Need battery help in DC area

2009-05-09 Thread Paul Buede
My Freerunner battery is dead and I cannot boot it. Have tried the suggestions on the wiki, none of which work for me. So I need to find someone who can charge my battery, or someone whose battery I can borrow, or someone with a battery charger I can borrow or some such idea. Any help is

Qtopia 4.3.3

2008-09-04 Thread Paul Buede
So I flashed this one today, I used qtopia-4.3.3-snapshot-09012242-gta02-flash.tgz. I followed an earlier post to turn my speaker volume back up to 127 so I can hear. Are the various values in the file /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios/gsmhandset.state, documented anywhere? Turning the value up

Bluetooth on om 2008.08

2008-08-21 Thread Paul Buede
Anyone know how to pair a bluetooth headset? I was able to do it on the Qtopia release, but don't see an app to do it on ASU. Is there a package I need to install? Am I just blind? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Ahah: and you released anyway ? - Re: [ Software Testing Report : 2008.08.07 ]

2008-08-20 Thread Paul Buede
Since we're top posting... I just want to throw in that I really like OM 2008.8. After seeing all the problems people had with it when it came out I went to the newest Qtopia but I had issues with reception and using devices like headsets/speakerphone. I then decided to try OM 2008.8. At first the

Re: Qtopia issues with 4.3.2-080808

2008-08-13 Thread Paul Buede
Lorn Potter wrote: Paul Buede wrote: I am not sure the most appropriate place for this, so I will post my issues here and take them elsewhere if there is a better place for them. I flashed with the qtopia-4.3.2-080808-rootfs-08081019.jffs2 and uImage-2.6.24+git30

Another question on qtopia, and md5

2008-08-12 Thread Paul Buede
So, I thought this was odd. Can someone else verify? If you download the file on the bottom of this page: http://www.qtopia.net/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=6 The direct link is: http://www.qtopia.net/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?lid=77 The page says the md5 should be

Re: Freerunner with latest qtopia, poor GSM

2008-08-11 Thread Paul Buede
Tim Erwin wrote: I've been running my freerunner with the 08/08/2008 qtopia release. Now I'm using it as a phone I've noticed the GSM reception is poor... or more to the point qtopia seems to spend as much time reporting No network as it does with a signal. I am using the qtopia

Re: Freerunner with latest qtopia, poor GSM

2008-08-11 Thread Paul Buede
Tim Erwin wrote: Interestingly, I flashed with the 08/08/2008 qtopia release this morning, from my opkg updated stock image, and also notice my signal is weaker. I am just using the stock image from qtopia, I haven't done any updating. I will do a update and see if I get the same

Re: ATT sim card not working, Tmobile does

2008-08-07 Thread Paul Buede
-SWAP_W0QQitemZ270245436267QQihZ017QQcategoryZ29778QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem 2) Go to ATT store and tell them you got a new device. Ask them to give you a 4022 card. [ Better way would be to act dumb, try different cards till you get a 4022, it seems like ATT likes dumb customers than the geeks]. Regards Sumod On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Paul Buede

ATT sim card not working, Tmobile does

2008-08-04 Thread Paul Buede
Ok, so I am still searching for the right carrier, but thats another story. In the meantime I thought I could add to some discussion here: With a brand new ATT sim, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# libgsmd-tool -m shell libgsm-tool - (C) 2006-2007 by Harald Welte and OpenMoko, Inc. This program is

Re: GSM detection/identification

2008-08-03 Thread Paul Buede
Matt Joyce wrote: The wiki has some interesting info on GSM : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gsm The AT commands to interact with the hardware are here : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Hardware:AT_Commands (I wonder if they are an extension of the earlier dial up modem commands ala Hayes?)

Software requests

2008-08-03 Thread Paul Buede
I am trying to do a couple things, and noticed I don't see expect or cron in the opkg list, or on the freerunner. Can someone, who packages, make those available? I suppose I can try to set up a dev environment, guess I could put make and stuff on the phone. I am pinched for time though, so I

Re: GSM detection/identification

2008-08-03 Thread Paul Buede
Paul Buede wrote: Matt Joyce wrote: The wiki has some interesting info on GSM : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gsm The AT commands to interact with the hardware are here : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Hardware:AT_Commands (I wonder if they are an extension of the earlier dial up modem

Re: GSM detection/identification

2008-08-03 Thread Paul Buede
Steven Kurylo wrote: And that the three operators I could see in my tests must all allow roaming on each others networks, which is why my T-Mobile SIM lets me see only those three. I should be able to see Verizon, US Cellular, and who knows what other operators from some of the places I

Re: GSM detection/identification

2008-07-30 Thread Paul Buede
ian douglas wrote: Paul Buede wrote: the coverage isn't great in the rural areas I find myself. When driving around, if out of reach of tmobile, it will say registering as if there is no sim card. But, on the little image of the antenna, that shows how strong my connection is, I still

GSM detection/identification

2008-07-29 Thread Paul Buede
So, I picked up a tmobile sim, and signed up with them (I have another week to cancel), and so the phone registers with tmobile. I am finding the coverage isn't great in the rural areas I find myself. When driving around, if out of reach of tmobile, it will say registering as if there is no sim

Flash ASU

2008-07-28 Thread Paul Buede
Hey, I was looking at the wiki but could not find something that laid the steps out for me. I have been messing with the default image, and have it upgraded as of yesterday. I want to check out the ASU image. Whats the best way to do that? I don't have anything in the phone yet that I want to

Re: USA, East coast groupe order

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Buede
Count me in. Feydreva wrote: It seems we will never have 10 people in VA, nor in Maryland, nor in New york. New york group is already 5. Why not all go in the NY group then ? I was thinking joining the NY group, and get someone to send me the phone in VA. Philippe

Re: Shipping Specs for Freerunner (Was: Group Sales: U.S. Midwest area)

2008-05-01 Thread Paul Buede
If you are in Frederick, join our Maryland purchase group, I am 30 minutes from you. Kevin Dean wrote: Okay, so I just did some number crunching using the information Steve gave and honestly, there's no reason at all the 10-packs need to be broken up by region. It costs $14.40 to ship a

Re: Baltimore/DC Group

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Buede
I started one for Maryland, I live out past Frederick, so I am in the DC area. Joshua Broussard wrote: How have I not yet seen a call for group orders from the WMA to Baltimore, but there is one for Utah... No offense Utah... Any interest? r/ Josh