Sailfish OS 4.4.0.72 for Sony Xperia 1 and 5
These release notes cover Sailfish OS 4.4.0.72 for the following devices:
- Sony Xperia 1 (J8110, J9110)
- Sony Xperia 5 (J8210, J9210)
Intro
This port has been updated last to the latest release of Sailfish OS 4.4.0.72 in addition to that several adaptation bugs discovered in the testing of the first release have been fixed.
Also several documentation updates or buildinfrastructure changes have been made.
Updates to these project components are now tracking in the main bug tracking repository SailfishOS-SonyXperia/bugs/releases.
The highlights in this release are:
- [prjconf] Fix pattern dependencies. Fixes SailfishOS-SonyXperia/bugs#55, fixes SailfishOS-SonyXperia/bugs#59
- [patterns] Require ngfd >= 1.4 instead of ngfd-plugin-native-vibrator. Fixes SailfishOS-SonyXperia/bugs#69
- [configs] Keep dual sim configs on J9210/Xperia 5, remove on J8110. Fixes SailfishOS-SonyXperia/bugs#51
- [kickstart] Fix
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name for Xperia 5/J9210 in flash-on-windows. Resolves SailfishOS-SonyXperia/bugs#50
Thanks to all who have provided testing, reported bugs or have contributed otherwise.
Functionality
The devices have the same functionality level as the Xperia 10 II port made by Jolla,
except in areas such as VoLTE where public packages are missing or in relation to Sailfish X features which are (currently) unavailable.
Known issues
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- Because of a missing package inside the adaptation-common repository Windows binaries for flashing are missing inside
the zip archive. To workaround that issue have added another zip file that includes these files as “droid-flashingtools.zip” to this release.
- Because of a missing package inside the adaptation-common repository Windows binaries for flashing are missing inside
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- The launcher icons on the Xperia 1 are to small because there’s no bigger graphics-theme size than 2.0.
Project
The Github project that contains this port and all other ports from this project can be found here:
Project Updates
As explained above there’s now a separate changelog for project wide updates which can be found down below:
The changelog file about the project updates can be found down below:
About
The goal of this project is to port additional Sony devices on top of Jolla’s existing adaptations while staying as close as possible to the existing ports and contributing back to the upstream where possible.
Most of the changes from Jolla ports are adopted in both directions since the issues that one port has usually apply to the sister device of the same generation (e.g. Xperia 10 II → Xperia 1/5).
This is the reason why changes from Jolla’s port end up in the changelog for these port,
in many cases because they also affect the specific port but not always.
Where possible changes that were done for this port go back to the Mer-Hybris repositories such as the kernel or droid repositories.
The project is open for anyone that wishes to port additional Sony devices to Sailfish OS. Feel free to suggest new features, provide bug reports or to contribute.
Report bugs
Bugs can be opened in the bug repository linked below:
Download
Flashing
To install Sailfish OS on your device please follow the install instructs in the flashing-readme.txt file included in the archive or read the offical flashing instructions for either the Xperia 10 II or Xperia 10 III:
Just make sure to download the software binaries for your device instead of the ones mentioned in the instructions: