On 12/19/07, Lorn Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Michael Lauer wrote: > > "Jørgen P. Tjernø" wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > > > >> I've recently left my Neo1973 silent and lonely, due to being swamped > >> with projects and school. But smoe time ago I heard there was an issue > >> with the GSM modem after resuming from suspend - and this prevents the > >> batterytime to getting even close to bearable. > > > > Right. > > > >> Is this still present? > > > > Unfortunately yes. > > > >> What're the specifics of the issue, and are the > >> OpenMoko-guys working on it? Is it a software issue, or an actual > >> hardware defect? > > > > IIRC this is missing some glue in the kernel to set the serial port > > and/or modem back to a known state before gsmd continues to read from > > it. If you can't find a bug in bugzilla about that, please open one. > > Feel free to rate it as BLOCKER. > > > > I am not so sure that's necessarily the whole issue. Of course, I could > be wrong. > > I haven't tried this with openmoko/gsmd, but if you delete the ttySAC0 > and then create it again before you power it up (like I do with the > qtopia startup script), at least with Qtopia, suspend/resume starts > working more or less correctly. (this doesn't matter if there is a > /dev/ttySAC0 entry in bootloader or not) It even wakes up for an > incoming voice call. More or less. If it were a simply a matter of > putting the chip/serial device into a known state on resume before you > read from it, this would probably not work at all with Qtopia. > > Unfortunately, the device (at least mine), occasionally gets into a > state where it won't wake up, (or powers itself down), and requires a > battery pull. But I have gone at least a day and half without plugging > in the neo (could be two), and having a workable phone.
You mean as described http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/12/04/neo-neuros-and-other-things/ right? Um, an annoying newbie question (but that will probably help a lot of people:) could you post the commands for deleting/creating a device? I fought with makedevs for an afternoon and couldn't figure it out. Thanks, -Nick
