My time with Intex aqua fish (info)

asked 2016-10-05 14:41:33 +0200

bhavasagar
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updated 2016-10-05 15:37:19 +0200

pawel
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After my first post about trusting open repos and after few days of using sailfish on my Redmi 1s. I've decided to buy a sailfish phone and ordered aqua fish. The main reason being I loved the community, the way I've received immediate responses and warm welcomes after my first post and thought this is time to buy a sailfish phone.

I have received Intex aqua fish at 4.00 PM (I.S.T) yesterday. I've unboxed, charged it for about half an hour. Fired it up set up my account and running in about 5 minutes. I've tested sailfish on Redmi 1s before and I know my way around the interface, it would have been nice if there's a way to skip the interface tour.

I haven't inserted any SIM as I didn't have micro sized SIMs. I've setup my outlook account, all my calendars and contacts were synced instantaneously. There is no task and notes syncing(why?). Next I've opened gallery app and watched the intro video of sailfish. Next I've swiped to right on homepage and found that there's Gaana(Indian music streaming app) its free and very useful. I've streamed Nirvana for a while to test speakers and they were audible and tinny.

Next I've transferred a few applications from my android device via esfilemanager( Started internet sharing on aqua fish and connected to that access point from android phone, then started remote manage(ftp) on android esfilemanager connected to the ftp on aqua fish by entering the credentials in esfilemanager, transferred about 2gigs of songs and a few applications the transfer speed was fair at about 5 to 6 MBPS(megabytes).

I've installed chrome and other apps chrome ran fine but Google calendar scrolling was choppy( I've installed this because Jolla calendar was crap).

Next I've downloaded openrepos.rpm and installed it by enabling untrusted software in settings. I've tried installing lls player but it throwed an error about nothing gives python it wanted. So I've installed fingerterm and fired up pkcon-install-python and installed lls player this time it went smoothly.

Later that evening l've went to SIM store to cut my SIMs into micro SIMs and inserted them in, it is this time I noticed service message appeared that I've been charged like 2 rupees, I thought that this was because data inadvertently turned on after inserting the SIM cards. Then again late that night this message again appeared that Rs 2 has been charged from my account. I've checked debit reasons from service provider and found that this was due to SMS and googled about this issue and found that its a bug in activation message implementation(Jolla somehow implemented this wrong). Though it's not costly its irritating, every few hours you loose your money and privacy. I've done this to solve the issue 1) Become developer (turn on in settings) 2)

devel-su
systemctl --user stop sms-activation-intex.service
systemctl --user disable sms-activation-intex.service

systemctl --user stop sms-activation-intex.timer
systemctl --user mask sms-activation-intex.timer

Then I found partner space irritating so opened store app(android not Jolla) searched for gaana from menu select uninstall and Voila! no more partner space.

Next, I've installed flowplayer, unplayer they're pretty good. Then I copied few eBooks to phone and tried to open them but they didn't, so I installed fbreader and it worked flawlessly. But Inbuilt PDF reader was bad, no way to copy text(jolla please listen). Then I found that there's no select text option in native browser (this is serious issue that needs to be fixed). I've used webpirate and text selection works( why not in native browser ? I am talking to you Jolla)

Call log kind of sucks there's no way you would know from which SIM you made the call or for that matter to which SIM you've received (please, please this is basic stuff. please, don't suck on basic stuff).

Opened Youtube on native browser and while scrolling in the browser during playback the audio stutters badly(no hw acceleration?). No back and forward gestures in browser. Isn't sailfish supposed to be a gesture based OS.

Well that was it till now.