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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Struck on boot an dm-verity corruption

« on: March 25, 2025, 03:54:06 pm »

That sucks.

I see your image file says V07. Were you not on V07b? It could just be that it's the wrong version.

It's not something I'm familiar with, but I don't think switching the active slot would work well - it's not just the boot partition that's used.

I'd try switching the active slot back and flashing the stock v07b boot image from the rooting wiki page.

You could also try to boot while holding a button to get Magisk to disable itself - see the Magisk FAQ. I haven't tried this on the Astro, but I've used it in the past on another device to resolve this.

Edit: I wrote instructions to remove the dm-verity corruption prompt/warning. Perhaps you need to do that again after a manual slot switch.

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Rooting the Astro Slide

« on: August 19, 2024, 07:05:18 am »

@spa Please see the instructions in the wiki: https://github.com/planet-community/planet-devices/wiki/Astro-rooting

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: Keyboard-map

« on: April 18, 2024, 11:45:44 pm »

Have you asked a phone repair shop if it's repairable?

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Cosmo Communicator - Hardware / Re: Battery replacement experience

« on: January 31, 2024, 08:59:22 pm »

The battery I ordered on ebay never arrived btw, so I got a refund on 26 Apr 2022. They said they were sad it didn't arrive and didn't have a replacement to send, so could only offer a refund.

I haven't used my Cosmo since I got my Astro, so it's not a problem for me anymore. But now my Astro's battery is getting a little long in the tooth too =P

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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Re: Partition Question

« on: October 05, 2023, 01:21:23 pm »

It saying it can't write to the error log file is interesting - I imagine that would be on the SD card. Could the SD card be at fault?

If that's not it, I'd try reflashing the whole device with SP Flash Tool according to the wiki.

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: Storing an unused Astro Slide without damaging the battery?

« on: September 20, 2023, 09:17:09 am »

I believe manufacturers charge batteries to 40% to make them able to sit in the box for the longest period with as little degradation as possible

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Cosmo Communicator - Android / Re: Ringtone NOT working

« on: September 19, 2023, 10:16:15 pm »

I just tried in Truecaller, and it has the ability for a custom ringtone

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Cosmo Communicator - Android / Re: Ringtone NOT working

« on: September 19, 2023, 10:09:56 pm »

If you can't work it out, another thought is that maybe a third-party dialer app would allow ringtone customisation that doesn't depend on the choice in the OS

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Cosmo Communicator - Android / Re: Ringtone NOT working

« on: September 19, 2023, 10:07:03 pm »

Using the folder on the internal storage would eliminate any potential problems with the SD card. I can't really offer any more help with this though, as I don't use ringtones - I've been vibration-only for a decade =P

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Does anyone use Planet Backup with a micro SD

« on: September 19, 2023, 09:59:10 pm »

Having access to a proper app backup solution that can back up all appdata (e.g. Swift Backup) is the main reason I root my devices. Rooting wipes it though, so best done ASAP before setting all your stuff up on the device.

Backups are important, and I don't have enough faith in Planet Computers for many things, let alone trusting them to have a 100% reliable backup app.

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Astro Slide - General Discussion / Re: keyboard short cut to force rotate

« on: September 11, 2023, 02:15:37 am »

When you physically rotate the device, there is a little black circle with a rotation icon that appears in the bottom-left corner of the (portrait) screen. Tapping on this briefly engages automatic rotation to set the rotation to whichever orientation the device is in. I find this is the most reliable way of rotating the screen. There is a keyboard shortcut (Fn + Shift + R), but it doesn't always work properly - see: https://github.com/shymega/planet-devices/issues/54

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Gemini PDA - Linux / Re: Gemini Debian: Booting Debian on safe mode / GRUB -- How To?

« on: August 04, 2023, 01:29:15 am »

Is it even using grub? Maybe you can mount the Linux partition in Android to fiddle with the grub arguments from there

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Dual SIM operation not possible?

« on: July 10, 2023, 06:28:32 am »

Yeah, good idea - we should add this to the wiki

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Dual SIM operation not possible?

« on: July 09, 2023, 09:25:16 am »

I heard someone say a while ago that the slots in the SIM tray are labeled the wrong way around. Try using the physical SIM in the other slot?

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Astro update to V07

« on: July 02, 2023, 01:06:44 am »

In another thread I found this

Never use the `b` partition on the Astro. It's a bit odd in partition structure, but you should be using the 'a' slot - I believe 'b' acts as temporary storage for OTA updates, where the new files are written there, then copied over to the 'a' slot.

Good to know. It also means there never was a "good" partition to try to revert to anyway.

I don't think that is correct. See my writing on how the slots work within the rooting guide. We've proven that when rooting the boot image, the Astro only works properly if you'd read from the active slot.