You may wonder, when we call Sailfish OS a multitasking based operating system and brag about how it can run multiple applications without a problem with only 1 GB of memory, how many apps can run on it simultaneously without the OS giving up or crashing?

In normal usage, you may not open more than 5 apps in a row, but at some point you would want to show your Jolla off to some friends right? 😉

For that, Lucien XU on Twitter or Sfiet_Konstantin on TMO has a solution to unlock your home screen and let your Jolla to visually show you the unlimited multitasking.

Opened 21 Apps simultaneously on my #Jolla, and the phone was still smooth with 88% free RAM. HOW?!?! — Sepehr James Noori (@JamesNoori) April 15, 2014

Normally, the apps are limited to 9 and if you open the 10th one, it will go to the backgrouund and although it is running, you have to select it from the launcher to bring it back to life again. With this hack you can simply run as many applications as your OS is capable of, without having it hidden in the background. This hack will allow you to do more stuff like bringing the control center to the left side screen of your Jolla and access it via a swipe instead of opening the settings application and a lot more hacks are there and on the way to reach Sailfish.

1st, let’s watch:

My Jolla ran 21 applications with almost no lag (I say Almost, because there were some frame drops, but not so significant) + I showed 2 other tweaks as well. Let’s see how it went.



2nd, How to do this?!

First of all, I suggest you to visit TMO, and read all the instructions from there >> Click Here To Do So <<

Or else, I’ll just copy the instructions here, starting with health and safety!

Warning: system file patches can break your system, or worse, malicious patches can cause privacy / security issues Use with care, apply patches at your own risk. Note for < 0.4.0 users: unapply your patches before updating. Lipstick-pandora Lipstick-pandora is a patched version of lipstick-qt5, that exposes QML files from Jolla’s lipstick. It allows access to the QML files from the homescreen, thus allowing them to be patched. After installing lipstick-pandora, you need to use patchmanager to dump QML files and install them before being able to patch them. I have a lot of ideas of patches about system UI tweaks, and will provide patches as soon as possible. Warning: using lipstick-pandora and patching homescreen QML files can brick or damage your device. Use with care. Recovery is helpful to recover from bricking. Remove /opt/lipstick-pandora/qml from recovery should be enough. Never update your device while pandora-lipstick is applied.

**Copied directly from This Tread on TMO

Get it I will use OBS to build my packages, and use OpenRepos to distribute them. You can try OBS packages if you want, but I recommand OpenRepos. (Except for pandora enabled lipstick) recommended builds patchmanager 0.4.1 : OpenRepos

: OpenRepos lipstick-pandora 0.22.5 : OBS (for 1.0.5.16 ONLY)

: OBS (for 1.0.5.16 ONLY) lipstick-pandora 0.20.7 : OBS (for 1.0.4.20 ONLY)

: OBS (for 1.0.4.20 ONLY) pandora-box 0.2.2 : OpenRepos

: OpenRepos patchmanager stock patches 0.4.1 : OpenRepos Not recommended ones patchmanager 0.4.1 : OBS

: OBS pandora-box 0.2.2 : OBS Installation process Install patchmanager from openrepos Install patchmanager stock patches if you want (from openrepos) Install lipstick-qt5 from OBS (it contains the pandora mode lipstick) Open patchmanager, and select in pulley menu “Manage lipstick-pandora” Click on the button “Dump QML”. The homescreen restart. Go back to patchmanager, and then “Manage lipstick-pandora”. Click on “Install lipstick pandora”. The homescreen restarts. Install pandora-box from OpenRepos. It contains homescreen tweaks Apply patches, like unlimited-multitask Reboot homescreen using the pulley menu. This applies patches Note that before uninstallation, please unapply all patches. Never update your device while pandora-lipstick is applied.

**Copied directly from This Tread on TMO

Remove it by using Code: zypper in -f lipstick-qt5

Again, I remind you this may not be the most complete quotation ever, from that thread, so please visit TMO before you try these patches “if” you don’t know how lipstick works!

Enjoy!