New binaries / blobs for Xperia V and IV : What is happening actually?

I read about it but never noticed it myself. Normally the battery is about 50% at the end of the day, a huge improvement over my aging 10 II that did not survive the day anymore.

I have sometimes freezes so I have to restart using the volume-button-kombo. This seems to be about a bad oom configuration as it does only happen if the RAM is nearly full and I start a resource hungry process like the browser.

I’m using my 10V quite a bit time as daily driver… and what rly annoys me…:

  1. Sometimes app-support stop working
  2. sometimes switch between data and wifi doesn’t work. It’s even worse, if I turn on VOLTE and 5G together :-/
  3. If I forget that BT is not possible to start and I tap on BT icon to reconnect my earphones :man_facepalming:
  4. Restart is unbelievable loong… same is for the unlock partition via PIN code after boot…
  5. Not possible to use fingerprint… :man_facepalming: driving and just check some message is rly danger to fill PIN to unlock device
  6. Battery status… (God bless @koza to his battery app <3)
  7. NOT possible to use microphone in WhatsApp application is the most annoying thing for me… :-/
  8. Without camera it’s pity… but I can go with it…worst about missing camera is not possible to use read QR codes from paying bills to bank app…

Have this phone almost one year… and use it for 50% of it’s “capacity” is useless :-/

Even all this stuff… I like it much more, than XA2… but sometimes I’m really upset with missing functionality :frowning:

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There is no 5G in SFOS.
Edit: it’s nice to be wrong on this.

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Sure there is, it was introduced with 4.6 for some Xperia devices.

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5G is supported by SFOS 4.6 (Sauna) on Xperia 10 III.

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I talked about this on the 10V thread, the battery indicator can work if you flash v4b blobs over Android 14

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Only certain variants it seems - ie not mine…

I doubt it’s the same people still working for Jolla. Judging by the answers I got and the ones I didn’t get because they didn’t bother to answer, the people working for Jolla now just don’t care anymore (if they ever did at all).

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Or post complaints that also help no one… :expressionless:

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I also start to doubt that the Jolla staff are still the same Nokia guys.
And I also doubt that there are enough programmers to be able to support the “promised” work, and reach their milestones in time.
And last, but not least, I seriously doubt that there is anyone in Jolla responsible for the support part of the whole project, who can actually give short and accurate answers.
From the Jolla side, they seriously need to find a viable plan to solve financial issues (which I believe that is still their nr1 problem). Some of us still tend to forget that a privacy-oriented company, that doesn’t profit from data harvesting, ads, etc., must be sufficiently paid for their work somehow.
From our side (users), we need to be a little bit more patient (Jolla support replies would really help here), and be open to spending a few extra € for the whole purpose (I have already purchased 5 licenses since 2018).

Ahhh, here I am, smelling my own farts again… :stuck_out_tongue:

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it looks like we can expect fully working phone in year 2525 !

seriously can’t you jolla boys do something? i start believe that jolla is one man show and this one man has another fulltime job and he has jolla as hobby when he get bored…

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With a gigantic team and unlimited funds, they might be able to reverse engineer or improve upon Sony’s blobs themselves or I don’t know what would be the extend of the possibilities; but besides that it’s really out of Jolla’s hands and up to Sony to release working drivers for their phone.

A working analogy, I think, is that you’ve bought an Nvidia graphics card and are relying on Windows Update drivers from 2021 on which many modern games refuse to run, and now you’re complaining to Microsoft rather than Nvidia about the fact that their drivers suck…

So stop barking up the wrong tree, and send Sony a mail to complain.

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and how we know that it is really in sony blobs and that maybe some things were fixed and it is waiting for jolla adaptation ?

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Sony blobs have been already released, but Jolla didn’t have time / efforts or so… to polish it to the SFOS. So please stop barking also… :stuck_out_tongue:

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Fixed in a way that introduced needless protocol changes and requires yet more effort from Jolla.

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This will speed up the adaptation process if I send Jolla a financial gift eg. 50-100 €? What can I do so that I can start enjoying my Xperia 10 IV in normal mode (camera, …)? Before I bought it, Jolla promised that it would be included in the supported SFOS models. :unamused:

EDIT: No, I’m not a programmer to make the necessary adjustments, unfortunately.

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Jolla has the discount price for licences on Xperia 10 IV and V, planned to be ready as an offer that runs until the end of June, as @rainemak wrote in this post: Enabling AppSupport for Sony Xperia 10 IV and 10 V - #81 by rainemak
So we can conclude that the aim is to publish viable commercial licences with minimum bugs within less than a month :slight_smile:
I’d say we can at least enjoy the prospect, june is very soon coming :wink:

yes but no exact year was mentioned. i think nobody believe that it will be sooner than 2525

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Stop wasting your time to discuss about it
It is coming soon™

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