Ways that AAS on the Jolla Phone 2 is much worse than on the Sony Xperia 10 III

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I’ve been trying to set-up my Jolla Phone 2, so I can use it to replace my Android phone, but I’ve quickly run into some unexpected problems with Android App Support - which do not happen on my Sony Xperia 10 III running SfOS.

This is really surprising, but I can only assume it’s due to the Jolla Phone 2 running a newer (more buggy) version of Sailfish OS (5.2.0.17) than my Sony (5.1.0.11), with a different version of AAS (Android v15 vs v13). Or perhaps it’s due to me using the built-in MicroG (from the Jolla store), rather than it being manually installed from F-Droid?

  • When playing a YouTube video in full-screen mode on Firefox, I am unable to pause/unpause it by tapping in the middle of the screen, unless I take it out of full-screen. Works fine on my Sony.
  • Despite having “Speech Recognition & Synthesis” installed from the Aurora store, Android apps & the underlying Android OS itself don’t think any voice synthesis is installed. Works fine on my Sony.
  • Here WeGo (the Android version!) seems to freeze in the Settings screens, such that the graphics don’t get updated at all, or only after I switch away from the app & then go back to it. On my Sony it works fine.

And I’d be interested to know if any other Jolla Phone 2 users do NOT get these problems…

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Google Maps ha the same issue - not redrawing correctly.

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I can confirm gmaps, doesn’t update the screen as soon as I tap

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About the Google maps problem:

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I can only test with GMaps WV from F-Droid and it works flawlessly

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ooh gmaps wv is great! thanks for the tip

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And here again - an already known bug in Android 15 layer.