Android 13 and SailfishOS on Xperia 10 III

[wetab73]

@lkraav

First question was: go A12

Go A12 (and then also the aforementioned A12 v2a blobs), which is the combination that’s been working for me flawlessly for 1,5 years, whereas A13 base was tested by me only a couple of months. And even thought I didn’t experience any issues with it myself, it was A13 base (and never A12) that several other people reported here and there as having occasional in-call echo with it.

And if you have A12 firmware readily available for direct flashing via Emma without all that additional hassle (in my case it took hours of manual A11→A12 updates via OTA, involving bootloader relocking and unlocking), then I wouldn’t hesitate a single second.

[lkraav]

@wetab73

Go A12 (and then also the aforementioned A12 v2a blobs), which is the combination that’s been working for me flawlessly for 1,5 years, whereas A13 base was tested by me only a couple of months.

Thanks, but perhaps you skipped over the remaining (long) story, since A12 + v2a is exactly what I continued to describe doing.

@lkraav

My main experiment motivation was about the weird greenish paint blobs appearing below translucent elements like SFOS app cards below launcher icon grids, visible in dark room.

And… I think they’re still there! Is this “tint” issue still something else than I think it is, since nobody’s been able to screenshot (visible only on-screen), or photograph it (visible only in near-pitch-black dark room)?

I can clearly see it with these conditions:

Any thoughts on this part?

Additional discovery today: in a pitch black dark room, green blobs seem to disappear if you specifically max out “Settings > Display brightness base level” slider. I say “seem to”, because maybe they become so faint, it’s near-invisible with naked eye? Regardless, anything below max === app Home view cards generate clearly visible green tinted blobs below app icon grids. On A12 base + v2a blobs.

[lkraav]

@lkraav

One more noteworthy partition backup/restore side-effect: media indexing wasn’t able to pick up Camera saves to SD card anymore. Photos are visible swiping backwards in Camera app, but Gallery wouldn’t show them, until I used Utilities to reset media index

Another “partition restore” note: ofono wasn’t able to complete mobile data connection with ERROR: GDBus.Error:org.ofono.Error.Failed: Operation failed until fortunately Resetting oFono Settings | Sailfish OS Documentation emptying /var/lib/ofono seems to have worked!

Thanks Unable to use mobile data on Sony Xperia 10 III 4.4.0.64 - #17 by jessica

[wetab73]

@lkraav

Thanks, but perhaps you skipped over the remaining (long) story, since A12 + v2a is exactly what I continued to describe doing.

I must confess that you’re right, I only read the last question Well, if you get some undesired effects on that combination, then, obviously, you might want to try something else… I really don’t know if it is device specific, or maybe my perception level is different, but I really do not get any display or echo problems on A12 + v2a, and that’s the reason why I recommend it. But maybe it’s true - like someone suggested some time ago - that two different display types/models were used in different 10 III batches. If so, and we have different displays, then your mileage may vary….

[Kanthal]

@lkraav

Any thoughts on this part?

I can tell you my take since I tried all possible base and blobs combos.
Not only nothing helps ultimately, but the green hue/smearing whatever it’s called doesn’t even go away now with the brightness fix script (I think I left it with 12+12 as I gave up).
There’s definitely different points where the smudges appear and different scale depending on the base + blobs combo, but the only thing that works is 11+11+ brightness fix script.