IS NEO1973 dead?

Sreeraj a writetosrj at gmail.com
Wed May 20 17:17:37 CEST 2009


thanks a lot.
very informative.

us GTA01 users really need to stick together these days :)

thanks again.

so how is the performance of your phone? battery-wise?


On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Tilman Baumann <tilman at baumann.name> wrote:

> +1
>
> SHR goes well with GTA01. FSO probably too, but I have not tried it lately.
> You can the lite image from flash. But you even have to remove cruft
> before you can install gllin. The space constrains are really heavy.
>
> I run SHR from SD. Kernel from Flash because uboot can not load from SDHC
> on GTA01. Rootfs on SD.
> Please be aware of possibley very misleading informations regardng boot
> from SD on the wiki! Some frerunner users seem to disregard GTA01 issues
> and delete or change them one in a while. ;)
> Stay away from Qi, it has no DFU mode and you have no secondary bootloader.
> Be arware of diferent mtd 'partitions' on GTA01
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_1973_Partitions
>
> All these issues are pretty comprehensively described here:
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Booting_from_SD#Boot_from_SDHC
>
> And if you don't wish to use your SD for rootfs, please just ignore my
> random facts. They are not important. ;)
>
>
> Ben Wilson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > SHR is running great on my GTA01, I'm using it as my everyday phone.
> > I always put it on charge as soon as I'm home. It lasts over 12hours in
> > suspend so always makes it through the day fine.
> >
> > I normally run SHR-Testing but i couldn't get the latest testing build
> > to work so i moved to SHR unstable and that's working fine.
> >
> > You can get unstable images from here
> > http://build.shr-project.org/shr-unstable/images/om-gta01/
> >
> > It's not much use on the built-in flash as you have stuff all freespace.
> > I run it on the uSD card and it works fine.
> >
> > Ben.
> >
> > Sreeraj a wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> i am a (disheartened) owner of a neo 1973 (GTA01)
> >> it is almost still in the same stage as when i purchased it
> >>
> >> wanted to enquire if the development for 1973 dead.
> >>
> >> if not then what is the latest (best) distro i can use for my phone to
> >> get it working.
> >>
> >> thanks in advance
> >> srj
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