Hi all,<br><br>I thought I'd share my experiences so far with the testing release. I've been using QT Extended 4.4.3 as my primary phone for more than 6 months now, but I decided to try putting the OM2009 TR3 build on my SD card to give it a shot.<br>
<br>I've only done minimal testing so far - I've been able to successfully make and receive a phone call, and the first sms I sent work, however the second one seemed to hang while saying 'sending' for quite a while. I was very happy to see that receiving a phone call while suspended woke up about as quickly as QtE 4.4.3, so I was able to easily answer the call - unlike my experience with OM 2008.<br>
<br>However, I'd have to say that coming from QT Extended, the paroli user experience requires a *lot* of work - enough that my first thought was that my install didn't work. <br><br>I saw a black screen with white text showing the time and date at the top, and 4 lines with "I/O" (or "1/0" - I can't tell for sure), "People", "Tele" and "Msgs" on it. On each of the following pages there's no real indication what to do. The first thing I did was click on the "I/O" page, and saw a blank page with an edit button at the top that seemed to do nothing. Then I tried to figure out how to get back to the main page... Took me a lot of random clicking to figure out that clicking on the date at the top takes you back to the home page. <br>
<br>The Tele page is a little more intuitive, but again, it wasn't obvious to me that the text 'Call' near the top was an actual button.<br><br>I found the msgs page very confusing. I did figure out fairly quickly that '+' tries to send a new message - and I was able to send a message and get a reply. I do actually like the IM like display showing the messages back and forth. However, I couldn't really figure out what to do to send a new message to the existing conversation. I got into a mode where it seemed to be letting me edit the sms message I had just recieved, but couldn't figure out how to just reply.<br>
<br>It seems like OM2009 has addressed the technical problems that encouraged me to switch to QtE originally - but I must admit that unless the user experience is *substantially* improved, I doubt I'll be switching off QtE.<br>
<br>Is there work ongoing in terms of producing a better user experience for OM2009? I'd love to contribute. I don't have piles of spare time, but I've done a bunch of python coding, am pretty good with the gimp, and worked with a Ph.D in user experience for long enough to have half a clue about user interface design. <br>
<br>Warren<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Angus Ainslie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nytowl@openmoko.org">nytowl@openmoko.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Max<br>
<br>
Thanks Risto for answering some of these.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On May 13, 2009 04:18:47 am Max wrote:<br>
> First of all thank you for hard work Angus.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Hey I just put the lego together you should be thanking Mirko, and the FSO<br>
team.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> The very essential things I expect from om-whatever are:<br>
> - send and receive calls to\from phones in international format e. g.<br>
> starting with + like +790934534...<br>
> - read and create contacts both in English and Russian from both sim<br>
> card and internal db<br>
> - send and receive sms both in English and Russian<br>
<br>
</div>This should be fixed in the unstable feed. To get it you will need to install<br>
Om2009 and the bring that package in from unstable or wait for TR4<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> - lock and unlock screen by pressing aux button<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>AUX button has other uses<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I guess it's pretty common expectations and it sometimes work somehow<br>
> with om2008.12<br>
><br>
> So my question is - are above mentioned features available on om2009 TR3<br>
> out-of-the-box?<br>
<br>
</div>Not yet<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Is there are some packages I need to install to achieve it or some<br>
> configuration tweaks needed?<br>
><br>
> If so - how to migrate contacts db and sms message archive from<br>
> om2008.12 to om2009?<br>
><br>
> As far as I understood it's recommended to flash om2009.<br>
> Is it possible to use sd instead? If so - where can I find instructions<br>
> on how to do it with om2009 TR3?<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Yes running on an SD card is no problem, and is the method I would recommend<br>
if you just want to test it, and is the same as any other distro in that<br>
regard. The instructions vary depend on what bootloader so check the wiki.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Going a bit further, is there plan to start supporting normal upgrade<br>
> via something like opkg upgrade since om2009 TR x?<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Upgrades should start working before we get to release but there are a couple<br>
of minor bugs that need working out first. If those aren't resloved before<br>
release I will try to provide an upgrade script that will do the right thing<br>
were opkg can't<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> There are also certain features lacking in om2008.12 which I'm really<br>
> looking forward to see in om2009 in addition to basics mentioned above:<br>
> - correctly receive call\sms in suspend mode e. g. wake up and work<br>
<br>
</div>Part of that with any distro is to make sure you have the modem flashed to<br>
moko11<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> - alarm clock working in suspend mode<br>
> - wi-fi with wpa2 working out-of-the-box<br>
> - some media player supporting ogg and mp3<br>
<br>
</div>It is unlikely that mp3 will ever be supported out of the box. What I'm<br>
looking at right now is to ship an mplayer or gstreamer frontend and you will<br>
need to install the mp3 functionality from a different distro.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> It's not clear (maybe I miss something - feel free to point me to<br>
> appropriate info) if it is in om2009 TR 3.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Om2009 is pretty fluid right now but I'm trying to keep it's page uptodate<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009" target="_blank">http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009</a><br>
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<br>
Angus<br>
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