SFOS 4.5 feedback thread

wetab73 · 10 February 2023 18:12

What happened to the folder view in launcher? Only four rows of icons in a folder view (at least on XA2 Ultra), or if there’s more than 4 rows then they need to be vertically scrolled? Plus that large empty semitranslucent bar at the bottom (of the same height as the header), serving no real purpose and only consuming 20% of screen space? Swipe to the left or right to leave folder view and go back to the top launcher view gone, now only tapping on that empty bar at the bottom is possible to exit folder view?

What for???

Why such changes to worse? Isn’t it a waste of time to do such things when so many IMPORTANT and long awaited things have been waiting for so long to be done? What is the actual benefit of having that empty bar at the bottom, reducing the number of icon rows simultaneously visible?

EDIT: Fortunately, this is where Patchmanager shows its true beauty. I’ve patched the 4.5 launcher with 4.4 launcher files (already patched with “Launcher combined” patch providing advanced customization) and this way I’m back to what’s good looking and useful.

amaretzek · 10 February 2023 19:18

In 4.4 using /etc/hosts in AD (XA2) worked with:
/var/lib/lxc/aliendalvik/extra_config
having
lxc.mount.entry = /etc/hosts system/etc/hosts none bind,create=file 0 0
(just saw lxc.mount.entry = /etc/hosts system/etc/hosts none bind,ro 0 0)
It doesn’t seem to work in 4.5.
Couldn’t find any hint on this.

mankir · 10 February 2023 19:39

Update went smooth on gemini pda and pinephone. On xa2 it got stuck at 100%, but reboot did it and photo tan comdirect works…

wetab73 · 10 February 2023 23:22

Indeed, it doesn’t work anymore. Does anyone know any solution?

FrankSiebert · 11 February 2023 10:57

I can report quite the same for X 10 III. Only differences:

happens since Update to 4.5
Retry after reboot fails as well.

SMS seems completely broken.

Found a solution for my case: SFOS 4.5 feedback thread - #223 by FrankSiebert

FrankSiebert · 11 February 2023 11:29

Thank you for that valuable help. Disabling VoLTE made SMS work for me again as well.

X 10 III

Here is described how to apply the change: Beta VoLTE on the Xperia 10 III, disabled by default

WT.Sane · 11 February 2023 13:21

Concerning problems with internet access from Andoid apps:

On my 10 III I disabled ip v6 for mobile connections because of problems roaming in Poland and Austria.

I kept that setting and just set it to ip v6 only for a test:

Fennec can access the internet with settings to dual or ip and fails with ip v6.

A broken ip v6 stack might explain a lot of problems with certain providers, roaming etc.

tw1 · 11 February 2023 19:27

Xperia 10 II
Audio is not working on sverigesradio.se “Ljudfilen stöds inte av webbläsaren” (audio file is not supported by the browser), worked on 4.4.
Audio/video works on youtube.com

tmindrup · 11 February 2023 20:54

Hi jovirkku. I prepared the logs via Collect Persistent Logs | Sailfish OS Documentation. How can I send you my log file? Is there any upload functions in this forum? Or do you have an e-mail address where I can send my log file.
Later I uploaded the file via care@jolla.zendesk.com to jolla care support succesfully.

attah · 11 February 2023 21:18

Apparently the upgrade to ffmpeg 5 broke some parts of the browser playback. This has been fixed, but did not make the release. Let’s hope for a hotfix.

Meanwhile… may i suggest the S’Play app?

amaretzek · 12 February 2023 00:11

Ok, found out how it works (@peterleinchen interested??).
Start app-support, ps auxw|grep lxc shows you –rcfile=/tmp/appsupport/aliendalvik/config, there in you have lxc.include = /tmp/appsupport/aliendalvik/10-bsp_config.
Hunting the source of this, since this is volatile. systemctl status aliendalvik gives you the script /usr/lib/systemd/system/aliendalvik.service, there in Requires=aliendalvik-prepare.service and there in …"$CONTAINER_CONFIG_PATH/10-bsp_config". Bingo!
Added thereafter:
echo “lxc.mount.entry = /etc/hosts system/etc/hosts none bind,create=file 0 0” >> “$CONTAINER_CONFIG_PATH/10-bsp_config” and restat app-support.
Verify:
devel-su appsupport-attach cat /etc/hosts
(this changed in 4.5, see Testing Advice | Sailfish OS Documentation )
Warning: have no idea if this interferes with system updates!

LSolrac · 12 February 2023 00:41

So far, I’m pretty happy with the 4.5 update, a lot of things have been fixed. I’ve reinstalled from scratch on my 10 III, and updated on the last day of Early Access, I literally woke up to the news of public release.

Until today, where I noticed a seemingly familiar bug where audio stops working altogether (no notifications, calls seemingly dont ever start, no media playback) - In 4.4.0.72 the fix was just a pulseaudio -k away (which starts a new pulseaudio instance, -killing any existing ones) and you can carry on like nothing happened. However, this happened twice today. I figured I’d try a pulseaudio -k again but sadly, it did not work. I had to reboot the device to have audio again.

After rebooting, I also noticed that there’s a delay in the AppSupport starting? I tried opening signal but it didn’t open, I had to open it a second time and see the notificaiton App Support is starting to open Signal or similar, and then Signal opened.

vlagged · 12 February 2023 01:16

I think you can start (or search an existing thread) specific to /etc/hosts and post this there too:)

goverton · 12 February 2023 03:53

Having a problem with WhatsApp not being able to find it’s storage.

I can send and receive messages, but not images/files.

Receiving an image gives this error:

Download failed
Can’t download because no internal storage is available. Please unmount it as a disk drive, and try again.

I also get an error trying to attach from gallery:

Internal storage required
Please turn off USB storage and try again.

And for images I sent previously:

Sorry, this media file doesn’t exist on your internal storage.

In the WhatsApp logs (/home/.android/data/data/com.whatsapp/files/Logs/whatsapp.log) it’s looking for /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp/Media/…

...
2023-02-12 03:14:58.376 LL_E W [313:WhatsApp Worker #4] fmessageio/prepareFolder/mkdirs failed: /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Video
2023-02-12 03:14:58.379 LL_E W [313:WhatsApp Worker #4] fmessageio/prepareFolder/mkdirs failed: /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Images
2023-02-12 03:14:58.379 LL_E W [313:WhatsApp Worker #4] fmessageio/prepareFolder/mkdirs failed: /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Documents
2023-02-12 03:14:58.380 LL_E W [313:WhatsApp Worker #4] fmessageio/prepareFolder/mkdirs failed: /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp/Media/WallPaper
2023-02-12 03:14:58.380 LL_E W [313:WhatsApp Worker #4] fmessageio/prepareFolder/mkdirs failed: /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Profile Photos
2023-02-12 03:14:58.382 LL_E W [313:WhatsApp Worker #4] fmessageio/prepareFolder/mkdirs failed: /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp/Media/.Links
2023-02-12 03:14:58.382 LL_D W [313:WhatsApp Worker #4] fmessageio/prepareFolder/nomedia doesn't exist, creating in /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp/Media/.Links
2023-02-12 03:14:58.383 LL_E W [313:WhatsApp Worker #4] fmessageio/prepareFolder /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp/Media/.Links; exception=java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
2023-02-12 03:14:58.386 LL_E W [313:WhatsApp Worker #4] fmessageio/prepareFolder/mkdirs failed: /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp/Media/.Statuses
...
*lots* more just like it

Weird thing is my chats are still all there and accessible, so I’m not sure where it’s picking those up from.

My old data still exists in
/home/defaultuser/android_storage/WhatsApp

Because I’m not sure that the root dir looks like to Android apps I tried a few mappings:
/storage/emulated/0 → /home/defaultuser/android_storage
/home/defaultuser/android_storage/emulated/0 → /home/defaultuser/android_storage
/home/defaultuser/android_storage/storage/emulated/0 → /home/defaultuser/android_storage

I’m assuming this is to do with the new scoped storage in Android 11.

I’m also wondering if because I think I “cheated” a while ago to create space the easy way I mapped android_storage straight to the sdcard it messed things up in this migration:
/home/defaultuser/android_storage → sdcard

So does anyone know how Android 11 “scoped storage” works? It’s is different structure or just permissions?

Any suggestions on how to handle this?

I also can’t backup my chats because no internal storage was found.

Everything else with 4.5 so far seems to be working well for me.

tw1 · 12 February 2023 07:54

Thanks, that will do until the fix. (I usually use the news clip flow, but SR does not seem to provide an API for it Hämta ut enskilda nyheter från API:t - Forum för teknisk support - Sveriges Radio)

thigg · 12 February 2023 08:42

It would help if separate bug reports are created for issues that are discussed here. Information is likely lost in such a long thread

ad_antti · 12 February 2023 08:47

Official 4.5.0.16 update on XA2 Plus dual sim went smoothly.
After that Bluetooth won’t turn on at all.
Several reboots, normal (power->top menu) or power+volume_up bring no help.
Settings->Bluetooth Restart doesn’t help either.
Not possible to turn on Bluetooth at all! Any Ideas?

nthn · 12 February 2023 11:32

The empty bar at the bottom is there so you can actually get out of the folder. That being said, you were probably using launcher patches before, because nothing was changed about the way the launcher works - in fact I’m pretty sure nothing’s changed about the way it works since 2017 or so.

tuplasuhveli · 12 February 2023 12:21

I use this opportunity the continue the list:

Oona Konttinen, 22, voi valita joka päivä, haluaako tänään kuulla ääntäkään | Yle Uutiset

Yle (Finnish national broadcasting company) news site is somewhat broken. Usually the browser crashes instantly, when opening the given link. I was able to reach the fifth tab of that article, but I had to close Android App Support and all the apps I had running, but even then it took a ridiculous amount of attempts.

Naton pääsihteeri Stoltenberg jättää tehtävänsä syksyllä - MTVuutiset.fi

MTV (the biggest Finnish commercial media company) news remain unreadable, since the page layout gets all wonky and the actual news content is not shown.

binutzu · 12 February 2023 14:18

At least on XA2 bluetooth does not seem to work unless the bluetooth subsystem is restarted from Settings->Utilities. If search this thread you will find simiar posts. I hope there will be a hotfix release.