Looking for a device (again)

Hi, it’s me asking for financial help, again.

My trusty Xperia 10 Plus won’t switch on anymore. I have to admit I dropped it (while developing Dee :frowning: ), but it didn’t seem damaged. However, this morning I found it switched off and it won’t switch on. The battery was charged and I even left it plugged in for 4 hours, but nothing. Then I tried taking it apart to check the cable connections and everything seems fine. If I perform the hardware reboot with the 3 buttons, the LED flashes white very quickly and that’s it. If anyone thinks they can fix it, I can send it to them, but I’m not sure if it’s worth it.

I can’t afford to buy a phone, so here I’m again, asking you to help me by donating your old one. And I really hope I haven’t betrayed @ziellos’s trust in any way.

Just in the last month I’ve refreshed all my apps and made 2 new: Dee, a client for Lemmy, and Hauk, a realtime location sharing app. I’ve also opened PRs to get apps into Chum.

Thanks for your help. I hope this isn’t goodbye.

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I could send you an unused Xperia 10 II. Does that help?

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I don’t really have any specific requirement. Anything that lets me use SailfishOS and develop on it is welcome! :heart:

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I’ve got a spare XA2 I bought from this very forum a while back. The fingerprint reader is pretty unreliable, but other than that it seems to work fine. I haven’t used it as a phone though; it was meant to be a donor or a project platform.

So, it’s pretty old, but I can part with it if you don’t get any better offers :wink:

PM me for details.

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I’d be happy to give away the Jolla C2; at most, you’d just need to cover the shipping costs. (I live in Germany)

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Amazing, thank you! I’m fine with that :slight_smile:

And thank you to those that have sent me private messages! :heart:

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oneplus 6 is always the answer

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The more correct answer is lack of availability on anything remotely “good”

Whoa, great to see that community supports devs! I’m loving the work you have done :slight_smile:

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I also have a C2 I would be willing to donate to a developer in need!

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Unless one is married to Android AppSupport?

eh, waydroid is a thing

In particular question is if someone is ready to give one away…

Not with the mandatory Swedish banking/ID apps (BankID, Swish and others).

At least I couldn’t make it work. Might be me being ignorant though.

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