šŸ‡§šŸ‡Ŗ Belgian Sailfish OS users

XA2 and 10 III: installs and runs, without account content can be browsed, with account (Google login doesn’t work) The Voice belgique plays, a lot of content is not viewable outside Belgium (creating an account asks for zip code and country and Finns are generally honest).

So check your microG settings.

Taking French in Middle School was worth it: I can watch Fantomas movies and now this :slight_smile:

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I visited Belgium over the weekend so I can contribute to this thread, I think :slight_smile:

  1. Xperia 10 III since August '25 - I appreciate over the XA2 that it keeps more apps in memory and is more responsive

  2. Deutsche Telekom (roaming) - which got me 5G in urban areas. But I had to reboot the phone 1-2x a day, when mobile data was just gone and the Network utility in Settings didn’t fix it.

  3. SNCB, Villo and De Lijn: the sign-in worked because I had an Android Firefox installed, set to open external links in the app

  4. the Dutch-speaking region around Brussels and Gent - although I spoke English

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Disabling IPv6 on WWAN has helped me there on the 10IV.

Hope you enjoyed your stay! :slight_smile:

@Ahtisilli. I haven’t installed microg. But that’s beside the point. I’m a Belgian taxpayer and can’t watch ā€œmyā€ public broadcaster on the devices of my choice. I also own a FireTV Cube, same problem. I just don’t get it. I’m very often in Germany and Austria. Their public broadcasters work flawlessly on almost any device.

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Oh, you just want to complain. My bad.

auvio.rtbf.be seems fine with Angelfish from piggz (native enough?) and Firefox Beta on the 10 III.

Tested with

I know that some of the streams work in Angelfish. But the shows I’m interested in (cycling, F1, football,…) are DRM protected and won’t work. I had the same problem on postmarketOS using native firefox. I’ve been battling this problem for months. I even tried running firefox in an arch container with a widevine patch to no avail. So yes, I’m complaining, but not for the sake of complaining. RTBF have by their own admission recently focused on the main platforms: iOS and Android. It used to run fine on my FireTV until they decided to force play services…

It’s nice to see that there are still some Belgians around; I live in Leuven and am back on Saifish OS after just over a year.

But I depend on public transport, and that isn’t always easy for getting anywhere…

Most of the apps I use are Doccle, Itsme, Hello Bank, Money Lover, Vivaldi Browser, Myonlineagenda, Smart App, My Orange, Bpost, PostNL…

And my provider is Orange

I started with Nokia N9 - what a phone was that.

I was on Sailfish after Nokia N9, but left a few years ago for Android (Xperia III).

Now I ordered the new Jolla Phone first batch.

Provider will be Telenet.

Question 3: don’t know yet

Question 4: Dutch - Kortrijk - West-Vlaanderen

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To my fellow Belgian tax payers: I managed to sign my tax declaration using itsme with the QR code from taxonweb. I was surprised that scanning the code worked straight away because this wouldn’t work on my backup Pixel6a with GrapheneOS. Anyway, a working itsme means another reason to use the pixel even less than once a month or so…

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Very good news. Does this mean the clunky camera behavior reported above is primarily device related?

People who are unable to suppress a chuckle at the latest Sailfish OS version (currently in Early Access), unite!

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I submitted positive report on itsme, also scan qr code is working now since update to SFOS 5.1 on my Xperia 10 III

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