[Gta04-owner] Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

[Sven Dyroff]

Hello Radek,

> Together with reenumerating modem it makes GTA04 barely usable
> even for a few hardcore supporters but unusable for normal users.

Not being reachable reliably is indeed the main barrier that prevents 
GTA04 to be usable as daily phone. It results in the requirement, that you 
need two phones to carry with you: One for making phone calls and SMS and 
the GTA04 for the rest. Otherwise you'll get the problems that Christ van 
Willegen described exemplary:

"I get a _lot_ of flack about not being reachable from my wife, who 
repeatedly calls on me to drop the GTA project and get another phone so I 
am reliably reachable again :-("

The second big problem indeed is power management. But power usage during 
suspend is a minor problem. Much more serious is the fact, that you cannot 
charge GTA04 in the same way as you're used from every other mobile 
device: Connect a charger to it in the evening and have a fully charged 
device in the morning.

Is it kernel or is it userspace which can be blamed for the problem, that 
after having charged up to 100% GTA04 will discharge again instead of 
switching over its power demand to external supply and thus keep its 
battery at 100% filling level, like every other mobile device does?

By the way I want to use this opportunity once again to encourage you to 
provide a QtMoko v56 with camera support. The fact that currently the 
GTA04 is blind results in the requirement, that the second phone mentioned 
above also is to have the missing camera. This means, the second phone 
cannot be any cheap shit from rummage table. Unfortunately there's the 
relationship: The more features a phone has, the more spy shit it has.

Best regards
   Sven
 
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