[Gta04-owner] Antwort: Re: Amazing adventures with a brandnew GTA04...

Thu Feb 9 13:49:22 CET 2012

Hello Jack,

I started with a GTA04A4 with empty Flash and a newly bought 16GB SD-Card 
Class 10. I reformatted the SD-Card manually because I wanted to get 
practice. So I called "fdisk" and set up 255 "heads", 63 sectors and 1947 
"cylinders" (-> Why on earth is this necessary on an SD-Card??). Then I 
used the link provided by mail from Golden Delicious yesterday in order to 
download QtMoko v39, copied and untared this onto the card. That's all. 
There shouldn't be any chance to get trouble with several versions. If 
this QtMoko didn't make it automatically, Flashes of my GTA04 still should 
be empty, because I didn't flash anything by myself.

Best regards,
   Sven

Von:    Jack Jones <sanctuarys3172 at yahoo.com>
An:     List for communicating with real GTA04 owners 
<gta04-owner at goldelico.com>
Datum:  09.02.2012 13:31
Betreff:        Re: [Gta04-owner] Amazing adventures with a brandnew 
GTA04...
Gesendet von:   gta04-owner-bounces at goldelico.com

sven, can you just go over the first,formatting of the sd card,what and 
where files you put onto card  then the revision of the os you 
used--thanks
please i dont want to have to reset my phone  due to a bad first few steps
From: Sven Dyroff <S.Dyroff at phytec.de>
To: gta04-owner at goldelico.com 
Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:36 AM
Subject: [Gta04-owner] Amazing adventures with a brandnew GTA04...

Hello, 

I'm completely new to Openmoko. Thanks to Golden Delicious on monday I 
received the brandnew GTA04A4. For 29 EUR I got a 16 GB Class 10 
Micro-SD-Card. Yesterday I put the brandnew QtMoko v39 on it and began to 
start. I think it can be useful for you if I tell you the adventures I 
then experienced...   ;-)) 

Thanks to this mailinglist I already knew that it's not recommended to 
start without a SIM plugged in. So after passing the first pictures with 
touch calibrating and typing in PIN I looked a little bit around in the 
menues and then of course I wanted to explore if it's possible to phone 
with the phone. I typed in the number of my currently used mobile and the 
miracle happend that it really began to ring. Then I touched the cancel 
button because I didn't want to spend money in order to phone with myself. 
The GTA04A4 returned to the previous screen. But the other mobile 
continued to ring and to ring and to ring... In the end I stopped it by 
pressing the cancel button on it, too...  ;-)) 

Then I tried to call the GTA04A4. It really began to ring. Exactly once. 
Then it showed "1 missed call". Then it rang again. Then it showed a 
second message "1 missed call". Then it rang again... In the end I pressed 
the cancel button on my mobile...   ;-)) 

After that I explored the menues of telephone contacts and calls and so on 
more deeply. I wanted to remove the "missed call"-messages. But where on 
earth is the "delete"-button? I tried everything, but the messages are 
still there, just jamming the list...   :-( 

OK, I became more brave. I explored the telephone settings, searching for 
the possibility to enter my APN. After little time I found it. I got the 
field "APN" and a blinking cursor. But how on earth should I enter letters 
with a touch without showing a keyboard? I tried and found a menu with the 
entry "change input method" and with that I got a keyboard shown. It 
showed only letters. How should I enter the period with that, needed for 
the APN? No chance! No period!   :-(    I thought that all the others of 
you (the GTA04-community) also must have managed to enter their APN and so 
I began a struggle with the GTA04 and after some time and only by accident 
I got another keyboard. It was such microscopic little that it was 
impossible to decode the meaning of some keys, but at least it offered me 
a period. So I won the fight! I succeded to enter the two periods for the 
APN.    \o/  \o/  \o/ 

Of course my next step was to search for a browser. But in this case, the 
GTA04 won the fight. I searched and searched and searched, but couldn't 
find a browser. Is there one already included in QtMoko v39 ? 

Second question: On my way to find the possibility the APN I accidently 
touched the wrong button. Instead of "GPRS" I activated "Ethernet" (the 
menu entry once above). But where's the possibility to remove this entry 
again? No possibility to delete it any more...  :-( 

I played some more with some features I found randomly and more and more I 
got the impression that it's really nice and lovely. Yes I already really 
like it! And while you're fixing lots of crazy bugs (yes, when ordering 
the GTA04 from Golden Delicious I've been aware that this will be my 
ticket for entering a mine field...) I only have some more hopefully 
simple questions: 

- How can I supply my own ring tones? 
- How can I supply a "video ring tone"? 
- How can I use IrDA if I don't want to open the case in order to access 
UART3 with a terminal from my Ubuntu 11.04 PC? 
- How can I switch off the display? It doesn't make any sence that it's 
constantly on even when not being used for hours? 

Best regards, 
   Sven 

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