Hi, I just read the overview of testing Sean's Android image. It feels really weird that so many things that I encountered were opposite to what the testing results show. I used the Dec 4/5 Android image, with QI, for quite a few days in a row, and this is what I experienced differently:
> [Battery Life] > * It's not really charging, even you plug in AC charger or USB cable, the > power still reducing. It was charging very nicely, could monitor the charging (battery charge %) easily in the Settings area. The battery lasted about 4, max 5 hours. The only problem is, that if it completely discharged, had to use another distro to boot from, otherwise it just takes too long time in the boot process until the charging code kicks in (i guess), and could not get it booted. > [Calling] > * GSM signal strength seems a bit unstable, sometimes just can't get any > signal then I have to boot again. Signal was quite good, actually I got better signal sometimes than with my normal Nokia (okay, that's not a qualitative comparison), though I sometimes it took a while to register to the network. > * Call quality is good. The people on the other end of the call can hear me very nicely, but the sound level on the Freerunner is so low, that couldn't understand anything if not in a completely quiet environment. Keyboard volume +/- keys are not working (and even if they would be, it takes black magic to get them during a call) > [Messaging] > * After try to send SMS, phone will lost GSM signal, so you can't send or > receive SMS. Okay, it was the same for me, but the most annoying. When sending a message the phone cuts the connection and couldn't get it back until the message is deleted and the phone is rebooted. > [Contacts] > * Can't read contacts saved in SIM. Can load SIM contacts without problem, though only one by one (as I checked, the original Android code has an "import all" function, not just an "import this one", though missing from this build, not sure why.) Cannot save to SIM, however.. [System] > * Can't set ringtone after X hour usage I couldn't set ringtone almost at all. When starting the Ringtones from the Settings menu, it opened and closed right away, the log saying that "low memory". When setting ringtone for individual contacts from the contact list, it worked, though... Also, there were some other apps that didn't work with the same "low memory" fail. Couldn't trace it back yet. Oh, and it works just fine with my 3G (TWN Mobile) card, well, if the message problem is not due to the 3G-ness.... Read about the fresh release from Koolu, will try to set that up and improve things. Hope this testing will be at least some use. Cheers, keep up the great work.... Greg _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
