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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / A list of all the hardware/software issues reported so far

« on: February 06, 2020, 06:25:38 pm »

Battery Failure: I received my Gemini in May 2018, in November 2019 I noticed the battery had swelled and ordered a replacement from Planet Computers. It is now fourteen weeks later and I'm still waiting for my replacement battery. Does anyone know of an alternate supplier?

If you find a matching battery, probably with higher capacity, please post details here.

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Cosmo Communicator - Android / Phone call auto rotation

« on: February 05, 2020, 12:22:54 pm »

With my Cosmo it seems the dual orientation microphone is not working. No matter how I am holding the Cosmo, it seems the speaker is always near to the flash and the microhone near to the fingerrprint reader.

Does anyone experience the same behaviour?

Am I missing some setting? Hardware defect? Not yet implemented?

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Cosmo Communicator - Hardware / Rooting the Cosmo Communicator

« on: February 04, 2020, 08:16:54 pm »

Just being curious. What happens if we lock the bootloader again after rooting? Locked out?

What happens if we disable oem unlock afterwards?

Is there a way to install twrp without loosing the repartition tool recovery?

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Enabling flashing the Cosmo on OS X

« on: February 03, 2020, 05:08:02 pm »

Why not just extracting the boot image with SP flash tool, modify it with magisk and reflash it with flash tool? That usually works like a charm on Mediatek devices, no unlocking bootloader, no recovery required. I have not tried it with the cosmo yet though.

Does this mean flashing (and booting) the rooted boot image with the flash tool works with locked bootloader? Always assumed the bootloader has to be unlocked or the image has to be signed somhow.

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Enabling flashing the Cosmo on OS X

« on: February 03, 2020, 05:03:01 pm »

Hello oida,
my cosmo is broken  . Now i read here that it is possible to reflash it   .
Can you please tell me where i can get these SP flash tool?
And can i use the bin files from planets latest firmware page?

Many thanks

gabs5807

Why not just extracting the boot image with SP flash tool, modify it with magisk and reflash it with flash tool? That usually works like a charm on Mediatek devices, no unlocking bootloader, no recovery required. I have not tried it with the cosmo yet though.

The downloadable firmware files are for the cover display ONLY. There are no Android images, yet. Assuming these will appear some day. If I remember correctly this also took some time for the Gemini.

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Gemini PDA - Hardware / Gemini won’t charge

« on: February 01, 2020, 07:52:42 am »

Are you sure that the battery is dead? It could be only deeply discharged, it could also be some other problem. If it is deeply discharged then usually keeping it plugged in for few hours will resolve it.

Not accepting any charge in case of a bad battery also sounds not very probable for me. In most cases one notices capacity loss first, and it is not that old, yet. I also have noticed some (rare, have not seen this for a long time) times the Gemini not charging despite of being plugged in. I would try anything else first. Replugging many times, rebooting, deleting cache (if on Android), etc. ..., before ordering a new battery.

Battery voltage might be below the charging circuits lower limit. Are you capable of measuring the battery voltage at the battery terminals?  

Btw. are you using the original charger? I have noticed with a Samsung tablet, that it won't start charging with my 3rd party charger when it is completely empty. With the original one then it worked.

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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Linux community?

« on: January 29, 2020, 05:11:35 pm »

==> do this at your own risk :-)

Just don't. Gemini boot image will be unbootable on the Cosmo. The root image file will most probably be incompatible with the new install mechanism.

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Poor battery life

« on: January 26, 2020, 07:32:46 am »

I'm on V19 as well. I haven't noticed any change since the update. But I'll measure the time again tomorrow when I won't be using it much anyway.

After resetting I had trouble updating CoDi. But after the 8th or so attempt it finally flashed completely. I charged to 100 %, the did nothing (lid closed). After about 4 hours it's down to 43 %. Not really an improvement. To be sure, what is the current CoDi version? I'm on 1.1.1.12 now.

Have you tried to disable NFC?
@see: https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=36003

Maybe this helps for the time being.

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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Linux community?

« on: January 21, 2020, 05:31:05 pm »

Ummm.....it's you actually........

 

and me and everyone else out there that would like linux on their Planet devices...

Might do some kernel work, but I am quite busy atm with paid project work... So I most likely I won't be able to engage fast...
The major problem for Linux on the Cosmo is to have some usable (like usable as a phone) integrated user interface, like we had with Maemo on the Nokia N900. Debian on the Gemini is nice, but it is more like a micro laptop, not really usable for the phone use case.

Maybe it is better to see the current Debian (well, current for the Gemini) as a board support package and concentrate on Maemo Leste ( https://maemo-leste.github.io/ ). This would give us a full GNU/Linux experience with phone usability.

Opinions?

Mith

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / HDMI Output

« on: January 20, 2020, 04:58:31 pm »

All is good so far I'm now working on the 20200117_1823.

I'm wondering what the requirements for the hdmi support are. I have a startech hdmi to usb c adapter but it doesn't seem to work.

Has anyone else been able to connect to hdmi? Is the planet hdmi adapter proprietary?

I've tried both USB c ports.

Yes,  it is proprietary. Third party adapters are unlikely to work (never heard a success with Gemini or Cosmo). Displaylink should work, alternatively.

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Firmware update

« on: January 20, 2020, 03:49:34 am »

Well, this way we get to a menu allowing to repartition. It says all data will be lost. So I aborted for now, since I don't know how to reinstall the OS afterwards (without downloadable images). Any hints on how to get at least Android up again after repartitioning? Or don't we loose the OS with the resize?

Mine just performed a factory reset with no need to reinstall android.

Thx. This is the information I have been seeking for. So this evening I can start setting up droid properly.

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Firmware update

« on: January 19, 2020, 07:11:42 pm »

I resized mine earlier!

FN+ESC+ Right side of rocker switch to get the recovery menu

Thanks PNuT that worked I've resized  at least I can use Droid now  hopefully the debian img will come soon

Here's how i did it

From Off.

ESC (poweron) + rear rocker (top... volume up). Let go of power when Planet logo displays.

Driod pic on it's back. With Red triangle warning. Words "No Command" in really small letters underneath

Now

Fn+ESC+Rear rocker (Volume up)

Now we are in the recovery menu. Resize away

Well, this way we get to a menu allowing to repartition. It says all data will be lost. So I aborted for now, since I don't know how to reinstall the OS afterwards (without downloadable images). Any hints on how to get at least Android up again after repartitioning? Or don't we loose the OS with the resize?

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Firmware update

« on: January 19, 2020, 08:07:16 am »

Was hoping. To be able to resize partitions ready for debian. So I can start using the driod partition without worrying about reinstallimg or loosing my driod data later. Guess I'll have to be more patient

Also waiting for the partition tool to perform a "real" setup, for the same reason Might be there soon.

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Cosmo Communicator - Sailfish OS / Sailfish on Cosmo - some Information from Jolla ..

« on: January 16, 2020, 04:40:09 pm »

I agree that you and I and plenty of other people bought Cosmo or Gemini because they thought that Planet Computer is actually developing and providing us with other versions other OS's to use. But that is different from what Planet actually does. That is point I'm making.

In other words, it is clear there is a disconnect  between what we as users think and what Planet thinks/does......unfortunately, this becomes clear to us users after we purchase our devices....

As for your SF browser issue, unfortunately, not something I can assist with....maybe Varti or speculatrix can....

Also bought it to run Sailfish in the end and to replace my old N900. Debian will most probably not be usable for the phone use case, I suspect. Well, but knowing the timelines of the Gemini it has been clear that there won't be a Sailfish port in the beginning. At least for Gemini users this should not have been a surprise. We'll have to wait and to do parts on our own to get it running. Well, and to be honest, Planet never have promised more than that.

Hoping to get at least a Lineage OS within reasonable time, to be able to start using the Cosmo as a ((nearly)Google free) phone. Later on switching to Sailfish might be possible.

Anyways, has anybody seen the CODI interface parts needed for the port?

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Gemini PDA - Linux / Unsigned repository

« on: January 15, 2020, 04:59:17 pm »

I don't fully understand the implications of this. Can I force the upgrade to work with an unsigned repository somehow, and if so is it wise to do so?

The key has been renewed recently.

wget -O /tmp/archive-key.asc http://gemian.thinkglobally.org/archive-key.asc
apt-key add /tmp/archive-key.asc