SailfishOS 2.0 on Nexus 5
 

Remark
This is not the main support thread for SailfishOS on the Nexus 5 (XDA Thread) nor a discussion thread for other devices (Porting Sailfish to Android Devices). The current port is - with few minor restrictions - usable on a daily basis.



General stuff
Compared to the Jolla phone the Nexus 5 has a bigger screen, from my viewpoint a better haptic and it is a wonderful device to test different operating systems using Multirom. You can boot to some Android flavors, SFOS, Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS ...

Main contributors

• sledges - a Jolla employee who coordinates different ports, go-to guy if you don't know whom to ask:)

• alin, situ, vgrade ... - main Nexus 5 porters

• tassadar - multirom guru

• msameer - master of camera and multimedia stuff

• krnlyng, nh1402 - Android support

• And many more contributors, testers ...

Current version
Beta 1 based on SailfishOS 2.0.0.10 via OTA, coming from beta0 SailfishOS 1.1.9.28.

What's hot?
Sat, 12.12.2015: Running complete (underlying) CyanogenMod / Android within a SFOS window, see sfdroid

What works and what not? Comments

• Hardware support status, current status taken from #sailfishos-porters

• To avoid black rectangle just create your own ambience

• GPS works - thanks to mal- hint: you can transfer and install jolla-here app from your Jolla phone

• OTA updates work

• Cameraplus / harbour-camera video recording crash (regression)

Installation
Follow the Wiki. Grab it from http://images.devaamo.fi/sfe/hammerhead/

Bugtracker
See and please contribute (!) to our bugtracker


Most annoying bugs from my point of view
Bug 835: [hammerhead][alpha12][cameraplus] crash upon stopping video recording
Bug 837: [hammerhead][alpha12] Bad battery life caused by sensors


Support
XDA thread and IRC Freenode #sailfishos-porters and
http://piratepad.net/hadk-faq

Tips and tricks

• Backup and restore
  From your home directory on the Jolla phone do
  
  Code:

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  tar cvf vault.tar .vault

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  and transfer the tar file to your Nexus 5 and restore it using the Jolla backup and restore from the settings app.

• Install keyboard prediction as root
  
  Code:

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  pkcon install jolla-xt9

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• Activate Low Power Mode
  
  Code:

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  pkcon install mce-tools
mcetool --set-low-power-mode=enabled

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• Copy over maps package from Jolla Phone
  
  Code:

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  pkcon download . sailfish-maps

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• Dbus command for persistent 3G technology setting in mobile network settings (survives reboots)
  
  Code:

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  dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply
--dest=org.ofono /ril_0 org.ofono.RadioSettings.SetProperty string:TechnologyPreference variant:string:umts

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• CPU governor http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=672

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

I was tooling around with SFOS on my Nexus 5 this morning and I figured out how to mount Android user data so that it is accessible via SFOS. I did the following:

User data is then available in:
/android/media/0/

I also updated my fstab file by adding the following line at the end:

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

I've been following this for a little while. I didn't know they finally got MultiROM support. Seems to be a couple more bugs fixed since I last checked.

I'm tempted to grab a Nexus 5 just to play around.
Hmmm, let's just check my bank account first?

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

ive ordered a nexus 5, waiting on it, cheers for this, itll make my setup much much easier.

but what if you mounted the android data were the sailfish android data is, cant you then have some sort of sync in terms of your applications across the two OSes?

does double tap to wake not work?

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

No not working


What I also noticed is that on the nexus 5 gstreamer regulary freezes. At least I can't even watch a small movie or clip. LLs video player just freezes and I need to force close it.
Maybe this should be added to the list of problems aswell.
edit: Just to clarify. Audio is working fine. Just video freezes. So might be also a video driver issue.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Can you give more information on the codec your videos are using? I don't use video playback often but in my occassional usage I haven't experienced any issues.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Oh it doesn really matter. I tried mp4 youtube streams and flv files and ogg files.
Pretty much every video file caused some freeze after a couple minutes.
Sometimes also the video is not shown correctly.

Can you try to reproduce it with LLs video Player ?

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Thank you, i added this to the 'Tips and tricks' section.

Reproduced with all available players and added to the list of issues. The usage of videos is overestimated:D

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

A quick question. Is Sailfish OS is also availabe for Galaxy S4 I9505 ? I want to give it a try.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=92506
https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

I'm thinking about buying one too, to get to see SF on a better glass, but then there's always the update problem, is the work on porting ongoing or do i face a possibility that i have to keep using an old SF release on it at some point, as with n9. Oh, why i'm even asking. ;)

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

1.1.2.16 for Nexus5: http://images.devaamo.fi/sfa/hammerhead/alpha7/

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

aside from the tutorial being a bit borked, boots up fine.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Good news guys, good news!:D
And some hot news:)
I will update the initial post after testing the latest build.

Have fun.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Can't install either of that two zips in there.
Is what I get in multirom when trying to install.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Same here. I gave up on Alpha 8 for now and installed Alpha 7. Not quite sure what is new with Alpha 7 but so far so good!

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

same issue for me, i wouldnt mind helping tbh, but i know literally nothing of C or a linux system

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Please try again with the new alpha 8 build - quicktest was okay for me (installation with multirom and sensors)

http://images.devaamo.fi/sfa/hammerh...1502281513.zip

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

attempted it, doesnt boot, gets to the google screen, then reboots

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Yeah installs and boots fine. Auto orientation works.
Camera not. It opens a white window (seems like some qml components are missing) . See the error reported in terminal :

The strange thing is that I am not able to install anything from store or via rpm.
Even pkcon refresh is throwing an Authentification failed

Update: After disabling the adaptation0 repo everything seems to work again. You can do that with

Update 2: Ok the adaptation0 provides gstreamer plugins I guess as I cannot get videos running (Gstreamer is missing a plugin error)

So I guess this needs another fix.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

that is indeed odd, and someones porting gstreamer 1.0

edit: after a redownload and reinstall it works,

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Alpha8 with sensors support: http://images.devaamo.fi/sfa/hammerhead/alpha8/

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Thank you for testing.

Maybe my post regarding alpha 8 was misleading and enthusiastic. It was not meant to fix camera issues which will be available after MWC.

I will address the store issues. Fix for terminal keyboard size is not included too.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Some video content you might like:D

Sailfish OS 2.0 su Nexus 5, hands-on dal #MWC15 and
Sailfish OS 2.0 su Nexus 5 #MWC15

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Last video is quite interesting. As you can see the events view is missing quick toggles on the phone :(

But what I haven't seen in any video before is tapping on homescreen and first line of app drawer is appearing. Kinda like the swipe in from bottom on N9.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

From what I saw in the demo devices so far they might end up in the swipe down menu that shows all the ambiances. Left besides the ambiances you find different icons like silent and so on. They might of course be binded to the ambiance itself. But I could imagine the possibility to integrate quick toggles there.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

holyy ****k

:D

i wonder if GPS works too, id instantly switch over if it did

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

I think those icons are there to show how the ambience is configured to work, but I doubt they are directly usable to activate or deactivate the feature. But you can select different ambiences with the needed features directly enabled.

They are an interesting mode to customize the phone. One of the ambiences in the nexus 5 demo has a bluetooth icon, one a silence mode, plus an "1H" badge on the right... which may mean you can "daisy chain" ambiences, or maybe make them active for a predefined time. If the notification screen can be changed depending on the active ambience as well, and the notification API becoms public, I think many applications will benefit from this.

I suppose shortcuts will be made available in the phone form factor as well, maybe it is not yet implemented.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

i wonder if the slight lag is fixed. During any of the alphas inside the Warehouse app when transitioning between the page stacks there was some jerkiness. its obviously not the hardware, but something in there not quite right.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

I think the graphicsdriver is not optimized at all at the moment. Not sure if even hardware acceleration is turned on.
Try scrolling with webcat. This is really awful to look at as it is dropping frames like crazy.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

dont think i care tbh, i just really want it now lol, or atleast that level of hardware support on sailfish 1.x

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Hello!
I found steps when audio begins to lag.
using alpha8.

Audio lags when:
Screen is ON.
and
You make manipulations with sensors (cover proximity sensor or rotating device)

What is affected: Audio player, Ringtone(select ringtone, some one's calling)

What doesn't affected: Video is not affected by this method. Rotating or covering sensor doesn't make any visual artifacts or audio distortions.

P.S.
Does anyone know where to get "fluendo-mp3-armv7hl.rpm" in order to gain mp3 support?
Is it a good idea to build a package from this: https://core.fluendo.com/gstreamer/s...st-fluendo-mp3

thanks.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

The only issue is that we won't really know how well the GPS sensor works. You need an Android Compatibility Layer to have any sort of mapping or navigation. I just don't know how you would test/use GPS without it.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Really? How come?
Why not test with Rena for example?

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

cant you test with HERE maps? Or is that only for Jolla?

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

There is native PoorMaps for example.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

HERE requires an Android runtime environment which we don't have on the Nexus 5. I don't think we'll be testing that any time soon.

I wasn't aware of this! I'll look for it and try to test this weekend. I haven't flashed to Alpha 8 yet but once I do this will be one of the first things I try.

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

ModRana should also run fine - I have seen it already seen it multiple times running on Sailfish OS on devices other than the Jolla. :)

Only issue I have seen was the missing qt5-qtdeclarative-import-sensors package, which is AFAIK always installed on the Jolla but not always on other devices. This can be fixed like this (as root):

(And I really need to finally add it as a modRana dependency. :) )

Re: [WIP] SailfishOS on Nexus 5
 

Don't be so sure about that. I'm trying to get it working but no one who knows about android internals is helping me. I can "boot" into CM11 and get to the setup page, but touch input isn't working so I can't get past that and I don't know how to fix it yet.