<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br><div><div>Am 27.11.2012 um 11:01 schrieb Sven Dyroff:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hello,</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">meanwhile I also tried QtMoko v49 together
with bootloader "Production 20121120". My impressions:</font>
<br>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Bootloader starts with dark red and
empty screen -> Shock! What's wrong?</font>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div>That is a warning that you are just installing the new u-boot on the</div><div>SD card to NAND. It comes only on the first boot with this SD card.</div><div><br></div><div><div>So it is a feature of the bootloader and not to blaim any version of</div><div>QtMoko for.</div><div><br></div></div><div>The latest recommendation is to have a separate SD card to flash</div><div>new boot loaders (since this should be needed quite rarely).</div><div><br></div><div>And another SD or several for working/experimenting with different</div><div>systems. But it is still possible to live/work with a single one (if big</div><div>enough for everything).</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">- No penguin -> Anger! What's going
wrong here?</font>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It was not possible to make the bootloader flash itself into NAND</div><div>and still show the standard boot splash image. This is because the</div><div>OMAP BootROM remembers that it did boot on power up from SD.</div><div>So U-Boot from SD can't reboot to u-boot from NAND. And if it can't</div><div>we can't implement the "flash only once" feature properly.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">- See the 4-icon-menu -> Ahhh! The
previous reaction wasn't a bug. We shall see it as feature! :-o</font>
<br></blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">- QtMoko booting -> Fine!</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">- See QtMoko booting for unusual long
time -> Slowly anger arises again. What's going wrong?</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Finally see the Qt Calibration ->
Ahhhh! QtMoko only had lots of stuff to boot. It's ok!</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Do the calibration. It's awfully slow
and choppy. -> WTF?</font> </blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Enter date, time and pin. It's ok.</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">- See the MokoFaen and go to settings
in order to switch to Finxi. OK, I expected this step to do. But I didn't
expect it to last such long.</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">- See Finxi with black background ->
Bahhhh!</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">- See that some icons are missing. Very
strange: The green "Back"-icon has gone. But I need it and so
I found: I can touch it and it works, but I can't see it -> Bahhh!</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">- See empty battery icon whereas I know
the battery is quite full. Problem known from v48 -> :-(((</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Result:</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Being happy that my NAND is still quite
empty! So just remove the SD card and put in again the old one with QtMoko
v47 (and previous bootloader). In my opinion the best and most stable version
we have. </font></blockquote><div><br></div>This probably also reflashes the old bootloader but does not show the red screen.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Might be that v48 or v49 have lots of more features and some bugs
fixed, but I don't want to try that out when the whole system already annoys
me from the scratch...</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Sorry for this negative text, but I
think an honest opinion is better for this project than a lying one.</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Best regards</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Sven</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> </font>
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