The Volla Quintus (algiz) thread

Hardware Adaptation
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I have installed Sailfish on my Quintus and after a few days of use, here are some observations:

  • It’s very fast (compared to Vp22 or Jolla C2).
  • It’s very fast even with Waydroid running in the background.
  • Calls, data and SMS work
  • 5G works (After a few days of use, 5G suddenly drops to 2.5G and never comes back. It’s a known issue and hopefully will be fixed soon).
  • GPS works, even indoors next to a window
  • Camera works (even on Waydroid)
  • Automatic screen brightness doesn’t seem to work
  • No chance to test VoLTE at the moment, but it might work
  • Playing videos does not work on Waydroid
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Does GPS work once wayland was started? It is not working on VP22 or Rephone until reboot.

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If/when you get a chance to test this, please report your results. Thanks.

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My GPS works even though Waydroid is turned on. On the Quintus as well as the Volla Phone 22.

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Ok, so my GPS not working after waydroid was started might be fixable. I am still on 4.5. Maybe the soon coming update to 5.0 will change things.

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Do you expect that your SFOS built will be dual-bootable in the upcoming Volla Update that will enable dual-boot for Quintus?

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With getting Waydroid working did you use the waydroid-settings or waydroid-runner package, as i couldn’t get it working with the settings package.

Also were the instructions for Waydroid enough in the first post for you get it working?

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I am using the waydroid-runner package.
Here are the steps I took:

  • From chum-gui install waydroid and waydroid-runner

  • Open a terminal and zypper in waydroid-gbinder-config-mainline

  • mkdir -p /userdata/system-data/etc/waydroid-extra/images

  • mkdir -p /etc/waydroid-extra/images

  • ln -s /userdata/etc/waydroid-extra /etc/waydroid-extra

  • zypper in wget
    images_url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/aleasto-lineageos/files/LineageOS%2020/waydroid_arm64

  • wget $images_url/system.img/download -O /etc/waydroid-extra/images/system.img

  • wget $images_url/vendor.img/download -O /etc/waydroid-extra/images/vendor.img

  • waydroid init -f

  • devel-su systemctl disable --now dnsmasq

  • Edit the gbinder config: vi /etc/gbinder.d/anbox-mainline.conf

[Protocol]
/dev/anbox-binder = aidl3
/dev/anbox-vndbinder = aidl3
/dev/anbox-hwbinder = hidl

[ServiceManager]
/dev/anbox-binder = aidl3
/dev/anbox-vndbinder = aidl3
/dev/anbox-hwbinder = hidl

  • Reboot
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I can now confirm this: VoLTE works at least on the Finnish Elisa network.

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The multiboot option is not yet available in Volla OS on the Quintus.
Can Volla OS be reflashed to the Quintus after trying the SFOS alpha built?
Without knowing that I can revert to the original state I wouldn’t be brave enough to try SFOS on the Quintus

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Thanks for that, i followed what you did with both waydroid-runner and then waydroid-settings and they both spam this in the log when trying to start them respectively and nothing else happens

Failed to get service waydroidplatform, trying again

Also i saw you got VoLTE working, i installed the mtk ofono plugin as the option wasn’t in my settings, but enabling it just constantly flashes, even though VoLTE works fine in VollaOS with EE UK

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There was a typo in my edit of the gbinder config.

Edit the gbinder config: vi /etc/gbinder.d/anbox-mainline.conf

[Protocol]
/dev/anbox-binder = aidl3
/dev/anbox-vndbinder = aidl3
/dev/anbox-hwbinder = hidl

[ServiceManager]
/dev/anbox-binder = aidl3
/dev/anbox-vndbinder = aidl3
/dev/anbox-hwbinder = hidl

And regarding VoLTE, did you install this package: ofono-binder-plugin-ext-mtk?

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Thanks, i did a reflash and installing the ofono package again worked for VoLTE this time so thats working now.

I’ll give Waydroid another go with the fixed typo, thanks

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I just noticed on the ubports gitlab quintus repo that they have done some commits to support DoubleTapToWake, is this something that could help get it working for this port too?

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Is it possible to dual-boot Volla OS and SailfishOS ?

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From Vollas side the bootloader functionality is expected to come with the next updates.

From @piggz side, I guess the latest info was:

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Not currently … its not something I do myself, but if the volla guys need something in particular im happy to help if i can to allow them to do that

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A user build of sailfish 5.0 for the quintus is here, can anyone confirm it works ok? Release release-testing-5.0.0.62-user-0.10 · HelloVolla/sailfish-release-halium-algiz · GitHub

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Did a fresh reinstall just now and all seems to be good, VoLTE shows as registered straight away also.

Thanks for doing this.

EDIT: the only thing that isn’t working well is the automatic screen brightness but other than that it’s fine

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Fantastic, thankyou for checking!