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Expand root partition
Your root filesystem is full and you can’t install any apps anymore? This guide will provide several options to gain extra space to your root partition.
Custom DNS
Per default, the DNS settings get set automatically and there is no way to change them (v4.0.5.18). This guide shows you how to replace connman's DNS with dnsmasq and setting your own DNS config.
How to use Sailfishos.wiki
Tutorials and templates for using this wiki. You're welcome to improve the content in here.
Wiki playground book
Please create your own chapter and set it to invisible after you created it!
HADK
This book contains: * the SFOS hardware porters HADK fag * SFOS hardware porters documentation
Native Spotify
Describes how to listen to songs from Spotify on SailfishOS with Hutspot and Librespot. DISCLAIMER: This only works with Spotify Premium accounts. A free Spotify subscription will not work with these applications
Beginner's Resources
This book tracks the resources from:( https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/beginner-resource-collection )and ( https://github.com/molan-git/awesome-sailfishos/blob/master/README.md )
ProtonMail Bridge
Use ProtonMail Bridge to interact with your ProtonMail account through the nice Sailfish E-Mail app. If you have any questions, post them here: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/protonmail-bridge-on-sailfish/6017
WireGuard on SailfishOS
How to use WireGuard VPNs on SailfishOS. Tutorials for various VPN providers
Full backup of system (image)
Make a full backup of your system (as an image) which you can flash whenever something goes wrong.
Android AppSupport
Information on the Android AppSupport in Sailfish OS. General information can be found in the official documentation at https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/Help_Articles/Android_App_Support/
Jolla C2
Collection of device-specific knowledge about the Jolla C2, including instructions for flashing.
Wifi
This book contains various chapters covering topics related to Wifi networking.
Snapchat
This book details installation and troubleshooting of the android (AAS) shapchat app
Qt 6 experimental
@piggz and @rinigus have launched another effort on chum to make more modern kde apps built with qt6 available via the chum repos on jolla's obs build server. Here we document some useful apps and how to install them.
Useful command-line settings
Useful settings that can't be reached from Sailfish OS graphical user interface.
Shrinking the user partition & adding the gained space to the root partition
LXC Container configurations for ProtonMail Bridge
This chapter collects pages on which alternative configurations, tips and tricks are provided how to get ProtonMail Bridge running on SFOS - while there is no native daemon available. Please read first the introduction page of this book to get started.
Migrating Android app data
The Lock Pin
Many applications depend on the Android Os layer lock facilities (pin/fingerprint, etc) instead of implementing their own. This Chapter details ways to deal with AAS lock pin dificulties.
Bluetooth support in Android Apps
There are some serious limitations in access to bluetooth in the AAS. Here we document some known solutions. The original source for much of this information is: the forum
The options for increasing the space
There are several options to increase the space of the root partitions. Currently available options are:  Use the space from a unused partition (Not on Xperia X). This option has the drawback that if you want to reflash your device with SailfishOS, the f...
Use the space from an unused partition
Overview Most Sailfish X devices have a partition left over from Android which is completely unused. Newer Android phones have partitions labelled system_a and system_b, which were used by deliver OS updates as full partitions without overwriting the used one....
Increase the root partition size with an SD-card
This guide adds the SD-card to the LVM volume group and then uses the new space in the LVM volume group to increase the root partition.
Stop connman from managing DNS
If you don't have any DNS configured in /etc/resolv.conf anymore, you can't resolv any domains on the internet. It's smart to install a replacement for connman's DNS in advance. Otherwise you can temporarily solve that by executing echo "9.9.9.9" | devel-su te...
Use dnsmasq for DNS
As the name already implies, dnsmasq is not a full-fledged DNS server. If you want a real, recursive DNS resolver, consider using unbound instead. Install dnsmasq dnsmasq is available on SailfishOS chum. You 1st need to add the 3rd-party-repo, afterwards run...
Install & configure unbound DNS server
Unbound is a full-fledge recursive DNS resolver. You should consider to not fetch from the root servers but forward your requests to another Server via DoT. Bind unbound to 127.0.0.1 to avoid access from outside. More information can be found in ArchWiki.
WYSIWYG Template wiki page
Overview The overview should explain the topic briefly to make users feel safer and optional discuss the limitations of the tutorial. (E.g not working on all devices.) Preparations Things that people should have already installed/configured/enabled in advan...
Bookstack Manual (the wiki software)
Creating an article Check if an article exists for the topic you want to write about. The full-text search should help you doing that. Check if there is a book or chapter into which your article would fit well. Books are listed here. If there is no fittin...
Markdown template wiki page
Overview The overview should explain the topic briefly to make users feel safer and optional discuss the limitations of the tutorial. (E.g not working on all devices.) Preparations Things that people should have already installed/configured/enabled in advance ...
HADK
1 Overview v4.5.0.19 Sailfish OS Hardware Adaptation Development Kit Documentation Copyright 2014-2022 Jolla Ltd. | Content licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 Unported This page contains the HADK contents derived from: https://docs.sailfishos.org/Develop/HADK/S...
HADK - Hot
Unofficial hadk-hot Spend few minutes reading it all even briefly or if you are too lazy then waste much more time later fighting with known issues These might be contenders to merge to: https://github.com/mer-hybris/hadk-faq Improve and make PR to hadk...
Hutspot
Overview Hutspot is a native SailfishOS-app that acts as a Spotify-controller. It enables you to browse/search albums, artists, playlists and tracks. Playing the music is done on a 'connected' device. It requires a premium Spotify account. Documentation Doc...
Use Librespot to play songs
Overview librespot is an open source client library for Spotify. It enables applications to use Spotify's service to control and play music and to act as a Spotify Connect receiver. Using this terminal-application in combination with a Spotify-controller like...
Help links
If you need help, here are a few useful links to various posts in the SailfishOS-Forum: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/hutspot-for-aarch64/8231 https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/cargo-install-error-this-is-the-stub-cargo-if-you-see-this-scratchbox2-is-not-...
Beginner's Resource Collection
Let's use this topic to collect some resources a beginner might find useful. Keep this user-centric, there's other categories for development and other discussions. **Official Jolla Resources*** [Jolla Store] https://shop.jolla.com/ get your SailfishOS lice...
Awesome Sailfish
A curated list of awesome Sailfish OS resources. Sailfish OS is a mobile operating system based on open source and developed by the Finnish mobile company Jolla Ltd. and the Sailfish OS community. Sailfish OS Sailfish OS Forum - Official discussion forum ...
Using ProtonMail Bridge in an LXC container
Step 1: Create a LXC container To create and manage an LXC container, you can use the app "Containers" which is available from Chum. After launching the app, you can create a new container by tapping on the "+" icon. This brings up a page where you give your ...
NixOS as LXC Container for ProtonMail Bridge
Tested on/with: SFOS 4.5.0.24 on Xperia 10 III Harbour Containers 0.8.1-1.3.1.jolla lxc-templates-desktop 1.4.-1.1.1.jolla Pre-requisites: Remote login on the SFOS with devel-su rights (I would not try the below with fingerterm...) Fresh SFOS insta...
Installing WireGuard
Install necessary tools With Sailfish OS 5.0 (2026) Since there is no official documentation so far, there is a short how-to make WireGuard working. devel-su pkcon remove wireguard-go wireguard-tools # for those whom previously installed those two packages...
[EXAMPLE]: Using WireGuard with MullvadVPN
Step 1: Obtain a WireGuard config file from Mullvad To get a config file, head over to https://mullvad.net/de/account/wireguard-config (you will need to login with your account number). 1. For the "platform" select "Linux". 2.Next, click on "Generate key" (...