Is there external battery charger for Librem5 batteries?
I bought extra battery and don’t mind carrying and replacing batteries throughout the day but need a way to have batteries charged without putting in phone.
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I second that question… I would buy extra batteries for sure if there was a way to charge them and swap them into the phone
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I see https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Battery-Charger-chargering-Samsung/dp/B07SWV43H9 but not sure if it’s compatible
I bought as discussed here: [MyL5] Australia/New Zealand
Only if you are in the US? Airline regulations make it impossible or impractical to ship spare batteries by air at the current time.
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I work for a battery store, and we sell Universal cell phone / camera battery chargers and they should work. Just make sure you read the reviews of whatever you’re going to buy to make sure it’s not going to blow up your battery. 90% of Lithium-ion cellphone batteries are the same charging wise
Edit:forgot a word
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I don’t think the Librem 5 needs to charge one extra battery to operate for a day use. Instead of charging an extra battery do this:
- enable white theme to reduce screen brightness to save battery.
- enable auto suspend to save battery.
Do not compare/never the performance of battery from an Android device to a pure GNU+Linux phone that still requires of big optimizations to save energy to be close to android machines so we need to use less a gnu+linux phone compared to the conventional.
Using white theme is better over black?
Would notifications work on auto suspend? Also I thought auto suspend is already ON.
I’m not comparing battery to anything but definitely prefer longer battery life.
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Black it for Night, white it for Day, so white theme it help to save a lot of battery to Librem 5, but you need to considere and to help to L5 to low the brightness until you can see well, unfortunately at the moment we can’t afford to keep a screen with high brightness, because L5 it using an excellent screen but with old technology compared to oled screens where they are energy efficient
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It is not while wide opening for inserting of some battery is up to 55mm (not slightly over 60mm, as needed).
Yet this one charges L5 battery up to max. of 4.2V (as officially and strongly recommended):
Note: Above linked (to aliexpress.com) product doesn’t include any kind of additional adapter (EU for example), it is made for US infrastructure only although compatible AC input ranges from 110V to 240V. Also, its charging speed would be 800mA which would coarse mean that cca. twice longer time needed up to 100% (4.20V) of L5 battery usual capacity.
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You mentioned it right on time, phone seems to be dead since this morning. I see similar issues as that thread, phone turns on and runs for few minutes before being unresponsive.
Right now it’s sitting on ‘Installing Updates…’ at 80% for last 15 minutes, I’ll need to find a way to start from scratch I guess.
I may start another thread about unresponsive phone.
Sure (just currently 
), if jour Librem 5 was not turned off overnight (for 8+ hours).
If battery capacity less than 10% this might/should be expected (but my opinion is not the expert one and probably not even the relevant one here, @librem5, please keep us informed).
Please try this one first:
This self regulating of stopping charging (red LED light off) I’m finding as just another Librem 5 great feature (only phone with such capability, if this term as technical correct). Thanks for this to all involved! Thanks @dos!
Sorry I couldn’t understand the post clearly. However here is summary.
I turned off phone (had around 20% battery), charged until red LED off (took about 4 hrs).
Turned on phone and it’s working right now.
I’ve also disabled ssh systemctl disable ssh . I think ssh access was causing hang up, if someone can confirm this (I may try to re-enable and see some later time). Disabling ssh was enough to get phone working even at 20% battery (Oh and shell is changed to zsh so in case ssh with zsh causes issue)
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Phone froze up again this morning. It was charging overnight so battery isn’t issue. I’ll start another thread and enable ssh again for debug.
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Adding some details here:
I didn’t replace pureos-store with gnome-software. I’m currently trying to flash latest image.
Flashing seems to be stuck on:
1:12 1/ 1 [=================100%=================] SDP: boot -f u-boot-librem5.imx 100%|██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 1073880/1073880 [00:18<00:00, 1901894.86it/s]
I’ve tried installing uuu and jumpdrive from source but that didn’t resolve it. Process is still stuck at SDP: boot.
On the side note: external charger works (https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Battery-Charger-chargering-Samsung/dp/B07SWV43H9)
Can you try on a usb-2.0 port? sometimes failed on usb-3.0
Oh tried both (cable that came with phone - USB-3.0 and one cable that I already had - USB-2.0). Tried USB-3.0 less than USB-2.0 (tried about 8 times on USB-2.0 and 2 times on USB-3.0)