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sailfish roadmap su*ks by the way, first of all there are not enough apps, what oems will launch the device with sailfish 0s 3 is not clear (fish was announced way ahead of its launch), sailfish is celebrating os 3 with just 3 or 4 devices (s*ny primarily, so cheap bast*rds like me are sad), updates for fish are not released in fixed time, who is planning the saifish roadmap?
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Can anybody tell me definitively that one or more third party FM radio programs work? Quote:
It also just occurred to me that I have an unused wifi router with USB ports and DD-WRT. At one point I installed a Linux driver and was able to communicate with my Symbian phone via USB from the router, but never got it to dial. If the driver is also compatible with the Xperia, I could give this another try. |
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@nthn, I agree with everything you say except the "running desktop applications on a mobile" thing. I regularly ran desktop apps on my N900. You just take random sources, type "make" and voilą. I also ran them pre-built under Easy Debian, although I admit that some are more suitable than others.
But that was the N900. That was special. Most mobiles are indeed very poor targets for running desktop apps. Not "due to physical size constraints" - some are really massive by anyone's standard (except perhaps Dav999 and gerbick) and, thanks to the nonsensical pixel wars, have screen resolutions four times higher than any desktop. No, the real reason why they are not suitable for running desktop apps is a) no physical keyboard and b) capacitive touchscreen without a stylus. |
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You can also use the web browser to search and download Amazon App Store, F-Droid, etc. More ways to install Android apps : How to get Android apps without using the Play Store Yalp Store allows to access Google Play Store with your Google account or anonymous one. |
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Things have changed a bit from those days, when you needeed to connect to a device via slip/ppp and utter AT-commands to it to make the connection! Nowdays there is nothing like that needed any longer. When a (linux-) phone is connected to 3G/4G/5G network, it always has the packet connection open in kernel, there is an active network device that can send/receive packets in the device. When you plug in USB cable, and set up an IP network over it (which happens pretty much automatically if your computer uses linux, for windoze you need to install rndis drivers or similar thingies) you are pretty much a-ok already. Just set nat and forwarding in the phone and point your default route to it in the computer and all works automagically, no need to "set up the modem" or other silliness there. |
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Thanks for the networking/tethering details! This is all very interesting and will be my next Sailfish reading project. And thanks for all the great answers, everybody! |
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When tethering with a modern smartphone, you don't tether like the old dump phones. You do not use the phone as a "modem" to dial (you don't send "+++AT" commands to establish a 3G connection from your computer). The phone will be connected on its own to the internet. And then *redirects* network trafic to necessary devices. It works like a router. The ISP still sees your phone connected to the internet and has no clue what you're doing at all. The laptop you're tethering too doesn't see a *modem*, it sees a network access point, like a Wifi router. Out of the box, the smartphone has a nice GUI to enable such routing over Wifi. The smartphone simply starts to act like an Internet router, to whose Wifi you connect. With the USB tether, once you've installed the dev mode support, the smartphone show on the USB as a USB network device. A laptop with linux has support for that out of the box. If windows doesn't, a pretty standard USB Network driver should do the trick, nothing special needed. This USB network works like if you had a direct network cable to your phone. By default, it's a simply 1 to 1 network : you laptop can see your smartphone, your smartphone can see your laptop, that's it. It's possible to type commands that will ask the smartphone to start forwarding thing from USB to its internet connection. (Just like a router, but this time wired). It's also possible to connect to SSH running on the phone in proxy mode and use that as a proxy on your browser. Quote:
The peculiarity is that instead of having one giant single list of software (like on Google's Playstore), Aptoid has tons of different repositories to which you can subscribe. When you install "android support" on your Xperia, you get android apps also appearing in the Jolla Store. One of these is "Aptoid". If you install it you can access any android app on any aptoid repository that you like. By default, the repository called "Sailfish-app" is active and you can get tons of applications from there. (NOTE: Currently, the version of WhatsApp there is buggy. For now fetch it from the WhatsApp website). Quote:
Google is putting more functionnality into their proprietary services, and more applications are relying on that. (e.g.: their location system is proprietary). A good alternative is trying to get microG installed instead. It's an independent opensource implementation of the same APIs that some apps might want, and that would require the proprietary Google services. I haven't had opportunity to test them yet, but there are people reporting success on Xperia with these. |
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