[Release notes] Vanha Rauma 4.4.0.64

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#112

Dear Jolla,
it’s really sad that there still is no Xperia 10 III support. I think last October you mentioned that the Xperia III will be supported around the beginning of next year. Since there was a really good black friday deal I ordered a Xperia III in November. Since then the brand new phone is lying around waiting for the Xperia III update. Meanwhile my Xperia 10 is slowly dying. It switches off constantly, probably due to battery degradation.

Will it take another 3 or 4 months now to get the next update with Xperia 10 III support? I just don’t think the Xperia 10 will make it that long… I would have to leave the ship then and just start using the Xperia 10 III with the preinstalled Android OS. After 12 years using Nokia N9 / Jolla C / Xperia / Xperia 10 that would be sad…

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#113

There are spare part batteries available at many websites for the X10 !

#114

While Storeman will install on Xperia 10ii (download RPM harbour-storeman-0.2.12-1.aarch64.rpm and can install .rpm using the stealth (hidden) file manager in settings|storage|user data|download (directory where .rpm is saved - Once installed Storeman seems to be in a constant state of “Initialising” As a result the pull down menus for individual aps don’t work.

Anything to get Storeman to work on Xperia 10ii with Sailfish 4.4. installed would be welcome please. Installed yes - able to function and install aps - NO.

Thanks Mike

#115

Instructions to build a ‘beta’ like sfos image for xperia 10 iii are publically available.

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#116

If you start it from the terminal it is fine, so this seems to be a sandboxing issue. https://github.com/storeman-developers/harbour-storeman/issues/236

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#117

Mike, you chose to install an EA release, hence you ought to know how to handle such a situation and find this comment at Storeman issue #160 by yourself, and maybe also that this fix will likely be part of the next Storeman release for SFOS ≥ 4.2.

If not, please unsubscribe the EA releases; they are not suitable for “getting the updates earlier”. They exist for people willing to test early and fully expecting that some things will break.

And if you have not found anything related to an issue you observe (though a solution was already reported here, yesterday), please at least try starting the app at the command line (e.g. here, harbour-storeman; and you would have seen that it works just fine) and report your issue at the issue tracker of that software including the CLI output of it etc.

If that is too demanding or just technical gibberish for you, then rather stay away from EA releases (or have multiple SFOS devices at hand, so it does not matter if one is unusable for weeks).

Please do look and search thoroughly (both) before writing complaints!

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How to get rid of downloaded but not installed OS update?
#118

this happened to me on 4.3.

was fine with a restart.

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#119

Think the response is a bit OTT @olf I didn’t post a complaint just a comment on my experience.

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I’ll work through what it contains to see if there is anything helpful to fix my issue. :slightly_smiling_face:

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#120

When you enter ‘about:memory’ in the address bar, does that work?
It works on desktop firefox.

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#121

Yes! I Thank you! I thought it was non-Firefox related.

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#122

Has anyone a solution for Amazfish? Is not working anymore in 4.4.0.58
Thanks!

#123

Because IMS/VoLTE modem interfaces are proprietary, it takes time to reverse-engineer those. And the solution is likely to end up being vendor/device specific. But yes, it’s possible. At least theoretically.

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#124

OK @slava , that I understand. Thank you for explanation. BUT, isn’t there a Sony Open Device program?

So, why can’t Jolla simple get the Open Device specs from Sony instead of reverse-engineering something? And, as I understood until now, the whole SFOS project is vendor/device specific. There are a few Sony devices officially supported plus some community ports inofficially. And, what is so top secret on some fu**ing VoLTE specs, that is the industrial standard in telecommunications of the whole world in the next decade? Why can’t Sony be so nice and kindly provide their VoLTE specs as part of their Open Device program? I do not understand this.

edit: Or is simply legal and/or economic stuff the reason for this misery?

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#125

If you wish to dive deeper - yes, Google standardized IMS/VoLTE interfaces and Sony provides implementations of those but they are Java interfaces, meaning that to actually use them you would have to bring up the whole Android VM. That doesn’t help SFOS adaptation. The lower level interfaces usable by SFOS and particularly ofono (e.g. binder APIs) are proprietary and require reverse-engineering (albeit not a super-difficult one).

It’s not clear yet if that’s a trend or not, but that could mean a deliberate shift towards hiding native interfaces and making it harder to use native Android drivers/middleware in non-Android systems like SFOS.

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#126

Updated, seen this couple of times now: something is using location services in background (the indicator is flashing on top of the display) causing a power drain.

#127

Hi there, Today i start new update on my new experia 10 ii dual sim but i all ready wait 5 hours and still freezing in the end of update(progress) bar before finish update… what to do because I don’t have any response… and i think after battery drain the phone will shut down and then will be dead … What can i do and i don’t wanna lose my data ?

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#128

Sticking progress bar at the end of update procedure is often reported and in most cases the new system works fine after a forced reboot by long pressing the power button.
but: no guarantee !

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#129

Most works just great, but for me the browser does not open links when asked?
So, when I tap a link somewhere, it launches the browser but then nothing happens. Also, for a website is attached to the app grid, tapping on it launches the browser, also nothing happens.

Anyone here with the same issue?

#131

As it was my bug report your are referring to, I can confirm this is indeed fixed in SFOS 4.4.
Your piece of code seems to work for me. Even tried version 4.0.9 of your app, before you removed this part of the code in 4.0.10. Your download function in 4.0.9 also worked for me using SFOS 4.4 on my Xperia XA2 plus.
BTW I did not enable sailjail yet for my use case (“welkweer” app), as it will most likely break for 4.3 users (as 4.3 has this bug). But will do so as soon as 4.4 is out of EA.

P.s. why not put your code on some public git repo. Makes searching in the code and tracking changes a lot easier.

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#132

Hi,
Thanks for your help

I can’t understand where is the problem!
you have tell me that it’s work on Xperia XA2 plus (with SFOS 4.4)
but in my Xperia X I get this error “Could not load page” if I comment lines (contextkit) its work

I have also tried:
[X-Sailjail]
Sandboxing=Disabled
but not work!

Perhaps the bug was not corrected in Eperia X ?
I have verified in Terminal (zypper pa -i > everything.txt) if nemo-qml-plugin-contextkit exist in my Eperia X but I can find it! perhaps it’s not installed!

Can you please verified that on your XA2 plus.

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