Freerunner issues

[Muthu Subramanian]

Hi,
  Yes, I am using the 2007.2 kernel. I can also update the kernel if necessary.

1. Disabling standby sounds like a good (but temporary) solution. BTW,
how long does the battery last in such cases?

2. Also, is there a way to disable or enable 'ringtone'? I need the
phone in silent mode most of the times during the day (so, right now
the standby kind of helps :) ).

3. One more issue that I faced: The phone doesn't enter standby. I
think this happens when there is a missed call - not always thou. It
also wakes up un-necessarily when it is in standby.
4. Another one: I cannot re-enable GSM module after disabling it.

Not so important one: I hope to load the 2008.8 into the sd-card and
have a dual boot configuration. Let me know if this is not possible,

This solution is interesting:
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-August/025388.html
will give it a try, thanks!
I hope it works with the official freerunner distro, i.e. 2007.2 also.

5. Also, is there a wiki page or something where 'how tos' for
tweaking of settings are mentioned? Like the standby idle-time,
silent-mode, screen brightness, etc?

6. I have installed media player, debug tool, gps, calc, calendar, ...
The phone's become slower - boot time is higher and application (eg.
dialer) loading takes a lot of time. Is this normal? It sure was
faster before I updated/installed those.

Thanks!
Muthu Subramanian



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> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:36:15 +0200
> From: "Joachim Ott" <joachim.ott at gmail.com>
> Subject: Freerunner issues
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> 2008/8/20 Muthu Subramanian <muthusuba at gmail.com>
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>> Hi,
>>  I have been using freerunner for about a month now. I have updated
>> the software from the daily builds.
>>
>> From the time I got the phone, I have these problems:
>> ...
>> 4. Where are the boot messages stored? ( I can see some kind of 'help'
>> message thrown out - most probably because of  wrong parameters,
>>    but unable to read it).
>
>
> By default, the messages go into a memory buffer. You always can see the
> last part  with "dmesg". If you want them in a file, edit /etc/syslog.conf
> and change the destination to "file" (and killall -HUP syslogd). You might
> as well change ROTATESIZE and ROTATEGENS, and additionally turn off some
> logging from other daemons like gsmd (see /etc/init.d/gsmd). The other
> possibility might be DESTINATION="remote" and have a syslogd on another PC
> accepting the messages.
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> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:46:39 +0530
> From: "rakshat hooja" <rakshat at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Freerunner issues
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> Can you list which kernel and u-boot version you are using.
>
> I am assuming you are using the 2007.2 distribution?
>
> Rakshat
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Muthu Subramanian <muthusuba at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>  I have been using freerunner for about a month now. I have updated
>> the software from the daily builds.
>>
>> From the time I got the phone, I have these problems:
>> 1. The ringer switches off (i.e. the phone goes into silent mode)
>> after the 1st standby (5min standby).
>> 2. After the first standby the music player throws 'gstreamer error'
>> and doesn't produce the music. But if I restart pulseaudio - I can
>> listen to music.
>> 3. The phone moves to standby even when on call and/or the music is
>> playing.
>> 4. Where are the boot messages stored? ( I can see some kind of 'help'
>> message thrown out - most probably because of  wrong parameters,
>>    but unable to read it).
>> 5. The mailing lists and the wiki are very difficult to search - can
>> it be made more 'search' friendly? Or can you tell me whats the best
>> way to search?
>>    (I currently use google on lists.openmoko.org)
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Muthu Subramanian
>> http://muthusuba.blogspot.com/
>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DomainDeveloper
>>
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