Hello, I am trying to make SIP calls with gnome calls on the Librem 5, it does work, however the sip account frequently disconnects from the server. It also sometimes has difficulty connecting too the server to the point of making it more or less unusable (unless perhaps I am expecting a call) as I cant always predict when calls are coming in and I cant baby-sit it.
It seems to be able to hold a stable connection for about 30 minutes, I am afraid that this is such a big use case that may need to switch to another operating system if I can not resolve the issue.
The Librem 5 seems to ship with gnome calls 45.alpha.0, I have noticed however, on my desktop that gnome calls 46 is rock solid, and maintains its connections, its even good at reconnecting after a disturbance (such as moving out of range of a wifi network).
So I would really like to update to gnome calls 46 and I have gone through significant trouble trying doing this.
First I tried getting gnome calls 46 from flathub, it did download and install, however whenever I tried to launch gnome calls it always launched the 45.alpha.0 version. So I tried to uninstall gnome calls however I got a warning that the “essential” packages: librem5-phone, librem5-gnome-phone, and librem5-gnome would be removed with a prompt that said removing them could be harmful and to type “Yes, do as I say!” if I actually wanted to remove them. Those packages seemed important, I took the hint and chose not to uninstall.
So I tried to update to crimson, which didn’t go well but I eventually did get crimson on my device, after all that, same version of gnome calls .
I went back to byzantium
and I tried to use byzantium-updates-proposed
but it made no difference. So Im not really sure what to do, it might be kinda a deal breaker for pureos if I cant make it work.
Also I am wondering if it did work with 46, if I would have the same issue, I cant help but wonder the issue has to do with the integration between those essential packages (librem5-phone, librem5-gnome-phone, and librem5-gnome) and gnome calls?
Does anyone A: know how to update gnome-calls or B: know if doing so would not solve (or would be unlikely to solve) the problem C: if B, then what might I be able to do?
Thank you for your time
Also, is there another gnu/linux mobile OS which might have a package that fits my needs (and works on/has been tested/officially supports on the librem 5 particularly the hks’s)?