I tried that and just a 20 second long press of the Power button didn’t work for me. I assume that this is another defect in the L5USA that I received. I think that my L5USA was one of the first off the California board assembly line, and it does look like it took Purism quite a while to get it right, because after I got mine, it was a couple months before other people reported getting the L5USA on this forum.
Given all the issues (audio, USB charging, cameras), I assume that Purism will have to install a new PCB in my phone, which is probably a good thing for me, because later production usually has ironed out more of the bugs.
I do meander, and I guess it depends on whether you want to read a quick product review, or you want to contemplate other things. For me, looking at the branding is an opportunity to contemplate how much credit the company deserves for the design of the product, and how much was done by other companies, but I can see how others would find this utterly irrelevant and off-topic. I simply care about things that others don’t.
No need to suspect that I am heavily biased. I definitely am, as I made clear in a later section of the article:
Fortunately, both the L5 and PP don’t contain any of these anti-features, which in my opinion, sets both the L5 and PP above the vast majority of smartphones on the market today. I have nothing but disgust for the phone industry for promoting planned obsolescence, and I particularly despise Apple, since it was the first company to mass market a PDA, media player, phone, tablet and laptop without a replaceable battery. For that reason, I have been boycotting Apple for the last two decades, but sadly Apple’s overwhelming profits and prestige in the electronics industry have now led most manufactures to follow its lead in designing hardware based on planned obsolescence. I tear out my hair every time I see Lenovo and Dell release another Thinkpad and Latitude that tries to mimic Apple.