Installing Sailfish from recovery
At the time of writing, the main Sailfish installation discussion on this forum is in the topic over here. The downloads you’ll need, porting status, release notes and installation instructions for Sailfish are on the Mer wiki.
- Download the release for installation from TWRP recovery from the Mer wiki (the fastboot image I tried didn’t work in our specific setup). The file you’re looking for ends in
ota.zip. - Copy the downloaded zip-file to the phone. One way of doing this is from the command line:
adb push <SailFish....-ota.zip> /sdcard(where the bit between and including <> should be replaced by the path to the zip file you just downloaded. - Reboot into recovery (e.g.
adb reboot recovery) - In recovery, choose install, and navigate to where you copied the zip file (in the adb example it would be in /sdcard). Make sure
- ‘zip file signature verification’ is disabled
- writing to the system partition is enabled, but
- wiping the system partition is disabled
before installing the update.
- Reboot (if TWRP asks to root the system, continue without rooting by pressing the button above the slider).