I have been using the suspend function for several month continuously (~6MO) and more recently (last month maybe) the cellular modem dropping out issues, or not being able to bring the modem back up have improved a lot. Occasionally the modem does not come back up, but when toggling the wwan modem switch it does. That said i am also running the watch modem script that will re-initiate the modem if it detects it disappearing and generate a warning audio notification, but i haven’t received as many notifications of the modem doing so lately, with phone suspended, or not suspended and just sitting there on a charger (where my suspend delay is much longer, than for battery suspend delay).
Getting SMS messages and message notifications while suspended i think almost works, not sure about calls.
Thanks, Captain. Maybe I will give it another try one of these days. It would be nice if it was totally reliable. Meanwhile battery life of the L5 is pretty decent by now as well. So I can live without suspend most of the time.
I have found it works but most people do not have the patience to wait until you answer your phone while it wakes from slumber so that’s an issue. I have found that SMS is mostly reliable but not sure about other things like Signal messages for example.
If your phone does wake up correctly on power button press but it does not wake up from suspend at all on incoming call despite of the signal being heard on the calling side, it means you have to contact support to get the modem’s firmware updated.
Keep in mind that I’m not talking about anything else other than merely waking up on incoming calls/messages. It should wake up from sleep, but actually noticing and reacting to calls in timely manner is not exactly supposed to work reliably yet (although we should get there pretty soon now).
That one I can answer. No, gnome-clocks does not support waking up the phone from suspend yet. It is a permission issue where part of the solution was only just implemented in a still unreleased version of systemd.
For those curious about the progress, I’m seeing under a debugging / testing kernel I was able to get through the community Librem 5 matrix channel (6.2.0.1) I have suspend working 95% of the time. My metrics for this measurement are that the phone comes back from suspend, and I can log in. (There was a bug that was creating a double log in screen which prevented you from ever getting past it previously. This was masterfully fixed in a recent phosh update.) My cellular connection is active and data connectivity happens usually within a few seconds. This happens about 80% of the time. When it doesn’t work, usually within the space of up to a minute, the modem will reset and then connectivity is restored. In some rare occassions the modem does not come back. Either suspending and resuming or restarting the phone will bring it back. This is very rare.
This is a debugging kernel not intended for byzantine. But I wanted to talk about it, because this is all very promising. As @dos has pointed out earlier, there is still a lot of work to be done, but they are making great progress.
This kernel has taken my Librem 5 from hardly being used to nearly being my main and daily.
You might have configured it to not suspend when on power (which is the default, I think). Unless PureOs has sprinkled magic fairy dust around, upstream gnome-clicks is not yet waking up suspended devices yet. Which is a pity…
I sort of hesitate to leave my L5 on the charger over night. For one thing the manual says you should not leave the phone unattended while charging. Presumably because of over-heating problems. Is this still current advice?
I think this is “just” a general advise with any chargeable device.
I never leave my house with anything in a charger.
However my daily phone(not the L5 yet ) is in the charger over night next to me.
This is great news. I can’t wait to get suspend to work. Every year in summer I switch to an old nokia because L5 suffers easily from overheating in the hot temperatures here. If this gets released soon I will hopefully not have to switch to nokia this summer.
) is in the charger over night next to me.