The Volla 22 (Gigaset GS5) Thread

Hardware Adaptation
#319

Thank you @piggz and @poetaster for your answers.
I am delighted!
Beautiful to see SFOS on an affordable and promising device like the GS5.
Beautiful to be able to try other devices than supported ones.
Beautiful to be free from, mainly, you know who and you know who :–)

Out of curiosity, I wanted to see this UbPorts-installer and VollaOS.
So I began with them, even if not mandatory.
Then I flashed SFOS as described above.

First sight: Perfectly booted, phone works, SIM is seen after some reboots.

But there is only 45MB of free system storage.
I didn’t find how to free some more storage.
Are there some files to delete?

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#320

Boot in recovery…factory reset and wipe format data

#321

Thanks. I tried but then, the decrypt password (first one) was not working anymore.

#322

Yes, if you delete the user data (which you have to to free up the space), you have to flash again. But the user data will be gone and on flashing you should have about 5.x GB of space on the root partition.

EDIT, I forgot that the last time I did a flash after doing a volla install (Rephone). So I had to flash again after wipe/format. I haven’t tried it yet, but @piggz suggests you could just flash a GS5 directly, without the volla os install, but you’d still have to wipe the user data as @teracube says one was of the other.

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#323

Cool, great.

Done. Working great, including SIM card after some reboots.
Strange, vibration (enabled in settings feedback) was working but not any more.
Vibrator works in CSD tool though.
I’ll try to flash once again.

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#324

Indeed. I always turn that off and hadn’t noticed that the option is actually on! Hmmm.

#325

Maybe @piggz , you would have an idea on how to fix vibration feedback? (vibrator works in CSD tests but not with keyboards or menus)

#326

Saying once again but it’s really nice to have SFOS on a phone with a good camera and GPS, fast processor…
I could easily upgrade to 4.5.0.19 with the zypper commands found above.

I have some other questions. Perhaps one of you folks know the answers:

Backup
I do backup the entire system on my XA2 by booting in recovery console and issue a:

dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p76 of=/some_file_on_microsd bs=16M
So I have both / and /home saved at once in a file, with all settings, apps and so on.

On the GS5, is there a way to
-have a recovery console? (i.e. what image to flash with fastboot?)
-discover where the partition hosting / and /home are?

Camera
Is there a way to use the wide angle rear camera?

Construction material
Did you also notice how crazy the GS5 is slippery?
It’s even self moving very slowly but certainly, on almost flat surfaces, especially paper.
E.g. try to dispose it on a toilet paper roll (no joke, sorry, it’s the very best example). Observe it for a while!
Or some folded paper sheets. The folding is a bit higher. The phone will surreptitiously move. Once, it fell while I was looking somewhere else.

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#327

The bind-interfaces can create others problems to others network stuff especially when interfaces come up and down in combination with evolute network services like dnsmasq and the DNS Alternative which contains dnsmsaq plus others service to proxies the queries. I suggest to try bind-dynamic instead.

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#328

I just noticed that, unlike on the xperia III , you only see camera 0 in advanced camera. So, @piggz?

As far as dd is concerned, also one for @piggz

The rephone is less slippery :wink: I bought caseroxx bumpers for both. The GS5 bumper is perfect. Fitting the same one on the rephone is less ideal, but still works.

#329

It is a shame that it has not being equiped with OLED / AMOLED display

IPS Display mit einer Auflösung von 2340 x 1080 Pixel

It would save some energy from battery with pure-dark theme (and it is nicer).

The rephone has 6GB of RAM instead the GS5 like the Volla 22 has 4GB, only.

#330

I dont find the Caseroxx cases/bumpers.
Would you have a link or a hint?
Thanks

#331

ebay.de /itm/195738043517?var=495598182641

Edit, also on Amazon search for caseroxx gigaset gs5

#332

Oops, I only searched from the phone with duckduckgo :face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:

#333

I encountered the SIM problems after a reboot. Didn’t came back even after several reboots.
Close to your procedure, this was also working.
In short, principle seems to be: enable the SIM when the phone is fully booted.

In details, what worked for me was:

  • disable SIM slot 1 + Enable SIM slot 2
  • Power OFF
  • Insert SIM in Slot 1
  • Boot
  • Enable SIM slot 1. It will ask for the pin code.
    So it seems that SIM is not recognised while booting but can be, after.

PIN Settings page does not allow to disable both SIM.
But if we could disable both, there would perhaps be a way to have 2 SIM working. :thinking:

Is there a way, by command line, to bypass the Settings restriction and disable both SIMs?

#334

Interesting. Just happened to me for the first time in months.

  1. Sim settings unchanged from 1 on 2 off.
  2. I went to the PIN settings. Tried to set pin. faills.
  3. Shut phone down. Turn it on.
  4. If you are greeted by a login immediately, you’ll get a PIN request too.

I haven’t tried moving sims around. I’ll try with turn on 2. Turn off 1, etc. next time.

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#335

It’ll work now; there wont be a next time. :innocent:

I’m sure @nephros knows how to turn both SIM slots off through command line.
biggrin

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#336

Heh, I’m sure he does :wink: since 4.5, although other things suck, the sim/pin thing seemed ‘settled’. guess not. interesting debugging coming for sure. :slight_smile:

#337

I’m drying.
Searched for “You must have at least one SIM slot enabled” (pops up when one tries to disable both SIM slots). But as error messages, they are stored elsewhere than in the searched files.

Maybe something interesting here?:

/usr/lib/qt5/qml/Sailfish/Settings/Networking/SimDependentSettingsToggle.qml
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/Sailfish/Telephony/SimErrorState.qml

#338

Unfortunately I don’t.

I’m guessing such things are managed through some Android daemon/utility, qcrild or so?

radio     3767  3133  0 Jul02 ?        00:01:30 /odm/bin/hw/qcrild
radio     3770  3133  0 Jul02 ?        00:06:03 /odm/bin/hw/qcrild -c 2

I’d try killing that second one on a hunch, but it probably will restart through doid-hal-init.
(and these are from a Sony, not Volla)

Maybe that’s a question for the porters IRC or XDA?

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