The Jolla Weather App 'White Screen' Problem Solved

As explained in this thread here:

The Jolla weather app stopped working on my Sony Xperia 10 iii. I don’t know quite when this happened (during an upgrade from 5.1.0.x to a later increment, or at some totally unrelated point), but the symptoms were a white screen and nothing else in the app, and no weather in the events view. This problem has been reported by quite a few users on this forum as well now.

On my Xperia 10 v Jolla Weather continued to work just fine.

Starting the weather app from the command line gave quite a few errors, the most consequential of which was that a module/library ‘Sailfish.Weather 1.0’ could not be found.

So, using the excellent File Browser app, I searched everything below root on both devices for any weather related file. Comparing what the search on the 10 iii revealed and what the 10 v revealed, both were identical except for files in

/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/Sailfish/Weather

The 10 v had 26 files in the directory, but the 10 iii only had 23.

The files missing from the 10iii were:

  • WeatherIndicator.qml
  • WeatherBanner.qml
  • qmldir

Looking at the raw data inside qmldir revealed that this file contains the missing Sailfish.Weather library/module.

By copying the missing files from the 10 v to the 10 iii in the same directory, and then checking that the owner (root), group (root) and permissions (r w - r - - r - -) were right I then started the Jolla Weather app.

It worked perfectly - no more white screen. Restarting the Home Screen (settings/utilities) also gave me back weather in the events view as well. Happy days.

I have no idea why these three files were (went) missing on the 10iii, but this may help others with the white screen problem.

Maybe @Jolla could look into this.

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I have a pretty good explanation model…

Also; really bad idea to create new thread and separate the answer from the question.

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Good catch, Steve!

A freshly installed Sailfish Weather, version 1.3.5, on an Orange (not relevant) 5.2.0.13 (relevant?) was also missing these files.

I got the files dated 11.5.2026 from my 10 II running 5.1.0.11. I sent them with Fernie (sshfs would’ve been more elegant) and moved them and changed the perms - to everyone’s surprise - with the excellent File Browser Root. So no scary command line was needed.

The obvious uninstall + install and zypper ref, zypper up/dup didn’t magically insert the missing files inside the rpm on Jolla’s server.

I had the backends, so there are two issues.

Edit: shortened quote from Steve
Edit2: I didn’t test this part: harbour-meecast-eventview overwrites the files, removing it removes the files.

The reason why reinstalling Jolla Weather doesn’t help is that the files are in sailfish-components-weather-qt5. So reinstall that one.

This screenshot is from my XA2/5.0 that doesn’t have Jolla Weather but has the same filenames with different content.

Sorry i can say, on my xa2 under 5.1.0.11
the files you wrote are in the folder.
I have whitescreen

Yeah and on jp2 with 5.2.0.13 no whitescreen issue at all