Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

It makes sense not maintaining old releases ;)

Thanks for the link btw. Will try that tomorrow.

Would you suggest going with the lastest tagged release (3.0.0.8) instead of master?

Master seems to be based upon 3.2.0.12 despite this line "image: coderus/sailfishos-platform-sdk-base:3.1.0.12" which is a bit confusing.

I can't seem to find that repo of coderus?

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

There is a 3.1.0 build in there thats untagged you can use that should be ok.

I'm not sure anyone has tried 3.2.0 just yet, so i'm not sure what state that is in right now, but you can OTA to it from 3.1.0 once its ready

That repo you're seeing is just the SDK Version because we're having problems with the latest SDK, but since the script doesn't do a lot except for pack the image then it should be new enough for our purposes

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Just installed 3.2.0.12 from the latest master as this is still a test device.

So far everything seems to work just fine. The only major bug I found in the 2.1.2 build - scrolling in the stock browser which was somewhat lacky - seems to have been fixed and is butter smooth now.

If you want me to test/debug something please let me know. I know my way around Linux and the cli and have no issues reinstalling at this stage if required.

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Has anyone used a flip cover with their Sony Xperia Z3 Compact Tablet and can confirm whatever it works or not regarding screen management? :)

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

yes magnetic covers work as they should, at least in my experience

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Just upgraded to 3.2.1.19 today using sfos-upgrade.

It seems to have worked well.

I'm a bit unsure whatever "zypper refresh" was run. There's some references to it in the gitun description: https://github.com/Olf0/sfos-upgrade and can't find the references in the script.

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

In future you should really wait until the adaptation repos have been updated with the latest target, which normally happens maybe a week after an update goes to EA

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Hi all, first thanks for the Z3C Tab 4G build.

I wondered what I am doing wrong, as I have followed the instructions below and updated to a v3.0.x build, but none of them want to boot.

Boot gets stuck on the Sony logo and I have left it for like 15mins...

I wondered what is the latest build for SGP621 device and do I need to go to an intermediate v3.x update before going to the latest?

Thanks for any help :)

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

What are you upgrading from? if its a particularly old build then you may have troubles and I'd suggest flashing a new one.

Sometimes i get lazy updating the 4g version, since I don't own that device

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Hello everybody, and huge thanks for maintaining this port! Now my XA2 Ultra has a big brother :D

I just received my SGP621 (with LTE that is) and after some file hunting, managed to flash it with 2.2.1.18-alpha1, and as I write, it's updating to 3.0.0.8 as I didn't dare to upgrade stright to 3.2.1.19. Should it work?

I have this device as a development thing mostly, so I can mess around with it. If there's something that needs to be tested or checked, please let me know!

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

I seem to be hitting the same wall here. The initial 2.2.1.18 works fine, but even running zypper refresh and zypper update, it gets stuck on reboot. Trying to figure out what's causing it but no luck so far...

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Okay, I'm a stubborn idiot and couldn't go to sleep. But I got my SGP621 updated to 3.2.1.19! Here's what I did (having fresh 2.2.1.18 that is):

• Disable adaptation repositories:
  ssu dr adaptation-community
  ssu dr adaptation-community-common
  pkcon refresh
• Update to 3.0.0.8 (stop release):
  ssu release 3.0.0.8
  zypper ref -f
  version --dup
  sync
  reboot
• Enable adaptation repositories:
  ssu er adaptation-community
  ssu er adaptation-community-common
  pkcon refresh
• Update to 3.2.1.19
  ssu release 3.2.1.19
  zypper ref -f
  version --dup
  sync
  reboot

And that's about it! What this tells me that there is some kind of incompatibility between the newest adaptation packages (the most current update has three days ago - which is great!) and Sailfish <= 3.0.0.8 at least, but using the dance choreography above, it all works out!

Some users commented that the device would not power down correctly, but my device does, at least now. To my great surprise, I can now watch YouTube videos using YTplayer (my openrepos version)! I do have Webcat installed, perhaps it pulled in some gstreamer packages or something..?

If that's not impressive enough, the built-in Browser gives me 1080p YouTube videos with no problems whatsoever! Even my XA2 Ultra can't do that!

The only hiccup is GPS, which for whatever reason stopped working when I was testing GPSinfo on 2.2.1.18. It worked for a while, but it just won't work again. There's no location blip next in top left (right) corner. The location icon in the top menu work as expected but it does nothing now.

Now that I'm up to date, is there anything to test or debug? I'm happy and impressed with the state of the port so far, but I would love to see an updated build, both because of Sailfish version, and polishing out hardware adaptation bugs. I still haven't tested mobile data, calls and texts, and I don't have a memory card inserted, but I think I'll get to that tomorrow. Maybe.

Thanks again for your hard work, everyone!

Edit: typo in "ssu er" commands

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

You have seen this Sailfishos 3.1.0.1 build?

https://gitlab.com/sailfishos-porter...evel-20190811/

By the way, it should be 'ssu er ...' for enabling repositories, step 3 in your post.

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

That is for SGP611 (no LTE), I have SGP621 (with LTE).

Thanks for noticing that, fixed!


In other news, I tested the SIM card functionality: I can call and receive calls and texts, and mobile data works fine, too! So, libhybris adaptations page should be updated. Can I just do it or should I let someone know?

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Speaking of adaptation status, I tested the missing boxes and here are the results:

SMS: YES
Voice calls: YES
WLAN hotspot: YES
Camera: YES*
Gyro: YES

Both main and front camera work with CSD tool, but the camera UI only exposes the main camera - I would still call this a green yes, as the main camera works fully.

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

For future reference i did bump the LTE build on the gitlab not that long ago

https://gitlab.com/sailfishos-porter...evel-20200121/

but if you managed to update via OTA then you basically have the same thing installed anyway

I haven't done any major development on the port in quite a while, generally everything important works with the exception of GPS, and it may now be possible to get the NFC working so I should try that out soon

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Is it possible to implement lvm-based storage (as in official ports) and even luks-based encryption for /home in future releases? They are already implemented in a lot of newly created community ports.

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

LVM based would require me to rework the port into a more productised state using a built system partition like the Xperia X .etc. Its possible but not something i'm really planning on doing.

I'm not sure what is required for the luks encryption, i'll have to ask the guys about it and see what it will take

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

It may be possible to make use of image-file-based storage for /home to mimic what is implemented upon LVM.

e.g. if a specific image file (let's call it /home.img, or /data/.stowaways/sailfishos/home.img in the scope of android recovery and initramfs before chroot) exists before the first run, it could be formatted and mounted to /home, and luks might be deployed on it. If /home.img does not exist it would fall back to the current scheme.

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

I doesn't seem like an 3.2.1 adaption has been released.
Any plans regarding 3.3?

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

3.2.1 works just fine, and i'll test 3.3 once the target has been updated on OBS

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

FWIW I hastily upgraded to 3.3.0.14 EA with sfos-upgrade, and things went smoothly. I haven't ran the CSD tool yet, but I believe everything should still work.

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

I was updating from v2.0x from memory but I have since found out that SF would not boot if I had a microsd card inserted, which I did, so once remove v2 loaded fine.

I have since also fresh installed your 3.2.1 build that I found on gitlab, or at least i believe it was yours.

It was a new full build imaged which saved me from the update.

That v3.2.1 works great thank you and I am hoping you get time to update the LTE version to 3.3 :) so I can use the Nextcloud goodness in 3.3

I also have a Z4 Tablet and wondered how possible it would be to try to build an image for that, in your view?

Cheers

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

3.3 has now been released to all. Do you have a link to the OBS?

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

I was updating from v2.0x from memory but I have since found out that SF would not boot if I had a microsd card inserted, which I did, so once remove v2 loaded fine.

I have since also fresh installed your 3.2.1 build that I found on gitlab, or at least i believe it was yours.

It was a new full build imaged which saved me from the update.

That v3.2.1 works great thank you and I am hoping you get time to update the LTE version to 3.3 :) so I can use the Nextcloud goodness in 3.3

I also have a Z4 Tablet and wondered how possible it would be to try to build an image for that, in your view?

Cheers

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Since sony no longer supports these devices for AOSP, it could be tricky but the first step would be to try and build an AOSP6 image for that device.

If you can build that successfully and everything works with it, then sailfish should be fairly easy

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

After I upgraded my sfos on scorpion_windy to 3.3.0.16, applications are unable to output video stream via gstreamer with the following error messages when executed from terminal:

Has @mattiviljanen experienced similar problems?

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Yeah i dont recommend updating at this stage, theres a few things not building in the adaptation repo on obs

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Okay great, thanks for that, I'll do some more research once my new website is live.

Cheers

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Any news? And do you have a link to the OBS?

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

I have sismilar trouble too. For example not video playing at bowser.

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Hi, all.

Should we wait for the build with version 3.4.0.22? I tried to update the system, but got a reboot during the installation of the dmes package.

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Yeah, I haven't been able to play media files with 3.3 and I was considering going back to 3.2 but didn't get around to it. Now I tried to upgrade to 3.4, but the device had restarted at some point, and now I'm stuck at the Sony logo... I really don't feel like fighting that fight righ now, so I think I'll flash the device from ground up and just upgrade up to 3.2 for now...

I really didn't have a use case for the device any longer when the media playback functionality was borked in 3.3, so it has been just sitting around gathering dust ever since :(

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

It's quite correct. I go this way too... Very saddly, that we don't give 3.4.x.xx with fixed mulitasking gesture, for example. I was waiting for it so much...

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Specifically what is the problem with media playback, is it related to a specific device or some SW?

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

It seems to be related to the SFOS upgrade. Something fundamental changed with the stack that is responsible for decoding the videos, I guess that change broke video on Z3 + 3.3.0... Haven't yet re-flashed the device, though.

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

Months ago I downgraded my own scorpion_windy by flashing the zip package v3.2.0.12, which could be obtained from https://gitlab.com/sailfishos-porter...indy_ci/-/jobs .

@r0kk3rz: Could the version info posted on https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Ada...S_for_scorpion be updated according to latest successful build job on gitlab ci?

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

It seems that i was more lucky. I tried to upgrade my Z3 scorpion windy from 3.2.1.20 to 3.4.0.24 thanks to sfos-upgrade tool and everything seems to work perfectly.

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

After yours message i tried to upgrade to... but have reboot after installing dmwsq... (near 70%) and all breakes(

ps: but i tried upgraded from 3.3..., not from 3.2.1.20 ...

Re: SailfishOS on Sony Z3 Compact Tablet
 

I tried downloading the scorpion_windy image, but I once again forgot that I have a scorpion device (with 4G)... Oh well, back to 2.2 alpha and upgrading from there to see what happens.