Google Play Services on Xperia 10 III Sailfish 4.4.0.64 (now 5.0.0.73)

lkraav · 6 February 2026 14:43

[Release notes] Tampella 5.0.0.73 - Early Access surprisingly brought Android 13 update for X10III in a minor release.

Relnotes warn about needing to uninstall gapps for update. Let us know here how that went for y’all!

EDIT Since opengapps never made it past A11, we’re going to have to force-upgrade probably to MindTheGapps or NikGapps, as described above. Working on upgrading my gist.

check what OpenGApps injected

$ diff -urN <(unsquashfs -l -dest '' system.img.orig.20250417T225429 | sort) <(unsquashfs -l -dest '' system.img.opengapps | sort)
--- /dev/fd/63	2026-02-07 15:50:11.683124926 +0200
+++ /dev/fd/62	2026-02-07 15:50:11.683124926 +0200
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 odm/lib
 odm/lib64
 oem
+orig_img_path.txt
 proc
 product
 run
@@ -1084,6 +1085,9 @@
 system/etc/compatconfig/libcore-platform-compat-config.xml
 system/etc/compatconfig/services-platform-compat-config.xml
 system/etc/compatconfig/settings-platform-compat-config.xml
+system/etc/default-permissions
+system/etc/default-permissions/default-permissions.xml
+system/etc/default-permissions/opengapps-permissions-q.xml
 system/etc/default_volume_tables.xml
 system/etc/dirty-image-objects
 system/etc/event-log-tags
@@ -1197,12 +1201,18 @@
 system/etc/permissions/com.android.settings.xml
 system/etc/permissions/com.android.storagemanager.xml
 system/etc/permissions/com.android.systemui.xml
+system/etc/permissions/com.google.android.maps.xml
+system/etc/permissions/com.google.android.media.effects.xml
 system/etc/permissions/javax.obex.xml
 system/etc/permissions/org.apache.http.legacy.xml
 system/etc/permissions/platform.xml
+system/etc/permissions/privapp-permissions-google.xml
 system/etc/permissions/privapp-permissions-platform.xml
+system/etc/permissions/split-permissions-google.xml
 system/etc/ppp
 system/etc/ppp/ip-up-vpn
+system/etc/preferred-apps
+system/etc/preferred-apps/google.xml
 system/etc/preloaded-classes
 system/etc/protolog.conf.json.gz
 system/etc/public.libraries.txt
@@ -1375,6 +1385,10 @@
 system/etc/selinux/plat_service_contexts
 system/etc/sysconfig
 system/etc/sysconfig/framework-sysconfig.xml
+system/etc/sysconfig/google_build.xml
+system/etc/sysconfig/google_exclusives_enable.xml
+system/etc/sysconfig/google-hiddenapi-package-whitelist.xml
+system/etc/sysconfig/google.xml
 system/etc/sysconfig/hiddenapi-package-whitelist.xml
 system/etc/sysconfig/preinstalled-packages-platform.xml
 system/etc/task_profiles.json
@@ -1716,6 +1730,8 @@
 system/framework/com.android.location.provider.jar
 system/framework/com.android.mediadrm.signer.jar
 system/framework/com.android.media.remotedisplay.jar
+system/framework/com.google.android.maps.jar
+system/framework/com.google.android.media.effects.jar
 system/framework/content.jar
 system/framework/dpm.jar
 system/framework/ethernet-service.jar
@@ -2854,6 +2870,8 @@
 system/priv-app/AlienRemoteKeyboard/oat/arm64
 system/priv-app/AlienRemoteKeyboard/oat/arm64/AlienRemoteKeyboard.odex
 system/priv-app/AlienRemoteKeyboard/oat/arm64/AlienRemoteKeyboard.vdex
+system/priv-app/AndroidMigratePrebuilt
+system/priv-app/AndroidMigratePrebuilt/AndroidMigratePrebuilt.apk
 system/priv-app/BackupRestoreConfirmation
 system/priv-app/BackupRestoreConfirmation/BackupRestoreConfirmation.apk
 system/priv-app/BackupRestoreConfirmation/oat
@@ -2872,6 +2890,8 @@
 system/priv-app/CalendarProvider/oat/arm64
 system/priv-app/CalendarProvider/oat/arm64/CalendarProvider.odex
 system/priv-app/CalendarProvider/oat/arm64/CalendarProvider.vdex
+system/priv-app/ConfigUpdater
+system/priv-app/ConfigUpdater/ConfigUpdater.apk
 system/priv-app/ContactsProvider
 system/priv-app/ContactsProvider/ContactsProvider.apk
 system/priv-app/ContactsProvider/oat
@@ -2916,6 +2936,12 @@
 system/priv-app/FusedLocation/oat/arm64
 system/priv-app/FusedLocation/oat/arm64/FusedLocation.odex
 system/priv-app/FusedLocation/oat/arm64/FusedLocation.vdex
+system/priv-app/GoogleOneTimeInitializer
+system/priv-app/GoogleOneTimeInitializer/GoogleOneTimeInitializer.apk
+system/priv-app/GoogleRestore
+system/priv-app/GoogleRestore/GoogleRestore.apk
+system/priv-app/GoogleServicesFramework
+system/priv-app/GoogleServicesFramework/GoogleServicesFramework.apk
 system/priv-app/InProcessNetworkStack
 system/priv-app/InProcessNetworkStack/InProcessNetworkStack.apk
 system/priv-app/InProcessNetworkStack/oat
@@ -2952,12 +2978,16 @@
 system/priv-app/PackageInstaller/oat/arm64/PackageInstaller.odex
 system/priv-app/PackageInstaller/oat/arm64/PackageInstaller.vdex
 system/priv-app/PackageInstaller/PackageInstaller.apk
+system/priv-app/Phonesky
+system/priv-app/Phonesky/Phonesky.apk
 system/priv-app/PlatformNetworkPermissionConfig
 system/priv-app/PlatformNetworkPermissionConfig/oat
 system/priv-app/PlatformNetworkPermissionConfig/oat/arm64
 system/priv-app/PlatformNetworkPermissionConfig/oat/arm64/PlatformNetworkPermissionConfig.odex
 system/priv-app/PlatformNetworkPermissionConfig/oat/arm64/PlatformNetworkPermissionConfig.vdex
 system/priv-app/PlatformNetworkPermissionConfig/PlatformNetworkPermissionConfig.apk
+system/priv-app/PrebuiltGmsCore
+system/priv-app/PrebuiltGmsCore/PrebuiltGmsCore.apk
 system/priv-app/ProxyHandler
 system/priv-app/ProxyHandler/oat
 system/priv-app/ProxyHandler/oat/arm64

EDIT Updated script to MTG Sony 10 III - Dual SIM (arm64) | Sailfish OS 5.0.0.73 | Android 13 | MindTheGapps installation script · GitHub using Opus 4.6 and reviewing all changes. MTG archive structure is significantly simpler.

Changes made:

Replaced OpenGApps with MindTheGapps — Removed lzip-compressed tarball extraction, Fedora RPM installer, browser download polling loop. Replaced with simple unzip ‘system/*’ since MindTheGapps uses a flat
system/ tree.
Pinned filename pattern to MindTheGapps-13.0.0-arm64-*.zip for Android
13.
Fixed all shellcheck violations — Added #!/bin/bash shebang, removed dead $1 parameter from _find_mindthegapps(), added directives for indirect function refs and sourced files.
Added OS version safety check — Sources /etc/os-release and verifies VERSION_ID=5.0.0.73 before proceeding.
Cleanup — Removed VelvetTitan (tangorpro-specific), addon.d scripts (irrelevant for Sailfish OS), and obsolete dependencies (lzip).

Result: Script reduced from ~204 to ~148 lines.

WARNING: I haven’t tested it on the phone yet!