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Title: sl5500 dead
Post by: dstrebel on September 22, 2004, 01:25:42 am

I tried flashing my 5500 with OZ 3.5 now after it flashes it wont turn on. How can I tell if it's dead or what is the proper way of installing OZ 3.5. I have installed OZ 3.2 and 3.3 plenty of times and nothing like this happend. PLEASE HELP!!!

Title: sl5500 dead
Post by: Chaos on September 22, 2004, 02:38:13 am

Calm down, and first try re-flashing. First OZ 3.5.1, then go backwards trying other ROM images, like OZ 3.3.5, or 3.2. If none of them work, then tell us so, and we'll offer more suggestions.

Title: sl5500 dead
Post by: dstrebel on September 22, 2004, 08:45:12 am

Is there any other ways to access a CF card besides finding somebody with a pda

Title: sl5500 dead
Post by: rrashkin on September 22, 2004, 09:38:23 am

You can get a CF reader for a PC (USB connection).  I got one at Radio Shack for about $20.

Title: sl5500 dead
Post by: dhns on September 22, 2004, 10:53:58 am

There are also (electro-mechanical?) PCMCIA <-> CF adapters (I got one with my SanDisk WLAN card). I now use it to directly access CF cards in my Notebook.

Title: sl5500 dead
Post by: uberjoe on September 28, 2004, 07:29:49 pm

Whenever I had a bad flashing experinece with oz, (which happens) the most effective solution I came up with is to reflash the sharp rom. This always works, then from there reflash oz. A few months ago I flashed oz without plugging in the ac adapter. This totally bricked my z. It was completely dead to the world. I flashed OSPACK (sharp rom) and It came to life again! Then flashing oz worked perfectly. So don't dispair, not all is lost.

Title: sl5500 dead
Post by: David Strebel on September 29, 2004, 10:31:10 am

So is there anydocs on how to re-flash the Sharp Rom or do you have any suggestions

Title: sl5500 dead
Post by: uberjoe on September 29, 2004, 10:52:40 am

Click here (http://www.myzaurus.com/ROMupdate3.asp)  and download the file OSPACK (it's at the very bottom of the page) and put it on a cf card. Flashing procedure is identical to openzaurus which you are already familiar. Good Luck and let me know how it goes