First impressions on new Android rootfs

Riccardo Centra hiretto at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 00:56:44 CET 2008


Sean with the lastest image the gsm doesn't work :(

2008/12/3 Sean McNeil <sean at mcneil.com>

> Gothnet wrote:
> >
> > Warren Baird wrote:
> >
> >> I agree Android looks like it has a lot of promise - but if you want a
> >> functioning phone today - I'd suggest trying out QtExtended 4.4.2 - it
> >> doesn't give you much more than basic phone functionality, but I've been
> >> using it as my day-to-day phone for a month now, and am generally pretty
> >> happy with it...
> >>
> >> Warren
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Qtopia is one of the two things I didn't try, SHR being the other. I gave
> up
> > on the rest because of the unresponsive interfaces, poor battery life,
> > terrible remote echo (tried everything I could find), refusal to wake up
> in
> > a timely fashion on incoming calls etc. I was also discouraged by the
> > prominence of "we should work on stuff for GTA03" comments on the lists.
> >
> > I now have a cheap sony-ericsson for the sake of my sanity, so I'll wait
> > until android or other distro can provide a bit more than basic phone
> > functions, or at least do it better than what I have. Android looks like
> it
> > could be the quickest route to solving most of the issues and the echo
> was
> > gone straight away. i know I ought to get off my a*se and help, but after
> > the dayjob I don't have much appetite for coding and debugging right now.
> >
>
> I'm uploading a new image right now that includes Ruis virtual keyboard.
> Please give it 30 minutes or so to complete the upload.
>
> Sean
>
>
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