I ran into a curious problem…
I had SFOS flashed on my X23 up until few days ago when I decided to flash VollaOS on it, purely out of curiosity since I don’t daily drive it due to missing Waydroid implementation.
So I dicked around VollaOS for a bit, and then decided to flash back SFOS. I did the fastboot of all 3 .img files just like before, and setup went fine…until I closed the tutorial and rebooted the device. After I type the encryption password, all I get is a spinning circle on the top half of the screen…and that’s it.
After 7th flash with various ways to ‘prepare’ the phone (flashed VollaOS, flashed Ubuntu Touch,…) I can’t get past this point at all. I have enough foresight to setup password for SSH login, and was able to pull some messages from the journalctl, some of them I found interesting:
Oct 18 21:06:43 PhoneX23 encsfa-fpd[2376]: Device /dev/sailfish/home does not exist or access denied.
Oct 18 21:06:43 PhoneX23 encsfa-fpd[2376]: Device /dev/sailfish/home does not exist or access denied
And yeah, that folder doesn’t exist (in fact, there’s no LVM volumes at all, lvs comes out empty).
[root@PhoneX23 defaultuser]# ls -alh /dev/sailfish/home
ls: /dev/sailfish/home: No such file or directory
[root@PhoneX23 defaultuser]# ls -alh /dev/sailfish/
ls: /dev/sailfish/: No such file or directory
[root@PhoneX23 defaultuser]# ls -alh /dev/mapper
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Oct 18 21:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 7.6K Oct 18 21:47 ..
crw------- 1 root root 10, 236 Oct 18 21:47 control
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 254, 1 Oct 18 21:47 home_encrypted
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Oct 18 21:47 system_a -> ../dm-0
And of course, journalctl is spammed with messages like these
Oct 18 21:56:12 PhoneX23 kernel: [ccci1/cif]total cnt=2075;rxq0 isr_cnt=6;rxq1 isr_cnt=67;rxq2 isr_cnt=0;rxq3 isr_cnt=0;rxq4 isr_cnt=1486;rxq5 isr_cnt=508;rxq6 isr_cnt=8;rxq7 isr_cnt=0;rxq8 isr_cnt=0;rxq9 isr_cnt=0;rxq10 isr_cnt=0;rxq11 isr_cnt=0;rxq12 isr_cnt=0;rxq13 isr_cnt=0;rxq14 isr_cnt=0;rxq15 isr_cnt=1;rxq16 isr_cnt=0;rxq17 isr_cnt=0;rxq18 isr_cnt=0;rxq19 isr_cnt=0;rxq20 isr_cnt=0;rxq21 isr_cnt=0;rxq22 isr_cnt=0;rxq23 isr_cnt=0;
Oct 18 21:56:12 PhoneX23 ofonod[2270]: Power request failed: OPERATION_NOT_ALLOWED
Oct 18 21:56:13 PhoneX23 ofonod[2270]: Power request failed: OPERATION_NOT_ALLOWED
Oct 18 21:56:13 PhoneX23 kernel: [wdk-c] cpu=0 o_k=0 lbit=0x1 cbit=0xff,fe,7,1,662076693,ff,0,0,0,0,[526343015792,15000000] 14
Oct 18 21:56:13 PhoneX23 kernel: [wdk-c] cpu=7 o_k=7 lbit=0x81 cbit=0xff,7e,7,1,662076693,ff,0,0,0,0,[526420524331,14922492] 14
Oct 18 21:56:13 PhoneX23 kernel: [wdk-c] cpu=6 o_k=6 lbit=0xc1 cbit=0xff,3e,7,1,662076693,ff,0,0,0,0,[526420556639,14922458] 14
Oct 18 21:56:13 PhoneX23 kernel: [wdk-c] cpu=4 o_k=4 lbit=0xd1 cbit=0xff,2e,7,1,662076693,ff,0,0,0,0,[526420579792,14922435] 14
Oct 18 21:56:13 PhoneX23 kernel: [wdk-c] cpu=1 o_k=1 lbit=0xd3 cbit=0xff,2c,7,1,662076693,ff,0,0,0,0,[526420587716,14922427] 14
Oct 18 21:56:13 PhoneX23 kernel: [wdk-c] cpu=2 o_k=2 lbit=0xd7 cbit=0xff,28,7,1,662076693,ff,0,0,0,0,[526420613023,14922402] 14
Oct 18 21:56:13 PhoneX23 kernel: [wdk-c] cpu=3 o_k=3 lbit=0xdf cbit=0xff,20,7,1,662076693,ff,0,0,0,0,[526420645254,14922370] 14
Oct 18 21:56:13 PhoneX23 kernel: [thread:216] 2023-10-18 19:56:13.965784 UTC;android time 2023-10-18 19:56:13.965784
Oct 18 21:56:13 PhoneX23 kernel: [wdk-k] cpu=5 o_k=5 lbit=0xff cbit=0xff,0,7,1,662076693,ff,0,0,0,0,[526420657254,14922358] 14
Oct 18 21:56:14 PhoneX23 ofonod[2270]: Power request failed: OPERATION_NOT_ALLOWED
Oct 18 21:56:15 PhoneX23 ofonod[2270]: Power request failed: OPERATION_NOT_ALLOWED
Oct 18 21:56:15 PhoneX23 kernel: [name:spm&][SPM] system_bus didn't enter MCUSYS off, MCUSYS cnt is no update
Oct 18 21:56:15 PhoneX23 kernel: [name:spm&] Pending Wakeup Sources: USB suspend lock
Oct 18 21:56:16 PhoneX23 ofonod[2270]: Power request failed: OPERATION_NOT_ALLOWED
Oct 18 21:56:16 PhoneX23 kernel: timesync host boottime 529116068337
Oct 18 21:56:16 PhoneX23 kernel: [sm5602] fg_read_soc(761): soc=1002(0x644b)
Oct 18 21:56:16 PhoneX23 kernel: [sm5602] fg_get_property(1951): sm->batt_soc: 1002, val->intval: 100
Oct 18 21:56:16 PhoneX23 kernel: [DLPT] imix_r==0, skip
Oct 18 21:56:17 PhoneX23 ofonod[2270]: Power request failed: OPERATION_NOT_ALLOWED
If anyone has any idea where to poke or what to poke to get this sucker going, I’d be grateful. Worst case scenario, I am considering getting Volla 22 instead to daily-drive that, at least until X23 gets some more love.
EDIT: Managed to stumble on what seems to be an official-ish repo for Sailfish for X23: Github
With some modifications to the flash.sh and copying boot.img from the MEGA link, I flashed it…and get the same result…