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Just out of curiosity, as a tohkbd2 preorderer who had a tohkbd1, can I "claim" my SolarOH (or BreadboardOH) now, or should I wait the tohkbd2 shipment? :o

P.S.
You're sending one of the above parcels to "Bularia". :<

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you will be contacted after campaign :)

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just wondering when the SolarTOH will be ready? :D

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what do you mean

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pre-ordered a while ago.. :D

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Received mine yesterday. Great quality, beautiful color... and it really works! (Not that there's any sun ATM, only fog and rain, but the lamp on my desk did the trick for a short test.)

Thx dirk, made me happy. :)

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I did received it also yesterday (thanks Dirk) and soon going to visit some sunny islands so that will be a nice opportunity to see how much it helps ;-)
I guess the only warning is to not leave it too long under direct sun to avoid too much warming?

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no shipment confirmation?

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I did get mine (for excluding the SolarTOH) two days after the package with the Qi ones, which I thought to be quite amusing.
Solar arrived yesterday as well, alumide looks gorgeous. No extra shipping confirmation as of yet, though.

One thing:
PayPal tends to remove company names from addresses – through sheer luck (or is it excessive online shopping?), the local mail people gave both packages to a colleague of mine downstairs at the counter, so no real problem there. Just a heads up – I'd hate to lose my TOHKBD because of this when it's ready.

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I received a mail last week (Friday 21st) that my Solar Other Half has been shipped. (Check your spam folder maybe.) Got it yesterday evening. Depending on where you are, chances are that maybe you didn't receive the confirmation mail and delivery to your place takes one or two days longer than to Vienna. :)

There's still hope! :)

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So Austria delivering is faster than France, maybe I'll have mine today !
Cant' wait :D

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The fact that I'm right in Vienna might also help: The parcel didn't have to travel through all those romantic alpine valleys. ;)

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nope :(

ill send u pm :)



EDIT: oh wait. found it. heh :rolleyes: sorry bout the drama

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I am in France and received it yesterday (see previous page )...

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An idea for an iteration of this (and I don't think this counts as a kitchen sink :) ):

If the solartoh had a *connector* for a Jolla battery built in, once those become available you could leave it somewhere to charge a second battery, come back when you're low, and swap the batteries round.

Don't know how feasible (or expensive) that'd be. But at least you could avoid the thickness problems with having a built in battery (since the idea would be to have it charge the Jolla's battery when it's attached to the Jolla: you'd only attach a battery directly to TOH when it isn't attached to the phone, so the battery can stick out more or less as much as it likes...)

eta - obviously you'd have to think of a clever way to keep the battery attached to the connector. But I could see it being possible... a velcro strap or something.

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still nothing, will have to wait until monday :(

too bad, 2 latest days were really shinny here :p

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received it today !
working as I expected :D

Is vertical line in the middle of the solar panel from top to bottom normal ?

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yep. it is on all the pictures and i have it, too.

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yes, that is a metal strip that connects the separate cells together :)

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Oh ok, nevermind :D

can't stop testing every light and window near me :p

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hahaha it is fun right?

works best outside, lamps have little power generally and windows also block a lot of the light.

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You bet. Managed to get first ding-dong from sunlight today as it was the first not-totally cloudy day in a while. But angle was very tight, can't wait for spring/summer (or holidays, just need some sun)

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Yep, same here, last weekend was the shinnyest for weeks, since sollar TOH arrived, weather is really grey and cloudy, too bad :( I'm trying different types of artificial lights atm ( to find the best performance on indoor conditions, using my Jolla as modem hotspot all day long @ office )

BTW, am I the only one to notice that network signal reception is weaker with sollar TOH than with standard empty white TOH ?

Switch edge/3g and LTE are happening really more often since i switched to Sollar one :(
And LTE reception is not present as often as before I putted it in, maybe coming from my provider but I have doubt really :D

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Would be interesting to see if someone could reproduce your suspicions clovis86. Has anyone else noticed that?

clovis86 if you switch back to the white TOH does it behave like you expect?

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Definitely not sure if this is the case atm, just guessing.
Too early to go to work, I'll try remove the oth @ office and see if signal is better.
Here @ home, no change with or without the Sollar TOH, so I'm probably wrong about this suspicion.
( won't be the 1st time my provider is disabling LTE signal for hoursin the middle of the day :D )

Stay tune for this wonderful TOH to be definitely cleared of blame. :p

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Hi Dirk,

Any chance of a white SolarJolla being availabe in the near future? In the store only the Green, Red, Pink and Purple ones are currently available.

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definitely wrong, sorry about that :)

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also waiting here, hope they are here in time for reaching xmas trees!

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/tb0o52jn91h...olar_order.JPG

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Well I'd be interested in investigations on that matter too. I've used diptoh since I got it, and finally had to remove it because reception was terrible (even no network at all quite often). I am back with toholed and no network issues anymore, same with The First One OH. There's really something with diptoh (at least mine, I'm not saying it happens with all units) and I'm concerned if the same issue happens with solartoh, 'cause that means that maybe it will happen with tohkbd too.

I'm not exagerating: my phone was almost impossible to use with these network issues because I totally lost the connection quite often (several times a day, and when the network was there, it was only for a few minutes). Now that I noticed it was related to diptoh, the phone works quite well. Not sure if this was a hardware or software issue, because rebooting the phone sometimes solved the issue (very temporarily). I've not noticed any network loss since days now, while I got more and more issues since September with diptoh. Further testing would be required, but there really seems to be something here considering how long I used diptoh.

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Sorry, but I definitely got the same issue here..
Came back to my parents, usually got edge connection and now on, no network or really weak, just removing the sollar toh gimme edge network instantly !
Same @office, usually got LTE, now got really weak hsdpa signal and sometines edge ... :(

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No problem here.Its perfect.Thans dirkvl.

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Just noticed the same behaviour regarding wireless signal :(

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Since there are already custom made solar panels in use, I was wondering if your manufacturer could add random patterns to it as described here to get 22% more efficiency:

This would be really great. :-)

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Received my today! Perfect fit, thank you very much..
But honestly, I was thinking that plastic should be clean-slick. Current plastic will catch all dust from anywhere, this material like a cloth.. :/

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Mhm... One thing I noticed only when I tried to take it off again: I can't. Or hardly can't. It took me 20min and two nail files to get the solar OH off my Jolla again. And I now have a crack in the phone.

Dirk, I suspect you put it on and off various times during development. Is there anything I'm missing?

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woot got mine today! finally :D
happy man

and lol yeh, agreed with @schturman... its picking up dust better than my vacuum cleaner hahah

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Going to hopefully more sunny location soon, will have some data to share. Any idea what are the effects of jolla with solarOH going through xray machine? Is it going to explode? Supercharge in 1 second? Get some super powers?

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I find it works best if you start at the sides (in contrast to the Jolla OHs, where you start at the bottom).

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Can I ask a pair of dumb questions?

1) Presumably it doesn't do it any harm if I plug it in to a charger *and* leave it in the sun?

2) Is it significantly better for the life of the solar panel / electronics to not leave it in light that isn't strong enough to charge from? I.e. does it generate current all the time, and 'wear itself out', or will it only generate a current if there's enough to charge with, or is wearing it out not a significant worry?

<-- didn't study much electronics / physics ;)

Thank you.

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Yes, that should not be an issue

Yes, if the voltage is just dancing around the trigger voltage, the phone does not really like it sometimes.