Sailfish OS for Fairphones devices

Hardware Adaptation
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Nice :slight_smile: At least for the browser it helped setting that value from 2 to 3. One of the two Apps looks better now, thank you!
The Mail App, however, still shows the Mails (not the folder view of course) in the small size. Do you have an idea for that, too?

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Maybe it picks up the same setting, try killing all jolla-email processes or restarting

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Have someone tried to install Android App Support Packages from Sony Xperia 10 III or Jolla C2 on the Fairphone
4/5 ? Maybe its worth a test?

When i had Fairphone 2, we found out that we could use Alien Dalvik Packages from the mysterious Turning phone. Both devices shared the same SoC and it worked under SailfishOS 2. In the later Versions it was not possible anymore…

Who is willing to test, please PM me.

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Thanks for the hint @vlagged ! You helped me much. It works like a charm!

On Fennec this variable is originally set to -1 , so I set it to (+) 3 and this made letters better readable, a bit larger but doesn’t waste too much area on the tiny screen.

btw, i have absolutely no idea for what this original negative value should be good, does anyone know?

edit OT: found a value of -1 also on desktop Linux version of Firefox 128.6.0esr (64-Bit), and set it to +2.5 for a 10 inch / full HD mini laptop. I think, with this value one can trim the ‘normal’ font size to personal flavour.

edit OT: on big desktop with 24" screen changing this variable from -1 to +1 also speeds up page rendering significantly.
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Didn’t work on Fairphone4. So Waydroid might be the way if someone can do some (bug) fixes for the Fairphones and get it running :wink: …

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On #saifishos @mal mentioned that it appears waydroid is not working with a such new android base (14) yet, not sure if it is just a bug or a waydroid based on a newer Lineage is needed.

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Good to know, then I wouldn’t try anymore :wink:

Did he say anything about WiFi, too? Still trying to figure out what might be wrong that I can’t connect to any WiFi except my Xperia’s Hotspot :frowning:

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Doesn’t help, but I guess I can live with that at the moment.

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It’s very odd why the country code is wrong for wlan in your case. Need to see how that is set.

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If you need any information, please let me know, I would be glad to help.

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Hi, is an OTA update possible? Or update just via Terminal ssu… Will it get 5.0 soon? thanks.

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As 5.0 isn’t even official yet, I guess we would have to wait a little longer;)

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I found one more issue: both on my Xperia 10 III (4.6 and 5.0) and on the C2 I once had, I was able to send SMS on 4G. On my FP5 that fails with the same SIM card (WEtell in Germany which uses Vodafone). I have to switch it to 2G, then it works.

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I really enjoy SFOS on the FP5, thank you so much, @mal !

I have four findings I’d like to share:

  • in the settings, there is no menu for the SIM card, is that intentionally?
  • I am unable to add the torch to top menu, as in the menu for changing it, there is no entry for the torch
  • I am repeatedly informed, that I have a lot of crash reports pending upload. Shall we upload them, and if so, to which server? Shall we just delete them, and if so: where are the reports stored?
  • unfortunately, the browser seems to eat battery for lunch. If I browse the web, the battery empties in nullkommanix
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The SIM card menu is not there because there is currently only one SIM slot supported, the other one is the eSIM slot which is not yet possible to use in Sailfish. I will check the torch support, I probably never tested that yet. No use in uploading crash reports, but if you can check in /var/cache/core-dumps/ or journal log what processes crash and report those to me it would be helpful. I will also check browser, does it matter which websites you use or does that battery usage happen always?

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Thanks for your quick reply :slight_smile:
Looking at the crashing processes will take some time, as it >250 MB, I think I will have to reserve a time slot :wink:
Regarding the thing with the browser: unfortunately I forgot (and therefore forgot to mention) that I upgraded to flypig’s esr91 directly after flashing the phone, so maybe the issue lies there and I should downgrade to the standard esr78 before investigating? Nevertheless, the issue occurs on ad-heavy sites as well as on light sites.

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I only need the names of the processes which are in the filenames, if there is something that is crashing a lot it should be easily seen. That old esr91 build might have all kinds of issues not present in the actual version which will be included in 5.0. I will test the regular esr78 to see how it behaves.

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There are several of

  • 9 x android.hardware.audio.service-fp5
  • 15 x Endurance-fp5 (I enabled it because I thought that maybe the cause for battery drain could be found inside)
  • 4 x exe-fp5-11
  • 3 x exe-fp5-6
  • 9 x pulseaudio-fp5-6
  • 3 x udisksd-fp5-6

and one

  • unknown-fp5-6
  • oneshots
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I also found ‘ngfd’ and ‘bluetoothd’ entries in that folder now. And a lot more of the already mentioned ones.

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I will have a look at all of those when doing more 5.0.0 release testing but so far testing has been doing well. pulseaudio is known issue and something that is low priority but on my todo list (only crashes when exiting pulseaudio), ngfd has some issues for some of which there are fixes but one is still to be fixed. For others I need to do more checking.

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