Please let me know how it goes with the new flashing.

No, no dictionary yet, just the n-times pressing results in the n-th letter on the key (22 results in a etc). But a dictionary is certainly in the roadmap! I'd have to make some researches regarding patents (T9 is patented AFAIK). But I image something like keeping the two pressings to get a "b", and then all words with starting-letter "b" shows up - a bit like T9, but now exactly.

I'm think about using using something like this:
http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~waring/vocab/wordlists/vocfreq.html
(see http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~waring/vocab/wordlists/1-2000.txt - sorted by beginning letter etc.).

I'll have a look on your reference tonight - thanks.

I even managed to dial in to the phone once, with the gui responding (I didn't manage to pick it up before the call was diverted to voice mail though).

With scaredycats unoffcial 20071005 (just openmoko-devel- not his modified scredycat-) images it seems like the modem isn't powered up, no ET phone home....

I'm flashing his 20071008 scaredycat rootfs image right now to test some more...

A better keypad would sure be nice, the current is not finger friendly at-all... Is it something T9 like you mean by good old ones?

Theres also some rather exciting alternative text input ideas in the thread at http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-December/000508.html.

Mikkel,

I haven't looked at the charging neither.

But I did look a bit on the gsm-part, and no, it's not working at all. I haven't tried to hack with it yet, though. So no dialling at all. I'm a bit confused why somebody can dial and others not? Do you know?

Instead I've started developing a keypad which can be used be fingers instead of the stylus. There's no dictionary in it yet, but it's soon working like the good old ones Personally I think I would be nice to be able to chose such a keypad instead of the one requiring the stylus.

With sufficent diskspace, time is your friend... Even on old-timers

I haven't had much progress, functionality-wise, during weekeend. But I've gaines some experiences about deep discharge (~15 mins charge at pre (100mA) is enough to be able to go into uboot and choose fast charge (when added)), and done some code analysis on the gsmd/ libgsm/dialer/openmoko-panel-gsm relationship to try to make any sense out of the completely-no-response-from-modem status I've had on the 20071005 images...

When you say "seems to work" does that also include gsm (ie dialling is possible)?

Mikkel,

I haven't set up an entire build environment - both because it's requiring roughly 12 GB and because I'm having a laptop where it approximately would take 1-2 days to build. So I just think I'm saving up for a monster of a computer, but that's quite hard when studying.

Thanks for the tip about matchbox. I've tried with
/etc/init.d/xserver-nodm restart
but this didn't work. Actually it just stopped X and never got it started again (if I did it directly from the phone - I remember on the other hand that doing it through SSH sometimes worked).

Thanks - and you too.

Hmm, I used the same kernel, but an older official rootfs image (from 20070917). I can see that there's even a build from 20071005 now, better give it a try.

I have a build system running on my laptop, but after they began using some stuff from Qtopia it fetches the complete tarball and I ran out of freaking diskspace (moko: 6.6 GiB), so I can't do a custom build right now, dammit. Got to do some housecleaning...

I have had the same experience with tray icons disappearing from the panel. What I see is that the matchbox-panel-2 process goes defunct, but you can restart just the panel by issuing the matchbox-panel-2 command line found in /etc/matchbox/session (set env DISPLAY=:0 to make it work).

Have fun!

Mikkel,

[1]: http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/?M=D