[Fsuk-manchester] Helping Openmoko GTA04

[Bob Ham]

Hi all,

The guys behind the Openmoko GTA04 phone have come up against some
problems in their development (see attached email).  They are requesting
financial help in the form of either donations:

  http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04-Early-Adopter

(at the bottom of that page) or purchases of one of their cool little
computers, the Letux 400:

  http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=Letux%20400

I thought I would forward this request in case anyone else is willing to
assist with the next Openmoko phone.  And because the Letux 400 thing
looks interesting :-)

Bob

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Bob Ham <address@hidden>

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> [Gta04-owner] GTA04A3 Testing Status Update
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> Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:42:48 +0200
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> Hi all,
> I have good news and bad news. As usual,
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> a) good news first:
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>         the DM3730 CPU is working fine :)
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> We had to fix some PinMux settings and initialisation
> in X-Loader and U-Boot, but yesterday I received the
> first board with a UMTS module!
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>         http://download.goldelico.com/gta04/images/DSC00977.jpeg
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> This board has all components as the final GTA04.
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> b) bad news:
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>         the UMTS module does not respond on
>         the internal USB2.0 :(
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> It is not even clear if it is initializing and running its firmware.
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> Currently we have no idea why and have not found
> a way to debug it. What we don't know is, if we did some
> mistake in hooking it up to the CPU or if it was badly
> soldered or even was damaged during soldering.
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> This crumbles up the schedule again :(
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> The plan was to have this "golden master board" working
> by yesterday and then produce the Early Adopter boards
> next week.
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> But we can't start production before we know what the
> problem is. Unfortunately, the production company will
> have 3 weeks of holidays after next week. So unless we
> find a solution over this weekend, we will have to wait until
> end of August :(
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> One test we can do on Monday is to solder some wires directly
> to another module. I.e. we don't reflow the whole module and
> have more access to all signal pads.
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> But it is not clear if this already breaks the schedule. And
> experiments like this also strain our development budget.
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> Well, the budget already became quite low due to all these
> delays and many reworks.
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> So I would like to ask for some financial support. One option
> is to donate:
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>         http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04-Early-Adopter
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> (at the bottom of the page "Just a donation...").
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> Another good help would be if you could consider buying or
> recommending this nice MIPS based mini-book from our shop:
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>         http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=Letux%20400
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> It is not the most modern one, but amongst the cheapest ones and
> with 670g really light weight. Some guys also have a working 2.6.31
> kernel for this machine so that Debian Squeeze can run.
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> We can also provide the schematics so that you can e.g. add
> an external access to the I2C bus or whatever ideas you have.
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> Getting rid of the remaining stock without scrapping them would
> contribute a little to the GTA04 project.
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> Sorry that I don't have good news only,
> Nikolaus
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> PS: if someone is interested in internal details of the UMTS module
> (which appears to be the same chipset as used in the iPhone 4),
> start to search the web for "Gobi 3000" or "MDM6200". Or go to
> http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid/ 
> and search for NCM / OMO6012
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