[Help Thread][Cosmo Communicator](2019) Ask Any Question, Noob Friendly

[sd_shadow]

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[hughakston]

wireless indicator LED

First day with a Cosmo Communicator that I bought on eBay. What is the Wireless Indicator LED, and why is it on? It's a LED above the camera lens. It wasn't on earlier today. What is it telling me? How do I turn it off? (Power cycled, didn't help.)

 

[harchintan]

Re-install official/custom rom v19 or upgraded on cosmo

Hi All

Please guide me on how to manually update cosmo with official/custom rom ?
Please guide me step by step - i am kinda noob
will be grateful for help!

[SIZE=+2]This thread has been created
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Questions & Answers/Troubleshooting[/SIZE]​

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Cosmo Communicator ​

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How can I re-install OS on my Cosmo ? I have some display problem, maybe it's fixed by re-install
Problem: Main display doesn't switch on once Cosmo is closed and opened again.

See my post :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1774620199505688/permalink/2277809709186732/

First day with a Cosmo Communicator that I bought on eBay. What is the Wireless Indicator LED, and why is it on? It's a LED above the camera lens. It wasn't on earlier today. What is it telling me? How do I turn it off? (Power cycled, didn't help.)

 

[sd_shadow]

Hi All

Please guide me on how to manually update cosmo with official/custom rom ?
Please guide me step by step - i am kinda noob
will be grateful for help!




---------- Post added at 08:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:02 PM ----------

How can I re-install OS on my Cosmo ? I have some display problem, maybe it's fixed by re-install
Problem: Main display doesn't switch on once Cosmo is closed and opened again.

See my post :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1774620199505688/permalink/2277809709186732/

There is not anything really helpful from OEM
Just this
http://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Linux_for_Cosmo

Sent from my ali using XDA Labs

 

[dentedilupo]

hi guys one more with cosmo

mine was bought used in ebay

some questions please, i have the 03.26.2020 v20

- to power on i can only use the esc , i cant power one when cosmo is turn off with the phone closed using the power button, is this normal?
- does the left and right type c port have the same function? sometimes my right port stops working

i see a lot of bugs, too many, but great device and idea but for the price should be better

 

[tkotz]

Questions about dual boot

1) I don't think the official linux_for_cosmo site mentions a LXQT image as of writing this comment.

2) Has anyone gotten the linux_for_cosmo version of TWRP to work? When I select it I just get a boot-up image with a green bar down the right side of the screen then it goes black and reboots.

2a) I'm trying to get this working so I can add the F-Droid privilege extension to my system apps so that fdroid can auto update apps. If anyone has successfully moved an app into the system on this device I'd appreciate it. Titianium backup won't do it. The default recovery doesn't run ota zips that are not signed by planet computers. As above I can't get TWRP working. and I can't get any changes to the system(p36) filesystem to be kept tried as root on both android and debian.

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[tkotz]

Fixed TWRP and F-Droid

1) Overwrite the official TWRP with the unofficial one from here:

https://github.com/Treeki/unofficial-twrp-cosmo/releases

Then overwrite the TWRP partition using fastboot (I think this requires

fastboot flashing unlock

to have been done before)

fastboot flash TWRP unofficial-twrp-cosmo-20191214.img

2) Now you still can't just install the org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.ota_2110.zip because this version of TWRP is not aware that it is in system as root mode. So just tell it is using adb shell

> adb shell
Cosmo_Communicator:/ # getprop ro.build.system_root_image

Cosmo_Communicator:/ # setprop ro.build.system_root_image true    
Cosmo_Communicator:/ # getprop ro.build.system_root_image
true

3) make sure your /system is mounted
4) install the org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.ota_2110.zip as normal.

 

[poverome]

Hello everyone.
I wonder how will this device perform with Linux and the following packages:
- Gimp
- Inkscape
- Blender
- Audacity
- LMMS
- LibreOffice
- Scribus
- KDENlive

Compared to a middle end PC.
I never did nothing too complex with any of these, so my concerns are all about "fresh" performance (eg, in Gimp, I'd look at how smoothly you can draw a line, in Blender, how fast the default cube rotates, and so).

If you know any, please, link a video.

Finally, I know maybe there some issue, like KDENlive not starting and returning a "segmentation fault", or at least, this is what happens with chrooting Linux from Android. Does this happens with CC too?

Thanks everyone in advance for any help.

Bye, Ivano.

Edit: Or, maybe better, just link to a benchmark ran on a CC with Linux, compared to an Intel Core Duo Quad with a GeForce 710 GTX (my actual pc)

 

[belgianfr]

Cosmo Communicator no longer boot

From email

I had partitioned and reinstalled Android and it won't boot.. Anyway to use the terminal to force to boot into recovery? I tried fastboot reboot recovery and ect

 

[Skaranorak]

Everyone ! I need some help. The debian distro wont recognize my external drive. I have tried to image the drive in different formats but it says "error the current file type is not recognized : ntfs or exfat or w.e "

Has anyone else run into this issue ?

 

[sd_shadow]

Finally a new update.
From email

Cosmo Communicator News - March '21
Dear Cosmo backers!

The long awaited Android firmware update for Cosmo is now available. This is the v25 version.

This version includes the following:

Security patches up to Jan 2021
Bug fixes and improvements
Keyboard driver improvements - no delay when opening Cosmo
Bootloader improvements - you can now set the default booting partition
Cover Display assistant - more optimised flashing process
Internal changes to enable future Planet Backup software to run on Cosmo
The version is fully GMS approved by Google and supports Google Pay.

Please note the following:

This update work on both pure Android and Linux/Android Cosmo devices.

If you are using rooted Android please update the rooted Android image by following the instruction on this link:
https://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Rooted_Android_For_Cosmo



Best regards,

Team Cosmo

 

[kaushal.d]

Hi guys! I need help! Suddenly my cover display doesn't work. I tried to do an update it failed and then it said cover display connection error. I did a factory reset still it doesn't help. Cover display is off. Please please need help

i am facing the same isssue were you able to resolve?

 

[brunsman6229]

Hello, i have a problem when i try to install debian/KDE, i have formated my sd card in fat32 and the folder "cosmo-customos-installer" is present on it, when i try to flash custom os via recovery, it make me an error (no custom installer found, error 127)... i really don't know what to do, i want this linux. Plesa help me

 

[brunsman6229]

Everyone ! I need some help. The debian distro wont recognize my external drive. I have tried to image the drive in different formats but it says "error the current file type is not recognized : ntfs or exfat or w.e "

Has anyone else run into this issue ?

pleas dude can you help me, i have a problem when i try to install debian/KDE, i have formated my sd card in fat32 and the folder "cosmo-customos-installer" is present on it, when i try to flash custom os via recovery, it make me an error (no custom installer found, error 127)... i really don't know what to do, i want this linux. Plesa help me

 

[brunsman6229]

Hello, i have a problem when i try to install debian/KDE, i have formated my sd card in fat32 and the folder "cosmo-customos-installer" is present on it, when i try to flash custom os via recovery, it make me an error (no custom installer found, error 127)... i really don't know what to do, i want this linux. Plesa help me