My OpenMoko Dialed!

Updated September 16, 2007 @ 5:09 pm

Ok, I spent a little bit of time today trying to get my OpenMoko working, especially after prodding from some from my previous post and some inspiration from this great post.

So, I flashed and updated my kernel, rootfs and u-boot to the latest and greatest. All works except the interface is squished into an approximately 200 x 100 pixel window with the UI Starting image below all of this. Of course, I filed a bug and hope this gets resolved. In the meantime, I’ll just re-flash the thing every weekend now that I got my openmoko hacking workflow figured out and try to do my part by filing bugs and so forth to keep on things…sooooo soon I will have my open phone and chuck this POS phone I have now.

Regardless, I got my OpenMoko to dial out and left I nice message on some phones :) That is cool :)

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10 Comments »

  1. How did it dial, exactly? GUI? CLI?

    Comment by Luis Villa — September 16, 2007 @ 5:23 pm

  2. Yep, through the GUI! But, that bug needs to get fixed first so can really use it…its still a good month off IMO from working well…

    Comment by jon — September 16, 2007 @ 8:28 pm

  3. Cool.

    BTW, one of your links is busted.

    Comment by Luis Villa — September 16, 2007 @ 10:44 pm

  4. Fixed and thanks!

    Comment by jon — September 17, 2007 @ 4:51 pm

  5. Reflashing is so 1990’s, ‘ipkg update ; ipkg upgrade’ will do the same job (minus kernel and uboot) and keep all you personal data.

    Comment by Koen — September 19, 2007 @ 8:39 am

  6. Yes, of course! I was just trying out different images :)

    Comment by jon — September 19, 2007 @ 12:23 pm

  7. Which cellular service is your OpenMoko working on?

    Comment by Greg Bulmash — September 20, 2007 @ 1:09 pm

  8. Oh, I’m using with my t-mobile account in USA…

    Comment by jon — September 22, 2007 @ 3:33 am

  9. Great to hear you have an OpenMoko, and even better to hear that it is working! I’ll be getting one once the wifi version comes out, I reckon. On a related note, there is supposed to be an OpenMoko talk here in Sydney at this month’s Sydney Linux User Group. The word is spreading fast, it seems.

    Comment by Kelvin Nicholson — September 24, 2007 @ 2:36 pm

  10. Yeah, totally! Tis good…they are getting better and I can just ipkg update && ipkg upgrade to get the latest fixes now on mine! Cool!

    Comment by jon — September 24, 2007 @ 2:55 pm

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