Sony Xperia X (suzu/F5121 & F5122)

fredldotme

@Kamikaze for a fully functioning device the choice in channels was good, arm64 still has issues with GPS & video recording (using gst-droid).

A stable channel is in the taks, altough for the arm64 release only. We still need to fix up a few things until that's ready but it's getting there. Until then just don't update as often as it's possible currently.

druk13

Hello all,

flashlight wont work in camera app (F5122, Build number 2020-07-22/2, Version 404).

Exists a solution for that problem?

fredldotme

@druk13 you'll need to follow this guide right here to enable video recording and flashlight support in the camera using gst-droid: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3257/how-to-test-gstreamer-droid-based-camera-support-in-ubuntu-touch-for-halium-7-1-based-port

boriseto

Can somebody explain to me why we are using the 4.4 kernel when there are new ones for this device? Are they not stable enough or is it something else?

c4pp4

@boriseto

from https://github.com/Halium/projectmanagement/issues/98:

Kernel Support
This Halium abstraction uses a 4.4 kernel provided by Sony and CodeAurora,
thus has the benefit of taking advantage of upstream kernel patches
and follows Ubuntu's Xenial kernel series for AppArmor updates.
This opens the door for potentially decade-long support of kernel patches.
The Halium suzu device platform is determined to support Snap packages
and is well positioned to do so long term.

from https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/get-started/supported-devices-and-functionality/:

Giampy

Hi guys,
the wifi works well, I have problems with the sim card data connection. Furthermore, when the phone goes to stand-by, the data connection also stops and only when I wake up the phone do notifications and anything else arrive. I use Xperia X as a second phone and if I didn't have these problems anymore it would be really fantastic.
Thanks for your work.

c4pp4

Voice-speaker is using bottom speaker and voice-speaker-mic is using top mic. Is it correct? I would expect top speaker and bottom mic.

@fredldotme I didn't notice it when listening to mp3 music but when listening to flac music, the sound is popping. I'm using bigger latency again to avoid this and I think we should use deep buffer flag as the default setting for suzu if you agree.

@Giampy What kind of problems with the sim card data connection? What kind of notifications?

Giampy

@c4pp4 hi,
when the smartphone is in stand-by, the data connection of the simcard is deactivated, as if it were an energy saver that deactivates some hardware functions.
When I turn it back on, web notifications arrive!

c4pp4

@Giampy
What kind of web notifications?

Giampy

@c4pp4 dekko notifications, teleports notifications and calendar notifications (caldav).
On wifi they work very well, with the sim data connection the notifications arrive only when I active the screen from stand-by.

c4pp4

@Giampy
I'm using dekko2 and teleports without described issue when on data from sim. Can you try to reinstall?

Giampy

@c4pp4 Now that you tell me this, it occurs to me that perhaps the problem lies with the telephone operator. I don't want to reinstall from scratch, I have too much stuff inside to move besides apps to reinstall!
Thanks for the help / suggestion

c4pp4

@Giampy
If you omit a couple of delta updates, there will be a bigger update (more than 400MB) and it could be the same as reinstall.

Giampy

@c4pp4 It's true, from what you said earlier I think it's a phone provider problem. It is little known and I chose it a long time ago when I used UT a little on N5 and I didn't even notice it ..... but now the things have changed so first I change provider and then let's see!

Thanks very much!!!

kugiigi

I'm a new Xperia X (F5122) user coming from Meizu MX4 though I haven't really migrated my data and sim yet
I've tested the arm64 build first and it seems great already. I'm jut wondering though what's still missing in this build and if it's already usable as a daily driver. Also, would it be possible to switch from armhf to arm64 without losing data? y guess is not because the apps are in the userdata parition and those are not cross compatible. Thanks!

c4pp4

@kugiigi You can switch from armhf to arm64 without losing data but as you mentioned you have to reinstall some apps to be compatible. I did it without problem via ubports-installer and then via openstore.

c4pp4

@Giampy https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1556

Giampy

@c4pp4 so it is a bug! But I don't understand, it doesn't always happen. I'm in the devel channel and it doesn't happen with all the updates.

hsce1

Hi @c4pp4, I just switched from armhf to arm64 using the installer. But now I have the problem that the openstore crashes when I try to launch it. Is there a way to reinstall the openstore from the command line?

Edit:
I found a way that worked:

sudo -H -u phablet pkcon install-local --allow-untrusted openstore.openstore-team_<VERSION>_arm64.click

And after that reinstalling those apps that crash with the openstore.

kugiigi

@hsce1 You can also go Settings >> Update >> Update Settings >> Reinstall All Apps. This won't reinstall all apps though so you might need to reinstall some from OpenStore.