Was that really neccessary?

The most irritating thing about sailfish for me is the damn feedscreen going nuts over it

I don't know how many times I have activated it by mistake now.

Edit:

I think it would be better disable feedscreen when an application is active. Atleast such apps that is using the bottom for swipe inside the app eg al listview related apps, camera, imageviewer and so on.

Actually as it is today its very very very annoying. And definitivly new users will get affraid.

Yes. He obviously didn't even pay attention on what I said in my earlier post and just ruled it out as useless bs.

Other things... I found fix for the low sound volume in android apps. It's really amazing:

Download an android volume controller app and max out the volume.

"service" and "server" seem not to be same thing. Create directory "service" because it does not exist in Jolla by default.

Manually edit your definitions into config files in "sync" and "service" directory.

Dbus magic is used for manually initiating sync (i.e. forcing sync to start immediately). You can add automatic schedules to your definitions, for me they work although not quite consistently.

I haven't found good documentation about buteo config files, but there were some instructions in meego forums, links were in thread that you linked. I'm not confident about my configs, but they seem to work. Hopefully we have at some point Jolla UI for managing buteo syncml configs.

Being not a hardcore Android user I like to attribute to my intelligence rather than stupidity.


Now that we know it is a virtual Android Machine I am more interested learning how to make them Android that require complex permissions to run the way I want.

The telecom applications I wish to run are more complex and don't function well if at all.

They need to be granted the permission they need to operate, while being forbidden rights they take but don't need.

Both on Alien Dalvik layer passed through to Sailfish. So where is the configuration file or interface for this virtual machine?

Is it not allowed to access the Jolla earspeaker or does it not see the ear speaker due to incompatible hardware?


No root Access -> can this thing emulate a rooted Android?

Just an observation:
Standard Installed Android parts:

Android System 4.1.2
Camera 4.1.2
Contacts Storage 4.1.2
Download Manager 4.1.2
Downloads 4.1.2
Fallback 4.1.2
Input Devices 4.1.2
Package Access Helper 4.1.2
Phone 4.1.2
Phone Messaging Storage 4.1.2
Search Applications Provider 4.1.2
Settings Storage 4.1.2
System UI 4.1.2
User Dictionary

Yandex Store 2.1
Myriad Fake Home 1.0 ->> this is something from Alien Dalvik

Unlike alarms in Harmattan, it seems there is no auto-snooze when you just wait for the alarms to stop on Sailfish. On N9, there was like 5-6 snoozes before it finally stopped snoozing anyway.

I really liked this feature, as I was lazy enough to prefer surviving the terrible ringtone over the efforts of snoozing. I wish it will be possible on Sailfish too someday.

Question about the UI / onscreen keyboard when writing an SMS. Let's say I select a contact named John. Right above the keyboard I click the message line, where in faint letters it says "Hi John". That seems a nice start for a message (something I missed on N9 btw) but I have no clue how to activate the "Hi John". Any key and it disappears.

Hah! Indeed it works, with the service-directory created. I too simply copied the memotoo.com.xml files from the N9 to the Jolla (on Jolla you have to be root), issued the dbus-command (as user again) and poof, all contacts and calendar items are there!

Notes are absent however, which is a pity. I didn't test SMS, but I'd be surprised if that works, as Jolla handles sms differently from N9, iirc.

Leaves me wondering why so many people choose google and similar proprietary cloud-based services. I've been using SyncML and a service of my liking since the N95. Hurray for open protocols!

worked - thx from one happy sailor (listening to music now)