This is basically a proceed at your own risk sign. But one I completely understand.
I really respect the clean and professional way the Librem 5 repos have been maintained. It is in stark contrast to other efforts in similar veins. But providing support and curating those repos to be that kind of rock steady takes a lot of work. It is completely understandable that Purism does not have the manpower to go tending to people who wander off the reservation (in that sense), even if they encourage it.
I also installed right now the new kernel linux-image-6.1.0-1-librem5, configured suspend and let the phone goto sleep. I called myself from another mobile phone, let it ring until the operatorâs voice said âThe person you are calling does not answer. Please try again laterâ.
A short press on the power button let it come back to live and there is no indication of the missed call.
Waking from suspend has been working for months now. There are additional updates coming soon that let the communication with modem resume instantly after being woken up (so far it could take a very long time or even fail), but suspend itself has been working for a while. Older devices may need additional modem firmware updates to make it reliably wake up on incoming calls and SMS, see:
The procedure is not published, but itâs available for users by contacting the support team. This may change in the future, but I canât make any promises (not my area anyway).
Not sure if this a stupid question but I didnât notice it suggested⌠if thereâs a hardware (wifi card?) issue potentially is there a reason he canât just try swapping the two cards to see if that makes a difference? Assuming a firmware update doesnât helpâŚ
In theory, no. In practice, shortening the life of his device by messing with the fiddly antennae - and the general hassle of extracting and inserting a WiFi card.
If it is really claimed that the WiFi card somehow influences the ability to wake on incoming call and it is desired to investigate that, removing the WiFi card from the primary Librem 5 would be less fiddly than swapping the WiFi cards. After all, the mobile modem should work properly whether or not you even have WiFi.
I have been considering to swap the two modem cards, but I want to wait until support gives me instructions on how to upgrade the modem firmware. I hope that will not take too long. As @irvinewade says, the prospects of fiddling again with the cards and antenna cables are not tempting.
The one thing that indicates that this is not a Wifi card problem, although I changed it to Sparclan in my primary phone, is that I donât recall my phone waking up on incoming calls before that either.
Ah, well, thatâs different again. I actually wrote âWiFiâ and thatâs what I meant - but I may have misinterpreted what @muon meant. Even so, swapping modem cards could also make sense - but for the fiddly nature of doing so.
No need to swap, itâs known that old firmware is unreliable in this regard - it drives the wake pin too weakly, so the SoC may not notice that it needs to wake up.
