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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: changed my battery now with video
« Last post by Zarhan on April 04, 2025, 11:25:50 am »
...I just got the battery. Cam, do you know if the installer had to open up the battery pack to get this installed? I'm confused about the fact that there is only that one external connector on the battery. Or is that a temp sensor or something?

It's visible in your video too, but looks like the texts of the battery are a bit...crumpled? Just wondering if the battery pack's has to be opened (carefully) to get direct access to the terminals (and for replacing the BMS).
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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: NetBSD 10.0 on Zaurus C3200
« Last post by MaBo on April 01, 2025, 02:37:33 pm »
YES, the install starts ;D . I had an old 256 MB (yes, MegaByte) SD card. Maybe the 4GB was too large.

Now, all kinds of questions pop up:
- Shall I indeed wipe the entire HDD and use it for netBSD 
- What if I want to go back (but to what then),
- etc. etc.

I find wiping the HDD a bit scary. But there is no way to use >1GB SD cards in the maintenance kernel (https://wiki.netbsd.org/users/jun/zaurus/). That is not enough to install netBSD ánd contain the install files.

I just gave it a go, with default options. It did gave a lot of errors in wiping the HDD.   :-\
Yet another new phase in "playing with my zaurus".

Maarten
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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: NetBSD 10.0 on Zaurus C3200
« Last post by MaBo on March 31, 2025, 02:46:14 pm »
After a bit of figuring, it worked. I used the instructions on https://blog.spiralofhope.com/48354/zaurus-sl-c1000-emergency-console-boot.html:

  • Make sure the Zaurus isn't plugged into AC power.
  • Remove the battery
  • Switch battery switch to "on" position, but leave battery door open
  • Hold the D+B keys pressed, while inserting the battery
  • Then release D+B keys
After some seconds, you see a Japanese SHARP boot screen and shortly after a login prompt.

Once you see the boot screen it is ok to:

(these steps will not reset your Zaurus)
  • insert the power cable
  • turn the battery switch to the "off" position
  • put the battery cover on
  • turn the battery switch to the "on" position

Now, strange enough, the contents of the SD card are not shown. It only shows the folders Documents, which doesn´t exist on the SD card... :o

Well, playing on,

Maarten
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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: NetBSD 10.0 on Zaurus C3200
« Last post by MaBo on March 31, 2025, 09:49:39 am »
Thanks and yea I tried that. Seems not to work, or I'm not dexterous enough.
I managed to get into the Japanese menu via D+N (or was it D+M). That is of no help for this.

I might install cacko (or cacko lite) into NAND and then run it from there. Unless anyone has a good suggestion.


Maarten
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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Struck on boot an dm-verity corruption
« Last post by mithrandir on March 26, 2025, 07:00:04 pm »
Thanks. Thank to your hints I got aware of shymegas / loopback7084s astro_super_tools. I think it really was V07, since I didn´t have the v7b on my harddisk. There is an adb server running, but I was not able to get in, maybe I didn´t permanently allow.

With the astro_super_tools and and mtk-client I have been able to download the current images from the phone. Then I added  setprop ro.adb.secure 0 to build.props in the system partition (had to free some space, there are sufficient unneeded apks...) and flashed it (super.img) with fastboot. (Details in astro_super_tools ReadMe). The wiki also was helpful.

Afterwards adb via USB was working and reading logcat was possible. In logcat output I have noticed an error mentioning com.google.android.gms which I then removed with pm uninstall com.google.android.gms. Suddenly the user interface started I was able to reinit magisk, for some reason it wanted to reinstall the manager app. Then I was able to remove some magisk modules I added some days before.

Great, the Astro is ressurected  ;D. Still some stuff to do, lost my desktops, but that is not that important, at least I have lost no data. Tomorrow I will continue to solve the remaining problems, i.e. sync stuff not working anymore (due to gms). The device boots and I have root, so everything else should be fixable.

Thanks to all who helped with hints, here and in the matrix.
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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Struck on boot an dm-verity corruption
« Last post by ZimbiX on March 25, 2025, 03:54:06 pm »
That sucks.

I see your image file says V07. Were you not on V07b? It could just be that it's the wrong version.

It's not something I'm familiar with, but I don't think switching the active slot would work well - it's not just the boot partition that's used.

I'd try switching the active slot back and flashing the stock v07b boot image from the rooting wiki page.

You could also try to boot while holding a button to get Magisk to disable itself - see the Magisk FAQ. I haven't tried this on the Astro, but I've used it in the past on another device to resolve this.

Edit: I wrote instructions to remove the dm-verity corruption prompt/warning. Perhaps you need to do that again after a manual slot switch.
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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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