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3 Nov 2008
I wonder how many simpads have died from mods or flash-writes gone wrong...
Today i exercised desoldering 8 sdrams chips from an old dimm.. and after that decided to risk the procedure on my CL4 tried to replace the CL4 chips with two 256M bit from the old dimm i ended up trying to get the old two chips back in At one point i thought i had it starting (with the old chips again), green led showed... but nothing on the console and a after battery-disconnect no more response.. it does load the battery though. i have some faint hope this thing could work again but only with new, working ram chips perhaps if i have a surplus dimm and a better desoldering method.. however the board is getting messy, two of the padds are loose, one broke off tried to patch it up with pieces of copper strip and wire, but.. haha.. well.. i /hope/ the rest of the board isn't (too much :ph34r: ) affected, it did stand up well against my MMC modding.. But all things considered.. i'm afraid i have to declare another bricked simpad. btw, 'instruments' included a cheap soldering-iron, needles, screwdriver, tweezer and a big magnifying glass.
21 Mar 2006
I finally did it, I bricked my Swisscom CL4.
 I re-flashed blupdater.img, to make sure it was that bootloader that I was using, and directly after that I uploaded the image Fred provided. Then I booted... Maybe that was stupid and I probably should have reset after uploading the bootloader. Anyway, the thing started booting, ran out of memory and halted. And now, aside from the recharching led and a brief flash of the backlight when it's turned on, it's dead. I already had a JTAG cable and connectors soldered (~30cm, flatcable, 200Ohm resistors at JTAG connector), and I used both: - The JTAG openwince-jtag deb package (0.5.1) and openwince-include deb - Compiled JTAG 0.4 with the includes provided at openwince.sourceforge.net/includes and tried: jtag> cable ppdev /dev/{lp*,par*} DLC5 jtag> cable parallel 0x378 DLC5 Nothing, can't init the thing, tried it on an Ubuntu and Debian Sarge box. I suspect Sascha was right, perhaps the Swisscoms can't be JTAG'ed? Just a warning 
2 Mar 2006
I have the whole OE/Bitbake thing running and last weekend build a few images. this gives me two problems:
1) The standard GPE image is about 20MB, and won't fit on my CL4. Last year there were some opensimpad images available in XXL and light versions. I browsed through the org.openembedded.dev files but I couldn't find any reference how to customize the GPE image like this. What would be the way to do this? The OE wiki doesn't seem to touch this subject either. 2) Also, I modded a MMC into my simpad and tried if it would show up when using a fresh boostrap-image. But the module isn't build. I can find all kinds of references to MMC and CONFIG_MMC but I'm not sure how to 'enable' the mmc.so to be build. I realise I might take these questions to a broader OE audience, but I'm hoping there are still some opensimpad developers lurking here that can teach me a few tricks and/or kick me in the right direction. What I'm aiming for is to use the CL4 as an ebook reader, so primarily I'm looking for a decent PDF reader and for convenience a recent browser (JS and XMLHttpRequest stuff so I can create some self-contained HTML/JS applications for some notetaking). Digital PIM never did it for me (I prefer paper) so I won't need those apps. I've searched for the right ebook hardware for years but these things never seem to break through and very often only support some obscure proprietary format. The CL4's that are flooding eBay come very close to what I wanted, just some software and extra memory and I'll be very happy. And as for the OpenSimpad project, I think it's a shame it's stalling like this and I'd certainly be wiling to put some time in it --I'm stuck with this thing ;-) I'm more of a web/python dev monkey so I don't have much to contribute in C/C++ and what else, but as soon as I learn something here I think it should go on the opensimpad wiki to at least show there's still something going on and I'd be pleased to offer images. All in good time ofcourse and first a decent image, but I'm just saying opensimpad won't be over if I can do anything about it. (maybe it could fit into the Angstrom project? I need to ask those guys...)
15 Nov 2005
Hi all!
I'm looking for a bootloader to get linux working on my new Swisscom ScreenPad (a CL4 simpad/16MB flash). The version I'm using now is the blupdater.img provided with opensimpad-0.9.0rc1 (forumpost: http://opensimpad.org/opensimpad-forum/vie...1f2f538fa#3613). It works for the most part, however, when I try to load a rootfs.jffs2 image it fails when erasing flash at 0100000 (=16), see serial output below. The problem is similar to a report (Januari 2005) at the old fora. Chris was looking into this at the time but I can't find out if he found a solution. The old post: http://opensimpad.org/opensimpad-forum/vie...61f2f538fa#3632 So I'm completly stuck, does anyone have a working CL4 bootloader / could anyone tell me how or where to get one? Perhaps I could use some older files and then upgrade? I hope anyone with a CL4 can enlighten me. Thanks, Berend Serial output: CODE *MTST
00000001 00000002 00000004 [...] 20000000 40000000 80000000 MBK2 00000001 0000E59F 00000002 [...] 4000E59F 80000000 8000E59F ENDM STKP C19F3FF0 setting flashword=50000000 Flash style = 1x16 verify flash size... btflash_init: mfrid=00000089 devid=00000018 mfrid=00000089 deviceid=00000018 walking flash descriptors (1x16) btflash_init: found flash 28F128J3A_1x16 flashDescriptor=00031894 flashSectors=00031474 nsectors=00000100 flash_size=02000000 flash_address_mask=03FFFFFF Read back MQ200 ID is 0x4BE00C02 Correct Device ID should be 0x02004D51. - retrying Rebooting...U3 @00000348 F02000000 *MTST 00000001 00000002 00000004 [...] 20000000 40000000 80000000 MBK2 00000001 0000E59F 00000002 [...] 4000E59F 80000000 8000E59F ENDM STKP C19F3FF0 setting flashword=50000000 Flash style = 1x16 verify flash size... btflash_init: mfrid=00000089 devid=00000018 mfrid=00000089 deviceid=00000018 walking flash descriptors (1x16) btflash_init: found flash 28F128J3A_1x16 flashDescriptor=00031894 flashSectors=00031474 nsectors=00000100 flash_size=02000000 flash_address_mask=03FFFFFF MQ200 - Revision ID=0x00000002 Machine type--> SIMpad mach_type ->00000057 reset_partitions: partition_table = 0x00000000 reset_partitions: flashDescriptor = 0x00031894 define_partition: base 0x00000000 define_partition: partition_table 0x00000000 allocated partition_table defining partition: bootldr define_partition: base 0x00040000 define_partition: partition_table 0xC1A00014 defining partition: root define_partition: base 0x01800000 define_partition: partition_table 0xC1A00014 defining partition: home initialize_by_mach_type done probing ram Probing bank0 memory size... bank0 memory size=02000000 MDCNFG=0000F357 dram_size_ptr=00032888 Probing memory size bank=00000000 dram[0]=02000000 mem_size=[i]04000000 mem_saves[i]=08000000 mem_size=[i]02000000 mem_saves[i]=04000000 mem_size=[i]01000000 mem_saves[i]=01000000 maybe mem_size=02000000 found= 02000000 mem_size[i]=08000000 mem_saves[i]=30303030 mem_size[i]=04000000 mem_saves[i]=08000000 mem_size[i]=02000000 mem_saves[i]=04000000 mem_size[i]=01000000 mem_saves[i]=01000000 memory size=02000000 dram_size_ptr=0003289C Probing memory size bank=00000001 dram[0]=C8000C02 seems to be no dram in bank=00000001 n_banks=00000001 dram_sizes[0]=02000000 dram_sizes[1]=00000000 SDRAM size: 0x02000000 in megs: 32M >> Compaq OHH BootLoader, Rev 2-21-13 [BIG_KERNEL] [MD5] [MONO] >> 04-11-20_15:58 >> Last link date: Sat Nov 20 15:58:14 GMT 2004 >> Contact: bootldr@handhelds.org Cpu company: INTEL Cpu Architecture: StrongArm Cpu Part: SA1110 processor ID: 6901B118 >> (c) 2000-2001 Compaq Computer Corporation, provided with NO WARRANTY under the terms of the GNU General Public License. >> See http://www.handhelds.org/bootldr/ for full license and sourcesPress Return to start the OS now, any other key for monitor menu params_eval: prefix_in =bootldr: params_eval: just_show =00000000 define_partition: base 0x00040000 define_partition: partition_table 0xC1A00014 defining partition: throwaway_bootldr_partition params_eval_file: tmpPart->base =00040000 params_eval_file: tmpPart->size =017C0000 Scanning all of flash for your JFFS2 convenience. Est Time: 6-12 seconds! build_list: max = 017BFFBC ...................... dir entries = 00000002 frag entries = 00000002 +4 increments = 00034F61 +file_offset increments = 00000005 pef: loaded a file of size 000000A8 + set linuxargs="noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=/linuxrc console=ttySA0" setting param <linuxargs> to value <noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=/linuxrc console=ttySA0> + pcmcia insert 0 pcmcia_init_module cis[0] =00000002 end pcmcia_insert: funcid = 00000000 cis[0] =00000002 end pcmcia_insert: funcid = 00000000 + vfat mount / cmd vfat mount: partid=00000000 vfat mount: reading bpb_info cmd vfat mount: listing the root directory + pcmcia insert 0 cis[0] =000000FF end pcmcia_insert: funcid = 00000000 cis[0] =000000FF end pcmcia_insert: funcid = 00000000 + vfat mount / cmd vfat mount: partid=00000000 vfat mount: reading bpb_info cmd vfat mount: listing the root directory + copy hda1:/simpad-rootfs.jffs2 root vfat_find_file_entry: fname='/simpad-rootfs.jffs2' dirname='' basename='SIMPAD-ROOTFS.JFFS2' Could not find file.vfat_file_open: file not found errno=00000016 Could not open source hda1:/simpad-rootfs.jffs2 partition <throwaway_bootldr_partition> deleted boot> load root partition root is a jffs2 partition: expecting .jffs2 or wince_image.gz. After receiving file, will automatically uncompress .gz images loading flash region root using ymodem ready for YMODEM transfer... B3B468A9BCEA449F762DE2566F5297FD simpad-rootfs.jffs2.gz 005692DF bytes loaded to C0000400 img_size is not a multiple of 4 -- are we sure that's OK? Looks like a gzipped image, let's verify it... Looks like a gzipped image, let's verify it... Verifying gzipped image ................................................................................ ............................................................................veri yGZipImage: calculated CRC = 0xF3A9FAC0 verifyGZipImage: read CRC = 0xF3A9FAC0 programming flash...erasing ... Erasing sector 00040000 Erasing sector 00060000 Erasing sector 00080000 [...] Erasing sector 00FC0000 Erasing sector 00FE0000 Erasing sector 01000000 eraseSector error sectorAddress=01000000 flashContents=00000000 status=00000000 timeout=00000000 erase error! boot>
26 Oct 2005
I am trying to find a serial USB cable for a SL4 simpad. I read somewhere that The SLC uses a S25/35, which I'm guessing is a datacable for the C25/S25/C35/S35 phones.
Can anyone confirm this? |
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