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Planet Computers Gemini PDA (planet-geminipda)

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Planet Computers Gemini PDA
Gemini PDA running postmarketOS
Gemini PDA running postmarketOS
Manufacturer Planet Computers
Name Gemini PDA
Codename geminipda
Released 2018
Hardware
Chipset MediaTek MT6797P/X Helio X25/X27
GPU Mali-T880 MP4
Display 2160x1080
Storage 64 GB
Memory 4 GB
Software
Original software Android 7.1 on Linux 3.18
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Mainline no
Features
Flashing
No data
USB Networking
No data
Internal storage
No data
SD card
No data
Battery
No data
Screen
No data
Touchscreen
No data
Multimedia
3D Acceleration
No data
Audio
No data
Camera
No data
Camera Flash
No data
Connectivity
WiFi
No data
Bluetooth
No data
GPS
No data
NFC
No data
Modem
Calls
No data
SMS
No data
Mobile data
No data
Miscellaneous
FDE
No data
USB OTG
No data
HDMI/DP
No data
Sensors
Accelerometer
No data
Magnetometer
No data
Ambient Light
No data
Proximity
No data
Hall Effect
No data
Haptics
No data
Barometer
No data


Contributors

  • NotKit

Maintainer(s)

  • NotKit

What works

  • USB networking
  • Framebuffer graphics (Xorg/Wayland)

Requires running Android services/using libhybris

  • Wi-Fi (needs MediaTek's custom firmware loader)
  • 3D acceleration (via libhybris and xf86-video-hwcomposer)
  • Audio (via libhybris and pulseaudio-module-droid, possible to achieve with ALSA configs)

What does not work

  • Everything else not mentioned specifically

Installation

The easiest way for now is to use Flash Tool from official flashing guide, replacing linux.img in firmware package with planet-geminipda.img and linux_boot.img with boot.img-planet-geminipda.

Current device-planet-geminipda branch also includes initramfs hook which will try to mount userdata and linux partitions, looking for /postmarketOS.img file (exported as planet-geminipda.img). This can be used for non-intrusive installation. Image file needs to be expanded to wanted size in advance, for example:

% truncate -s 2G postmarketOS.img

See also