User:Phobie

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Opinion

My opinion as of 2008-12-20. Currently OM should only be used by hardcore-linux-users and OpenStreetMap-cartographers. The FR-hardware is good but the case is not.

Hardware problems (Neo Freerunner GTA02)

  • the display is to deep sunken into the case
  • the headset has no 3.5mm jack
  • charging is not possible if turned of or during boot
  • missing hole for the pen
  • missing keyboard
  • system needs reboot to change sd-card
  • no buttons / joystick on the front
  • AUX-button is not easy to use
  • the antenna-port can break easily
  • no menu-option to shutdown/suspend/reboot

Software problems (SHR)

  • still too slow
  • no finger-friendly keyboard
  • no gui to set time and date
  • contacts and dialer should be one application
  • the main apps should load in less than a second (preload)

My FreeRunner

$ grep  Bootloader /dev/mtdblock0
Neo1973 Bootloader U-Boot 1.3.2-moko12
$ grep Bootloader /dev/mtdblock1
Neo1973 Bootloader U-Boot 1.3.2-rc2-dirty-moko12

Distributions

moved to --> User:Phobie/install_history

Images

... for the GTA02 checked on 2009-11-26

wikilink image kernel
Hackable:1 20091125 =
SHR mrmoku unstable 20091124 20091123
Om unstable 20091124 20091124
Om experimental 20091124 20091124
SHR unstable 20091124 20091123
SHR mrmoku 2.6.31 - 20091123
SHR mrmoku kms - 20091123
Android Cupcake Weekly 20091123 -
Qt Moko 20091012 =
Android Cupcake 0.1.1 20090922 -
FSO stable ms5.5 20090715 20090715
Om testing 20090616 20090616
Android Koolu Beta 7 20090522 -
SHR testing 20090503 20090502
FSO stable ms5.1 20090223 20090223
FSO unstable 20090118 20090218
FSO testing 20090118 20090218
bytestore 20090111 -
Om 2008.12 20081218 20081218
Qt Extended 20081108 (Qt on FSO) 20080411 (mwester-stable)
Qt Extended 20081031 (4.4.2) 20080411 (mwester-stable)
FDOM 20081023 20081106
illume 20081012 20081012
Debian daily SD-install-script daily SD-install-script
Gentoo 20080821 manual-SD-install 20080821 manual-SD-install

Other downloads

Navit

Installation

On your Neo:

mkdir -p /media/card/navit/
cd /media/card/navit/
wget http://www.kazer.org/navit/FreeRunner/libspeechd2_*_armv4t.opk
wget http://www.kazer.org/navit/FreeRunner/navit_*_armv4t.opk
opkg install *.opk
ln -s /usr/lib/navit/data/libdata_binfile.so.0 /usr/lib/navit/data/libdata_binfile.so
ln -s /usr/lib/navit/gui/libgui_gtk.so.0 /usr/lib/navit/gui/libgui_gtk.so
ln -s /usr/lib/navit/graphics/libgraphics_gtk_drawing_area.so.0 /usr/lib/navit/graphics/libgraphics_gtk_drawing_area.so
ln -s /usr/lib/navit/gui/libgui_gtk.so.0 /usr/lib/navit/gui/libgui_gtk.so
mkdir -p /usr/share/navit/maps
echo "<map type=\"binfile\" enabled=\"yes\" data=\"/media/card/navid/osm_bbox_*.bin\"/>" > /usr/share/navit/maps/somename.xml

Go to http://maps.navit-project.org/download/ and download a map.

On your PC:

scp osm_bbox_*.bin root@192.168.0.202:/media/card/navit/

Run it:

ssh -X 192.168.0.202
navit

Problems

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