Attah:
Why ‘sorry’?
After Jolla 1 I bought four Sony’s. James Noori flashed the X for me. The other three are flashed by myself. That’s five devices. Currently I have no Sailfish device that functions well enough for using as daily driver… If the new rules would have been applied earlier, I would have done at least 25 years with these five devices.
My daughters still use their iphone 6s. To be honest.
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@Attah The sustainability of phones not only depends on software. And even Fairphone depends on Telecom that decides ae need 5G. Just as smartphones seemed to be fully developed Big Tech came with AI features, luring us to buy new devices. We watched the ads of the duopoly at ITV ad nauseam. Why Fairphone and Gigasets are better: it’s easy to replace the battery. The repairshop refused to change the battery of my XA2. The card slot of my XA2 plus is broken. Can’t be repaired. They don’t repair Sony phones. So yes, something has to change in the tech world.
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It is polite-speak for “you are very wrong”. A very common rhetorical construct.
You say all of this like we would be able to mind-read why your phones broke, and that is a well-established fact. Requirements of VoLTE had lots of Xperia X and XA2 users posting, so evidently people can keep their phones for long. And even though i have switched maybe every 18 months before now - nothing has forced me to do so in the slightest.
The 5-year of software update rules? What do they matter when SFOS has never done under 7 even before? As far as i have seen it has no bearing on parts availability.
Other shops would have accepted.
I can’t see any relevant spares for that for Fairphone either.
@Attah,
I don’t blame you or Jolla if a Sony with Sailfish needs a repair. That would be ridiculous, so there is no need for defense on that point. By the way, I am not the only one here who experienced a refusal at an official repair shop. Someone else said this too.
I am also not the only one with five Sailfish devices in a drawer in about ten years. Concerning the software: on the XA2 and the XA2 plus GPS and video calling never worked. The 10 III that I bought and flashed has an irritating echo. You know very well that there were many bugs each time when Sailfish was ported to a new Sony . Afterwards several were solved but not all of them. So it’s not so weird saying that it could benefit Sailfish if the OS could be developed on the same device over more years.
I just wish Sailfish a future.
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Could - maybe. But it is so far from guaranteed. And you are not making any particular arguments for it apart from that you think it “seems probable”.
A new port would have to make up for the changes all those intermediary Android versions for which there is no official port. Making a port for every version is optimal from that point of view, if you can at all manage. Android versions come out every year.
There is also nothing that says that more time spent will solve every type of issue. What’s more, people are already complaining about Xperias being old - imagine the average user showing up and the latest version is a 3+ year old Fairphone? I don’t think that would go down too well. You also would have to mostly subtract the age of the model of phone from how long you expect it to be supported.
No, i think the key here is better quality hardware, vendor kernels and binaries. Ideally mainline. Maybe Fairphone is it - maybe it isn’t.
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Hi @mal
Thanks for your hard work on getting this to work on FP devices.
I’m considering acquiring a FP5 as my next phone and I’m curious if the source for this port are public?
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Hi, @mal I was wondering if this condition persists? I was looking at getting an FP4 since I’m not able to use video reliably on the volla phones and have happily used your FP2 ports in the past.
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