Hello friends, is anyone by any chance aware if there exists some kind of main community/fanboy club for Volla devices that’s more alive than the official forums? This place is the closest I found so far, but right now I’m mostly looking for ways to get my hands on the damn thing (a major and regular pain in the rear for any obscure devices now that I’m temporarily stuck in Central Asia), and I don’t think this is a good place to ask about that
@piggz, what was the last release in the 4.5 line? I just had issues trying to install from chum with 4.5.0.21 and it looks like 4.5.0.24 was the last? If I do ssu re 4.5.0.24 and zypper ref I get a bunch of downgrade warnings:
The following 17 packages are going to be downgraded:
droid-config-halium-mimameid droid-config-halium-mimameid-bluez5 droid-config-halium-mimameid-flashing droid-config-halium-mimameid-policy-settings
droid-config-halium-mimameid-preinit-plugin droid-config-halium-mimameid-pulseaudio-settings droid-config-halium-mimameid-sailfish droid-hal-version-halium-mimameid ffmpeg ffmpeg-tools
harbour-musicex harbour-tooterb mapboxgl-qml patterns-sailfish-device-adaptation-halium-mimameid patterns-sailfish-device-configuration-common-halium-mimameid
patterns-sailfish-device-configuration-halium-mimameid wget
that’s good news 
then i can finally ditch ubuntu touch and use sfos
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thats probably ok… Subprojects of nemo:testing:hw:volla:yggdrasil - SailfishOS Open Build Service i should make a 4.6!
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I thought the 22 was mimaid?
You are of course correct Subprojects of nemo:testing:hw:volla:halium-mimameid - SailfishOS Open Build Service
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oh no, i mixed the volla 22 up with the vollla 23…
Ahoy Sailors,
I got a modified Volla 22 (+) recently and now I am wondering, how I can bring SailfishOS to it? Can you give me a little hint please.
I already understood, that SFOS currently will not be possible to add to the Multiboot options (VMB), as only VollaOS and UbuntuTouch are available, unfortunatly. However, I thought to run SFOS alone, but is it possible?
I did also understood, that Mr. Pigg created some great ports (Thanks for that!), but is there also one for the Volla22(+)? And is there a step by step tutorial, how to flash it (I know the basic, but not the details)?
Thanks for your suggestions and support!
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Hi! You can flash SFOS directly onto a Volla with VollaOS installed on it. It might make sense to wait a bit since pigzz is working on 4.6 and that would require a re-flash since the Android base changes. @piggz, should they go ahead with 4.4 or wait a bit? I’m still running 4.4 and happy with it.
The project source/ci and installer files are located at sailfishos-porters-ci / Halium Mimameid Ci · GitLab The last stable, 4.4, release job’s installer archive is https://gitlab.com/sailfishos-porters-ci/halium-mimameid-ci/-/jobs/4468081873/artifacts/download?file_type=archive
With that, you have a flash.sh script that you can execute when the phone is attached to your pc and in fastboot mode.
Hey @poetaster thanks a lot for that comments!
Is there a difference for the build if the phone is Volla22 or Volla22+, or is the functionality the same?
Considering only ram and camera got enhanced, there should not be too much, right?
With your description then, VollaOS will be replaced by SFOS completly?
Would be great to have a 4.6 version already on it. However, my old phone (Sony Experia II) is dying, thats why I changed to the Volla Phone. @piggz any indication how long it might take? Any help possible on the build?
I don’t believe there is a difference. I think the rephone and the Volla22+ have the same Camera, and although on the rephone the resolution is sometimes flake (sometimes I choose a resolution for video that’s not really supported and have to restart the phone) they seem to function equally well.
The sailfish image does completely overwrite the user data partitions and only the android hardware system stuff remains (roughly).
@poetaster just a quick update on my status so far:
- Developermode and usb debugging activated - DONE
- fastboot flashing unlocked - DONE
- Access to fastboot and connection linux PC to phone established - DONE
- SFOS 4.4 build from gitlab downloaded and extracted - DONE
unfortunatly now two issues occured:
- when running the flash.sh script the script didnt recognize fastboot installation. I commented out that check at the beginning. After this the script finished successful with a minor error before rebooting, as it was not taking the y/n option, but just rebooted. - WORKAROUND FOUND
- However now the Dual boot screen VollaOS/UbuntuTouch is still apearing. With VollaOS being selected the booting stuck with Volla signature. - STUCKED
Where did I turn wrong? How can I assess, where the booting is stuck and how can SailfishOS be booted?
Thanks for your hint, now I am getting very curious!
Ah, I think if you set up dual boot, you may have to flash VollaOS again making sure to NOT setup dual boot. EDIT: and then flash.sh again from fastboot.
Was able to reinstall VollaOS12 with UBPorts. Thanks to some very useful help from Volla Community group it was hinted to install first Ubuntu Touch and then VollaOS to avoid being stucked into fastboot. This worked well. However, reflashing SFOS afterwards without Multiboot was not successful.
True, the Multiboot option is gone now, but SFOS is not booting up.
@poetaster Any clue, what I could do better?
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What exactly happens? Do you see an SFOS logo on boot, or just…? Which version of VollaOS was it, android 13/14?
No there is no SFOS Logo, it stays with the one from Volla,
After reinstallation of VollaOS from UBPorts, the VollaOS version was v12. From there I opened up Developermode and usb debugging before running the flash.sh from your link earlier from the mimameid build.
Ok, that’s strange. 12 should be no issue. @piggz, is 12 and issue with the 4.4 image from a year ago? perhaps that base should be 11? I would try again, paying particular attention to messages while it’s installing fastboot. It could be that you have to install the latest image (a 4.5 with video recording issues). The 4.5 images are also ‘devel’ which means not really released. I have one phone running them (GS5) for testing.
All current images are based on 11.
From 5.0 (soon?) you will require the 12 base
I made a PSA about this here The Volla 22 (Gigaset GS5) Thread - #768 by piggz
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@poetaster @piggz thanks for your explanations!
How can I check logs or messages during flashing?
The ones being displayed in fastboot during flashing had all a super/successful message, but it seemed it was more from downloading?
And is there a change to downgrade VollaOS to v11? From UBPorts I could not see any option to change the version (which was possible for UbuntuTouch).
I really don’t know, but would guess that volla has older versions available. I would check on the volla site, I’ve never had to downgrade.