During the update, my phone displayed pages and pages of installed packages that I should please uninstall.
This was so extensive (including the dbus I was supposed to uninstall, among other system files) that you can’t take it seriously and can normally ignore it. I and others have already done this several times.
Since all the qt5 packages (including kf5) were also reported this time, I finally removed them, as I have never used Angelfish and the associated QTRunner. As far as I know, I didn’t remove any more QT packages than necessary. In any case, everything worked perfectly after the reboot after removing the packages).
After running a pkcon refresh and pkcon update and rebooting again, I started the installation.
When the white install bar arrived at the end, it wrote above the bar “Sailfish could not be updated. Please try again later.”
Below the white bar it said “Restart”. I then tapped on it. It started twice and then showed me a bright screen saying “No apps started” four times.
After that, the screen remained dark - nothing happened.
If I then press and hold the PWR button, it shuts down. Now you can start it again and at the end you get 4 screens with “no apps started”.
As I had installed a 2 SIM card (inactive) 2 weeks ago, I have now removed this. But that didn’t bring any improvement.
Now I’m really thinking about whether I should go through the whole flash and installation orgy (until I have everything as it was before). However, I haven’t had any problems with my XA2 since the end of 2019.
Partition details before the upgrade: /home: 1.8GB and root: 3.2GB / Device: XA2+
Or does anyone else have an idea how to bring the bone back to life without flashing?