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    First Impressions Sailfish (3.2.0.12) on the Pro1

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    Small update and answer to @electristan's question:

    • The problem, with Jolla store has vanished over night (without reboot). All apps show up now.
    • Battery life is definitely worse than with android at the moment, but I think, if you don't use it to extensively, it will bring you through the day. 
    • Still can't get mobile data to work. No matter if I enter access data manually or if I leave it to the automatic (anyway the same data).
    • The funny behavior of the brightness slider is just there, when the device boots up without the sensors. Which happens not that often as I feared at the beginning

    Minor problems I have not reported yet:

    • I can't access the device via ssh over usb. Over Wifi it works  fine.
    • You can't set ISO manually on the camera app. Pictures are good enough, have look at talk.maemo.org

    Daily driver? No way at the moment. FOR ME the show stoppers are:

    • No mobile data
    • no GPS
    • Wrong mapping of the keyboard
    • Complete crashing, when inserting earplugs

    If these problems are solved  I will give it immediately a try. Sailfish feels too sexy on that device.🥰

     

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    First Impressions Sailfish (3.2.0.12) on the Pro1

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    Ok, here are my first Impressions from Sailfish (Alpha state) on Pro1:

    The Porting-Team did a great job so far!!! Anyway it's still Alpha and you can feel that still on some missing features and some rough edges. I always used official Sailfish devices in the past, so this is my first community port.

    • Boot time is the first thing which is something which made me somewhat nervous on the install process. The first boot takes ages but also the following ones take more than 3 times longer than that on my XperiaX. 
    • SIM Card is detected and I can make phone calls. But I can't access mobile data, I get the mesage SIM is inactive. (Mobile data settings are the same than in my XperiaX). Connection over WIfi is possible and works fine.
    • After installation I set up my Jolla account and entered Jolla store. I could install the Jolla standard apps, and some further apps are shown, but not very many. Doing pkcon refresh shows up "Failed to obtain authentication"
    • Keyboard works, but the mapping is wrong on my qwertz device. I have offered my help on Github for that.
    • Onscreen keyboard sometimes doesn't show up. After opening the hardware keyboard and closing it, it shows up again.
    • The sensors quite often do not work after boot. On next boot these problems are usually gone. Relevant here are nearly all sensors including multitouch. When they work, they work. So no erratic failures. But after a boot the chance is high that they are not working. 
    • Camera works including the hardware button for it.
    • GPS doesn't work. (Already on Github as a known bug)
    • The same applies to FM Radio
    • Bluetooth is working. I connected to my Sony SRS-X11 without problems, did no further tests.
    • Sound is working through Speakers, when I connect my headphones Sailfish crashes immediately.
    • Graphics are fluid, anyway I have the feeling, that not all cores are fully used. 
    • Adjusting display brightness works, but the slider is reacting somewhat strange. I would call it nervous 😉
    • Double tap to wake phone works, but not always. Found no pattern yet, maybe it's me: I often grab the phone in a way that on the edges my fingers touching the screen. (Bigger bezels would have been better, even so it doesn't look that nice. I already made that experience on Android)
    • Can't say to much about battery yet. Doesn't look to bad at the moment, but I had the impression on Android Battery life was a little bit better. On the other hand, I haven't tested that intensively on Android. I simply don't like Android. The first thing I wanted to test there, was the keyboard. So I opened the notes app and was immediately asked for my google account. For taking notes? Really? I have no Google account and I definitely won't have in future.   

    That's my first impressions. If these sound bad, you got me wrong. All in all Sailfish feels great on this device, even so it's still an alpha. I hope the team makes rapid progress, so I can switch to the Pro1 as my main device.

    To the developers:
    I am no coder. But I'm willing to help in any way I can. Testing, simple works like translations or whatever and of course with sponsoring some beers. Just let me know!
    Keep on your great work!

     

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    [Community Build][3.3.0.16][Updated 18th Aug] Sailfish OS for Fxtec Pro1

    in How Tos

    Posted · Edited by Popanz

    Can't get it to work. I completely repeated the whole procedure. I think the first time I missunderstood the part "go back and go to reboot and choose reboot into recovery"

    Anyway, this time i did the reboot to recovery. But I always get the failure message :

    Failed to mount '/vendor' (invalid argumment) Install runs thtough, but after instalation it still says, no OS installed and I can't boot into anything else than recovery mode.

    Any hints?

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