QtMoko v12

Radek Polak psonek2 at seznam.cz
Sun Sep 27 22:40:26 CEST 2009


Hi,
i have uploaded new images for QtMoko on debian. It's stable
distribution based on Qtopia and Debian. For more info please check
project homepage

http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/
http://qtmoko.org

You can download images for NAND and SD card from this location:

http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/download/

and you can see screenshots here:

http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qtmoko/screenshots/

Changes from previous version:

* fixed broken battery indicator after suspend (Jim Morris)
* fixed swap and memory problems (Jim Morris)
* fixed ogg in media player and as ringtone (Radek Polak)
* installable mp3 support (Radek Polak)
* virtual keyboard and window manager in X applications (Anton Olkhovik)
* finger keyboard supports skins (Anton Olkhovik)
* wlan script is now posix compliant (Torfinn Ingolfsen)
* latest andy-tracking kernel

If you wonder whether you should upgrade, then answer is simple -
yes :) 

Jim Morris did great work and thanks to him the memory problems should
be completely gone. QtMoko apps in v11 were killed with android's oom
killer. This is no more true and QtMoko can also use swap. I have tested
webbrowser and it can display even big pages now.

Also battery indicator should be now fixed. It was showing wrong values
after a few suspend cycles because of incorrectly reported value in
sysfs.

You can now play ogg vorbis audio in media player and as ringtones. You
can also use codecs installed from QtMoko package feed to install mp3
support. It's simple application that copies required libraries to your
system. After that you can uninstall the application (its not needed
anymore), restart your phone and use also mp3 in media player and as
ringtone.

As for running X applications - it's now even more user friendly and you
can easily configure any application to have window manager and virtual
keyboard.

The image is based on v11 so it is possible to upgrade by replacing /opt
directory upgrading kernel (recommended only for those who know what
they do).

Btw i am now suspending the phone manually with short POWER button press
and bluetooths seems to be ok. Can anyone confirm it?

For next release we plan to fix the SMS and alarm bug (but alarm has now
quite good workaround so it's not so hot) and if all goes right you can
expect better web experience. I have now also bluetooth headset :)

Hope you will enjoy this new version

Cheers

Radek







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