Once a whiner

[William Kenworthy]

Most of the distros require work before being usable.  The asu theme in
2008.x is broken for all but token uses - switch to illume and read the
wiki about the keyboards.  Helps a huge amount.

Still, it will crash at least once a day with suspend failures, fails to
register, BSODs, event/0 runaway, lost SMS messages, ...  Even if you
dont use it once registered, its only a matter of a few hours and
something will go wrong.

:(

BillK



On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 00:31 +0100, Fernando Martins wrote:
> I have just flashed fso-image-om-gta02.jffs2 (20090108). It took me 
> several tries until it finally flashed.
> 
> I got several dfu errors (110, 84 and plenty 71). After a couple switch 
> off/on it finally worked.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't get the phone app to work. I get always Zhone 
> stopped running unexpectedly.
> 
> BTW, FSO makes the phone look more computer like, than om2008 versions. 
> I'm not sure that's what I expect from a phone. om2008.12 doesn't seem 
> bad to me except that the keyboard makes it useless (I can't properly 
> input a contact, delete is a joke, guessing words is total bullocks). 
> Sorry to be harsh on the developers, but even after reading wiki/lists I 
> couldn't avoid the disappointment; it's 80% there, but the last 20% 
> truly are critical to me.
> 
> Fernando
> 
> Sven Klomp wrote:
> > Do you use the 2.6.28 kernel from http://downloads.freesmartphone.org/fso-
> > testing/images/om-gta02/ ?
> > At boot time it says Bad CRC and stops booting.
> >
> > So I used the kernel from MS 4.1 and the Freerunner is booting...
> >
> > On Friday January 9 2009 17:00:39 Marcus Stong wrote:
> >   
> >> I'd just like to say, for all the whiners using om 2008.x (I've been one
> >> just recently, too), try FSO testing. I've been using it for a few days,
> >> and everything seems to work like a charm compared to OM2008.x.
> >> Suspend works great, battery life is killer, boot time is good, telephony
> >> seems solid. Granted there's no UI for wifi and no bluetooth support, it's
> >> still eons ahead of OM2008 as far as I can tell. Really, I think everyone
> >> needs to get over om2008, including open moko, because it just doesn't
> >> work. But I have renewed faith in my phone now that I've installed FSO.
> >> Great job FSO team!
> >>     
> >
> >
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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