[Gta04-owner] Beginner advice

[Thierry GRAUSS]

Hi,

I also received it today. I have the complete phone. The phone also
start by itself after some time while plugin the charger.
In fact, the battery was empty and it needed some time to charge before
it would start. Now that the battery is charged, if I unplug the
battery (and charger) and put back the battery, the phone will start
immediatly. I guess that it is normal

Regards

On Tue, 18 Apr
2017 22:42:13 +0200 Boudewijn <wankelwankel at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Martin
> 
> On dinsdag 18 april 2017 20:47:27 CEST Martin Rottensteiner wrote:
> > I just received my GTA04A5 device.
> 
> Congratulations! 
> 
> > After quite some time I figured out that it starts on itself (no
> > power button) when plugging the charger and not using the AUX
> > button while booting to boot the NAND image.
> 
> I opened the A4 manual; do you have the bare board as depicted on
> page 12 of the manual, or the complete phone? Page 13 got the board
> and neo freerunner case next to it. 
> 
> There are (/should be) two microswitches; one on the 'left shoulder'
> and one just under the USB-port. The shoulder button is aux, the one
> under the USB port is power. The board on page 13 is frontside back
> on the photo; you can see the USB connection on the left and a little
> bit sticking out just under it. That is the power microswitch. Aux is
> right on top in that photo. 
> 
> In the A3 revision, AUX would get stuck in the freerunner housing
> (mine actually broke of after a few years). Power did not have any
> issues. The power button has a LED built in, it lights while charging
> (and some other events).
> 
> I imagine the description does not match your experience? Where does
> it differ? 
> 
> > At the moment I have no clue about starting the phone and standby
> > without a charger.
> > 
> > I also read the handbook for the A4 but did not find much
> > information about installing software on SD card. Is there some
> > step by step guide for compiling and putting software on a SD card?
> > In the first step I simply want to run some Debian...
> 
> There is, have a look at
> 
> http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/page/Software/
> 
> and give a shout on the mailinglist when you get stuck! 
> 
> > Later I'd also like to install WLAN driver to use debian package
> > manager.
> > 
> > Any hint on where this is documented? Where do you look for such
> > information?
> 
> I would ask on the mailinglist and look on the
> gta04.org/tinkerphone.org --> goldelico project websites. 
> 
> Have fun! 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Boudewijn
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