Received my phone a couple of weeks ago but it doesn’t come with a plug adapter that can be plugged in in Australia/New Zealand, so had to wait for a suitable adapter to arrive after that.
I’m not stressed about the few extra dollars to buy the adapter or the fact that Purism doesn’t provide a suitable adapter for a plug type that is used only in a few islands in the Pacific but
suggestion to Purism: In the modem selection email if the Librem 5 is going to Australia, New Zealand, PNG, Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands then please warn the customer that they will have to procure separately a suitable plug adapter.
That way the user can have a suitable adapter before the Librem 5 even arrives.
I moved a Vodafone SIM from my existing phone. I’m going for ‘daily driver’ come hell or high water! Mobile data was disabled by default but once enabled, data worked out of the box. Haven’t tried calls yet. (Can’t do that because it is bogged down installing updates…)
SMS in both directions (send and receive) worked OK - once I persuaded the other phone that the SIM was no longer in an iPhone (apparently a longstanding and well-known problem).
Lollypop working satisfactorily as a music player for music on local storage. Sound quality pretty decent in a pair of headphones (not the buds that come with the Librem 5 - haven’t tried them yet). Will try audio out over Bluetooth paired to my main computer some time in the next few days, just for curiosity.
I didn’t see anything to answer my question about adding a user though.
One question that the Wiki did answer for me was how to get an Esc character. Yesterday in vi I had to use Ctrl/[ LOL to do enough basic editing in order to get SSH going so that I could do the remainder of the terminal work remotely.
Because the default username is publicly known and the password for that username is by default weak and you may not want it strong, everyone who enables SSH should really have a dedicated account for SSH - so I hope they fix that.
Now that I have thought about it, I think the problem with the Users application is that maybe the button to add a new user doesn’t fit on the screen. Other aspects of the Users application look a bit suss too.
Sorry for the basic question but how do I change the screen to landscape? Settings / Devices / Displays would be the obvious place but …
You can request edit privileges; I did so right after receiving my Evergreen and it was granted within an hour or two. In the meantime, I’ll add that to the wiki now.
If I’m not mistaken, I think an optional auto-rotate may be on the radar screen for a future update. You can follow issues and merge requests here:
Once I’m hands-on with the hardware (probably several months yet), I intend to set up firejail to put everything under individual user accounts with minimal permissions.
For non-gui users, you can sudo useradd --help and follow the instructions.
Calls in both directions worked fine. That was testing to/from a mainstream mobile phone. No problem with audio quality, clarity, noise, volume. All normal.
Ring tone volume might be a bit low if I didn’t have the phone on my person at the time of someone calling me. The important point here is that I don’t want to increase the system’s sound output volume because when the phone is stuffed up against my ear, I can hear it just fine. It is only if the phone may be sitting somewhere else in the house and it rings, I would say that I won’t be able to hear the ring.
Fun future option: hook into the ring logic on the phone and have the ring mirrored on one or more other devices via audio and/or some other mechanism.
In the meantime, being able to customise the ringtone should address that.
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