And maybe itās possible to make build 201903124169 avaible again, for new users. otherwise they wil install a non working version.
Itās the āfirmwareā directory thatās missing. Some LineageOS users did manage to copy the firmware directory from Android A to B using adb. (failed in my case). Others did install a new firmware file. (didnāt try for I couldnāt find the correct firmware and didnāt want to brick my device)
So iām a little struck updating, anyone new ideaās?
Using /e/ is still a pleasure. At this moment I see some major points:
Bliss Launcher is not stable, Sometimes it crashes and needs the cache to empty at boot to work again.
Bliss Launcher donāt work with Shelter or Island.
No support for O365 mail accounts
Some apps wonāt install (linkedin, netflix) no big deal
thanks for sharing your experience. I am undertaking the same steps with the XA2 H4113 at the moment, unfortunately my current phone (Xperia Z1c) died before I was able to successfully switch to the XA2. I was having the same problems with BT, Wifi and fingerprint-reader with image e-0.7-o-2019072818258-dev-pioneer. After switching to e-0.7-o-2019080419016-dev-pioneer all seemed well and I transferred my SIM to try out the phone capabilities. Bad luck, the SIM was either not recognized at all or just shortly, followed by a āsim card ejected, please reboot phoneā.
It was at this time when e.os suggested an OTA update which I happily applied. Bad luck again, all the fixed flaws (BT app crashing, no Wifi etc.) were back and SIM card still not detected. I tried both [e-0.7-o-2019080819469-dev-pioneer.zip] and [e-0.7-o-2019081019693-dev-pioneer.zip] which were having the same problems.
I tried some other SIM cards of which some worked and some didnāt.
Another issue was that suddenly all contacts had dissappeared and only threema contacts were still there. When I looked for a specific contact, the contacts app was looking for people of the same or similar name living in my neighborhood, or at least what the phone thought was my neighborhood. This was really spooky.
Was your XA2 initially on Android 9 Pie before your started flashing it @Damio? Iāve heard it causes issues when downgrading to custom oreo roms like /e/, lineage etc.
I recently had someā¦ mishaps with my XA2, culminating in constant āBluetooth keeps stoppingā errors in /e/, and then (what I assume to be) a factory defect which glitched out the screen completely.
Iām going to be returning the phone, and will probably be getting another XA2. Would you recommend this, or should I get some other model (hopefully one that also has active community support but less problems)?
I also checked out your other XA2 thread and wanted to ask if you had any extra tips for getting /e/ (and other OSes) to work (and more importantly, to not screw everything up)? This is my first time doing anything like this with Android, and this A/B flashing stuff gets really confusing.
I also noticed the XA2 was getting pretty hot while I was fiddling with it, and some other people online have also complained about high temps. Is this a problem in your experience, and is there any way to alleviate this on /e/ (underclocking, etc.)?
" I also checked out your other XA2 thread and wanted to ask if you had any extra tips for getting /e/ (and other OSes) to work (and more importantly, to not screw everything up)? This is my first time doing anything like this with Android, and this A/B flashing stuff gets really confusing."
Thanks to Damio I fixed my SIM issue, I unfortunately had an additional obstacle which was actually the SIM card, which disconnected while in use. I got a new one from the provider and got this problem sorted out.
So far I am happy with the daily use but still got some things to find out. I am also afraid to use any OTA updates as the last one brought back all the initial flaws with BT/Wifi/etc constantly crashing the phone. Are there different builds that the new releases are based on, so that old problems come up again?
How can I be sure to trust a new update? I donāt have a spare XA2 to try out new releases before putting them in the āreal-useā phone.
After several weeks of daily use, I experience following odd things:
recently taken photographs do not show up in the gallery, instead thereās only a grey solid. After a few days, the image and the thumbnail shows up. Whenever I send, share or edit an image, itās there right away.
Issue with pdfs. I cannon read any pdfs, neither with the preinstalled MuPDF nor with MoonReader. Screen stays blank.
Widgets added to the leftmost screen show up after a reboot only.
The phone occasionally seems to reboot without me noticing. I only happen to know because the fingerprint reader tells me to use the code after the phone restarted.
As mentioned before, the OTA-update ruins the phone and brings back the BT, Wifi and other problems.
I originally had the problem with bluetooth (5) you mentioned. This is due to issues with your second A/B partition. A mentioned in another XA2 post you can try the following which worked for me and no longer have update issues. Plus everything is working fine on my device, none of the other issues you report:
Set developer options to allow root over ADB then:
I became recenty the owner of the Sony Xperia XA2. The build installed is e-0.7-o-2019102428284.
I have a problem with the fingerprint scanner. The setting for the fingerprint scanner is nowhere in the settings menu. Does anyone know what the problem could be, or have a solution? Should it work with this build?
Me again. I just performed the latest update from May 14th and again I ran into the old BT-error, as usual.
I then updated manually which worked ok.
Downloaded latest /e/.zip on Windows-PC
Booted into recovery holding VolumeUp+On/Off
Chose Update using ADB (Update from local MicroSD did not show the zip-file)
Connected Phone to PC
Started Update with adb sideload e-0.9-o-2020051454222-dev-pioneer.zip
After Installation an reboot all worked fine again, no data lost, no issues with the wrong bootslot.
Thank you for this information, especially for āAfter Installation an reboot all worked fine again, no data lost, no issues with the wrong bootslotā.
Is it clear why the OTA update had issues, while the manual update was OK?
And, just out of curiosity, have you ever experience issues like āSony XA2 (H4113) - Call history + SMS templatesā ?