Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

You need this one:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1cihx7...50630.img/file

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Thanks mautz,I wipe all data system cache,also verfied the imgae md5 value .So I only flash cm12.1-20160704,but still stuck in bootup,google logo.the same situation with I quoted.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Stupid question: did you flash also the Sailfish OS files?
Please follow the following instructions for multirom https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Ada...rhead#MultiROM

Maybe you're mixing CM12 with Sailfish based on CM13 from Mautz?
Download the latest image of @edp17 from here and use that one
https://mega.nz/#!lC5UhCqb!IuPF-dzGc...onB9duzeqPrrAA

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Hello, You did not say you flashed the sailfish image too. You only said flashed cm12.1 then you got the boot loop. The proper installation is in twrp 2.8.7:

• do a factory reset,
• flash cm12.1
• flash sailfish image
• reboot

This will (should) work with either with both twrps the 'twrp_multirom_hammerhead_2150630.img' (twrp 2.8.7.0) or the newer 'twrp_multirom_hammerhead_20160210.img' (twrp v3.3).

(However with this latter you cannot flash any zip files over a secondary rom, if you need to do that just flash the newer twrp and reboot into recovery. I had been swapped between these two twrps when was playing with UT and different versions of Sailfish where I tried the SFDroid and other stuff. If you only need Sailfish, you don't need this magic that I wrote in this brackets. :))

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

I Konw cm13 base sailfish and cm12.1 sailfish.I am sure I use correct twrp and cmbase image .And Sailfish base on cm13 I flash sucess,but with no sfdroid.

As you see,I only need sailfh.I try many times,I flash cm12.1 then no boot flash sailfish ,the result is boot loop. Then I only flash cm12.1-20160704 ,boot loop.

I also flash other cm 12 image,the result is sucess. So this is the question

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Please tell us which files(filenames!) exactly do you use and in which order you flash them.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

By the way, @mautz, do you know how to update the MER wiki about the Nexus 5? A lot of people are being redirected there when looking for info about Sailfish but it's seriously outdated with no links to TMO relevant threads.
https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Ada...for_hammerhead

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

As you see, cm12.1 version : cm-12.1-20160704-UNOFFICIAL-hammerhead-nocheck.zip twrp version: TWRP_multirom_hammerhead_20150630.img(2.8.7) sailfish: SFOS3.2120-CM121-20200113.zip I have flashed cm-12.1-20160704-UNOFFICIAL-hammerhead-nocheck.zip about 10 times,no one sucess,bootloop

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

You are still not saying you flashed the SFOS3.2120-CM121-20200113.zip right after you flashed the cm-12.1-20160704-UNOFFICIAL-hammerhead-nocheck.zip.

You need to do all of these exactly in this order:

• boot into twrp
• do a factory reset,
• flash cm-12.1-20160704-UNOFFICIAL-hammerhead-nocheck.zip
• flash SFOS3.2120-CM121-20200113.zip
• reboot

I hope this will help.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

I'll update the page in the following days :)

Mhh, seems to be better to write a complete new one, seems like everything is totally outdated in the wiki.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

If I can help with something with the new wiki, please let me know.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

mautz or edp17, would be possible to recompile the kernel with the missing flags in order to run flatpak based browser Angelfish?
See here https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.ph...47#post1565447

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Of course it would. :)
I do it today or tomorrow and will let you know.

Are these the only flags needed to be set?:

# CONFIG_UTS_NS is not set
# CONFIG_IPC_NS is not set
# CONFIG_USER_NS is not set
# CONFIG_PID_NS is not set

Could you tell me the benefit of using Angelfish over the built in or Firefox, please? Thanks.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

I don't know for sure, but probably that's sufficient. Usually, USER_NS is checked for when installing on Gentoo. So, that's a hope.

Main advantage is getting access to Qt 5.12 and later to Qt 5.14. Qt 5.12 WebEngine corresponds to Chrome 75 (June 2019) with additional security patches applied. As for browser, its less feature rich than the stock one, but we are working on it with Plasma developers.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Thanks. I'll switch them all in the kernel. (Doesn't hurt :))

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

I have re-compiled the kernel. It is available to download from here: edp17Kernel_flatpak-support.zip

I have flashed and tried and the '# zcat /proc/config.gz | grep _NS' gives me:

CONFIG_UTS_NS=y
CONFIG_IPC_NS=y
CONFIG_USER_NS=y
CONFIG_PID_NS=y
CONFIG_NET_NS=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_NETBIOS_NS=y

I hope this helps with your Flatpak work. :)

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

As my question probably won't be appreciated on the sailfishos-porters channel, I ask here. ;)

Can somebody help me with the AD, please?

On my S2 I have managed to install the rpm and have changed the /opt/alien/system/script/platform_extraenvsetup.sh to have the proper bits and bobs for the 3D, Camera and HW codes but when I try to start, I get Some logs:

• strace systemctl start aliendalvik.service
• journalctl
• systemctl status aliendalvik.service

I appreciate any thoughts on it! :) Thanks!

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

I flashed the new kernel for flatpak support but now I have no WLAN! I can't turn it on...Which kernel do I have to flash to restore the default one?

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Hmm. I am sorry about that.
I had this issue before but not with this one. Don't really know why because I also have included the wifi module into the zip.
Anyway, here you can find the previous kernel. I hope this will work.

I guess you are not using multirom. Haven't you create a backup before flashed the kernel?

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Can you double check something for me, please?
Please write here the output of

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

I do use multirom, however I did not backup before flashing.
How do you do a backup of a specific rom? I was considering dd over ssh but have not tried yet.

Anyway, the output is:
The old kernel restores wlan! Thank you.

Btw, despite the added flags in the kernel Angelfish does not start, I'll report in the other thread.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

I know the reason. It seems the wifi module which was coming with this new kernel (flatpak) was not distributed to the device. (I'll ask mautz about it because I got the instruction from him.)

Here is the workaround: (please do not flash the other kernel because you'll get the same issue, hence we should fall back forward :D)
Please do the following:
- unzip the flatpak kernel into a folder (e.g. /home/nemo/tmp)
- run this command as root (Please note the back tick here! This will create the proper folder (3.4.0-cyanogenmod-gcf8d299404c) within /lib/modules where the new kernel looks for the modules.)
- copy the /home/nemo/tmp/modules/bcmdhd.ko into the new location /lib/modules/3.4.0-cyanogenmod-gcf8d299404c/
- reboot

With this you should have flatpak support in the kernel and working wifi.
Please let me know how it went.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Please see my previous comment.
The Angelfish is not starting may be because of the same reason why it didn't start on my S2. Probably. It is explained here.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

The old kernel restores the wifi because its signature (3.4.0-cyanogenmod-g3a439b93663) is the same the folder name where the wifi module is located under the /lib/modules/.

How do we make a backup of a secondary rom with multirom?
Well, we cannot. What we can do is backing up the entire directory where the rom sits but not including the boot (kernel) and recovery partitions.
This means that in your case this "backup" wouldn't save you as you flashed a new kernel (different signature) which has caused the trouble.
On the other hand with this method you can free up some space with archiving unused but wanted to keep roms. Then later it can be "restored" back if you need. (That's how I kept my experiments with sfdroid and older SFOS versions saved onto my network drive.)
If you would like to do this, you just need to boot into another rom and as root create a tar.gz of the whole folder where your other rom sits in /android/media/0/multiro/roms/. (I don't recommend to do this with the rom you are actually using!)

You may also find the following useful.
Because I have lost many well configured systems when tried something new and had to start to setup everything from scratch oll over again, nowadays I am doing the following:

• On my Nexus I have a very light SFOS installation (call it SAFE) and I have another one that fully configured (call it PROD).
• When I would like to try something new (like a new kernel) I boot into the SAFE rom and in fingerterm as root I enter into the /android/media/0/multiro/roms/ folder. (This is where you can find all installed roms, so be careful!) Let's say the folder name is production where your PROD rom is located.
• Then I run the following:
  Code:

  ---

  cp -av production copy

  ---

  This will make a copy of your production rom into a new with a name copy.
• Then when you reboot, you can boot into the 'copy' and do your experiment.

This way you won't compromise your well configured rom. Then if you have tested the new stuff on the copy you can safely install that on your PROD rom too. (Otherwise if something goes wrong, you can just delete the 'copy' rom from twrp and start over.)

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

@edp17

You can change the kernel string in the defconfig file. CONFIG_LOCALVERSION is what you are looking for. For example:
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-cyanogenmod-g0aac178"
You need to disable CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO to make these changes work.

And you need to change lines 86 and 87 in META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary to match the new localversion.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Thank you. :) This was the missing bit.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

I have tried the hotspot script but it does not work for me! Any suggestion?

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

It works for me. (I call the script from shellex like: 'sudo hotspot.sh on' and 'sudo hotspot.sh off')
Try yo run in command line and let me know the output.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

my bad, I retried today and it works as expected! Yesterday the wireless network was not visible to other devices.

Another problem I just noticed is that bluetooth file sharing does not work. I tried from Sailfish to Android and viceversa but no luck.
Other bluetooth functionalities:

• Discovering devices works
• Pairing devices works
• Bluetooth keyboard works
• Bluetooth audio works

Is there some log file I can provide you?

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

I would be surprised if the wifi hotspot didn't work as I have used that more times daily until I got the XA2.

About the bluetooth file sharing, I am not sure whether that ever worked on unsupported devices. I only use the bt with a headset and an external speaker and very rarely with a keyboard, so I have never tested the file sharing.
You can use the wifi hotspot for file sharing. I know this is a bit inconvenient to use but better than nothing:

• switch on the hotspot on device 1 and connect to it from device 2
• on device 2 do a 'ifconfig' to see the IP address (example 172.28.172.2)
• then use the scp to put the file (example /home/nemo/test.txt) from device 1 to device 2 [code]scp /home/nemo/test.txt nemo@172.28.172.2:/home/nemo/
  Code:

  ---

  scp /home/nemo/text.txt nemo@172.28.172.2:/home/nemo/

  ---

• or if you would like to copy something from device 2 to device 1:
  Code:

  ---

  scp nemo@172.28.172.2:/home/nemo/test.txt /home/nemo/

  ---

• or alternatively you can use sftp or rsync. More info here.

I just have tried and it worked. :)

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

I have found another more user friendly way.

I have installed the SFTP plugin into Total commander and I set up a connection using the other device's IP address (172.28.172.2). This way I can browse the other device like a local folder and copy/paste files from and to it easily.
What is interesting though with this solution, while TC on the host device cannot "see" outside of the android "box", the target device where I sftpd in shows everything, including the sailfish os root.

My next other idea is mounting the other device into a folder. (I am using the cifs package from openrepos for this to connect to my NAS at home when I need.) If this is required to run a samba server on the target device, for Android there is a free one in google play store that supports SMB and CIFS.) :) Plus there is the JuiceSSH app in there so the connection via ssh should also work on Android too.

I know this is not so universal as bluetooth but I think it is more secure as you only turn any of these on if and when you need, while a bluetooth can be left on. (Although a switched on bt might not be an issue, I don't know as am not good at hacking.)

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Well, I only use bluetooth once in a while to share pictures or videos from phone to phone and this functionality can't be replaced with other hacks :D
In the Sailfish version I used before (2.0.4.13 based on CM12.1 from @mautz) bluetooth file sharing worked as expected.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

I understand what you are saying. :)
If this worked before, then probably it can be fixed. I am happy to do that but probably will need some support from mautz to know what to change.
Are you aware whether the bluetooth file sharing works on the other sailfish os with cm13 base?

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Perhaps I missed something but is there any way to get Alien Dalvik (or equivalent) installed for running Android apps?

Sorry, I'm new to Sailfish OS.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

It's in the first post, see the instructions for sfdroid. I don't know how well it works but the CM11 base one works pretty well iirc. Was years ago I used it though.
https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Ada...for_hammerhead

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Please follow the instructions of edp17 and install its latest version of Sailfish OS https://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?...&postcount=785

For Alien Dalvik and Android apps yes, it works without camera and videos in android apps (if you try to play a video within an android app it will crash). Apart from that, I am using Whatsapp, Telegram, Here maps and some others and their running fine. With the first two voice calls works too.

The package was created by the user @matemana and published here.
but the file is not present anymore, I have reuploaded it here.

You can just download and install as it is, first allow untrusted sources in Settings.

Keep in mind that Alien Dalvik is shareware and officially not available on ported devices. On the other hand, if you have paid a Sailfish licence I would not be worried, it's your choice!

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Thanks for the updates. I think I'll check out sfdroid.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

Experimenting is always good!
But SFdroid works only with the old SFOS 2.0.something. If you would like to use Sailfish I suggest you to get a recent version, because many apps have been updated and work only with newer releases of the OS.

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

I have tried all available SailfishOS versions and SFDroid and AD combinations and I ended up building a new image with the 12.1 base because SFDroid was not really ready for daily usage.
However as you said, through those experiments I have learnt a lot and it was fun too. :)

Re: SailfishOS 2.0 Nexus 5 CM12.1 Alpha1 | Sfdroid Pre-Alpha/Early Preview
 

@mautz: I have a bad news about the Anbox. BirdZhang has stopped working on it. :(
This means for the 14.1 base there won't be support anymore. I know you are not really interested to the Android support but it may impact your work with the 14.1 base.