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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Does the fact the Astro supports Treble mean possible New firmware if PC doesn't

« Last post by nemo on October 28, 2023, 07:50:03 pm »

> All in all, it's not going to be an easy ride.

How can one support you?

I have an old Gemini, a Cosmo and possibly an Astro soon.
I would love for at least one of these phones to be usable for the foreseeable future.

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Zaurus - Other distros support / ROM version does not show on my SL-C3000

« Last post by major kong on October 28, 2023, 04:26:47 pm »

I have fiddled a lot with my SL-C3000 over the years and ended up reformatting and restoring the hard drive, using the image from trisoft's site. It is now running as far as I can tell but there is one odd thing: when I launch the info application and go to the third tab, it says that the ROM Version is "--.-- JP", which is rather peculiar.

Has anyone seen this? Is this a problem with the image file from trisoft? I am rather keen on getting everything back to where they were when I bought the thing so obviously I am slightly disturbed by this anomaly.

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: Original dictionary files for SL-C3000

« Last post by major kong on October 28, 2023, 04:08:04 pm »

So I am finally done and wanted to share my experiences:

My original problem was that I had reformatted the internal drive and that was why I had lost the dictionary files. The thing is that the root file system, the one that gets restored when one performs a factory reset is mounted on /hdd2, whereas the dictionary files are stored on /hdd3/dict1 and /hdd3/dict2 but accessed through soft links at /hdd2/QtPalmtop/.

Since I had reformatted the drive and then restored it with the file system dump from Trisoft, the contents of the partition /hdd3 was lost and that is why my dictionary did not work.

Luckily are those directories (with content) on the original CDs and I had them so what I ended up doing after a factory reset was to install the terminal application that is on the first CD and copy the dictionary directories (dict1  from CD1 and dict2 from CD2) to a SD card. I then launched the terminal and copied those two to /hdd3 and everything is back to normal.

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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Re: Dual boot with 4g working

« Last post by wintergreen on October 22, 2023, 10:42:00 pm »

Hi,

I had the same bug with both rooted android and stock android. I'm going to try again later today if I get around to it. Will see how I go

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: Original dictionary files for SL-C3000

« Last post by major kong on October 17, 2023, 04:44:33 am »

Pure luck had it that I had managed to save (and find!) copies of the contents of the 2 CDs that came with the device. It looks as if there are dictionary files in there but I have no idea where in the file tree they should go so if you could please consult your reference device and find out where the correct file location is, I would be very grateful.

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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Re: Dual boot with 4g working

« Last post by Dom (shymega) on October 15, 2023, 05:05:08 pm »

I've never seen this bug before. Are you using Rooted Android, or not? What's the firmware version of Android?

To be honest, here isn't very visible for the Gemian maintainers.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Re: Flashtool on Windows 11

« Last post by Dom (shymega) on October 15, 2023, 02:25:45 pm »

Thanks for this useful hint! I wonder what does OS' memory protection have to do with a flashing tool...

Varti

Likely to do with the driver for interfacing with Mediatek's preloader. This isn't unusual. But I wouldn't trust it with a five-foot pole... it doesn't happen on Linux, but it could do, if it was a hardened kernel.

I've never had this happen to me though.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Re: Flashtool on Windows 11

« Last post by Dom (shymega) on October 15, 2023, 02:24:30 pm »

I've just successfully flashed my Gemini, but to get it to get the FlashTool to recognise the Gemini I had to disable memory protection in Windows 11:

Windows Security > Device Security > Core Isolation

After a Windows reboot the Gemini could be flashed. Just reporting here in case anyone else has the same problem in future.

To turn on Core Isolation again afterwards I had to remove the FlashTool drivers (slightly technical, but a quick google solved the issue)

Would be worth adding this to the `shymega/planet-devices` wiki as a PR.

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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Dual boot with 4g working

« Last post by wintergreen on October 14, 2023, 08:58:53 pm »

Hi,

Does anyone know how to get dual boot android and linux with 4g working? I can do it with 4g under linux, but then the 4g seems to stop working in android.

Thanks,

Shaun.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Re: Flashtool on Windows 11

« Last post by Varti on October 13, 2023, 05:35:27 pm »

Thanks for this useful hint! I wonder what does OS' memory protection have to do with a flashing tool...

Varti