Sharp Zaurus - Recent Questions, Troubleshooting & Support

I have lost all comm ports for exchanging info to and from my Zaurus 5000. It says my ports are being used by my mouse which is not true.Anyone have any ideas on how to retrieve ports?

Ted

Any of you have this software or any software for the Zaurus. Also I use with my 5700 a USB PCMCIA card reader for backup. But with my 3500x I have no way of backing it up sadly (do not have data cable or software). But i know there was years ago a site with software for the Zaurus (games etc).

Are you kidding...? That Sharp Zaurus is a DINOSAUR, produced in the 1990's and around 30 years old now. There are plenty of PDA's, and PDA software and apps available to do what the Zaurus did with 30 year old technology. Hell, you can track tenants information, payments, and annual increases using a simple Excel spreadsheet.

You may be short of memory due to too many programs running in background. Google "windows task manager" to learn how to control startup programs. It is not too complicated.

Use a 5V switched-mode adaptor with a miniature co-ax plug with centre-positive polarity. I use an adaptor from a Sony PSP (PSP-1000) with my SL-C860, and it works fine.

Hi Was the backed up version of the address book openable by WinXP or one of its programmes? If it was you may be able to run WinXP as a virtual machine on Win8.1, otherwise you need to find a programme which will open the address book file or import it in a form that makes sense. This may not be easy ! Hope this is helpful, if so would you please register that with Fixya Cheers

It was ages ago I used my ZR5800. Looks like the 3000.I only have the device and some old flash cards. Most of my data was coppied to the flashcards. I lost my manual, but I'm sure you could connect by infra red to a laptop. or another IR device.The flashcards worked in the old laptops, so if you have an old laptop, check if you can put the flashcards in and if you can connect via IR.