Sony Xperia XZ2 (sony-akari)

==Basic info==
XZ2/XZ2 Compact/XZ3 has smailer situation (see Samsung Galaxy S III (samsung-m0)#Basic info) as well as Samsung Galaxy S III (samsung-m0) , Samsung Galaxy S III LTE (samsung-m3) but unlike samsung-m* there are a unify name and unify code name for XZ2/XZ2 Compact/XZ3: Tama device (sony-tama).Currently XZ2/XZ2 Compact/XZ3 are packaged into their own device packages .
== How to enter flash mode ==
You have to press + to enter the bootloader.
== Configuration/Build ==
It is possible to either use a pre-built image as explained in the installation article, or to use pmbootstrap to build your own image.
1. Run pmbootstrap init and select sony as vendor and akari as device.
3. Follow the onscreen instruction and configure as your needs.
Sample output:
[18:20:39] Channel [edge]:
[18:20:41] Choose your target device vendor (either an existing one, or a new one for porting).
[18:20:41] Available vendors (79): acer, alcatel, amazon, amediatech, apple, ark, arrow, asus, beelink, bq, cubietech, cutiepi, dongshanpi, essential, fairphone, finepower, fly, generic, goclever, google, gp, hisense, htc, huawei, inet, infocus, jolla, klipad, kobo, lark, leeco, lenovo, lg, mangopi, medion, meizu, microsoft, mobvoi, motorola, nextbit, nobby, nokia, nvidia, odroid, oneplus, oppo, ouya, pegatron, pine64, planet, purism, qemu, radxa, raspberry, samsung, semc, sharp, shift, sipeed, sony, sourceparts, surftab, t2m, tablet, thundercomm, tokio, tolino, trekstor, vernee, videostrong, volla, wexler, wiko, wileyfox, xiaomi, xunlong, yu, zte, zuk
[18:20:41] Vendor [sony]:
[18:20:44] Available codenames (24): akari, amami, aries, castor, coconut, eagle, falconss, hollyss, honami, ivy, leo, mango, nicki, scorpion, seagull, sirius, sumire, suzu, suzuran, tama, taoshan, tuba, tulip, yuga
[18:20:44] Device codename [tama]: akari
[18:21:21] This device has proprietary components, which trade some of your freedom with making more peripherals work.
[18:21:21] We would like to offer full functionality without hurting your freedom, but this is currently not possible for your device.
[18:21:21] device-sony-tama-nonfree-firmware: Modem, WiFi and GPU Firmware, also needed for osk-sdl
[18:21:21] Enable this package? (y/n) [y]: y
Next, we will build the system:
pmbootstrap install # add --fde if you need full disk encryption (FDE)
Flash the kernel and rootfs:
$ pmbootstrap flasher flash_kernel
$ truncate -s 2 dtbo_empty.img
$ fastboot flash dtbo dtbo_empty.img
$ fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta vbmeta.img
=== Installation to SD card ===
You can take advantage of Akari's SD card slot to install postmarketOS for testing.
Install to the SD card:
$ pmbootstrap install --sdcard=/dev/mmcblk0
= Mainline status =
There's significant progress on upstreaming the device specific parts to the mainline kernel here: https://github.com/SoMainline/linux
== Display ==
Works fine. MSM DRM based panel.
== Touchscreen ==
== 3D GPU Acceleration ==
Since our panels are MSM DRM based, 3D acceleration works perfectly fine using the freedreno driver from mainline.
== WiFi ==
== Bluetooth ==
== Audio ==
== Battery ==
== GPS ==
== Camera ==
== Mobile Data, Calls and SMS ==
== Dual SIM ==
== Mobile Data Problems ==
== Change Kernel parameters ==
1, sudo vim /etc/deviceinfo
2, Change cmdline parameters to desired state
3, sudo apk fix linux-postmarketos-qcom-sdm845
= Community Info =
== Maintainers ==
* phodina
== Users owning this device ==
== See also ==
* Initial merge request
* SDM845 Mainline kernel: https://gitlab.com/sdm845-mainline/linux
* Sony Mainline kernel: https://github.com/SoMainline/linux