@Kea You can buy a new Volla or Rephone or Fairphone and flash it easily. See here:
Also a lot of other devices are compatible, there is a long list.
On the mentioned Internet page you can download UBports Installer software and install on your computer.
In UB Installer you can alternatively choose to flash SFOS, but not for all listed devices. So please be careful and check before buying a new phone. Example: for Fairphone 4 only Ubuntu Touch and postmarket OS is available. You can check without having the phone, only start the UBports Installer software, choose a phone and when you come to the ‘Install’ page, there is a choice for what OS to install. See if SFOS is available there for this phone.
I have a VERY annoying problem since I use the rephone. Everytime I reboot my phone my settings to show my phone number when I call someone is reset to “Nach Netzwerk festlegen”. If I switch to flight mode and turn on nework again, this doesn’t happen. Can anybody confirm this. Is there a way to force this setting. Or is there a cli command to set it it the way I want. Than I could make a small start script.
I have been using a Rephone (thanks to @Pingutux ) with SOFS, directly installed to the phone (not via SD card).
Compared to the VP22, which is still unlocked and SFOS runs only on the SD card, the Rephone works much better. Everything is smoother, faster and I have no real problems with the memory. On the VP22, SFOS is however at 4.4 while on the Rephone I have the latest 4.5.
On both phones, I have problem listing to music with any music app if the app was running when I had a call. The respect app has to be restarted.
What really does not work is taking videos on the rephone, this is really a pitty. It has been mentioned already, but is there really no way to make it work? How das Volla OS / Ubuntu Toch works with taking videos? Does anyone know?
I have sometimes the problem, that the FP sensor stops working. Only reboot helps.
Waydroid works nicely. I can use DKB and Ing DiBa banking apps (haven’t tested a transfer yet). However, after starting waydroid, SFOS is not able to get a GPS fix as the sensors might be blocked. This is known and should be fixed for waydroid on ubuntu touch
For a ported device, this works brilliant (waydroid does what I need) apart from taking videos.
Waydroid is very experimental on both. If someone realy needs android, waydroid is not yet the way to go. In this case the official sfos on xperias with android support is the right way.
Yeah, I think experiments need protocoled results, even computer experiments. Hence, I was writing this. And even more, if there is a chance to fix it. Although I have not figured anything out. But using waydroid similar to official android way with several open windows is with some tricks although possible and I suppose even having the Icons in the app grid.
Since Rephone and UT work with video, could there be chance to make video recording work on SFOS?
And furthermore, sometimes the fingerprint reader doesn’t work anymore. This:
does not help, as the service is called
sailfish-fpd-community
but restarting this doesn’t help either. So the only way to make fingerprint work again is restarting ( similiar to the GPS problem after waydroid, but without a real reason).
