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Cxx0 General discussions / Help !! I May Have Bricked My C-860

« on: December 18, 2004, 04:27:26 pm »

OK, so I had Cacko 1.21B running and decided to go back to the Sharp ROM that came on my C-860.  I made a NAND backup of the Cacko and grabbed my NAND backup of the original Sharp ROM (138,543,120 bytes).  Both the backup of Cacko and the restore of the Sharp went fine (at least according to the green lines).  After the Sharp NAND was done, I selected reboot from the menu and it went blank, never rebooted.  When I power it up now, both the yellow light and the green light blink on and off, but it never reboots.

I can't get back into the Service menus anymore to try and "re-restore" either of the NAND backups.  It's not dead though, I can get to the Flashmenu.  However, if I tell it to reflash either the Sharp ROM or the Cacko, it just goes blank and nothing happens.  If I try and boot to a different Runlevel, same thing, lights flash on and off, nothing reboots.  I've tried various combinations of turning things on, letting it sit for a minute or two with no battery.  No soap, still does nuttin'.

I'd be happy to get either of the two roms running again if you experts out there would care to offer some suggestions.

Heelllllppppp !    

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Cxx0 General discussions / Need some help with AirCable on the C-860

« on: April 09, 2004, 09:12:36 pm »

I\'ve got an AirCable bluetooth adapter that worked great on my SL-5600, but I can\'t find the file that\'s necessary to edit on my C-860

On the 5600 it was /dev/etc/peers/dialup******* , but it\'s not in that same place on the C-860.  Anybody out there that can tell a non-Linux guy where the heck this thing is ?  I can edit it properly with VI if I could just find the darn thing.  I can\'t get Linux \"find\" to tell me much, but then I know squat about Linux.

I seem to remember that somebody out here had made it work, but I can\'t find that thread anymore.

Thanks !

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Cxx0 General discussions / Got a new C-860, so out goes the 5600 AND the new 6000L !

« on: April 07, 2004, 05:32:48 pm »

Got a new C-860 from e-bay today, and it\'s actually remarkably well converted already.  All menus in HancomWord, Presentation and HancomSheet are already translated. Calendar, AddressBook(with two exceptions under category, and the documented sorting problems), ToDo(two category problems), and pretty much else are all working correctly.  Network Wizard is the infamous \"squares\" but he\'d already set up one profile (generic) and it works fine with my D-Link DCF-660W, but if somebody can tell me how to fix the translation problems in the wizard, it would be most helpful.
Already installed were \"bunkoviewer\", \"msconvert\", \"personal-profile-for-zaurus\", \"sst-signup\", translator-ej-data, translator-je-data, and \"yubindata\".  Anybody know (for sure) that it\'s safe to uinstall any of these ?  Or what the heck they are ?
A bunch of seemingly cool stuff, including qpdf came on the installation CD, along with all the necessary drivers and such like.  Anybody know if I can synch this thing using the SL-6000L software I already have installed ?

All of you who said that this clamshell really rocks are oh so right.  No picture I\'ve seen does adequate justice to the screen, the keyboard, or the general \"build quality\" of this little guy.  Really amazing, so the 6000L\'s headed back to Amazon. !

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General Discussion / OK, so I have "too many Zaurii"

« on: April 03, 2004, 11:39:28 pm »

I\'m now the proud owner of an SL-5600, an SL-6000L, and a CL-860 (ordered tonight).  I\'m just trying to pick the \"best of breed\" for what I do, and what my needs are.  I\'ll be evaluating each of these based on these needs.  If anybody\'s interested in the results, I\'ll be happy to post them out here.  Let me know if this is just more \"boring information\", or if this would be something of value to the ZUG.  I\'ve got some liquid capital, and thought I\'d just try out each of these newest beasties and see if I could give back some of the value each of you have provided me as a newbee.

If there are some specific things you\'d like evaluated, given that I have all three of these things, please let me know.  Be patient, I\'m still a newbee, but I\'ve seen the light.  I sincerely hope it\'s not the headlight of an oncoming train !

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6000 - Tosa / Headphones

« on: April 03, 2004, 09:48:11 pm »

OK, so here\'s another \"weird\" thang.  The headphone jack on the SL6000 is a 2.5mm, not a 3.55mm which is the internationally recognized freakin\' standard.  I guess you could pound it in with a ball peen hammer, which I\'m tempted to do, but there is an adapter available.  Apparently the Treo 600 uses the same f****d up size, so here\'s a link to the stupid thing.  Aaaarrrggghhhh !

http://www.handspring.com/products/Product...jhtml?id=410006

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6000 - Tosa / Got my 6000L from Amazon - Some impressions

« on: April 03, 2004, 03:28:18 pm »

1).   Well made, much more rugged than my 5600
2).   BIG !  Also much bigger than my 5600
3).   Screen is unbelievably beautiful
4).   Integrated 802.11B is strictly a no-brainer, very easy to setup
5).   All SHARP apps seem very stable, synch with Outlook worked fine
6).   None of my theKompany stuff works, tkcVideo and tkcGallery
7).   Landscape mode is very nice, Opera is very useable that way.
.   Subjectively seems much faster than my 5600

BIG PROBLEM (for me anyway) is that movies really stink, I mean big time.  Video that looks fine on my 5600 is choppy and completely out of synch on the 6000L, in either portrait or landscape.  May be Sharp\'s Media Player, may be the screen itself, I have no idea.  I\'d love to have my tkcVideo back, but the 5600 version is pretty dysfunctional on it.  I use this function in my PDA during long flights, waits in airports, etc., so this may be going back to Amazon.  Major disappointment.  The quality of the screen is soooo good, I was really looking forward to better movie quality, not worse !  Aaarrrggghhhh !

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Software / Beware tkcSky

« on: March 30, 2004, 12:41:11 am »

Shawn:
I have now installed \"both\" applications.  Still nothing under \"file/catalogs\".  I have the basic-10[1].0.pdb installed on the SD card under /var/mnt/card/QTPalmtop/lib/psc and under I:QtPalmtoplibpsc.  Did I miss something in that infamous \"readme\" file ?
Bob



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From: Bob Shaffer [mailto:shafferb1@comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:58 PM
To: \'Shawn Gordon\'
Subject: RE: tkcSky


Shawn:
Here is a copy of the readme file related to the install:
Installing tkcSky and supporting data catalog files
 
1. The .ipk file is the main application. Load it to your Z in the usual manner.
   We strongly recommend loading to CF or SD expansion memory.
(in other words, the readme makes absolutely NO reference to install BOTH, though I did install the tkcSKY app to SD)
 
\"they need to be wherever you install them to\".  Pullleeezzz, this is not what\'s indicated in the aforementioned reademe.
\"/var/mnt/card/QtPalmtop/lib/psc if you are using SD memory expansion.\"
 
Suggestion:  Correct your \"readme\'s\", not me.
 
I have been a big supporter of your tkc applications, you might try to be a bit more forthcoming and polite when responding to honest requests for support, I have purchased several TKC apps and have never asked for support.  Nor will I again.  I will not be purchasing additional applications, though that had been my intention.
 
Bob Shaffer



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From: Shawn Gordon [mailto:shawn@thekompany.com]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:24 PM
To: Bob Shaffer
Subject: Re: tkcSky


the readme says to install both.
At 02:40 PM 3/29/2004, you wrote:

I just purchased and downloaded this application.  The readme file says to \"install the ipk\", but there are two of them.  Which one is tkcSKY and do I need the other one as well (qpe).
 
Can I install the program to internal memory, and keep the pdb file(s) on my SD card ?  Do these files have to be in a directory called /var/mnt/card/QtPalmtop/lib/psc ro am I reading this wrong ?  I\'ll be copying these from my PC directly to the SD card.


they need to be wherever you install them to.



Thanks
Bob Shaffer
 

Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
theKompany.com
www.thekompany.com
949-713-3276

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General Discussion / Ordered my SL-6000L from Amazon tonight !

« on: March 18, 2004, 12:32:07 am »

Just to let the group know, Amazon is listing the SL-6000L (with the built-in 802.11B) as arriving on March 31st.  I ordered one and they confirmed shipping on April 6th.  I actually prefer this form factor to the clamshells as I\'m addicted to my 5600, but to each his own.  Waiting will be painful !

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5x00 General discussions / Formatting CF card in the SL-5600

« on: March 17, 2004, 08:20:29 pm »

I\'m having difficulty flashing to the pre-emptive patch kernel.  I\'ve put updater.sh and zImage.bin in the root of the CF.  I\'ve tried formatting the CF under XP-PRO as both FAT and FAT32, but neither seems to work.  Can anybody give me directions for formatting this card internally in the Z ?  I\'m not a Linux guru, but I can obey instructions pretty well !

Thanks !

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Software / AirCable Bluetooth

« on: February 09, 2004, 08:30:11 pm »

I\'m new to Linux (Ok, so shoot me :-))  I\'ve gotten an AirCable bluetooth adaptor for my SL-5600 and was finally able to \"pair\" it with my Motorola 270C Bluetooth cell phone.  Now I\'m supposed to make a modification to a file in  /etc/ppp/peers .  Basically this is a IRDA dial-up profile file which I now need to \"fool\" into thinking the serial port is the IRDA port.  I\'m supposed to do this by adding /dev/ttyS0 as the first line in this \"script\".  I\'ve used File Manager, but can\'t get to it.  I\'ve Terminal, but am told that access ist verboten.  I know next to (I mean really next to) nothing about VI, but I\'m determined not to be beat by this.  Anybody lend a poor novice a hand ?  Since I\'ll never use the IRDA, does anybody have an idea about how I might be able to \"permanently\" make it point to the serial port ?

Thanks !