Motorola Edge 30 Neo - port from VerdandiTeam

[lkraav]

@Mister_Magister

what do you mean? I’ve put in round corners config.

Hmm, page indicator is barely visible on Neo, compared to XA2

@Mister_Magister

sure they can but it would make my heart sad (I’ve put them as Recommended, not required so you shouldn’t have an issue uninstalling them)

Hold + Tap “x” on lets say uTube or any other app does something for a brief moment, but doesn’t remove any apps.

zypper remove works

@Mister_Magister

well sfos doesn’t support wpa3 so…

This might be indeed better left for 5.1 here, but WPA2 connman I was hoping would be able to connect to mixed / transitional with MFP requirement disabled. Anyway, Jolla hasn’t responded to many WPA3 complaints in 5.1 rel thread yet, so wait and see.

@Mister_Magister

t… that’s good right?

Yeah, posted more like for public benefit benchmark info. WPA3 is preventing me from testing a more natural “everything connected” use case for now, stay tuned.

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@Mister_Magister

About fingerprint: with some coding (a lot of it) it possibly could be done, android side is working daemon is communicating it’s just matter of updating sfos side to latest api and modifying lipstick to draw circle in correct spot on lock screen, it’s all doable just time consuming and looking at how idc about fp maybe i’ll do it when I’m bored

I see, unlucky for quite a bit of trouble on this device

[Mister_Magister]

@lkraav

Hmm, page indicator is barely visible on Neo, compared to XA2

I could make it even more rounded but i think it’s fine as it is

@lkraav

Hold + Tap “x” on lets say uTube or any other app does something for a brief moment, but doesn’t remove any apps.

I’d say use zypper but it’d be cool if you didn’t uninstall my apps

@lkraav

I see, unlucky for quite a bit of trouble on this device

basically on any device, in screen fingerprint = nope. Oh well hold on, it will work fine once jolla is porting device with in-screen fingerprint, because jolla fixes stuff only when they’re forced to

[raphman]

Found the culprit (damn, Claude is really helpful for debugging these issues): harbour-apocalypse seems to have a bug (need to check this) that tells mce to keep a wakelock but never to release it again. Uninstalling harbour-apocalypse returned the “display suspend disables wifi” behavior.

[Mister_Magister]

well, yeah, if you block suspend that will indeed prevent wifi from suspending

Same thing happens when you leave advanced camera open, it will block suspend

[chikl]

Thanks for your work on this port!! Sadly, I could not flash it successfully yet.

13. Flash SailfishOS rootfs via adb sideload

I tried to do so via adb sideload sailfishos-miami-release-5.0.0.77-STABLE1.zip in recovery mode but the signature verification failed. The error message is

ERROR: recovery: footer is wrong

On the phone I see a question where I can decide to install the package anyway but it doesn’t seem to be a good idea after this error.

Do you have any idea what the problem could be?

[Mister_Magister]

Yes, obviously press install anyway because obviously I’m not signing the zip

[poetaster]

Aww, common, sign the zip. It’s your zip. Be proud. Be loud. Sign it

[chikl]

Thanks! Great to run SailfishOS on a device after so many years (my last device was the first Jolla phone). Now I have something to play with.

[lkraav]

@Mister_Magister

About fingerprint: with some coding (a lot of it) it possibly could be done, android side is working daemon is communicating it’s just matter of updating sfos side to latest api and modifying lipstick to draw circle in correct spot on lock screen

Could this be simplified towards skipping the UI gfx parts of it for v1? Yeah itd be kinda tapping blind, but maybe it’d be good enough for 80/20

[Mister_Magister]

No, because you need to illuminate the finger

[carmenfdezb]

As of today, I’ve switched to the Motorola Edge 30 Neo as my daily driver. While I’ve been very happy with Sailfish OS on the OnePlus 6, I have to say that this device is a noticeable improvement in several areas:

• The system feels much smoother. The OnePlus 6 was already quite responsive, but the Edge 30 Neo is even better.
• Both 5G and VoLTE work. VoLTE support seems to depend heavily on the carrier, though. Here in Spain, I can confirm it works with Movistar, but not with Digi.
• The 120 Hz OLED display makes a huge difference in everyday use.
• Mine is the 256 GB model, which gives me twice the internal storage compared to my 128 GB OnePlus 6.
• Battery life is also noticeably better. With my usage, it lasts significantly longer than the OnePlus 6, which has been a very welcome improvement.

GPS is also working properly and gets a fix within a few seconds outdoors.

Things that currently don’t work:

• Fingerprint sensor.
• Not all USB-C headphones are supported. However, they do work when connected through my HiBy DAC.
• Meecast won’t launch. It looks like a permissions-related issue. Interestingly, it works fine on my other Sailfish devices.
• Angelfish doesn’t start out of the box. It requires adding an environment variable in Qt Runner with “LD_PRELOAD” as the name and “libgomp.so.1” as the value. After that it will launch properly.
• I haven’t tested VPN setup yet, but I believe WireGuard is not working at the moment.

Overall, the switch has been worth it for me despite the remaining issues. Thank you so much, @Mister_Magister!!

[kikislater]

So you use Waydroid to launch android app? What about bank apps or ID verification asked from some EU government to validate some mandatory actions for administrative task?

[carmenfdezb]

Waydroid doesn’t work in miami so far.

[pmn]

Seems like a release supporting Android 16 is available since a couple of days: Release 1.6.3 · waydroid/waydroid · GitHub

Anyone tried that yet?

[Mister_Magister]

would require me to add buncha kernel configs so hold thine horses

[Ahtisilli]

MeeCast: it’s the same with Kuri - on first launch the directory structures in /home/defaultuser/ aren’t created and the error message about missing files or directories is correct.

I copied Kuri’s .cache, .config and .local from my XA2. Then it just segfaults, no more nagging about the missing workout directory.

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pkexec - as in pkexec bash to get a root terminal - doesn’t work either. The polkit stuff in /etc and /usr/share seems to be identical to a Sony that works. Sudo works.

[carmenfdezb]

But I had copied ~/.config and ~/.local folders from my op6 and Meecast didn’t start. Config file is present but I get segfault error (core dump) and doesn’t start.
I fixed it by disabling sandboxing, but I can’t open Meecast from Event view.

[Ahtisilli]

Mine started working from the launcher icon after disabling sandboxing - no need to copy files. It still segfaults from the command line. Weird.

I had never tried to launch MeeCast from events. Now that I did, the first time MeeCast asked for permissions (so it ignores the desktop file) and started. After that it doesn’t start from events but switches to MeeCast if it’s running.

[carmenfdezb]

What I can’t understand is why Meecast fails on miami but it works perfectly on my other devices (oneplus 6 and xperias). Moreover, this is the only app that has this problem, all the other apps I use work fine (I don’t use Kuri, so I can’t say anything about this app)