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Gemini PDA - Linux / Re: Gemini UBports

« on: February 16, 2023, 05:35:10 am »

Thanks for the notification. Definitely interesting!

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Gemini PDA - Sailfish OS / Re: Can we get waydroid running on Sailfish for Gemini?

« on: January 06, 2023, 04:15:37 am »

There is some info here on getting WayDroid working on the PinePhone (also with keyboard). I don't know if this would be of help for someone experimenting with Waydroid on the Gemini.
https://github.com/sailfish-on-dontbeevil/documentation/wiki/NewUserTips#waydroid
It perhaps provides hints for some of your questions above—suggesting waydroid-runner and gbinder ...
Let us know if you try it.

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Cosmo Communicator - Hardware / Re: screen replacement

« on: January 06, 2023, 04:03:27 am »

flicking through the AstroSlide comments on Indiegogo I notice there are also a few people trying to sell their AstroSlides as they arrive, so you might also try searching for one of those on ebay if you don't mind upgrading, and perhaps also contact some of the people on the Indiegogo comments thread. (Though it makes for quite hard reading all the shouting going on there ...)

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Cosmo Communicator - Hardware / Re: screen replacement

« on: December 23, 2022, 05:38:05 pm »

It must be worth looking on ebay. With the AstroSlide now arriving, I would have expected there to be a few people looking to offload their old devices.

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Gemini PDA - Linux / Re: Gemian repository (or updated image) for Gemini?

« on: December 23, 2022, 05:36:48 pm »

Just wanted to say that Sailfish (which is a version of Linux, though not Debian based) is still being supported. I think it works well.

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Gemini PDA - Sailfish OS / Re: Current State of Sailfish on Gemini PDA

« on: December 23, 2022, 05:34:03 pm »

I haven't got as far as Waydroid, but tonight I did get round to installing Whisperfish as a secondary device. I can report it seems to be working. I had been carrying my Cosmo using Android in order to use Signal, but now I have Signal on the Gem, I shouldn't need to do this.

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Proper backup of the Gemini BEFORE the Astro arrives

« on: November 27, 2022, 01:08:44 pm »

We used Wonderfone just now. What would have been helpful would have been if the buggers had stated that they don't do a 'restore' on their 'free trial'. After all one can't actually trial anything useful if you can't do both a backup and a restore to check that the backup worked. (And we might have paid for the full backup in order to also back up the application data if the buggers had let us know beforehand that the thing couldn't be restored until a 'ransom' had been paid.) Anyway, excuse the irritation!
It just feels a bit like demanding money with menaces if they don't explain that part of the deal ... :-)

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Gemini PDA - Sailfish OS / Re: Current State of Sailfish on Gemini PDA

« on: November 24, 2022, 08:14:11 pm »

It would be interesting if we could make it run Waydroid ...

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Gemini PDA - Sailfish OS / Re: Can we get waydroid running on Sailfish for Gemini?

« on: November 24, 2022, 08:10:34 pm »

Just curious if anyone got any further with this. I have just installed Sailfish on my brother's Gemini and I expect him to want to run a few Android apps while waiting for his Astro to arrive.

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Gemini PDA - Sailfish OS / Re: Current State of Sailfish on Gemini PDA

« on: November 23, 2022, 12:09:51 pm »

I still use Sailfish OS on Gemini as my main phone. I'm currently on Sailfish OS 4.0.1.48 (Koli), and it was a bit of a pain to get to 4.0 because of a lack of space in whichever the partition is that one has to install the OS to (is it the root filesystem that is unreasonably small at something like 2.454GB?). I think I found some instructions somewhere on how to grow this partition on some other make of phone—which is clearly what needs doing—but haven't the time to be without my phone and have been really busy so haven't got round to it yet. It works pretty well as a main phone, but I am now carrying an Android phone as well because there is always an app one wants that doesn't run on Sailfish ... (usually Signal, though I understand it should be possible to get that running on Sailfish—again a question of finding time ...)

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Cosmo Communicator - Hardware / Re: Battery replacement experience

« on: January 15, 2022, 03:04:10 pm »

Thanks for posting your experience. Would love to hear how it goes when your battery arrives. My gemini seems to have been running out of battery mighty quick recently. I may need to try purchasing a new one. (Though I hate the British system for applying customs charges when you order from abroad, which threatens extra costs of unknown amounts, and punitive extra charges from the delivery companies—it's very irritating.)
Ian
Here's a UK link: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114815668118

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Gemini PDA - Hardware / Re: Replacement Planet Battery

« on: September 23, 2021, 04:57:29 am »

I notice the link to ebay gemini batteries above is showing as 'ended'. However, there are other gemini batteries listed here and here in Northern Ireland:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284423835286
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/194252719224

Would be interesting to know whether anyone has tried purchasing and fitting one of these. I feel my Gemini might be owed a new battery before too long.
Also, does anyone know if the Cosmo and Gemini batteries are interchangeable?
Thanks.
Ian
PS I haven't had any of the cutting out and corrupting incidents for over a year now, and am still using my Gemini as a daily driver. So perhaps just bad luck that I had a couple of them ...

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Gemini PDA - Hardware / Re: Blue/Red LED above Tab key?

« on: September 23, 2021, 04:52:01 am »

The blue/purple light seems to come on during boot, if I remember rightly.

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Cosmo Communicator - Android / Re: Android update not found

« on: September 14, 2021, 06:45:30 pm »

I can further update you that on Monday (yesterday) my brother came round with his Cosmo and we prepared to follow the instructions as above to refresh the latest version. However, before doing so I checked the OTA update and this time it found an OTA update. So after installing that (and a further two OTA updates that then appeared) and updating the CoDi, it was finally up to date. Maybe Planet did something over the last week or two to make the OTA updates work again for people with the older v15 and earlier firmwares.

Anyway, thought it might be of help to encourage you to try the OTA one more time just in case.
Ian

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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Re: Installing rooted android on TWRP boot 2 in order to put UBPorts in 4. Any cons?

« on: September 13, 2021, 04:51:08 pm »

I thought I would report, as I finally got around to attempting to install rooted Android on the 2nd TWRP boot partition. It seems to work fine, with the expected drawback that the modem doesn't work so one can't call. Wifi works fine though, and I can still run Titanium backup, which was my main purpose for having a rooted Android on the phone. So now I have successfully installed Ubuntu Ports over the old rooted Android in partition 4, and have a set up as follows: 1. Android; 2. rooted Android (no cellular); 3. Kde Gemian; 4. Ubuntu Touch. I'm really enjoying exploring Ubuntu touch.

PS I am amused to think that I backed Ubuntu's Kickstarter or Indiegogo convergence phone almost a decade ago, only to have it refunded when they didn't make the millions they'd asked for. But almost a decade on, I've finally got my Ubuntu phone and with an attached Psion-keyboard as well. Happy days!