[Gta04-owner] QtMoko v52

[EdorFaus]

Hi,

On 02/01/2013 11:08 AM, Radek Polak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> QtMoko v52 is out now. You can download experimental armhf tarball from
> here [1] or stable armel from here [2]. For more info visit our homepage
> [3].

I (finally!) got around to upgrading from v48 today (well, I think it 
was v48 anyway, that's the last tarball I found on my PC), going to v52 
(armhf), and overall, it's very nice! Many thanks to Radek and everyone 
else who have helped make QtMoko as good as it is.

I can confirm that suspend current is now measured to 15mA, which is 
very good compared to what I used to have (like, 28mA or so IIRC).

The headset jack detection still thinks a headset is plugged in when it 
isn't, but I guess that's a hardware tolerance issue more than a 
software issue, so I re-applied the workaround of deleting the input4 
device node in qpe.sh to disable detection.

With that, ringtones and SMS alerts work fine, with nicely loud audio 
during a test call I did from my work phone.

The g_ether MAC address kept changing on every boot, until I renamed a 
file - I'm guessing Debian's package has gotten more strict in the 
filenames it accepts in /etc/modprobe.d/ as the only needed change was 
renaming "options" to "options.conf" (Radek, you may want to update your 
rootfs howto accordingly).

I backed up everything, and restored most of the files backed up by Neil 
Jerram's script (from the email on 2012-11-22), and ended up keeping my 
SMSes and at least some of my contacts, though I suspect I don't have 
all of them - does anyone happen to know where exactly QtMoko stores its 
database of contacts?

(I suppose I could check if I'm simply misremembering by restoring the 
old version of QtMoko, but I'd prefer not having to...)

I also lost my call history, but that's not really much of a problem for 
me. It might be indicative of having missed a database file or something 
during restore from backup though. I guess I'll look around a bit and 
maybe try some things if noone already knows what to do.

And, finally, I have a question: did I understand it right that, from 
now on, upgrading to later versions of QtMoko should be as simple as an 
apt-get update and (dist-)upgrade? (Unless you tell us otherwise in the 
release announcement?) That would be wonderful, if true, and would make 
it much less likely to lose any data during upgrades...

Regards,
Frode Austvik