I’m considering the xperia 5 as my next phone instead of a xperia 10 because of it’s value (it seems to give better features per cost) and I wonder if there’s anything important I should be aware of? So long it seems that most important functionality works including voice, data and wifi… is anything I should be warned of before I buy it? I don’t care about android compatibility, I only use native apps.
There’s all the limitations of a community port instead of official Sailfish X on the Xperia 5; so no volte, no app support (which you said doesn’t matter), no xt9 spelling/prediction, no MS office365 something-something (that I can’t get to work with my provider anyway).
I’m fine with all of that, I currently own a phone which is not officially supported, so I guess xperia 5 would be a good choice, thanks.
Hi guys, I’m want to buy Xperia 5 III or IV. Does this port work for these generations? Or it works only with first Xperia 5 generation?
Unfortunately only mark I
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Maybe someone is working on the ports?
The Sailfish OS port for the Sony Xperia 1 and 5 has been updated last to the latest release of Sailfish OS 4.5.0.24 in addition to that the adaptation to include various security updates and other bug fixes that affect all Sony adaptations taken from Jolla.
Also several documentation updates or buildinfrastructure changes have been made. Most of these updates were fixes to the branching script and
new scripts for release aggregation for update discovery.
The delay between the last release was mostly caused by the development for the update discovery service Cosu and
my personal situation in my private live which had a turn for the worst last year. The Xperia 1/5 II port also took some time of course.
Updates to these project components are now tracking in the main bug tracking repository SailfishOS-SonyXperia/bugs/releases.
The highlights in this release are:
- [ui] Update submodule to pull in the right icon package for Xperia 1. SailfishOS-SonyXperia/bugs#37
The launcher and other icons now should have the right solution
appropriate to the resolution of the device. - [Cosu] Implement service to search for device updates. SailfishOS-SonyXperia/bugs#89
The port now includes working update discovery, updates can be found, downloaded
and installed through the update ui. - [doc] Document device upgrades before cosupdateservice #71
Document the process of installing the update discovery service for existing installation
of ports before updating through the normal process - [kernel] Enable CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL in config. Contributes to JB#59542
- [kernel] free task immediately to prevent slab task_struct memory leak. JB#60580
- [kernel] input: sec_ts: Remove spam from event buffer is empty. Fixes JB#58343
- [kernel] Update to Linux 4.14.264. Fixes JB#59877
Note the (Jolla) bug numbers have nothing to do with the port directly and are only here for reference
You can find the full changelog of this release in the release notes or at the end of this post:
Thanks to all who have provided testing, reported bugs or have contributed otherwise.
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Thanks for your work!
After the firmware
Sailfish_OS-Sailfish-SonyXperia-4.5.0.24-j9210-4.5.0.24.git1.7.zip
I can’t add a Jolla account:
Add account - No account providers available.
@Thaodan ,
I want to know possibility to boot into hybris recovery on this release, because on previous release I can’t do it.
It should be yes.
Can’t do short replies…
Please wait till I have rebuilt the images I found the issue.
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Should be fixed now.
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thank, now I can access hybris recovery to remove encryption…
I don’t have Jolla account problem.
I can add my Jolla account
Xperia 1 DoCoMo Version
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Hi,
are there any plans to support the Xperia 5 V in the nearer future? I know the 5 IV is next on your list @Thaodan, but maybe the 5 V is also a good option as it doesn’t seem to have the overheating issues. My XZ2 just died and I have the chance to get a 5 V, but I don’t want to get a phone which will never be usable with SFOS.
Thanks!
Unfortunately this is very problematic to say, which model will be the next SailfishOS-supported device.
Like we all see, Xperia 10 IV and V should be the next supported devices after XA2,10,10II,10III but…
it turn out to be problematic. I wish (and hope) that this both models get a good adaptation in the near future, but we can’t say for sure.
What i see since a couple of years is that Jolla supports middle-class devices.
Better Hardware like in Xperia 5 IV and Xperia 5 V are very welcome, but i doubt they will come out with official support.
We all want good-spec-hardware with working SailfishOS.
Till now i see only Fairphone 4 and Fairphone 5 as “high(er) end” devices, but unfortunately only as community port…
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Thanks explit for your detailed answer. I share your thoughts about official support and don’t think Jolla will include these kind of devices.
My XZ2 port really served me well for some years and I thought the 5 V might be a good fit for a community port. But to be honest, I don’t have an idea how complex a port is. I was thinking (and hoping 
) that the step from the 5 IV - which is currently in the works, if I interpret Thaodan’s github right - to the Xperia 5 V is not as big as for a totally different device like the Fairphones or Pixels, which were discussed as porting candidates as well.
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I watching and waiting also for a 5 V-Port, because this Model have interesting specs for me.
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v 5 would be really cool, I tried to build it but it is too Hard ,4 me