Turns out that my phone has become a brick. It demands my code, which works and then want me to choose language - which I do. I agree with licenses and then I come in a loop - back to language choice again. Sometimes I come to a grey screen and nothing happens. I can turn it off.
Any idea what to do?
The only thing is working for me to keep the nozification sound always running is to NOT start Android apps, as I noticed after starting an Android app the CPU usage of the service ngfd is always on 12.5% and this usage percentage is like black magic, because immediately the sounds stop working and than you have to restart the service manually via the shell … until a oatchvfor this is released, I montitor the cpu usage of ngfd with top in the terminal and restart the daemon, if the CPU usage goes to 12.5%
I did not read everything in here but it seems some people are seeing the device getting stuck after entering the encryption PIN. A problem i know all too well from an X II and a Z5 compact and maybe it just is the same problem.
I never found a solution, only workarounds found somewhere here or on the internet.
try waiting like a minute before entering you PIN
or try entering a false PIN (maybe only helps because you “wait”)
My guess was always that entropy was running out and haveged or a newer kernel would help. Or maybe some dependency missing in systemd services responsible for the decrypt screen. At least these two guesses could explain why waiting helped for me on other devices.
But maybe here it is something totally different. I guess that people who rebooted 15 times likely did not rush to enter the PIN quickly every single time and probably already tried waiting.
And if someone isn’t comfortable using terminal, the process ngfd can be killed with an app called Lighthouse (and propably others like it). No need to restart anything
Thank you so much for the tipps with the apps … Lighthouse seems to be not installable for C2 as I get no install option in Storeman, just repo refresh, but Crest was and it is indeed very nice and usefull …
Several times the last three days I found the C2 off picking it up from my pocket. Today I might have found the reason. Holding the locked phone in my hand receiving a text it crashed just after the notification appeared. I received two further copies of this text message within the hour after booting again.
I can tell you right now it’s not due to swap as disabling it should help.
Yesterday I recieved my C2 again, after repairs. The device should fall in between Xperia 10 II and 10 III juding of hardware and antutu score. But unfortunetly is noticeably slower than very old XA2. Slower than XA2 that it should be at least 3 times faster.
I try to watch a youtube video yesterday, 480p device was unable to play it smoothly. Tried to play a android old game (Hill Climb racing 2) - felt like first time I was playing Doom on 8-bit cpu.
Why is this so slow? Maybe some hardware acceleration is missing?
Reference device or not. How could I “reference” on something just a little bit faster than a brick?
It looks like I spend money for a drawer keeper. Im not even tempted to play with device as it is awfuly slow.
I really hoped that the better hardware adaptation would result in smooth device even if hardware is lacking. I see no hardware adaptation at this point
Sad to say but I will keep that device for a moment or two cause there is still hope inside of me but once images for 10 V will be good enought to daily drive c2 would be forgotten.
Can you provide a benchmark or so? My own testings with XA2 and C2 make me feel the C2 is much faster. Of course this is no magic but the normal cpu development over the years.
Edit: found your old posting here with a benchmark table: Benchmark table
There you stated the C2 is faster than the XA2
“Smoothly” sounds for me like a missing or yet not ready driver for the graphic magic. But no idea what 480p have to do with “smooth”? I can’t test this point because google & google service are on my block list (well, I have SFOS phone and this is possible )
Of course the screen resolution is different from e.g. the XA2. This means an app can’t use “pixel” or so for width & heigth of a ui element. I also have to change something in my apps of this reason. This will happen soon™ …
Sure the Sony will the better phone for you when you use it as a daily driver for youtube.
“Reference” here is announced as a reference phone for developing. Maybe this differ a little from your requirements of a “daily driver”. But calling this nice C2 a “brick” is not fair.
My observations with the Jolla C2 show that it runs slightly faster than my Sony XZ2 Compact (Snapdragon 845). Most of the time, the interface runs smoothly, but there are often stuttering moments, which for me indicate a lack of optimizations rather than weak hardware. I couldn’t identify any task or process in Crest that could be responsible for this, so it must be related to the kernel. I believe Jolla is aware of this fact and will start addressing the cosmetic issues after dealing with the more serious bugs.
I can’t understand why there is always a call for even faster hardware instead of focusing on better utilizing and optimizing the existing hardware.
Maybe is not fair. I have no bencharks but in my opinion device performs worse compared to XA2. Apps are slow to open, there is this stuttering now and then, video’s even in low resolution plays like it missing every third frame and android enviroment is almost unusable.
If you check closely this table was created based on antutu scores. I didn’t have C2 back then.
It is a bit insulting. If I want my phone to daily drive yt it’s my choice. I was trying to show that even simple task like yt video hits c2 pretty heavy.
Also I did say that there is still a hope for this device to turn out ok. And I really would like to see that.
Also 2. This is feedback thread, so I gave a feedback. Simply said imo C2 is unusable for now and will take a place in a drawer with few other sailfish phones as for now nothing get close to 10 III.
Hello, I thought I saw a post about installing chump.
I installed it from storeman.
but the application does not appear.
is there a way to install it.
Thanks
In my opinom C2 is very slowly too…
I write my pin code and i need wait 2-3seconds to unlock. Every time.
I want to make photo and the same 2-3 seconds untill photo app is ready to work.
Sorry but C2 is not ready to work as daily phone.
But I wait for some software upgrade with hope that everything will be faster
. The only way is Zendesk.
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