@rondarius Thanks!

@applee Thanks for your encouragment, AppLee. I'm starting the process of making the tablet what I want. I'll definately check out Pure Maps!
Daryl

Hello Forum:

I bought the BQ Aquarius back in 2016...

An age has passed.

This is my last effort for getting it to do anything useful before I recycle it.

The last think I remember was installing an Ubuntu opperating system on it as recommended by the forum.

However, it doesn't seem to even boot now. I'm recharging it to see if it will.

Please let me know if I should try again or just chuck the device.

THanks,
Daryl

Thanks for your reply, aimar.
Did not work. I'm going to recycle this tablet.

Hello UBportors:

I have a BQ Aquarius M10 FHD.... and had communicated with this forum sometime within the last year or so.

I was advised to update tye OS to Ubuntu 16.04 (or something like that), so I did it.

I played with the trablet for a while, tinckered with a few files to get a VPN working... and have up. Perhaps I screwed things up

Then got busy with several other projects, but now I've come back to play with the tablet again. My goal is to get it to read epub books... that's all.

I have fully charged tablet.

When I try to boot it up, it gets as far as the Ubuntu Touch screen... and then goes black... maybe it turns itself off.

What should I do? How can I get it to boot again? Should I reload 16.04? I forgot how to do that.

Please advise me!
Daryl
(Daryl's Rural Roadside Honor System Vegetable Stand)

@Craig Hi Craig:
I typed the 4 lines separately, and then tried sudo openvpn us_atlanta.ovpn

Got the error message: Error opening configuratin file: us_atlanta.ovpn

.... us_atlanta.ovpn is definately in the directory I issued the commands in.

@Ian Oh. I found it after clicking on the hamburger. I'll try it out and let you know how it goes.

@Ian HI Ian:
I installed UT Tweek tool. There was no "System" on the left.

Me so sad. This would have been a great solution.

Daryl

@UKPhil Hello Friends: I tried Unisuperbox's method for adding PIA vpn this morning.... and was rather DISTRESSED by a WARNING MESSAGE I revieved with I tried to turn the PIA VPN on from system settings.

Specifically, the warning says:

"**This VPN is set up, but when you use it:

Your WIF-VI/mobile provier can see when and how much you use the internet, but not what for.

The VPN provider can see or modify your internet traffic.

Web sites nd other service proiders can still monitory your use.**"

While it is true that my chronilogical age is "older than Methusula," I'm sort of naive about alot of things.... but this on really stuck in my craw!!!

Lookey here, 'all: Ain't some of the reasons why y'all use a VPN so that we can avoid this sort of stuff???

Golly. I'm stumped.

What exactly does ths message mean other than what it explicity says? Will tHIS VPN set up let me surf on my tablet safely and really privately?

Please advise!

Daryl
Daryl's Rural Roadside Honor System Vegetable Stand

@arubislander Hi Arubislander!

Thanks for your reply! I'll give it the "old college try" and see if SD cards that are larger than 64GB can be used.... and I'll report back.... may take a few days.
Take care,
Daryl

@Craig I tried the methods you recommend that are at https://helpdesk.privateinternetaccess.com/kb/articles/linux-setting-up-manual-openvpn-connection-through-the-terminal

... I ran into a problem: my phablet is a read-only file system and even if I use sudo I can't get anything downloaded or unzipped in /etc/openvpn

Can you suggest a solution, please?

Thanks, Darly

@wgarcia Hi wgarcia: thanks for this post... that I've found finally... 23 days later. I am very grateful for your work and will study it closely, try it out, and report to the group what works. I can say that the openvpn thing with PIA works on all of my raspberry pis. Not sure if thats relevant, but I thought I'd just offer it. Here on the forum just to establish that it works for something.