM +0200, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:33:46 +0200, Ken Restivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command appears to be CLIR, and, unfortunately, there's no global setting for it. #31#PhoneNumber, means I have to type it before each call

How to find the board revision?

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
I'm thinking about flashing the Uboot to get working APM capability. The instructions on the Flashing_openmoko WIKI page say that it is very important to only flash the uboot image that matches the hardware revision of the phone (obviously), but it doesn't say *how* to find out what board

Does the Diversity app use gpsd?

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
I have the ASU, which includes a Diversity app to do GPS stuff. Does this app use gpsd? Does it need gpsd? Does gpsd conflict with it? Thanks -ken ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: How to find the board revision?

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:29:12AM +0930, Rod Whitby wrote: Ken Restivo wrote: I'm thinking about flashing the Uboot to get working APM capability. The instructions on the Flashing_openmoko WIKI page say that it is very important to only flash the uboot image that matches the hardware

Issuing GSM commands in the ASU environment?

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
I need to get to /dev/ttySAC0 in order to find the hardware revision, and also to issue my caller-ID-suppression command. On the ASU software, lsof reports that /dev/ttySAC0 is in use by the qpe process. How can I shut that down so that it releases the lock on the tty? If I just killall qpe,

Re: Can you help the Openmoko booth at Linuxworld, August 4-7, in San Francisco?

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Restivo
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:52:25PM -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote: Openmoko will be at Linuxworld, and needs to staff two booths: One in the main vendor area, and another in the Linux Garage. As we are a small understaffed team, we would love it if some of you could commit to helping us.

Re: Keyboard missing forward-slash key

2008-07-15 Thread Ken Restivo
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:07:10PM +0100, Andy Selby wrote: I can enter vi to start editing the file, but having switched to editing mode I can't exit it (back to command mode) because there's no Escape key on the keyboard! Thus I can't save the edited file! While it won't help at the

Re: New Freerunner, factory image - Registering...

2008-07-15 Thread Ken Restivo
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 09:17:49PM +0200, arne anka wrote: I ran into that immediately. The terminal is unusable without a slash key. That tells me that nobody is actually using that terminal app to do anything, but rather that it's only been used tethered by USB. But I looked and

Bluetooth long in the tooth?

2008-07-15 Thread Ken Restivo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo 1 /sys/bus/platform/devices/neo1973-pm-bt.0/power_on [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /sys/bus/platform/devices/neo1973-pm-bt.0/power_on 0 Huh? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo 1 /sys/bus/platform/devices/neo1973-pm-bt.0/power_on [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo 1

Re: Bluetooth long in the tooth?

2008-07-15 Thread Ken Restivo
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:06:06AM +0100, Valerio Valerio wrote: Hi, this works fine for me in the FR: echo 1 /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-bt.0/power_on echo 0 /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-bt.0/reset

Re: In the press

2008-07-15 Thread Ken Restivo
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:06:07PM +0200, Jay Vaughan wrote: These are all great ideas and would be very helpful for us. We are a small company. And really try to focus all we can on our products. Community help to make these more approachable is something that would make us all very

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread Ken Restivo
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:12:40AM -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote: Awesome. At least we now know what's causing the problem. Is there a chance that changing the orientation of the internal antenna slightly (perhaps through very minor modifications to the inside of the plastic case) could rectify

Re: Replacing ASU/Qtopia keyboard with matchbox keyboard?

2008-07-15 Thread Ken Restivo
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:04:11PM +0200, nick loeve wrote: Hi On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:17 PM, thomasg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ken Restivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed the matchbox keyboard on my ASU installation, and I love

Re: In the press

2008-07-15 Thread Ken Restivo
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:17:54PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:27:31PM +, Curtis Vaughan wrote: Since Ken really liked OpenWRT's Wiki, I looked at it and see they use MoinMoin. So, I am willing to set up MoinMoin on a server to be used as an FR community wiki.

Re: Enter sleep mode with menu item

2008-07-15 Thread Ken Restivo
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:39:21PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:Nomeata I described how to put the Freerunner to sleep from the terminal, and how to add a menu item for that. It would be nice though if this could be added to the neod menu, next

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-15 Thread Ken Restivo
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:19:38PM -0600, Scott Derrick wrote: I'm amazed that more isn't being said about the battery lifetime people are seeing? I just read an article in Information Week that cited a large poll concerning users of mobile devices. What was the number 1 issue, far and

Different ways to boot an image?

2008-07-14 Thread Ken Restivo
My new FreeRunner is working fine. I pulled the SIM out of my el-cheapo Nokia 7-11 SpeakOut (ATT) pay-as-you-go phone, and put it in the Neo, and lo and behold I'm making and receiving calls. I'm trying to understand what are the different ways to boot a kernel and rootfs image, and what are

Re: New Freerunner, factory image - Registering...

2008-07-14 Thread Ken Restivo
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 07:26:26PM +0100, Stroller wrote: Hi there, So my Freerunner arrived this evening, I plugged it in and started charging and it powered itself on. I _love_ that kernel messages are displayed during boot-up, and the plastic of the Freerunner's case has a really

Re: In the press

2008-07-14 Thread Ken Restivo
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:47:40PM -0600, Vinc Duran wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:47:51 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Jay Vaughan wrote: This stood out for me The tangled pile of mostly outdated and