The workaround for this problem (source: trac ticket 1092) workaround does not appear to work around for me. To be precise, it worked the first time I tried it. The next 5 times or so, it did not work. Then it appeared to work once again. Then, for ALMOST AN HOUR, it did not work. Then it seemed to work -- once. I believe I am being exceedingly methodical; I have twice rebooted the phone, in hopes that the workaround would reliably work after a reboot. It did not. (when I say "does not work", I mean that no text is placed into the message edit window. WHen I say "it works", I mean that text does appear there).
I very recently flashed this phone with the latest testing images, according to the instructions in the manual: r...@om-gta02 ~ $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.29-rc3 (s...@opmbuild) (gcc version 4.4.3 (GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Tue Apr 20 01:12:32 CEST 2010 r...@om-gta02 ~ $ cat /etc/shr-version Tag Name: shr/testing2009-1rc1 VERSION: b182a1b0b6c02db1abd598b8783f28a5ec0daea3 Branch: shr/testing2010 Build Host: opmbuild Time Stamp: Tue, 04 May 2010 09:37:09 +0200 Just to check my understanding (how hard can this be, for goodness sake?), there are two sources of ambiguity in the instructions for the workaround: 1. After I tap "continue", there are actually TWO buttons marked "Back" on the screen (Grrr). Obviously, the "workaround" is to tap the "back" button of the "Messages" application, correct? (Tapping the other Back button should get me to the screen of a different application or Illume). 2. At one point, I thought that my problem was that I use the "Terminal" keyboard to type SMS. I switched to the default "predictive" keyboard by tapping on the icon at the upper right of the keyboard -- and it worked!! Text I typed was entered when I tapped on it in the little keyboard window. But Alas! this only worked once. I then thought that perhaps in order to work, one must not *attempt* to use the keyboard **until** one has done the "continute, then back" trick. This did not help either. Just to see if my keyboard or hardware might be at fault, I would randomly bring up a Terminal window at various points in this procedure. I could ALWAYS type into the terminal window (although this also requires a similar workaround, switching from the Term app and then back to it, in order to have text entered). I suppose I could attach the phone to my laptop, run X over SSH and perhaps (i say perhaps) I would have better luck on my laptop screen and keyboard. I will be very happy to put my phone on the outside of my firewall and let someone ssh (or anything else). Perhaps someone could write down VERY CAREFULLY the steps involved in the "workaround" -- I will certainly reproduce exactly what I am told. It is just that I have no choice but to throw away the phone if I can not type text messages from it. If you wish, by all means contact me directly. -- View this message in context: http://shr-users-discussions.2691941.n2.nabble.com/SHR-U-tp5525809p5548024.html Sent from the SHR Users discussions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
