Install SailfishOS on Xperia™ Z3 Tablet Compact (SGP621)

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Install SailfishOS on Xperia™ Z3 Tablet Compact (SGP621)

!!!! Backup your data you do it on your own risk !!!!

• unlock the bootloader check Sony Open Devices
• flash AOSP 6.0.1_r80 on your device.

fastboot -S 256M flash boot boot.img
fastboot -S 256M flash system system.img
fastboot -S 256M flash userdata userdata.img

• flash twrp

fastboot -S 256M flash recovery recovery-twrp-3.0.2-0-scorpion.img

• reboot your device

fastboot reboot

• enter recovery with press volume down while the LED is purple

• sideload SailfishOS

adb sideload sailfishos-scorpion-release-2.2.0.29-Alpha1.zip

• reboot and enjoy

thanks to r0kk3rz for the great work!

I've unlocked my bootloader, but getting "Invalid sparse file format at header magic" error when trying to flash boot. What should I do?..

Ah, got it. Should've removed "-S 256M" from the command line.

This won't work as the twrp image that you flash is based on scorpion_windy.
Trying to boot to twrp after flashing the image to the recovery partition ends up with a bootloop.

Ping!
Any solution to this?
There's still no TWRP for the 4G+WiFi model.
The twrp version you linked to is built for the WiFi only model called scorpion_windy.

the one I used is having windy in the name too

8 Jun  2018 twrp-3.0.2-0-scorpion_windy.img

I found a recovery to use that's actually built for the LTE + WiFi version while scorpion_windy is WiFi only.

I´d love to try this OS on my old tablet, but the link to the SailfishOS file doesn´t work anymore. Is it possible for you to restore the link?

@M1chiel7 not sure I still have the files somewhere, you can build the OS using HADK and the sources in my github repos. :)

Thanks for your reply! I am a poor user so building the OS would require a steep learning curve :-)

@M1chiel7 for me I'm happy I toke it more then 10 years ago, was fun and for sure awesome to do! go for ti if you wanna learn a lot of linux and computers!