On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:57 PM, <freebirds@fastmail.fm> wrote:

Congratulations on disassemblying the 500 lapdock without breaking it!

Motorola made the 100 lapdock and 500 lapdock proprietary. The 500
lapdock is the hardest to get working with a raspi.

Thanks, I took lots of pictures too. I'll have to upload them sometime. Too busy. The entire thing is in pieces on my desk and I haven't had the time to put it all together. (Basically an $80 pile of parts).

A custom HDMI script, sound script and wifi script are required to
connect a raspberry pi to the 100 lapdock and 500 lapdock. The Atrix
lapdock and Bionic Droid lapdock do not require a HDMI script and sound
script but they may require the wifi script. Hence, I returned the 100
lapdock and puchased an Atrix lapdock. The latter I returned because it
had a defective HDMI. Bill Mar of specomp.com told me the HDMI is
defective in a significant percentage of Atrix lapdocks.

Could you please advise whether your 500 lapdock can operate an Improv
board without scripts?

I was able to get it to boot just fine without scripts, unfortunately, I put too much flex in the HDMI cable connector (taking it apart), and haven't had a chance to make a new one, and thusly, only had about 15 minutes of testing before breaking it.. Although when the EOMA68 was install with Android, the screen would display briefly, then shut off. I had not actually read any of the hardware notes for the rPI, I just saw it and bought it with the intent to hack it.

Christopher Thomas

Firemoth Industries, LLC - Owner

christopher@firemothindustries.com

214-458-5990