Update 9/7/18 - Now possible to have full Xperia X official version support on XC, including Android apps and OTA update. See post by g7 in this thread in Jolla forum - https://together.jolla.com/question/185922/sailfish-os-on-sony-xperia-x-compact/
Requires official Sailfish X system image,, which can only legally be obtained from Jolla by buying a licence for 50 Euros. Once you have the image, download and unzip g7's patcher, and copy image to same folder and run the patcher.. Then fastboot the rom using the same instructions as for the community port below.
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Here is the info for community port, (v. 2.1.3.7, no license required, no official Android support, no ota):
Check it out -
https://together.jolla.com/question/180109/announcement-community-sony-xperia-x-compact-release/
Not my work, I just found it. I downloaded, but won't be able to test until tomorrow. It's not a flashable, instructions to flash via fastboot are included in the zip.
If anyone beats me to it, post here and let us know...
Flashed successfully and working well. Auto flash didn't work for me on Win10. I had to make a modification to bat script, and didn't work anyway, so had to flash fastboot commands manually.
Working: cellular, wifi, mobile data, gps, bluetooth, sensors... Call volume is good.
- Download zip from link above and extract
- Download oem image from Sony site linked in README file in zip, and extract to sailfish folder
- Open cmd, and cd to sailfish directory to flash
Code:
fastboot flash boot hybris-boot.img
fastboot flash system fimage.img001
fastboot flash userdata sailfish.img001
fastboot flash oem (name of Sony oem file).img
Done
So far my experience:
Very impressive. Much better than the Firefox OS and Ubuntu touch ports, etc, that I've tried on Xperias in the past. Main issues for me are,
- camera not so good in low light, (good in good light)
- limited system app options, (alternative browsers, keyboards, etc.). There is functiining Jolla app store, with some good apps, as well as dev-type repos, like warehouse, and openrepo, with patches, etc, but I find the system apps kind of laggy/buggy. Hopefully more development coming
- app switching/multitasking cumbrersome. In general, don't expect anything like android. It's all gestures and no buttons. Probably actually better than I realize, but takes getting used to.
pros,
- Really nice ui, and lots of customization options. I've just started figuring out a little bit.
- boot time is less than 10 seconds, (about 2 or 3 seconds after Sony logo).
- good experience so far with support forums
- potentially capable of using android apps. Sailfish has a service called aliendalvik that can run Android apps. I can't tell yet if it works on this phone, though. It seems like it doesn't, out of the box, but maybe could... (update 5/24 - see here for working Android files:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=76612066&postcount=71).
