I have been using the Xperia X for quite a while now (personal) and noticed that, since OTA-6, I have been having ridiculously good battery life. With WiFi on, I can reach up to 3 days, and, with data/WiFi off, the phone can standby for 6 days! I am not a heavy phone user though, even on my work phone, so that helps, too.
UT just runs relatively flawlessly on this device. Thanks a lot to the UT team!
@slowcyclist Thanks for your reply.
I've been away for quite some time, so apologies for the delayed response.
Since the suggestion involves the read-only rootfs, how did your OTA-5 update turn out?
I am not able to mount the image as writable, by the way. I've done it before but not on a UT device, so I am not sure if there is a better syntax. I used it as a sign not to tamper with rootfs, for now, until I am able to confirm that OTA updates are not going to be affected by the workaround.
I've only observed that the inability to connect to the hotspot can be related to the WiFi WPA-PSK security, as well. It may be a good idea to have some options regarding WiFi security, but it will have to be a bit more universal, as in all devices have them, even though, at the moment, only our Xperia X devices have this hotspot issue, at the moment.
@Luksus Yes, I have. I have wiped the disk in other instances but to no avail. Cheers.
Hi everyone,
Is there a way to tweak/adjust wireless hotpot security settings on UT? My Xperia X can't establish a hotspot after the update to Focal.
I am assuming that the issue is with the wireless security settings as I had a similar issue connecting to our router after the update from Xenial to Focal. I adjusted the 802.11w protocol and was able to connect to our router again.
I believe there is something blocking the establishment of the hotspot in terms of wireless security.
Does anyone have any inputs to this? Cheers.
@arubislander Apologies for the delayed reply. We've been overwhelmed by work tasks.
I mentioned it in one of my posts but haven't managed to create a thread regarding it. The issue is with the Xperia X only. I believe it's related to wireless security as I remember having the same issue after connecting to my router after using my P3a after upgrading to Focal, but then I just tweaked some settings in my router and was able to login again.
UT treats the hotspot as another wireless connection but this time, it acts as a router. I still haven't found a solution through the terminal in tweaking wireless security. Cheers.
@danfro I am most probably going to revert back to Xenial after trialling Focal on my Xperia X just because of the wireless hotspot. I know I don't use the hotspot that much but there are times when I really need it.
I am still having second thoughts, though, because Focal is just so smooth. I can keep Focal on the XX as I have acquired another capable phone with UT and Waydroid and I can just use that for wireless hotspot. The smoothness of Focal is just hard to beat.
@peat_psuwit, I have already solved the WiFi connection issue. It was just one of my router's security features preventing reconnection to WiFI, similar to the Android 11 issue.
Anyway,
I have an Xperia X F5121 and here are some things I noticed:
The dark theme is a welcome as my 20.04 OTA-3 installation didn't have it.
Personal hotspot still doesn't work, just like in OTA-2, where the Xperia X isn't on the list. I am able to configure the personal hotspot but still can't connect to it.
LTE often disconnects randomly after plugging in a USB cable in-car to charge. I remedy this by resetting APN settings.
The phone recognises my Sony head unit (and vice versa) much more quickly now than ever.
@Mario-CH I got it working now. There was one setting in my router that thought that there was MAC address spoofing going on.
Anyway, this OTA-3 is so good and so stable, especially coming from Xenial. It's even better than when I tried OTA-2, which wasn't tested on the Xperia X.
Thanks for this. I got the update. I still have the WiFi bug that I have been experiencing in my Xperia X with the OTA-3. Here's the link for reference. What happens here is that when I connect to WiFi, I would immediately get the prompt connected while the WiFi icon won't be fully coloured white. It would just show the 3 dots in it. After around 2 minutes, it would ask me to enter the password again. It has been like this since OTA-3 but I choose not to go back to Xenial because of the night-and-day performance. It would be nice to get some workaround to this. I didn't have this bug when I forced OTA-2 on mine, even though it wasn't supported yet at that time. Cheers.
@Mario-CH said in Focal OTA-3 stable on Xperia X?:
The transition to UT 20.04 Focal OTA-3 was not too bumpy, had to download and install a few upgrades, also reinstall the apps including the OpenStore.
May I know which upgrades you had to download and install before proceeding with the OTA-3 installation? It may do it, too, to check whether or not it can solve my WiFi issue.
@Mario-CH said in Focal OTA-3 stable on Xperia X?:
In the meantime, I think I can narrow down that it is most likely only the phone application respectively all the components involved for making calls that are responsible for the increased number of device crashes.
Mine is different. I can't connect to WiFi but I find that my device crashed only once after my last installation. I had multiple installations before just to check if I could solve the WiFi issue.
@Mario-CH said in Focal OTA-3 stable on Xperia X?:
You should delete the old connections if you are no longer able to use the wireless network.
Do you mean "Forget Network?" I deleted or clicked "Forget Network" on my previous connections but that didn't solve my WiFi issue as the the phone kept asking for the password again and again.
I am really keen on solving this as I find it hard to go back to 16.04. I tried the 20.04 RC a while ago and went back to 16.04 because of stability issues. When I installed OTA-3 again recently, everything is much more usable like I have a brand new phone. It's just the WiFi which is my problem.
@Mario-CH
Thanks for your input.
I tried the OTA-2 Focal before but reverted back to 16.04 just because I needed the Hotspot feature.
By the way, is the UBports devices page updated? It says that the X is abandoned but you are still getting security updates. Is it just the porting which is abandoned?
I am still using the Xperia X as my main phone, by the way, and I will probably get back to 20.04 anytime soon. Cheers.
EDIT: By the way, I've just tried 20.04/stable since a few hours ago and noticed that I can't connect to WiFi, at all. I tried reinstalling it using UBports installer, to 16.04/stable, which was working OK, but then when I tried both 20.04/rc and 20.04/stable again, I still couldn't connect to WiFi.
Does anyone have a workaround to this? Regards.
@MrT10001 @Lakotaubp @gdegrez Hey mates, I found an app on the Open Store which can handle M$ Exchange servers.
Here it is: https://open-store.io/app/outlook-office365.ste-kal.
It's a good wrapper and handles OAuth2 very well. It allows access probably just to one account but that's fine. It's a start. There is that "Sign in with a different account option" but I haven't tried that yet.
I have marked this as "Solved" even though it's not through Dekko 2 as the new app is actually a very usable option.
@mihael I initially had this problem with Dekko. I would see the older emails but not the newer ones.
I got it working by reinstalling the app. It will appear only as Dekko on the focal Open Store. Reboot and then try refreshing the app again without touching your connection/account settings.
@huy I also have this bug on 20.04/rc. It's not a problem on 16.04/stable and I can connect there rather quickly.
I am also using WPA2-personal. If anyone has a workaround, that would be appreciated. Cheers.
@arubislander I was referring to regular mobile data LTE but it's all good now. I might have just botched the update using the UBPorts installer when I thought that the phone was unresponsive at the SONY logo.
I have updated to 20.04/rc now and the LTE mobile data is working properly already.
I will upgrade to the stable one when it arrives but, for now, the rc is what I am using. It's just much faster than 16.04. Buttery-smooth is the best description, I guess.
@gdegrez said in Dekko 2 and Microsoft Exchange Servers:
Conclusion: Dekko2 is totally unusable as far as I am concerned.
Aren't you behind a paywall? I haven't used Yahoo for quite a while now since MM took over.
It's usable for personal accounts, for me, at least with outlook.com ones. For Exchange server ones, they won't work because they need OAuth2, which is so-so. I am not a fan of that, especially if the 2FA is through a mobile phone.
@arubislander said in Smooth 20.04/rc on Xperia X F5121:
@TakoR Principally, newer versions of lots of components.
Nice. The speed and smoothness can be related to the upgrade from Desktop Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04. It's like having a brand new device, unlike with normie phones where they get slower and slower by the update.
@kugiigi said in Smooth 20.04/rc on Xperia X F5121:
@TakoR Focal is indeed noticeably smoother. Nice to know that Xperia X is also smoother. I'll probably upgrade mine some time even though I don't use it anymore
I am looking forward to the stable update. I still don't have LTE on mine when I trialled it.
Feedback:
Hey mates,
I just tried 20.04/rc on my F5121 and noticed how waaaaay swifter and smoother everything is vs 16.04/stable. What's the secret sauce to this? Cheers.
@Lakotaubp @MrT10001 Well, here's the issue. App passwords have been deprecated with Exchange servers.
So app passwords are included in their Basic Authentication. OAuth2 is their preferred authentication method.
I am now trying to, at least, access it on Morph. There is an error and, according to the forums, such error refers to the servers looking at IE10 user agents.
@Lakotaubp Thanks for that. I like the concept of Delta Touch. My personal accounts work, however, my app passwords from our Exchange accounts still don't work.
I am still going to check on different iterations. Cheers.
