Dell Venue 8 Pro 5855 works perfect!

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Yue Su

Just installed cloudready the lastest version on the tablet Dell venue 8 pro 5855.

It works great with almost all the functionalities.

Touchscreen, bluetooth, wireless are all functional.

Even the stylus is working great!

The only thing it doesn't support is the screen rotation. you have to use Ctrl+shift+F3 to manually rotate it.

I have a usb-c dock from dell too and it also works. Now I have it hooked with a external monitor.

 

Absolutely recommended for Venue 8 pro users.

 

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  • Yue Su

    I just noticed that I can't tune the brightness by press F6 and F7.

    It didn't bother me because I mainly just use the external monitor but it is an issue.

     

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  • Forrest Smith

    Yue - 

     

    When in tablet mode, you can adjust the internal-screen brightness inside the of system-tray menu. It appears below the volume.

    When unplugged from both keyboard and the monitor/dock, do you see that control? If not, it's possible to enable using keyboards shortcuts, so let me know.

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  • Yue Su

    Hi Forrest,

    Thanks for your reply.

    I don't see the brightness control bar in tablet mode nor in the plugged mode. There is just the volume control.

    However, if I press F6 or F7 on a bluetooth keyboard, the brightness control shows up at the right bottom corner of the screen, but the actual brightness doesn't change accordingly. It either 100% or just completely shut off when slide it to the very left.

    I usually keep it off, which is ok for me because I mainly use it as a chromebox. 

     

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  • Forrest Smith

    Ah ok - yeah it sounds like the adjustment is just not working at a deeper level - even if you could access the brightness bar in the system tray, it would work the same as the F6/F7 buttons on your bluetooth keyboard.

     

    Glad it's nothing big and that you can get some use out of the device anyway. Enjoy!

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  • J Chase

    What's the story on audio? I have the Venue 10 Pro 5056 and everything works but the Realtek ALC5672 audio. 

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  • SS

    Hi, i have a questions: 
    1. How to login to my google account? 
    2. How to delete a pop-up window (bluetooth/keyboard)? 
    3. Can I rotate and adjust brightness of the screen? 

    4. Why setting are unavailable (not active icon)?


     

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  • Forrest Smith

    1) You need to proceed past this step by using the virtual keyboard or perhaps connecting an external keyboard

    2) see #1

    3) There are way to do this manually once logged in

    4) You can't adjust settings at the login screen.

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  • SS

    External kyeboard is not working properly. How to close the pop-up window - ALT F4 like in Windows?

    How to make a login window will appear?

    Thanks.

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  • Forrest Smith

    I would try a different external keyboard - you should be able to move past that screen that way.


    Your screenshot shows an older version of CloudReady too - you may want to reimage your USB stick to get v70.3 which is our latest update. It might move past this step without issues. 

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  • Aaron Dossett

    I am having difficulty installing CloudReady on my DV8P. When booting off of the USB i get a black screen, and after about a minute it makes a short sound as if it booted, i just get no video. The install USB works on other PC's that i have. Are there any tricks to installing CloudReady on the Venue 8 Pro?

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  • SS

    I have the same problem after downloading latest update. It does'nt boot on Venue 8 pro and even on Dell Inspiron notebook. ???

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