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Talk:Community Updates/2009-02-20

2009-02-19T14:47:35Z

Khoonirobo: Added first draft of Openmoko Delhi meet event details

The 12th community updates will released on February 20, 2009.
Before releasing , I will put the draft on TALK page. Feel free to update the new for community.

==Distributions==
[[Image:Fyp.png|200px|align|right]]
* [[Fyp]] is a Debian for Freerunner based distribution which uses [http://lxde.org/ LXDE] and [[Zhone]] on top. It is a FreeYourPhone.de community project. Now the first beta image is released. You can download Fyp distribution [http://opensvn.csie.org/fyp/releases/ here], then uses [[NeoTool]] for installation. After you finished the installation and boot up, you can press AUX (short press) shows the keyboard, and use Power button to pops up the shutdown/suspend menu, then select the options.

* [mailto:mickey@openmoko.org Mickey] announced [[Qi]] now it's "officially" supported by FSO.

* FSO meets paroli-for a fully functional paroli, FSO team came up with fso milestone 5.5. fso ms 5.5 will contains everything needed by paroli.

== Application ==

=== New Applications ===
*[[Momtools]]-(momtools = MyOpenMoko tools) the idea of this tool is creating an easy-to-use application, allowing the freerunner (gta-02) to connect to wifi and gprs, and add some useful applications such as a slim media-player and a little accelerometers-game. This project now is on progress. You can check this on it's wiki page.

*[[Enscribi]]-a new handwriting recognition input method, now it only support writing Japanese and Chinese characters. You can download ipk files and install it on FSO. Then goto "setup" --> "keyboard" --> "enscribi", then you get a Chinese input method. For more inforamtion , you can check : http://olofsj.github.com/enscribi/ .

* [http://www.opkg.org/package_136.html OpenMiaoCat], like [[OpenMooCow]], makes your phone became a cat! Simply stroke gently the lovely cat to make it purr!

=== Application updates ===
[[image:OpenMooCow.png|100px|align|left]]
* [[Kustomizer]]-[http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/kustomizer-03-for-openmoko-200812/ version 0.3 released]. Now includes aGPS. Many new apps & fixes. It now gives you two different configurations, see [[Kustomizer#What_does_it_do.3F|here]]. [[Kustomizer#Changelog|Changelog]]

* [[Linball]]-Updates 0.1 version to 0.2 version. Download new version here : http://linball.sf.net/linball-openmoko_0.2_armv4t.opk

* [[Qwo]]-Version 0.4 was released on Feb, 7. The changes include :window can be resized dynamically, added Paste, Alt key, page up, down, home, end plus others ...etc. You can download the new version [http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/qwo/qwo_0.4_armv4t.ipk here]

* [[Yaouh!]]-[http://minucci.net/file/opkg/yaouh_0.4_all.opk Version 0.4] is out. This release includes bugfix and add support for multiple wget download , probably faster.

* [[Paroli]]-There is packages in fso MS5 openmoko unstable. You can downloads paroli from : http://downloads.freesmartphone.org/fso- milestone5/feeds//armv4t/paroli_0.2.1+gitr7a2fdc16174258e9276e7c2d80f500b4dd624442- r0_armv4t.ipk

* [[Guitartune]]- [http://www.opkg.org/package_115.html Version 0.30] released on 16 Feb. Changes include a new GUI, wider range (from A0 to C8) and threaded architecture.

== Trick and Tips ==

* MokoGeocaching Installing-After you install MokoGeocaching , if the app won't even start, you may need to install these dependencies manually (Om2008.12):
::: +
opkg install python-netclient python-mime python-netclient

* How to search bugs real quick , instead of using trac.openmoko.org ? You can use the [http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/cgi-bin/openmoko-bugs.py Unofficial search to bugs.openmoko.org]. You can type the keyword or bug number on text box , then press "search", the result will list below the text box.

==Community ==
* Openmoko autobuilder is back online. It is generating images for gta01 and gta02 devices. You can check images status on this site :http://tinderbox.openembedded.net/builders/openmoko/. Unstable images will auto generate in http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/unstable/ . There are some packages that are failing consistently, Openmoko distribution maintainer is going to try and debug these and send some fixes upstream.

* Openmoko started migrating content from the Om wiki to [http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/NeoFreeRunner/WebHome FLOSS Manuals]. Basis for the manual will be derived from [[Getting_Started_with_your_Neo_FreeRunner|Getting Started With Your Neo FreeRunner]] and [[Openmoko_developer_guide|Openmoko Developer Guide]].

* Wiki news! As per [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/documentation/2009-February/001079.html documentation mailing list] justification, I reverted my previous revert of main page. People missing the old multitude of links should look at the improved left side navigation choices. I also combined "Openmoko:Community Portal" into "Development resources" and renamed the whole thing to "[[Community Resources]]". -[[User:TimoJyrinki|Timo]]

* The second Italian National NeoMeeting @ Milano (13/03/09) [info @ http://wiki.telefoninux.org/doku.php?id=neomeeting]

* A first OM meeting took place in Karlsruhe, a second one is being planned. See [[Openmoko_Local_Groups:_Karlsruhe#Meetings.2C_Events|Local Groups Section]] in this wiki.

* An OM meeting took place in Delhi(NCR) India. See [[Openmoko_Local_Groups:_Delhi|Openmoko Delhi Group]]

* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Opensatnav.org Opensatnav project] requires help, especially from coder . Feel free to contack with [mailto:cjhandrew@gmail.com Chris Andrew].

Import Vcf Contacts

2008-10-05T13:04:01Z

Khoonirobo: update for QTextended

To copy your contacts from other devices or desktop systems, you can use the VCF VCard format. This page explains how to export your contacts from various systems and how to import the resulting file on on Openmoko smartphone.

== Exporting old contacts to VCard format ==

To use the import tools you need your Contacts in VCF format.

# On nokia phones use the Nokia phone manager {{Citation needed}}
# On windows mobile phones you could use active sync to sync with Outlook and then use a Outlook VCF export plugin below
# On LG phones the backup function to memory card creates one file with multiple VCards

=== Evolution ===

Evolution can export only to VCF version 3.0, so you need to post-process the exported file.

* Select Contacts, then File > Save Address Book as VCard and save to your desired destination.
* Use the following command to remove evolution's proprietary fields and convert the file to an encoding Om2008.8 will understand (replace old.vcf to the filename you chose for export of your addressbook in evolution):

<pre>
sed -r -e 's/"X-EVOLUTION-CALLBACK"/MSG/g' \
-e 's/;TYPE=([^,]+),[^;]+([;:])/;TYPE=\1\2/g' \
-e 's/;X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=[0-9]//g' old.vcf \
| iconv -t ISO-8859-1 > new.vcf
</pre>

Note that if you run into errors like

<pre>found unknown attribute in vobject, TEL </pre>

then there are probably still occurrences of X-EVOLUTION- fields that need to be removed.
Also note that the above script converts your addressbook file to ISO-8859-1 (see last line), as its native UTF-8 apparently isn't recognized by Om2008.8. If necessary, eplace ISO-8859-1 by a encoding that better suits your needs.

=== Thunderbird ===

To export VCF from Thunderbird:

* Get "MoreFunctionsForAddressBook" from http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html
* Install the downloaded *.xpi file in Thunderbird
* Open address book
* Select address book to export (not a contact or set of contacts!)
* Right click and export to Vcf format (or use the Tools menu, Actions for AddressBooks) (If gray, you did not select an addressbook.)
* Select destination folder

=== Outlook / ActiveSync to VCF ===

To export VCF from Outlook, open Outlook, then open the VB editor by pressing ALT-F11, Insert a module, and paste in the following. Change "Z:\Openmoko\contacts" to wherever you want your vcf files saved (should be an existing, empty directory), and press F5 to run it.

'''Code:'''

<pre>

Sub ExportContactsToVCF()

'Cheap and nasty way to export All Contacts to VCF files.
'By Dale Maggee, antisol (at) earthling (dot) net

Dim CN As ContactItem
Dim NS As NameSpace
Dim Fld As MAPIFolder

Set NS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set Fld = NS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts)

For Each CN In Fld.Items
Debug.Print CN.FullName
CN.SaveAs "z:\Openmoko\contacts\" & CN.FullName & ".vcf", olVCard
Next CN

MsgBox "Done!"

End Sub
</pre>

voila! you now have multiple VCF files in whatever directory you chose, suitable to be imported by the Om 2007.2 python script below. (However not suitable for the addressbook tool of Om 2008.8.)

=== Mac OS X Addressbook ===

To export VCF:

# Set the vCard Format to 2.1 in the config dialog
# Select all contacts and say "export vcard"
# Despite having selected the charset to be utf-8 you may need to do:

<code>
iconv -f latin1 -t utf-8 vCards.vcf | sed 's/CHARSET=LATIN1://g' > all.vcf
</code>

== Import on Om 2008.8 and Qtopia ==

The Qtopia addressbook application supports import of VCF files out of the box. However, since there is a bug, if there are non-ASCII characters in your contacts you cannot use the version 3 format, otherwise you get multibyte UTF-8 characters mangled. Use the version 2.1 to get the encoding stated explicitly and thus characters imported correctly. But because there is another bug, when using version 2.1 vCards, the addressbook eats up all memory (and potentionally crashes the system) on ''some'' vCards with multiline entries.

If you're connected via SSH, run the following command first:
export DISPLAY=:0

''(So that the addressbook will show on your phone. If you do not that and try to run addressbook locally on your computer display, you won't be able to use the application since the needed buttons will not show.)''

Then you can simply run:
addressbook path_to_vCards_file_to_import.vcf

Make sure your contact list has extension .vcf.

You will be asked if you want to import the contacts form addressbook.vcf (the contact name will be taken from the "N:" vCard field).

To import a huge number of contacts, single .vcf files can be merged together using cat *.vcf > all.vcf, than import all.vcf

''Tip: If you want to prevent crashing your system if the memory leak occurs, set some limit on memory available to use, so that only the addressbook application dies after reaching the limit. I.e. prior to running the import, do something like:''
ulimit -v 50000

If the above does not work, here are the original import guidelines:

To import your address book from VCard format (ASU/<=Qtopia 4.3.2-080808 snapshot):
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/Qtopia/lib /opt/Qtopia/bin/addressbook /home/root/addressbook.vcf

To import your address book from VCard format (>=Qtopia 4.3.2 stable):
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/Nokia/Qtopia/lib /opt/Nokia/Qtopia/bin/addressbook /home/root/addressbook.vcf

To import your address book from VCard format (>=QTextended 4.4.1 stable):
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/Trolltech/Qtopia/lib /opt/Trolltech/Qtopia/bin/addressbook /home/root/addressbook.vcf

===Mass Delete===

The Qtopia addressbook doesn't seem to have a delete all function, which means that botching a vcf import is a painful process to undo through the phone GUI.

If you want to delete your entire addressbook or do other mass edits then you'll need access to a command line or GUI SQLite client (SQLite Database Browser seems to be a good, free one, though the SQLite command line client should be fine).

====Qtopia====

* Shutdown Qtopia
* Use the client you have chosen to open up /home/root/Applications/qtopia_sqlite.db.
* Important tables: contacts, contactphonenumbers, contactaddresses
* Restart Qtopia when you're done and you should have a reset addressbook.

====On Om 2008.8====

* Install sqlite3
* Open the database
* Delete all data from the contacts tables '''This will erase all your contacts and contact categories.'''

opkg install sqlite3
sqlite3 /home/root/Applications/Qtopia/qtopia_db.sqlite

delete from contactcategories;
delete from contactaddresses;
delete from contactcustom;
delete from contactphonenumbers;
delete from contacts;
.quit

The first two are shell commands, the ''delete'' commands must by typed in the '''sqlite>''' prompt which appears after the sqlite3 command. Prompt is not included here to allow copy/paste.

[[Category:Advanced End User]]

== Import for 2007.2 ==

=== Basic Information ===

Neo FreeRunner uses Evolution data server (eds) to save contacts.
However, the specific version used differs from what is probably used on your desktop (if you have Evolution installed).

You ''cannot'' copy your addressbook.db from your desktop to Neo ([http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1119 bug 1119]).

=== Import and Manage Scripts ===

If you want to import your old contacts to the Neo you could use this script:

[http://www.smurfy.de/files/neo/manage-contacts Manage Contacts script] [http://www.placard.fr.eu.org/~roland/tmp/manage-contacts.py mirror]

If you first want to remove all existing contacts you could use this script.

[http://www.smurfy.de/files/neo/remove_all_contacts remove all script]

If you have all contacts in seperate vcf files and just want to import all at once:

[http://www.smurfy.de/files/neo/ac Simple script]

[http://www.smurfy.de/files/neo/import_contacts Simple script for one big contactsfile]

(please add a .py after the filename, sorry my hoster gives an error if i link to .py files, even .py.txt)

In the simple scripts you need to add the following lines
ps = os.popen ('ps auxwwwwe | grep -m 1 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS')
l = ps.read ()
r = re.compile ('DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=(\S+)')
m = r.search (l)
a = m.expand ('\\1')
os.environ ['DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS'] = a

=== Usage ===

The script is for the 2007.2 Version (default install on Neo FreeRunner), not for Qtopia

You need Python to use this script so do a

opkg install python-dbus

to install python and the python dbus module

==== Manage Contacts Script ====

'''This script needs all contacts in one big file'''

'''You also could run this script on a ssh session!'''

# Copy your big contacts file (contacts.txt) to your Neo
# Copy script to your Neo
# Connect via ssh to your Neo
# Fix special chars in your contacts file with you favorite text editor
# To import the file run on the SSH shell:

python manage-contacts.py load < contacts.txt

# For a backup your existing contacts on the Neo

python manage-contacts.py dump > contacts.txt

==== Simple Script ====

'''You must run the script in the OM Terminal, not over ssh'''

The script does a listdir and imports ALL files it found in that dir. (i'm a bad python programmer)

# Copy all vcf files to a separate directory on my freerunner
# Copy the ac script to the parent directory also on my freerunner
# Have the contacts program running (so you have eds running too)
# Go to the terminal on the freerunner and type in the vcf directory: "python ../ac" (root@om-gta02:~/vcf# python ../ac)
## Note: '''You must call the script in the OM terminal''' not via Bluetooth or USB or you get a dbus error. Using "dbus-launch python ../ac" doesn't work either.
# Done :D

==== Troubleshooting ====
* Make sure you have python and python-dbus installed
* Make sure you have no illegal chars (utf) in the filename and inside the vcf files. (I had problems with Ü,Ä etc)
** The characters seem to work if you convert them from =C3=A4 type of format to proper UTF-8, and the vcards also specify UTF-8 charset. you cannot use other charsets besides UTF-8 since they are delivered via DBus which does not allow others.
* Only vcf files should be in your current directory so do a ../ac.
* You must call the script in the OM terminal not via Bluetooth or USB. If you do so a dbus error occur

=== Authors ===

* Simple script by smurfy - phil <openmoko at smurfy.de>
* Manage Contacts script by Roland Mas <lolando at debian.org>
* Remove all Contacts script / simple script for one big file by Andreas Dalsgaard <andreas.dalsgaard at gmail.com>

Thanks to [[Import_Sim_Contacts]] for the original Python Script.

User:Khoonirobo

2008-09-11T20:07:40Z

Khoonirobo: Added Personal Details

Computer/Motorcycle Geek

Working as a software developer at [http://www.drishti-soft.com Drishti-Soft Pvt. Ltd.]

Staying in Gurgaon.

Have a GTA02

Openmoko Local Groups: Delhi

2008-09-11T20:03:40Z

Khoonirobo: change personal details

Welcome to the Delhi Openmoko page!

This group is for anyone in Delhi.

{|border=1
!Name
!Skills
!Level of Interest
!Location
!Other
|-
| [[User:Sublime|Deepank Gupta]]
| C Programming
| Developing on GTA01Bv4 phone
| New Delhi
| Nothing in particular
|-
| [[User:Sublime|Phani Kumar]]
| C Programming
| Developing on GTA01
| Hyderabad
| Nothing in particular
|-
| [[User:khoonirobo|Vibhav Sharma]]
| C / C++ / Java Programming
| User GTA02, Developer if get an itch
| Gurgaon
| Nothing in particular
|-
| [[User:catholicon|Vikas Saurabh]]
| C++ / Actionscript
| User of GTA02 (...would jump to dev soon)
| Noida
| Sleep and Bakarr (Indian Lingo)
|}

[[Category:Openmoko Local Groups]]

Openmoko Local Groups: Delhi

2008-05-20T13:33:20Z

Khoonirobo:

Welcome to the Delhi OpenMoko page!

This group is for anyone in Delhi.

{|border=1
!Name
!Skills
!Level of Interest
!Location
!Other
|-
| [[User:Sublime|Deepank Gupta]]
| C Programming
| Developing on GTA01Bv4 phone
| New Delhi
| Nothing in particular
|-
| [[User:Sublime|Phani Kumar]]
| C Programming
| Developing on GTA01
| Hyderabad
| Nothing in particular
|-
| [[User:Sublime|Vibhav Sharma]]
| C / C++ / Java Programming
| User / Developer
| Gurgaon
| Nothing in particular
|}

[[Category:Community]]
[[Category: OpenMoko Local Groups| ]]