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Astro Slide - General Discussion / Re: Dead screen

« on: May 13, 2023, 11:44:22 am »

It might be easier to operate the device with the keyboard.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Random Turn-off when battery is less than 50%

« on: August 02, 2019, 10:37:40 am »

My Gemini also turned off a couple of times (in a row) when the battery level was below 40%. I drained the battery to 5% (running Linux as Android obviously cannot be used for that), then turned the device off, charged to 100%, and started Android. The problem seems to have disappeared.

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Gemini PDA - Android / Google search on any character key

« on: April 08, 2019, 03:15:11 pm »

Does anyone else have and know how to overcome this Gemini 'feature'?  If I press any character key while on the home screen Google Search pops up with that charter in the search bar.  This invariably leads to GS being on when I first open the device to some inadvertent button pressing by me and/or the screen.  Does anyone know how to turn off this feature as on the very rare occasions I would need it I'm very happy to go to the very considerable trouble of opening my browser to do a Google search?

This can be achived with the  latest version of Nova Launcher! Settings -> Home Screen -> Search Provider,
set to Nova Search

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Gemini PDA - Android / Clock time display issues

« on: February 12, 2019, 04:52:19 pm »

Sorry if I'm thick, but how do you do that?

Enable system UI tuner by tapping and holding on (for a couple of seconds) the settings cogwheel icon in the notification area.

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Gemini PDA - Android / Clock time display issues

« on: February 12, 2019, 09:50:01 am »

For me, the problem went away by displaying seconds in the status bar.

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Gemini PDA - Hardware / USB Hub

« on: September 16, 2018, 11:32:20 am »

According to the description of this look-alike USB hub, the smaller socket is a USB-C charging port (using, ironically, PD):
https://www.xtorm.eu/en/connectivity/xtorm-...c-hub-4-in-one/

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Gemini PDA - Linux / left/middle/right mouse clicks and F1-F12 and Insert keystrokes

« on: August 19, 2018, 06:42:36 am »

Has anyone found a way to get a right mouseclick? (Or any non-left click, for that matter)

To use the silver button as right mouse button:

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xkbset m
xmodmap -e "keycode 239 = Pointer_Button3"To use Fn+H as right mouse button:

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xkbset m
xmodmap -e "keycode 43 = h H VoidSymbol VoidSymbol Pointer_Button3 Pointer_Button3"

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Gemini PDA - Linux / How do you type the "Insert" key?

« on: July 18, 2018, 07:18:18 am »

I've remapped Fn+P to "insert" (the original binding is quite useless):

Fn+P gives me = which is not what I would consider useless... but I guess it depends on what you type normally!  

Depends on the keyboard layout. I'm using one that originally makes = available without Fn.

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Gemini PDA - Linux / How do you type the "Insert" key?

« on: July 17, 2018, 02:37:09 pm »

How do you type the "Insert" key?

I've remapped Fn+P to "insert" (the original binding is quite useless):

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xmodmap -e 'keycode 33 = p P VoidSymbol VoidSymbol Insert Insert'

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Gemini PDA - Linux / Problem mounting NFS/CIFS

« on: July 15, 2018, 12:08:49 pm »

NFS (client) works with the latest kernel and modules from mygnu.de, thanks!

BTW, the kernel can also be installed by booting to TWRP and then doing this from the desktop (be careful to select the correct block device):

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adb push linux_boot-gemini-3.18.41+_2018_07_12.img /dev/block/mmcblk0p30
adb pull and adb push on block devices (with TWRP) can also be used for creating image backups and restoring them, without having to deal with that flaky flash tool and its scatter file. TWRP even provides a decrypted version of the user data partition in /dev/block/dm-0. The names and sizes of the partitions can be retrieved with

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adb pull /proc/partitions

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Gemini PDA - Android / One Way to Remap Keyboard

« on: July 09, 2018, 02:09:15 pm »

Using ApkTool to extract the resources from and to rebuild the Gemini Keybosrd apk might be simpler.

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Gemini PDA - Hardware / Take off screen protector?

« on: July 01, 2018, 01:51:50 pm »

Ok, simple question:  how do I get the screen protector off !?

Lift a corner with adhesive tape.

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Gemini PDA - Hardware / Best charging practice?

« on: July 01, 2018, 07:15:49 am »

I had a look at the kernel sources and I believe it's not possible to make Battery Charge Limit work without modifications to the kernel. Unfortunately, modifying the charging code can be quite dangerous.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Gemini PDA Gen 2 Features Request

« on: July 01, 2018, 07:12:07 am »

Please add a hole for attaching a strap. I live in constant fear of dropping my Gemini.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / A list of all the hardware/software issues reported so far

« on: June 28, 2018, 04:31:55 pm »

The rounded corners of the bezel hide a couple of pixels. Not that much noticeable for Android, but letters in the corners can get mutilated for the recovery and Linux.