Snapshot review/2008-01-30
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OpenMoko Snapshot Review Criteria
Date: 31 January 2008
Rootfs Snapshot name: OpenMoko-openmoko-devel-image-glibc-ipk-P1-Snapshot-20080130-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 - 2m 17.966s - Up 39.903 seconds from yesterday. :(
- JW comment - i think i saw a comment from Werner that this slower boot than previous is due to intro of Glamo in u-boot and serial way it clears screen. Werner had idea for 2 x workaround both of which will recover lots.
- Error Messages - None
- Failures - None
Phone Functionality
Incoming Calls
- Can receive - Yes
- Kinetic alert (vibrate) - yes
- Auditory alert (sound) - Yes
- Call quality - Poor. By default, calls pick up a lot of ambient noise and drown out the caller's voice. Here is a fix
- Missed calls display on OM-today2 - Yes. TWICE, in fact. Bug 1210 reported
- Calls recorded in call log - Yes. Twice, in fact. Bug 1210 reported
- Stability - Other than reported bugs, no apparent issues.
Outgoing Calls
- Can make - Yes
- Call quality - Poor. By default, calls pick up a lot of ambient noise and drown out the caller's voice. Here is a fix
- Calls recorded in call log - Yes
- Stability - No apparent issues
Messaging Functionality
Incoming SMS
- Can receive - Yes
- Kinetic alert (vibrate) - Yes
- Auditory Alert (sound) - Yes
- Sender identified if applicable - 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.
- Is message readable - Yes
- OM today2 displays new messages - Yes
- Communication logged - Yes
- Stability - No apparent issues
Outgoing SMS
- Can send - Yes, but please see "Stability" in this section.
- Message readable - Yes
- Delivery notification works - No, and selecting this option prevents sending of SMS messages.
- Communication logged - Yes
- Stability - Serious issues. Biggest among them, messages segfaults if you have a contact in your address book. If you don't have a contact, the application starts. DElivery notification doesn't work, and selecting this option doesn't actually send the SMS message.
Person Information Management
Contacts
- Can add - Yes, but please see "Stability" in this section.
- Can create groups - Yes
- Can modify - Yes
- Stability - Serious issues. Attempting to add a new contact crashed when switching out of "Edit" mode and displayed the "Please wait" screen seen during boot. Also, messages will not start if there are listed contacts.
Calendar
- Can add events - Yes
- Can view events - Yes - Events appear in week and month view (and I am now thinking they MIGHT have appeared yesterday as well in both views)
- Can remove events - Yes
- Events appear on openmoko-today2 - Yes
- Events trigger kinetic alarm - No
- Events trigger auditory alarm - No
Media Player
Stability
Critically poor, media player will not load.
Music
- MP3 Playback - No
- MP3 Pause - No
- MP3 Next Track - No
- MP3 Previous Track - No
- Vorbis Playback - No.
Video
- Theora Playback - No
- Theora Pause - No
GPS
After installing gllin As before:
- Driver works
- gllin finds satellites
- gllin puts position and debug output to /tmp/nmeaNP
Bluetooth
- Can turn Bluetooth on - From system tray, yes. From neod panel, no.
- Can turn Bluetooth off - From system tray, yes. From neod panel, no.
Battery Life
No effective way to test this
Software Keyboard
- Keyboard type - Multi-tap Pictured Here
- Displays correctly - Yes
- 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). See Switching Keyboards.
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