Hi All
I am working on getting a new installation on an Xperia VI 10 to work properly.
There are a few issues:
the first one is that the camera doesn’t work at all (just black no matter what) I can’t find any settings to enable it etc?
thanks
Luke
Checkout https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/release-notes-tampella-5-0-0-61/22224 especially the line:
Thanks Richard, I figured this out after a bit more research. (The post was held up for approval for a few weeks) It is too bad as otherwise the phone seemed to work quite well but it isn’t viable without a camera.
Luke
Yes the cameras are a positive feature. However battery life sucks, too.
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I have bought my second supporting sailfish sony device. I had choice to order subscription or try trial. I tried trial on my Sony Xperia 10 IV. Battery time was super, performance was amazing. Soul like was nokia never died. And you know what in the end? - I open the camera - and it shows me black screen. Iam still upset. :(. I was lucky i didnt buy license for 50 eur just to see black wall in camera app.
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What do you mean? Jolla is not dying, it’s quite the opposite actually.
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How come, that dead Nokia company had average number of employees in 2025
totalled approximately 78 000 in app. 130 countries?
Net sales, EURm 19 889. And Nokia made some profit EURm 400+ too
in 2025 eventhough heavily declined since 2024.
Nokia’s stock market value was on Friday EURm 65 145,71 though also declining.
Phones had never been Nokia’s only business if you, @boshtannik were
meaning that. Please, check facts.
As i got - the fix for the camera is not included for 2nd year already due to the lack of official sony’s binary for their camera’s hardware. And old functional binaries are not used due to the API or binary interface inconsistancies between the versions of drivers. Only if I’am correct - is it possible to provide software adopter in order to use old binaries (blobs/drivers) to match current interfaces which Sailfish OS expects from blobs only until new official Sony blobs will be produced? 2 years almost. I’am losing hope - if they are going to at all.
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Hello and welcome! Sone xperia 10 IV & V have been in beta state since 2024 and there isn’t licence sold to them because of that. With trial version you get AAS and other paid functionalities. Camera not functioning is known issue unfortunately which might not get fixed before camera api 2 is implemented. Currently all focus of Jolla goes to the Jolla phone
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Got it, thank you. Which device right now of Sony is mostly supported? So I could buy, flash and use.
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Sony Xperia 10 III is the latest Sony device (to my understanding) that is fully supported. I got it for this reason to test things out while I wait for the Jolla phone. And it is good for that, but personally I can’t wait to get Jolla phone! There are some quirks related to this Sony device also, which you can read aviut in this forum.
But if you can’t wait or don’t have the budget, 10 III is definitely daily drivable!
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What is the reason for camera non working: Is it new api made by sailfish and not provided by driver or new api made by driver and not supported by sailfish os?
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AFAIK, Sony changed some API on their AOSP blobs, and adapting the SFOS ports to it takes a considerable amount of work. The camera apparently works on the newer blobs, but Jolla haven’t had the time and resources to make them work yet.
That would be stupid - of course it isn’t.
Is the port for Sony Xperia IV closed sources? If so, while main team works upon Jolla phone - maybe open source that port? Doing that manually by team may lead to losing time. For support those devices and in the end possibly lose that part of market. What if open-source that port, or select 1-2 guys from team of Jolla to finish port using Ai, as the guy did. It is told that he was managed to do port for 2 days adjusting drivers, configs, chosing correct android drivers, auto analyzing thousands lines of logs, compile errors, etc instead of months. Here is the link by the way : https://youtube.com/shorts/w0YbWzHOzqE?is=TB9ivDEip3GxPEJO
No, it shouldn’t be Closed Source. You find the necessary repos on github:
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