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C1000/3x00 Hardware / C1000 Keeps Suspending When Not Plugged In

« on: February 19, 2008, 09:45:29 pm »

Checked the backlight setting, and sure enough, it was the low-end.        I bumped it up, and it seems to be working again (fingers crossed).

Thanks!

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / C1000 Keeps Suspending When Not Plugged In

« on: February 19, 2008, 10:07:51 am »

This sound like the Cacko backligh bug. Do you have the backlight set to the lowest setting? If so then for some reason the backlight is turned off when you adjust screen size.
It looks like the Zaurus is suspended, but if look at it it closely in the right light setting you can just see that it is actually on. The answer is to leave the brightness set one step above the lowest setting.

Interesting..    Yes, I was playing with the backlight setting shortly before this started happening.   I'll check it tonight (hopefully that's all it is)

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / C1000 Keeps Suspending When Not Plugged In

« on: February 18, 2008, 11:42:55 pm »

Hi,

Suddenly my C1000 keeps suspending when it's on battery power, even though it says the battery is 100% charged.    If I power it on, I'll see the screen for a few seconds, then it will go black.   After doing this a couple of times, it stops responding to the power button completely until I plug it in.

Sometimes I can get it to stay on for a little while on battery power,  but if I do, it will suspend itself within two minutes or so.    Again, it says the battery is 100% charged the whole time.

Does this mean that there's something wrong with the battery, or is there something else that might be wrong.  I've tried rebooting.

Thanks for any help

Which rom?

Cacko 1.23

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / C1000 Keeps Suspending When Not Plugged In

« on: February 18, 2008, 08:40:03 pm »

Hi,

Suddenly my C1000 keeps suspending when it's on battery power, even though it says the battery is 100% charged.    If I power it on, I'll see the screen for a few seconds, then it will go black.   After doing this a couple of times, it stops responding to the power button completely until I plug it in.

Sometimes I can get it to stay on for a little while on battery power,  but if I do, it will suspend itself within two minutes or so.    Again, it says the battery is 100% charged the whole time.

Does this mean that there's something wrong with the battery, or is there something else that might be wrong.  I've tried rebooting.

Thanks for any help

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Nokia 770 $139.99 At Buy.com

« on: June 26, 2007, 10:13:39 am »

It's so tempting at that price, but I gotta keep reminding myself it doesn't do much that my Z can't do.    

http://www.buy.com/prod/nokia-770-internet.../204081472.html

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Usb Foldable Keyboard From Ebay

« on: June 26, 2007, 10:08:49 am »

Got the keyboard and it's good - I was wondering whether it would be an official stowaway kb or a cheap knockoff, and luckily it's the original.

Now if only it had a decent mini-B socket on it and not the old style 4-pin mini connector. It's one more cable I have to carry around!
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You need something like this:

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Look around at drug stores and places like that,  I've seen bundles of USB adapters that include parts like that at Walgreens and Big Lots.

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Software / Another New Game: Yaki

« on: June 14, 2007, 05:13:43 pm »

I'm the one who recently posted WordWorx,    I put some finishing touches on a second game I had been working on.   This one is basically a version of the dice games Yahtzee and Kismet (Yahtzee with colored dice).

This was actually the first game I wrote, and it came about because I had been playing Yahtzee on the gameboy, and got frustrated with the AI of the computer players there, and thought I could do better.

It requires SDL,  SDL_image and SDL_mixer

Like WordWorx,  you will need to change the permissions of the scores.dat file if you want to save high scores.   This will be in something like share/yaki/hs/scores.dat under whereever you installed it to.

Download the ipkg here: YaKi 1.3.5

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Software / New Game: Wordworx

« on: June 09, 2007, 09:34:08 pm »

Thanks,

I made a minor update to fix the crash that occurs when it tries to write the highscore table when the file is write protected.

The updated version is Wordworx 1.0.5

Note:  this is not an urgent update..  If you already modified the permissions of your hiscore file to be writeable, then this update won't give you much.    But if you haven't installed it yet, then install this one rather than the other one.

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Sharp ROMs / So What Exactly Is Cacko?

« on: June 08, 2007, 08:37:11 pm »

When I first got my Z, I too was a bit skeptical about installing Cacko on it,  but once I did, I never wanted to go back.

It's the sharp rom, + newer kernel, apps, device drivers for more devices.    It also seems to be more user friendly than the Sharp rom.

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Qt/Qtopia / I Created Some Games For The Z...

« on: June 06, 2007, 03:03:02 pm »

Well, I just posted the release notice in the software section.    Sometimes it takes me longer to release things than it does to write them    

Hopefully I'll have the other game in releasable form in another week or so.

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Software / New Game: Wordworx

« on: June 06, 2007, 02:59:17 pm »

Hi, I've created a new game called Wordworx.   It was inspired by the Wordsmith game that is included on Tivo.

It requires SDL, SDL_mixer, SDL_image and zlib.   It works on Cacko 1.23.   I'd be interested in hearing about success with other roms.

It is installable to cards

Download here:
Wordworx 1.0.4 download

Note: After you install it, you should ensure that /opt/QtPalmtop/share/wordworx/hs/scores.dat file is writable by any user who will play the game.   This is a high score file, if it's not writable, the game will crash at the end--  no big deal if you don't care about saving high scores, I suppose.   I tried to create a postinst that set these permissions, but it broke the ipkg, so I removed it.  (if someone can write a postinst that works and add it to the ipkg, I'd appreciate it)

Apart from that,  I think the game is pretty self-explanitory.     The object is to make words from the pile of letters.    the longer the word, the better the score.  It's simple, but it can be addictive.

You can use the touch screen or the keyboard.   To add a letter to the word, click on the letter.  To remove the last letter, click on the word.

Words are checked against a Scrabble tournament word list.   There are cases where the game sees that you can still make words from the letters you have left, but the word may not be obvious because it's rather obscure.   In these cases, you can press 'H' to get a hint.

I think that about covers it, I appreciate any feedback.

Also, I'd like to thank Cresho for assistance in getting it in ipkg format.

EDIT: New download site

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Software / Does Xmms-embedded Work In Cacko?

« on: June 06, 2007, 02:35:33 pm »

I tried to install xmms-embedded-0.0005pre which is the last version that is supposed to work with Sharp roms.    I installed it under Cacko on a C1000  and when I tried to run it, it made the screen go black, nothing displayed.    I ended up having to reboot.

Anybody use this successfully?
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disable the magnified screen option and you wont be getting the black screen anymore, but don't hold your breath for a fully working music player. xmms embedded is a shrink down version of xmms with all the useful things removed...
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Yeah,  I'm not expecting a whole lot out of it       I'm just looking for something that can play mods that is more usable than yasump.

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Software / Does Xmms-embedded Work In Cacko?

« on: June 05, 2007, 10:13:07 pm »

I tried to install xmms-embedded-0.0005pre which is the last version that is supposed to work with Sharp roms.    I installed it under Cacko on a C1000  and when I tried to run it, it made the screen go black, nothing displayed.    I ended up having to reboot.

Anybody use this successfully?

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Software / Kde-pim/pi 2.1.0 Available!

« on: June 05, 2007, 09:27:09 am »

Does anybody have KO/PI running on a modern Linux system?   It looks like it hasn't been updated in awhile, and it won't compile on Fedora 5 for me.

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Qt/Qtopia / I Created Some Games For The Z...

« on: May 31, 2007, 02:54:59 pm »

Thanks for the kind words...    I got a last minute feature request that I think is a good idea, so I'll add that before making it publically available.