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Astro Slide - Android / Struck on boot an dm-verity corruption [solved]

« Last post by mithrandir on March 25, 2025, 01:57:14 pm »

After adding a magisk module on my Astro I got an endless "Smartphone wird gestartet" (Smartphone is starting in english). Tried to disable magisk in hope to recover (fastboot flash boot_a boot-mystock-v07.img), no change. Then I have testwise switched to slot b (fastboot --set-active=b), not booting at all. Then switched back to slot a, now I get a dm-verity corrupted error. When bypassing the dm-verity error with the power key the Astro is struck at the starting message "Smartphone wird gestartet".

Any idea how I could recover?

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: NetBSD 10.0 on Zaurus C3200

« Last post by greguu on March 25, 2025, 06:11:29 am »

Have you tried the "D+B" recovery mode ? This should bypass kexecboot. You need to time it right and follow the instructions. It should work.

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Zaurus - Hardware discussion / Re: Zaurus C1000, C3000, components datasheet?

« Last post by Varti on March 21, 2025, 07:34:14 am »

I don't know where they might have been/are still available, I have never seen them. I hope to be able to put the wiki back online sooner or later, maybe some info might be stored there:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080724000758/http://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Varti

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Zaurus - Hardware discussion / Re: Zaurus C1000, C3000, components datasheet?

« Last post by DiTBho on March 19, 2025, 08:10:35 am »

isn't there a collection of datasheets about the chips and components used in C1000, C3000?

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Zaurus - Void Linux support / Re: Void Linux Packages

« Last post by Varti on March 19, 2025, 06:26:33 am »

I have forwarded the news on three subreddits, let's see if we get any feedback there:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldHandhelds/comments/1jetqqa/new_release_of_void_linux_for_sharp_zaurus/
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/1jetrhy/new_release_of_void_linux_for_sharp_zaurus/
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1jetrye/new_release_of_void_linux_for_sharp_zaurus/

Varti

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Zaurus - Hardware discussion / Re: Zaurus C1000, C3000, components datasheet?

« Last post by Varti on March 17, 2025, 05:18:22 pm »

From what I have read in a couple of older posts here, no service manual has even been released for any Zaurus SL model, unfortunately:

https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?topic=23469.msg156189#msg156189
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=14114

I have done a Google search in both english and japanese (by searching for zaurus 回路図 = schematics and サービスマニュアル = service manuals), they seem to not have been released recently, too. Sharp has only released some HW infos on the earliest models, though no schematics: http://support.ezaurus.com/developer/doc/hardware.asp

I have searched in my local copies of the forum and the old ELSI webpage, too, to no avail.
I hope to be able to put back the old Zaurus wiki online soon, maybe there could be some info about this. It would be also interesting to get in touch with some old Sharp employee or official Sharp repairing services which might have a copy of the manuals, we can host them here.

BTW, not related, but I have found some hires scans of Zaurus related pamphlets and catalogs here: https://galapagosstore.com/web/book/search/result?sw=zaurus&res=false

Varti

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Zaurus - Void Linux support / Re: Void Linux Packages

« Last post by Varti on March 17, 2025, 01:50:06 pm »

This is great news, I really missed these announcements  thanks greguu!

Varti

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Zaurus - Hardware discussion / Re: Zaurus C1000, C3000, components datasheet?

« Last post by DiTBho on March 17, 2025, 12:57:56 pm »

anyone?

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: NetBSD 10.0 on Zaurus C3200

« Last post by MaBo on March 16, 2025, 11:20:46 am »

Hi clofland and gru,
Had a bit of time for tinkering with netBSD on my SL-C3100 today. Unfortunately, I got stuck.

I have openembedded's kexecboot installed. That makes booting to terminal of clofland's list not applicable. I also tried to boot to void-linux and then starting from there, as I saw other examples of installing netBSD that start from a running system (cacko). Didn´t work.

I'm unsure what to do next. Thinking of options, and any hints are welcome!

(It was long time since I really did something with the Zaurus)

MaBo

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Zaurus - Void Linux support / Re: Void Linux Packages

« Last post by greguu on March 14, 2025, 08:45:07 pm »

There will be a new voidz release coming up,  initially with kernel 5.4.229, perhaps with a newer 6.x based kernel later on.

The package feed will contain the same packages as in the last release plus netsurf browser and libraries.


Please let me know what packages you like to have included in the package feed.