[Announcement] Community Sony Xperia X Compact release

Patching the official Sailfish X image as described in the link actually works, including store, android support, and official OTA updates. This is truly amazing!

any downsides compared to community port?

@Xeno_PL: No downsides, only upsides. I have the g7-patched Sailfish X image on my XC for some weeks now, and it works without any problems or issues. Flawless and stable. Before I've had steph's community port on it which worked good too, but the missing android support and no official updates were a big drawback, the camera's bad quality as well, and so I bought Sailfish X, applied g7's patcher, and flashed it. All drawbacks gone. Store, Android, updates, picture quality - like christmas.

what about sensors (especially gyro for screen rotation)?

answering my own question after trying it out: gyro + screen rotation works

"Patching the official Sailfish X image as described in the link actually works, including store, android support, and official OTA updates. This is truly amazing!"

Buying a Xperia F5121 License make the Android packages available in Store for the F5321 Model ? The mobile is registered only as Jolla and not Xperia at the jolla website.

@speefak Yes, it does work. You just buy the official image for F5121 and patch that downloaded image. I use that for quite some time now. First only with community port from StephG but after the patch was made available I bought the license and now have OTA, Android support, predictive text and all the paid only advantages.

Automatic adjusting don't work for me.

Yes, auto brightness works on regular Xperia X but not on Compact.

I've tried to take a look at this issue, with Elros help (many thanks again) i found out that mce doesn't receive proper values from ALS. Logs of brightness_filter_als module are floded with lines:

modules/filter-brightness-als.c: fba_status_sensor_value_change_cb(): sensor: 0

when phone is in direct light It seems it should get some values from /dev/input/event0 (Name: "AMS TCS3490 Sensor") I've tried to cat this device but no output was shown regardless of changes in ambiet light.

If someone more skilled with Sailfish ports have any ideas how to debug it further, any help would be welcome.

Adaptive brighness quick fix: in terminal

 devel-su
printf > /etc/mce/99-blacklist-tcs3490.ini "[evdev]\nblack=AMS TCS3490 Sensor;\n"
systemctl restart mce

It blacklist false als from mce so mce uses the one that works. Many thanks to spiirion, without his help i'd never found it out.

@Xeno_PL Respect. Works! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIO36VRB-dw

@vattuvarg thanks! corrected the link

@notthebee - Pretty good video. Thanks.

I will be looking at that today. They work in the local build so shouldn't be too long.

It is not known yet. I asked basically the same question for Xperia X, please see https://together.jolla.com/question/180135/sony-xperia-x-and-android-8/

I don't know but I expect it should be ok to flash SFOS over Android 8. If in doubt, backup, backup again and ideally have a Windows machine with a copy of EMMA about.

I think you can pretty easily downgrade using the flashtool and xperifirm. And then run sailfish.... http://www.flashtool.net/downloads.php

At least one user (can't remember where I saw it) said that installing Sailfish X on top of Android 8 went just fine, and it runs well, too.

Here, SFX flashed over 8.0.0, worked as advertised.

Community ports like this one have no support for running Android apps via AlienDalvik. This is one of the features of offcial ports made by Jolla. Some users reported that aliendalvik installed from sailfish X rpms works fine.

Hello Xeno_PL

Thanks for your answer. So the Jolla Store apps are all apps i can use with the community port? I would have also taken the official port, but as far as i know there is none for the xperia x compact, right? Is there a way to get the official one to the compact?

Kind Regards Matthias

@Matty there is no way to get official port for X Compact. On Community port you can install apps from Jolla store and from https://openrepos.net/ (you can install apps from openrepos throught https://openrepos.net/content/osetr/storeman

You can install Android support on Xperia X Compact if you have an officially purchased image for Xperia X and if you copy the RPMs from the installation. See my comment to my answer here. I have not tested it though and please note that it is most probably not legally allowed. If we are lucky, the Xperia X Compact will be the next in row of officially supported by Jolla now that the Dual Sim got its support.

The next device will be the XA2.

I dont think Xperia X compact will be supported by Jolla.

Provided the bootloader had been upgraded to greater than 34.3 before you flashed twrp it should just work. I would flash stock android back to it first to be safe however.

Thanks.

Is there a way to backup my current system? I'd like to have my Android system as a save haven.. When I install Sailfish OS twrp gets lost?

You should install one of the backup apps to get things backed up before you attempt the upgrade. I suggest flashing back to stock (ideally using the official tools) as I do not know how twrp will behave with SFOS.