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Dell Venue 8 pro (3845)
Manufacturer Dell
Name Venue 8 pro (3845)
Released 2014
Type tablet
Hardware
Chipset Intel Bay Trail T Z3735
CPU Intel® Atom™ CPU Z3735 @ 1.832GHz (Quad-Core)
GPU Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display
Display 8" 800x1280 IPS LCD
Storage 32 GB + sdcard reader
Memory 1 GB
Architecture x86_64
Software
Original software Windows
Original version 8.1
FOSS bootloader yes
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Mainline yes
postmarketOS kernel Latest edge
Features
USB Networking
No data
Internal storage
No data
SD card
No data
Battery
Broken
Screen
Works
Touchscreen
Works
Multimedia
3D Acceleration
Works
Audio
Works
Camera
Broken
Camera Flash
No data
Connectivity
WiFi
Works
Bluetooth
Broken
Miscellaneous
FDE
No data
USB-A
Works
USB OTG
Works
Sensors
Accelerometer
No data
Magnetometer
No data
Ambient Light
No data
Proximity
No data
Hall Effect
No data
Haptics
No data
Barometer
No data
Power Sensor
No data


Contributors

Users owning this device


Installation

Preparation

This tablet is essentially a small UEFI(32bit) computer, no preparation is needed on device other than ensuring secure boot is turned off, which can be changed through the bios. You can do that by holding the windows button on the side of the tablet while it first powers on, then hitting volume down. Then it's like any other computer to turn it off.

The only other setup that is needed is making the bootable usb. This tablet has no ability to flash via a computer, therefor you have to do it manually on-device. As for making the usb, use pmbootstrap to make the usb. Use the tablet-x86uefi device and everything else is preference.

Flashing To Internal Storage

Being so you can not flash this device with a computer, you have to re-run pmbootstrap while booted from the usb, but then instead of installing to the usb again, select the internal storage of the tablet. you can find it with lsblk or ls /dev/ | grep mmcblk. If you don't have a sdcard inserted in the reader it will be the only mmcblkX device. I have noticed personally that it switches from mmcblk1 to mmcblk2 sometimes but i do not think it is relevant.

Hardware status

Bluetooth

Bluetooth support is available in other distros such as fedora, this means it will likely work in the future but no promises.

Camera

No Camera support as of now but work will be done to attempt getting it to work.

USB-A

There is no usb port on this tablet, however there is a microusb port which when paired with an adapter works just like a normal usb port. Hence why i put it as Works

Software issues

On gnome-mobile, you have to reconnect wifi manually on every reboot, assuming this is just the experimental nature of the DE. Along with that, the software center currently does not work

Tested DE

Gnome-mobile

Good, expect bugs mentioned above and rare but possible lock-ups, assuming ram issue.

xfce4

Also good, no complaints.

plasma-mobile

works* would frequently lock up, also assuming its a ram issue.

See also