[Sony] Xperia Open Devices Project

[jerpelea]

Sony Mobile is committed to supporting the open developer community, and one way to show this is by publishing parts of our code as well as selected tools developed by our internal developers.

For some of the Xperia™ devices, we provide Android™ Open Source Project (AOSP) device configurations on GitHub. This means that the software will be open for you as a developer to use and contribute to. This is a way for us to support the open Android community, and it is also a tool for us to facilitate and verify contributions to AOSP.

If you want to build AOSP for your unlocked Xperia device, you find all the resources you need in the sections below.
https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/

Unified 4.4 kernel sources
https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/kernel

Project git
https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/

Bug tracker
https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/bug_tracker/issues

 

[jerpelea]

Hi,

We have updated the project page to reflect the latest progress
http://developer.sonymobile.com/open-devices/

Enjoy
J

 

[El Brillantinas]

I recently got the xperia X, which is an awesome device, and this is good news! Thanks a lot. Developers, please!

 

[ykphuah]

Does flashing those ROMS means that they are turned into Nexus?

I assume we will loose the camera software and also the radio?

 

[mstrack]

Does flashing those ROMS means that they are turned into Nexus?

No

 

[iwanova]

Does flashing those ROMS means that they are turned into Nexus?

Yes. It turn your phone into 6p. Including your camera quality.

K
Thx
Bye.

 

[ykphuah]

Lol, I am sensing a lot of sarcasm here.

I have used Nexus before, and I have used HTC devices that are flashed to AOSP.

So can I confirm that we loose the camera software and also the FM radio if we flash this AOSP? I don't have a better way to describe this other than "make it a nexus".

 

[Lemagex]

Lol, I am sensing a lot of sarcasm here.

I have used Nexus before, and I have used HTC devices that are flashed to AOSP.

So can I confirm that we loose the camera software and also the FM radio if we flash this AOSP? I don't have a better way to describe this other than "make it a nexus".

Forgive me if I am wrong, but last time I used the sony open devices firmware on my previous xperia, we kept the camera quality just with the AOSP app.

 

[jerdog]

@jerpelea when following the commands here, and following them exactly step-by-step based on the guide, I get the following:

[ 4% 2253/50550] host C++: llvm-tblge.../utils/TableGen/CodeGenDAGPatterns.cpp
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
build/core/ninja.mk:148: recipe for target 'ninja_wrapper' failed
make: *** [ninja_wrapper] Error 1

#### make failed to build some targets (03:57 (mm:ss)) ####

Anyone else tried to follow the steps?

 

[iH8Ecchi]

FYI, FreeXperia has released an experimental Nougat build for the X (suzu), which can be downloaded here.

I presume you can flash it onto your device by using fastboot.

 

[jerdog]

FYI, FreeXperia has released an experimental Nougat build for the X (suzu), which can be downloaded here.

I presume you can flash it onto your device by using fastboot.

Yeah they're found here and the last one was a week ago.

My reason for posting was I was trying to build myself

 

[jerpelea]

@jerpelea when following the commands here, and following them exactly step-by-step based on the guide, I get the following:



Anyone else tried to follow the steps?

since it is a ninja error i suppose that you are on the wrong ubuntu version
please post a full log on the pastebin and pm me

 

[jerpelea]

We have moved to a new address!
https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/

 

[jerpelea]

Now you can build the latest Android with the latest 4.4 kernel

 

[jerpelea]

Vendor v11 is out
https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/latest-updates

 

[hhjadeja007]

Now you can build the latest Android with the latest 4.4 kernel

Will we see any official ota update from sony with this kernel?

 

[jerpelea]

The Open Devices and Official SW are built from different code base which means that the answer is NO

Regards
J

 

[jerpelea]

For user security dm-verity and File Based Encryption are enabled by default

Please disable them only if you are developing new features

Regards
J

 

[jerpelea]

All build guides are updated with the Security updates

https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/guides/aosp-build-instructions/




Here is the list of all known bugs. If you find bugs you can always open a ticket in the bug tracker and we will check it ASAP.

https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/bug_tracker/issues