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Re: sudden reboots: I had that issue on my previous phones as well every once in a while, so that's not something Planet can fix.Do you mean other phones or have you had different Cosmo units?
The battery life on mine has been reasonable, but today it was running very hot and dropped to 2% in under 6 hours from full (and it was being topped up for half an hour of that by by bike's dynamo, though it was also playing a podcast over bluetooth). I noticed a notification from Ledison, but tapping it didn't do anything. When I tried to open Ledison I got an "application is not responding: wait or close?" message. I rather suspect these might not be unconnected.Did it get better again after that? Have you inserted a new SD card by any chance? Mine is the only case I know of where that happened. But your post reminded me of the time I put in my first SD card.
[Reboots on its own] - I have this problem too, but more like once a week.To be honest it's not really daily for me either. I didn't take notes. But it's definitely more than once a week.
[keyboard backlight doesn't turn off] - Does this mean [a] keyboard backlight stays on when lid is closed, or keyboard backlight stays on when not touching any keys but does turn off when lid closed? Mine behaves like . I kind of like this, I often use it to read in the dark and I like seeing the keyboard even if I'm not typing. But it would be nice to have the option to poke a key like [Ctrl] to wake the keyboard backlight up.I don't think it stays on when it's closed. It's good that it stays on while the screen is on and maybe a bit longer. But it usually never turns off when it's sitting on the desk open and left alone. But at other times the setting changes to off while it's in my pocket so I also can't trust it to be always on. It feels like it's always off when I pull it out in the dark.
[CoDi update notification] - I haven't had this problem. Although I do find my CoDi wakes up even when persistent notification changes state, like if battery level goes down a percent or my step count goes up. CoDi wakes up *a lot*.The other day I opened the lid and there was no notification endlessly searching for updates. I thought something was wrong. The notification is my constant companion every day. I don't even know why it exists. There's nothing to be notified of, even if it wouldn't hang.
[Settings reset to default] - I haven't had this problem.I've read about it at least once here. So, I'm not sure if you're lucky or I'm unlucky.
[Rotate sucks] [...]I was used to that on the Gemini. And I just realised that the strange behaviour may come from the Tasker app that I never got to auto rotate. I didn't remove the configuration that was supposed to auto rotate. I'll see if that gets better when I remove the app.
[Bluetooth] - Haven't had any problems with it turning off and on.I think it's not bluetooth specifically. Sometims airplane mode randomly turns on while it's in my pocket. And when I still had CoDi on it would sometimes redial the last number which got some people very annoyed. So maybe that's connected to it unlocking itself randomly.
[WiFi] - My WiFi has behaved perfectly, but I always leave it on even when out and about on mobile data. I only turn it off rarely (like if I'm in the car loading directions and I'm close enough to the house to get WiFi signal but the signal is very poor).Sometimes it turns off when I tap the icon, but never for more than a few seconds.
[Scrolling pictures] - I haven't changed my background picture yet. Maybe now, after your horror story, I won't.To still be honest, it didn't take two days to change it back. It took a few hours. But then I wanted to know what had happened and selected a picture with the same dimension agains and it started to rotate constantly again. That's why I know that really was the cause. I tried to change it back again for a while but wasn't quick enough. Tried again the next day and managed to do it after a while. Somehow that became "two days" in my head when I wrote my previous post. (Maybe because it was the second day.)
I've also realized that there are good Bluetooth keyboards out there and thanks to this forum, there is a way to have Linux running well under Android using Devuan. I haven't tried this yet but really looking forward to it. The two big reasons I backed the Cosmo were for the keyboard and for linux. I realize now that I could probably answer those with BT-kbd and with Devuan-method using any modern Android phone.Yeah, same here. I'm more of a thumb-typer on the phone anyway. So now that I know the F(x)tec Pro¹ exists, I think I'll try that. Hopefully I'll have a chance to try it out without buying it first. I still type best on a Nokia Communicator though. I don't know what it is, but that keyboard seems to be designed specifcally for my fingers. I wish there was a phone pretty much exactly like that but with newer hardware.
you have a faulty unit.One would think that reading the list. It's a device that is officially released to the market, after all. But I'm not so sure. For almost all of these things you can find reports, complaints or questions by others too on this forum.
I really think you should return it to PC for a warranty exchange.I did ask Planet about the sudden reboots though. They didn't see a problem with this. They also tried to argue away my SD card issue when the Cosmo got so hot it would hurt my fingers when I touched the hinge after opening. Quote: "The heating issue wouldn't be a fault until your device tells you on screen that it's too hot to operate." Ignoring the fact that I hardly get 6 hours of standby time out of the battery this way. They let me know though that they will charge me for repair if I do send it in and they don't see an issue covered by the warranty. Since it has a physical damage now they can claim any fault came from misusing it. At least German laws still allow for that. I don't know about the UK. Also since I have rooted it before it was officially available they'll probably charge me extra for fixing that. They didn't say how much for the software reinstallation, so a bit risky. Even if they don't repair it and I don't even want it back they charge $25 for diagnostics. So I rather wait for my new phone, install Debian on the Cosmo and see how that goes. It is still a working device after all.
Did you report cracked CoDi to Planet?I did not. Android is so buggy on the Cosmo that I gave up on bringing it in a state that makes it usable as a daily driver. If I'll only use it as an SSH client or portable keyboard I don't need an external display. I don't feel like arguing about the build quality, so I didn't report it. If you're interested, I'm relatively sure now how it must have happened. It was in my front trouser pocket, CoDi facing outside and I squeezed myself through a narrow part of a hallway. It was narrow because somebody was searching for something in a cabinet. I didn't want to interrupt them so I held the cabinet door open while going by sideways. The edge of the door must have pushed on the display. I didn't feel anything at the time and it wasn't a lot of pressure (the door would have been pushed close) so I didn't think that could have been it at first. But that's the only thing I can think of that happened around the time it must have happened where there was any pressure on the display. Sorry for off-topic. Just wanted to anwser the question.
Go figure...After testing different SD cards for a while I can confirm that it was just a bad SD card that caused the heat and battery issue for me. I don't know why the Cosmo doesn't like that particular card. It's working and I had no issues with it in the Gemini. It's also not the card itself that's getting hot and it's not doing it for a while after the first boot after a reset.
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