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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Car mount

« on: December 11, 2019, 08:08:26 am »

I bought one of https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01D00C...=UTF8&psc=1 for the Gemini, and it handles the Cosmo too.

I'm probably unusual in that I like mine on the right, portrait, keyboard on the right, so I can use Google Maps.  I stick the screen in the holder, and leave the keyboard flapping (not that it flaps, but you know what I mean).  Works well.

Only problem is, on the Cosmo they've disabled the rotation control, and Fn-S-R rotates the wrong way.  Ultimate Rotation Control sorts that.

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Cosmo Communicator - CoDi / CODI update

« on: December 11, 2019, 07:56:33 am »

Mine failed the first time -- I received an SMS in the middle of it -- but I saw the DND suggestion on IGG, did that, and it worked.  It did fail to contact the thing after the process, and claimed it wasn't responding, but I reset it from the 'Advanced' menu, and it all seems happy.

If you have anything which regularly polls and triggers a transient notification (email being an obvious one), then DND may well help.

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Blue LEDs on fingerprint sensor

« on: December 08, 2019, 04:40:45 pm »

Yeah, but as you've noticed, the thing is a tad buggy.  Best turn it over to be sure...

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Latest updates on Indiegogo

« on: December 08, 2019, 04:32:58 pm »

Oh good.  It's a superb piece of kit, but I'm hoping for an update on the bugs.  Ideally some Codi power fixes and sorting out the always-on keyboard backlight.

Have you tried  turning off the backlight? Press Fn-shift-b until the keyboard lights go off.

Of course.  But it would be *really* helpful if it would switch off and on with the main display backlight.  Having them separate means fumbling around in the dark trying to get the F-S-N right without accidentally doing something you don't want to.  It isn't a big problem, admittedly.

24h is not a battery life I'm used to.  The Gemini went for a whole weekend, the Galaxy Relay S lasted about the same, the Nokia E90, 9500, and 9210 all went about a week between charges.

You were doing well with the gemini getting an entire weekend. I could only do that if I left it alone and used it as a phone only (ie. no playing). A lot of the old nokias used to last a long time. Even moderately new ones like the pureview 808 only used to need charging every 2 days - and it had a tiny battery in comparison with the gemini/cosmo.

It did require some care, yeah.  But I'd reliably get 1900 Friday until 0930 Monday morning with anything around 20% battery left.

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Blue LEDs on fingerprint sensor

« on: December 08, 2019, 11:57:34 am »

I did the same thing with my Gemini, and can confirm it works nicely with the Cosmo.

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Latest updates on Indiegogo

« on: December 08, 2019, 10:50:32 am »

Oh good.  It's a superb piece of kit, but I'm hoping for an update on the bugs.  Ideally some Codi power fixes and sorting out the always-on keyboard backlight.

24h is not a battery life I'm used to.  The Gemini went for a whole weekend, the Galaxy Relay S lasted about the same, the Nokia E90, 9500, and 9210 all went about a week between charges.