Functional state of the XPERIA 10 IV on SailfishOS

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Hi, this topic exist to report the current state of SailfishOS on a XPERIA 10 IV (precisely a XQCC-54).

As of 2026-03-08 on SailfishOS LTS (not beta):

  • screen: YES, 60Hz and right resolution.
  • fingerprint: YES, no issues at all. Maybe even better than Android 14
  • sim1: YES, working 4G and 5G (didn’t tested others)
  • sim2: YES, MicroSD for music and videos (btw the music app is so fast to fetch my 6000 musics in flac that it takes only 3 seconds, impressive).
  • Wi-FI: YES, though only 4G and 5G, 6G doesn’t pop up as available.
  • battery: ~, working but way less. On Android 14 the very same phone lasts 2~3 weeks (Wi-FI + Bluethooth enabled), now it’s only 2~3 days (only Wi-FI enabled).
  • GPS: YES, All modes works.
  • microphone: NO, cannot use microphone at all.
  • camera: NO, cannot use camera at all, the front camera is not even detected.
  • jack (headphone): NO, not working at all.
  • bluetooth (music): YES, I had an issue where it didn’t work on my B&O Beosound A1, restarted the phone and it worked on both my EVERSOLO DMP A8 (network player) and my SUUNTO WING 2 (headphone). I didn’t try again on the A1, maybe this device really doesn’t work.
  • Audio over USB-C (DAC): NO, at least using my B&O Beosound A1 it didn’t work.

Though for the bluetooth part I have to say that only SBC codec is supported, which is shit and the only reason I bought this phone was to have good quality music (aptX, LDAC, …). So this is quite a bummer. For more info on this topic, see: Support for higher quality bluetooth A2DP audio codecs in sailfishos .

Whatever, so I bought a license to support the team because Android may become closed source and/or enforce ID verification. I don’t care about the battery, but I do about Bluetooth codecs and Jack support.

Overall, thank you for this wonderfull OS, it is very near being an alternative for my standards. Until then, I will likely go back to Android 14.

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Are there any updates to the Xperia 10 IV?

I can use th eMicrophone in the Phone app. But the caller voice is only played via the speaker. quite loud and no way to change it.

Does anyone have a fix for this?

I waned to use SailfishOS as daily driver but the 10IV seems like a bad choice.

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Check the community port here:

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On my end I bricked my phone and have no Windows (only Linux) so I can’t use the official app from Sony…

Whatever, it’s been like 5 months now so I got a new phone by then. Next phone will probably be a GrapheneOS powered though, waiting to see what Motorola will do. Official support and keeping warranty is the best.

To be honest SailfishOS, likely need like 10 to 15 years to become usable (the same way Linux is now for Windows, a complete replacement where it’s just better), so many things are not working, mainly because SailfishOS has a restrictive view about licenses. Like, frick MIT is okay, why do I don’t have ldac and aptx on my Bluetooth? Literally my laptop on CachyOS has it, it’s crazy.

Removing this dumb restriction would make things advance so much faster… unless Jolla wants in the future to make it a full commercial product once it’s ‘good enough’. Because licenses like MIT obliges you to keep your code MIT forever. Yet with things as it is now then can without prior notice do whatever they want commercially.

So honestly this side removed my trust in this project, thus my choice to continue elsewhere.

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Kek, it’s the other way around, gplv3 is the virulent one, you can take MIT code and close it and sell it, MIT is the do-whatever-the-f-you want license

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