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Title: Need Oz Community Help - Nand Release Of Oz
Post by: LeTic on June 28, 2006, 06:50:26 am
Hi all,

I have been using OZ since I bought my Zaurus 2 years ago, but after lots of Flashing/reflashing I now have some Corrupted block in my internal memory  

I tried every possible way but it is definitely not possible to recover from this kind of error...

So now I can't flash my 6000 with OZ or Angstrom but I manage to make the NAND restore/backup working. So I'm now back to the stock ROM with Debian/XQt

I am desperate to have OZ back on my Zaurus, I can't stand the SHARP stock ROM  and I wanted to help testing the 2.6 kernel on the 6000 !!!!

So I need your help ! If somebody could provide me a NAND backup of their OZ - GPE (or e17) 3.5.4 on the 6000 that would be great  !

We could even organise (if the OZ devs are OK) a NAND release of all the flavour of OZ to help people that have the same issue.

I may even be able to soon provide some space to host the images.

Contact me if you are interested
Thanks in advance
Desperate LeTic
Title: Need Oz Community Help - Nand Release Of Oz
Post by: LeTic on July 03, 2006, 08:28:24 pm
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Hi all,

I have been using OZ since I bought my Zaurus 2 years ago, but after lots of Flashing/reflashing I now have some Corrupted block in my internal memory   

I tried every possible way but it is definitely not possible to recover from this kind of error...

So now I can't flash my 6000 with OZ or Angstrom but I manage to make the NAND restore/backup working. So I'm now back to the stock ROM with Debian/XQt

I am desperate to have OZ back on my Zaurus, I can't stand the SHARP stock ROM  and I wanted to help testing the 2.6 kernel on the 6000 !!!!

So I need your help ! If somebody could provide me a NAND backup of their OZ - GPE (or e17) 3.5.4 on the 6000 that would be great  !

We could even organise (if the OZ devs are OK) a NAND release of all the flavour of OZ to help people that have the same issue.

I may even be able to soon provide some space to host the images.

Contact me if you are interested
Thanks in advance
Desperate LeTic
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Well my call for help didn't really had the success I expected  . Does nobody has a NAND backup of their OpenZaurus install ?
Title: Need Oz Community Help - Nand Release Of Oz
Post by: Meanie on July 03, 2006, 08:31:59 pm
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Hi all,

I have been using OZ since I bought my Zaurus 2 years ago, but after lots of Flashing/reflashing I now have some Corrupted block in my internal memory   

I tried every possible way but it is definitely not possible to recover from this kind of error...

So now I can't flash my 6000 with OZ or Angstrom but I manage to make the NAND restore/backup working. So I'm now back to the stock ROM with Debian/XQt

I am desperate to have OZ back on my Zaurus, I can't stand the SHARP stock ROM  and I wanted to help testing the 2.6 kernel on the 6000 !!!!

So I need your help ! If somebody could provide me a NAND backup of their OZ - GPE (or e17) 3.5.4 on the 6000 that would be great  !

We could even organise (if the OZ devs are OK) a NAND release of all the flavour of OZ to help people that have the same issue.

I may even be able to soon provide some space to host the images.

Contact me if you are interested
Thanks in advance
Desperate LeTic
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Well my call for help didn't really had the success I expected  . Does nobody has a NAND backup of their OpenZaurus install ?
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they probably do have backups, but those are likely to include personal data. so I doubt anyone is going to be willing to share those.... plus there aren't that many 6000 users, less those that have OZ
Title: Need Oz Community Help - Nand Release Of Oz
Post by: LeTic on July 03, 2006, 09:07:04 pm
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Well my call for help didn't really had the success I expected  . Does nobody has a NAND backup of their OpenZaurus install ?
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they probably do have backups, but those are likely to include personal data. so I doubt anyone is going to be willing to share those.... plus there aren't that many 6000 users, less those that have OZ
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Well I know I used to make a NAND backup just before installing anything or after configuring but before putting any personnal data just to speed up the re-installation process...

Maybe now that the OZ team got a 6000 for testing they eventually could provide a NAND backup... at least I hope

Thanks for your answer anyway Meanie I was starting to feel lonely
Title: Need Oz Community Help - Nand Release Of Oz
Post by: Meanie on July 03, 2006, 09:26:13 pm
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Hi all,

I have been using OZ since I bought my Zaurus 2 years ago, but after lots of Flashing/reflashing I now have some Corrupted block in my internal memory   

I tried every possible way but it is definitely not possible to recover from this kind of error...

So now I can't flash my 6000 with OZ or Angstrom but I manage to make the NAND restore/backup working. So I'm now back to the stock ROM with Debian/XQt

I am desperate to have OZ back on my Zaurus, I can't stand the SHARP stock ROM  and I wanted to help testing the 2.6 kernel on the 6000 !!!!

So I need your help ! If somebody could provide me a NAND backup of their OZ - GPE (or e17) 3.5.4 on the 6000 that would be great  !

We could even organise (if the OZ devs are OK) a NAND release of all the flavour of OZ to help people that have the same issue.

I may even be able to soon provide some space to host the images.

Contact me if you are interested
Thanks in advance
Desperate LeTic
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Well my call for help didn't really had the success I expected  . Does nobody has a NAND backup of their OpenZaurus install ?
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=133819\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

they probably do have backups, but those are likely to include personal data. so I doubt anyone is going to be willing to share those.... plus there aren't that many 6000 users, less those that have OZ
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I know there are pdaXrom NAND images available for 6000 but I don't think you want those...
Title: Need Oz Community Help - Nand Release Of Oz
Post by: Snappy on July 03, 2006, 09:27:39 pm
What's stopping you from doing a normal C+D+reset flash?
Title: Need Oz Community Help - Nand Release Of Oz
Post by: Hrw on July 04, 2006, 02:55:09 am
Point me to instructions and I will do NAND Backup from tosa. It will contain OpenZaurus 3.5.4 in OPIE flavour with all upgrades available plus something.

Why OPIE? No problems if root password is not set ;D
Title: Need Oz Community Help - Nand Release Of Oz
Post by: LeTic on July 04, 2006, 05:17:45 am
Snappy :
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     What's stopping you from doing a normal C+D+reset flash? ohmy.gif
Well the flash hangs before completing, due to the corrupted (Bad) blocks in the internal memory. I guess it is making checks that the NAND backup is obviously not doing.
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     Point me to instructions and I will do NAND Backup from tosa. It will contain OpenZaurus 3.5.4 in OPIE flavour with all upgrades available plus something.

Why OPIE? No problems if root password is not set ;D
Hi Hrw thanks

This is very easy you just need to go into the system menu by doing Fn + D + M + Reset at the same time. Then click on page down to go the NAND backup/restore.

BTW you can do a NAND before setting the password in GPE or e17 :
 - after installing OZ asking you for a reset do the above Fn + D + M + Reset instead -> NAND backup
 - then you will have a clean just installed image without the password set !

I believe this is quite useful for people like you that reinstall quite often to have these kind of backups

I'm willing to try to make a library of all the NAND I can find for all machines, to help people in the same situation, so even if you do not have a 6000 and have some clean NAND backups, send them over and I will try to host them  Who knows one day you may be happy to find them somewhere ! I saw that lots of C1000 users had the same Bad Blocks issue.

Anyway if you find my idea intersting let me know Hrw. I know Guilhem used to do NAND release of his rom as it is very easy to install afterward.