IMPORTANT When updating from releases older than Sailfish OS 4.1.0.24 be very careful to update first to 4.1.0.24 following the instructions at Sailfish OS 4.1.0.24 release2 for Fairphone 2.
Known issues:
If anyone still notices the previous issue that updating camera configuration fails during camera module change, update or installation please report it to me and use the fix mentioned in earlier release notes (Sailfish OS 3.0.2.8 beta5 release)
After few days of usage I noticed far more random reboots and crashes in comparison to 4.1 version. Cannot pinpoint yet what causes it though (some patches cause immediate reboot and reboot loop until patch is uninstalled).
Also noticed amazfish with pinewatch degrade in comparison to previous version of sailfish. Watch does not reconnect when loosing connection while it was doing it when on 4.1. Perhaps there was some change in bluetooth?
Camera takes considerable amount of time to launch. So is flashlight. Also noticed camera crashing when trying to make video instead of photo.
I yet have to test location locking on puremaps so not sure this works fine or not. Apart from that things seem to be working fine
I haven’t noticed any random reboots on my device which I have been using with 4.2.0 for couple of weeks now. Please check if there is anything in “/proc/last_kmsg” after such reboot.
There was bluetooth middleware (bluez5) update in 4.2.0 release. Would be interesting to ask the developer of those apps if he has noticed any issues but based on my discussion with him earlier the more recent bluez5 actually helped with some things. I will check the camera crashing if I can reproduce it.
Just checked again camera video recording after reboot and seems to be working on. I guess it was some glitch before.
Do you use any patches btw? I wonder if those are causing issues with phone stability (Sometimes I just get black screen with red notification led on and need to pull out battery to get it to boot again).
I do not use any patches. Just a note that a long press of power button should cause shutdown, if that is not working then you can force a reboot by pressing volume up and power buttons at the same time for more than 5 seconds, whereas 10 seconds or more will shutdown the device.
Sailfish is based on Linux & Mer, not Android. Sailfish is free, but you have pay to get a license to install and run the available Android App runtime.
@lgs11 well that’s a bit semantics, the Sailfish OS port is Linux based OS which is using some lower level Android services and drivers for hardware support and the mention in release notes is about the version of that base Android, part of which is running parallel to the Linux based processes. Mentioning the version of that is very relevant in this case because the version of the flashed Android system.img needs to match the version used for building the patched Android libraries included in the Sailfish OS image. Although maybe there could be some better way to mention the needed version in the notes.
@mal Thanks for the clarification. I was not aware of that dependency. I’ve been running Sailfish on an Xperia XA2 for a while now, but only as a second phone. My main one is an FP3 with /e/OS, which works really well for me.
I haven’t noticed any common random restarts on my device, getting last_kmsg after such failure would be useful for me to see if there is something that could be fixed.
Camera startup takes about the same time for me to start except for first time after reboot which is even slower and expected to be slower because nothing is cached yet. One part that has changed in the camera operation is that now it dynamically gets the information from hardware support and this also removes the need to the earlier hack I have used on FP2 to detect which camera module is installed (which has been causing random issues after updates for a long time now).
I checked that vibration issue and I see it also, I will investigate it before next release. Hopefully it can be fixed in it.
I’m already using 4.3.0.12 on my device so things could be slightly different, after using the newer version for several days now it seems to be working well so it shouldn’t be long before I make a new release, I will first investigate the issues mentioned here.
Not sure, I haven’t really used two sim cards on my device, but I don’t remember hearing any complaints from users. I can see if I can test how two sim cards work in my device.
Another thing @mal. If you are creating a great port to Fairphone, how it is that this 2 european companies are not doiing a maintane software for these phones?? just wondering if you understand it
