@Kamikaze said in Volla Tablet on UBPorts questions:

I am wondering how well the Volla Tablet works with UBPorts?

I ordered the Tablet with UT and also got the keyboard some days ago. Maybe I can answer at least some questions. I didn't use the tablet often before the keyboard arrived.
And even since I got it, I had not much time, yet.

From the short time I tried (without any troubleshooting) I can say:
UT doesn't always recognize the keyboard at startup. You need to disconnect and reconnect to make the tablet realize, the keyboard is there.
Tapping on the touchpad or two finger scrolling etc. doesn't work. You have to use the physical "mouse" buttons. The sensibility of the pointer is too low.
Even though there are mouse and touchpad settings you can't set anything because it asks you to connect bluetooth mouse and keyboard.

Battery life: Can't tell yet

Bugs: Sometimes charging takes the whole day and it discharges even while charging. When turning it off it keeps discharging and shortly after the battery is completely drained.
But that's not always the case (I haven't figured that out, yet). And yes, I'm using the charger and cable delivered with the tablet.

Yes, there is a stable 24.04 release

Wifi is stable so far.

Haven't installed Waydroid yet.

Maybe that helps a bit...

Update doesn't start on Volla Phone (the original one).

I'm on OTA-10 (stable).
I selected "Upgrade" from the screen as seen in the screenshot from domubpkm above. It downloaded the update. When I tap on "Install" it shows the known blue colored "Restart & Install" button.
When I tap on it, it disappears and just nothing happens.
Tried several times, even with reboots in between.
So what am I supposed to do?

EDIT:
After asking in the Telegram group I triggered the update by executing

sudo sh -c 'sync && reboot -f recovery'

in the Terminal. Should also work by booting to recovery manually by holding volume up while powering on.
Thanks to the guys in the group! My Volla Phone is on 24.02-1.0 now

In this Reddit post, there's some "demo video" shown:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UbuntuTouch/comments/1nolhr1/odm_devices/

Hi,

just stumbled across a device called "QCOM U6701" with Ubuntu Touch preinstalled.
Doing a quick search I didn't really find a manufacturer website, but if you search for it, you'll get some hits. Don't know if that's for real, looks kinda scammy...

However, just wanted to leave that here.

Maybe someone else knows more...

You can install Termux on any Android Tablet and run a full blown Linux desktop there. It's relatively easy to setup and works very well.

That's at least my replacement until something comparable is reached in Linux OS world.
The Volla tablet should get support on UT soon, at least I hope so and look forward to it.

My Volla Phone 22 (no replaced display) performs very laggy.
Even with no app open, fading in/out the sidebar or the app drawer is laggy. Also just scrolling up/down the settings menu.

The original Volla Phone performs way smoother here.

What could be the reason for that?
I switched channels, but that didn't change anything.

Any help appreciated...

I had quite a simiilar problem with my Quintus. I'm on stable channel.
For me the solution was switching channel to RC, update there and switch back.
Maybe this helps...

@arubislander No I don't think it's outdated. Probably it's just luck that it works on the Quintus as an unsupported device...
I was just hoping, it's a simple to solve config issue.
But searching the net shows, that hardly anyone solved this due to it probably is a running environment issue and thus simply unsupported, as the list says.

Do you mean this list?

Since Waydroid runs on the Quintus, which also is not on the list I was hoping this issue might be a simple one to resolve.

Then the X23 is the only Volla Phone Waydroid doesn't run on.
I'll have to wait then for further support of Halium versions...

Thanks!

Volla Phone X23 (20.04 OTA-8 Stable)

I installed Waydroid with the Waydroid Helper App.
When I try to launch Waydroid, I see the Waydroid icon and a circle beneath it spinning forever.

LogViewer says:

Failed to get service waydroidplatform, trying again...

What can I do about that?

Volla Phone Quintus (20.04 OTA-8 Stable)

No issues so far, seems to work fine!

Can I install Waydroid on the Volla Tablet with the Helper app?
Due to the warning shown I wanted to previously ask if there are experiences, yet?

Thanks!

I had this behavior already in OTA-7.
I don't remember, when this started, it wasn't always this way.
I also can fix this only by booting while the charger is plugged in.
Hopefully this will be fixed soon.

Good to know, there's no issue with the battery.

Updated successfully. Thank you!

@Moem Oh ok, thanks! Then I'll just wait until this is fixed

For some days now, in the status bar I have instead of the battery icon some icon I'm not sure what it is supposed to mean.
I also don't get the percentage (switching this on/off doesn't help) neither when charging nor when discharging.
BUT: when I open the battery settings, I get a percentage showing how much the battery is charged (but I don't get the statistics chart).

Please see attached screenshots:

Is my battery defective?

Thanks for your answers!

I am checking over and over again and I have been connected to different Wifis in between in which everthing else works. Should therefore not be an network issue from my side...

I guess I'll try switching channels later on... Hope that helps.
I don't dare reinstalling with the installer since almost every time I tried to flash a device with it, that failed...

My Volla X23 (20.04 stable OTA-7) still does not get an update to OTA-8. Searching results in "software is up to date".
But the update has been released for the X23, yet, hasn't it?

What should I do to retrieve the update?