How to fix Sony Xperia XA2 missing sim card

sony-experia
#1

Hi Folks,

As you can read at My experience on Sony Xperia XA2 topic, updating /e/ on my XA2 ended in “missing sim card & bluetooth issues”. As a result I used an /e/ build of early march. So i digged in this issue and did some ducking :wink:

I found out this Sony uses A/B updates. (see https://source.android.com/devices/tech/ota/ab).
I then discovered if I installed a new build on my B partition it didn’t find the sim card No matter if I sideloaded it or uses the updater. Also I mentioned some errors in mounting the /firmware partition in TRWP if I set the active partiton to B. So some firmware files seems missing. My little quess is that Sony don’t install firmware on the B partition but they are packaging this with every update or their updater copies it.

Then I stumbled upon this pages:

I followed this steps to install new firmwarm on my B partition using XperiFirm tool (for downloading the firmware) and Newflasher (to flash the firmware). After rebooting into my B partition /e/ booted fine but still the sim card error. :grimacing: So further actions had to been taken.

As you can read in the github link someone suggested to dd some firmware from A to B. Some ducking provided the right commands: LineageOS dd commands

After reboot /e/ booted flawless from both A and B partition. So I upgraded OTA.

By now I have the latest build on my B partition and the older one on A.

Happy :smiley::grin:

My experience on Sony Xperia XA2
#2

Hmmm my old Moto G4 without a sim used to ask me for the Sim code on startup and that was it. Now it requests a sim code after boot (after screen lock?) but doesn’t accept it anymore. Thanks for the hint to have a good look at the latest update.

Andre.

#3

Managed to get past entering the sim and unlock the phone again :slightly_smiling_face:

#4

Great. Good work. Glad it worked!

#5

How’s the camera on XA2, quality the same as the stock firmware?

#6

No, in normal daglicht camera is ok, but not that good. In low light it’s worse. No to say, it’s shitty in low light.
Last week i was at a basketball game and filmed some things.

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#7

But still very, very happy with my XA2. Thought at first I would use it a month or so and then buying a flagship phone with e. But there is no need to change to another phone. Compared to my iPhone 8 this cheap thing is as good.

(One thing: typing and autocorrect isn’t that good)

#8

Thanks, the only thing i miss using /e/, is great camera quality. I used iPhones for a long time, so i guess i’m a bit spoiled :grinning:

#9

Same here. Maybe Samsung S9+?

#10

We do have a number of complaints about the camera across devices. In fact there is a request for developers to improve the OpenCamera here.

#11
  • a little bit off topic but about the camera image quality -
    well, that’s the only point I was disappointed at using /e/, my device Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro, with the default chinese rom (Miui 9, not Miui 10 crap), had a very very great camera handling, that’s why I purchased it in the first place. With /e/, Opencamera is working good but not as good as xiaomi default rom camera. Footej camera, a little bit more great but not excellent.
    Then I found a fix for my device using Magisk and one of its free module called “[SDM660] Camera All-In-One for AOSP/LOS”. This module offers you some patch options to test, MIUI defaults camera and even Google Camera. The first time, I jumped on Google camera option. At the end no camera at all were working on my device, I installed the module again and choose different options to find at last the best option (sadly I haven’t written the right one so I don’t remember but you can try all the options proposed using the volume buttons). Now the quality of my camera is excellent, as excellent as the default Miui 9 one. And the quality is the same using OpenCamera, Miui Camera, Footej Camera, MiX camera…

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Picture quality, S7
#12

What ROM was on partition A?

#13

/e/ rom build 20190312
by now I have some build of early may on A and some of end april (26 I think) on B. Running on A by now. later on this week OTA to the latest build running on B

#14

I got myself an used XA2, and installed /e/, but i don’t experience any of the mentioned issues, Bluetooth/ SIM all works. How can i see in wich partition /e/ is installed?

#15

I have a custom TWRP for MiA1 where there is an option called tissot manager which shows me the current active partition A/B. Something similar should be there in the standard TWRP as well.

#16

Boot in TWRP, think you can find it under reboot option. There’s the current slot, and you can change the boot slot.