[Release notes] Struven ketju 4.5.0.16

During download, I saw the message:
the listed packages may cause problems
DeadBeef Silica
Chum GUI
textractor
2 packs related to DeadBeef packs

removed packages from Storeman

As I said during the download, I removed the mentioned packages that were mentioned that can do problems.

Xperia 10 III update = went smooth as silk

The installation rebooted itself at the end. I didn’t have to do any reboot!

At the weekend I will do an reinstallation. I did not found any other procedures to solve the problem.

Battery ageing protection implemented into “Settings > System > Battery”. This is to avoid the wear out of the battery. The user can set a limit (e.g. 90%) where the charging is stopped.

This is a good feature. No need for Battery Buddy anymore, i guess?

If you have backed up the file $HOME/.config/lipstick/applications.menu, you can find the folders and exact order for each application (that’s what I used to put mine back in place).

I wish i knew this. App grid was a mess after the update. After a while of rearranging i’m pretty sure some of the app icons are gone. (Yes, i waited for App Support to do it’s thing.) At least couple of MicroG related are not there anymore (Fakestore for example, and some other, can’t remember what). Though they are still installed according to Fdroid. And i’m not really sure if there are more missing. Never expected this to happen.

Also MicroG isn’t working properly anymore. Bunch of applications (like banking etc.) are nagging about missing Google Play Services. Signature spoofing seems to be working, and i guess most of the settings are properly set.

This makes me want to reflash the phone and start all over again. With no guarantee it’ll make any difference.

Nevertheless no other major complaints about updating. It did stuck at the 100% point of the progress bar, and i did have to perform forced power off.

I guess this is a good update, but holy crap if i have to spend hours and hours of reinstalling and configuring all the apps again.

Have you seen this post? It can be helpful.

or

I hope this solves your problem

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Same with the Xperia 10ii. Also did then that keycombination to reboot. After reboot it was the 4.5 with appearantly no issues.
Started the android layer manually (i programmed it to not autostart on boot) took about a minute to start.
Everything look great. Starting to love Sailfish OS more and more.
Thanks Jolla!

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When I activate teh newly introduced volume bar on my XA2 Ultra, the distance between the ring tone volume bar and the new volume bar is bigger than the distance between the brightness bar and the ring tone volume bar. Maybe this can be improved in the future, because it looks a bit sluggish…

In total very nice update!

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State of VoLTE?

After upgrading, i can see the VoLTE still being marked as beta. Which is fine, I guess, but given the Release notes do not mention VoLTE I’m wondering if anything has been done here?

In case it’s relevant: It’s not working for me - same as before upgrading to 4.5.0.16 - and I have no idea how to further debug/help with this. Provider is Telekom in Germany, the configuration files seem to make sense but I’m not getting anything even after keeping it enabled for hours, it just keeps blinking.

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Thanks for 4.5.0.16.
Update process went through without problems on my X 10 II.
There was only one strange thing.
Yesterday I used threema for the first time again and noticed that all media files were gone.
In the chats there were only placeholders, even if I clicked on media overview in the menu.
Today I wanted to write a bug report, but all media files were visible again. Strange. I hope it stays like this.

Updated my Xperia 10 and the only problem was the phone didn’t restart automatically after the progress bar was full (yes, I waited like half an hour) and the phone didn’t register power button presses so I had to use the Vol Up + Power to restart the phone.

After couple of minutes Android apps came back to the app grid and to my horror they didn’t return to their previous places but at the end of the grid list and I had to visualise my muscle memory to get them to mostly right places.

After update banking apps complained about phone not supporting Google Play Services and either still worked or restarted when trying to login, but found out in other threads in this forum that updating FakeStore to version 0.1.0 (was 0.0.2 and F-Droid didn’t offer the update even when trying to refresh the repo, had to manually go to the FakeStore and update it) everything worked just like in the past without any nagging.

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Thanks for all who contributed to this released. I updated my X 10 iii, Gemini and X without any issues.
Many small improvements and paper cuts fixed. Hopefully, the echo in the 10III will be fixed, and I’m awaiting new features!

Well, BatteryBuddy has quite a bit more options to customize charging. Not only the upper limit but also the lower limit (when charging restarts), max charging current, etc.

I’ve noticed that, too. Looks ugly.

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Thanks for the tip.

I updated Fakestore from 0.0.2 to 0.1.0, restarted Android App Support, but still the same complain about missing Google Play Services. I went through the settings, but everything were as they were when it worked. Then i noticed also Signal is saying the same.

I downgraded microG Services Core to an earlier version, restarted AAS, still the same. Uninstalled it and reinstalled the latest version again. Had to go through all the settings, since everything was reset. Restarted AAS, and then it started working. So that’s good.

So far i’m pretty happy with the latest update (yet noticed only minor issue with phone asking for USB mode when connected to a charger). I still would like to see all the missing features working, all cameras and such. But i’m patient, they’ll come around. Thanks to the devs for a good OS.

Edit: And of course all the other people at Jolla, not just the devs!

Updated my 10 III. Vodafone DE

Had to force a reboot.
Android Apps came back pretty fast.

Had to reinstall chum.
Had to move my offline maps for HereWego from SD card to internal memory. :frowning:
OSM Scout maps were also “gone”.

Phone, sms, threema, signal, telegram
WIFI, mobile data, GPS, hotspot, navigation work.

Thanks to the people at Jolla for this release

Problems with video playback in the stock browser is one thing, but using /etc/hosts on the Android side through /var/lib/lxc/aliendalvik/extra_config no longer working is a DEAL BREAKER for me. Anyone knows any solution for this?

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Update from Xperia X and Xperia 10lll, was just perfect.

I couldn’t turn bluetooth on anymore (XA 2). Indicator in System was blinking continuously.

rfkill showed it was soft block.

[root@Beorn nemo]# rfkill
ID TYPE      DEVICE      SOFT      HARD
 0 bluetooth hci0     blocked unblocked
 1 wlan      phy0   unblocked unblocked

Unblocking and restarting bluetooth systemd daemon fixed the problem.

rfkill unblock 0 
systemctl restart bluetooth.service

Edit: No problem with Xperia X and bluetooth.

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How’s Xperia 10 iii mk3 battery life since 4.5? Any improvement? Mine was sinking with 4.4 like Titanic…

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X 10 III Update from 4.4 to 4.5 without any problem.

  • uninstalled chum gui app before update because it said it could be a problem
  • manually switched microg fakestore from 0.0.2 to 0.1.0 in f-droid before update (as others have reported issues)
  • android apps appeared approx. 5 mins after the update and i couldn’t run any android app for another 5 mins. Just had to be patient
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