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For Sale / Wanted / Zaurus Accessories For Sale.

« on: February 05, 2005, 01:17:29 pm »

The following are still available.  The cradle, both SD cards and both cases.  Everything else is sold.  If you don'tlike what I'm asking, make a better offer.  Now that my Z and most of my accessories are gone, I just want to dump this stuff.


I have for sale, the following accessories.  Shipping for 1 item is $3.00, multiple items I will have weighed and let you know.

SOLD $15.00 each.  Two 5xxx series rechargable batteries.  Both hold a charge.

sold -  MicroInnovations keyboard, also known as the PocketTop keytboard.  only slightly used, great shape, works perfectly.  I have personlay used this with several differnt PDA's, and it's intended to work with most PocketPC's and Palm Pilots as well as Z's.

$10.00 each.  
SanDisk 128MB SD card.    (ON HOLD)
SimpleTech 128MB SD card  (ON HOLD)
Original Zaurus USB cradle.

$5.00 each
NiteIze PDA holster.
Targus zippered PPDA case.  The Targus case sucks for carying PDA's, but it's awsome for carrying your pockettop and memory cards.

1 Original Sharp AC charger, $10.00, 1 replacement AC charger from casio, $8.00 Sharp AC is SOLD, Casio is on hold, waiting for M/O to arrive.


I also have some litle things I can throw in if someone want to pay a litle more like Sylii and earbuds.

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For Sale / Wanted / Forsale: Sl5500 And Goodies

« on: February 01, 2005, 05:34:43 pm »

This item has been split, please see my other thread.


Okay, I need some cash because I'm getting married in a month and a half and the ring she wants is still a couple hundred bucks more than I can swing.  I'm selling stuff that may be of value, and today, it's my Z.

It's in good condition for a used sl-5500.

 What's that mean?  

It has the usual cosmetic dings and scratches, but nothing seriously ugly or in any way structural.  No gouges, no cracks, just paint scratches from regualr wear and tear.  The screan is good and free of noticable scratches.   The original stylus was lost ages ago, but I do have a Palm tungsten T stylus for it, which is one of the best replacements available.  Somewhere I actualy ahve about 3 Tungsten T stylii, and I'll included them all if I can find them, but I guarantee 1.

What does it come with?

You get the Zaurus itself, flashed with whatever ROM you want.  I'm going to want to flash it before I part with it for my own safety, so just tell me what ROM you want and I'll get it flashed.  It still has it's originaly flip cover, which still holds itself open.

I have 2 standard battereis for it, both used, but they both hold a charge as well as the 5500 ever did.

2 AC chargers.  The origianl sharp charger and one from, I think Casio, that is the right voltage/amperage/plug size.

2- 128MB SD cards.  1 SanDisk (no problems with this one though) and 1 SimpleTech.

MicroInovations IR keyboard.  This was also sold under the brand name 'Pocket-Top" and I think a couple of other names in other countries.  It is in near perfect condition, only slightly used.

'Earhugger' brand ear buds with an in-line volume control.

1 NiteIze PDA holster, perfect for carrying on a belt.  

1 Targus zippered PDA case.  If you've ever had one of these you know that they suck for carrying a PDA in, but I found it to be great for storing the keyboard, memory cards, earbuds, extra stylii and when I had one, I kept my Wi-Fi card in it.

I may be able to find the disk that came with it, but no promisses.

I know this model is getting a litle out-dated, but it's a very solid pda, and I'm offereing it with some awsome accessories.  I will entertain any offer, so don't be shy.  However, I do need money soon, so if there are no serious offers within a few days, I'll be putting it on ebay.  I just posted it here first, because at one time I got a lot of help at the old zug, and I thought I'd give you folks first dibs.  

Also, while I would prefer to sell this as a bundle, I am willing to split it up if I get any realy good offers.
I'll try to keep and eye on this thread, but I'd prefer you send your offers via email to stephencoons@softhome.net

EDIT*  I also have the USB cradle, don't know how I forgot to mention that, but I have it.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / X on the 5500/5600

« on: October 10, 2004, 08:09:36 pm »

Every once in a while, even someone as pig-headed as I am, must admit a mistake.

When the pdaXrom first started gaining steam, several people made posts about the posability of X on the 5x00 series.  A number of people, including myself, espressed oppinions about what a tragicaly stupid idea that was.

While I can't speak for anyone else, I have to say that I now believe I was dead wrong.  Now that I've seen the GPE version of Open Zaurus 3.5.1, I finaly see the power behind X on a QVGA PDA.  

Even as terribly broken as GPE OZ is right now (first release), it's still a breath of fresh air to my Z and I would LOVE to see pdaxrom for the 5500 or some of the pdaxrom guru's lending mickeyl a hand to get GPE-Oz where ti belongs.

Just my $0.02 for the day.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / more info on gpe?

« on: October 01, 2004, 09:45:40 am »

I was wondering if there is a good faq anywhere about the gpe rom for OZ.  I have lot's  of questions that seem generic to me, but I can't find them in the forum.

In case someone is board, and can't think of an faw, here's my biggest problems.

i can't seemt o mount my CF or SD cards, but in my file structure /mnt/card and /mnt/sd have diretories that do not appear  to be on the cards.  After many attempts those directories now apear on my CF card, empty, but other things that are on the CF do not show up.  

Without the CF working, I have no way of getting ipks to my zaurus right now.

The package manager in the gpe version seems to be missing some realy critical features.  Like defining locations to search for ipk's that can be installed.  I found that through the file menu I can browse to a specific ipk for instalation, but that is a pain and I caan't realy test it without the CF anyway.

I want to us this rom because it looks absolutely fntastic, and what does work is ultra smooth,  it just seems a litle broken for the moment.  I can't wait for the first stable release.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.1 feed as tarbal?

« on: October 01, 2004, 02:17:57 am »

Tiele pretty much says it all.  Does anyone know where I can find the entire OZ3.5.1 feed (preferably with the updated ipk's already included) as one big tarbal?

This was in the old feeds for prior version but I don't see one now.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / irk and 3.3.6?

« on: January 21, 2004, 01:35:06 am »

So, has anyone got this working yet?

I tried to set up a cross compiler for the new gcc, but decided it ws just too far over my head.

I would love to see this ipk\'d for the new OZ.

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / What dev kit to use with OZ3.3.6-pre1???

« on: January 12, 2004, 04:46:24 am »

Like the title says.  I\'m trying to set up a cross compiler for OZ3.3.6-pre1 because it\'s based on gcc3.3.2 and there\'s a cuple of packages I realy need but aren\'t available.

Okay, so far I have downloaded and extracted the latest toolchain from http://www.openzaurus.org/official/toolchain/ and extracted it as specified.

I have also set up my dev script to change environments and sourcing it works fine. and running make \'apear\' to be using the right compiler.

Here\'s the problem.  On my desktop, the only thing in /opt/Qtopia/ is Qtopia desktop.  I have installed qtopia-free in the past (accidentaly) and I believe I need the equivalent for Opie1.03,  or is that wrong?  Can I just use qtopia-free?

What exactly do I need to download and install and from where?  THanks in advance.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / WANTED: Several packages that need to be recompiled

« on: January 10, 2004, 07:29:33 pm »

Okay.  I finaly have the compat libs going which has let me install all my commercial software, but that only goes so far.  ANd I\'m working on setting up a compiler, but that still only goes so far.   There\'s a number of thing I still need, or at least I think I need them.  And I know others will find them usefull as well.

1.  irk, I cannot find any sourcecode for this.  Lot\'s of us use the mi keyboard and I think it would be great for everyone to cross compile this, but I can\'t find source.

2.  Tabmanager.  I don\'t know how many people use this, but I do and it\'s incredibly usefull.  Why such a function isn\'t built into opie I may never know, just seems dumb.  In any case, becausSame story, don\'t know where the source is.

3.  Sub applet.  this is another one of those that i just can\'t understand why it\'s not in the ROM.  It\'s small and mind boggilingly usefull.  And again, no source that i can see.

Help and solutions gladly accepted here.

Also, post other apps you\'d like to see compiled for the now OZ as i would imagine OZ 4 will use the same gcc when it finaly comes.  Last I heard they were 2/3 complete.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ3.3.5 + irk

« on: December 16, 2003, 05:41:51 am »

I have successfully installed irk version 0.92 on just about every rom I\'ve tried and even a manualy installed qtopia 1.6.2 and it always worked.  

HOwever, now with 3.3.5, it will not install unless I force, and when I install that way, it does not apear in the input dialog box, so it\'s not usable.

Has anyone gotten it working?  

I;ve also tried the more recent 1.0 verion with the same results.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Sub applet and IRK not working in OZ 3.3.5

« on: December 09, 2003, 03:44:53 am »

Just wondering if anyone has a solution to this.

Subapplet:  Installs without errors and runs fine, but I can no longer get the options to pop up and cesequently I can\'t actualy move anything to the sub applet bar.

IRK: (IR keyboard driver)  This also installs normaly without any errors, but it simply fails to apear in the text input options.  

With both of these  have rebooted multiple times and downloaded the latest versions, but to no avail.


Any ideas?  So far I like 3.3.5 pretty darn well other than these two critical apps.

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Sharp ROMs / Help needed installing cacko hybrid.

« on: October 31, 2003, 12:40:22 am »

Please, i hve tried to get help several places and so far, nobody has been able to.  

I am trying to install the cacko 1.1 hybrid rom that is based on Trolltech\'s Qtopia 1.6.2  NOT the one based on the sharp ROM.  The flash goes fine, but when it comes time to install qtopia to SD, it says that no install script could be found on the CF.  What  the heck does this mean??

I got a message from slash, whitch I don\'t know how to execute.  He said that I somehow needed to format the main memory, though he didn\'t say how, and then said I needed to install all the qtopia 1.6.2 ipk\'s (whitch i have) to the SD, but that doesn\'t realy finish the job at all, and even if it did, I don\'t know how to do that.  If I try before formatting the main memory, it refuses to install some of the most criticaly important packages, and if I were somehow able to format the RAM, I wouldn\'t have any way of installing the IPK\'s.  My impression is that allong with putting those IPK\'s on the CF, there should be some sort of install script, but I don\'t know what or where the heck it is.


Please help.