Getting Henteges 3.5.3 Working Smoothly on the SL-5600

I just needed to publish list of some stuff that I had to do to get Heteges ROM 3.5.3 (Opie) working somewhat smoothly on the SL-5600.

To fix sound: Install opie-qss
To fix backlight: Unknown
To fix timezone: Install timezones-america

That covers it so far.
Actually, upon further review, it seems I’m still in pretty dire straights when it comes [...]

Zaurus Essentials: QashMoney

This week, in a successful attempt to fix a bux with the Calendar app on my SharpROM installation, I decided to re-install my Z from scratch. So now all the of apps I’ve been playing with on the Z have been wiped out, the good with the bad. This gives me a great opportunity to [...]

Opie/OZ 3.5.1 Annoyances

I’ve been running OpenZaurus 3.5.1 on my Z for a couple weeks now, and although I’m impressed with the progress made on OZ, I’ve found that this release of OZ is even less usable than 3.3.6. Now that I’ve been keeping busy with temp work, I’ve not had the opportunity to throw massive amounts of [...]

Opie and the broken Package Manager

Just a personal note here, but possibly useful to others: http://www.zaurususergroup.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7901 . This might make my Z a little more usable.

Twin Paradox SolarExpress PDA

So I’ve really been wanting one of these to connect my N400 with SprintPCS Vision service to my Z so that I can finally browse the web and listen to internet radio wirelessly, anywhere. The annoying thing is that Twin Paradox has delayed to release of the SolarExpress PDA repeatedly until the following month for [...]

Opie/OpenEmbedded Goodness

So I have this cool toy, the Sharp Zaurus SL-5600, and so far I’ve been kind of disappointed with the various ROM images out there, and I’ve been wanting to build/compile the development OpenEmbedded/OpenZaurus image for my Z. Up until today, this has been an excercise in futility. But for joy! I am finally in [...]