Re: [Off-Topic] What happened to OESF.org?

2010-04-05 Thread Tobias Diedrich
undrwater wrote: Those of you who are / were Zaurus owners will likely have visited oesf.org. It appears the site is down...and by the looks for good. Does anyone have any info? Looks like the domain expired or something? Domain Name:OESF.ORG Created On:04-Nov-2004 22:10:17 UTC Last

Re: FR Battery fell into water, is it still useable?

2009-08-11 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Mikhail Umorin wrote: It was fresh (tap) water. I pulled it out within 1 min. Has it been damaged (did it retain its capacity and won't damage the FR)? Well, surely a small amount of stored charge was lost due to current flowing between the contacts, but it can't lose capacity from that,

Re: Power dongle

2009-06-08 Thread Tobias Diedrich
arne anka wrote: Yeah, I'd kinda prefer one that's nigh unto infinitesimal and only lasts a few seconds, but I'll search for emergency phone chargers. afair, gsm still depends on battery and goes down the moment the battery is down (or wawy, in your case) -- and after hotswapping it

Re: LCD Displays?

2009-05-21 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Tim Schmidt wrote: The OLPC has an LCD which is very easy to read in daylight. When backlit, it appears as a color LCD, but when frontlit (as from the sun), it appears greyscale. This display _very_ cool, I saw an OLPC in action a few weeks ago. It is not even limited to direct sunlight for

Re: sunlight readable LCD

2009-04-16 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Radek Bartoň wrote: BTW: I'm considering to buy and use with Neo Freerunner such [1] hub dynamo but 165€ seem too much for me. Do you know about similar device but somehow cheaper? Another problem is that I'm not able to develop converter from 6V/3W to USB. Is there any skilled

Re: sunlight readable LCD

2009-04-16 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Radek Bartoň wrote: Dne Thursday 16 April 2009 13:39:31 Tobias Diedrich napsal(a): I think any hub generator would do, you can get a 'tire frame' including hub generator for around 60EUR IIRC. Ah great. Thank you. I searched only term hub dynamo but hub generator gives me more results

Re: Solar panel on Freerunner back cover

2009-04-02 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Radek Polak wrote: I'd like to have 7 pieces. Those could do 7*0.57=3.99V and 180uA current. Would it be possible to attach output from this solar panel straight to battery connector? Do you think that this can work? You'd need at least an additional diode (preferably schottky for low

Re: Graphics Performance

2009-04-02 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Iain B. FIndleton wrote: A significant issue for me is the performance of the graphics display on the FR. I recall some discussions a while back about making use of the XGlamo acceleration features. Has any progress been made here? It appears to me that the graphics performance on the FR is

Re: [All] To build a better music player

2009-01-16 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Dylan Reilly wrote: Audio Player When I started my quest, there was no music player that met my needs. The two that were close were pythm and mokoko. Mokoko has more potential, I believe. However, it has (had?) issues resuming from a suspend (crucial for me). That seems to imply

Re: Minty Boost FreeRunner

2008-11-20 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Cédric Berger wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 17:24, DJDAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cédric Berger ha scritto: I did not have a look at neo's circuitry. But whatever the method it uses, it cannot force 1A if 1A is not available (wall charger unplugged from the wall won't give 1A :-p ) ?

Re: power-on without battery!

2008-11-11 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Christian Adams wrote: on booting the FR needs more than 100mA - and that's the limit as long as no system is running yet I wonder if the processor will start up far enough that it would be possible to negotiate more USB power in the bootloader. Also, one thing I find rather annoying: Why

Re: power-on without battery!

2008-11-11 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Tony Berth wrote: so USB connection doesn't provide enough 'juice' to boot? The reason was to save on battery. Trying to avoid the memory effect! Li-Ion and LiPo don't suffer from memory effect: http://www.batteryuniversity.com/partone-5A.htm Do not discharge lithium-ion too deeply. Instead,

Re: GPS Antenna

2008-10-04 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Christian Weßel wrote: Hi folks, who has an external GPS antenna operating successfull with FR? Which brand? Where to get? I check the first one without success, so I need to look for a fit one. I've got a HaiCom GPS Antenna with internal preamplifier, which works fine with my HaiCom

Re: OPIE on FreeRunner

2008-08-27 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Daniel Selinger wrote: I have no technical background abount opie, if it is possible to bring those apps and maybe even the gui to the freerunner. (I could Opie is Qtopia-based just as ASU as far as I know. So it might be as simple as recompiling the app. -- Tobias

Re: Headphones, Adapters

2008-08-23 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Matt wrote: I tried to use headphones with my FR but I only get sound in one ear. I've tried a phone set with a mic and a normal set with a 3.5 - 2.5 adapter. If I move the plug I can get sound to one or other ear, so I guess it's not a software issue. Do I need to buy a special adapter

Re: touch screen driving me nuts!

2008-08-17 Thread Tobias Diedrich
-stacy wrote: My wife would argue that it is more of a putt than a drive... however, my touchscreen is having some serious issues. To demonstrate the problem, I created a 480x640 image with seven straight lines running across the screen, I installed mtpaint on my freerunner and attempted to

Re: Intel Atom

2008-08-16 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Joachim Steiger wrote: also things like high-clocked ram (ddr compared to simple sdram) or internal usb connections are energy suckers (thats why sdram with 200mhz and things like sdio/spi/i2c/cmoslevel-serial is preferred to usb and ddr ram. Shouldn't DDR ram use less power than SDR because

Re: QTopia and WiFi

2008-08-15 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Christ van Willegen wrote: I guess this must be either too obvious, or hidden somewhere, or very easy and I've been too stupid to find it yet (you choose...), but I haven't been able to do WiFi with QTopia yet... Where do I turn on WiFi and register my (WPA2) key? In Settings-Internet. But

Re: InvibleShield at ZAGG : swindling ?!?

2008-08-15 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Florian Hackenberger wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Stroller wrote: Me, too. An exactly similar experience so far. But I think I will give them a few more days. I can recommend giving them a call. It takes a while until they pick up the phone, but they are very kind. They immediately

Re: USB connector not Mini-AB?

2008-07-20 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: Hello, 2008/7/19 Tobias Diedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Looking at the Freerunner connector, it looks like it's really a Mini-B Female connector instead of the Mini-AB Female connector as stated on http://www.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GTA02_Hardware Can

Re: Accelerometer(s), Camera, and Memory

2008-07-19 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Dee Ayy wrote: So my question is the same as Francesco Cat's. Where exactly are the accelerometers positioned on the device? I think you can see the accelerometers on this image: http://www.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:Gta02a5_pcba_ps.JPG They are indeed spaced as far apart as possible (Bottom

USB connector not Mini-AB?

2008-07-19 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Hi list, since I wanted to try the usb otg function, I bought an Mini-A to standard USB plug cable. However I found that the receptacle on my freerunner won't accept the Mini-A plug of the cable. Looking at the Freerunner connector, it looks like it's really a Mini-B Female connector instead of

Re: GPS

2008-07-11 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Alexander Paersch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem that my Freerunner can't acquire a fix without a external GPS antenna. Can any external GPS antenna (with the right connector of course) be used? I suppose so. My

Re: SIM problems

2008-07-08 Thread Tobias Diedrich
steve wrote: Michael had some similar issues. They were cleared up when he asked for a replacement SIM. For some totally unknown reason, my Vodafone SIM suddenly started working just fine yesterday. -- Tobias PGP: http://9ac7e0bc.uguu.de

Re: Battery loading ...

2008-07-08 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: 1) The battery seems to be charging: But why is the value POWER_SUPPLY_CURRENT_NOW negative? Positive = Discharging current Negative = Charging current Simple as that. :) -- Tobias PGP: http://9ac7e0bc.uguu.de

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

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: 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

Broken battery protection circuit (was: Re: Battery driver problems?)

2008-07-06 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Tobias Diedrich wrote: Apparently it wasn't charged at all? (Voltage 3,324 Volts)o I think I'll try going back to the http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Freerunner/ image... That didn't help. Looking at the battery circuit schematics I now think that the battery protection circuit

Re: Broken battery protection circuit (was: Re: Battery driver problems?)

2008-07-06 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Tobias Diedrich wrote: That didn't help. 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

Battery driver problems?

2008-07-05 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Hi, I'm having trouble with the battery, is there maybe a newer kernel somewhere? The kernel complains: |May 20 12:48:15 om-gta02 user.err kernel: power_supply bat: driver failed to report `current_now' property |May 20 12:48:16 om-gta02 daemon.alert apmd[1286]: Warning: BATTERY IS LOW |May 20

Re: Battery driver problems?

2008-07-05 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Tobias Diedrich wrote: /sys/devices/platform/bq27000-battery.0/power_supply/bat says: capacity: 0 charge_full: 1223082 current_now: 2437 present: 1 status: Discharging technology: Li-ion temp: 346 time_to_empty_now: 0 time_to_full_now: 3932100 type: Battery voltage_now: 3778000 Now

SIM problems

2008-07-04 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Hi all, I just got my Freerunner today and I'm having trouble with my Vodafone prepaid SIM card. The SIM-card is almost 3 years old now and works fine in my old Benq EL-71. This might be a 3G Sim card, does anyone know how I can check if it is one? In the Freerunner, registering with the network