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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
This is very sad but I have to admit that I will order another NOKIA 6 to replace my two week old Xperia X with Sailfish.
After I had two Jolla phones in the past that had their share of issues and did not stay long in my hands, I thought with the Sony hardware it might be worse to do another try.
Installation was easy while still undocumented it worked on the Mac easily. So far so good.
The phone seem to work I could place and receive calls. The UI is sluggish at times but one could live with that. As usual I did not check together.jolla.com before buying the Xperia X - my fault. The software was paid by my Jolla tablet "credits". But the journey started to be a hard one. Office 365 Exchange Mail does not get pushed - well sometimes yes sometimes no. IMAP just does not refresh after for hours. Manual Updates does sometimes do the trick sometimes not...
WiFi tethering is not working, I learned the hard way when I would have needed it.
My demands for a smartphone are low: phone, sms, email, tethering, otp (that works to my surprise with SailOTP - even scanning the 2D barcode sometimes works). Signal would have been nice, but does not seem to work correct. No other apps required. But after all those year still not having a functional Exchange client and IMAP not working is very, very disappointing. If I read all the other issues on this forum frustration is the only outcome.
I wonder what one person could to to get this resolved? Giving up on Jolla for the 3rd time and running into the hands of the incumbent Google or Apple is very frustrating but seems to remain the only choice at this point - or is there a future for this product on the horizon? Is there any reason continue the suffering just for being different?
Looking forward to any feedbacks and ways to get out of this Google/Apple duopoly.
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
This is very sad but I have to admit that I will order another NOKIA 6 to replace my two week old Xperia X with Sailfish.
After I had two Jolla phones in the past that had their share of issues and did not stay long in my hands, I thought with the Sony hardware it might be worse to do another try.
Installation was easy while still undocumented it worked on the Mac easily. So far so good.
The phone seem to work I could place and receive calls. The UI is sluggish at times but one could live with that. As usual I did not check together.jolla.com before buying the Xperia X - my fault. The software was paid by my Jolla tablet "credits". But the journey started to be a hard one. Office 365 Exchange Mail does not get pushed - well sometimes yes sometimes no. IMAP just does not refresh after for hours. Manual Updates does sometimes do the trick sometimes not...
WiFi tethering is not working, I learned the hard way when I would have needed it.
My demands for a smartphone are low: phone, sms, email, tethering, otp (that works to my surprise with SailOTP - even scanning the 2D barcode sometimes works). Signal would have been nice, but does not seem to work correct. No other apps required. But after all those year still not having a functional Exchange client and IMAP not working is very, very disappointing. If I read all the other issues on this forum frustration is the only outcome.
I wonder what one person could to to get this resolved? Giving up on Jolla for the 3rd time and running into the hands of the incumbent Google or Apple is very frustrating but seems to remain the only choice at this point - or is there a future for this product on the horizon? Is there any reason continue the suffering just for being different?
Looking forward to any feedbacks and ways to get out of this Google/Apple duopoly.
UPDATE November 17h, 2017
Dear all!
Thanks for the many comments and technical solutions.
I was aware of the WiFi workaround and I am a command prompt addict but certainly while travelling and needing access to tethering. I just restarted the Xperia X to get some emails - my business depends on it. Did not update in any way anymore...now I see the familiar "Sync problem" on the tile view - but mail is arriving.
I wanted to raise this Jolla issue as general issue and not a detailed technical discussion. I wanted to see if there are reasonable ways to fix the too many issues with Jolla. Hey Jolla officials - how about an official statement?
How about sponsored development sprints - I just yesterday sponsored a FLOS project on my dayjob with Euro 15K - cause we and the community gets something back. So where are new ideas? What's the price to fix the Email client? The price to fix WLAN? The price to fix XYZ? Is it just a money issue?
Jolla need to come up with some better ideas - girls in trams and train don't use Jolla - no Instagram, no Whatsapp hence this is not the target market. An yesThe target market are tech savvy people who want to make a difference in the Google/Apple duopoly. Who want privacy statements and people solving issues and a phone that has working basics.
For now my weekend project it to put Android Oreo on the Xperia X while I wait for the NOKIA 6 (if Android - then only Stock-Android) to arrive. Pre-Order a Puri.sm Libre 5 and hope the world is still up and running in 2019 when they plan to deliver - yes, I have not learned anything from losing money on the Jolla Tablet.
That brings me to: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish