Daily Snapshot Review 17 April 2008

[Kevin Dean]

Excellent. :) Thanks for the heads up on that!

I didn't get a chance to review today's image and I probably won't be
able to (going to see three movies with my wife) today. I'll certainly
give suspend and resume some attention.

-Kevin

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 3:40 PM, George Barta <george.barta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Kevin, the reports are very much appreciated.
>
>  It looks like the stability of the UI after resuming from suspend has
>  been greatly improved with the recent images.  I loaded the Apr 17
>  image, and the kernel image mentioned in this post, as well as the
>  UBoot image on the recommended page
>  (u-boot-gta01bv4-1.3.1+svnr4297+gitb29661fc1151077776454288051bc9a488351ce8-r3.bin)
>  on my GTA01Bv4 device.
>
>  After a full-night charge, I set the Power Management to: Dim first,
>  then lock.  The device goes to suspend mode after about 5 minutes.
>
>  The battery lasted for 16 hours on suspend, with about 30 minutes of
>  use (calls, gllin, tangogps).  I pushed the Aux button several times,
>  an the UI restored to a fully operational mode in about 3 seconds.
>  Sound feedback no longer worked, however.
>
>  I also made 3 calls to the phone.  2 of them caused the phone to
>  resume from suspend, and start vibrating.  One didn't (this was in the
>  morning after it had been suspended for about 6 hours), so I left a
>  numeric page which I got as soon as I pushed the button to resume from
>  suspend.
>
>  George
>
>
>
>  On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Kevin Dean <kevin at foreverdean.info> wrote:
>  > Today's full review can be found at
>  >  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Snapshot_review/2008-04-17 and the list
>  >  of past reviews at
>  >  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Category:SnapshotReview
>  >
>  >  Today's image doesn't show much change, except in one regard. It
>  >  appears as if bug #1213 has been corrected. Specifically, this means
>  >  that the bluetooth applet and the bluetooth option in the neod panel
>  >  both toggle power off and on and relfect each other's changes.
>  >
>  >  In short, I recommend today's rootfs
>  >  (http://downloads.openmoko.org/recommended/Openmoko-openmoko-devel-image-glibc-ipk-P1-Snapshot-20080417-om-gta01.rootfs.jffs2)
>  >  and the kernel from 03 April 2008 which can be found at
>  >  http://downloads.openmoko.org/recommended/uImage-2.6.24+svnr4301-r4251-r5-om-gta01.bin
>  >
>  >  -Kevin Dean
>  >
>  >
>