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[Early Access] Sailfish OS 2.0.2 Aurajoki

We have now released the early access version of the update Aurajoki to the Jolla phone, Jolla C and Jolla Tablet.

This update contains of many bug fixes and new added features such as taking screenshot by holding down volume buttons for 0.5 seconds, added keyboard layouts for  Indian languages Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil and Bengali, new layout on Media app’s front page, new Sailfish OS logo and many more. 

 

Highlights of Aurajoki update

Ambiences

  • Wallpapers are always copied to system memory to avoid losing ambiences when removing SD card

Backup

  • Simplified backup experience
  • Backup of local (personal, non-synced) calendar is now possible
  • Backups can be made to cloud services (supported for DropBox and OneDrive)

Browser

  • Open external links to new tabs
  • Fixes missing search engines

Camera

  • Flash can now be used while taking video
  • Added reset to default settings option to Camera application
  • Improved Camera launch time

Cloud services

  • Added support for VK
  • Connectivity
  • Dual SIM support for devices with Dual SIM

Email

  • 3rd party email API supports attachments

Events view

  • ‘Flashlight switch’ for events view Actions and shortcuts
  • Five-day weather forecast updates now automatically

Gallery

  • Dropbox gallery integration.
  • OneDrive gallery integration.
  • Large photos open faster

Home and Lock screen

  • Press volume up and down together for 0.5 seconds to create a screenshot

HW adaptation & kernel

  • Support for Intex Aqua Fish & Jolla C
  • Fix support for certain SD cards that were failing

Positioning

  • Support for Mozilla Location Service positioning assistance, which can use nearby wifi access points and cell towers to help determine your location.

Localisation

  • Locale specific numbers are now supported around OS
  • Common smiley characters supported
  • Keyboard layouts and fonts added for Indian languages Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil and Bengali
  • Keyboard layout for Greek
  • New Russian ruble symbol taken into use

Lock screen

  • Setting to add favorite actions and app shortcuts to lock screen pulley menu
  • Lock screen transition shortened
  • Media controls are hidden if no music is played for 30 minutes

Media

  • New layout for front page
  • Support for FM Radio (only on devices with FM radio hardware). Big thanks to Matti Lehtimäki (mal-) for writing its middleware plugin!

Messages

  • Setting to display remaining character counts for text messages (SMS)
  • Show MMS download progress

Office

  • Allow copying text to clipboard

People

  • Ability to delete and share multiple contacts at once

Phone

  • Long tap * in dialer for +
  • Setting to enable automatic call recording on Jolla C and Aqua Fish
  • Faster dialing transition

Settings

  • SD Card settings for formatting SD cards, and for safely removing them
  • Setting to add reboot button on top menu
  • Factory reset is not be allowed if battery is under 15%
  • Show app version number in Android app settings page
  • Storage settings with a simple file manager
  • “Flip-to-silence” gesture setting

Security

  • Untrusted software installation no longer requires Jolla account

UI elements

  • New Sailfish logo

 

Please give together.jolla.com a visit for the full changelog, known issues, how to update and more!

Cheers,
James

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James Noori

Community Manager at Jolla. Gadget geek. Open source supporter and advocate. Long time Jolla blogger in a third party blog. Ready to change the world with unique and unusual alternatives!

43 Comments

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    Yeehaw, christmas is early

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      Really, you received your final part of the Tablet refund ?
      I am still waiting on it.
      Guess Christmas will be late this year, if it even happens ever again.

      NOCK NOCK JOLLA !! Instead of investing our (tablet funders) money in the OS please finish your unfinished business with the Tablet backers.

      Only a FULL Refund will get us of your back (you should have considered this before you took our money ! )

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        Sounds like poor financial management on your part if you put all your money for every future Christmas into a bit of tech…

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    Nice, that it goes further on! Still very curious, when official Fairphone2 will be supported…:-))

    And… I’ll miss the former SailfishOS logo. I love it. It’s design is simply more creative.

    Very happy that the story goes on and hope that SailfishOS will rise in India. Make lots of noise there!

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      same here, I’m also eagerly waiting for official support on Fairphone 2 to upgarde my smartphone.

      (currently a happy Jolla 1 user and I don’t want any other OS than SailfishOS)

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    Nice to see sailfish progress but it is wrong to use tablet contributors money for something else than the tablet. Please continue with the refund program now.

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      I, for one, denied my refund, so they’d more have cash at hand to keep working on SFOS (even if the price of the tablet only buys some coffee for the team). Hopefully I wasn’t alone.

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        Yeah, given the total supporters that denied the refund should secure the refund program. If 50% wanted refund…the other 50 would cover the total refund. Jolla should have without debt to backers and no one could second guess how Jolla spent the money.

        Knock knock
        What?
        Refund!

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        If they wanted money for Sailfish development where it actually went then the IndieGoShit campaing should of been for Sailfish development and nothing else.

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          Or just refund and move on.

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          What good is a tablet without an OS? Sure, it could’ve been handled better, but are you really naïve enough to think that no software development was needed for a new tablet? That’s just crazy. Money went into hardware and software; you must have wanted the software too, because if you just wanted hardware there are plenty of other options out there.

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            @Daedalus: People like anttimonty know full well that all the development for what’s now “2.0” was necessary for the tablet only (for supporting different screen sizes, that is, and not taking cellular connectivity for granted). In fact, during the tablet campaign, software development for the phone almost came to a full stop. They just want to crash the party here by spreading half-truths and outright lies. Don’t even try to tell them what they already know. 🙂

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      Couldn’t have said it better myself.

      Give me my money back !

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    The OS is maturing, now it has legs to stand and eyes to see.. that is a lot of improvement.. 😀

    The OS now needs gloves to its fist to fight against the opponent, with help of Perkele, it is just a matter of time.. 🙂

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    Could you guys pick a reference phone, even if it’s a Nexus or other commonly available model? I feel my 1st gen Jolla is starting to die and at this point there isn’t any phone one can buy to actual run this release on. I know the seas are rough, but it would help Jolla’s cause to have this release available as an image for one or more phones that are actually available. So far we haven’t heard much news from FairPhone, PuzzlePhone or Turing phone.

    Good luck!

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      If U didn’t had the opportunity to put a hand to the “Jolla C”, your current bet is “Intex Aqua Fish” (intex.in) or “Oysters” (oysters.ru)

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        “Oysters” it is more impressive than “Intex Aqua Fish”, also more mature looking phone, by the way thanks for the info, will explore the possibility of buying one..somehow.. :D.. ))))

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    No problem with update. It may be a bit soon to celebrate, but it seems it solved issues over switching from an ipv6-enabled network to an ipv4-only one.

    New browser release also seems to now not crash anymore when using geolocalisation.

    Good job, sailfish team!

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    What about to open source code for more part from sailfish os?
    Is any plans to port sailfish os on OnePlus 3?
    When the second part of the tablet refund will take place?

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    Thank you for some handy changes.

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    Update fails with the following error: Store Problem could not determine size of update.

    How to get out of this error?

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      another errors also could not update Sailfish OS.

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      Seems same kind problems with others updates, eg. Jolla’s official programs.

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    please include USB OTG feature in the intex aqua fish as it’s a very handy and useful feature. Also in future we want to see Nokia devices with sailfish OS.

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      …With a landscape qwerty slider.

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        Hear, hear! I want a Nokia E9-slider with SFOS!

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    Wifi direct file transfer app like xender, shareit etc are not working . These are very important now a days. Also ES file explorer is not able to detect the external memory card. Though Jolla’s own file explorer works flawlessly but has limited features . These issues are needed to be addressed to make the OS more appealing .

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    Jolla developers an Jolla OS engineers must listen to testers or users like us. We want Sailfish OS to be the real challenger for the popular platforms today. But it can be done by giving proper weightage to our feedback. So please listen to us. Developers like Coderus,Enigma etc are doing really nice work. They must take the lead to make Sailfish a grand success .

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    Any rumours on the public release date?

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    People expect emojis in 2016. You need to ad this as soon as possible.

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    Hi, is it possible to inform us Jolla users when the final Version of any news SF Verison is ready to install ?

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      Hi, your phone will get a notification when connected to Internet.

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    മലയാളത്തിനു നന്ദി

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    When update will be for public distribution?

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    The latest message is also shown with larger font on the application cover now, when the message application is in a conversation. This is very useful to me at least, as one-time passwords etc are easier to read.

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    Will this release be available for Intex Aqua Fish too? Currently the mobile Internet connection is very unreliable.

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    Hello,
    Yesterday I received a message that an update for my Jolla1 is available. I assumed that the release is now stable and installed it. Everything worked fine. The new features are nice.
    I would suggest for the future, that You inform via Your blog in advance that a release went form early to stable.

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      Hi!
      We released a post to our blog today. Sorry about the delay.

      Cheers,
      James

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      What will it bring to know it in advance?

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    Hi, i just brought an intex aqua fish , and when i use Internet its not properly connecting yet, and also in wifi too, i cant download anything from jolla store or any other stores , it showing error while downloading apps from android store, even it shows an update of 2.0.2.51 i cant download that also, how can i solve this ?

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    i am not satisfied
    because my memory card not supported and etc.

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