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Yes, the Zaurus section of the forum unfortunately has a very low activity since many years, which is expected since only the SL-5500 and SL-6000 models were sold outside Japan. I still have my collection of Zauruses and switch them on from time to time, I read the posts here with interest.
I suspect there are other users following the various threads but they never answer. We have a views counter for each thread, there are between 5000 and 19000 views for each of them, though most of them are be probably made by bots. I prefer to keep the subforums open for read-only access for non-registered users, so that it's easier for Google to index the pages and make the information here more accessible.
Other users that have posted here in the past are probably following this subforum. To any of you, please post here so that we can have a rough idea of how many of us are here.

Varti

But C1000? C3xxx?

I wonder what's the point of reading without ever replying  :o :o :o
I've opened several topics, with zero interest, I'm developing a bootloader, and I've written about this thing, again with zero interest.
I've asked for patches, and I've had no answers, I've asked about the microdrive, explaining the matter well, and I've had no answers.

I mean, frankly, it's so bloody frustrating this way ...

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Yes, the Zaurus section of the forum unfortunately has a very low activity since many years, which is expected since only the SL-5500 and SL-6000 models were sold outside Japan. I still have my collection of Zauruses and switch them on from time to time, I read the posts here with interest.
I suspect there are other users following the various threads but they never answer. We have a views counter for each thread, there are between 5000 and 19000 views for each of them, though most of them are be probably made by bots. I prefer to keep the subforums open for read-only access for non-registered users, so that it's easier for Google to index the pages and make the information here more accessible.
Other users that have posted here in the past are probably following this subforum. To any of you, please post here so that we can have a rough idea of how many of us are here.

Varti
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From what I see the interest in Zaurus is very low, weeks without posts, is there anyone still here?
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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Astro update to V07
« Last post by spa on June 18, 2025, 03:50:42 am »
The source codes is not public.
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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Astro update to V07
« Last post by slide on June 17, 2025, 02:50:12 pm »
Is the source code available?
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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Astro update to V07
« Last post by spa on June 05, 2025, 08:15:08 pm »
I am posting here because of the topic of screen flickering in this thread.
By app, I have been able to fix the following problems which I believe are specifications.
Screen flickers in dark places.
The screen turns off in dark places.
Slow response to screen brightness changes.
My device is rooted, I have not been able to test if it works on unrooted devices.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jp.ssipa.cosmoctl
https://ssipa.web.fc2.com/index_Astro_1.html#20241027
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Zaurus - Hardware discussion / C3000 can't update when the microdrive is missing
« Last post by DiTBho on May 16, 2025, 09:13:34 am »
hi
I am developing my own bootloader, supporting
- C1000
- C3000

yesterday I prepared an SD card
- PC partition FAT16
- mkfs.fat

then I copied
- update.sh
- zImage <----- my application

I followed the instruction to enter the Sharp Menu.
As result:
- C1000 perfectly flashed, now it boots my bootloader
- C3000 says it can't update anything "because the microdrive is missing". No option.

I removed the microdrive because it was faulty, the C3K is designed to boot completely from the SD card. I still need to find and buy a replacement for the internal MD.

It's absurd that update.sh refuses to flash because the microdrive is missing ...

Any workarounds?
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Zaurus - Void Linux support / Re: who is working on the Zaurus Kernel?
« Last post by DiTBho on May 14, 2025, 10:17:50 am »
I know there is a JTAG interface inside the PXA270 SoC.
I don't know if it is connected to a PDA connector.

Any doc?
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Zaurus - Void Linux support / Re: who is working on the Zaurus Kernel?
« Last post by DiTBho on May 14, 2025, 08:51:38 am »
In particular, I'm trying to figure out what problems there are with
  • Flash on Zaurus -> can I erase everything and use the Zaurus Flash (C1K, C3K) for my stuff?
  • Suspend/Resume
  • PowerCharge
  • PowerManagement
  • TouchScreen -> too noisy on a SDL application I wrote to take notes -> should I put a software filter into its kernel module?!?
  • USB, why is it so slow?!? I get ~1Mbyte/sec on a 10/100Mbps USB-NIC ---> it's not USB2, but rather USB1?!?

I also found a Russian forum that was about Gentoo/Zaurus around 2009.
I see patches for kernels 2.6.22 and later.
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Zaurus - Void Linux support / Re: who is working on the Zaurus Kernel?
« Last post by DiTBho on May 14, 2025, 08:42:41 am »
p.s.
wrote a nice tool to automagically get stuff from an internet url, even recursively

Code: [Select]
macmini2-intel irc # echo "https://logs.nslu2-linux.org/livelogs/kexecboot/" > url
macmini2-intel irc # myNET-get-files-from-url url
list_preparing1, getting index.html ... success
preparing /list ... done
downloading [kexecboot_20110601.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110602.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110603.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110604.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110605.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110606.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110607.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110608.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110609.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110610.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110611.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110612.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110613.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110614.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110615.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110616.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110617.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110618.txt] ... success
downloading [kexecboot_20110619.txt] ... success

I take this opportunity to test it  ;D
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