kobo mini revival

[geo999]

Hi all,

this is my first real post thus, sorry if it's not in the right location.
story short, I got a kobo mini N705 that i'm trying to repurpose as a basic display for a weather data.
while I was playing with it powered by usb only with battery removed it decided to no longer start.
After a while I decided to get a new sd card and image from this forum and do a fresh start after updating the serial at 0x200.
The symptom is the same, it starts, green light, blue light, then 13x green light blinks.
the screen is not active.

after connecting to the serial line I can access the console but there is no obvious error message of something being wrong.

tried : zcat /etc/images/splash.raw.gz | /usr/local/Kobo/pickel showpic but nothing shows on the screen.

anyone knows what the led is trying to say : green, blue, then 13x green light blinks.

below the log:

(none) login: root
login[729]: root login on 'ttymxc0'
[root@(none) /]# reboot
[root@(none) /]# umount: can't remount /dev/mmcblk0p3 read-only
umount: none busy - remounted read-only
umount: none busy - remounted read-only
The system is going down NOW!
Sent SIGTERM to all processes
Sent SIGKILL to all processes
Requesting system reboot
Restarting system.
msp430_write: write reg error : Reg 0x90 = 0xff00


U-Boot 2009.08-dirty-svn ( 8月 29 2012 - 11:15:18)

CPU:   Freescale i.MX50 family 1.1V at 800 MHz
mx50 pll1: 800MHz
mx50 pll2: 400MHz
mx50 pll3: 216MHz
ipg clock     : 66666666Hz
ipg per clock : 66666666Hz
uart clock    : 24000000Hz
ahb clock     : 133333333Hz
axi_a clock   : 400000000Hz
axi_b clock   : 200000000Hz
weim_clock    : 100000000Hz
ddr clock     : 200000000Hz
esdhc1 clock  : 80000000Hz
esdhc2 clock  : 80000000Hz
esdhc3 clock  : 80000000Hz
esdhc4 clock  : 80000000Hz
Board: MX50 RDP board
Boot Reason: [POR]
Boot Device: SD
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  256 MB
MMC:   FSL_ESDHC: 0, FSL_ESDHC: 1, FSL_ESDHC: 2
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
[_get_sd_number] g_sd_number:2

MMC read: dev # 2, block # 1023, count 1 partition # 0 ...
1 blocks read: OK

MMC read: dev # 2, block # 1024, count 1 partition # 0 ...
1 blocks read: OK
zforce read 7 0 (2 bytes)
zforce read 1 0 (2 bytes)
zforce read 2 0 (2 bytes)
zforce read 3 0 (2 bytes)
zforce frame start not found !
zforce frame start not found !
PCB ID is 9
Power key released!!
ram p=70000000,size=268435456

MMC read: dev # 2, block # 18431, count 1 partition # 0 ...
1 blocks read: OK
no "logo" bin header

MMC read: dev # 2, block # 14335, count 1 partition # 0 ...
1 blocks read: OK

MMC read: dev # 2, block # 14336, count 1859 partition # 0 ...
1859 blocks read: OK
Kernel RAM visiable size=255M->255M
init TPS65185 power ...
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

MMC read: dev # 2, block # 2047, count 1 partition # 0 ...
1 blocks read: OK
no kernel image signature !

MMC read: dev # 2, block # 2048, count 8192 partition # 0 ...
8192 blocks read: OK
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 70800000 ...
   Image Name:   r5535_#604 Oct 15 15:37:28
   Created:      2012-10-15   7:37:32 UTC
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    1925456 Bytes =  1.8 MB
   Load Address: 70008000
   Entry Point:  70008000
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
[zForce_ir_touch_recv_data-176] command BootComplete (0)...
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512B) copied, 0.000239 seconds, 2.0MB/s
cannot open /dev/null
[PROGRESS_BAR-2857] No progess ...
dosfsck 3.0.6, 04 Oct 2009, FAT32, LFN
/dev/mmcblk0p3: 47 files, 1188/344542 clusters
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
/etc/init.d/rcS: line 121: /usr/local/Kobo/hindenburg: not found

(none) login: Screen resolution is.. 600 x 800
> ApplicationBase: loading locale: ":/translations/trans_en_US"
sh: you need to specify whom to kill
sh: you need to specify whom to kill
sh: you need to specify whom to kill
sh: you need to specify whom to kill
getenv "/mnt/onboard/.kobo/KoboReader.sqlite"
sh: you need to specify whom to kill
> WebSyncScheduler: scheduleTimer: No need to schedule a sync
loadPlugin: loaded plugin for QFontEngine
Loading iType..  YES
> FTE Startup stage: 0. Language selection...
static bool DictionaryParser::initialize(QString, QString) LANG:  "en" TRANS:  ""
> FSCheckThread: dbMalformed:  false fsCorrupted:  false
sh: you need to specify whom to kill
> USB Plug: Ignored due to FTE veto.
loadPlugin: loaded plugin for QRasterPaintEngine

(none) login:

Thank you,
George

[geo999]

Hi all,

I bought a new display from Ali and now I can see a picture on the screen, thus probably the screen was defective.
Now, the touch does not work, is it possible that the screen is defective on the touch part ?
or something else.

Another question, I would like to use this kobo mini just to display an auto refreshed web page,
Is it possible to configure the wifi and start the web browser from command line ? (if the touch is gone)

Thank you,
George