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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: sarah on May 30, 2006, 08:56:35 am

Title: Zaurus Not Switching On
Post by: sarah on May 30, 2006, 08:56:35 am

I seem to have a strange problem with my Z.

The only way I can get it to power up is by soft-resetting it. After that the Z works fine. Has anyone else had a similar or the same problem?

If so how do I fix this? It is most annoying. I dont want to have to re-install the Z, thats takes time.

HELP

Title: Zaurus Not Switching On
Post by: InSearchOf on May 30, 2006, 09:20:51 am

What Z do you have?

What Rom are you running?

Does this occur after a suspend?

I know I heard problems with shutting down using "shutdown -h now"...
I never used it because I heard of the trial and error you have to go through to get it to come back on....

Give us some more info...

Late

Title: Zaurus Not Switching On
Post by: sarah on May 30, 2006, 09:25:14 am

I have an SL-5500
128MB CF card
128MB SD Card

I am also running sharp ROM 3.13

It happens after I suspend my Z. I just press and hold the on/off button. After that the Z does not power up.

I rarely use the terminal so I dont use command shutdowns.

Title: Zaurus Not Switching On
Post by: brashley46 on May 30, 2006, 11:18:28 pm

Quote

I have an SL-5500
128MB CF card
128MB SD Card

I am also running sharp ROM 3.13

It happens after I suspend my Z. I just press and hold the on/off button. After that the Z does not power up.

I rarely use the terminal so I dont use command shutdowns.
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I seem to recall this happening a lot while I was running Sharp 3.13 on the old 5500, but with Maslovsky's kernel. Did you by any chance install the CACkO kernel per [a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=3323&hl=kernel]this thread[/url]?  

Title: Zaurus Not Switching On
Post by: sarah on May 31, 2006, 12:24:43 pm

Ihad not tried to update the kernel.

I will do that now and let you know what happens.

Title: Zaurus Not Switching On
Post by: sarah on May 31, 2006, 01:54:33 pm

Just to let everybody know,

After updating the kernel, the Z has started to work fine.

Thanks for all your help.

Love Sarah