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Hey,
I'm an old skool coder (anyone remember BT Wireplay?) who is seriously miffed that all my previous mobile phones have never quite done what I want, have never quite had the right (cf: up to date) software standards that let me develop fun apps and I couldn't do anything about it except spend more cash. Not any more.. mwahaha...
Looking forward to getting a Sat nav, VoIP handset, gaming platform and GSM communication tool in one cool little package :)
Phil.
07-Aug-2007
I finally got my grubby mitts on a Neo1973 today - w00t!
NB: Must test GPS if possible (looks tricky ATM)
08-Aug-2007
Take new toy to office (BT Labs, UK) and show off :)
09-Aug-2007
Try to join mailing lists - not working it seems, go to IRC channel instead.
12-Aug-2007
Managed to join the appropriate mailing lists (thanks to whoever resurrected mailman)
Have now discovered just how long the Neo currently lasts without a USB umbilical attached - about 2-3 hours.
Much poking about on the Wiki to see where I could help with the power management, and playing with the power monitoring script available there.
Discovered I can change the backlight level by writing appropriate numbers to the /sys control file - handy when it gets dark and I don't want my eyes fried!
Neo now permanently attached to my PC, since the kids use the PC a fair amount during the day while I am at work, thus keeping my Neo alive :)
21-Aug-2007
Thanks to the mailing lists, it seems OM 2007.2 has better power management, so that's going on the phone tonight..
26-Aug-2007
Cool! I put OM 2007.2 build 20070825 on this morning (following the instructions here Phase_1_Software_Testing), and I have a working GSM phone :) I've made a call both ways, incoming seems to work until you hang up at the remote end, after which the phone and / or gsmd doesn't recognise the RING signal. There does seem to be some interference from the GSM radio audible in the handset, perhaps I have a poor signal here and the radio needs more power than other people?
Power management still not done it seems: I had OM 2007.2 20070818 on the phone for a couple of days, and tested leaving the phone running overnight with 'Full PM' enabled - by morning it was flat (about 8 hours).
Jobs for the bank holiday: getting a development environment set up so I can actually have a go at building my own binaries... bye bye disk space!