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Title: New C860! Flashing options?
Post by: SmackMyBishop on June 13, 2004, 08:39:46 pm

Hey everybody.

My C860 just got here and is charging(what a screen!)... I\'d love to try out pdaXrom but I don\'t have a SD or CF card yet, so is there any way to flash it from USB?  There seems to be an option for it in the service menu, but I haven\'t seen any explanations of how that works.

Thanks.

Title: New C860! Flashing options?
Post by: waalkman on June 13, 2004, 10:56:45 pm

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Hey everybody.

My C860 just got here and is charging(what a screen!)... I\'d love to try out pdaXrom but I don\'t have a SD or CF card yet, so is there any way to flash it from USB?  There seems to be an option for it in the service menu, but I haven\'t seen any explanations of how that works.

Thanks.

Man, just sit tight and wait until you get a CF or SD card.

You DO NOT want to the the first (and only) guy to wax his spiffy 860 because he was in too much of a hurry to flash it (via USB that is, several others have already messed theirs up the good old fashioned way).

After all, don\'t you have a 24 hour Walmart where you can get a 256M CF card

And apparently you ought to backup your NAND first in case of disaster. Since you don\'t want to have one of these experiences:

http://externe.net/zaurus/forum/viewtopic.php?t=388 (http://externe.net/zaurus/forum/viewtopic.php?t=388)


John

Title: New C860! Flashing options?
Post by: Inuyasha on June 14, 2004, 12:29:05 am

Yes, definatly get yourself a Compact Flash card first. And maybe a CF reader for your desktop/laptop too, incase something goes wrong while flashing and you need to get a different ROM.

Title: New C860! Flashing options?
Post by: SmackMyBishop on June 14, 2004, 01:15:33 am

SD works for flashing, right?

I\'m gonna be using a bluetooth CF card, so I plan to use SD for storage...

Title: New C860! Flashing options?
Post by: rikiya on June 14, 2004, 01:22:14 am

I heard CF is better for flashing etc. but SD cards are probably good for memory.
P.S. for flashing, you need at least 250MB I think!

Title: New C860! Flashing options?
Post by: waalkman on June 14, 2004, 09:20:18 pm

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I heard CF is better for flashing etc. but SD cards are probably good for memory.
P.S. for flashing, you need at least 250MB I think!

I think so, something I read about the whole ball of wax taking ] 128M


John

Title: New C860! Flashing options?
Post by: waalkman on June 14, 2004, 09:24:27 pm

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SD works for flashing, right?

I\'m gonna be using a bluetooth CF card, so I plan to use SD for storage...

Yup, SD will work. And I use my SD for storage as well, which frees up my CF for things like a Wi-Fi card. I still use the CF for \"transporting\" any new ROMs or other goodies (that way I don\'t clutter up my SD).

So getting a CF card is still a good idea. But if you don\'t mind sharing your SD with ROMs and such then the SD card will work fine.


John

Title: New C860! Flashing options?
Post by: Stubear on June 15, 2004, 12:19:11 am

The NAND for the C760 and C860 are 131 MB from memory (basically all the 128MB flash plus a bunch of \"filler\" pages - probably checksums or something) I posted a ripper program previously that will strip of the extra stuff and leave you with just a jffs2 image 128Mb in size.

Stu