Will there be a "Sailfish" for my N9 - Sailfish OS Discussions on JollaTides Community Port

RR_aus_H · Post edited by RR_aus_H at 2013-12-04 05:38:27

Hello Sailors,
is there a plan from your Company to bring out an "official" Sailfish-Version for the N9?
It would be nice for me, because I could use it as my second phone
when I go to work in other countries, China for example, with my second Sim-Card.

An important thing , if you plan this, is that the installation of the OS is easy to handle for a "normal" user.
An other option could be, to send it to some specialists, who are able to install it (for some money ;-) ).

Greetings from Southgermany,
Roland

JollaTides

Hello Roland,

There have already been inroads made to make Sailfish run on the Nokia N9, but so far just the SDK version.

While Jolla themselves do not have the resources to do this and offer ongoing support, the community will no doubt get something working eventually.

Of course Jolla have announced publicly they are looking at offering something like this for certain Android handsets so we hope to hear more about that soon. :-)

Here's a video of Sailfish SDK already running on the N9:

technicus · Post edited by technicus at 2013-12-03 22:37:22

I dont know how similar the SDK version is to the Beta version but i have read that, porting Sailfish OS too the N9 is a little bit hard, because the N9 is based on X11 while Jolla is based on Wayland. So the chances are around 0 that there will be a full working SOS spin for the N9.

That's what a Sailfish Developer say:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=90761

JollaTides

Seems someone has got Sailfish running on an N9 now and there's a tutorial too which I'll do an article about.

8)

technicus

@JollaTides Just to fullfill your news:

The rootfiles are here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/zj4q8ai80xg41iu/sailfishos_n9_1_0_0_5.tar.bz2

And the tutorial is http://www.jollausers.com/2013/12/sailfish-ported-to-n9-mini-tutorial/ and here: (thanks to Mehran Nyk and JollaUsers)

Remember this will not harm your Meego Harmattan (If done correctly). There will be a multiboot:
You need to have Ubiboot Installed first
Remember you must already have made the OS Partition for this to work!
Press Ctrl+Alt+T in your linux distro to launch the Terminal
In a terminal type “sudo su” (this gives yo the superuser power)
Now you need to have the harmattan flasher
Head to the path of your zImage
Type this “flasher -k zImage -n initrd-moslo -l -b”
Now connect the phone.
It will bring a green screen, here popup the Alt_OS partition
If it has anything inside that partition just remove it.(You can use this command to do so: rm -rf /media/Alt_OS/*)
Now you need the Sailfish Os image!
Transfer it to your Alt_OS partition! (heres a command for that: time sudo tar –numeric-owner -xvf sailfishos_n9_1_0_0_5.tar.bz2 -C /media/Alt_OS/)
Now once the files have been transferred, type these commands:
sync;sync
umount /media/Alt_OS
Reboot!

blitzschlag

just to mention it:

there is always a chance to brick your device. If you're unsure then don't try it.

KnuX

Now we just need Sailfish for the N900 ;)

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