Re: [FSO] milestone V on GTA01 - U-Boot updates

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Montour
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: >U-Boot probably needs a patch for the Neo1973 to fully work with such > cards, just like it did for the Freerunner: Someone else was working on Neo1973 SDHC support last month - see http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2009-March/009499.html

Re: GSM Power Control

2009-03-23 Thread Mike Montour
Joel B. Land wrote: > > > http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/support/2008-August/001121.html > > What about the Freerunner? It has the same GSM chipset as the Neo1973 so there should be no difference. ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko

Re: GSM Power Control

2009-03-21 Thread Mike Montour
Joel B. Land wrote: > Is the phone’s GSM modem doing power control? > [...] > I can change the received field strength (rxlvl) by moving in and > outside, but not the txlvl. > This because the power is always the same? The phone's actual transmitted power level does change - I tested this in t

Re: BrokenMoko (burnt)

2009-03-15 Thread Mike Montour
Werner Almesberger wrote: > Another theory is that the bead doesn't like 1 A for extended > periods of time. But then, if this was a general problem, we'd > see more units with that issue. As far as I know, yours is the > only one that did this. > > Yet another theory (by Joerg) is that your powe

Re: More than 7 partitions on the SD [entering OT]

2009-03-15 Thread Mike Montour
Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano wrote: > If you read > that file, there are the specs about mmcblk files, major and minor > number, it's ok, nothing new, but reading that it's explained that scsi > disks devices should be at most 16 devices, am i correct? There are 16 SCSI disk devices available with

Re: Stylus

2009-01-22 Thread Mike Montour
Marc Rios wrote: > Anybody knows where can I buy another stylus?? http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.849 ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support

Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick / pcf50633 defaults

2009-01-07 Thread Mike Montour
Andy Green wrote: > There's two interesting ideas from Mike though, one is that disable USB > insert as ON will help by giving longer for VB_SYS to charge and the > other is leave charger enabled. For both of these, they are defeated > (USB insert is ON action, charger disabled) by NOPOWER and we

Re: GTA02 is now an expensive brick

2009-01-05 Thread Mike Montour
Gothnet wrote: > I still find it amazing that the FR doesn't charge when off and empty. Every > phone (and every other portable device) I've ever owned does this. It's not > even a software thing - there ought to be some direct hardware way to charge > the battery from totally dead without the nee

Re: Bricked?

2008-09-14 Thread Mike Montour
Armin ranjbar wrote: > so i did connected my device to minicom , i thought that there might be > something wrong with nand memory , i did 'erase all' and 'nand erase' , > then i have tried 'reset' which cause device to hang ( white screen of > death! ) If you ran "nand erase" without specifying

Re: Revive Freerunner with USB power?

2008-09-11 Thread Mike Montour
William Kenworthy wrote: > Only leaves the gsm chip (that doesnt register on the charge counter as > its directly connected to the battery, correct?) - whats it doing? The charge counter is inside the battery so it does show the current drawn by the GSM chip. Sorry, I don't know the answer to yo

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Montour
Angus Ainslie wrote: > It doesn't completely turn off charging. It drops to a 100mA trickle > charge which is insufficient to keep the battery topped up with the GSM > radio turned on. That's why the batteries state of discharge is slower > when its plugged into the charger ( even the wall char

Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Montour
Dale Maggee wrote: > Hi, > > currently when I have my freerunner plugged into USB, it will charge to > 100% and then start (slowly) discharging. If I unplug the USB cable and > plug it back in, it charges back up to 100 percent, then starts > discharging again. That might be normal - the charg

Re: using openocd

2008-09-01 Thread Mike Montour
Lynn Nguyen wrote: > I tried the sequence but still the same errors. > > Should I have a /dev/ttyUSB1 when I plug in the debug board? because i > dont... You should, as long as you have the ftdi_sio module loaded with the right vendor/product IDs for the debug board (0x1457/0x1458). Here's wha

Re: using openocd

2008-09-01 Thread Mike Montour
Lynn Nguyen wrote: > An easily made but devastating mistake is to forget to actually > activate the CPU. Just connecting power is not enough ! Press and > hold the power button until the boot loader does its count-down, or, > in case there is no runnable boot loader, the CPU keeps

Re: updating uboot while the phone's running

2008-08-26 Thread Mike Montour
robin paulson wrote: > in a bid to do away with dfu and usb networking altogether - it all > seems a bit clunky to be honest - is it possible to update uboot while > the phone is running? It's not supported yet (AFAIK) but I think that it would be possible. It's not as easy as flashing the kern

Re: Support for pre-paid system notifications

2008-08-21 Thread Mike Montour
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > Once I know his this works, I'll be glad to add it to the framework. Can you > give me a dump of the AT commands? With my carrier (Fido Prepaid in Canada) these notifications are sent as USSD messages. http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1226 has a couple of ex

Re: Can't Boot Qtopia from microSD

2008-08-06 Thread Mike Montour
Andy Green wrote: > setenv bootcmd mmcinit \; ext2load mmc 2 0x3200 uImage.bin \; > setenv bootargs \${mtdparts} rootfstype=ext2 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 > console=ttySAC2,115200 loglevel=4 init=/sbin/init \; bootm 0x3200 ; boot > > Notice on ext2load the first number is the partition index i

Re: Buzzing sound

2008-08-05 Thread Mike Montour
Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > BS decides on this depending on signal-quality of MS as BS sees it. > It would be *very* helpful to confirm this, by using some RF-meter (e.g. > microwave leakage tester?), and/or reading the battery current, while > observing the noise come and go- I tested this a wh

Re: Is a 12 MB/s microSD overkill for what the glamo driver does?

2008-07-30 Thread Mike Montour
Jim Colton wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I looked at the code your wrote. It doesn't do anything that 'time dd' > already can do. It includes an fsync() in the timing measurement when writing the file, and does a posix_fadvise() before reading it back (both intended to make sure that the I/O is going

Re: Is a 12 MB/s microSD overkill for what the glamo driver does?

2008-07-30 Thread Mike Montour
Jim Colton wrote: > If anyone cares this is the card I have coming and will speed test by > using dd(1) from the device to dev/null. I wrote a small benchmark program that will measure both read and write speeds for a file. A binary is available at http://members.shaw.ca/mmontour/neo/iospeed

Re: mkfs.vfat on 2007.02

2008-07-25 Thread Mike Montour
Aaron Sowry wrote: > However the problem as it stands currently is that there doesn't seem to > be a package containing mkfs.vfat, or at least I can't find out what it > is. Anyone? It's in dosfstools. You can bitbake it yourself with OE/MokoMakefile or download one that I've built from http:

Re: Battery discharging after long time connected to the power charger ?

2008-07-19 Thread Mike Montour
Olivier Berger wrote: > I've just noticed something strange. > > If 'm not mistaken, the battry was reported discharging (whith 'apm') > while the FR was connected to the power charger (provided with the > FR). I've seen another report of this behavior on IRC. There was a similar bug reported a

Re: gta02, 2007.2: configure what to start on boot (gsm, gps, wifi, ...); gsm special number

2008-07-18 Thread Mike Montour
nick loeve wrote: > I do not know if gsmd supports sending USSD requests (which is the > protocol for these types of messages), but i do not think the dialer > knows how to do it. There's a Trac entry for USSD support - http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1226 ___

Re: can't log into nor flash

2008-07-17 Thread Mike Montour
ChandleWEi wrote: > but nothing happen > > anyone have some advice? Boot into Linux and execute "hexdump /dev/mtd0 | head". See if you get the same output that is shown in http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1568 ___ support mailing list support@li