Sailfish 4.0.1.48 and microG

Bug Reports
#21

Forgive me, ultimately, before installing any Android app, you need to give these commands:
devel-su
[Type your password]
ln -s / home / defaultuser / home / nemo
and then signature spoofing will work on Kali too?

#22

Thanks for this hint. Butā€¦
In what folder do I have to set this link? In / or in /home/nemo ?
Since there are a lot of blanks in the command it is not quite clear what is the name of the link and what is the path.
Is it probably
ln -s /home/defaultuser/home nemo
or something else?
It would be very nice of you if you could tell me the correct command. Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards, Uwe.

#23

Hello,
of course! And sorry for the bad writing!
So, the command I used was:
devel-su
[Type your password]
ln -s /home/defaultuser /home/nemo

#24

Thank you very much! In the meantime I also found out that the command has to be like you said. (I was totally wrongā€¦)
But the problem is that on my SFOS 4.0.1.48 (XA2) there is no defaultuser in folder /home. Is this correct?

After entering of devel-su Iā€™m in folder /home/nemo. Applying the ln-command it creates a sym-link defaultuser in folder /home/nemo which points to /home/nemo.
But after restarting aliendalvik the Signature Spoofing Checker starts up but closes itself after some seconds without any output.
What Iā€™m also wondering about is that Aliendalvik Control (9.3.1-1) looks different from earlier versions (e.g. no settings button)ā€¦

Best regards, Uwe.

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#25

And what, imagine! Well you solved it! :smiley:
I donā€™t know what to tell you, Iā€™m sorry: in my XA2 (even after several clean installations yes Sailfish) I always found defaultuser in home ā€¦
As for Aliendalvik Control, Coderus is working on it together with Patchmanager, still they donā€™t work on Sailfish 4.

#26

Thanks for answering.
But Iā€™m a bit confused. I have the feeling I didā€™nt solve it ā€¦ :frowning:

Is your defaultuser in /home just a (empty?) file or is it a folder?

Best regards, Uwe.

#27

Hello,
Iā€™m sorry but I just donā€™t remember what was in defaultuser before I created the symbolic link with nemo. :pensive:

#28

As I said above, the proper way to fix the issue is this one:

#29

However, if you are still nemo, and not defaultuser, you are not affected by this particular issue.
Sounds like @uwelabs is nemo? In that case there must be something else not working with the microG install or spoofing settings.

#30

Thank you very much for your hints.
On an earlier SFOS version I used https://together.jolla.com/question/209300/how-to-microg-in-sfos-31/?sort=votes&answer=209744#post-id-209744
to install microG.
I donā€™t know if this is also valid for 4.0.1.48?

In AlienDalvik-Control (9.3.1-1) on SFOS 4.0.1.48 there is no settings button. So I used
apkd-launcher com.android.settings
to check the settings and all looked good.

Now I found [3.4.0.24] Signature spoofing doesn't work on a freshly flashed xperia 10 plus where Sthocs explains the changing of /usr/sbin/alien-generate-properties.sh in line 133:
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/$ALIEN_USER/.config
I did this.
But after restarting aliendalvik the Spoofing Checker still vanishes after some seconds without giving any output. So itā€™s nor clear for me if it works or not.
Best regards, Uwe.

#31

To be sure to understand:

  • You have FakeStore and MicroG Services Core enabled in the enable system package replacement subsection of Android Settings
  • You have the line 133 of alien-generate-properties.sh that has $ALIEN_USER instead of nemo

Then, did you try to simply use the Self Checker of MicroG Settings? I didnā€™t install Signature Spoofing Checker personally, and itā€™s enough to work well with apps that need Play Services.

#32

Excuse my late answer.
Yes I have done all that.
But in the Self.-Check not all check boxes are set. For those which are not set it is not possible to set them. (On my wifeā€™s XA2 all checkboxes are set, although I did all the same things as with my XA2.)
I wonder if I shoud uninstall all related microG apksā€¦?.. The microG Service Core app has a version number 2.8ā€¦ At https://microg.org/download.html there are much newer files. Is it save to use those?
Best regards, Uwe.

#33

I have the same problem.

From the microG app itself the popup to enalbe signature spoofing is coming up but I canā€™t press ā€œacceptā€. This is true for alle permissions. I always I have to go trough the jolla settings ā†’ Apps ā†’ Open Android Settings ā†’ Permissions to enable them.
For the signature spoofing it sadly works that wayā€¦ any help?