Selling my Neo 1973

2008-06-28 Thread Igor Foox
Hi, I've had a Neo 1973 since they shipped first a while ago. Unfortunately I never had the time to hack on it, or to play around with it sufficiently to make the purchase worth while. So I decided to sell the device so that someone else might use it. I'm asking for $150 (Canadian or US). I'm

Re: Some feedback from using the neo as a phone for a day

2007-10-16 Thread Igor Foox
For anyone who's interseted I filed some of the issues as bugs in the bugzilla, others already existed. The new ones are listed bellow. On 10/14/07, Igor Foox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voice/Talking: - There is a very strong amplification of background noise when in a voice call. If you

Re: Some feedback from using the neo as a phone for a day

2007-10-15 Thread Igor Foox
On 10/15/07, Kero van Gelder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - The dialer application has the hangup button on the top right of the screen when in a call. When you actually talk on the phone it's _really_ easy to touch that part of the screen with your face, which results in 3-4 accidental

Some feedback from using the neo as a phone for a day

2007-10-14 Thread Igor Foox
Yesterday (and today) I used the neo as a phone for the first time, after gsm started mostly working out of the box. I'm really excited about this development and I think that it marks a huge milestone for the project. So congratulations to everyone who worked so hard on this project! I've got a

Re: I'm new in this list

2007-10-13 Thread Igor Foox
On 10/13/07, Marcin Juszkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dnia sobota, 13 października 2007, Graham Williams napisał: Not quite true that you can't make calls! Many have been making calls and messaging. Just not all that easy (e.g., using ssh/command line interfaces). With phone upgraded

Re: Can't flash smaller root-fs through dfu-util?

2007-08-22 Thread Igor Foox
On 8/21/07, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 21.08.2007 um 19:23 schrieb John Seghers: Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: After unsuccessfully flashing different root-filesystems, I finally found this note: If you upload rootfs image that is smaller that previous one it

Re: OpenMoko Flasher-1.2 (was: Flashing a new kernel under Mac OS X)

2007-08-16 Thread Igor Foox
will have to configure AJZaurusUSB again. Am 08.08.2007 um 19:01 schrieb Igor Foox: Hi, I've successfully used Nikolaus Schaller's AJZaurusUSB and OpenMoko Flasher applications to flash a new rootfs onto my new Neo. But I can't flash a new kernel into it. When I try flashing a kernel

Re: Flashing a new kernel under Mac OS X

2007-08-11 Thread Igor Foox
For other's future reference, I was able to find the dfu-util executable within the OS X .app package for OpenMoko Flasher and use that. On 8/8/07, Igor Foox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've successfully used Nikolaus Schaller's AJZaurusUSB and OpenMoko Flasher applications to flash a new

Resetting the icon theme

2007-08-11 Thread Igor Foox
Hi all, When I first booted the phone after flashing the kernel + rootfs, I didn't calibrate the touch screen properly, and then when trying to mess around with the stylus I somehow managed to mess up the gnome theme. The current state is that there are no icons showing up and instead I have

Re: Incorrect UPS tracking numbers?

2007-08-11 Thread Igor Foox
I had a similar problem, only my package didn't exist. When I called UPS they said there was an extra character in my tracking number and it was invalid. I tried removing each character one by one until I got the right one. I guess it might be something different in your case because your

Flashing a new kernel under Mac OS X

2007-08-11 Thread Igor Foox
Hi, I've successfully used Nikolaus Schaller's AJZaurusUSB and OpenMoko Flasher applications to flash a new rootfs onto my new Neo. But I can't flash a new kernel into it. When I try flashing a kernel with OpenMoko Flasher it tries to write it into the rootfs partition instead of the

Re: What happened to the order?

2007-07-27 Thread Igor Foox
I'm in a similar situation, only I'm in Canada, not the US, and I ordered the non-advanced kit. But I also received the payment received email, but no shipping email as of yet. On 7/27/07, Jon Radel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understood correctly orders within the U.S. was shipped first,

Re: Replying to digests Was: Re: community Digest, Vol 36, Issue 48

2007-07-19 Thread Igor Foox
On 19-Jul-07, at 6:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem I see with only having IRC/mailing list is that there is no way to search through archived subjects. So if there was a widespread problem with the OpenMoko software, instead of posting a sticky in the forum about it, people

Re: Some light ahead...

2007-04-27 Thread Igor Foox
On 27-Apr-07, at 5:09 PM, Duncan Hudson wrote: Jim Thompson wrote: 1) the Openmoko-for-customers is slated for 9/11/07, so it was going to ship after the Q207 date for the iPhone in any case. It was supposed to be in developers enthusiasts hands back in February - was it not? The plan

Article: Canada's New Government Provides Free Online Access to Digital Mapping Data

2007-04-06 Thread Igor Foox
http://www.news.gc.ca/cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=290039 Experts and other users of digital topographic data will no longer have to pay to use digital versions of government maps and data...As well as waiving access fees, NRCan is lifting all cost and licence restrictions on the

Re: Idea: Wake me during light sleep

2007-03-13 Thread Igor Foox
On 12-Mar-07, at 11:53 AM, Ian Stirling wrote: Dean Collins wrote: Hey guys, you're missing the point. You need to stop thinking of the openmoko device being a standalone unit, you are always connected to your pc when in mobile phone coverage. Just use your gprs data link. Start thinking of

Idea: Location based reminders

2007-03-05 Thread Igor Foox
Hi, I just added this to the wiki: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist:Location_based_reminders It's a bit related to context based todo list (http:// wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist:context_based_to-do_list) but a different type of event. I came up with the idea today when I was working

Re: FOSDEM OpenMoko talk now on video.google.com

2007-02-27 Thread Igor Foox
On 2/26/07, Rod Whitby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ole Tange wrote: I had hoped there was video coverage of the event. When I found out there was not I asked one of the better seated persons to record the event using my pocket camera. I have yet to see if the recording is acceptable.