Adaptations/libhybris/Install SailfishOS for 2011 Xperias

Revision as of 21:08, 26 July 2015

Steps to install

• Install adb and fastboot on your workstation :
  • Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot
  • Fedora: yum install android-tools
  • Mageia: urpmi android-tools (included in upcoming relase of Mageia 5).
  • OpenSUSE: zypper in android-tools
  • Mac OS X: Install Homebrew from http://brew.sh/, then: brew install android-platform-tools
  • Windows: See http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_fastboot_intro for instructions

• CWM ClockWorkMod Recovery tool is also included in the Sailfish kernel (hybris-boot.img, needs to be extracted from Sailfish image zip file) and can be installed during installation LegacyXperia cm-11.0 instead of installing LegacyXperia kernel.

• You may follow the instructions at https://github.com/LegacyXperia/Wiki/wiki/Installing-Lollipop#step-1-prepare-sd-card to prepare the sdcard for installation of Sailfish. In the end you need to have two partitions on sdcard, partition 1 FAT32 formatted and partition 2 ext4 formatted (preferably at least 4GB, will contain Sailfish and user data, absolute minimum 1 GB). You may use whatever tool you want for repartitioning the sdcard, easiest on pc with memory card reader.

• Download LegacyXperia cm-11.0 nightly (tested with cm-11-20150511-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-iyokan.zip) from http://legacyxperia.github.io/ and follow instructions from https://github.com/LegacyXperia/Wiki/wiki/Installing-LegacyXperia-for-Dummies to install the LegacyXperia image.

• Download Sailfish OS for Xperia Pro image from http://images.devaamo.fi/sfe/iyokan/ and flash it over LegacyXperia cm-11.0.

• If you did not already install Sailfish kernel during LegacyXperia cm-11.0 installation then you now need to extract hybris-boot.img from Sailfish image zip file and install it using fastboot following the procedure described in the LegacyXperia cm-11.0 installation instructions.

How to Build Image

• TODO

Hardware Support

• For current status of hardware support refer to https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris

Known Issues

• Sim pin query currently not supported, please remove pin query using LegacyXperia or another phone.
• Camera software not installed by default, can be installed from commandline using "devel-su zypper ref; devel-su zypper in --from iyokan harbour-cameraplus" after setting developer mode password from settings.
• No Jolla Store.
• No OTA updates.
• Keyboard layout cannot be changed from settings, should be fixed in upcoming Sailfish release.
• Virtual keyboard visible when hardware keyboard is used.
• Bluetooth contact sync does not work.
• Compass reports incorrect (unscaled) value.
• Random graphics bugs with text in Warehouse (and possibly other programs), can be fixed by putting the program to backgroung and foreground again.

Refer to bugzilla for list of other known issues.