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Zaurus sl-5500 not flashing... a little help please.
« on: April 08, 2004, 01:05:08 am »
My zaurus sl-5500 wont flash. after i had it for a few weeks i started experimenting with diferent roms. I decided to try the 1.xx sharp rom just to see how the zaurus started out. after flashing it my zaurus would not boot. I tried to flash the tkc ROM, however it would flash and then just show the pic and say booting. i left it on all night and it wouldnt boot. i then tried to flash the origanal zaurus 3.13 ROM and when i put it on my cf card and pressed the reset botton wile pressing C&D all i would get was the mail and power lights on for 2 secs and then they would shut off. I then flashed the open zaurus ROM and it works. I still canot flash the sharp ROM after several trys with several different compact flash cards. Please help me.
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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2004, 12:49:03 pm »
ok so you ruled out the cards and the zaurus is ok...did you redownload the roms to rule out a corrupt file?

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« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2004, 02:48:48 pm »
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My zaurus sl-5500 wont flash. after i had it for a few weeks i started experimenting with diferent roms. I decided to try the 1.xx sharp rom just to see how the zaurus started out. after flashing it my zaurus would not boot. I tried to flash the tkc ROM, however it would flash and then just show the pic and say booting. i left it on all night and it wouldnt boot. i then tried to flash the origanal zaurus 3.13 ROM and when i put it on my cf card and pressed the reset botton wile pressing C&D all i would get was the mail and power lights on for 2 secs and then they would shut off. I then flashed the open zaurus ROM and it works. I still canot flash the sharp ROM after several trys with several different compact flash cards. Please help me.
The 1.xx ROMS (not the 1.3x 5600 ones) were for the SL-5000D as far as I can remember... I have no idea if they would even be compatible with a 5500... and I can see why you could make that mistake as there is no indication of what Zaurus models those ROMs are for on the downloads page!  I have horrible visions of incompatible ROM updating routines....
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« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2004, 05:22:41 pm »
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ok so you ruled out the cards and the zaurus is ok...did you redownload the roms to rule out a corrupt file?
I hase flashed sucessfully with the sam roms before.

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The 1.xx ROMS (not the 1.3x 5600 ones) were for the SL-5000D as far as I can remember... I have no idea if they would even be compatible with a 5500... and I can see why you could make that mistake as there is no indication of what Zaurus models those ROMs are for on the downloads page! I have horrible visions of incompatible ROM updating routines....
SO i should just send my zaurus in for warenty repare?[/quote]
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« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2004, 11:56:02 am »
Sharp is reparing it for free!      .
Zaurus sl-5500 with Sharp ROM version 3.1
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