Sony Xperia III - Android 12

Could you also tell us which is the recommended Android 11 version?
62.0.A.3.109 that can be installed by Emma, and version that shipped with my phone,
or 62.0.A.9.11 that can be installed by OTA?
What is the recommended one? Official guide only mentions the first one, and not doing any further OTAs, meanwhile people here recommended to OTA. Which one was tested the most?

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@rainemak, the other more detailed help desk article is not updated yet.

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Would it make any difference install SailfishOS 4 on Xperia 10 iii running Android oid 11 or 12? I don’t thinkk so, but just curious

Thank you @olf for noticing this.

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@rainemak
Could you also confirm which version of Android 11 is the official and recommended one, as I asked 3 posts above?

Slightly OT: what are the conditions for getting OTA upgrades in android?
I had 62.0.A.3.17 and 62.0.A.3.109 flashed with EMMA, bootloader locked (fastboot oem lock) but no update notification received . I will probably flash v12 via newflasher to see if it makes a difference for this topic Unable to use mobile data on Sony Xperia 10 III 4.4.0.64 - #67 by rtr2001

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I know other Android devices disable OTA updates when the bootloader is ulocked, not sure about Sony though.

I read somewhere that OTA is disabled for unlocked phones . Hence I have locked right after flashing Android and only booted with locked bootloader. No update notification found. Interestingly, EMMA tool only sees two versions of Android 11…

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I had no problem from Android 12. Used the phone week as Android to make sure all is O Ok

@rtr2001 @Dickus51 It should work, but is not recommended

@rainemak: Still as of 2022-09-12.

I installed with Android 12, installation went fine… and i am using SFOS from almost a month. all is fine…

Hope this helps

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In the end I connected it again to USB and rebooted using fastboot reboot . That worked well.

God bless you.

Thank you @rainemak for addressing this, but unfortunately now the footnote 4 is broken and footnote 5 is missing.

My suggestion how to fix this: Alter
[4] Both Android 11 and Android 12 are compatible with Sailfish. However, we recommend using Android 11, so select Android baseband 59.1.A.x.y if available.
to
[4] Both Android 10 and Android 11 are compatible with Sailfish. However, we recommend using Android 11, so select Android baseband 59.1.A.x.y if available.
[5] Both Android 11 and Android 12 are compatible with Sailfish. However, we still recommend using Android 11, so select Android baseband 62.0.A.x.y if available.
and append a [5] to the second column of the Xperia 10 III entry.

HTH

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Thanks for pointing this out, article is now updated.

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Sorry for the offtop (I would’ve sent you a PM but can’t find how it’s done on this platform), but could you please tell me if there is an updated version of your (awesome) XPeria partitioning guide? I’m interested in whether anything changed WRT XPeria 10 III and/or Vanha Rauma.

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Reading often helps, here the “P.S.” of this guide at TJC. :wink:
olf / SailfishX on Xperias · GitLab

tnx for the dox, this seems to not miss important steps at the very beginning of the use that may affect the success of installing sfos…)

I wish I’ve known this dox when I started to try installing sfos to xperia 10 iii a week ago. (still not able to get pass fastboot oem unlock phase - have spent couple of hours today to figure out what to do next…)

so here I am again … my Sony Xperia 10 III unfortunately sometimes stays silent and doesn’t ring when somebody calls me … has anyone else of you experienced something like that?

I was thinking of maybe trying to flash it with the latest version of Sailfish … would the instructions found at → How to install Sailfish X on Xperia™ 10 III on Linux - Jolla ← apply here as well? I originally flashed my device using a Windows computer …

also … due to currently / still not having a memory card I cannot install any updates yet, things have failed last time and I lost all the data, contacts, pictures, etc I had unfortunately.

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I would use this automatic script and set it to 2 minutes: The sounds of incoming calls, SMS, notifications disappear - #17 by comsorg