Snapshot review/2008-01-29

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Contents 1 OpenMoko Snapshot Review Criteria 2 Boot 3 Phone Functionality 4 Messaging Functionality 5 Person Information Management 6 Media Player 7 GPS 8 Bluetooth 9 Battery Life 10 Software Keyboard

OpenMoko Snapshot Review Criteria

Date: 29 Jan 2008

Rootfs Snapshot name: OpenMoko-openmoko-devel-image-glibc-ipk-P1-Snapshot-20080129-fic-gta01.rootfs.jffs2

Kernel snapshot name: uImage-2.6.22.5-moko11+svnr3874-r13-neo1973.bin

uBoot Snapshot name: u-boot-gta01bv4-1.3.1%2bgit0ec595243dc99edcd248bbcfbfd5a1dc860bde89%2bsvn3817-r1.bin

Device type: Neo1973 GTA01Bv4

Boot

• Speed - 1m 38.063s (Measured by doing 'time cat' on a PC, hitting "boot" in uboot and enter at the same time and doing "ctrl+c" on the PC when the time appeared on the today2 screen)
• Error Messages - None
• Failures - None

Phone Functionality

Incoming Calls

1. Can receive - Yes
2. Kinetic alert (vibrate) -Yes
3. Auditory alert (sound) - Yes
4. Call quality - Poor. By default, calls pick up a lot of ambient noise and drown out the caller's voice. Here is a fix
5. Missed calls display on OM-today2 - Yes
6. Calls recorded in call log - Yes
7. Stability - No apparent issues

Outgoing Calls

1. Can make - Yes
2. Call quality - Poor. By default, calls pick up a lot of ambient noise and drown out the caller's voice. Here is a fix
3. Calls recorded in call log - Yes
4. Stability - Dialer crashes after not answering a call from call waiting.

Messaging Functionality

Incoming SMS

1. Can receive - Yes
2. Kinetic alert (vibrate) - Yes
3. Auditory Alert (sound) - Yes
4. Sender identified if applicable - Yes
5. Is message readable - Yes. Caveat being that messages sent from Gmail to my SMS-by-email address display "kevin" as message rather than sender and text is actually lost.
6. OM today2 displays new messages - Yes
7. Communication logged - yes
8. Stability - No apparent issues

Outgoing SMS

1. Can send - Yes
2. Message readable - Yes
3. Delivery notification works - Untested
4. Communication logged - Yes
5. Stability - No apparent issues

Person Information Management

Contacts

1. Can add - Yes
2. Can create groups - Yes
3. Can modify - Yes

Calendar

1. Can add events - Yes
2. Can view events - In Month view, yes. In week view, events do not display
3. Can remove events - Yes (Not immediately apparent - Select event, Trash Can inside "Edit" option.)
4. Events appear on OM-today2 - Yes
5. Events trigger kinetic alarm - No
6. Events trigger auditory alarm - No

Media Player

Music

1. MP3 Playback - Yes
2. MP3 Pause - Yes
3. MP3 Next Track - Yes
4. MP3 Previous Track - Yes
5. Vorbis Playback - Untested

Video

1. Theora Playback - Playback of audio from Theora works, video doesn't in openmoko-mediaplayer2
2. Theora Pause - Pausing audio works

GPS

After installing gllin

1. Driver works
2. gllin finds satellites
3. gllin puts position and debug output to /tmp/nmeaNP

Bluetooth

1. Can turn Bluetooth on - Via system tray, yes. Via panel launched from holding power, no.
2. Can turn Bluetooth off - Via system tray, yes. Via power panel, no.

Battery Life

No reliable way to test this yet, so not tested.

Software Keyboard

1. Keyboard type - Multi-tap
2. Displays correctly - Keyboard displays correctly.
3. Usability - Poor. Multi-tap input's lack of CTRL keys harms terminal use. Without predictive input, too many key presses per line make this less than enjoyable to use. Also, the move from a landscape input to a portrait signifigantly decreases usability of many apps (like Contacts and Calendar).

Note: See Switching Keyboards.