[Gta04-owner] Beta Tester's Report on SHR

[Josua Mayer]

 Good to hear you tried SHR

Am 01.03.2012 09:50, schrieb Sven Dyroff:

Hello,

I couldn't resist to try out SHR, now. I used the version whose link has
been posted in this list some days ago.

Starting the phone
After booting the first time - which took very very long time - SHR asked
lots of questions where it wanted to have text being entered. But where on
earth can I get the keyboard displayed for that? I couldn't find one, so I
skipped these questions. The text "next" appeared at the bottom of the
screen, in most cases messed up with other screen content, but at least it
worked.
Booting for the second time was very fast, but I didn't get the home screen
with all the icons. There where only some few icons at the top of the
screen. I tried them out and somehow I got the icons back in the end. But
not as expected with the house-icon which I expected to be "home", but with
another that seems to be able to split the screen for some unknown reason.
After touching this icon again and again I got the right screen. And
besides I found the keyboard icon, but I couldn't remember if this has
already been there when all the questions arised.

The keyboard most probably hasn't been there. I am experiencing the same
thing on my freerunner when installing SHR.

And what was astonishing: Althoug I removed the battery before the phone
presented the right date and time! With QtMoko after having the battery
removed for some time I always have to enter time and date again.
So my astonished questions are: How did SHR managed to get the RTC supplied
without battery? Any why doen't QtMoko manage this?

Calls
Neither could I make calls nor could I receive calls. That was exactly the
behaviour I expected, because up to this time SHR never had asked me for my
PIN. But where on earth shall I enter it??

Terminal session
Please explain me how I manage that this stubborn keyboard does what I
want? I even wasn't able to enter simplest commands like "ls" or "pwd"
because the keyboard did everything, but not giving me some simple letters!

GPS
I only see a blank screen with some zeroes at the bottom and a 2000km
measuring stick above. Even after minutes with an external antenna this
doesn't change. Is there an easy way to find out if the GPS module of my
GTA04 is functioning at all? Remember: QtMoko also didn't give me any GPS
coordinates.

Internet
Of course without PIN no connection. But nice to find one more browser from
which I never heared before: "eve". Is it a way to become famous to create
one's own browser? Is Firefox so much terrible?

Mumpty Physics
Very funny, indeed. But what is this?

Power management
No reaction by the battery icon when connecting USB to a power supplying
device. "Settings" / "Power" first says "Loading 4 modules" like many SHR
settings want to load several modules each time you call them, but then I
only get "Charge: N/A%", "Power info: N/A" and "Status: N/A". How do I
manage to load the battery with SHR?

Settings
Extremely much stuff for a beginner. I resign and ruefully return to
QtMoko. But up to the next version of QtMoko coming, I'll dream that this
upcoming version also will be able to supply the RTC while the battery has
been removed like SHR does...

Ethernet Gadget
I admit it would have been too easy if the IP would have been the same like
QtMoko has: 192.168.0.202! But what is the right IP? Without a working
keyboard on a phone's terminal session no chance to enter "ifconfig" in
order to inspect it by myself, and I didn't want to open the case in order
to connect a serial cable. At least not yet. For the moment I still avoid
to become too much freaky, because my goal is to be able to present this
phone also to friends that do not much understand from computing.

As far as I know SHR has now been using 192.168.7.x for a while now which
is in my opinion much better than 192.168.0.x. The phones IP is 192.168.7.2
and you can set your computers ip to e.g. 192.168.7.1


Shutting down the phone
I press the power button, select "Shutdown", even approve with "Yes" and
get the goodbye message: "Please wait: booting...". Then the phone switches
off. Oh yes, I really want to return to QtMoko, happily!!

And I cannot spare you what I nastily thought at this moment: Yes, it was
Micro$oft where I had to click "Start" in order to shutdown an OS. Same
thing, just reversed. That was before I switched to Ubuntu...

Best regards,
   Sven



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