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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / freeze and login failure

« on: February 19, 2004, 03:33:02 am »

Hi, I\'m still a new Zaurus sl-5500user but I really love it.

I\'m having a problem with the screen freezing.  It happens sometimes after I turn it on (after suspending). It locks up.

I try a soft reset, flipping the battery switch from normal to replace and back again. I wait, then I turn it on. All I get is the OpenZaurus logo and a cute picture of opie...and...

(none) login:

When I enter root I get:

login: cannot run /bin/sh: No such file or directory

Of course I could hard reset, or flash... But I\'m just getting tired of that.

Is my hardware starting to fail? I recently had an issue with getting power to it.
Any insight would be appriciated. I couldn\'t find anything like it in the searches.

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5x00 Hardware / no power, no response, no idea

« on: February 14, 2004, 02:16:37 am »

Yay!!!!!!

I think you were right about juice not getting power to the circuits. I was unhopeful because I had already tried a hard reset with the battery removed and the ac adaptor in, with no luck.

Maybe I\'m crazy but this is what I noticed. The zaurus didn\'t respond until I unplugged and replugged the ac adaptor from the wall socket! Suddenly the two led lights lit up: the first sign of life from my zaurus in two days and I thought: there is hope!

After a long wait to see if any of the lights would dissappear, I progressed towards eventually flashing it and now everything is happy again. My zaurus has many tales of the afterlife and light at the end of tunnels. It met a process in shiny clothes that told it \"it\'s not your time yet....brickmaker needs you.\"

I have no explanation for all of this but I don\'t think I\'m going to try and duplicate all of this.
I\'ll just let it rest for now.

Thanks for all your help!

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5x00 Hardware / no power, no response, no idea

« on: February 13, 2004, 04:56:28 am »

Unfortunately, the Zaurus doesn\'t respond to either of these suggestions.

I do have an ac adaptor, and my compact flash does contain an initrd.bin and zImage. I\'m getting no signs of life at all, no led, no sign that it is charging or any kind of current is passing through it.

Is it possible that I could have completely fried this thing?

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5x00 Hardware / no power, no response, no idea

« on: February 12, 2004, 03:47:27 pm »

Hi everyone,

I\'m fairly new to the world of destroying SHARP products but I think I may have found my calling.

So here\'s my story:
(please imagine a laugh track while I recount my tale of woe)

I\'m hanging out on the bus and playing with my zaurus sl-5500. Doing strange things like trying to get mplayer to work while opie is running.... hmmmm, frame buffer happiness. When I kill mplayer only parts of the screen are refreshed, but the \"system tray-like\" thingy is still black. Functional but blacked out.

So I decide this isn\'t good and decide to reboot.

Now I get the Openzaurus logo and a login prompt. Fine I\'ll just login and see whats wrong.
I type root.
It tells me it can\'t find /bin/sh.

I take this as a bad sign.

Soft reset. No Change.
Hard reset. No Change.

Hmmm. Well I don\'t have the ac adapter to plug into the bottom of this thing. But I\'ll just try to flash it again......

All the lights are out. It doesn\'t respond to anything.
Battery out five minutes didn\'t work.
Battery out overnight didn\'t work.

I\'m just wondering where I go from here.

Does anybody have an idea of what might have gone wrong? Why would the zaurus suddenly be unable to mount a root filesystem? What happens when the flash sequence occurs? Does anyone possess the inner dark secrets of the workings of this thing?

Are there any Zaurus hardware hackers out there?


 :cry: