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Sharp Zaurus

Yep. Mines been plugged in all day, no battery, still will not boot. Will order a replacement battery once I'm able.
 
Ahh, I used to have a Zaurus, bought it when they first came out. I must have owned about a dozen pocket PC/PDAs throughout the 1990s, my mate and I were regularly buying the latest & greatest ones, ha !
My first one being the Casio Cassiopia, but that one was a bit disappointing actually, the screen was crap.
 
I have two 5600, a cradle and a wifi card somwhere around here. I used to use mine a s mp3 player with a 2GB microdrive for storage...unfortunately, I killed it in an ill advised attempt at using it as virtual memory on my ancient compaq laptop. I remember trying to build my own Opie images with early versions of OpenEmbedded back in the day. I think I even worked with Richard Purdie on some 2.6 kernel stuff, including a way to use a small kernel in flash to boot a larger one. I should see if I can get them working again.
 
I just found on on my Zaurus SL-5500: nearly all third party batteries you can buy are mechanically not really matching the contacts. For whatever reason all the same.
One should think this should be the easy task to copy a battery ;-)
So, take a sharp knife and have a close look to the original battery, if you still have it. I needed to cut approx 1 mm in one direction.
And now- finally - after purchasing three different batteries ( I was toooooo blind to see) it is now working.
yippeee
good luck für your Zaurus
 
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