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Cxx0 Hardware / Lets Pick Up Our Screw Drivers And Soldering Irons

« on: February 15, 2005, 01:41:32 pm »

After my $600 z860 went out on me just 2 weeks after I got it. I've been pondering about a community hardware information wiki for the zaurii and related devices. The goal would be to gather info/experiences to create hardware hacking guides and repair tutorials. My first interest, naturally, would be a howto repair a bad nand flash chip by ones self..

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Cxx0 General discussions / Help required

« on: October 28, 2004, 06:28:34 pm »

well.. pdaxrom is pretty much exactly what I want. Its just aweome to have the same programs running on your machine at work, home, laptop, and on your hand. Unfortunetly as awesome as this is, I am unable to run some of them (ie. rox, firefox, thunderbird as well as the theme manager, wireless applet and gnumeric to name a few) from the built in flash.

I am not sure if this in in the works or not...
But I think the community should start working toward a configurable bootloader like grub or XOSL in concept. Something we can all install in the Nand flash once and will allow us to boot off partitions on a SD/CF card. SD/CF sizes are getting larger while the cost is getting cheaper. The Nand flash inside all of our Z's will eventually wear out, leaving us to either repair or upgrade. Both of which are costly. But If we can fully boot off a SD or CF card the only thing to wear out is the card. In which case you could just throw it away and buy another. Updating a distro(roms wouldn't be an adequate name at this point, imho) would be done on a PC, downloading a tarball and running a shell script to install to a SD/CF partition.
Now imagine having a couple SD/CF cards with different distros. Better yet, picture a 2gig SD with a couple partitions with different distros. =)

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Cxx0 General discussions / Help required

« on: October 28, 2004, 05:36:08 am »

here's an update.

After I restored by Nand backup, I loaded Kathrin RC5. The problem I am now experiencing is that some programs either run awkwardly or not at all. The device in question is a 860 I purchased from Japan. I've only had this thing for about two months, and have only used it couple weeks due to all the problems that erupted after using 'halt'. I am trying to evaluate my options... all the while getting increasingly frustrated with this $600 paper weight.

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Cxx0 General discussions / Help required

« on: October 05, 2004, 11:12:34 pm »

I got it working shortly after that last post, just did 'Reset' in the service menu and hit the power button. Now everything seems to be working! cheers to ZUG!

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Cxx0 General discussions / Help required

« on: October 05, 2004, 07:32:32 pm »

Well, I successfully did a 'NAND Flash Restore' using SL-C750-C860-nand-backup-en.zip from conics.net and I am still having the same problems as before.

Little extra on my situation:

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NAND CheckSum
    Block             Sum1     Sum2       M
    ----------------------------------------
    MAINTE   : Ver.1.20
                      2b9c     2b9c  OK  OK
    DIAG     : Ver.1.20
                      317a     317a  OK  OK
    KERNEL2  : Ver.1.20
                      0460     0460  OK  OK
    FLSYS2   : Ver.1.20
                      5a5b     5a5b  OK  OK
    KERNEL1  : Ver.1.20
                      0460     0460  OK  OK
    ROFLSYS  : Ver.1.20
                      d824     d824  OK  OK
    PRESET   : Ver.1.20
                      9c79     a6d8  NG  OK
    INFO     : Ver.1.20
                      4d47     4d47  OK  OK
    ----------------------------------------
    Total  :8242     8ca1
    Master :1.20                    8242 NG
thanks!

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Cxx0 General discussions / Help required

« on: October 05, 2004, 08:13:40 am »

I've been using Kathrin RC3 for awhile with just the minor annoyances. But all this crap began after issuing a 'halt' while in console out of matchbox. After that I couldnt power up. Following some threads in the forum I found foxie's D+B and doing 'shutdown -r now'. That did reboot the Z into Kathrin, but after I suspend(or powered down) I would get the same problem.

Now, I cant even use D+B. Green light flashes as soon as I attach the battery and both lights flash if I attach the ac. Checking out the Service Menu, my RAM is ok but my NAND flash has a bad block.

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NAND Bad Count
   Blk    Init   After Total
   -------------------------
    1        1        0        1
    2        0        0        0
    3        0        0        0
    4        0        0        0
    5        0        0        0
    6        0        0        0
    7        0        0        0
    8        0        0        0
   -------------------------
   Total Bad Block = 1

-------

NAND Flash Full Erase
   erasing...8
   Total Bad Block = 1
   success.

-------

NAND Flash (Full)

checking ecc... OK
writing all 1...
   adr = 8000000
   Bad Block Num = 1
verifying 1...
   adr = 8000000
   Bad Block Num = 1
writing all 2...
   adr = 8000000
   Bad Block Num = 1
verifying 2...
   adr = 8000000
   Bad Block Num = 1
checking number...OK.
success.
I've attempted to do a NAND Flash Restore using the systc860.dbk from www.trisoft.de but I am having trouble with my PQI 512MB CF. Any advice, hints, success stories would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Brian the frustrated

ps. DONT USE HALT!

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Using Opie-Mediaplayer2

« on: April 08, 2004, 09:35:04 pm »

Recently got a Zaurus 5600 and spent the last couple days acclimating to the different roms and getting audio playback.

Using OZ3.3.6pre1 and following lardman\'s post, opieplayer2 can play ogg, wav, and mp3. I\'ve tried playing mpegs and divx encoded avi\'s. In both cases the movie began to play. But after serveral seconds it freezes, in some cases crashing Opie.

For newbies like me, when you install opie player be sure to use the experimental feed!
http://www.openzaurus.org/official/experim....3.6-pre1/ipks/

Thanks for the post lardman!