<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Bastian Muck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bastian.muck@gmx.de">bastian.muck@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I had no problems with echo. But I can confirm the other issues. And one<br>
is missing: I can't recieve SMS. Does anyone? I wrote one to myself and<br>
a friend wrote one. after half an hour i turned neo off and put the card<br>
in my old phone and this recieved both messages.<br>
But now, i have another issue: somehow the theme changed. And at this<br>
theme the buttons at the bottom don't appear. so I neither can change<br>
nor do any other important things.<br>
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</blockquote><div>I used FR with Qtextended as my one and only daily phone today, because I lost my Motorokr E6 the night before the last (using OM2008.8-update was an actual waking nightmare yesterday). I have been very happy with the results so far, but the problems I have found, confirming yours are:<br>
<br>1. Default volume too low: had to hand-edit gsmhandset.state, the volume control in settings > call settings did not do the trick<br>2. Using the headset during a call requires you to select speakerphone from the menu - audio is routed usually through one earphone, but for the mic, you have to use the FR's speaker-mic. Selecting headset does not work - Could this mean the settings in gsmheadset.state and gsmspeakerout.state have been interchanged?<br>
3. Strong echo heard by most of the callers<br>4. Phone needs to be reminded of power management functions when plugged in - I have already saved the settings in (added to) my profile<br>5. Whenever a new SMS is received, the phone reports earlier messages as unread in the popup notification<br>
6. Some messages are received twice<br>7. Somehow, the phone seems to create copies of messages in the inbox - I now have 159 messages in one day, when the total received was perhaps 16. Sent items shows the correct number<br>
8. In GPRS settings, I can't modify the APN setting, so there is no way to figure out if it works. The wiki says here [1] that it should be specified in the chat file. However, I don't know if Qtextended uses the same functionality to connect to GPRS. There are no such files in /etc/ppp<br>
9. I don't think networking through usb0 works correctly. I have specified my proxy in settings > internet > new > ethernet, also exported it as an environment variable under SSH, but no cigar. Ping to <a href="http://www.google.com">www.google.com</a> or <a href="http://208.67.222.222">208.67.222.222</a> doesn't seem to work. I am using Freeproxy as a bridge between my corporate lan on my laptop, and the FR<br>
10. Due to 9 above, settings > software packages does not work. Neither does opkg, for much the same reason, although I believe nothing should be installed from the OM repositories<br>11. What about GPS? Both 8 and 9 mean there is no way to test how it works. Plus there are hardly any tried and tested routing / navigation applications available (roadmaps seems to be experimental, haven't tried it). We need something like TangoGPS or Navit<br>
12. The qwerty keyboard is too tiny and a bit messy. The predictive keyboard seems to have done away with the right-to-left flick for backspace<br><br>So there are twelve problems I can enumerate quickly, but they are not showstoppers. I believe most of these issues will be cleared up quickly. Battery life is much better than under any of the OMs, applications start up much faster and I haven't even tried fastload yet, and respond much faster too!<br>
<br>All in all, FR with Qtextended (4.4.1) is the closest I have gotten to a phone, much better than the 2007.2 factory image, which was quite buggy, and of course, everyone's favourite 2008.x.<br><br>[1] <a href="http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manually_using_GPRS#gprs-connect-chat.2C_version_1">http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manually_using_GPRS#gprs-connect-chat.2C_version_1</a></div>
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