New Freerunner, factory image - "Registering..."

[Marcus Bauer]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:01 -0500, Greg Bonett wrote:
> >
> > Anyway, once booted to the factory image I get continuously a
> > "Registering..." message in the top-left corner of the Home screen.
> > After 30 minutes or so this message persists.
> >
> 
> Did you get this resolved?  I'm having the same experience right now. 
> Still doing some testing though...


This is a defective GSM modem.

http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1024

>From my four Neo's two show the problem. It is the same with the FSO
image. 

The modem will connect over and over again to the cell tower and thus
quickly drain the battery.

But this is okay. It is just a Heisenbug. The OM team is doing a great
job and we should alltogether stop this kind of negative messages.



/me, putting my teletubby hat on ;-p