Pietro Abate homepage

I've installed android on my freerunner. I've to say that it works ! very nice and functional interface, finger friendly, voice, sms, wifi work out of the box. I'm very impressed.

Following the lead from http://lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-to-build-adb-android-debugger.html I've decided to build adb to connect to my phone without downloading the precompiled sdk and without checking-out the entire android git repository. It's actually very easy, and I'm sure with a minimal effort, it should be possible to create a debian package.

This is an extract from a thread about the audio you can get on the latest shr-testing while calling and receiving calls.

This morning I spent sometimes trying to understand how the GPS subsystem on the freerunner works. I'm using SHR unstable. These information might be incomplete or wrong, so just use them with a grain of salt.

Ok, at the beginning the clients where connecting to the GPS device either directly :

• serial device -> client

or using gpsd

• serial device-> gpsd-> client

so far so good.

This week I got myself a sim card and I started doing a more appropriate use of my freerunner. For a start I've flushed it with the latest SHR distribution. The SHR is based on FSO and I've the feeling that is stable enough for daily use. After struggling a bit I've also installed debian. The installer script is still a bit broken and, in particular in this period, is very fragile because of the state of flush of debian unstable. Nonetheless, after a couple of restart I managed to get it going.

The other day I got a new, shiny freerunner. This is my