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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:

tar cvf vault.tar .vault

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:

pkcon install jolla-xt9

Activate Low Power Mode

Code:

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

Copy over maps package from Jolla Phone

Code:

pkcon download . sailfish-maps

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

Code:

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

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:

Code:

devel-su

mkdir /android

mount /dev/mmcblk0p28 /android

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

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

Code:

/dev/mmcblk0p28 /android ext4 rw,relatime,data 0 0

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

Quote:

does double tap to wake not work?

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by llelectronics (Post 1461195)

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Demati (Post 1461050)

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:

Code:

devel-su

mkdir /android

mount /dev/mmcblk0p28 /android

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

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

Code:

/dev/mmcblk0p28 /android ext4 rw,relatime,data 0 0

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by llelectronics (Post 1461529)

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by panjgoori (Post 1461687)

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

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