Thread: Sailfish OS on ONDA V820W V3 and other Intel SoC-based tablets
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2019-05-16 , 13:15
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Originally Posted by dubliner View Post
It really makes you wonder why the outcomes are so extremely different each time one installs or upgrades.
I also wondered about this. The downloading process does a few retries (1 of 9, 2 of 9...) and sometimes the problems resolve, sometimes they do not. Also the wifi connection isn't necessarily the most stable one (at least on SFOS 2 where I had a couple of frustrating dropouts). I think I encountered less problems with "store credentials" etc. when the Sailfish OS check for updates was set to Manual instead of Automatic but maybe that's just a coincidence.

One factor might also be my V5 tablet itself but I've understood the V3 has its quirks, too.

I recall the "mystery" package to be named droid-system-tbj (not ...systemd...) but no importance since it cannot be found nonetheless.

EDIT: Ah...
Originally Posted by TheKit
Now that you wrote it in large red, I see the the extra "d" at the end. That's my typo, sorry for this, can be safely ignored until fixed one is on OBS.
I was slow

Originally Posted by dubliner View Post
About your try #5: Actually, I didn't do any of this - like no missing layouts or sideloading. Only after having reached 3.0.3.9 I took care of these things. Does this mean you actually got the missing package installed and Bluetooth is working?
Sorry, BT isn't working.
When I originally managed to upgrade the tablet from 2.0.5.6 I only fixed the layouts on 3.0.3.8 (without a hitch). However now for some reason on try #4 I had to downgrade maybe 3-4 packages and install a couple of others and I lost track what was really happening so no wonder the tablet failed to boot afterwards... (sure, there was also the OS version inconsistency). On try #5 I decided to install the missing packages right after they'd gone missing which seemed like the right choice.

Originally Posted by dubliner View Post
...how time consuming and tedious all the porting must be for TheKit. I am so grateful he's doing that for us! :-)
Absolutely! I would've understood perfectly if he'd just call it quits on SFOS3 & Onda but instead it looks like he managed to provide an easily upgradable solution *knocks on wood*.
Last edited by tmi; 2019-05-16 at 13:21.
 

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