Chargers and battery banks for the Librem 5

[irvinewade]

@amarok

I bought the Phonesuit charger to have a more portable charging option for a 2-in-1 laptop I own. And to be able to carry a single charger and cable for both laptop and phone when I travel.

I would imagine that the charger that Purism sells for the laptops (14 and 16) will work with the Librem 5 too. Of course there is no guarantee that a Purism laptop charger will work with your particular laptop - but no less so than some random third party charger. USB-C PD is somewhat of a lucky dip but so far I have been … lucky.

[dos]

@lib52

and the librem goes back and forth between charging and not

Whenever that happened for me, it was either the charger violating the protocol (either directly or through a broken cable etc.) or too old TPS65982 firmware which had troubles with PPS sources. You can check your version with:

$ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/tps6598x/0-003f/customer_use
0x4c35445000000202

You need it to end with at least 000201, which is 0.2.1 released in May 2023.

[guru]

@dos

You can check your version with:

$ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/tps6598x/0-003f/customer_use
0x4c35445000000202

You need it to end with at least 000201, which is 0.2.1 released in May 2023.

I have:

purism@pureos:~$ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/tps6598x/0-003f/customer_use
[sudo] password for purism:
0x4c35445000000200

What should or can I do?

[irvinewade]

@guru

What should or can I do?

If you are not experiencing any actual problem, you don’t need to do anything and probably you shouldn’t. However what you can do is follow the instructions in the link at Updating Firmware on the Librem 5 - #2 by irvinewade and continue the discussion in that topic if you have any questions.