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I bought a Sony Xperia XA2 Plus for this express purpose. A couple of things: fastboot oem unlock is a one way trip, it blows some kind of fuse and you can ne
by voltagex_ 7y ago
I bought a Sony Xperia XA2 Plus for this express purpose.
A couple of things:
fastboot oem unlock is a one way trip, it blows some kind of fuse and you can never relock the bootloader. While I give Sony lots of points for having a page showing where the UART is in their phones, they lose all of those points for deciding that unlocked devices can no longer get OTA updates, even when reflashed to a stock ROM.
Sailfish was really, really janky when I tried it, I couldn't even turn on developer mode without signing in to a Jolla account, then it hung for at least 5 minutes trying to enable the developer mode.
For the XA2 Ultra, there's also no LineageOS build.
- K0SM0S 7y agoThanks a lot for the feedback, I'll definitely keep it in mind! My idea and recommendation, taking a cue from Noah Chelliah (link above), is basically to have two smartphones — 1 dedicated to SailfishOS, and 1 "fallback" on Android for everything else. Then see from there.
- blotter_paper 7y agoI'm pretty sure the Xperia that GP mentioned is supported by both MultiROM and Sailfish, so if you're buying devices specifically for this purpose you should be able to dualboot both Sailfish your Android fallback on that one device (among others you could choose from).
- K0SM0S 7y agoOh? This sounds awesome! I'm really not a phone person, barely use it —PC all the way!— so I'm pretty sure I'll be just fine with a dual boot. My intent with Sailfish is to replace the laptop actually, for all those times when it's just too much and I only need a quick terminal session. Thanks for that.