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# Zaurus – English ROM
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/zaurus-english-rom/
- Published: 2004-01-14T23:30:47.000Z
- Updated: 2004-01-14T23:30:47.000Z
- Description: I bought a Sharp Zaurus 760 from Japan through one of my friends a couple of months back. This model is not sold in the US...
- Author: admin
- Tags: Fun, Technology, Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

I bought a Sharp [Zaurus 760](http://www.sharp.co.jp/products/slc760/?ref=kudithipudi.org) from Japan through one of my friends a couple of months back. This model is not sold in the US and I have been wanting to get my hands on it for a long time. I was well aware of the fact that the interface was all in Japanese, but since it runs [Linux](http://www.linux.org/?ref=kudithipudi.org), I was confident of being able to hack it and change the locale settings. And there are a lot of enthusiast sites on the Internet which have information about this. Well, I got the PDA or rather Personal Mobile Tool (as Sharp likes to call it) and changed the locale settings by following the instructions in the following links  
[http://members.rogers.com/e46m3/zaurus/ ](http://members.rogers.com/e46m3/zaurus/?ref=kudithipudi.org)[http://downloads.conics.net/pda/zaurus-sl-c700/eng-inst/ ](http://downloads.conics.net/pda/zaurus-sl-c700/eng-inst/?ref=kudithipudi.org)[http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php](http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?ref=kudithipudi.org)

Although I got most of the settings and menu options converted into English, I was still not satisfied. I wanted to modify the ROM to a complete english setting. Unfortunately, I am not such a Linux Guru (aspire to become one 🙂 ). Months passed by and as happens with such toys, it started piling dust until I came upon [this](http://www.cacko.biz/?ref=kudithipudi.org) site. They claimed to have a completely customized ROM with english. It was 11:00 PM in the night and the battery on the Zaurus was completely drained. Well, such goodies shouldn’t be kept waiting :). So I charged the batteries for \~ 15 minutes and got to work. Here is what I did

1) Download the ROM image from [Cacko.biz](http://www.cacko.biz/index.php?showid=22&menuid=17&ref=kudithipudi.org).  
2) Follow instructions found [here](http://www.cacko.biz/index.php?showid=2&menuid=1&ref=kudithipudi.org).  
3) Reboot the Zaurus and presto… you have an English ROM

**Note**: Apparently you cannot start up the Zaurus if your battery is completely dead although it is connected to an AC power source. You will have to wait at least 15-20 minutes for the batteries to charge up partially. Weird..

Here is a screenshot of the Zaurus running [Netfront](http://www.access-sys-eu.com/NetFront%5Ffor%5FLinux.58.0.html?ref=kudithipudi.org). It is connected to the Internet with a prism wireless card.  

![Zaurus :: Netfront :: BBC](http://www.kudithipudi.org/pics/1_14_2004/Netfront_BBC.png)

That is the original screen size (640X480 pixels!!). Isn’t that impressive. I just cannot understand why Sharp doesn’t release these great PDAs in the US. They do have the Zaurus [5xxx series ](http://www.sharpusa.com/products/TypeLanding/0,1056,112,00.html??ref=kudithipudi.org)for sale over here.

Thanks to the [Cacko Group](http://www.cacko.biz/?ref=kudithipudi.org), I now have an english version of the ROM. The same group has a [X11 ](http://www.cacko.biz/screenshots.php?menuid=2&ref=kudithipudi.org)based distribution for the Zaurus. I will try that sometime next week. If you are having trouble getting to the main site (it is damn slow!!!), try [this](http://cacko.zaurususergroup.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org) mirror site.