Newbie: Converting a brick to a phone

Tom Yates madhatter at teaparty.net
Tue Dec 9 08:35:11 CET 2008


On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Roland Whitehead wrote:

> Yes there are many different distributions out there but what is very 
> clearly missing are simple, obvious instructions on how to go from a 
> brick to a working device - just a machine that will turn on and off, 
> will ring, answer and make calls, not hang and not have buzzing when on 
> a call.

modulo the buzzing, which i never had and cannot therefore say how to get 
rid of, my OM running 2008.09 does all that.  it's my day-to-day business 
and personal phone.

full instructions, including the version of images i'm booting from and 
what i've done to fix each of the problems, are at 
http://www.teaparty.net/technotes/openmoko-2.html .

> If you have a working machine, could you blat it and rebuild it to get 
> to the same position as you are in now?

yes, i've done so twice, that's what the instructions are for.  but 
hopefully they'll be of some use to you, too!


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       Tom Yates  -  http://www.teaparty.net




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