So, I take it you can get wifi, it just takes a bit of luck and/or effort. I’ll make a note in the chart.
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Did you get Dino to connect too, XMPP conversations etc.? Worked fine? What version is it?
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Thanks to Opensource team by default the RSI driver for Redpine on Opensource-Linux upstream is request BLOBs via GNU, even when there is a available flag(Thanks for Purism) to disable blob for Gnu to rsi driver. So i guess to fix redpine issues it needed to put blobs on Gnu on a happy way. 
Why is this happen? because Linux mainline mission for L5, where Opensource has the full control on Linux.
In fact Linux/LinusT do not care Propietary Driver on Linux either, the only reason for request libre driver it is to keep development over vendor.
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Sorry, rebooting helps not. I never got wifi working. I fixed (edited) my incorrect earlier message.
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worked fine. dino v0.4.4
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Just installed Crimson and it already looks nice - thanks for all the good work to everybody who helped!
But as the overview shows: no audio in phone calls.
Until audio is not working I can’t really help with testing even though I’d be willing to live through instability and other problems.
Anything else I tried: 
- installing flatpaks (fractal, railway)
- sending & receiving sms
- mobile data (no long time experience here, my byzantium is using ppp to get a stable connection)
- wifi
Annoying: there’s still the problem with gnome-keyring that it asks for its own password and doesn’t use the login password of user purism.
On a system with full disk encryption not working, yet, this matters, because I’d prefer to have the password being used while testing (on my fde byzantium I disabled the password, because the disk is encrypted anyway and the gnome-keyring unlocked once I used it - too lazy to relock it, so there is no use in an extra password).
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Has anyone looked at byz-backports and crimson? both. To me, they seem pretty much the same - probably due to same phosh versions. Has anyone noticed anything really different (besides crimson being a work in progress)?
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So Crimson has phosh 0.34 while @galilley’s Byzantium backports has phosh 0.44! Note the difference
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Ok, I’ll give you that. My point was more that there’s nothing mindblowingly different at first glance - hence the need for more thorough looks.
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There should be if you have the backports fully installed.
What does apt list phosh show?
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It’s the 0.44.0, as it should be. Not to be confusing, but it’s all relative and it’s all good - just nothing major. The most useful difference that I’ve noticed is the GNOME utilities folder icon (instead of those apps being amongst all the others), but I considered thet to be one of the minor details. From the non-phosh apps, I notice how Settings has gotten more stuff, but yet it seems just a bit incremental. The line for squeekboard and how that acted was annoying at first.
… stuff like that from the byz-backports. Crimson seemed to have some of the GNOME stuff, but nothing relatively major (yet) to show or hint at.
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Hi everyone!
I’m in the deal! Just boot Crimson on my phone :). Gnome-calls do not really work (main blocker) and looks like bluetooth handset do not activated automatically, but now I’m able to test Crimson-backports-unofficial and Phosh 0.44.1 is already there!
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Give it to me crimson-backports now, now ,now.
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Just created the new thread, you are welcome! 
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I flashed Crimson like this
./scripts/librem5-flash-image --stable --variant plain --dist crimson
and the script said that the image installed was
Build "stable" 'Last stable librem5r4 build' from Tue Jan 14 18:35:42 2025
SMS works.
For phonecalls there is no audio (I can make a call but I cannot hear the other person’s voice and they cannot hear me).
Ideas on how to fix that?
Other who have tested, does phonecall audio work for you in Crimson?
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Not working. Mic/sources not seen by system.
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OK that explains why the other side cannot hear me, but I also hear no sound in a phonecall. I can get sound in other ways, like the test function in sound settings (the “front left” and “front right” sounds there work) and playing sound in web the browser works. Even if the mic does not work, it should be possible to hear the incoming audio in a phonecall?
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There are some changes you may just did not see yet. For example Squeekboard supports more characters and smileys and some previously not supported apps and Shift Modifier. Some of my recent work for custom layouts do not work correctly on Squeekboard below version 1.43.
Also Phosh supports new stuff like custom quick settings, quick settings drop down menus, different users on one system, lots of improvements to phosh-osk-stub and so on. Not everything is visible on the UI or on the first view.
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Crimson have the backports too
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See also:
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