Sailfish OS 4.6.0.15 for Fairphone 4 and 5 is now available at Index of /images/. These are fastboot flashable images with home encryption enabled. It is recommended to upgrade Android to latest version first to get latest firmware fixes and boot to Android once and test all hardware features especially mobile data and fingerprint support to make sure everything works before flashing Sailfish OS.
Also the older already existing port for Fairphone 2 is available in the same location.
Known issues
Fairphone 5
Video recording in camera
Hardware video codecs (apps playing videos freeze, I will try to find a way to disable hw codecs until I figure out why this happens)
USB connections to computer not working with some USB ports, if devices seems to go into connect/disconnect loop try another USB port
eSIM not supported
Fairphone 4
Video recording in camera
Bluetooth has some issues after boot (mostly with audio related bluetooth devices), restarting bluetooth service via Settings->Utilities should fix the issues
eSIM not supported
Fairphone 2
Camera app hangs after first video recording after boot, recording is stored though
Yes, you can flash Sailfish OS on a device with Android 14, and it’s recommended to have latest Android 14 on FP5 and Android 13 on FP4 before flashing Sailfish OS. Also going back to official Android 14 (or 13) works by flashing the factory image available on Fairphone website.
Yes, on first boot it asks you to enter a code to use when decrypting and unlocking the device during boot. Mobile data should work but no experience with that specific operator.
If you have the latest version of OMV installed (sandworm), there is the option to activate a file browser module within OMV under services.
This way I can access the files on my OMV machine via the browser under Sailfish.
Better than nothing, I think I read somewhere that Sailfish OS kernel has no SMB support, but I cannot cite a reference and this information parked in some dark area in my nasty brain might be wrong.
Maybe someone more knowledgeable can comment.
I would also be interested in proper smb support with sync options !!
The original Jolla browser based on a very old engine and newer web pages are not working. Angelfish seams better on some pages (eg. www.bahn.de). But on a few pages there is a problem (eg. forum.fairphone.com - unsupported browser). So we have to wait that Jolla switch to a newer engine - hopefully soon™ .
Or anybody will build a up-to-date browser for SailfishOS …
Hi mr. mal, can you explain how did you get Waydroid to works? After the command “devel-su waydroid init” it pops up Waydroid starting with an infinity loading screen. I’ve tried all the instructions “GitHub - sailfishos-open/waydroid: Waydroid packaging for Sailfish OS” from here! Without success
Hello @smatkovi, it seems to work well after a short test on my Fairphone 4.
All the pages i saw an error with the old engine are fine now. Many thanks for the info . Edit: i see this error during rpm install: ‘su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/sailfish_guest: No such file or directory’.
And after installation pkcon and zypper had problems with openrepos repository:
root@fp4-3:~ # pkcon refresh force && pkcon update
Refreshing cache
Starting
Refreshing software list
Finished
Fatal error: Download (curl) error for 'https://sailfish.openrepos.net/Ingvix/personal/main/repodata/repomd.xml':
Error code: Curl error 60
Error message: SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired
and with zypper:
root@fp4-3:~ # zypper refresh --force && zypper dup
Forcing raw metadata refresh
Retrieving repository 'adaptation-common' metadata .................................[done]
Forcing building of repository cache
Building repository 'adaptation-common' cache ......................................[done]
Forcing raw metadata refresh
Retrieving repository 'adaptation-community' metadata ..............................[done]
Forcing building of repository cache
Building repository 'adaptation-community' cache ...................................[done]
...
Retrieving repository 'openrepos-Ingvix' metadata .................................[error]
Repository 'openrepos-Ingvix' is invalid.
[openrepos-Ingvix|plugin:ssu?repo=openrepos-Ingvix] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
- [|] Error trying to read from 'plugin:ssu?repo=openrepos-Ingvix'
- Download (curl) error for 'https://sailfish.openrepos.net/Ingvix/personal/main/content':
Error code: Curl error 60
Error message: SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired
Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Skipping repository 'openrepos-Ingvix' because of the above error.
Forcing raw metadata refresh
Retrieving repository 'openrepos-Karry' metadata ..................................[error]
Repository 'openrepos-Karry' is invalid.
[openrepos-Karry|plugin:ssu?repo=openrepos-Karry] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
- [|] Error trying to read from 'plugin:ssu?repo=openrepos-Karry'
- Download (curl) error for 'https://sailfish.openrepos.net/Karry/personal/main/content':
Error code: Curl error 60
Error message: SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired
Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Skipping repository 'openrepos-Karry' because of the above error.
Forcing raw metadata refresh
It seems a problem with the openrepos certificate. Maybe the cache therefore must be deleted …
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