Sony Xperia acro S (sony-hikari)

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Sony Xperia acro S (LT26w)
Sony Xperia acro S with its included dock
Sony Xperia acro S with its included dock
Manufacturer Sony
Name Xperia acro S (LT26w)
Codename sony-hikari
Released 2012
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Original software Android
Original version 4.0 (Linux 3.4.0)
Hardware
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 (MSM8260)
CPU 2x 1.5 GHz Scorpion
GPU Adreno 220
Display 720 x 1280
Storage 16 GB
Memory 1 GB
Architecture ARMv7
This device is marked as not booting.
Status: Uses unusual ELF-format boot.img that is not supported by pmOS
Features
USB Networking
Flashing
Touchscreen
Display
WiFi
FDE
Mainline
Battery
3D Acceleration
Audio
Bluetooth
Camera
GPS
Mobile data
Internal storage
SMS
Calls
USB OTG
NFC
Sensors
Accelerometer
Magnetometer
Ambient Light
Proximity
Hall Effect
Barometer
Power Sensor
Misc
Built-in DVB
Camera Flash
Keyboard
Touchpad
USB-A
HDMI/DP
Ir TX
Ir RX
Stylus
Memory Card
Haptics
Ethernet
FOSS bootloader


Contributors

What works

This device uses a non-standard ELF format boot.img file that is not supported by postmarketOS (yet):

% file boot.img
boot.img: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (ARM), statically linked, corrupted section header size

intgr has a working hacked postmarketOS toolchain for building compatible boot.img files.

What does not work

Booting.

Downstream kernels

After trying out tens of different combinations of kernel sources from the web, I couldn't find any that get as far as initramfs.

The best sources found manage to initialize the display backlight and then crash pretty late in the initialization process with error: (see dmesg)

BUG: Bad page state in process swapper/0  pfn:5dcba

WIP can be seen here: https://gitlab.com/intgr/pmaports/compare/master...device-sony-hikari

Mainline kernel

No peripherals supported yet, but /dev/last_kmsg can be extracted with a binary kernel (e.g. TWRP). Sadly the boot process appears to hang after executing /init: (see dmesg)

WIP can be seen here: https://gitlab.com/intgr/linux-postmarketos/compare/master...device-sony-hikari

How to enter flash mode

Power off the device. Hold Volume Up as you plug the USB cable into the device.

Alternatively, perform a hard reset by holding Power and Volume Up buttons. When the device vibrates, release the Power button *first*, and it will boot into fastboot loader.

Installation

Follow Sony's instructions to unlock the bootloader.