Camera and microphone icons not in top bar when related physical switch is off

Hardware Librem 5
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Hello,

Since a week or two, the icons indicating the camera and the microphone are off does not appear anymore in the top bar of the phone, when the dedicated physical switch is off.

When the switch is off, the camera and mic are off too, but when the switch is on, only the microphone is on.

Any idea to remedy the problem or to investigate the issue?

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I don’t know how to investigate.
But, I am seeing buggy behaviour with a different icon in the top bar, the “On/Silent/Quiet” icon. I think it started a few weeks ago as well. The “On” and “Silent” icons are reversed, when the pone is “Silent” it does not show any icon but, when the phone is “On” it shows the Silent icon >…< confusing but I can live with it.

EDIT: Please ignore my message. I just did not understand how the icon is supposed to work. When the menu icon is blue/active it means that phone is NOT on silent, and when is off it means the phone IS on silent.

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Try rebooting your Librem 5 and see if the issue persists.

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Already tried it and even got 1 or 2 updates since the issue appeared. Issue still present.

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Okay, well if you are interested, I can provide instructions for reflashing the Librem 5 once you have externally backed up any important data.

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It is also possible to:

  • image the entire eMMC disk
  • reflash in order to verify whether the problem happens on a clean system
  • restore the image from the first bullet point

So the overall effect to the phone is “no change” but you know whether the problem happens on a clean system or not - hence you have more information about the likely cause and the likely solution.

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