Pim | # 3051 | 2014-12-28, 13:01 | Report

I just started using the Jolla phone, and am liking it a lot overall. My previous / other phone is an N9. Main findings so far:
- the Jolla is bigger, but feels much lighter than the N9. I did not expect this, pleasant surprise and not something I had read a lot about.
- I don't find the corners sharp, they work well in my hand.
- Battery life is quite good with modest use. My N9 needs much more frequent charging, perhaps because I've been using it intensely for some years and the battery is showing age.
- The user interface feels completely natural. I did not feel any learning curve coming from the N9.
- The browser is really fast, combination of 4G and a more modern processor. With some sites I use regularly, pages load almost instantly whereas they took many seconds to load with the N9.
- The few Android apps I tested work without flaw.

Dislikes:
- I had to install/uninstall Android support a few times before the Yandex store worked. But perhaps that was an issue with the Yandex server, not the Jolla, I don't really know.
- For some reason I can't install the native Maps application. And I fear that the old N9 Drive is better than what Maps seems to offer, that I will miss.
- Not a lot of native apps yet, it seems some interesting ones are not in the official Harbour store. But at least there is the Android app option, so I'm not missing anything.

rcolistete | # 3052 | 2014-12-28, 14:04 | Report

There is also other Android app stores : Aptoide, Amazon App Store, F-Droid, etc.

No problem at all for me to install Maps (in 3 or 4 installations). Try again. Jolla's Maps doesn't have offline maps, etc.

To complement Jolla Harbour Store, install Warehouse to access OpenRepos.net softwares.

Tip : avoid leaving Android support running when not used, stop it using Alien Dalvik Stop or Android runtime stop feature of "Sailfish Utilities" (from Jolla Harbour Store). Android runtime takes more than 100MB of RAM and more battery usage. My Jolla battery without Android runs for 3 days, while just one day with Android.

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Last edited by rcolistete; 2014-12-28 at 15:09.

atlochowski | # 3053 | 2014-12-29, 08:57 | Report

Hi,

I hope it's a good thread to ask about uptime and battery life of yours Jolla phones.

I'm curious about uptime and battery life of your phone with newest update. Can you write yours ? I how you use your phones .

I'm still thinking about buying Jolla phone and battery life is really important for me.

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Last edited by atlochowski; 2014-12-29 at 09:30.

consono | # 3054 | 2014-12-29, 09:17 | Report

Hi my uptime is ~ 7 days now, as I remember I haven't rebooted it since the firmware update. It was much longer before But the update seems to solved my re-occuring problem with exchange sync stopping (or more like never finishing) that used to be my reason for a reboot...

Battery life is depending on your usage pattern, it can be anything from 6 hours to 3 days. For me it easily last a day with 2 email account syncing, constantly turned on Wifi, mobile net, BT (~ 1 hour/day on BT speaker and ~ 30 min talk time on this), moderate phone usage, some SMS, light web browsing and so.

juiceme | # 3055 | 2014-12-29, 17:07 | Report

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| SailfishOS 1.1.1.27 (Vaarainjärvi) (armv7hl)
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[nemo@Jolla ~]$ uptime
18:55:39 up 10 days, 18:23, 0 users, load average: 1.12, 1.18, 0.97
[nemo@Jolla ~]$

And that only as I needed to boot it to check that a service I installed starts correctly at boot.

As a rule I never boot my devices except to update OS. And of course I have zero tolerance of spontaneous restarts.

I usually charge my device every night, but sometimes every second. In the latter case I usually have about 60% left when I plug it in.

pichlo | # 3056 | 2014-12-30, 06:11 | Report

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| SailfishOS 1.1.1.27 (Vaarainjärvi) (armv7hl)
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[nemo@Dinghy ~]$ uptime
06:06:15 up 10 days, 9:10, 0 users, load average: 0.81, 0.91, 1.03
[nemo@Dinghy ~]$

Your uptime is 9 hours longer than mine despite a deliberate reboot? How did you manage? I restarted on the OS upgrade to 1.1.1.27, which I did on Friday when it was available for just the select few, not on Monday when it was for everyone.

EDIT
More than 9 hours! Just noticed that you posted 13 hours before me, making your uptime 22 hours longer!

juiceme | # 3057 | 2014-12-30, 06:35 | Report

Well, I did receive the update pretty early

Actually how I managed that is simple. I got 1.1.1.27 on Monday morning 22.Dec, but as it was just a minor update from 1.1.1.26 I did not boot my device, only installed the packages and restarted lipstick.

Yes, I know you are supposed to use the SW updater instead of manually installing packages but who cares... And I do not like the way it forces a reboot on even minor updates to non-core packages.
Besides I really think that you should allow a system to go down only for kernel updates, and there are mechanisms to avoid even that. These are no windoze devices, mind you!

pichlo | # 3058 | 2014-12-30, 10:44 | Report

My words exactly! I also got the minor update, first from Uitukka to 1.1.1.26 and then, a fews hours later, to 1.1.1.27 and was forced to reboot both times. Just like on my Windows machine at work

Morpog | # 3059 | 2014-12-30, 10:55 | Report

I don't care if it needs/wants a reboot or not. It's not a damn server..........

ste-phan | # 3060 | 2014-12-30, 11:48 | Report

This morning I made a mistake.
Having a lot of inspiration and only the Jolla at hand I started to reply an email.

Then I received a few phone calls, did a web lookup.

An hour later I wanted to continue the email: email closed, no draft saved. Work gone.

Not pleased. Anyone else noticed such contraproductive behaviour?

Haven't had a lot of pleasure out of update 10 yet, on the contrary .