Hi guys, let me give you the most recent update problems with my L5 USA…
Wfi and Cell connectivity seems to be a battle over which gets Selected to be used.
Explanation: if both are on it takes forever to get one to be used UNLESS I shut one off… problem is the one that would work you just turned off so nothing happens… turn off that one and switch to other and then it is instantaneous.
Start up… when I first got it you could press and release the power button briefly to see what the power status of battery was … forget when that disappeared due to other quirks.
2A. Sometimes phone will start after pressing button and wait til the light changes orangish and release.
Most times does nothing!
Press and hold while count to 10 or 12 and release… sometimes continues and starts… not always!
Press and hold same as above does not not start you press again and hold until you see the screen activate then you know you got it.
My display scale cannot stay on 175% it either switches to 100% (too small) or 200%. It will work on all except 175%… will change it self so I use 150%. @t restart it will not stay where previously set so have to set when I turn on!
I found that Falkon works better than FireFox but one quirk… main entry you have to double type character to make words, however the home button for Falkon search and other entries are fine… best work around just load a bunch of book marks to avoid typing.
PureOs needs to put that CSS user0 made into the updates and straighten up the Start Up issues and how about the battery life?
As for Epiphany ALMOST NEVER GOES TO A WEB PAGE! Once in a while it surprises me.
If I am away from WiFi @ home I turn it off! @home … always messing with them both.
That is the biggest FAIL lately…
If you want to make a great impression FIX the TWO Main things
Phone connectivity and a good browser!
Just when I think it’s getting better something else does not work after updates. Yes I’m backed up but want forward movement not slipping backward.
Please see what you guys can do. (not a programmer just average terminal experience)
Re your item 3, you could probably create a script to scale at 175% and have it start at power-up. See: Tutorial: Create Shortcuts to Scale Display Up/Down for some ideas, although it’s about creating an “app” to change scale on demand, not to start automatically.
I have not come across the bug for #3 and I use 175% scale all the time. I will say there is a bug that once you set the scale at either 175% or 150% the display settings will erroneously say it is at 100% for some reason.
For me it’s just 175% that jumps to 100%. But in real it’s still 175%. 150% works just fine in any way. It’s interesting that we have different behaviors.
Just do: echo 'on' | sudo tee /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1.2/power/control
It has completely resolved the issues for me. Set it up to be set on boot and you’re golden. May affect power consumption a little bit but it hasn’t been noticeable enough for me.
Dont like this, too. With every decent computer the display scaling would be persistent (except you choose different). My Librem5 does not even stay with any value but 200%. I’m old but I have good glasses - why am I forced to this kindergarten-200%-view?
Because you don’t know how to set up your system correctly.
In fact, it’s not your fault. Such things should be set by settings. But you can change this manually. Create a file in /etc/phosh/ called phoc.ini and enter these lines:
[output:DSI-1]
scale = 1.5
or instead 1.5 (150%) you can choose any other scale you want. After each restart it will be set to this value. And written in etc makes changes persist against updates. It overwrites the lines of /usr/share/phosh/phoc.ini, which can be updated and so they’re not persist.
I had this problem when using Mullvad VPN. I also have Protonvpn and the MMS do come through with protonvpn. so, this isn’t a generic vpn issue. It seems to vary from based on which vpn?
We are edging ever closer to AI consciousness, so the machines that exploit you may spite you and shove the knife deeper through their manipulation of those around you to make you go back.
So, good luck! The software debt runs very deep if we are going to catch up to the world of proprietary garbage, and just as soon as we do they will likewise push ahead to surpass us. But if we can be okay with that, pick specific objectives and then hack the handset until it meets those objectives, it can be a good life. Or at least it seems that way to me.
I use 2 chargers and 4 batteries for my Librem 5, and it can instant charge without turning off by plugging in the L5 power, removing the battery while it’s on, and inserting the new battery. So for me, device power and availability seem to be surpassing Android in some ways.
“Why I never actually started using my Librem5 after two years of hassle”
it should read for me …
The Librem5 can consecutively run several weeks the PureOS Store update without result.
This spring it “only” took 1 week consecutively running the PureOS Store update and it came to some result. That was luck!
What bothers me more / this is a mere request for help:
Permanently 70 - 79% of CPU ressources is used by a process “gnome-usage”
having no recognised task but warming the device and the charger.
top and device monitor show the same result.
This way the device shows very low performance and 1/2 day battery life if not using it for anything.
Personally, I never use the PureOS Store. Basically it is GNOME Software, and a pretty old version of it, which hangs way too often. And even on newer versions this is not totally fixed.
I recommend the following to update: in the terminal type:
sudo apt update
The command above will check for updates, but not install them.
To install the updates, run:
sudo apt full-upgrade
Regarding the gnome-usage. I guess you see this when you open the Usage app. gnome-usage is actually the Usage app itself, so if you close it, it stops using the CPU.
Normally I use the top command to see CPU usage, but unfortunately, on the small screen of the Librem 5 it is not so useful, but you could try it in landscape mode, with the keyboard collapsed.
will upgrade the packages on the phone that have been upgraded in the repository.
It is my understanding that the rolling release nature of byzantium required the “sudo apt full-upgrade” but now that byzantium is under maintainance rather than development the consensus is that “sudo apt upgrade” is preferred.
“apt update” doesn’t update the the phone, it updates the phone’s database of packages available in the repositories.
This is a bug in gnome-usage in Byzantium where rendering the graphs takes that much memory. If you scroll the graph rendering out of the view CPU usage will go down. This also isn’t an issue with the GTK4 version of usage.
Sure. I think it speaks to how disorganized these forums are for people to have to sift through. I’ve definitely uploaded a photo of my chargers in other threads, possibly multiple times, because I boast about this way of handling it frequently, because it works well for me.
But the truth is that I started with 3 chargers and two broke, so I was using my old L5 (from before I bought the 4GB ram version) as a charger, and one of the original chargers that I started with. Because these chargers are literally $9 cheap junk from Amazon. And so they work really well until pieces break off or they quit working. I actually recently ordered some more of them to get an order on Amazon to give me free shipping.
So, if we care about planet earth and about data privacy, Amazon is probably not good… and cheap junk chargers that break after 6 months of uses are probably also not good. Thus I am unsure if I’m qualified to suggest to you what I was using, because I did not do a lot of investigation to determine that it is the best option, and instead operated off of the recommendation of a smart and cool friend.
But last time I wanted to find them on Amazon I literally just typed in “Kastar Universal Charger” to find them. Maybe you can find a better and more robust version of the same thing.
