Any Inoi R7 users out there?

Devices
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Hello Sailors,

is there anyone using an Inoi R7 device out there?

Kind regards,
BGK

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Then ask, I’m curious!

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If MDM (Mobile Device Managenent) is present you need to contact the company that have that phone in their catalogue.

EDIT:
OMP is the wrong company to sent it to, send an email to the company that owns the device: Where you got it from.

If all else fails you can change the motherboard and flash the device again (if at all possible).

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My Inoi seems to be dead. After normal usage and connecting to the power source, it’s no longer possible to turn on the device.

When connected to the power source the status led blinks (1s on, 1s off) - even when the battery is loaded externally (and seems to be fully loaded).

Is there some key press combination to reactivate the device?

Kind regards,
BGK

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Where did you bought your Inoi from? I am also curious to buy such a device with Aurora OS

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Got mine from a russian online-store a few years ago. I don’t think you will have big chances to get one now…

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Thank you!
Is Inoi a russian brand? Or just a chinese rebrand?

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I guess it was a russian adaption of the original Jolla 1 or so - made in china, used by russian post service, but also sold to public via an online store (which I don’t remember now, still can be found at Inoi R7 16Gb, Black, Dual SIM, 4G LTE, 3G, код 4660042750224).

It’s a rather basic but clever phone (4G dual sim, SD-card-slot, battery can be changed easily,…) but not trailblazing specs.

Is far as I know one of the devices which arised from the cooperation with OMP/rostelecom which might cause some headache to Jolla now…

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What makes you think that even exists for it?

Source for that?

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Well, at least from the info available here, Jolla pushes updates only to their devices and Sailfish X.

So i did the searching that you perhaps should have done… some other guy in a similar situation was stuck on 4.0, managed to force some more updates - and then it broke.

Maybe they pulled the update server offline?

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Rereading this thread, 3.0.0.11 may be the final “official” release for the Inoi R7. Edit: It is not, an flashable image with SFOS 4.0.1 exists, which can be upgraded to at least 4.2.0, see postings below.

Note that the hardware of the Inoi R7 closely resembles the hardware of the Jolla C and the Intex Aquafish (l500d), so one may be able to upgrade further (the Jolla C is still supported), if one exactly understands and knows which packages may cause issues and keeps old versions of them around; you will also have to know the rpm utility and RPM troubleshooting well.

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Well, I guess this won’t be helpful to you, but my R7 got OTA-updates until Version 4.0.1.48 (always updated via GUI without any problems). Then there where no more OTA updates available for it.

User msdk brought his device further by updating via terminal (see this thread), but the latest update to 4.5.0.19 resulted in troubles with camera and gps.

What’s really annoying, is that there’s no reaction of Jolla (or other “knowing people”) on this at all…

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Just as a curiosity, are you using SFOS or Aurora OS? Thank you!

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Have you tried to contact Jolla on zenhelp desk? The customer care.
INOI did manifactured it, but they don’t have anything to do with software, I guess.

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SW updates via GUI is a paid feature for Sailfish X.

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Please be so kind to provide a link to the source of SailfishOS-p4903-lvm-4.0.1.48-p4903-0.0.2.44.tar.zip, presumably somewhere in the XDA forum. This will allow other users of an Inoi R7 (i.e., device ID p4903) to follow the upgrade path you successfully used.

I recommend using sfos-upgrade for upgrading SailfishOS at the command line; see its description for reasons.

Unfortunately, that post by @msdk does not tell, if it was working fine with SailfishOS 4.4.0.72, or if 4.3.0.12 was the last release which was working well. I also do not comprehend why 4.3.0.15 was not working well, but 4.3.0.12 was reported as O.K., as there is no significant difference. Maybe 4.2.0.21 ist the last release which really works fine. But as you can re-flash to 4.0.1.48 and upgrade from that at any time, you can try.
Note that I provided some ideas and questions to determine what the reason may be for the issues, which were observed.

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This only applies to Sailfish X; i.e. the Xperias and Gemini PDA where you purchase a license separately.
Inoi, like old Jolla phones has it included in the price of course.

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If you run ssu lr in terminal, you’ll se what servers are used.
If it is jolla’s, then they may have pulled the updates - and presumably you need an account with them (as opposed to something else).

Sounds pretty reasonable to me. But it doesn’t have to be out of spite or sanctions, it can be that the contract has run out and/or inoi stopped paying, or being able to pay.

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Surely that phone is flashed over USB like everything else… What makes you say that it is even a thing?

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No.

Well, they are trying to separate all trade aspects since winter 2021, but I see no reason to punish the Russian users. Though many people do not clearly differentiate between Russia, the Russian government and the Russian people. Or it might be “collateral damage”, due to which for example all content at https://community.omprussia.ru and https://developer.auroraos.ru has become inaccessible for me (from the EU and without an VPN, I am always running into timeouts), even though Google does display content there as search results. :frowning_face:

Unfortunately there is a dependency missing, because I really would like to see this ~ 100 MByte (RPM file size of the “offline version”) Office suite in action:
Fatal error: nothing provides libauroraapp.so.2 needed by ru.r7-office.documents-1.0.137-1.armv7hl

Oh, I thought of a web-link to the discussion thread at 4pda.ru from which you obtained the download links. Never mind, these links to Google-Drive are fine. Do you have a more specific description (can be in Russian) what “test-point method for bricked phones” means?

Thank you very much for these downloads:

AFAIU, both firmware images were successfully flashed by community members at the forum 4pda.ru (translated to English) (= 4pda.to (translated to English)) on Inoi R7 phones, because it shares the same hardware (except for the cellular modem) with the Jolla C, Intex Aquafish and the Android phone Wiko Mobile - TOMMY (there might be other Android phones by different “brands” using exactly this hardware).

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