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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: changed my battery now with video

« on: February 16, 2025, 09:39:14 am »

Yes. It is required. This was done by a technician.

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: changed my battery now with video

« on: December 13, 2024, 04:40:16 am »

Hi, that's a very interesting solution for the battery problem, thanks for sharing it! Regarding the attachments issue, we are currently working on it to fix it, sorry for the inconvenience.

Varti

Thank you.

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: changed my battery now with video

« on: December 12, 2024, 07:24:12 pm »

Which cameron sino 3150 mAh battery? There's more than one model...

I think by "controller" you mean the battery protection board, right?. The battery charge controller is probably on the Astro Slide PCB.

Yes. Used the part that was on the original battery in the new battery.

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: changed my battery now with video

« on: December 12, 2024, 07:20:14 pm »

I understand better how to remove the cover, thanks!
I too would like to know the battery model.

It is on the video.
Model is CS-BLV009XL { Cameron Sino ). The capacity is 3150 mah. The original battery  capacity is 4000mah.If the admin provide a solution I will attach photos of the original and the cameron sino battery.

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: changed my battery

« on: December 12, 2024, 05:40:26 am »

I would like to see detailed instructions published, including how to remove the cover. Please do so.

To remove the cover use your fingernails in the gap  between the black part and the blue hardcover. Slide and move your fingernails through the entire edge. And force a little bit to remove it. Use the same controller of the original battery in the new battery. ( This was done by a technician who soldered the controller to the new battery ) . I   have asked the administrator to attach photos here. Link to video again: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kfc60a0QzMA

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Re: Forum outage

« on: December 11, 2024, 04:28:14 pm »

Hi all,

regarding yesterday's outage, this is what our host has published today in the support's forum:

"On Thursday the 28th of November 2024 (the Thanksgiving holiday here) in the afternoon, our Domain Registrar suspended our domain due to a false positive in one of their systems. Because of communications complications involving the holiday, it took us more than 18 hours to reinstate the domain. The vast majority of ibiblio-supported sites and service have been impacted. We are still working to resolve the lingering effects and plan future steps to avoid a recurrence of this problem."

Everything is now back to normal, thanks for your patience.

Varti

Hi. I am having problem with attachments. Message: Photos could not be attached. Message : The attachments upload  directory is not writable.
Please help me.Thanks

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Astro Slide - Hardware / changed my battery now with video

« on: December 10, 2024, 02:39:58 pm »

After a couple of years , I changed my cell phone  battery. My astro was powering off with 25% of charge. The new battery is only 3150 mah but slim sufficient to fit astro. It is cameron sino brand . This battery charge lasts more  than the  original one, believe me. Photos could not be attached here . Message : The attachments upload  directory is not writable. I 've contacted the administrator and I have not got any solution up to now. So I decided to put a link of a video here : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kfc60a0QzMA

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Astro Slide - Linux / Astro running ubuntu

« on: November 03, 2024, 05:14:42 pm »

Hi. This vídeo shows astro running Ubuntu touch. So It is possível. I sent an email to Planet . Let's wair.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_JDeMOQxJsU&pp=ygUUQXN0cm8gc2xpZGUgNWcgbGludXg%3D

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: keyboard gemini apk on google play

« on: January 06, 2024, 06:24:03 am »

I found this on APK Pure
https://apkpure.com/gemini-keyboard/com.gemini.keyboard

Thank you very much !

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Cosmo Communicator - Hardware / Re: New Batteries Anywhere? (Shipped to USA)

« on: September 27, 2023, 06:55:38 pm »

This is most intriguing.

Cam, mifritscher took steps to prevent a pcb lock-up. Did you do the same, or were you simply able to remove cable from old battery and attach to new? Then install in the Cosmo?

This is the best news I've heard in a while, Planet-wise, but I absolutely suck at soldering, even if the pcb is okay.

Jake

Sorry for the late reply. The circuit controller from the original battery ( I think this is called BMS ) was removed and soldered in the new battery ( used only the cell from the new battery. The circuit controller of the new battery was removed and discarted ). I don' t know these terms pcb . I am from Brazil . Only to take care of polarity when soldering. I only did this. After this, I reconnected the cable of the battery on the phone. Sorry about my English. I used  a battery with the same specs as the original except for the small capacity in mAh. Used rating voltage 3.85 V and charge voltage 4.4 V.

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Cosmo Communicator - Hardware / Re: New Batteries Anywhere? (Shipped to USA)

« on: September 02, 2023, 08:25:58 pm »

I have looked high and low, esp for this part number: CS-PLX600SL but I can't find replacement batteries for Gem/Cos.

Has anybody recently purchased one?

Thanks,
Jake

No batteries in any part of the world. So, I put a smaller battery 3250 mah , 3.85V here in Brazil. I used the same controller from the original battery. You must search for one wich is  thinner  or with the same thickness . It worked very well . The cost of battery and service was 120 reais , about US25 .

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: Astro battery module model

« on: June 28, 2023, 12:02:38 pm »

Has anyone disassembled their Astro yet? What's the battery module model?

Planet's own designation is apparently "AS400" based on this photo at https://bigtechquestion.com/2022/02/02/review/astro-slide-review/ but I doubt it's the same thing as this https://www.amazon.com/Battery-IBM-AS400-iSeries-2757/dp/B086VRGLFL - that came up by googling for "AS400 battery". However, adding 'planet' to the criteria did not really narrow down the results at all...

I have opened mine, because my left speaker is not working. Attached photos.

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Astro Slide - Android / 1 Speaker not working

« on: June 26, 2023, 03:25:33 pm »

Hi.
I don´t know if this is a hardware or software problem ( after  last update ). One of the speakers isn´t working ( the one near the vol up button ). Earphone  are working in left and right ports.
Any tips ?
Thank you.

[EDIT: Removed the other, duplicated thread, hoping that this is only a software issue. I'll move it to the HW section if it will turn out it's a hardware one. Varti]

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Astro update to V07

« on: June 19, 2023, 06:51:29 pm »

Well, it's ten days since my last email to Planet. No reply this time. Perhaps worse, I have discovered another issue with my Astro, which seems to make fixing my dead screen even harder.

Using the developer options, I set the default USB configuration to file transfer, so the Astro would immediately show up as a portable device in Windows as soon as I plug the USB cable in. I then rebooted without HDMI, logged in blindly and connected a USB cable from the left side port to a Windows computer. The Astro begun charging, but there was no USB connection sound and the Astro did neither show up in the file manager, nor in the device manager.

I tried another cable, another port, another computer. My Cosmo gladly shows up using any cable in any port on either computer. The Astro does not. I took a screenshot, just in case the Astro was showing an error on its disabled screen, but after rebooting with HDMI, the screenshot just showed my Android home screen. Being able to take a screenshot at least proved that the Astro was indeed fully booted and logged in, so it should really have showed up in Windows.

I installed ADB on my computer, rebooted the Astro blindly, and plugged in the USB cable again. Windows didn't detect it this time either and, as I suspected, ADB could not see any devices. After some tinkering I got ADB to work over WiFi, which is nice, since I can then use it while the HDMI is attached. I am able to start a shell via ADB over WiFi, but I'm not sure what I could use it for in this context. I am also able to reboot the Astro to fastboot mode. With HDMI attached I can see fastbootd start, but since fastbootd can't use WiFi, I have no way to see or set the active boot slot.

I could try the 07B update anyway and just hope for the best, but that would reasonably overwrite the boot slot with the factory image, meaning I would no longer have even a theoretical ability to return to a known good firmware image. That might be undesirable.

Ideas anyone? Having a non-mobile mobile is starting to get tedious.

Edit: Btw. I was also able to get screencasting from my Astro to computer working, but to see what I was doing on the Astro, I naturally had to also have HDMI attached, so I didn't gain much. Would I be able to somehow start the screencasting after a blind login, it might be useful, but there seems to be too many steps involved to be able to do that blindly, and as long as basic USB cable connectivity doesn't work, I'm kind of stuck anyway.

Try mtkclient. I had installed it in my linux in the past when my phone was bricked. I don't know if this will help. I had used the graphical interface in linux.

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Astro update to V07

« on: June 15, 2023, 08:46:00 am »

There is no option to select esim or phyical sim in settings. Even after removing my previous profile of esim in esim wallet , the physical sim 2 are not recognized. When I reboot I saw that is reconized for a moment and after some time it disappears. So , I removed my sim 2 card and I in the future I will change  again my sim card 2 phone number  here in Brazil to esim again. Thank you.

Interesting, in my Astro (running V07, not V07b), I see option "Use eSIM for SIM slot 2" in Astro settings. Maybe they removed that option then...?

You are right. Thank you so much again. Problem solved.