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| − | == FreeRunner (GTA02): known hardware-related issues ==
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| − | There is a collection of known FreeRunner hardware issues at the wiki page [[FreeRunner_Hardware_Issues]]; reading that page could help you quickly solve those issues.
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| − | ==Booting==
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| − | === Why won't the FreeRunner boot even with the charger connected? ===
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| − | '''A:'''
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| − | Early builds of the FreeRunner<sup>1</sup> have the issue that the phone needs to boot fully to enable charging of the battery. However, current supplied via the charger is not sufficient to boot the phone; some power is required from the battery as well<sup>2</sup>. If you've let your battery discharge totally, the only recommended<sup>3</sup> way to boot the FreeRunner is with a spare battery. If you don't have a spare battery specifically for the FreeRunner, you can also use a Nokia battery (see [[Neo FreeRunner Battery]] for a list of compatible batteries).
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| − | 1. Put in the spare battery and plug in your charger, and let the phone boot.
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| − | 2. Once your phone has booted, remove the spare battery. The FreeRunner should continue running on power drawn from the charger.
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| − | 3. Insert the dead battery and let it charge.
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| − | Notes:
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| − | *<sup>1</sup> http://n2.nabble.com/HW-problems-...-tp759770p759791.html and http://n2.nabble.com/HW-problems-...-tp759770p760234.html imply that FreeRunners built during and after July 2008 no longer have this problem, but this has not been officially confirmed.
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| − | *<sup>2</sup> see http://n2.nabble.com/FreeRunner-is-completely-dead-tp683923p683928.html
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| − | *<sup>3</sup> Andy Green mentions possible alternate approaches at http://n2.nabble.com/Dead-battery-tp735397p735419.html and http://n2.nabble.com/FreeRunner-is-completely-dead-tp683923p684209.html - '''these are entirely at your risk and are NOT recommended!'''
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| − | === How do I find out what image versions are in use on the phone? ===
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| − | '''A:''' You can run the commands given below on the phone (in an SSH session from your host PC, or in the Terminal application on the phone itself)
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| − | ! To find out
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| − | | Kernel version that is currently running
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| − | uname -a
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| − | | The version of the root filesystem that you are currently using
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| − | cat /etc/version
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| − | cat /etc/om-version
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| − | | The versions of u-boot on the phone (The FreeRunner has one u-boot image in NOR memory, and one in NAND - see [[Booting the Neo FreeRunner]] for more information)
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| − | grep Bootloader /dev/mtdblock0 (yields the NOR u-boot version)
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| − | grep Bootloader /dev/mtdblock1 (yields the NAND u-boot version)
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| − | === I'm unable to flash FreeRunner after booting either into NAND or NOR. ===
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| − | '''A:''' {{note|Please check [[Getting_Started_with_your_Neo_FreeRunner]] for more information about flashing new images to your phone.}}
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| − | === I can SSH into the phone via USB as per the wiki instructions, but dfu-util does not find the phone. ===
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| − | '''A:''' In brief, you need to restart (or power on) the phone to get to the NOR u-boot menu before dfu-util will be able to connect. dfu-util uses the USB DFU (Universal Serial Bus Device Firmware Upgrade) protocol, which is only available at the u-boot menu, and '''not''' Ethernet over USB, which is what is available when the phone has booted fully.
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| − | Tip: If you're just trying out different distributions, you don't need to flash them with dfu-util; you can try out new distributions by putting them on the microSD card and booting from the card instead. If you'd like to do this instead of flashing, see [[Booting from SD]].
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| − | To get the u-boot menu:
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| − | # Press and hold the AUX button
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| − | # Press the Power button until the phone powers on and displays the boot menu
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| − | # Release both buttons
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| − | # Press and release AUX to move the lightbar, so that the menu will not time out and boot the phone).
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| − | Also see the wiki pages/sections:
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| − | * [[Booting the Neo FreeRunner]]
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| − | * [[Bootloader#Device Firmware Upgrade]]
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| − | * [[Flashing the Neo FreeRunner]]
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| − | * [[Dfu-util]]
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| − | <!-- The (commented) information below does not seem to answer the question, which states a problem with '''dfu-util''' and not with SSH over USB Ethernet networking. Editors, please consider deleting commented information below. --[[User:Eddsouza|eddsouza]] 06:47, 31 August 2008 (UTC) -->
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| − | '''A:'''
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| − | This is what I need to run as root and the everything works fine:
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| − | root(eno,freerunner)# cat upom
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| − | #!/bin/sh
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| − | /sbin/ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.200 netmask 255.255.255.0
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| − | /sbin/route add -host 192.168.0.202/32 dev usb0
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| − | /bin/echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
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| − | iptables -F
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| − | iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.202 -i usb0 -d 192.168.0.200 -j ACCEPT
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| − | iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.200 -i eth+ -d 192.168.0.202 -j ACCEPT
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| − | iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.2.0/24 -i eth+ -d 192.168.0.202 -j ACCEPT
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| − | iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.2.0/24 -i eth+ -d 192.168.2.0/24 -j ACCEPT
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| − | iptables -A FORWARD -s 192.168.0.202 -i usb0 -d 192.168.2.0/24 -o eth+ -j
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| − | ACCEPT
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| − | iptables -A FORWARD -s 192.168.2.0/24 -i eth+ -d 192.168.0.202 -o usb0 -j
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| − | ACCEPT
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| − | iptables -A OUTPUT -d 192.168.2.0/24 -o eth+ -j ACCEPT
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| − | iptables -A OUTPUT -d 192.168.0.202 -o usb0 -j ACCEPT
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| − | iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.0.0/24
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| − | == Battery ==
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| − | === What is the expected battery life? ===
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| − | See [[Neo FreeRunner (GTA02) Battery#Notes_about_expected_battery_life]] and more battery information in [[Neo_FreeRunner_(GTA02)_Battery]]
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| − | === How do I enable fast charge mode for anything but the official mains charger? ===
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| − | See [[Forcing fast charge mode]].
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| − | == USB ==
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| − | === How do I connect a USB memory-stick etc? ===
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| − | '''A:''' This requires an adapter Mini-B 5-pole => Type A jack or an adapter jack => jack. See [[Host Mode]] for more information.
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| − | Q:''' Once I have such an adapter, can I use it to connect 2 Neos to each other?
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| − | '''A:''' This question is equivalent to '''How to connect two [Unix/Linux] computers via USB cable and what sort of special cable is needed?''' -> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/connecting-two-computers-with-a-usb-cable-data-cable-411073
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| − | It should work if one Neo is set to Host mode and the other one set to Device mode. One Neo could give power to the USB-port it the other Neo's battery is low. ''(I have to verify this)''
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| − | ===How do I use an external USB or Bluetooth keyboard with the FreeRunner ? ===
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| − | {{Note| These commands appear to be for USB only? Could someone please supply the commands for using a Bluetooth keyboard? --[[User:Eddsouza|eddsouza]] 08:21, 31 August 2008 (UTC)}}
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| − | Run:
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| − | echo "host" > /sys/devices/platform/s3c2410-ohci/usb_mode
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| − | echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-host.0/hostmode
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| − | These commands will put the FreeRunner into powered USB host mode. After this, just plug in the keyboard and it'll work. Personally, I've made a .desktop file to switch into and out of host mode.
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| − | To switch back to unpowered device mode just run:
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| − | echo "device" > /sys/devices/platform/s3c2410-ohci/usb_mode
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| − | echo "0" > /sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-host.0/hostmode
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| − | [[Category:Neo FreeRunner Hardware]]
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| − | == GSM ==
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| − | === SIM compatibility: It looks like my SIM card is not working; how do I run diagnostics? ===
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| − | '''A:'''
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| − | Here is how to check: follow [[Manually_using_GSM]] until you get an OK prompt.
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| − | For more detailed documentation, please refer to [[FreeRunner_unable_to_work_with_3G_SIM_cards]] and [[Carriers]].
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| − | === GSM/GPRS information ===
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| − | The following pages contain very useful information:
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| − | * [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gsmd GSM Daemon]
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| − | * [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gsm General GSM page]
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| − | * [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Hardware:AT_Commands AT commands]
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| − | * [http://freeyourphone.de/portal_v1/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=295#p2956 Useful script for GPRS]
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| − | == GPS ==
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| − | === How do I get the GPS working? ===
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| − | '''A: '''See [[GTA02 GPS]]
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| − | === It takes a long time (10min+) before the FreeRunner gets the first GPS data/readings ===
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| − | '''A: '''See [[GPS Problems]].
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| − | == Wi-Fi ==
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| − | === How do I get the WLAN working? ===
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| − | '''A: ''' See [[GTA02 WLAN]]
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| − | == Bluetooth ==
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| − | === How do I get Bluetooth working manually? ===
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| − | '''A: ''' See [[Manually_using_Bluetooth]]
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| − | == Sysfs functions/functionality==
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| − | === How do I get low level hardware related function, like power up device, dump register? ===
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| − | '''A: ''' See [[GTA02_sysfs]]
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| − | == Display ==
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| − | === Can it play VGA video? ===
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| − | No, it can do about 20 fps QVGA with software, and something beetween QVGA and VGA playing MPEG-4 using hardware (at resonable fps). Scaling is also done with GPU hardware.
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| − | === How to change the background picture of the root window? ===
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| − | Look [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Today/2007.2#Adjust_UI_components_at_runtime here].
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| − | == Software ==
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| − | === Does it support Java? ===
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| − | There is a [https://wiki.evolvis.org/jalimo/index.php/Openmoko port of Jalimo] for Openmoko.
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| − | === Does it support Flash so can I watch YouTube? ===
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| − | You don't really need Flash to watch YouTube videos, for example, if you want to watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9QLdK6pFCI just install mplayer and use this command:
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| − | mplayer http://ytpocket.com/getflv.php?id=k9QLdK6pFCI
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| − | or use this small script with the video URL as the first parametre:
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| − | #!/bin/sh
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| − | vid=`echo "$1" | sed 's/.*\?.*=\(.*\)/\1/'`
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| − | mplayer http://ytpocket.com/getflv.php?id=$vid
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| − | === Does it support Ruby? ===
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| − | For Ruby 1.9, please refer to http://blog.sparkymat.net/2008/08/10/ruby-19-on-openmoko/
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| − | For Ruby 1.8.6, please refer to http://blog.wolfman.com/articles/2008/08/10/ruby-1-8-6-on-openmoko-freerunner
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| − | === How can I type a '/' in the software keyboard? ===
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| − | See [[Switching Keyboards]]
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| − | === How do I get a QWERTY layout software keyboard?===
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