m4r0v3r | # 301 | 2017-11-13, 13:10 | Report

ohh yeahhhhhhhh. ill happily build it but I don't have a spare sony x to test

DrYak | # 302 | 2017-11-13, 18:01 | Report

My (Sailfish X-flashed) Sony Xperia isn't used in production (yet. I'm still waiting for a few Sailfish X fixes before putting my Jolla 1 into retirement) and would happily volunteer as a sacrificial lamb to test potential new kernels.

I just completely lack free time to compile them myself now.

BTW, did you find a way around Sony's MSM platform kernel drivers failing to compile when module support activated ?

m4r0v3r | # 303 | 2017-11-13, 22:57 | Report

nahh but they were for stuff like F2FS that isn't used and can be disabled. but would be nice to fix.

DrYak | # 304 | 2017-11-14, 09:18 | Report

Well F2FS isn't used much by the Sailfish X base installation, but (on TMO and TJC at least) it looks like it's currently the go-to µSDXC card format.
(A tiny bit more popular then UDF, probably because nobody want to do the tricks to make it cross platform on both Mac OS X and Windows).

Keep me posted when you have something to test.

Mara | # 305 | 2017-11-17, 18:05 | Report

I have got my Xperia X and waiting on a good chance to flash it to Sailfish. So far it does not seem very clear how to proceed?

It seems that this community build should become similar/same as the official build with exception of the Exchange and AD support. If that is the case, then the official flashing method for SailfishX should work for this community build as well? I also recall reading that the official build doesn't have the Exchange and AD binaries built in the image anyway, so why the official build is not then available to everyone. (I cannot buy the official version because it is not available for my country.)

I probably wait things to settle before trying to flash my new XperiaX...

aspergerguy | # 306 | 2017-11-17, 19:34 | Report

Not quite sure what answer you want here as others in your predicament have used Opera web browser which comes with a built-in free VPN service with servers in Germany and Netherlands to obtain official build.

The last build released by community member had to have a different partition setup to allow usage official flashing method, but had various issues such as sensors not working:http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=284

m4r0v3r | # 307 | 2017-11-17, 20:43 | Report

yes the official method should work here as well

Mara | # 308 | 2017-11-18, 20:28 | Report

aspergerguy, the workaround (Opera with proxy) lets me get to the "BUY" phase but the payment is then not possible saying there is no available payment methods for this combination of currency, location and whatnot...

I have managed to get my XperiaX bootloader unlocked now. First I tried to get it done using Windows 10 but getting the fastboot USB-drivers to install manually didn't work. (The method described in Jolla site.) I ended up dual booting to Elementary Linux where the unlocking phase worked without a hitch!

EDIT: I got the Win10 drivers to load. Had to do the windows reboot/startup troubleshooting trick and disable driver signing. In addition I had to copy additional INF file from "downloadinf_v1.01" and copy it into same directory where the Sony fastboot drivers were unzipped.

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Last edited by Mara; 2017-11-19 at 15:52. Reason: Followup on Win10 drivers

klinglerware | # 309 | 2017-11-19, 01:41 | Report

On Opera, I remember having to play around with the proxy VPN country (I think it was either Germany or the Netherlands, I don't remember which one). After which, a Travelex Money Card (https://www.travelex.com/travel-money-card) was accepted without issue.

Mara | # 310 | 2017-11-19, 19:21 | Report

I gave it a first shot to flash Sailfish on my new XperiaX using the latest community build image. Unfortunately it did not work.

I tried first the windows method (flash.bat) but it seems the bat file has some issues and doesn't work. I manually executed the steps on the bat file in terminal window and everything seemed to go fine.

After restart the phone entered to bootloop (shows SONY logo and restarts endlessly).

The only difference is that I did shorten the Sony OEM blob file name... This should have nothing to do with this? There are several versions of the Sony OEM blob files available. I used the one that was mentioned in the instructions.

I was able to recover it back to Android using the EMMA tool. It flashed back slightly older version (228) while the version before was 344 if I recall.

I retried flashing after the EMMA tool recovery but I still get the bootloop. This time I can't even get the EMMA to recognize the phone any more... so I'll need to recover it using the fastboot only.

One interesting point I noted with EMMA: It can not be used in the fastboot mode (blue LED after holding volume up key up) but only in "standard mode" showing green LED...

EDIT: Now I'm seeing the userdata size being 0... that's probably the issue...

EDIT2: For testing I flashed the fimage.img001 to the userdata and it worked. Trying again to flash the sailfish.img001 to the userdata shows 0 size, so for some reason the fastboot don't like the sailfish.img001 file. (File size too big? corrupted?)

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