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Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pentona (Post 1553137)

My XA2 install fails in the last step, what am I doing wrong? The image SW_binaries_for_Xperia_Android_8.1.6.4_r1_v16_nile .img is in the same folder. I'm using macOS and I'm not any good with Terminal.

Here is terminal output for successful flash upon XA2. The fact that you have reached line 158 in flashing script is good news as shows ADB and Fasboot installed correctly. Presuming that you must have enabled “OEM unlocking” and “USB debugging whilst on Android to get this far and device is actually "bootloader unlocked"? To avoid any confusion this device was boot loader unlocked via Windows prior to flashing via Mac OSX.

HTML Code:

iMac:~ adrian$ cd //Users/adrian/Desktop/XperiaXA2Sailfish/Sailfish_OS-Jolla-3.0.0.8-h4113-0.0.7.10-FIXED 

iMac:Sailfish_OS-Jolla-3.0.0.8-h4113-0.0.7.10-FIXED adrian$ ./flash.sh

Detected Mac OS X - Version: 10 14 2-

Searching device to flash..

Found 1 devices: CQ3000VUSB 

Fastboot command: fastboot -s CQ3000VUSB  

Flashing boot_a partition..

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'boot_a' (17772 KB)...

OKAY [  0.385s]

writing 'boot_a'...

OKAY [  0.001s]

finished. total time: 0.386s

Flashing boot_b partition..

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'boot_b' (17772 KB)...

OKAY [  0.381s]

writing 'boot_b'...

OKAY [  0.001s]

finished. total time: 0.382s

Flashing userdata partition..

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

erasing 'userdata'...

OKAY [  0.852s]

sending sparse 'userdata' 1/3 (508382 KB)...

OKAY [ 10.812s]

writing 'userdata' 1/3...

OKAY [  0.000s]

sending sparse 'userdata' 2/3 (522787 KB)...

OKAY [ 12.770s]

writing 'userdata' 2/3...

OKAY [  0.000s]

sending sparse 'userdata' 3/3 (72372 KB)...

OKAY [  4.780s]

writing 'userdata' 3/3...

OKAY [  0.000s]

finished. total time: 29.215s

Flashing system_b partition..

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending sparse 'system_b' 1/2 (524284 KB)...

OKAY [ 11.107s]

writing 'system_b' 1/2...

OKAY [  0.001s]

sending sparse 'system_b' 2/2 (40932 KB)...

OKAY [ 13.529s]

writing 'system_b' 2/2...

OKAY [  0.000s]

finished. total time: 24.638s

Flashing vendor_a partition..

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'vendor_a' (340 KB)...

OKAY [  0.017s]

writing 'vendor_a'...

OKAY [  0.001s]

finished. total time: 0.018s

Flashing vendor_b partition..

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'vendor_b' (340 KB)...

OKAY [  0.017s]

writing 'vendor_b'...

OKAY [  0.001s]

finished. total time: 0.018s

Flashing oem partition..

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'oem_a' (211516 KB)...

OKAY [  4.495s]

writing 'oem_a'...

OKAY [  0.001s]

finished. total time: 4.496s



Flashing completed.



Remove the USB cable and bootup the device by pressing powerkey.

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pentona (Post 1553137)

I had the same issue; couldn't get it to work. Had to revert to a Windows machine and by following exactly the same instructions as I did for Mac OS X I was successful in flashing my XA2 with Sailfish.

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

I had the same problems. And the same solution.
Something doesnt work under MacOS

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Could you @chilango and @ridmaur specify when that took place? As i wrote earlier, there was a problem with the script when sfosx was released. The fastboot version on macOS does not accept the "-l" feature anymore and that had to be worked around in the script iirc.

I was involved in the finding and had and heard of many successful flashes via macOS since then.

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

Interesting bit from the updated Jolla Page for SailfishX:

Quote:

13. The Android app support of Xperia X is based on version 4.4.4 now. Will you update the Android support of Xperia X devices?
With Android 8.1 app support we focus on the newest hardware (Xperia XA2 range), and currently we are not planning to deploy this solution backwards to older Xperia X models.

If this means there will be no update for the Xperia X's Android Layer or if there might be an update to e.g. Android 7 Compatiblity later on is not stated anywhere. The question was asked in the comments of the release blogpost, but looking at Jolla's communication approach in the past I'm sceptical that there will be any clear answer.

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

This seems quite clear, no android update for X.

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

anyone else having issues with XA2 not connecting to network properly? Mine can see the sim card no issue at all but will not connect to a network, when i reboot it does but then on another boot up it doesn't anymore

Re: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices

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Originally Posted by kinggo (Post 1553363)

This seems quite clear, no android update for X.

Seems to be about right. As expected no clear answer to the many questions about this on the blog, but at least this comment from James Noori on the blog seems to be quite clear

Quote:

We always said ?After we have released the support for the new XA2 range of devices, we will evaluate the feasibility of enabling newer Android support on Xperia X.? But the current situation makes the feasibility of it extremely difficult.

(emphasis by me)

So I wouldn't get my hopes up to see any work being done from Jollas side to get a higher version of android layer running on the Xperia X.