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Cosmo Communicator - Android / distorted audio when closed (buffer byte shift?)

« on: April 11, 2023, 04:02:53 am »

Hi,

a friend has used a Cosmo for some years. It's on the latest stock firmware. This is nobody who wants to tweak the thing, no special sauce … just a user. Recently, the Cosmo decided to play any notification sound when the lid is closed in a very distorted manner. Sounds like the volume is too high and we get hard clipping (not sure if it's the speakers or a previous mixer stage doing the clipping, probably the latter).

The notification sounds fine when the device is open. So somehow a different volume setting is applied when open or closed? Is this a feature?! I only really used a Gemini so far and do not remember such issue. I gather it might be related to CoDI, which can influence volume for media playing, I read. Also, there's CosmoCtl which enables some volume control via the  front rocker button, but only for rooted devices?!

Well, bad volume setting is just a guess I have. The one maybe unusual thing the user did was to configure a custom recording as notification/ringing sound. They told me that after this the issue of distorted notification sounds occured. It persists after changing to a stock sound bit.

Any setting we could try? Is this a bug that might get fixed by a factory reset only? Or never? It is rather unsettling to have the device rattle around wildly instead of softly announcing new messages or a call.

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Astro Slide - Android / Deejoy-Dota

« on: December 12, 2022, 07:43:00 am »

Hi,

I got a fresh Astro, came with an active installation in Chinese. I did a factory reset to ensure a clean state and, apart from feeling resistance to not using a custom rom at all again (running LineageOS on another device), I particularily wonder what the 'Deejoy-Dota' App is supposed to be. It is version 11.0.1 here, got a popup … is usually active and has the permission to be displayed over other apps. It's a kind of system app, but I never heard of it and have trouble finding any information on something of that name (and that's unrelated to DOTA multiplayer games). My OS build is Astro-11.0-Planet-05182022, and will be for some time, I guess, since updates are broken.

So, does Deejoy-Dota ring any bells? Has it a useful purpose? Does it belong onto a vanilla Android install?

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Gemini PDA - Android / notification LED for missed calls / texts

« on: June 22, 2018, 08:09:17 am »

My old Samsung S4 has an RGB LED that is used for general notifications, like a pending message in some chat app or SMS, or a missed call, with different colors. It also shows charging state when connected to AC.

I sort of assumed that the power LED in the Gemini serves the same purpose, but I fail to find the Android setting for the notification LED. In the LineageOS (Android 6.0.1) build on the Samsung phone, there is Settings → Display & LEDs, where I can activate the notifications and also the automatic choice of colour. This is missing on the Gemini.

I do see the right LED lighting up during an incoming call and it continues to blink in some varying pattern for some time after the remote side hung up, for some time. Eventually, it goes dark. The Samsung phone nicely keeps on a slow faded blinking (with rather short times where the LED is on full brightness … easy on the battery, even there) until I dismiss the notification on the screen about the missed call.

Am I missing some settings about this normal notification LED? Is this feature not implemented yet? This is somewhat of a showstopper for using the device as a phone, especially since checking for missed calls/texts involves opening the clamshell. I hoped that this standard notification feature is present in _addition_ to the central group of LEDs that one can configure to specific callers, for example. Any ideas?

PS: I'd love to start using the Gemini with a Google-free LineageOS to begin with, but a fully working image seems some way off right now (like, with phone functionality).

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Gemini PDA - Hardware / display orientation

« on: March 11, 2018, 02:56:02 pm »

Are there people out there with working display rotation? Not that I really intend to run the device much in portrait mode, but I do wonder about the sensor setup.

I do know that the compass is disabled in the firmware because Planet Computers did not get the compensation for the lid magnets working (I still would like to see if one can re-enable it, though, as you should be able to compensate for any static magnetic field, however complex the field lines flow), but it looks to me that people do have display rotation possibly working. When looking into SatStat, I see no information for compass (as we know) and also no information for orientation.

But I do see a working accelerometer that nicely indicates the direction of gravity when I am not spinning around the device. Should there be orientation information extracted out of that and is anyone getting screen rotation with the stock Android OS? I did toggle that setting for fixed/rotating display in the drop-down settings back and forth, nothing.