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General Discussion / Hushmail Pgp Webmail (uses Java) - Please Test,

« on: August 16, 2006, 12:43:09 am »

If you are willing to pay, you can sign up for Hushmail's Premium account with IMAP-access option, and find a ROM for your Zaurus that allows you to have Mozilla Thunderbird with Enigmail and GnuPG.

Hushmail has instructions on their site for setting up Thunderbird/Enigmail to work like this.

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6000 - Tosa / How To Restore 6000 To Original State?

« on: August 16, 2006, 12:21:54 am »

Just an FYI for anyone happening to look here. It may be obvious to some, but it wasn't to me until I just tried it.

If you have the expansion sled for the SL-6000, you can't use the CF slot in the sled to do NAND backups/restores.

You can have the sled attached while you're doing it, but the card you backup/restore from must be in the primary slot.

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6000 - Tosa / 6000 Head Count

« on: January 15, 2006, 09:14:51 pm »

I've had my SL-6000L for about 9 months now.  I'm still running the stock Sharp ROM, stock kernel. I also have the expansion sled, and a Socket CF Bluetooth adapter (Rev. G).  I purchased it used from eBay (though from the condition it arrived in it hardly appeared used at all).  It replaced my battery-murdering Palm VIIx as my primary handheld.

Things I love about it compared to other Zaurii:
* Portrait orientation enables one-handed operation of things like e-book readers, so I can sip a tasty beverage with the other hand while I read.
* USB host controller makes using USB flash storage drives and USB external keyboards easy.
* Built-in WiFi used frequently.
* Fits nicely in my eHolster, though it makes me look like a bigger dork.
* Groovy expansion sled doubles the battery life, the serial ports, and the CF capacity, and still (barely) fits in my eHolster.

Things that irritate me about it:
* Unwatchably slow video playback at all bitrates and resolutions.
* Lag in support of Zaurus open-source developer community and in accessory market compared to clamshell models.
* Screen cover is annoying to deal with and scratches too easily to be useful - it might as well be opaque.
* No integrated Bluetooth (the 6000W was impossible to find in the US when I bought my L).
* Built-in WiFi seems to have shorter range than my friend's C860 with the Socket low-power CF card (i.e., he can get signal in places I can't).
* Stock Sharp kernel doesn't support the version of BlueZ that supports the Bluetooth A2DP profile (it requires kernel > 2.6), so none of those nifty Bluetooth stereo audio headphones will work.
* Lack of Java applet support from Sharp/Opera for the Zaurus version of the browser.

I like my 6k and have no plans to get rid of it. However, if I were making a fresh buying decision today, I would save up and get a C3100 instead, mainly due to the lag in developer support for the 6000 and the larger flash size of the C3100 (plus the built-in drive). I don't feel confident enough with a soldering iron to attempt to do any hardware hacks on this expensive a piece of gear.

This thread is the first I heard about Cacko6000 - I may look into switching to that to see if it helps my video problem.  I may also try out pdaXrom and OZ one of these days.

Cheers!

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Software / Kino2 0.4.3 Series Released

« on: October 26, 2005, 09:14:15 pm »

The same thing happened to me with my 5600 running the Watapon Rom. I ended up booting to a command prompt and moving the applet files to a different directory and then my Z booted. (But I don't even have the regular battery applet now.)
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How did you boot to a command prompt? I am having this problem on my SL-6000 with stock Sharp ROM after installing the same applet, and I can't find anyone else who's gotten out of it without a full restore or hard reset.
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Never mind - Stubear was kind enough to provide me the solution in another forum. For the benefit of anyone else who comes across this, the answer is to hold "D" and "B" while pressing the "Reset" pin with the stylus.  This will boot to the console, where you can log in as root and fix whatever needs fixing.

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6000 - Tosa / Qtopia Constantly Restarts After Installing Applet

« on: October 25, 2005, 10:38:09 pm »

If you have ssh installed then you can shh into the Z and remove the applet.

If not then you will have 2 options

1) reboot into the D+B mode (you will need to mount the /home partition manually then remove the applet

2) reformat the flash via the OK+Power option

Stu
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D+B+Reset worked!  You are officially my new hero.  

I was able to get on the console, remove the incompatible applet from /home/QtPalmtop/plugins/applets, and recreate the deleted symlink to the original battery applet.  Without losing any of my data in the process.

I actually did not have to mount /home myself - it automatically mounted it just fine.

Tomorrow I will type this up for the Zaurus FAQ so that future people who are as foolish as I am will not have to suffer my angst.  Do you happen to know if the D+B+Reset trick works for all ROMs & models, just the Sharp ROM, or just the 6000?

Thanks again for saving my butt.  I had a bunch of recent work stuff in flash that hadn't been backed up yet - I was starting to worry it was gone forever.

<makes a fresh backup immediately...>

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6000 - Tosa / Qtopia Constantly Restarts After Installing Applet

« on: October 23, 2005, 05:36:44 pm »

I've spent the last couple of hours searching the forums and found several references to people getting out of the state where Qtopia constantly restarts (i.e., the Zaurus constantly flicks back from the "please wait 30 seconds" screen and the text console).

I've tried resetting (though not a hard reset - I'd really rather not lose all my data!) and after the reboot it still constantly starts and restarts Qtopia.

I know the applet and package that caused the problem - I just need to somehow get a system that will accept commands, so that I can remove the package!

Anybody know if there's a way to boot the SL-6000 without starting Qtopia?  Is this generic to all Zaurus models?

I'm using a stock Sharp ROM 3.12 on an SL-6000L.  In case you are curious the incompatible applet I installed was qtopia-commbbatteryapplet_1.0.6_arm.ipk.

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Software / Kino2 0.4.3 Series Released

« on: October 23, 2005, 05:35:08 pm »

Hello,
we tried to install kino2 0.4.3.a as described on the webpage,
with all the prerequisites. We have a C1000 with Sharp-ROM!

As stated for "ROMs other than Cacko" we installed the mplayer and the sudo package. Then tried to install qtopia-commbbatteryapplet_1.0.6_arm.ipk,
but this crashes the C1000 completely    : during install the machine crashed,
reboots and crashes again and again every 10 seconds after POST.
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The same thing happened to me with my 5600 running the Watapon Rom. I ended up booting to a command prompt and moving the applet files to a different directory and then my Z booted. (But I don't even have the regular battery applet now.)
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How did you boot to a command prompt? I am having this problem on my SL-6000 with stock Sharp ROM after installing the same applet, and I can't find anyone else who's gotten out of it without a full restore or hard reset.