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Title: blinking battery light
Post by: sl5500 on September 24, 2004, 04:39:32 pm

Hi, I tried to flash one of the newer roms on the sl5500 (3.5.1 opie image, renamed to "initrd.bin" and Zimage 48-16 renamed to "zimage").
Flashing goes fine, battery light goes on after full reset, then starts blinking after 10 sec.
I tried to go back to the previous installed image, same result.
It is blinking now for 30 min.
anyone an idea what happend ?

thnx  

Title: blinking battery light
Post by: lardman on September 25, 2004, 10:29:54 am

That's normally something to do with your power supply not being able to provide sufficient power. Can you boot the new ROM?


Si

Title: blinking battery light
Post by: sl5500 on September 25, 2004, 03:05:51 pm

If, then the battery might be dead. It does not boot, just nothing happens accept for the  Blinking light. measured the battery, gave 4.15 volt, scratched the contacts on the battery and in the zaurus,
bingo, finally booted.

Thanks

Title: blinking battery light
Post by: nax on November 04, 2004, 02:59:47 pm

Hi,
| have very similar problem, but not exactly. It's about 2 weeks since I second-hand Zaurus SL5500 (I wanted this cool device since SL5000 were released so I was very happy to buy it here because it never had been sold here  officially).

But when I connected to internet over wifi, I tried to install some new applications (in Zaurus was some old OpenZaurus - may be 3.1 but I'm not sure). Only one feed which I found on openzaurus.org  was for 3.5.1, so I try to install firefox and some other apps from this feed. Yes I know. First mistake. Second was to stop installing before it was finished (nothing has happened for about 20 minutes).

After that no application can be run and after soft reset I doesn't boot. It doesn't boot even after hard reset   Only Openzaurus logo is figured and white cursor blinking, but kernel doesn't begin boot.

OK, I wanted to flash anyhow so I purchased new CF card (F1 40x - 1G) and USB reader/writer. I downloaded openzaurus 3.5.1 and ... nothing. I do all according to howtos I found here on zaurususergroup and on Sharp itself (CF is FAT16 formated, I pluged Zaurus to AC adapter, I renamed files to initrd.bin and zImage, battery switch).

While I holding C and D button and push FULL RESET both leds begin blinking. I've also try other kernels and also I'have tried original Sharp Ospack and nothing. Only blinking leds. Does anybody have idea whats the problem?

Title: blinking battery light
Post by: lardman on November 05, 2004, 06:30:32 am

Try removing the existing partion; create a new one and make its type fat16; format it as fat16 again.


Si

Title: blinking battery light
Post by: nax on November 05, 2004, 10:14:22 am

I tried it originaly with default formated card but now I have tried to delete patition, over cfdisk make new 64MB partition and then make FAT16 format
mkfs.msdos /dev/sda1

Same result. When I try flash Zaurus both leds begin blinking and no flash is made. Shoud I try to buy some smaler CF card (I have 1GB right now)?

Title: blinking battery light
Post by: lardman on November 05, 2004, 11:02:42 am

The other thing to check is the md5sums of the zImage and initrd.bin files on the CF card.


Si

P.S. Not sure about the file size thing. I've had it working with 16Mb, 32Mb and 256Mb (the only ones I have).