Re: WIKI is in read-only mode?
I wrote to admin (on the address mentioned here http://admin-trac.openmoko.org/trac), will see for feedback. Current admin actually shouldn't do anything. Just delegate rights to somebody else. I'm ready to participate in this process to, by the way. On 16/03/13 15:38, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Radek Polak wrote: Maybe i am wrong but openmoko as company is for years dead and nobody of the old admins is willing to spend much time on maintaining the infrastructure. There are other folks willing to maintain the infrastructure (such as me), but it seems the current admins don't have time to do the cleanup of stuff that is needed before they can add new admins who never worked for OpenMoko Inc. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: WIKI is in read-only mode?
Hi Radek and everybody, But one day your GTA02 will stop working - it might fall on the floor or whatever. GTA04 is only replacement - that's why it's important to support GTA04 - either by donation or buying the device. how it connected with the subject? This is not a reason to move the wiki or close it. This is an open source project, the marketing stereotypes (that the new generation hardware is the better replacement for old one) just not applicable. Just because that targeted to stimulate consumer market for sales, but not to give ability to people to create whatever they want. The potential of the hardware is not equal to the formal functionality of device. I plan to use the GTA02 as a core for robotic system, for example. Someone else maybe create something else with it (whatever it could be). It's logical to keep all data in one well know habitual knowledge base. And it's logical to keep it open for new supplements. Maybe i am wrong but openmoko as company is for years dead and nobody of the old admins is willing to spend much time on maintaining the infrastructure. I guess the number of spammers is now 1000x higher the number of contributors, that's why it's readonly. And it's no wonder that GTA04 has separate wiki because of these reasons. I'm as a user of wiki just don't care whether it contains some spam or not. I have a will to clean it if I found it, or doesn't if I'm lazy (or whatever). This is totally not a point. Honestly I don't understand the reason to close the access for users (who are main audience of the recourse) just to avoid the spam. It's ridiculous. Dmitry ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
WIKI is in read-only mode?
Hi list, I just found that I'm not able to write to wiki today. And I see that some time ago there was discussion regarding of possibility to switch it to read-only mode or even move somewhere else. IMHO this is a wrong idea. Wiki is an open platform by its nature. So the volume of spam -- is just a result of that 1. visitors don't clean the spam when they found it 2. there is no capcha or any relevant mechanism to prevent robo-spam posting And another theme I was alerted by: this is a splitting of wiki for GTA02 and GTA04. I honestly don't really like that idea not even because I still use GTA02 and have no plans to reject it just because more powerful device is on the market, but also because a I'm not really love idea of "buying new gadget just because it has more powerful processor". I love idea of keeping old hardware living for maximum long time, for reusing it and for improvement of functionality in the frames of given power. And I believe that a lot of people support my point of view. So, please don't archive old wiki and don't make it read-only. This is wrong way IMHO. And the main question. How to get access to the wiki eventually? thank you in advance, Dmitry ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GTA02 power death
On 23/12/12 08:58, robin wrote: I hope you can bring the board back to life! Best of luck for that. I hope so... How satisfied were you with the battery (lifetime / decrease in storage capacitance over time?) as it seems to be quite a good bargain. generally not bad. after 3 years of using original one (and when it starts to get quickly off) that was great improvement. Note that this battery have other protection module and not able to report the current and charging level. I have been planned to try to add original battery protection module instead, but the new battery made really robust and I'm not pretty sure that I want to disassemble it. However, the other idea is to purchase some more-less similar (by dimentions) on aliexpress and try to place it in original case. (the original battery disassembling is quite simple) D ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GTA02 power death
BTW, the bass rework looks very similar to what i was doing, i wonder who did that :) too bad it looks like i didn't warn everyone strong enough (though i did put a big fat warning on the rework page) when i discovered the shield must be additionally insulated after the rework, i apologise for that :/ heh, that thing flicked in my head when I solder capacitors, but I just give it up and limit the protection with tiny piece of sticky tape. Which is obviously was not enough :) Can you share the technique you used to desolder it? with hot air soldering station. but actually I fount that temperature is not enough (and I was a bit afraid to overheat PCF50633). So eventually I pick it out with the pincer helping myself with classic soldering iron. this is result of procedure http://www.shalnoff.com/pics/freerunner_desoldered_inductor.JPG Taking a closer look at the schematics and the PCF50633 datasheet i see that this inductor is part of the main step-up/step-down auto converter with an output current as big as 1.1A. It works at 1.7MHz frequency (the irc log i found appears to be unrelated). As far as i can tell that's unrelated to the self-resonance frequency of the inductor (that's always much higher for the modern parts). I'd get the one with>1.1A rated current, and on 1.7MHz all of those having self-resonant frequency of 50MHz should work decently. I do not understand much in EE though so probably you'll want some quick advice from those who really knows inductive step-up/down converters. aha... everything is clear. I'll try one and report the result. I never removed LCD too, and everything was fine. It's shielded from the heat by the PCB itself, and i doubt you could have heated it up too much. it gives the hope :) will see. Best of luck! thank you again! have a nice weekend and happy Xmass! ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
looking for used (or broken) GTA02 (whole or PCB) to purchase
Hi list! Is there anybody have broken screen GTA02 for sale? or maybe intact PCB after upgrade to GTA04? I'll be appreciate for reasonable price or maybe somebody just could give it for free (almost free) after upgrade. thank you in advance! Dmitry ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
GTA02 power death
Hi everybody, The situation: I've use for a couple of month this battery http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Battery-Cell-Fit-RoHS-Garmin-GPS-Mobile-10-GPS-Mobile-10x-GPS10-/300575864789?pt=UK_In_Car_Technology&hash=item45fbb7b7d5 yesterday my device accidently start switching off (after night recharging) and make some strange buzzing on power on without any visible activity (screen was kept black). So I decide that is a known "complete battery drain" problem and try to animate the device with external power. However, after several attempts I've got it booted. The screen picture was surprisingly inverted (!) but after sleep and awaking procedure it gets normal. After that, I've got idea to measure the battery voltage and found that it is 4.1 v (instead normal 3.7). Eventually I deside to leave it as is and try to find the cause at morning. I switch it off and go to sleep. Today I repeat operation with all similar symptomes (noise on power on without any other reactions) but without any success. Contrariwise, after several iterations of unsuccessful tries, when I power it on with battery and original USB adapter, it suddenly turned on for the second, then screen start gets brigther and finally I feel sweet smell of burning isolation :) I immediately remove all power sources, disassemble the device and found that I've burned some tiny IC near the PCF50633HN. The question: I digg all internets regarding the PCB layout but can't find anything relevant (there is no PCB layout on the wiki?). I suppose that was RT9013 (at least that only component in this schematic block that has similar package) but I'm not sure. Could anybody help me to identify this component? here is HiRes picture of the patient http://www.shalnoff.com/pics/freerunner_pcb.JPG You easily find it by burning fume around it :) except of that would be intereting to get some hints what the real reason cause this situation. And why LiPo battery can start to show 4.1v? I suppose that has some connection to the charging procedure (I use QTmoko without the non-original battery patch). Thank you for any hints in advance! Plan to purchase and resolder it. Dmitry ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
battery with replaced protection circuit module
Hi colleagues, I've got the idea to get the circuit form my old GTA2 battery and solder it on the new LiPo (non original) battery to get back full functionality. I've learned the circuit scheme and data-sheet http://people.openmoko.org/tony_tu/GTA02/hardware/GTA02/CT-GTA02.pdf and found that there are no special requirements concerning the battery itself. S8211CAB-I6T1G data-sheet has nothing like this too. The questions are: 1. is it possible theoretically replace body of the battery and resolder the old protection board on it? 2. is anybody had this sort of experience ever? thank you in advance for any hints. Dmitry ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
[QtMoko] New non original battery
Hi colleagues, I've got fresh new battery replacement (Garmin GPS Mobile 10x 1100 mAh Li-ion) form ebay. Everything works fine and predictable. Current strength is not reported :) But, is there any method to switch charging indicator off? and, maybe, force it to show real capacity? as far as I know that is not an issue of the battery itself, it could be measured my the external ADC? no? NB. I have been following this instruction to unbind unnecessary driver and install dumb-one http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Battery_Questions_and_Answers#Using_compatible_batteries_with_gta02 Dmitry ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [qtmoko] charging-discharging problems
(sorry, previous letter has wrong subject) Dear colleagues, something strange happens with my Freerunner after update for new wersion of QtMoko (maybe it's not relevant to update). Anyway, the device start discharging after full charge cycle and doing this till the end of the battery. After that it just turn off ... or (!) if I replug the power supply, it properly starts the charging cycle again. Is anybody have any hints? solutions? As I know, the power control daemon turns charging and discharging on and off periodically. Maybe this is a cause? NB I have been trying "USB connection mode" app, I wasn't pretty sure that it doing anything as far it has no feedback, but maybe it relevant to the problem by somehow? Dmitry ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [qtmoko] dpkg-reconfigure locale resizes most of the fonts and no gps fix possible anymore(?)
Dear colleagues, something strange happens with my Freerunner after update for new wersion of QtMoko (maybe it's not relevant to update). Anyway, the device start discharging after full charge cycle and doing this till the end of the battery. After that it just turn off ... or (!) if I replug the power supply, it properly starts the charging cycle again. Is anybody have any hints? solutions? As I know, the power control daemon turns charging and discharging on and off periodically. Maybe this is a cause? NB I have been trying "USB connection mode" app, I wasn't pretty sure that it doing anything as far it has no feedback, but maybe it relevant to the problem by somehow? Dmitry On 25/08/12 13:05, Ed Kapitein wrote: On 08/24/2012 08:09 PM, robin wrote: hi all I wanted to have the new anki 2.0 flash cards on my GTA, but it always complained that it the system was not set to UTF8. In the end I succeeded by running dpkg-reconfigure locale but since then my fonts are very large (not everywhere but on most screens) and this is for all themes. Also since then I cannot get a fix for NeronGPS anymore ;-( even though the finxi home screen tells me that /dev/ttySAC1 has up to 9 satelites and the output seems to show satelites as well. Same behaviour with navit. Any help welcome as I really like the GTA02 for navigating/maps and for flashcard learing. Robin ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community Hi Robin, I am afraid i can't help you with the fonts, but perhaps with the gps. Is there a gpsd running on the FR? Or if it uses dbus, can you monitor if dbus gets location and satelite updates? If gpsd is running, you could save the nmea data to a file and use gpsbabel to check if you have a fix or not. Kind regards. Ed ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: QtMoko v47 for Freerunner
Great idea with current indication by the way. Very usefull. Dmitry ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
QTPlayer
Hi again, just one more question that I can't find any hint for. When I play music in QTPlayer, it changes the video mode by some reason (and interface stretches outside the screen). How could I prevent it? thank you in advance for help :) cheers, Dmitry ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Media-Player
Hi everybody, Is anybody know how to add music files in Media-Player? this instruction doesn't gives any results http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/QtMoko#MP3_Audio thank you in advance for help! regards, Dmitry ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: QtMoko v47 for Freerunner
Hi Radeka and all, Thank you and all contributors for great distro! To my mind it's the best with equitation with all others for Freerunner existed. by the way, what happened with www.qtmoko.org? Do you plan to move everything somewhere? There was all QTMOKO repos, if I'm not mistaken. Where is all QTMOKO repos now? best regards, Dmitry On 20/08/12 20:18, Radek Polak wrote: Hi, QtMoko v47 for Freerunner is now ready for download here [1]. You can visit our homepage for more info [2]. On our homepage you can see the detailed list of changes in News section. Most notable change is upgrade Qt to 4.7 version and new web browser (Yberbrowser) which renders nicely web pages and is touch friendly. You can see it in action here [3]. There are also many other changes like displaying current_now on homescreen, improved GPS, qmplayer and other stuff. Btw i was not able to get fix in v47 - maybe my antena is not mounted properly, becasue i can see NMEA on the serial port. I hope you will enjoy the release and there are no regressions. Regards Radek [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/GTA02/ [2] http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZBUr_Qs3Zk ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [QtMoko] ZX spectrum emulator doesn't appears
Yep. it's works. thank you :) On 03/06/11 10:50, Radek Polak wrote: On Thursday 02 June 2011 12:21:35 Dmitry Shalnoff wrote: ... sorry I didnt' point in my previous message that I speaking about QtMoko - Hi everybody, I'm trying to install ZX spectrum emulator form official repository but it's doesn't appears in the list of games and home/you/.qspectemu directory wasn't created. that seems that allication wasn't installed properly. Could anybody help and direct me in right way? Hi, the postinst rule has wrong directory (Applications instead of games). You can solve this easily by installing some other game and it should appear. Or you can do this command from terminal: qcop QPE/DocAPI 'scanPath(QString,int)' /opt/qtmoko/apps/Games/ 1 or you can reinstall fixed version (working on it now, it should be there soon). Regards Radek ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
general SD card read/write problem
Hello Everybody, I have a periodically appeared problem with SD card writing/reading functionality. I has several cards to try and found some correlation with size and speed type of the card. ' Problems are appers when I'm trying to write intensively on the card. Usually on the next boot I found filesystem corrupted and cant' mount card anymore till I fsck it (with predictable files damage) or reformat. generally it's looks like 16GB cards almost 100% cases have problems. and as I suppose 4 class cards more prone to problem than class 6. Question is simple: Is my suspicions are correct (concerning class and card size)? what is general recommendations? Who has any good/bad experience with different types of cards? I know about this topic http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Supported_microSD_cards , but it's doesn't looks like relevant tutorial to buy fail-safe SD and obviously this problem doesn't rely on brand name too. thank you beforehand for any help, Dmitry ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
[QtMoko] ZX spectrum emulator doesn't appears
... sorry I didnt' point in my previous message that I speaking about QtMoko - Hi everybody, I'm trying to install ZX spectrum emulator form official repository but it's doesn't appears in the list of games and home/you/.qspectemu directory wasn't created. that seems that allication wasn't installed properly. Could anybody help and direct me in right way? Thank you beforehand, Dmitry ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
ZX spectrum emulator doesn't appears
Hi everybody, I'm trying to install ZX spectrum emulator form official repository but it's doesn't appears in the list of games and home/you/.qspectemu directory wasn't created. that seems that allication wasn't installed properly. Could anybody help and direct me in right way? Thank you beforehand, Dmitry ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: 2.5 vs 3.5 jack and some other considerations
On 16/02/11 23:28, David Lanzendörfer wrote: Hi list, Hello list-user :-) is anybody here from GTA04 developers? yes if it's not late, would be great to hear some case concerning 2.5 jack retention. That's only thing I found objectionable in the current tech. specification. is it possible to change it in final PCB version to 3.5 standard socket to make it compatible with most widespread headphones standard? Well, I'm plagued by the same issue. Here where I live, all connectors are Ø3.5mm while the FreeRunner has Ø2.5mm. I talked with Nikolaus about this topic already, and it's not that easy. The board wouldn't fit into the case anymore, that understandable reason, but ... I see simple compromise, which is, to my mind, quite suitable for device audience and relevant to the spirit of the project... this is not a big difference with 2.5 and 3.5 socket pads. why not make just a bit wider pads under the socket to give a possibility to solder other jack for the people who would like to do that and ready to drill case hole to make it wider. If I don't mistake ther is enough space over the socket in the case and even if not, the case easly can be modified by little filing. at least (even if it stay in current status), what would be good to take into account this is the order of pins in the socket. Current GTA02 jack have non standard punout where is a 3 contacts jack just short one channel and to get normal stereo you need to get 4 contact jack and 3 pins socket and resolder it by youself (that what I did, for example) this adapter (which has similar order of contacts on the both sides) didn't work http://www.dealextreme.com/p/2-5mm-male-to-3-5mm-female-adapter-cable-white-14-5cm-23191 so you would have need for a new one too... Good thing is, that we also are already planning the gta05, and there I'm organizing an amazing, cool and totally innovative new chassis in addition. Can't tell too much as long as the specs are not CC-License, but: It's TOTALLY cool ;-D Heh :) that's sounds promising. would you like to make it public on early stage? it's open hardware project. let people to get involved. Just one last think... it's about the case and screen size. I totally like current form-factor and, as designer, I found it very interesting and relevant to the idea of the project. I really like that hole and that's difference from hundreds of other mass-market pocket bricks. But the big minus of the current case that a limitation of the screen size. Probably, would be great to focus on form-factor "flexibility" and modularity of the hardware (as I suspect, you, probably, already planning something in this way). Ideally that could be really great to have a chance to repack all hardware in selfmade case with _other_screen_ and other set of peripheral devices. (is LCD have a standard interface?) It would gives dramatically new abilities for individuals and small design companies to create customised portable devices. anyway, thank you guys that you continue the project. I reckon that it's just a beginning of the big movement which eventually changes our understanding of the market and design of things. best regards, Dmitry best regards lev ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
2.5 vs 3.5 jack
Hi list, is anybody here from GTA04 developers? if it's not late, would be great to hear some case concerning 2.5 jack retention. That's only thing I found objectionable in the current tech. specification. is it possible to change it in final PCB version to 3.5 standard socket to make it compatible with most widespread headphones standard? I think that major of participants and users could be agree with me in this aspect. Dmitry. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
