<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:bookman old style,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">You know, folks, I think it's time to admit that the Openmoko project was a failure, and move on.<br><br>It was a great idea and a lot of us supported it with our money as well as our time, but the device as eventually sold was poorly designed and badly implemented. Even the people who bought it after several rounds of hardware bug-fixes got a clunky device with pathetic battery-life. Since the hardware is crap, it's not surprising that software developers didn't exactly flock to it. Trying to make it usable is flogging a dead horse.<br><br>The nearest thing we will get to an "open" cellphone will probably be something made by Samsung, Motorola, or one of the other big consumer-device companies, running Android.<br><br>I don't want to offend people, but I think it's time somebody came out and
said this. If you want to put your time and effort into Free Software, then pick a platform that has a future. Your time and effort are valuable even if you don't get paid for them; don't waste them.<br><br>Nick<br><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Rijul Jain <cyberleet@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> support@lists.openmoko.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat, March 19, 2011 5:43:27 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Login screen on firmware upgradation<br></font><br>Hey,<br><br>i recently got a neo free runner and wanted to upgrade the
firmware to openmoko 11 so i downloaded the image , wrote it on my uSD
card and tried to boot it from the phone . It boots up file but after 2
mins , a Green Coloured Angstrom screen came and it is stuck at om-gta02
login :_<br>
<br>its been stuck there for hours and i dont know what to do<br><br>Anyhelp would be appreciated . Thanks <br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Rijul Jain<br><br><br>
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