Re: Freerunner LightSaber
Upload it on opkg.org 2009/1/17 kris Occhipinti > Well, a few months ago, before I have a FreeRunner I saw a LightSaber > application for the iPhone, I thought was neat. > > So, I made My own for the FreeRunner Yesterday. > > Here is the link > http://filmsbykris.com/freerunner-debian/ko-user/ko-lightsaber.tar.gz > > How to install: > Just un-tar it to your root directory and it should place everything where > it needs to be > and give you an icon on your desktop. > > What it does: > Start the App and the phone sounds like a LightSaber Extending and then > Humming (You know, Like StarWars) > Swing the Phone Around and it sounds like you're having a LightSaber Fight. > > Features so Far: > Sound, Vibration, and The Power Button LED flashes Blue on Swings. > > Todo list: > Work on the GUI (Currently just a big exit button) > add buttons to extend and retract Saber ( so you don't have to exit the > program to stop the sounds ) > And some sort of graphic or image of a Light Saber. > Add More sounds > Have buttons so you can choose the color of you lightsaber. > > Bugs: > Sometimes while exiting, if you are still swinging the phone around, the > LED and/or the vibrator will stay on. > If this occurs, start the app up again and then close it with out swinging > the phone around. > I believe I can fix this with ease. I just wanted to get what I have done > out before I continued working on new things. > > I got the sound fx off a free sound fx website. Don't know who made them. > I hope it is ok that I used them. > > > ___ > 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: First impressions on new Android rootfs
Sean with the lastest image the gsm doesn't work :( 2008/12/3 Sean McNeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Gothnet wrote: > > > > Warren Baird wrote: > > > >> I agree Android looks like it has a lot of promise - but if you want a > >> functioning phone today - I'd suggest trying out QtExtended 4.4.2 - it > >> doesn't give you much more than basic phone functionality, but I've been > >> using it as my day-to-day phone for a month now, and am generally pretty > >> happy with it... > >> > >> Warren > >> > >> > > > > Qtopia is one of the two things I didn't try, SHR being the other. I gave > up > > on the rest because of the unresponsive interfaces, poor battery life, > > terrible remote echo (tried everything I could find), refusal to wake up > in > > a timely fashion on incoming calls etc. I was also discouraged by the > > prominence of "we should work on stuff for GTA03" comments on the lists. > > > > I now have a cheap sony-ericsson for the sake of my sanity, so I'll wait > > until android or other distro can provide a bit more than basic phone > > functions, or at least do it better than what I have. Android looks like > it > > could be the quickest route to solving most of the issues and the echo > was > > gone straight away. i know I ought to get off my a*se and help, but after > > the dayjob I don't have much appetite for coding and debugging right now. > > > > I'm uploading a new image right now that includes Ruis virtual keyboard. > Please give it 30 minutes or so to complete the upload. > > Sean > > > ___ > 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: TwitterMoko 0.4 out
Hi Carlo, TwitterMoko is very cool and I always use it ;) However, are you interested to make a client for Facebook? I really appreciate it too :) Bye and thank you for twittermoko PS: i am italian too :D 2008/12/3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > hi (sorry for my bad english) > i have released a new version of TwitterMoko (a client for twitter) > > check the wiki page http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/TwitterMoko > > ___ > 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: The forbidden topic: Glamo OpenGL
2008/11/14 Tim Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Wolfgang Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Openmoko actually has learnt a lot from this. First we have learnt to > > not trust high-level promises as much as before. > > In fact I would go as far as saying that going forward, we will not > > trust any promises about 'we will open this up later' anymore. > > Either it's open and documented at the time we make the decision to > > use those chips, or we look elsewhere. > > I believe that's what our customers want. > > Agreed, and awesome. > > > We have a long way to go to come out with kick-ass open phone > > hardware, but if our community doesn't loose faith and continues to do > > development together with us, we'll get there. The momentum we have > > built with the Freerunner is awesome. Please continue to buy > > Freerunners and to develop for it, same is happening internally. The > > next phones will build on top of the free platform we have built > > together, the technology investment will carry over. > > *crosses fingers and hopes* > > > Having said that, if someone wants to seriously develop for the glamo, > > please get in touch with me and we will find a legally correct way to > > extend the smedia documentation to you. > > In fact we have done that in a few cases before already, but I'm not > > sure how much actual codes have come out of that. I think very > > little ;-) > > So we need some really serious coders that don't mind a tough challenge. > > I am not a skilled developer, but I would be more than happy to > organize, and participate in a traditional clean room > re-implementation of the documentation. > > As a GTA02 owner, as a founding member of the Open Graphics Project, > as a Director of the Open Hardware Foundation, I believe I have the > resources to accomplish such a task. > > I'd love to try. > > Can we make it happen? > > --tim > > ___ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > Up for this request Wolfgang :) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Back to the basics: improving user experience
Why Qtopia? I prefer that you release the next minor update ( aka 2008.10 ) and focus all works on paroli and tichy. The new framework is pretty usable and stable. 2008/10/16 John Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:15:59PM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > > 2008.9 + updates > > > > A phone that works: > > reliably make and receive calls > > reliably make and receive sms's > > > > At the moment, totally losing sms messages (phone sometimes > > hangs/crashes when one comes in) or not waking up if suspended when one > > comes in means that its almost unusable as a phone. > > > > It often takes several boots before the pin dialog comes up. If you > > forget while waiting and it does come up but its awhile until you get to > > it, it will hang so you have to reboot anyway. Sometimes restarting X > > helps, but not always > > > > > > Stability: > > My average in normal usage is at least two boots a day due to crashes, > > and often extra rebooting to check if an sms comes in (sometimes they > > will only show on fresh re-registration. Leaving the phone on and > > registered for hours doesnt seem to help - not sure how vodafone > > australia takes to retry messages but surely its less that 12 hours. > > The only way to stop crashes is not to use the thing! No GPS, no > > wireless, no phone calls, and definitely never send/receive an sms :) > > > > I suspect the event/0 thread is at the root of a lot of this so I am > > waiting a fix for that. > > > > I dont think I am alone in this - hopefully the new focus means that > > these issues can be dealt with. > > > > I am a little concerned though that you think things like boot time is > > important enough to mention, but not basic issues like being able to > > reliably make a phone call. Though a faster boot means less time wasted > > going through multiple bootups to get the thing registered. :) > > I would like to explain a bit more about this: > > We're not the only team that will work on the new focus. Stability > should be greatly improved by the effort of FSO, and boot time is just > another thing we would also like to improve. > > At the same time, we will work on fixing qtopia bugs as well, so if > the problems you have is in trac already, we will look into them. > > > - John > > ___ > 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
