In principle I see that Crimson works much better - scrolling in phosh really nice even after upgrade, backports come much more easily. Are anyone use it daily? Which blockers prevent that except the sound and mic problem?
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Can you elaborate on this a bit by any chance?
I’m still running your Byzantium Backports and have had an issue that sounds like this since the last round of updates. I’ve kind of just ignored it.
- Turn on my BT headphones.
- See in the Phosh Quick Settings that it’s trying to connect.
- Wait 4-5 seconds, it fails, then I tap it again in Quick Settings to connect. If I’m quick I can do this before #2 and it always connects.
Is this what you were seeing? Did you ever find a solution?
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In that post I meant my headphones connect to the phone (I see it in Quick Settings) but the music is still coming from the speaker and I have to go Sound Settings and switch the output by myself. In Byzantium the sound coming from the headphones automatically. However, there is another issue - when someone call me the BT profile should be switched from A2DP to headset to use the headphone’s microphone and back after the call to play music with the best quality.
Your case differs… If BT is on in Quick Settings then my headphones connect automatically most times (Byzantium). Otherwise I try to turn off BT, on again and connect manually (like your did). I think I will not care about this in Byzantium but definitely pay some attention when I switch to Crimson 
p.s. also I observe a small interference between wifi and BT, so, I disable wifi in case when I use mobile data for online music to get more stable connection.
p.p.s. There is a little bit upgraded firmware for SparkLAN module but I lost the link where I get it… it seemed to me more stable regarding BT connection.
upd: looks like this repo I used to download new firmware. However, I’ve just found newer one here and the newest one here! Let’s try…
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Might be a good idea to add Crimson Backports so some packages like VVM and VVMPlayer would work on Byzantium.
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How would we implement that?
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I think there’s some confusion - byz and crimson do not co-exist. Both have backports of their own, separately (take a look at their respective threads: byz, crim).
With VVM, I take it you’re referencing Chris Talbot / vvmplayer · GitLab (which is available in byzantium already: apt-get install vvmplayer)…? Is it not installable in crimson?
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Haven’t had a chance to try on Crimson, but I know Byzantium does not have the needed package versions for it to work.
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Interesting. I seem to have it. Starts up fine, although I don’t have any idea if it otherwise works as I don’t have any visual voice mail to test it with. Are you using byz backports or no? Anyway, this seems like a question that should be in that thread.
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That was quite the tip, thank you.
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It seems we have gotten a new update news posted (January). Nice to see progress and steady communications:
No new image to test (as of yet), though.
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Just copy to /etc/firmware/brcm/ the next files:
BCM4362A2.hcd
brcmfmac43752-sdio.bin
brcmfmac43752-sdio.clm_blob
brcmfmac43752-sdio.txt
The files from LibreELEC looks like the right choice, other links work not so stable for me.
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I will create a .bak of the originals before attempting this. Maybe it will be good and I won’t have to remove that status.
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I got no /usr/share/alsa2, ‘alsa2’ folder, alsa folder does exist
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So SparkLan BT should be a bit more stable with it then? I always had issues with the SparkLan module dropping bluetooth connection to smartwatches. Also was a pain to pair to any vehicle as well.
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It is difficult to say… The difference is not so big, but my personal opinion that LibreELEC a little bit stable (at least to listen music by BT headphones). So, it would be interesting to get your feedback
It should be noted that there is no official FW upgrade neither from Purism or SparkLan…
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Partly why I started a thread for third party Wifi/Bluetooth modules and WWAN modules.
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I got disk usage 80% after flash crimson, is this normal? Thanks,
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You mean, when you flashed, your system only uses about 80% of eMMC disc space and the root/home partition doesn’t fill the whole disc (showing available root/home disc space as just few GB)? Yes, normal. Installation is not optimized yet to automatically fill the whole disc. If you want, I think you can use external computer and in jumpdrivemode use Gparted to grow the partition to fill the whole disc. (caveat: it’s been a few months and I’m working on memory here).
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You can use GNOME Disks instead:
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That issue #19 on sound output and mic input has been closed recently. Could someone confirm that it is now possible to make and receive calls in Crimson? Is the new build with the fix already available? If calls and SMS are working, I would be interested to join testing Crimson.
Should be fixed now with librem5-base-defaults 67pureos1.
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