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Forum: Applications 2019-04-13, 19:18
Replies: 168
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Posted By alfmar
Re: Telegram on SailfishOS

I'm using Sailorgram 0.9.7 on my Xperia X under latest Sailfish 3.0.2.8 Oulanka and it still works.
Forum: SailfishOS 2018-11-08, 20:13
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Well, I just updated to SailfishX 3.0 and I'm a bit disappointed:

- Linux kernel is the old 3.10.84, dating back to July 2015 (https://lwn.net/Articles/650753/) (yet Jolla patched it for the...
Forum: SailfishOS 2018-09-16, 11:41
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Smile Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Same here. 5984x3392 is the actual 20.3 Mp resolution.

I guess not all Xperia X owners know yet.
Forum: SailfishOS 2018-03-06, 19:50
Replies: 209
Views: 54,346
Posted By alfmar
Re: 2.1.4 EA / Lapuanjoki

OK, I just upgraded my Xperia F5121 to SailfishX 2.1.4.14 Lapuanjoki.

At first my heart skipped a beat when the update process rebooted again soon after showing the white "SONY" screen (I thought...
Forum: SailfishOS 2018-02-20, 12:32
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Smile Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

In 2014 I wrote a GPS software for my Jolla. (https://openrepos.net/content/alfmar/gpstuff)
Due to QT-Location library not yet officially supported by SailfishOS (because in QT 5.1 it was still...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-11-13, 16:06
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Arrow Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Some extra notes about reclaiming a few gigabytes disk space to add to root and/or home logical volumes:



Facts:
- only partitions 51 and 52 need to be touched for reclaiming some gigabytes...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-11-07, 20:01
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Talking Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

The ssh service is only enabled if the "Developer Mode" is enabled and in the Developer Tools menu of the Settings you enable the Remote Connection thing and set a password.

Then you can ssh via...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-11-04, 17:04
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

My Xperia X experienced its first unexpected reboot since October 11. I had quite a number of native apps running (including music and camera), GPS collecting data, wifi off, but I don't think I was...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-27, 08:51
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Arrow Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

On SailfishX I've never seen more than 3-4% battery usage overnight (most times is 1-2% only), even with 7-8 open apps and an automated nightly rsync backup at 3:40am. On Jolla1 it was basically the...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-23, 18:43
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Exclamation Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

In the Sony Xperia X the advertised "32 Gb" are actually 29.1 Gb (31.2 billion bytes). And they have the usual baroque Android partitioning scheme (52 partitions, ouch!)

Thus we have:
- 20.7 Gb...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-20, 16:13
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Wow, I just associated my Logitech K480 Bluetooth Keyboard from SailfishX.

It works.
When some text input is required (that is: when the cursor is on) and the keyboard is on, the virtual keyboard...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-20, 13:03
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Exclamation Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

No need for a shell; just use something like:
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/iw reg set IT


Once enabled the service, just reboot. Note that iw reg set... takes one or two seconds to change to a different...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-19, 19:48
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Hmm... this is too funny to not to mention it here.

After exporting contacts using vcardconverter (https://together.jolla.com/question/384/export-vcf-from-people/), I also exported the entire...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-19, 11:01
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

My home wifi AP uses channel #13 and SailfishX has no problems connecting. The command iw phy phy0 info on SailfishX says that only 2484 MHz (channel 14) is actually "disabled" (because of the...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-18, 19:11
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Exclamation Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

It would be very nice to use the camera button to start the camera app anytime, like in the old prehistoric Android days.

Please upvote the relevant feature request...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-18, 16:29
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Wink Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Sorry to redpill you, but SailfishOS has always been built on systemd and some non-trivial benefits (like a faster boot time when compared to Android) depend on it.

Jolla developers wisely chose...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-16, 17:47
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Talking Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

1. try with less tape width, maybe add two-sided tape under
2. change your nickname to "Hack"
3. submit your hack on Hackaday.com :D
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-13, 12:11
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Lightbulb Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

SailfishX 2.1.3.5 uses Linux kernel version 3.10.84 compiled without btrfs support.

Both root and home partitions are formatted with ext4 and are respectively 2488624 blocks (aka less than 2.5 Gb...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-11, 20:40
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Smile Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

If you don't want to wait or reboot, you have to force refresh the Software Updates app by sliding down (a small spinning circle appears while it's doing the check). I had to go through five or six...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-11, 17:07
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Arrrrgh:


From the included flashing-README.txt
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-11, 16:07
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Mine is still 34.2.A.0.333 (Android 7.0) and I would gladly avoid to download 2.6 Gb to update to 34.3 for the few seconds needed to flash SailfishX (I have only UMTS here).

I guess the only real...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-11, 15:37
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

I think Jolla guys are having a party and laughing at us while watching on a giant screen their nginx webserver logs: "look! they're hitting F5 like there was no tomorrow!" "OMG, the IP addresses...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-04, 18:36
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Can't wait to shout "shut up and get my money!" :D



Translates as: "you won't be able to sell an Android Xperia X in future". Who actually cares? (note also the "sale is final, no refund if you...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-10-02, 11:09
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Talking Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Even if its campaign succeeds and even if they manage to ship by January 2019 as they promised (63 months later than the original Jolla phone), Librem5 is just doomed. Even more than UbuntuPhone.
...
Forum: SailfishOS 2017-09-28, 18:43
Replies: 3,083
Views: 1,027,023
Posted By alfmar
Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Sony has not been that fair to change the rules a few days before SFX launch. I think a number of Sony higher-ups may have entered Panic Mode Level 1 when they found out that people going to flash...
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