My Xperia 10 II arrived with Android 12 installed but the GPS was not able to fix any satellite. However, after an investigation about that issue I reach the conclusion that without a correct configuration of A-GPS system there is no cache to have a quick and precise geolocalisation fixing.
The thread above is the continuation of a wider product planning to complete the hardware support for Xperia 10 II e III, in particular. Then, deliver a system configuration more suitable for advanced users that do not want spend their time in struggling in the hacking playground¹.
So, it seems reasonable for me to - in the near future - to start again from fresh but using an Android 12 as pre-installed system instead of Android 11. I have been riduculised when I supported the idea that Android system and microG was able to influence the behaviour of a much larger stack portion respect those supposed to be.
Unfortunately, there is the ideological bias about SailFish OS that it should be an indipendent system respect Android but as long as it would deliver its own hardware support with Linux kernel device drivers supported by proprietary firmware - in case of necessity - but installed and used indipendently the Android systen, there is a little chance that the jailing will work as expected without any corner case. Having a corner case, it means that the jail does not work!
However, I agreed to not propagate this PoV without reproducible proof of my claims. Therefore, consider this post a confutation trail of the SFOS architecture. In fact, in science the confutation is used to exclude false hypotehsis and to reach to the most objective factual description of the reality. It is the equivalent of reasoning for absurd in maths.
- SailFish OS is an indipendet system
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- Android and related stuff influence SFOS
There is different experiences about using Android 12 with SFOS and there are many explanations possible that can drive torward one HP or the other.
It is an interesting and sensitive topic but a good playground to investigate the SFOS architecture and confirm or confute the theory about its indipendence.
NOTE
¹ leave to the hackers those belong to the hacker, give to the users what users wish to pay for.