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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Intellisync and OZ 3.3.5
« on: December 12, 2003, 10:56:49 am »
Who is quoted with saying \"insanity is trying the same thing over and over, in the hopes that you will receive a different outcome\"?  Well, my insanity paid off.  Four or five flash attempts later, and with only a green LED while flashing, the system awoke, configured its new packages, and gave me a fresh OZ!

On my way again....
Brad

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Intellisync and OZ 3.3.5
« on: December 12, 2003, 10:44:03 am »
I think its dead.  I was so happy to have my Zaurus sync working, that I went into packages, and saw that the feed now has an \"updated filter\".  Assuming I knew what this meant, I selected all the items, hit apply changes, ignored the confirmation, and proceeded to remove 8 critical packages from the system, including libc.

So I thought, what the heck, reflash.  I reflashed it, powered it on, and forgot about it overnight.  Came back this morning to a very warm Zaurus, instructing me to tap anywhere to begin.  No taps worked, nothing worked.  Recycled the power, and still stuck with an unresponsive \"tap anywhere\" to begin.  Ok, no problem.  Hard reset, and it won\'t get past the OpenZaurus fb logo and \"booting...\".   Uh-oh.  Tried a re-flash, only green LED, not both showing up.  Tried other CF cards, only green LED.  Now I can\'t get any response from the unit, aside from that green LED staring me in the eyes.

Might have to spend some more $$, dunno.

Brad

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Intellisync and OZ 3.3.5
« on: December 12, 2003, 12:08:17 am »
oreo, mickeyl,

Good stuff!  Houston, we have sync!  Contacts, calendar look great.  Mail-it is crashing with a SIGSEGV at startup.  Is this why folks dig qtmail?

Thanks again,
Brad

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Intellisync and OZ 3.3.5
« on: December 10, 2003, 09:11:37 pm »
OZ is beautiful, but this problem solving reminds me why I\'d switched back to my palm v.  If it were for my home machine, evolution, multisync, or kitchensync would suffice.  But since its for my work, I\'m stuck on Outlook.  In fact, I\'m not sure why Sharp never just took the source code to the gnome-pilot code and wrote the Zaurus as a server, emulating a Palm.  Think of all the tools that would work with it!

Ranting aside.  I tried the ipkg\'s from Hentges.net, opie-security and opie-taskbar, with no success.  I then installed the intellisync in oreo\'s link, and also no success.  All the same symptoms \"wrong intellisync version\".

So then I installed the 1.7.0 QtopiaDesktop, and tried syncing with outlook.  Todo syncs fine.  Calendar syncs to 97% completion and crashes (but leaves dups in the qtopia desktop).  Contacts sync about 50%, and then repeatedly tells me that Outlook will ask for permission to modify contacts, but never does.  Skip or abort, either way, QD crashes.

That\'s too bad for sharp, and perhaps the biggest downfall in general.  Look at the PPC users, palm users.  They crab but use klunky applications, but if a PDA doesn\'t sync, that\'s the end of the road.  I\'ll check back after the next release of OZ/OPIE

Thanks for the help,
Brad

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Intellisync and OZ 3.3.5
« on: December 10, 2003, 06:16:56 pm »
oreo,

I think that link provides the same binary as the link for v3 ROMs.  I could be wrong, but from my analysis of the URLs, sharp looks to be doing some sharing.  Once installed, it shows a different version number.  Perhaps it is correct however, if I am actually seeing the issue that mussi refers to.

mussi,

Thanks for the tip.  I saw a reference to 1.0.2 taskbar issues where somebody was providing a new package to fix intellisync issues.  I wasn\'t going to chase it as it seemed to be about a month old.  I\'ll look into it tonight and post my progress here.

Thanks,
Brad

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Intellisync and OZ 3.3.5
« on: December 10, 2003, 04:32:12 pm »
Well, I followed the download links from the www.myzaurus.com page to get to the Sharp software updates.  I followed the links to the pre-version 3 files, but that seems irrelevant.  From there there are separate installation files.  Some are for device ROMs, but the intellisync updates seem to contain the USB driver and the intellisync programs.  FYI, I couldn\'t get these intellisyncs to work with OZ 3.3.5.

BRad

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Intellisync and OZ 3.3.5
« on: December 10, 2003, 03:30:47 pm »
USB was easy.  Used (what I thought was v2) ROM installer from Sharps\'s myzaurus.com, and followed the process as directed.  At the end, I had a SL-5500 as network device 4 on my XP box.  Switched it from DHCP to static IP configuration, and had the magic 192.168.129.201 (or whatever) IP address cnfigured.  Now the zaurus in its cradle could ping the host XP box, and the host could ping the Zaurus.

I didn\'t get nameservers set up on the Zaurus, just the basic networking.

Brad

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Intellisync and OZ 3.3.5
« on: December 10, 2003, 01:03:42 pm »
Has anyone had success syncing with outlook, intellisync, and OZ 3.3.5?

I flashed the new rom, got USB networking fine (can ping both directions), but when I start the sync, the Zaurus flashes to its syncing screen and back very quickly, and intellisync quits by saying that the version of intellisync on the zaurus doesn\'t match.

Most links to intellisync point to (the now dead?) zaurus.com, and the only downloads at myzaurus.com all point to the v3 ROM software.  Even the \"pre-version 3\" links ultimately link to the same binaries.

I\'ve gone through all of the old cd\'s I could get my hands on, but no version seems to work.

Anybody else in the same boat as me?

Thanks,
Brad

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