Sony Xa2

markus228

Is there possibility to port Ubuntu Touch to Sony Xperia XA2?

Lakotaubp

Please see this post for reason this post was moved https://forums.ubports.com/topic/206/will-you-port-to-device-x

Guf

@markus228 I'm starting from today: my device is discovery (h3213), Xperia XA2 Ultra. It will be used halium-9

branja6

@guf Will it be possible to use the port you are making on a regular XA2 (H3113)?

Guf

@branja6 I guess it is. Is it the same model with 2 sims? Somewhere in the web, i saw the difference for each model. If it is a discovery, no problem at all. I oly built kernel (halium-boot.img ) and vendorimage (vendor.img), then I installed ubports-GSI-rootfs and it worked.
But I need to do it better, enhancing TheKit's work to make it officially supported

branja6

@guf My device is a single SIM. The only difference between them is the amount of RAM and another camera on the front if I'm not mistaken. Great, I can't wait to try it out!

arubislander

@branja6 If the camera is different be prepared for it not to work on your device.

zapfel

@branja6 be prepared for it not work. They are two different devices! Yours is a pioneer and gufs ultra is a discovery! There are two seperate LOS versions, so i guess there have to be also two different UT versions...

Guf

@zapfel There is a great work done for pioneer by Heng Ye and @TheKit in the following repo: kirin (Sony Xperia 10), mermaid (Sony Xperia 10 Plus), pioneer (Sony Xperia XA2).
I'd need to queue my device up in this repo.

branja6

@guf Excellent! I can't wait to try it out. My daily driver is Sailfish OS (and it's amazing) but I would like to play with UT as well.

Cee47

I have the Nexus 5 now with UT.

How does UT for Sony XA2 compare with the UT version of Nexus 5? What does not work on XA2?
Would I use the Sony Xperia 10 (kirin) version to flash the XA2? I saw the installer on https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/
Would the Pixel 3a be better than the Sony XA2 right now? What does not work on the Pixel 3a?

Thanks.

AppLee

@cee47
The webpage you mentioned was updated tonight.
The features coverage is not yet available for those phones, but I hope it will be sooner or later.
See the announcement post:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5656/new-devices-page-now-online

mkarpicki

@branja6 did you managed to have UT at the end.? Thread is old and I see no XA2 on official list, so I guess it was not ported?
Thx