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Cosmo Communicator - Hardware / Rooting the Cosmo Communicator

« on: November 29, 2019, 05:15:10 pm »

We'll know when the Planet Computers solution of rooting is published.

Is that definitely ‘when’, rather than ‘if’?  Have they said anything on the issue?

(My Cosmo is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, but I won't be able to set it up and transfer everything from my Gemini without having rooted Android…  At first glance, the above posts looks pretty daunting; I'd be much happier if Planet provided downloadable firmware for the Cosmo, the way they did for the Gemini — after a lot of pain, I know how to use that!)

It's not as bad as it looks above. That was mostly just work when we were figuring out how to get root working. Right now the process is just to unlock the bootloader (which will wipe the device) & either backup & modify your own boot.img from the device, or use the already Magisk'ed one that ZimbiX has posted.

I'm waiting for those recovery images too. Hopefully will have some time this weekend to make a proper backup, so I have something to restore if I ended up doing harm to my device with root. That's part of the reason I haven't done anything crazy with root right now.

Hi owners, FYI Bootloader Unlock is in Developer Options.

Tap on Build Number in About Phone.

Also need to then boot to the bootloader & run `fastboot flashing unlock`. The button(s) in the fingerprint scanner worked as volume keys to confirm I wanted to unlock (& wipe the device in the process).

I'm having trouble getting this to work.  I did do the bootloader unlock procedure above.  When I boot to the bootloader and run `fastboot flashing unlock` it hangs with  `< waiting for any device >`.

Also, `fastboot devices` returns a blank line, and `adb devices` returns what appears to be a device identifer, followed by the word `unauthorized`.  

For what it's worth, when I boot into regular Android, `adb devices` returns the device code and the word `device` -- meaning the devices is apparently `authorized` after a normal boot, but not in bootloader.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

I had the same Problems, found the solution with some help.

You need to install Google USB Drivers.

If that doesent help, reboot to fastboot and go to your device manager.

Locate your cosmo (For me it said it cant find driver, and was just namend "Android")

Update the driver through the driver manager, and select the google ubs driver (download it manually if needed)

If it cant autodetect it, select it manually and choose "Bootloader Interface"

After thet you should be able to use fastboot command.

Kind Regards,
Ignatz