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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Rooting the Astro Slide

« on: January 10, 2023, 05:44:00 pm »

Did it come pre-installed in Chinese or have Deejay-dota installed?

Plain (British/UK) English. I don't know what ‘Deejay-dota’ is, but if it's an app, then it's not there!

I did turn on the Astro a few times before trying to flash it, so it's not impossible I might have changed that setting — but I don't recall doing so.

But Planet have always encouraged, or at least allowed, other OSs &c, so maybe it arrived unlocked?

If you go to settings, about device you will see deejoy-dota. Please see my attachments, but it is in portuguese ( I am Brazilian )

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Rooting the Astro Slide

« on: January 09, 2023, 07:25:36 pm »

Do you get a message on the boot about 'Orange State'?

No, nothing like that. As far as I can tell, the boot sequence looks the same as it did before rooting. (I can confirm it is rooted: I can su in Termux.)

And I can't submit a PR coz I don't have the necessary knowledge to write it! (Also, I've only looked at the page on GitHub, not bothered to clone it and everything.)

But let's try to work it out. You said “You can do this by using Fastboot and the OEM Unlocking in Settings -> Developer Options”:

• Is that the program you can install with e.g. apt install fastboot?
• What would you type into it, and what would that do?
• On my phone, the latter is Settings → System → Advanced → Developer options → OEM unlocking. Is that the right one?
• I'm guessing that option needs to be enabled to unlock the phone? Is that also the right way to check whether the phone is unlocked?
• Do you need to do both the Fastboot and the OEM setting, or will either work?

I am surprised you did a root without unlocking the bootloader. Can someone explain this ? Thanks.

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Rooting the Astro Slide

« on: January 09, 2023, 08:02:43 am »

If I got it right, as allways, this wipes all your data?

I think so. Others here can probably say for sure, but I'd certainly assume that such a big change can erase all your apps/data/settings and anything else you have stored on the phone, so before doing anything else, make sure you have backups of anything you want to keep! (I'll add that as a first step.)

Yes , unlocking and rooting the phone will wipe your data.

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Rooting the Astro Slide

« on: January 07, 2023, 04:59:01 am »

I was unable to get mtkclient to work on Mac.

That's… frustrating.

As it happens, I do have one little headless box running Linux Mint — but that fails part-way through the ‘pip3 install -r requirements.txt’ step:

Collecting shiboken6>=6.4.0.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 7))
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement shiboken6>=6.4.0.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 7)) (from versions: 6.0.0a1.dev1606911628, 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.1.0, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.2.1, 6.2.3, 6.2.4)
No matching distribution found for shiboken6>=6.4.0.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 7))

‘pip3 install shiboken6’ installs version 6.2.4, which is clearly too low.

I'm guessing that may be because that needs python 3.7+ while I have python 3.6.9 — but ‘apt upgrade python3’ reports that as ‘already the newest version’. Is my installation too old? (/proc/version says ‘Linux version 5.4.0-135-generic (buildd@lcy02-amd64-053) (gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)) #152~18.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 29 08:23:49 UTC 2022’, but I don't know what most of that means.) I keep it up-to-date in Update Manager and/or apt — is there anything that those will miss?

Sorry if this is dumb stuff, but I know almost as little about Linux admin as I do about python or Android…

Please edit requirements.txt and fill it with the versions less than your system. Even with these versions, it worked for me.
I am running debian 10.
After the install you can run in with the graphical interface ( ./mtk_gui ). Much better than command line.
Good luck.

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Rooting the Astro Slide

« on: January 06, 2023, 11:21:53 am »

I was unable to get mtkclient to work on Mac.  I don't know if it was a problem with my mtkclient install or with the Astro, but I gave up and installed it on a Linux machine and it worked perfectly there.

Same with me. My Mac has dual boot ( Big Sur and linux ).

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Rooting the Astro Slide

« on: January 06, 2023, 11:19:49 am »

some apps here in Brazil don' t work if you install Magisk, even if the phone is not rooted. For example : Bank apps, flying companies apps, insurance companies ( auto, life, etc )

Have you used the "Hide the Magisk app" feature in Magisk settings?  I've seen some apps that look for the app by name, and if you just let Magisk rename itself, problem solved. 

Thanks.
This not worked  for me.

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Planet Updater working now?

« on: January 04, 2023, 12:31:13 pm »

Planet Updater seems to be connecting now; no "Chain validation failed." error.

"Your phone is up to date"
NO UPDATE FOUND

You are right. At least some progress. Thanks.

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: Keyboard ghosting

« on: January 02, 2023, 04:17:09 pm »

I've found a simple way to fix the space bar issue, just put a small piece of tape next to the little clamb in the middle:

 

Thanks. But for me didn' t work this way.
But works according to the attached photo.
I put a small piece of a cushion for sax mouthpiece ( yes, I am also a sax player ).
Thank you so much.

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: Keyboard ghosting

« on: December 30, 2022, 01:07:50 pm »

Another keyboard issue is the 'del'-button: when pressing this it deletes the last 2 digits, not just the last 1, why is this? Looks like this is not a hardware but a software issue.
Is there a way to adjust this? (US keyboard).

Mine deletes just 1 digit. Tried in google, whatsapp, etc

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: Keyboard ghosting

« on: December 29, 2022, 06:11:18 am »

I don't think I have this ghosting problem, but the keyboard doesn't always responds very well, especially the space bar, I have to press really hard to make it work. Sometimes this goes for other keys as well. Not sure if it's a hardware or software issue, because the slower I type, the less issues there seem to be.

This is a problem I have noticed in the space bar. You must press at the center or on the left. If you press on the right it gets worse. Cosmo does not have this problem.

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Astro Slide - Hardware / Re: ear phone noise

« on: December 28, 2022, 11:22:01 am »

@Daniel W: Wow, I thought my Cosmo's noise was bad! This is a serious problem - I don't have my Astro yet, but it sounds like this would prevent you from enjoying music at all! Great idea to include recordings and annotate them

Edit: I've linked to your comment from the GitHub issue

Yes , really a big problem .I am using an usb earphone without problems.But the internal radio app when you select the output to speakers .... it is a trash.

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Rooting the Astro Slide

« on: December 28, 2022, 11:16:01 am »

There is no officially approved way (or, really, any sign of any support whatsoever from PC, but I digress...), but the images and procedures in this thread should work fine, as long as you are comfortable with what you're doing.  I've been running mine rooted for several months now, with no problems.

Regarding your bank app, have you tested it with the newest Magisk, using the new DenyList feature?  That should be generally much better about allowing picky apps to run, since they are put into a context where the phone actually is not rooted.  While I haven't tried a broad range of apps, and almost certainly not your bank, I've yet to find an app that complains about root with DenyList.

some apps here in Brazil don' t work if you install Magisk, even if the phone is not rooted. For example : Bank apps, flying companies apps, insurance companies ( auto, life, etc )

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Rooting the Astro Slide

« on: December 28, 2022, 11:06:21 am »

Greetings, all! (I was a regular user of this forum a few years ago after getting my Gemini, but I dropped out once that was all set up. My Astro Slide arrived an hour ago — hurrah! — and so I'm back…)

What's the latest on installing rooted Android on the Astro?

I haven't found anything on any of the Planet sites (in fact, the obvious one doesn't even mention the Astro), and this thread is all I can find elsewhere.

I'd like to set up my Astro the same way as my Gemini: running rooted Android only. (I run Termux and sshd, edit /etc/hosts, and a few other things needing root. The down-side is that my bank's app won't work, but for me that's a price worth paying. On the Gemini it was a huge hassle, needing to reboot my Mac into Debian 9 to run Planet's Flash Tool — but I gather it's all different now…)

Is this possible? Is there an officially-approved way (or is there likely to be one soon)? Or is there a single, foolproof set of instructions?

No Planet Computer support. From here is the only way. You can root it using the images and the procedures mentioned here. Banks will not work ( I am from Brazil ). And with the bootloader unlocked you will  be in the orange state . The Astro will boot with this message and you will have to wait 5 seconds to boot. Please see the messages here.

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Keyboard layout doesnt fit

« on: December 25, 2022, 05:49:44 am »

Thanks again for your advice. I doublecked    it is qwertz DE setting, but te KB can not be convinced to behave accordinglz ...sigh

I realy don' t know. But because  the Y and the  Z keys are swapped , you can try selecting QWERTY and see what will happen.
You can also contact another people in indiegogo with german quertz keyboard and ask them if they have the same problem. ( I paste the post of 4 people here at the end )
Or you can do in last case a full reset.
Good Luck!

From Indiegogo

Mith 4 days ago
@Tom Sch: Here in Germany I got an e-mail from Idiegogo “Indiegogo shipment for Astro Slide 5G Transformer is on its way!” with UPS tracking number. Three days later the Astro arrived. I had to pay additional EUR 33,28. Make sure to have the money money in the form of cash ready, UPS delivery people (at least here on the village) do not accept EC or credit cards.

Dirk Hüwe 8 days ago
Hi! Just received my phone. Contribution ID: 157x, contribution date: March 2020. German keyboard layout. Working fine so far. Android 11, security path Nov 1st 2021. Shipping via UPS was a catastrophe … I get used to that with UPS.

Wolfgang von Jan 11 days ago
@Christian Gaida and others. My Astro (German) has a much better built than the cosmo that has a much better keyboard than my Gemini. Also the space bar works much better than both other ones together. Only the lightning of the keyboard is not so uniformly on the upper outer sides but that is criticism on a very high level.

Christian Gaida 11 days ago
@Marcel I can confirm that. The keyboard is just not good, not even close. The space bar barely has a pressure point and the return key has none at all. The rest of the keys almost all have a different pressure point. I can’t imagine that the two previous models also had such a bad keyboard. My device has a German keyboard by the way. On the right side, this little plastic strip to the right of the keys is also loose. So the build quality is not outstanding either. All in all not very impressive

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Keyboard layout doesnt fit

« on: December 24, 2022, 01:54:43 pm »

Hi Cam1965


Thanks for pointing me to the KB editing tool. It installed nicely. But when I chose: "configure user defined keyboard mapping" in the astro kb tool, it shows a mapping which is perfectly right for my language setting and my KB.

BUT: especially the fn key does not work as fixed in the KB mapping.

P.E.: Fn + ? should give @, but it just gives a '
shift + 2 gives the @, but should give the "

and so on ...

In configuration of the keyboard you can chose querty or quertz keyboard. Mine is in portuguese ( I am from Brazil ). Plese see the photos.
First select aparência e layouts.( appearance and layouts ) Then you can  chose  Estilos Personalizados (custom styles )  and aftter this you can chose querty or quertz. You probably has the wrong sets here.Note : I  have translated , so I do not know if the texts are the same, so please see the photos. ( please see in landscape mode , it is better )

The keyboard commonly used in Germany is the QWERTZ keyboard. The main difference with a Qwerty keyboard is that the Y and the Z are swapped. Another great detail about the keyboard is that the Qwertz keyboard has the letters ö, ü, ä and ß on it.

Good Luck.