Dell Venue 8 Pro 5855 works perfect!

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Yue Su

• August 02, 2018 21:06

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

  • August 02, 2018 23:57

  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

  • August 03, 2018 14:06

  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

  • August 03, 2018 23:21

  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

  • August 04, 2018 16:13

  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

  • August 15, 2018 01:53

  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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