Re: tiny stylus in lanyard hole (warning: half-assed)

2008-08-18 Thread Steve Mosher
someone with skills could design a small version of this to go on the back of the case. mounting the stylus vertically http://www.rodmounts.com/ Jeffrey Malone wrote: I'm waiting for someone to do a nice mod to fit a stylus inside the case. There is space for one methinks:

Re: stupid guy! thinks it's a train wreck!

2008-08-18 Thread Steve Mosher
well, we just revamped the whole site so we will find a way to add descriptions of the various software stacks. 1. shipping stack 2007. basic functionality. telephony, SMS, contacts. 2. Download stack: qtopia, a more polished end user experience, but it still has some bugs and doesnt

Re: tiny stylus in lanyard hole (warning: half-assed)

2008-08-18 Thread Steve Mosher
haha. I had the the same idea, except the stylus would be a bit longer and be L shaped with the short end of the L stuck in the foam and the long part of the L rested againt the back of the phone. If you get my drift. Nathan Kinkade wrote: I questioned whether to post this here, as it's somewhat

Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-18 Thread Steve Mosher
I have a tiny tiny head so all the hats fit. we are putting together a policy for people who bought from the openmoko store. there are several issues. We offer a 14 day DOA Warrenty and a 28 day warrenty for 10 packs. The issue is what does DOA mean? Dead on Arrival. If your GSM doesnt work,

Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-19 Thread Steve Mosher
That was actually an option we considered. Michele Renda wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ship with nothing and everyone put what want So nobody can say it is not a complete software :) steve wrote: Good question. Here are the options. 1. Ship with

Re: What's up with Openmoko store?

2008-08-19 Thread Steve Mosher
we will fix that going forward. In fact you've given me a great idea. ! Yorick Moko wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080811 04:39]: Yes, Our distributors are doing great business so we will continue to give them

Re: Video demo: Openmoko Neo Freerunner Features Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-20 Thread Steve Mosher
X gesture would be cool. Stroller wrote: Great! Thanks for the info. This seems to give applications devs lots of potential. Any chance of you adding shakes to the gestures? This would be ideal for the ball bearings in a tin can style of unread email message-count. I was about

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on theFreerunner?

2008-08-20 Thread Steve Mosher
dont tempt me Michele Renda wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It will be very very nice _alpha_ release :) Gilles Casse wrote: So why not a next _alpha_ release on 2008.09.10 at 11:12:13 :-) Gilles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

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

2008-08-20 Thread Steve Mosher
bingo Michele Renda wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This type of comments are the type of comment that I hate most of all. Please let the people to work in peace, and if you want to make an appoint, please make in a constructive way. We all was knowing that OM

Re: Openmoko @ Linuxworld

2008-08-22 Thread Steve Mosher
Ken was great. when I first thought to have the community help staff the booth, i had no idea how well it work out. the community speaks better for the product and the ideals than anyone can. Michael Shiloh wrote: Nice work Ken, one of our community volunteers! Yorick Moko wrote: subject

Re: Sold out aaaah

2008-08-23 Thread Steve Mosher
check with the distributors. Its the same product. Jeff Sadowski wrote: http://us.direct.openmoko.com/products/neo-freerunner Maybe by the time I get a chance to buy one they will have enough processor power, ram and disk space to replace my laptop. Every time I even look to buy it I see the

Re: Openmoko @ Linuxworld

2008-08-23 Thread Steve Mosher
somebody got a great deal then. Jim Morris wrote: Steve Mosher wrote: Ken was great. when I first thought to have the community help staff the booth, i had no idea how well it work out. the community speaks better for the product and the ideals than anyone can. Michael Shiloh wrote: Nice

Re: New openmoko packages database

2008-08-23 Thread Steve Mosher
Michael Shiloh wrote: Thomas Bertani wrote: Hi, As soon as possible I'll release a new online service similar to getdeb.net http://getdeb.net, but for ipk packages. everybody can add apps with descriptions, screenshots, videos and comme (there will be also a rank system). A nice

Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Mosher
you may have the same problem I discovered some while back. When I wore my tester hat. Micheal may be able to help you. Micheal, can you assist here? or tony? tokenwizard wrote: I have one for you... I have been using my freerunner for about three weeks now. I ordered it through Koolu.com

Re: prediction feature for the keyboard

2008-08-31 Thread Steve Mosher
Raster and I talked about this a long while back when he and I were discussing dictionaries or his keyboard. He was of the opinion that the apple approach was patented, and that visiaully changing the size of letters would not pass legal muster. I didnt check into it any further And I dont

Re: Please split this list!

2008-09-01 Thread Steve Mosher
please stop spamming the list with baseless rumours arne anka wrote: There was some discussion about the mailing lists a couple of months ago - one Openmoko employee said they were considering suggestions then another (apparently) unilaterally went on ahead anyway and redefined the purpose

Re: Duke Nukem 3D on Openmoko Neo

2008-09-06 Thread Steve Mosher
heretic would great. We need retro section on the wiki ( maybe there is one already) for all the great retro ports. nickd wrote: I just wanted to tell you Rafael that I reaffirm Dale's love. Installing it now, can't wait! Also, Heretic was re-released as GPL the other day - I wonder if we

Re: Duke Nukem 3D on Openmoko Neo

2008-09-06 Thread Steve Mosher
I would get a kick out of that. A quake port perhaps? or battlezone? SCarlson wrote: Fantastic Idea, I will be attempting a Doom port ! (Unless someone else beat me to it!) -Scott Steve Mosher wrote: heretic would great. We need retro section on the wiki ( maybe there is one

Re: Duke Nukem 3D on Openmoko Neo

2008-09-12 Thread Steve Mosher
I'd start with Q1, I havent talked to Carmack in a while but I could ask his advice. Rafael Ignacio Zurita wrote: --- On Sat, 9/6/08, Steve Mosher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would get a kick out of that. A quake port perhaps? or battlezone? Hello Steve, You mean quake 2? or which

Re: help compiling gnu chess game, project with subfolders

2008-09-19 Thread Steve Mosher
Thanks for working on Chess! Which engine are you using crafty or pychess or one of the others? Also cool would be to just play chess against someelse over bluetooth. Nicolas LAURANCE wrote: Hi all, I'm having my first try at compiling programs for the FR. I've a python background mostly,

Re: help compiling gnu chess game, project with subfolders

2008-09-19 Thread Steve Mosher
Opps sorry should have read you used gnuchess, good choice as well. Nicolas LAURANCE wrote: Hi all, I'm having my first try at compiling programs for the FR. I've a python background mostly, and I'm not familiar at compiling stuff beyond the configure make make install routine. I've

Re: accelerometer jitter

2008-09-20 Thread Steve Mosher
since low cost accelerometers are somewhat noisy, I'd suspect that first. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Technical:Accelerometer_Fundamentals Not sure what kind of filter you should use. There should be some guys On the list who can chime in better than I can. Joel Newkirk wrote: I wrote a

Re: accelerometer jitter

2008-09-20 Thread Steve Mosher
Have a look at this might help. Note, we dont use a freescale accel, so some things may be different but you'll get the basic idea. http://www.freescale.com/files/sensors/doc/app_note/AN3397.pdf?fpsp=1WT_TYPE=Application%20NotesWT_VENDOR=FREESCALEWT_FILE_FORMAT=pdfWT_ASSET=Documentation Joel

A Call for community action

2008-09-27 Thread Steve Mosher
The other day I was pondering all the things the community does for us. They give us new ideas, test our product and give us honest feedback, keep us true to our commitment for openness ( the idea to release the CAD files came from the community, help us market the product, and they fix bugs.

Re: Charging a Neo battery in a Nokia charger or phone

2008-09-30 Thread Steve Mosher
verify and place in the wiki or FAQ Michael Shiloh wrote: The battery usually lays in just like it does in the phone. The battery will fit into the Nokia, but I'd be surprised if the Nokia agreed to charge it, since it won't recognize it. Exactly right. My understanding is this: Nokia

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-02 Thread Steve Mosher
raster the list I sent you was from the British National Corpus, but should be a good start. Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 21:05:53 -0600 Ori Pessach [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I understand what it's doing. It's not doing it well. I tried it for shell i

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-02 Thread Steve Mosher
Lists of US names. first and last http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html Cédric Berger wrote: On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 05:57, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] you will know its not there when its not offered as a correction in the short or long

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-02 Thread Steve Mosher
. There are some studies on word frequency in SMS but I havent found a online resource. Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:59:20 -0700 Steve Mosher [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: aha! a decent frequency corpus (a few thousand words). i'll merge this with the default us dict

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-02 Thread Steve Mosher
lists with freq data. Joel Newkirk wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:37:58 -0700, Steve Mosher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to have a bunch of them when I was doing a NLG ( natural Language generation) pet project. I sent you a link to US names as well. from the US census. For personal

Re: Neo FreeRunner CAD files

2008-10-02 Thread Steve Mosher
They are ProE. ( Also IGES) STEP files too I think If you have autodesk inventor you Should be able to import these ( I have not independently verified this so YMMV) http://newsletters.hagerman.com/newsletters/ebul59-Mech.htm Not sure if that helps you. If you post to the community list

Re: [2008.9]Debugging the FreeRunner Kernel?

2008-10-03 Thread Steve Mosher
Probably best to post on the Kernel list. Arigead wrote: Hello all, could anybody shed some light on debugging the FR Kernel. I'm getting constant locks of the phone and I'm trying to get to the source of the problem. Just to go over some stuff that may be important. I did have

Re: A Call for community action

2008-10-04 Thread Steve Mosher
Nope. nobody signed up. Risto H. Kurppa wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Steve Mosher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other day I was pondering all the things the community does for us. They give us new ideas, test our product and give us honest feedback, keep us true to our commitment

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-05 Thread Steve Mosher
that (somehow) into the database on the phone, say in the personal. Daniel Willmann wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:34:28 +1000 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:37:58 -0700 Steve Mosher [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I used to have a bunch of them

Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-05 Thread Steve Mosher
Thanks, Maybe you could work with micheal to put this on the wiki. Ed Kapitein wrote: Hi Mathias, I even took it one step further. I can not get it to work properly on channel 11, so i set my accesspoint to channel 1. And i changed the script a little: Exec=xterm -e ifconfig eth0

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-05 Thread Steve Mosher
) wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:28:19 -0700 Steve Mosher [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Raster, I don't think I was exactly clear on using the email database. What I was thinking is that you could run a simple program on your desktop computer and do a frequency analysis of the mails

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community ( what's a community manager to do?)

2008-10-05 Thread Steve Mosher
Stroller let's assume it is Possible. I had a long chat with Sean today. We both read the community list daily and our number one topic of conversation was the Lost community thread. Sean asked me what I thought of having a community manager. ( he was reading my mind again) On one hand, I said,

Re: Screenshots from wiki.openmoko.org

2008-10-06 Thread Steve Mosher
Everything is free and open. You can also get press materials here http://www.openmoko.com/press-press-material.html Steve. VP Marketing Tobias Kündig wrote: Hello everyone I'm working for a free german Linux-Magazine called Yalmagazine (www.yalmagazine.org). We are publishing an article

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community ( what's a community manager to do?)

2008-10-06 Thread Steve Mosher
to heart. Stroller. On 6 Oct 2008, at 03:37, Steve Mosher wrote: Stroller let's assume it is Possible. I had a long chat with Sean today. We both read the community list daily and our number one topic of conversation was the Lost community thread. Sean asked me what I thought

Re: The Lost Openmoko Community ( what's a community manager to do?)

2008-10-07 Thread Steve Mosher
Stroller wrote: On 6 Oct 2008, at 22:19, Steve Mosher wrote: Stroller wrote: One of the things that Risto was complaining about was the number of distros for the Freerunner, and they're all incomplete!! His words why don't the developers feel ok to contribute directly to 2007.x

Re: A Call for community action

2008-10-07 Thread Steve Mosher
Nicola Mfb wrote: 2008/10/5 Steve Mosher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nope. nobody signed up. Hi Steve, I think it's not easy to involve the community in a specific task as bug fixing. I like challenging tasks. According to me: * this requires high knowledge and systematic approach, so

Re: Echo issue on OM2008.08 solved

2008-10-08 Thread Steve Mosher
you covered it pretty well. There are some finer points that I'll get clarification on shortly Alastair Johnson wrote: Michael Zanetti wrote: On Sunday 31 August 2008 15:50:05 Al Johnson wrote: The patch turns on the echo and noise suppression capabilities in the GSM chipset using one of

Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-08 Thread Steve Mosher
michael could you and brenda assist Tom Tom Yates wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Steve Mosher wrote: Thanks, Maybe you could work with micheal to put this on the wiki. i also wrote up my positive experiences with openmoko (see at http://www.teaparty.net/technotes/openmoko-2.html

Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-08 Thread Steve Mosher
We should allow for links to peoples pages. Michael Shiloh wrote: Tom Yates wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Steve Mosher wrote: Thanks, Maybe you could work with micheal to put this on the wiki. i also wrote up my positive experiences with openmoko (see at http://www.teaparty.net/technotes

Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-08 Thread Steve Mosher
] wrote: Tom Yates wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Steve Mosher wrote: Thanks, Maybe you could work with micheal to put this on the wiki. i also wrote up my positive experiences with openmoko (see at http://www.teaparty.net/technotes/openmoko-2.html , if you like). is there some mileage

Re: Echo issue on OM2008.08 solved

2008-10-12 Thread Steve Mosher
Hi Michael, Here's some clarification http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1095866%7Ca1095866 I hope you find this helpful. Steve Michael Zanetti wrote: On Sunday 31 August 2008 15:50:05 Al Johnson wrote: The patch turns on the echo and noise suppression

Re: Introducing http://www.opkg.org

2008-10-12 Thread Steve Mosher
nice work Tobias Kündig wrote: Hello everyone, I'm proud to announce my newest project: http://www.opkg.org It's a simple database of available *.ipk-Packages. I know, some time ago there was someone other who planned to do something like this. But it's been a long time since then. I

Re: Example of community manager job role (Was: FBReader now working on the FreeRunner)

2008-10-12 Thread Steve Mosher
i didnt see it as a flame, keep on writing Rod Rod Whitby wrote: Kosa, I can't understand how you took my mail to be a flame? (Apologies for not changing the title - I've rectified that now). What I was trying to do was to point out with a real example what Steve was asking for - what

Re: Introducing http://www.opkg.org

2008-10-13 Thread Steve Mosher
Rod Diversity driven by well-informed intention is good. Fragmentation caused by barriers or simply entropy is not. That captures my thoughts very well. Rod Whitby wrote: Stroller wrote: On 13 Oct 2008, at 08:13, Rod Whitby wrote: ... The state of affairs *should* be that you just get the

Re: Example of community manager job role Was: Re: FBReader now working on the FreeRunner

2008-10-13 Thread Steve Mosher
Agreed raster. I'm headed to Taiwan this week to discuss this and other matters, So any ideas that Rod, you or other come up with need to get to me pretty soon. Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:30:22 +1030 Rod Whitby [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Stroller wrote:

Re: San Francisco - Code Sprint and User Group schedule

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Mosher
Thanks Goat. I will be in taipei for the rest of october, I may be able to make the meeting on the 28th. The QA we had last meeting was very instructive for me and widely discussed with the engineering teams inside OM. Consulting Goat wrote: Hi all - Below is the upcoming OpenMoko

Re: JTAG interface board

2008-10-16 Thread Steve Mosher
the debug board is now sold separately for 100USD If you like the case you can try this. http://www.thepelicancases.com/smallcases.html Leo McManus wrote: Am looking at buying a Freerunner for use on a embedded course. When I looked at buying last year the phone came with a developer

Re: Come to wiki to help improving user experience

2008-10-18 Thread Steve Mosher
Wendy I think we used this in the SF Freerunner user group to vote on things Check it out http://www.doodle.ch/main.html Steve Cédric Berger wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 13:12, Wendy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, thanks for your help to collecting all the critical problems, it's

Re: New home for the New FDOM

2008-10-24 Thread Steve Mosher
Thanks for GNUChess! Steve Ben Hussey wrote: ftp://ftp.tuxbrain.com/openmoko/fdom/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, There is a new FDOM release uploaded at ... no, NOT at compartida.net as the topic suggest FDOM has a new home at http://www.tuxbrain.com/fdom_en.html and if you ask

Re: Call for mirrors for FDOM

2008-10-24 Thread Steve Mosher
Thanks Alastair. Alastair Johnson wrote: Alastair Johnson wrote: David Samblas wrote: Well some of you have send me a mail about my site is little bit slow ... taking in count I have served about 20Gb in less than 2 days is with peaks of 1 Gb/hour , slow is at least a good performance :) I

Re: Contacts - Fdom vs. OM2008.8

2008-10-29 Thread Steve Mosher
FDOM does indeed rock. David, I am planning on showing FDOM at CES. if one of your guys, or any FDOM supporter is going to be at CES, i'd love to have them at the booth. David Samblas wrote: El dom, 26-10-2008 a las 20:02 +0330, Armin ranjbar escribió: On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:18:40 -0700 (PDT)

Re: Paroli project

2008-11-03 Thread Steve Mosher
It sounds like a great project. My goal this year at CES is to highlight the work our community has done, let me know if you have something I can demo to the Press in January. This goes for every community project out there Steve Mirko Lindner wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash:

Re: Openmoko chronology

2008-11-10 Thread Steve Mosher
David, Thanks for doing this. It was on my TODO list for CES. Steve David Samblas wrote: El lun, 10-11-2008 a las 10:39 +0100, Minh Ha Duong escribió: Hi, I think openmoko-the-project was founded not by FIC but by a core team comprising a handfull of german devs (Sean, I guess

Re: The forbidden topic: Glamo OpenGL

2008-11-19 Thread Steve Mosher
they don't already? please issue a ticket. we'll fix the bug. George Brooke wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:01:47 +1100 Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tig wrote: Ok I will bite :) Q: Why did OM cross the road? A: To get to another toolkit :) Q: How many OM devs does it take to

Re: Will there be a hardware revision for the buzzing issue?

2008-11-21 Thread Steve Mosher
That would be great, especially for guys in the community who want to start a repair business. Joerg Reisenweber wrote: Am Mo 17. November 2008 schrieb robert lazarski: Hi all, I'm about to buy an openmoko, as I finally have some time and cash. However, my understanding is that the latest

Re: Survey about the Touchscreen

2008-11-23 Thread Steve Mosher
Neil, We could not have said it better. In my view the surveys serve a good, albeit limited, purpose. They get ideas out in the open and expose potential shortcoming of various design decisions. In the end, design decisions are complex system dependent choices, choices made under

Re: Android rootfs image?

2008-11-25 Thread Steve Mosher
I met with Maddog at the summit to discuss the some of these issues, so I'll ask him to chime in here. Brian Code as well could speak to some of these issues. C R McClenaghan wrote: All, I am not an official spokes person for Koolu, but I had a chance to speak with Jon Maddog Hall (self

Re: Funding Global Domination

2008-12-04 Thread Steve Mosher
all you have to do is ask me. I like saying yes. Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:51:44AM +0100, Minh Ha Duong wrote: Could somebody official in OpenMoko respond to this email and perhaps indicate whether the company would be interested in this idea and perhaps some

Re: Optimization team update (11/23 ~ 11/29)

2008-12-04 Thread Steve Mosher
Hi, Joerg went over the change for a5/a6 with me the other night. Over the next few days I'll drive to get an SOP published for the change. But for now I'll just explain it in words. The modification should work for both a5a6. It consists of: 1. Removing the front cover. 2.

Re: Funding Global Domination

2008-12-04 Thread Steve Mosher
please do. DJDAS wrote: Arigead ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Minh Ha Duong wrote: Le mercredi 03 décembre 2008, arne anka a écrit : The second option is more like it. It takes a few hours to design a T-Shirt and upload it to an online store where

Re: Funding Global Domination

2008-12-04 Thread Steve Mosher
Let me look into doing this on cafepress. Marcel wrote: That would be soo geeky, great idea! :D -- Marcel Am Thursday 04 December 2008 14:23:40 schrieb Steve Mosher: please do. DJDAS wrote: Arigead ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Minh Ha Duong wrote

Re: Funding Global Domination

2008-12-04 Thread Steve Mosher
use cafepress, when I tried to get this going internally that was my choice. DJDAS wrote: Steve Mosher ha scritto: please do. DJDAS wrote: What about making a T-shirt with the hardware schematics? ;) Well :) I'm a bit practical with The Gimp, I'll try to do something in the weekend

Global Domination 0.9

2008-12-06 Thread Steve Mosher
Community. At your urging we have opened a storefront to sell Openmoko merchandise. http://www.cafepress.com/openmoko_inc Sean and I had a couple of hours to kill this weekend. He did all the work and I pushed him to release ASAP. Going forward we will add more products and

Re: Optimization team update (11/23 ~ 11/29)

2008-12-06 Thread Steve Mosher
. As the mod doesn't seem that hard to do, I'm looking forward to my Freerunner for christmas (regardless if its A7 or a not yet reworked A6 :) ). Jake On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Steve Mosher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Joerg went over the change for a5/a6 with me the other night

Re: Global Domination 0.9

2008-12-06 Thread Steve Mosher
design. That would be cool. Rakshat On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Steve Mosher [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Community. At your urging we have opened a storefront to sell Openmoko merchandise. http://www.cafepress.com/openmoko_inc

Re: Global Domination 0.9

2008-12-06 Thread Steve Mosher
we didnt limit the dimensions to English. Sean and I both are multi currency multi measurement standards kinds of guys. what about more widely used and understood units? We be happy with cubits and quatloos, but I think we were stuck with inches and dollars

Re: Optimization team update (11/23 ~ 11/29)

2008-12-09 Thread Steve Mosher
yes joerg has a DRAFT version of the SOP for the buzz fix rework of A5/A6. Not everybody has the buzz issue. 1. It's a draft. 2. We need to have some independent test of the SOP arne anka wrote: buzz / echo / hiss... no software change can fix buzz. It's baked into the hardware and you will

Re: Crackly Calls and Battery Tips!

2008-12-09 Thread Steve Mosher
The DRAFT fix for the buzz problem is here: CP of joerg's mail. http://people.openmoko.org/joerg/GSM_EMI_noise/big-C_rework_SOP__DRAFT!!__.pdf Please NOTE IT'S A DRAFT! It's not secret, but it's not yet destined to anybody not actively searching for it. Status of this paper is: should be

Re: No more optimization team

2008-12-10 Thread Steve Mosher
RE 1024. The optimization team was not working on 1024. there is one dedicated engineer working on 1024 who specializes in this area. There is some understanding but not certainty on the root cause which may be related to the base station rather than the phone. I don't intend to

Re: Crackly Calls and Battery Tips! A5/A6 rework. Corrected URL

2008-12-10 Thread Steve Mosher
Probably best to send the requests directly to Joerg. Vasco Névoa wrote: I'd really like pictures with better focus and a little more light... especially the last one, which is very blurred! Citando Steve Mosher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, I pulled the old copy. See below SOP

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-10 Thread Steve Mosher
A list on the wiki of all severe problems and the end user details would be great, especially for future reference. Some of the problems, like Buzz, 1024 (recamp) seem to happen to some people and not others. I never had the buzz problem, go figure. 1. problems: WSOD, recamp, Buzz, echo (

Re: Crackly Calls and Battery Tips! A5/A6 rework. Corrected URL

2008-12-11 Thread Steve Mosher
runners, raise your hands. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Steve Mosher st...@openmoko.com wrote: Probably best to send the requests directly to Joerg. Vasco Névoa wrote: I'd really like pictures with better focus and a little more light... especially the last one, which is very blurred

Re: Global Domination 0.9

2008-12-11 Thread Steve Mosher
It's on the list of things to do rakshat hooja wrote: Is it will be possible to add an Openmoko logo to the look of the store page in the near future? I am going to send an email to all my friends who may be willing to spend $25 to support OM but not really buy the Freerunner. But the

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-11 Thread Steve Mosher
There are a few options. Tully can explain. rakshat hooja wrote: Does anyone know where one can get alternate case designs for the freerunner manufactured in quantities of less than 100. Any information would be appreciated. Rakshat

Re: No more optimization team

2008-12-11 Thread Steve Mosher
Thanks david, One of the difficulties is CND. cannot duplicate which complicates finding the root cause. If you can generate logs that will probably help. Steve David Garabana Barro wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008 02:23:14 Steve Mosher wrote: RE 1024. The optimization team

Re: [Android] Converting a brick into a phone

2008-12-11 Thread Steve Mosher
... is this buzz issue the one where the caller (not the neo) hears the GSM buzzing? The one that has a SOP repair paper with the Big C?... or is it something else? Citando Michel mic...@xternal.nl: Steve Mosher wrote: Hi Steve, A list on the wiki of all severe problems and the end

Re: Bad Customer support from Truebox.com about a Broken Battery

2008-12-11 Thread Steve Mosher
The standard package does not come with a stylus or a SD card. For the first few months of sales we shipped the laser stylus and the 512MB card as gifts or extras for single pack purchases. Subsequently we substituted a regular stylus as opposed to the Laser Stylus/pen/pointer and stopped

Re: No more optimization team

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Mosher
well put. I have not had time to get to the community list tonight-- err this morning. I'll address as many of these as possible. Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On 12/16/08 Jeremy McNaughton wrote: Openmoko you have this community of users who are still enthusiastic about your product. Do yourself a

Re: Bad Customer support from Truebox.com about a Broken Battery

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Mosher
Rus wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Steve Mosher wrote: :The standard package does not come with a stylus or a SD card. : :For the first few months of sales we shipped the laser stylus and the :512MB card as gifts or extras for single pack purchases. : :Subsequently we substituted

Re: Selected questions to Sean

2008-12-22 Thread Steve Mosher
Will need some time on this. Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Dear Minh Please give me about a week to reply to these questions. I'm going to be traveling a lot starting tonight so things will be very hectic for a while. I appreciate all your work to collect / organize such great topics.

Re: Crackly Calls and Battery Tips! A5/A6 rework. Corrected URL

2008-12-25 Thread Steve Mosher
You can find out the version you have via software query. otherwise take the front faceplate off and see the PCB rev printed there. There are roughly 3K V5 in the feild all built early on.. in june/july I believe, so the datecode can also give you a clue. There is no rework for a5-a6. the

Re: Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-25 Thread Steve Mosher
Thanks Bearstech! If you guys get a chance to join us at CES I'd love to show off hackable to the press. Marcus Bauer wrote: Hey guys, fully in the spirit of release early, release often we want to announce hackable:1, a new distribution for the Neo and other hackable devices.

Re: Crackly Calls and Battery Tips! A5/A6 rework. Corrected URL

2008-12-25 Thread Steve Mosher
fix to be performed, I'm just not sure they'll be interested in offering it as inexpensively as I'd like. j On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:29:32 -0800, Steve Mosher st...@openmoko.com wrote: If guys raise there hand to help others out I'll come up with a program to help them out/ reward them

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-25 Thread Steve Mosher
WRT the hole. I have visit the emergency room to get stitches in my tongue. happy hole e days fla...@correo.ugr.es wrote: Evgeny Karyakin wrote: Dunno... First link propose a case suggesting iPhone look, I think we shouldn't follow everything Apple come out with, and I second to pill

Re: Stage of GTA03 development?

2008-12-25 Thread Steve Mosher
Thanks Dr. H.N. you put it all very well. I'll inline some additions. Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Leonti, sorry I was a bit too ironical in my answer. So let me explain. Nikolaus Am 17.12.2008 um 15:24 schrieb Leonti Bielski: Nikolaus, I don't get what's wrong with my questions?

Re: [Report] - Buzz fix

2008-12-25 Thread Steve Mosher
Thanks.. I should have pointed out that if people can do before and after recordings that would be exceptionally cool. I guess I shoulda asked B4 xmas. If you've done a fix, send me photos, your contact information and I'll send you some belated gifts for the holiday. Special bonus for

Re: Battery arrived On Time and on Perfect Condition (Was: Bad Customer support from Truebox.com about a Broken Battery)

2008-12-26 Thread Steve Mosher
about these colors in the ML but i never had the chance to see them my self, so far! No more excuses for letting FR get dusty. I want to thank Elsie Lee and Steve Mosher for they were kind enough to offer me a replacement battery, with no exchange! I declined their offer deciding to rely

Re: Which software to design alternative casings

2008-12-26 Thread Steve Mosher
Tully might be able to give you some pointers. Tully? please and thank you. Pander wrote: Hi all, Soon I'm granted some serious playtime on a 3D plotter and I would like to create alternative casings for FreeRunner. Now, I am looking for open source (Linux) software to design my

Re: [Report] - Buzz fix

2009-01-31 Thread Steve Mosher
defined by OM how the non-DIY-guys can fix their phones? As DIY will break warranty (given by reseller) i have to rely on a way supported by OM. Greetings Torsten On Friday 26 December 2008 07:19:41 Steve Mosher wrote: Thanks.. I should have pointed out that if people can do before

Re: [Report] - Buzz fix

2009-01-31 Thread Steve Mosher
GTA02v7 is going into production in a very short period of time. The Alsa states will need some adjustments. We dont want to fix the buzz and then tell people they have to tweak their alsa states as the first course of business. Xavier Cremaschi wrote: The .pdf says this hardware fix

Re: [Report] - Buzz fix

2009-01-31 Thread Steve Mosher
Let me give you a ROUGH timeline. Feb 2-9: final alsa states for A7 are developed and tested and signed off. Feb 9-16: Phones at the factory are flashed. Feb 16-23: Ship to Disty. Those are not official dates agreed to by everyone working the issue, but I suspect they are close. When

Re: About the buzz

2009-02-16 Thread Steve Mosher
The Buzz is most prominent on 900mhz and then 1800. That's what I've been told and it makes sense. Essentially the Buzz is caused by RF getting into the mixer line then makes it way to one of the power lines going to the mic, which is why Joergs fix involves adding a CAP to the line going

Re: New leather case for Neo FreeRunner

2009-02-16 Thread Steve Mosher
David, Great job on the case. Steve David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote: No, you were not mistaking, but now is fixed, thanks Olivier for the advice. 2009/2/11 Olivier Migeot larry...@gmail.com: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:36 PM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez da...@tuxbrain.com

Re: Bying a Freerunner with the buzz-fix on it

2009-03-03 Thread Steve Mosher
and he told me that the buzzing is quite heavy. I read about a fix for that on the A7, but there is only a A6 sold. Have I missed something? And whats about the GTA03? Would it be sold this year, next year or ... best regards Alex In a mail from Steve Mosher (VP Marketing) on 2009/02

Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-24 Thread Steve Mosher
Thanks Gunnar, There is one thing we tend to be very tight lipped about. HR issues. That is its very rare that you will find any employee commenting on why a particular individual is not with the company anymore. Some people are let go for performance. Some are let go due to cost cutting.

Re: Bluetooth headsets to the rescue

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Mosher
Perhaps I can clear up some of the confusion about the official fix. What we have is this as a rough timeline etc. 1. We have Joerg's SOP. Joerg, Werner, Tony Tu and I worked to get this document reviewed and out to the community. At that point I wasnt apprised of any wired headset mic issue.

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