Jolla tablet Sailfish 3 update issue

Agree... I did an upgrade on two tablets and both ended successully..... You just can't see any progress bar until it is finished... But as I could see the black screen shining a little bit I assumed that something is working in the background...and it did it successfully at the end. So don't touch it until the device is back ;).

I know this is annoying issue and hopefully Jolla will fix this for upcoming updates.

With me, it also took a loooooong way with a black screen, but finally, the update was fine. The missing status bar, however, should be fixed.

The update on my tablet was without errors, only the missing status bar made me nervous, although I already knew it from the last update. I let the tablet alone, until it finished the update by itself, there is no status bar or notification anymore. It just reboots after some time.

Why do we have to wait for hours while the command line update is just taking minutes. Something is not right there...

@JSE: if the command line option takes only a couple of minutes, it means most of the packages had already been downloaded and installed. Normally it takes about two hours regardless of which way you update.

@nthn: That's hard to believe, I've never had a Jolla/Sailfish device that needed hours to update. After downloading via the settings menu, updates take only minutes... So, still feels like something is not going well updating it via the settings menu (after download finished). Really hope JollaHQ can fix this to have a better experience for all other Jolla tablet users out there.

I counted the time to download, too. The update screen itself takes 10-15 minutes if I recall correctly, but then again, I haven't seen it in years as it always breaks and I have to update through the terminal anyway.

I tried to upgrade my tablet last night ... before reading this. The upgrade ended with the black screen and after maybe 15 minutes I rebooted the tablet with the power button. Now it boots up to a black screen and I have no idea if something is still upgrading or not. About 12 hours have passed.

Is the thing just bricked at this point?

Follow the steps in this post/question. Shut it down by holding the power button a while until it turned off. I starts the device again and it boots into the latest Sailfish OS 2 release... The rest you can read :)

Now, restart using hardware power button. 24 hours is more than enough. You are asked to wait so that all the processes get finished, which generally takes 1-2 hours.