Htc Universal

[datathief]

The two icons should be touch sensitive, i.e. tapping on them should take you to a missed calls listing, messages listing - or the message directly, alternatively.

Other than that, no criticism intended, I think MMS support is much more necessary than these eye-candy things, but that might be a tough cookie to implement from what I've read in various places so far.

I have no need for MMS support, but it should be possible to pass the URL from a "push" SMS message to something that can download it and decode it.  Sending MMS, IIRC, is done via an internet connection.  The software to do all this may already exist.

[datathief]

1. MMS

Might already exist in a usable form.  If not, someone may be able to adapt work done for another open-source phone stack.

2. Getting the camera to work for photos, videos, with a suitable X app

A driver for the camera exists for the 2.4 kernel, so someone may be able to port it to 2.6.21.

3. HiQ video, getting it to play 640x480 movies which I've seen the Uni is capable of on the Windows Mobile side, in debian
4. Bluetooth A2DP support, so that listening to mp3 and the movies via bluetooth headphones would be fixed

These aren't as "defined" as the other problems, so I imagine it would be more difficult to get someone to take them up...

[ShiroiKuma]

1. MMS

Might already exist in a usable form.  If not, someone may be able to adapt work done for another open-source phone stack.

Yeah, I've been trying to find something workable to be adapted, so far I don't think there is a working MMS implementation. And yeah, it is done via GPRS/UMTS, so it shouldn't be such a big problem theoretically.

2. Getting the camera to work for photos, videos, with a suitable X app

A driver for the camera exists for the 2.4 kernel, so someone may be able to port it to 2.6.21.

So I've read, but so far no work for 2.6 has been done on it it seems.

3. HiQ video, getting it to play 640x480 movies which I've seen the Uni is capable of on the Windows Mobile side, in debian
4. Bluetooth A2DP support, so that listening to mp3 and the movies via bluetooth headphones would be fixed

These aren't as "defined" as the other problems, so I imagine it would be more difficult to get someone to take them up...

Yeah, but real problems, should be workable. I've been meaning to contact a local kernel/system hacker I know for a long time to pay him to work on these, but keep procrastinating. I'd probably have to get him one Uni too etc. so not sure if I wanna do that...  

Maybe there's another way to get it done, that's why I thought a larger web call to get it could help, but am skeptical about it too...  

[linuxFreq]

Hey,

Got X working, touchscreen working...managed to connect on the wifi so i know that's working.

I was wondering how your phone tools can produce a nice shiny graphic even before X has been installed? Could you enlighten me...?

[ShiroiKuma]

• Missed call icon
• Received SMS icon

Further what occurred to me: The two icons, being active, i.e. leading to missed calls, and SMS lists, should then be dialable.

I.e. a missed calls icon => missed calls list => scroll to a particular call => dial

Same with SMS => i.e. SMS list => scroll to SMS => read => reply or call back

[linuxFreq]

Wifi working great apart from after a suspend.

Where are the suspend and wake up scripts kept?

I found after suspend i have to

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rmmod acx
modprobe acx
/etc/init.d/networking restart
to get a connection.

I would like to change it so when it wakes up it performs this. Or maybe when it suspends to do the

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rmmod acx

[ShiroiKuma]

Wifi working great apart from after a suspend.

What did you do to make it work great, just change the speed as datathief indicated?

And what do you mean by great, does the connection still stop working after some time?

[Sam Liddicott]

On a slightly similar note, a request for comments also:

I've been thinking about things that I consider missing, and how to get them done. What do you think, would a bounty system be good to motivate some skillful hackers to tackle these. From what I've read on the web so far lately, it actually seems bounties are counter productive in motivating the development of Free Software, so I'm not sure.

But I was thinking, I could easily offer, let's say 200 EUR for each of the following:

1. MMS
2. Getting the camera to work for photos, videos, with a suitable X app

I'll add 25 UK pounds to that.

3. HiQ video, getting it to play 640x480 movies which I've seen the Uni is capable of on the Windows Mobile side, in debian

I'll add 25 UK pounds to that.

4. Bluetooth A2DP support, so that listening to mp3 and the movies via bluetooth headphones would be fixed

I'll add 25 UK pounds to that.

Is it worth it? Or not likely that someone will take up the task?

Dunno.
I've had a bounty here for nearly a year; http://www.liddicott.com/~sam/?p=76
with other offers it's now at about $600. Work is (and was) being done but as far as I can tell it has no effect on the rate of work.

I'm now getting wary of a liability of timeless bounties I'm building up, so I'll have to set 1 year as a deadline. After that it's up to my discretion.

Sam

[webdork]

Wifi working great apart from after a suspend.

What did you do to make it work great, just change the speed as datathief indicated?

And what do you mean by great, does the connection still stop working after some time?

I doubt that it is working great. There's a new driver out for the acx... I wish I knew enough to build it in the kernel :/ ... I get stuck with the cs.c and mem.c files for the Uni

[ShiroiKuma]

I doubt that it is working great. There's a new driver out for the acx... I wish I knew enough to build it in the kernel :/ ... I get stuck with the cs.c and mem.c files for the Uni

Where? I could try building it...

[linuxFreq]

Wifi working great apart from after a suspend.

What did you do to make it work great, just change the speed as datathief indicated?

And what do you mean by great, does the connection still stop working after some time?

I doubt that it is working great. There's a new driver out for the acx... I wish I knew enough to build it in the kernel :/ ... I get stuck with the cs.c and mem.c files for the Uni

I dunno. It's not been as bad as i expected. I've just been doing a ping test to try an see how long it's lasting...so far i'm on sequence 1200 and it's been going about 15 minutes. So far so good.

I think the acx driver info can be found at http://acx100.sourceforge.net/

[ShiroiKuma]

Also, I've uploaded a new titchy-hardware-support, that turns on the speaker on the outside of the lid (I'm assuming most of us make calls with the screen closed).

Thanks a lot for this, this is really beneficial. Up to that point with the lid closed, it was really quiet...

On an associated note, it still seems to me, the phone is very quiet when ringing. htcunid volume 5 seems to make no difference. But using the same ringtone under Windows Mobile with the volume brought all the way up results in a really loud ring, whereas under Debian the ring is still relativelly quiet. Do you experience the same?

[datathief]

Where are the suspend and wake up scripts kept?

/etc/apm/*.

If you're feeling ambitious, you might be able to use /etc/network/run/ifstate to determine whether or not to bring wlan0 back up on resume.

[datathief]

On an associated note, it still seems to me, the phone is very quiet when ringing. htcunid volume 5 seems to make no difference. But using the same ringtone under Windows Mobile with the volume brought all the way up results in a really loud ring, whereas under Debian the ring is still relativelly quiet. Do you experience the same?

There's a volume setting in /etc/default/titchy-phoneui-base - try setting it to 100.

[domi007]

Hi EB!
Finally I got my TitchyMobile working (based on the package from shikomura).
But, I cannot connect to the internet via USB.
I have a Debian install in a virtual PC. I connected the PDA to the virtual PC (and the connection was successful: Windows didn't see it anymore), applied all the commands, found in wiki.neilandtheresa.co.uk, but no success.

Do you have any ideas?
Thanx!
DOMy