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RE: [E3-hacking] (no subject)
by Cliff Lawson 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Interesting place to post such a request but what the hell... I fear a "factory reset" is perhaps a little fierce for the problem you have (it would wipe absolutely EVERYTHING!). I suggest you contact our support(a)amstrad.com <mailto:support@amstrad.com> help people who know all about the differences in operation between BT and NTL and how to overcome them. Alternatively call them on 0906 6816816. Cliff -----Original Message----- From: hilary Rhodes [mailto:hilary.rhodes62@ntlworld.com] Sent: 25 October 2005 19:53 To: e3-hacking(a)earth.li Subject: [E3-hacking] (no subject) hi please can you tell me how to restore factory settings on my e3 mailer please as I have just changed from a BT line to NTL and it wont connect although the line is fine Thank you for your time regards Hilary This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended exclusively for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender immediately. This message is attributed to the sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Amstrad Plc or its subsidiaries. For further information on Amstrad Plc please visit our website: www.amstrad.com Amstrad Plc. Brentwood House 169 Kings Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4EF Registered in England : No. 955321

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(no subject)
by hilary Rhodes 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

hi please can you tell me how to restore factory settings on my e3 mailer please as I have just changed from a BT line to NTL and it wont connect although the line is fine Thank you for your time regards Hilary

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RE: [E3-hacking] Re: E3 thing
by Cliff Lawson 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Err sorry guys but in a kind of Mark Twain stylee - "rumours of the emailer's death are perhaps a little exaggerated". What actually happened was that on Sept 22nd we released our annual figures and in the Chairman's report it was noted that E3s weren't selling at the rate we'd like (seems folks aren't as interested in video telephony as we hoped!) and we're writing down £5.7m to cover stock value. (But we've also just changed the system to make video calls free until 1st Jan 2007 so there's no longer a 50p additional charge when you switch a call to video) Several financial news services (wrongly!) interpreted this to mean that we were going to stop selling them. That simply isn't true. Just another example of the media making up the stories to fit the facts. Cliff > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan McDowell [mailto:noodles@earth.li] > Sent: 26 September 2005 11:43 > To: Leigh Porter > Cc: e3-hacking(a)earth.li > Subject: [E3-hacking] Re: E3 thing > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:59:02AM +0100, Leigh Porter wrote: > > > I got one of these things, seems Amstrad just pulled them form the > > shelves. Have you done much with it since May 1st? I'd like to fix > > mine too :) > > I think anything else that's been done has all been discussed on the > e3-hacking list; you can read the archives at: > > http://www.earth.li/pipermail/e3-hacking/ > > Interesting that they're pulling them from the shelves - does > this mean > we can expect a new batch with the crypto protection in them > in time for > Christmas? > > J. > > -- > ] http://www.earth.li/~noodles/ [] "I've worked it out. That > fscking [ > ] PGP/GPG Key @ the.earth.li [] office assistant - it's > not a [ > ] via keyserver, web or email. [] paper clip. It's an > IUD." -- Ben [ > ] RSA: 4DC4E7FD / DSA: 5B430367 [] Aveling, The Scary Devil > Monastary. [ > > _______________________________________________ > e3-hacking mailing list > e3-hacking(a)earth.li > http://www.earth.li/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/e3-hacking > This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended exclusively for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender immediately. This message is attributed to the sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Amstrad Plc or its subsidiaries. For further information on Amstrad Plc please visit our website: www.amstrad.com Amstrad Plc. Brentwood House 169 Kings Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4EF Registered in England : No. 955321

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Re: E3 thing
by Jonathan McDowell 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:59:02AM +0100, Leigh Porter wrote: > I got one of these things, seems Amstrad just pulled them form the > shelves. Have you done much with it since May 1st? I'd like to fix > mine too :) I think anything else that's been done has all been discussed on the e3-hacking list; you can read the archives at: http://www.earth.li/pipermail/e3-hacking/ Interesting that they're pulling them from the shelves - does this mean we can expect a new batch with the crypto protection in them in time for Christmas? J. -- ] http://www.earth.li/~noodles/ [] "I've worked it out. That fscking [ ] PGP/GPG Key @ the.earth.li [] office assistant - it's not a [ ] via keyserver, web or email. [] paper clip. It's an IUD." -- Ben [ ] RSA: 4DC4E7FD / DSA: 5B430367 [] Aveling, The Scary Devil Monastary. [

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Aaaah!
by David Given 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Amstrad pulls em@iler from shelves http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/09/26/amstrad_email_off/ -- +- David Given --McQ-+ "In the beginning was the word. | dg(a)cowlark.com | And the word was: Content-type: text/plain" --- | (dg(a)tao-group.com) | Unknown sage +- www.cowlark.com --+

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Re: [E3-hacking] Making life easy for you
by Keith Nash 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

> To be clear this (probably) wouldn't be in the style of an E3. We'd probably > ditch a lot of the "telephone" gubbins. It'd basically be a box (maybe > pressed steel or something) with an E3 board at the heart (maybe with modem > section depopulated) and the LCD/backlight module fitted into the "roof" - a > trailing cable would go to the PS/2 QWERTY as found on the E3. So it'd just > look like a generic little computer in a box - nothing like a telephone. I > think we probably would put a JTAG header on it for those interested in such > things (though maybe this isn't such a necessity now that Linux is ported) Why go to the expense of manufacturing a special unit in small volumes? I would gladly pay the difference in price (£50) to unlock a standard E3. If Amstrad were to accept payment by e-commerce, I expect it would be feasible to unlock the phone by automatically sending the specific unit on its specific telephone number the required software upgrade. There's a much bigger market that Amstrad could enter this way - computer-literate people who want to buy an unlocked (but not dev-enabled) E3, as a gift for friends and relatives who are freaked out by the complexity of a PC or Mac. At the moment, the E3 is not an ideal gift, because the recipient has to pay for it to phone home every day, and might also find the adverts annoying. The giver, not the receiver, gets the benefit of the hardware subsidy - unless he stuffs £50 into the box before wrapping it up. Keith.

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Shell
by Jonathan McDowell 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Turns out the E3 does obey the same sort of PBL format as the E2, but there's some sort of timing issue with pblq I think. I've hacked up something that does the job and rewritten my boot parameters to drop to /bin/sh and I'm in! Some files from /proc can be seen at: http://www.earth.li/~noodles/files/delta-proc.txt J. -- /------------------------------------\ | Make friends. | \------------------------------------/

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Re: Cheap PL2303 cable @ Ebuyer
by Irreversible 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

I have a max232 convertor I made for a previous project and somehow didnt make the connection that it *could* be used to work with my E2 amstrad. Would this achieve the same as a max232 based circuit?

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Re: [E3-hacking] Cheap PL2303 cable @ Ebuyer
by Matt Evans 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

On 7 Jul 2005, at 15:26, Rahim Nathwani wrote: > http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?product_uid=51518 > > It's USB at one end, and Nokia pop-port at the other. It doesn't play > nicely with current versions of Nokia PC Suite, but might be a good > alternative to a home-made MAX232 (which would probably work out > around the > same price). That looks like a bargain! Also - the picture's a little small but that looks very much like the T610 cable I have, so hopefully same manufacturer. (There's a little rectangular 'pod' with a PCB inside.) If it is the same as the one I have then it has the advantage that it's not sealed into a resin glob, but there's the disadvantage that it needs a mod for 5V which requires soldering a tiny leg on the PL2303. -Matt

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RE: [E3-hacking] Shell
by Cliff Lawson 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Evans [mailto:matt@axio.ms] > > Will start having a look at LDR; am intrigued by the "Linux start-up > params (Any key to edit)" line, and want to see if this is > telling the > truth (i.e. the params could be edited without requiring a PARMS > reflash). Matt just to save you a little time: DSI_printf("Linux start-up params (Any key to edit)\r\n"); // Lets start by letting the user Edit this command line // edited=getcmd(startup_string,sizeof(startup_string),0x00346000); cmd_line=startup_string; while(*cmd_line!='\0' && *cmd_line!=' ' && *cmd_line!='\t') cmd_line++; // find end of first string .... The fact is that the fact you see that message is simply an error from an older version of LDR where we used to make it easy for ourselves to be able to manually change the PARMS. The call to getcmd() (but unfortunatelly not the printf() ) in the source is now commented so there's no way it's going to be of any use to you. I'm sure a disassembly will confirm that the next thing after that printf() is the code for the "cmd_line=startup_string;" Cliff This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended exclusively for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender immediately. This message is attributed to the sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Amstrad Plc or its subsidiaries. For further information on Amstrad Plc please visit our website: www.amstrad.com Amstrad Plc. Brentwood House 169 Kings Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4EF Registered in England : No. 955321

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