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Gemini PDA - Android / Android (v1.0) firmware now available for download - rooting time?

« on: March 24, 2018, 07:00:54 am »

Just flashed the rooted image today and all working. You do need to install a su app too such as the magisck app.

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Gemini PDA - Linux / Debian (technology preview) firmware now available for download!

« on: March 11, 2018, 04:30:30 am »

i did note a trustzone binary in there which if we are lucky means the hardware visualization stuff is in there, poking around the arm github pages points to some alternate implementations but it will all depend on if it needs to be signed. with any luck planetcom has he keys to the kingdom and not mediatek

What is it you're looking for with trustzone exactly? I only see the source of the CAs available, but don't understand what you wish to achieve.

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Gemini PDA - Linux / Debian (technology preview) firmware now available for download!

« on: March 10, 2018, 11:16:05 am »

Has anyone gotten the linux image to work (not the android one) keep hitting the corrupt zip issue at my end

I've flashed both these images today using the linux version of the flash tool:
$ md5sum Gemini*zip
7efd5aa0040afe3e7ba82415c83fa477  Gemini_Android_1_1_0.zip
59ff929b50968cad98e5285f4ecbacc7  Gemini_Debian_TP.zip

Though I don't think there's any need to flash the Android version as I think the Debian image has both and after flashing you can boot into either.

I'm sshd in from my laptop over the usb port. The system came up with IP address 10.15.19.82 on my device. So I gave my laptop .100, started sshd and am logged in. It's a bit too fiddly running an xterm as I'm not sure how the keyboard is supposed to be configured, so am missing all sorts of characters.

[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']root@localhost:~# df
Filesystem      1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p29   6597520 4208024   2031316  68% /
devtmpfs          1954532       0   1954532   0% /dev
tmpfs             1955248       0   1955248   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs             1955248  189344   1765904  10% /run
tmpfs                5120       4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs             1955248       0   1955248   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0         664280  635676     14268  98% /system
none              1955248    4588   1950660   1% /var/lib/lxc/android/rootfs
/dev/mmcblk0p28    428488     400    419244   1% /cache
/dev/mmcblk0p8       3952      68      3724   2% /protect_f
/dev/mmcblk0p9       8456      60      8144   1% /protect_s
tmpfs              391048       8    391040   1% /run/user/100000
tmpfs              391048       0    391048   0% /run/user/0
root@localhost:~# ls /var/lib/lxc/android/rootfs /system
/system:
app  boot    data  fake-libs    fonts      lib    lost+found  priv-app      tts  vendor
bin  build.prop  etc   fake-libs64  framework  lib64  media     recovery-from-boot.p   usr  xbin

/var/lib/lxc/android/rootfs:
acct          etc              init.epdg.rc         init.usb.configfs.rc       nvcfg       sepolicy
bugreports     factory_init.connectivity.rc  init.extraenv.armeabi-v7a.rc  init.usb.rc            nvdata       service_contexts
cache          factory_init.project.rc        init.mal.rc         init.volte.rc         oem       socket
charger        factory_init.rc           init.modem.rc         init.zygote32.rc         proc       storage
config          file_contexts.bin        init.mt6797.rc         init.zygote64_32.rc         property_contexts  sys
custom          fstab.mt6797           init.mt6797.usb.rc         meta_init.connectivity.rc  protect_f       system
d          init              init.project.rc         meta_init.modem.rc         protect_s       ueventd.mt6797.rc
data          init.aee.rc           init.rc            meta_init.project.rc       sbin       ueventd.rc
default.prop   init.common_svc.rc        init.recovery.mt6797.rc      meta_init.rc            sdcard       vendor
dev          init.connectivity.rc        init.rilproxy.rc         mnt               seapp_contexts    verity_key
enableswap.sh  init.environ.rc           init.sensor.rc         multi_init.rc         selinux_version
root@localhost:~# man ofonod
ofonod(8)                                                   System Manager's Manual                                                  ofonod(8)

NAME
       ofonod - oFono mobile telephony daemon
...
[/div]

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Gemini PDA - Linux / Debian (technology preview) firmware now available for download!

« on: March 10, 2018, 04:24:31 am »

Someone had to try it...

I just used SP_Flash_Tool_exe_Linux_v5.1804.00.100.zip and reflashed the Android image from my Linux laptop. I started with reading the NVRAM image which read fine then flashed Gemini_Android_1_1_0 again. It all worked and I got a new setup screen and configured for google etc again. I made and received a phone call fine.

Can't remember where I downloaded it from! Probably on here somewhere
https://forum.xda-developers.com/general/ro...llinux-t3160802

YMMV

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Gemini PDA - Hardware / 3rd party USB3 hub

« on: March 09, 2018, 03:29:18 am »

Bonus question: If you plug in an ordinary USB-A charger, does it charge? I don't mean quick charge, but send juice to the Gemini?

If you use the included usb-c - usb-a cable, it does charge slowly from my laptop.

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Gemini PDA - Hardware / 3rd party USB3 hub

« on: March 08, 2018, 06:42:51 pm »

Has already someone tried to use a 3rd party USB3 hub? Does ist work?

If you mean a USB-C hub, I've just plugged one in that has 3 USB-A ports and an ethernet port. I plugged a mouse in and the mouse works and I get an IP address on the ethernet port. It's a pretty generic no-name hub.