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Android Flashing Guide

207 bytes added, 10:54, 26 February 2019
→‎Flashing the Gemini Android firmware
==Download Android Gemini Firmware==
Now that the Flash Tool FlashTool application is running, it is time to download the Gemini Android Firmware from this the [[Gemini Firmware|Gemini Firmware page]].
After downloading the firmware, unzip it to reveal the folder containing the firmware folder, for example '''Gemini_WIFI_MP_09052018''' or '''Gemini_x27_FOTA3_12062018'''.
 
 
==Configuring FlashTool==
Next, just click the '''Read Back''' button, <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">connect your Gemini PC to the left end USB-C port on your PC Gemini</span> and restart the Gemini. Once booting, the flash tool will detect the unit and will write the NVRAM partition on a file on your hard disk called NVRAM0 (see screenshot below). It’s a good idea to keep this file as a backup.
[[File:Screen_Shot_2018-06-21_at_10.51.50.png|center|800x527px|border]]
 
 
==Flashing the Gemini Android firmware==
[[File:Screen_Shot_2018-06-21_at_11.01.20.png|center|800x597px|center|border]]
To start the flashing process, just click the big '''Download''' button, <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">connect your Gemini PC to the left end USB-C port on your PC Gemini</span> and restart the Gemini. Once booting, the flash tool will detect the unit and will start flashing the device with the selected firmware.
If instead you want to manually update your Gemini without loosing your data, you should select the '''Download Only '''option from the drop down menu. After that, make sure you select all the partition with the exception of the '''userdata''' partition, which contains your data. Your screen should look like this:
[[File:Screen_Shot_2018-06-21_at_11.12.29.png|center|800x597px|center|border]]
To start the flashing process, just click the big '''Download''' button, <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">connect your Gemini PC to the left end USB-C port on your PC Gemini</span> and restart the Gemini. Once booting, the flash tool will detect the unit and will start flashing the device with the selected firmware.
The following screenshot shows a successfully completed flashing process:
     ==Manually Update Android firmware==Planet Computers provides over-the-air update for standard Android installations. For custom installation, you will need to manually update the Android firmware. To update the Android firmware, simply download the latest Android firmware from [http://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Gemini_Firmware http://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Gemini_Firmware] and use the '''Download Only''' option while selecting only the system partition, as in the screenshot below [[File:Screen_Shot_2018-06-20_at_1521_at_11.5717.5544.png|center|640x421px800x595px|border]]   ==Linux dual boot notes==The dual boot mechanism works as follow: * '''Dual boot Android-Linux firmware'''** Press Esc (On) for around one second to turn ON the unit and boot into Android. You should release the Esc (On) button before the screen turns ON, otherwise the unit will boot into recovery mode (see below).** Press Esc (On) for around one second to turn ON the unit and at the same time press and hold the side button until the screen turns ON to boot into Linux. You should release the Esc (On) button before the screen turns ON, but you must keep the side button pressed until you see the turning ON. When the screen turns ON you can release the side button, and the unit will boot into Linux.** Press Esc (On) and keep pressing the button until the screen turns ON to boot in recovery mode. At this stage the recovery mode is disabled and you will see a droid image with a red triangle and a "No command" text.
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