The examples are also very much like the definition of insanity.
Thanks for the analysis - I hope I’m not getting bill for it.
I feel no one should knuckle under and walk away from anything, just because of ‘fallacy’. I bought a phone based on the advertising. It does not in any way perform or do what the ads suggested.
I signed up here to learn about and use the Pure OS. Phone wasn’t even on the agenda. I never wanted to rent a leash. But I read the ads one day, and by happenstance, I could buy a spot in the queue as a gift for a friend and co-worker. He didn’t want it and still laughs now and then when hears me growl.
I don’t care what a bunch of shrinks say I should put behind me. My major was psychology. I already analyzed myself and keep me locked up where I’m safe
Too, I know the camera was update recently with a close resemblance to auto-set light, focus etcetera. Can that update be installed? I’ve sort of been waiting for some update, and they come, but the camera needs manual setting using micro-sliders that don’t slide very well.
Thanks - for a while there, I thought you were afraid of ghosts.
~s
Sorry to disagree, but it’s not a device that any kid could use, not without learning commands and I note there are terms “will be” meaning one day, not today. Too, “…will include non-soldered, easily serviceable batteries that you can order.” it is missing ‘but only in the USA’. “Real Convergence”. Nope. The OS doesn’t even recognize the dock it sells! And it’s not that easy to ‘converge’.
and “Vivante GC7000Lite GPU in the Librem 5 provides a lot of 3D”.
Now that I see it, maybe this L5 has a different GPU because even 2024 chokes when reaching 1024. And it’s not even 3D.
Too, " This phone was made with you in mind". If it was made for me,. I wouldn’t have to learn various command lines, and at most times, typing on a psycho-tap mini-keypad.
Art one time, the phone was really coming along. Camera mediocre but automated settings were nice. Text with Pics was great. Voice, well I still think it’s encrypted (N/C for sarcasm)
Now, after the successful flash, it’s a home for Murphy to practice on. ~s
All I type is My opinion based on My experiences.
Step 1 (Choose either Option 1 only, or Option 2 or Option 3 followed by Step 2.)
Option 1: sudo apt install --reinstall chatty
(This reinstalls the application over the existing install. If this doesn’t correct the issues, then go to Option 2 or Option 3, followed by Step 2.)
Or…
Option 2: sudo apt remove chatty
(This removes the application, but leaves your configuration files and message history, I think. Someone else here, please confirm.)
Or…
Option 3: sudo apt purge chatty
(This removes the application, your existing configurations, and your message history, I think.)
Then…
Step 2 sudo apt install chatty
The camera should not be in that state if you applied all the waiting updates after your successful reflash, but here ya go:
The camera package is called millipixels, so…
sudo apt install --reinstall millipixels
If you want to purge the entire thing first, and then reinstall, it’s: sudo apt purge millipixels sudo apt install millipixels
Note: If anything goes wrong, you’ll probably have to reflash again.
EDIT: And obviously, it’s necessary to always keep the system updated, either by using the button in the PureOS Software app, or by running sudo apt update followed by sudo apt upgrade, as well as flatpak update.
True; the official, curated list is short. But there are many more applications from the main PureOS repo that you can find by using the magifying glass/search button. There are quite a few of those, especially flatpaks, that do in fact adapt to the mobile screen and UI. It’s trial and error, I’m afraid, unless they’re marked as performant on mobile. I, and others, have discovered and tested many of them here: List of Apps that fit and function well [Post them here.]
You and others helped to do a successful flash. I see that flashing includes the kernel so what can RMA do we didn’t already do.:
I must put the blame of the still-no-more texts with pictures on the carrier.
Addendum to that, I’ll get a text telling me that I received a message but that it that it “expired” sent to me @ 1:41 “expired” at 1:41. Other times it will show a hour or 2 before it expired.
I get a ride this coming Saturday and I’m taking the phone to the carrier’s resellers (kiosk).
Yes it is “6.6.0-1-librem5”
That to me means the flash was successful.
The failed flashes were due in part to my not ensuring I had everything up to date - i.e. 2 Ambers updated to Byzantium, a “uuu” in place and solidly attached with a stable cord, plus the loose female connector at the L5 (not certain of it).
The carrier, you may remember, changed their -stuff- in February. But I still got pics w/ text for a short while. Their suggested settings APN etctera don’t work nor the old setup.
They did say, any device 6 years or older may not function. If memory serves; mobile or another chip(?) is 10 years old.
stat / | awk ‘/Birth: /{print $2 " " substr($3,1,5)}’
says Linux was installed on June 22, 2023 but we just flashed successfully so it’s not quite a year yet.
I have been away on travel for a couple weeks and am catching up on a mountain of emails/notifications/etc. I have pinged the support team to review your case and was informed that they will follow up later today.
But we checked all of that. Maybe they have tools they can test all the hardware. They did say that if it’s hardware, there will be a cost - unknown. Maybe, I can convince myself to send it in. I’m still worried I wan’t get it back, in any shape, promised ETA’s fail.
It’s about trust and like I said, trust is earned and posts suggest it’s not on trusted side of the scale.
Still have to try FF’s USB trick.
Since my install date is one thing and the
gives another date, then RMA may be last move -
‘When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’… Arthur Conan Doyle
Just a warning (for anyone) … when you do this, look carefully at what it says it might remove along with the one package that you are explicitly removing.
If the list of packages to remove is
as long as your ARM, or
contains any package that looks like removing it would be “badness”
then I would recommend NOT proceeding.
If this is your only problem then I think you are wasting your time.
Likely this simply won’t work until the Librem 5 grows the necessary support for whatever quirks this carrier is throwing up. That in turn might require troubleshooting from someone actually in Canada using that carrier.
So unless someone else using that carrier can confirm that MMS does actually work with that carrier with the Librem 5 … then you are really waiting until software development gets going again on the Librem 5. At a minimum you might be waiting until crimson is officially released so that you are at least running later versions of many packages.
Could be talking about VoLTE. In any case, almost certainly talking about mainstream spyphones. I’m sure your carrier knows too little about the Librem 5 to be making general pronouncements that will be useful to you.
(As far as I know, MMS is the one area that VoLTE is irrelevant to c.f. voice calls and SMS, because MMS has always used “LTE”.)
ls -ld --time=birth /
may be easier. Although I can’t see where that stat command came from or what it is going to show.
For me it gives a date in late 2023 (when I reflashed) but I don’t know whether that reflects
a) the date of reflash, or
b) the date that the downloaded disk image was built by Purism.
If you flash by downloading the latest build then the two dates will be about the same anyway.
Yes, it is always one of the things I check first.
But thanks for reminding me.
No, it’s just a super duper main problem. Including the voice. I made received 2 call back testing it. Reminds me of the handshake with a dial-up modem @ 100 Baud.
The main reason for even having this is for sending receiving text with pics , and secondary a a phone. Were it the case, what would your boss say to you if you got hired and found out you’re the only in the chain that doesn’t have a “smart” phone - just 2 tin cans a long string. I guess one could tell the boss to wait, that in some time in the future, that sending and receiving site-reports with visuals might work with a antique - maybe “will”. "will as in the ads “will”.
It’s not the only problem, but it’s why I ended up with L5; to communicate with others that use text with images on their phone.
HAL: Well, I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error.
Reddit has some good ideas for normal phones, that might work with this.
OK, that’s a different direction to go in, which may bear fruit. No provider will have any idea whether their MMS will work with the Librem 5. I think you need to ask here for other Canadian Librem 5 users as to which providers have working MMS. Maybe if you ask nicely, @FranklyFlawless will test MMS with his provider.
I am confident Freedom Mobile supports MMS, but no one has recently sent me images, and I do not send images to anyone either. I do not have your or James’ phone number.
~s
That would explain everything. 
Yea! Now we’re cooking…