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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Unable to boot

« on: July 18, 2018, 01:35:39 am »

Have anyone an idea what should happen or advice how to fix it (if it's fixable).

The last time i bricked mine was while flashing when I started the battery was at almost 100% but the bugger just wouldn't boot, I had some communication with Planet and they suggested holding the Esc & silver button in for at least 10 seconds, well it would start and die.

Eventually I got it to work and found the battery was at 0% even though it'd been switched off and when it was dead I plugged the charger in but no LEDs lit up. It wouldn't boot at all if plugged in so I had to get it booting and plug it in during the boot, I then had to muck about with a factory reset, another flashing and installing everything, again.

So after that preamble I'd suggest first making sure the device has enough power to get through the boot sequence, try holding both buttons down for a while - good luck.

You might find the fast charger wont do much if the battery is too low but plugging in to a PC seems to get some charge across - not 100% on this but it seemed to work for me.

I'm pretty sure, that it's not a battery problem. In off state gemini shows 100% battery.
The problem is, that i'm unable to boot anything (including recovery mode).
After initial planet logo display starts blinking and that's all.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Unable to boot

« on: July 17, 2018, 04:16:52 pm »

Yesterday, my gemini totaly hangs (unable to reboot with ESC or ESC + button).
Now i see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt0rvICiNYA
I'm able to reflash, but with no change.
(i tried to flash android only or android + linux)

Have anyone an idea what should happen or advice how to fix it (if it's fixable).

Thank you.

Did you already have a second OS on the machine before these troubles ? Or was it only Android, right from the box ?
It looks a bit like a hardware problem. Yet another screen gone to screen heaven.

I had Android + debian and debian was running while gemini hangs.
But Initial logo is clear. I don't think, that it's screen HW problem.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Unable to boot

« on: July 17, 2018, 03:10:32 pm »

Yesterday, my gemini totaly hangs (unable to reboot with ESC or ESC + button).
Now i see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt0rvICiNYA
I'm able to reflash, but with no change.
(i tried to flash android only or android + linux)

Have anyone an idea what should happen or advice how to fix it (if it's fixable).

Thank you.