Comments on: Kustomizer for Openmoko 2008.12 http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2009/02/kustomizer-for-openmoko-200812/ random words.. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:59:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Risto H. Kurppa http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2009/02/kustomizer-for-openmoko-200812/comment-page-1/#comment-527 Risto H. Kurppa Wed, 13 May 2009 05:53:24 +0000 http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/?p=1273#comment-527 @John, great that you like it! It indeed still does miracles to FR, I must agree :) I've myself now moved more to OM2009 and try to set it up. There's also a Kustomizer-script for that around (http://etherpad.com/zt3x1x7ERX) but it's not very usable yet. With the 2008.12 + Kustomizer you still might want to try a new alsastate file that adjusts the audio settings. Run: cd /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios cp gsmhandset.state gsmhandset.state-kustomizer wget http://www.kurppa.fi/freerunner/config_files/gsmhandset.state -O gsmhandset.state And then go & try it by calling someone you love. If you think it's not as good, you can then go back to the previous with cp /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios/gsmhandset.state-kustomizer /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios/gsmhandset.state Good luck, enjoy your freedom! @John, great that you like it! It indeed still does miracles to FR, I must agree :) I’ve myself now moved more to OM2009 and try to set it up. There’s also a Kustomizer-script for that around (http://etherpad.com/zt3x1x7ERX) but it’s not very usable yet.

With the 2008.12 + Kustomizer you still might want to try a new alsastate file that adjusts the audio settings. Run:
cd /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios
cp gsmhandset.state gsmhandset.state-kustomizer
wget http://www.kurppa.fi/freerunner/config_files/gsmhandset.state -O gsmhandset.state
And then go & try it by calling someone you love.

If you think it’s not as good, you can then go back to the previous with
cp /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios/gsmhandset.state-kustomizer /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios/gsmhandset.state

Good luck, enjoy your freedom!

]]> By: John Miller http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2009/02/kustomizer-for-openmoko-200812/comment-page-1/#comment-526 John Miller Wed, 13 May 2009 05:45:37 +0000 http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/?p=1273#comment-526 Risto, thanks for this. Like Jay, this made me take the Frerunner out of a drawer and start using it as a phone/GPS/toy. Looking at the script I can't even imagine how long it would take me (or anyone) to find just the basic fixes to make the phone workable, let alone enjoyable. I think it is sad that you have to write this to join the dots and make the phone usable and enjoyable to a time-starved user. Thanks, John Risto,
thanks for this. Like Jay, this made me take the Frerunner out of a drawer and start using it as a phone/GPS/toy. Looking at the script I can’t even imagine how long it would take me (or anyone) to find just the basic fixes to make the phone workable, let alone enjoyable. I think it is sad that you have to write this to join the dots and make the phone usable and enjoyable to a time-starved user.
Thanks,
John

]]> By: Risto H. Kurppa http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2009/02/kustomizer-for-openmoko-200812/comment-page-1/#comment-381 Risto H. Kurppa Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:57:16 +0000 http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/?p=1273#comment-381 Hi Jay, nice that you like it :) - At the moment GSM doesn't work at all.. I'll try to find the reason but no GSM at the moment :( see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Talk:Kustomizer - I don't think I'll start to play with the themes but if someone writes an easy way to install themes that can be activated somehow why not. - Yes, you should be able to opkg update && opkg upgrade after this. There are some packages installed outside the default repositories so eventually there might be some problems but most of the programs are installed from the default repositories and opkg.org repository. This compared to FDOM: This is based on 2008.12, at the moment FDOM supports only 2008.9 so there's some differences there. I guess that's the biggest difference. FDOM also applies some patches I have no idea about but then again I use mokoservices and tap/untap they install, too, with some minor modifications. So I guess you could call this Fat and Clean Openmoko or that's what I try to keep it like :) Let me know how you like it! Hi Jay, nice that you like it :)

- At the moment GSM doesn’t work at all.. I’ll try to find the reason but no GSM at the moment :( see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Talk:Kustomizer

- I don’t think I’ll start to play with the themes but if someone writes an easy way to install themes that can be activated somehow why not.

- Yes, you should be able to opkg update && opkg upgrade after this. There are some packages installed outside the default repositories so eventually there might be some problems but most of the programs are installed from the default repositories and opkg.org repository.

This compared to FDOM: This is based on 2008.12, at the moment FDOM supports only 2008.9 so there’s some differences there. I guess that’s the biggest difference. FDOM also applies some patches I have no idea about but then again I use mokoservices and tap/untap they install, too, with some minor modifications. So I guess you could call this Fat and Clean Openmoko or that’s what I try to keep it like :) Let me know how you like it!

]]> By: Jay Vaughan http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/2009/02/kustomizer-for-openmoko-200812/comment-page-1/#comment-379 Jay Vaughan Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:32:34 +0000 http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/?p=1273#comment-379 Wow, this looks like just the thing to motivate me to break out my Freerunner, re-flash it, and start using it again .. so I'll do just that this evening and let you know how it goes! What I'd like to see: -- All bugs related to GSM/GPRS fixed so that the phone 'just works' as its supposed to .. -- Add some new themes. -- Do we get to be able to 'opkg update && opkg upgrade' at the end of this, to keep the installed-software current? Well, thats all I can think of - I'll install it tonight and do a bit of a review. Might be good to compare it to FDOM as well, though I don't know if its better/worse than FDOM yet .. ? Wow, this looks like just the thing to motivate me to break out my Freerunner, re-flash it, and start using it again .. so I’ll do just that this evening and let you know how it goes!

What I’d like to see:

– All bugs related to GSM/GPRS fixed so that the phone ‘just works’ as its supposed to ..
– Add some new themes.
– Do we get to be able to ‘opkg update && opkg upgrade’ at the end of this, to keep the installed-software current?

Well, thats all I can think of – I’ll install it tonight and do a bit of a review. Might be good to compare it to FDOM as well, though I don’t know if its better/worse than FDOM yet .. ?

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