After almost 2 years of daily driving #librem5 as my main phone I gave up.
Initially the battery lasted for a very short time (like few hours). But I could live with that. Recently this was greatly improved (it could last whole day), but still I kept it connected to a cable out of habit.
For a very long time I didn't try to use the sdcard slot, because I had no need for it. But when I finally tried, it turned out it doesn't work (purism forums has a bunch of topics on that, it's not an uncommon issue). But I could live with that.
The GPS receiver also does not work (see https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-gps-location-tracking/14153/285). But I could live with that.
The tiny metal swing thingy you press with a needle to push out the sdcard and sim card tray broke off. But I could live with that.
Hard to tell exactly when, but my phone started to behave weirdly with cellular connection. I didn't receive SMS and calls. And there was no indication on the phone that something is wrong. And I could not live with that.
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@etam I'm not aware of any remaining issues with SMS and call reliability! Did that perhaps start to happen after enabling suspend? What is your modem firmware version? (you can check with AT+BMSWVER)
When it comes to GPS, you may want to check https://source.puri.sm/-/snippets/1207 out. This is the result of my recent research on assisted GPS and isn't integrated in the OS yet, but is going to be in the future.
@etam FW looks fine... I have no DMs on Mastodon, but feel free to send it to me via e-mail. I'm pretty curious, I don't think anything changed regarding modem during last month.
@dos Re GPS: I'll try later.
@dos Re GPS: I confirm that snippet 1207 made my gps fix position quite quickly. Just had to install gir1.2-geoclue-2.0.
@dos
Re SMS and calls:
It definitely wasn't happening, when I wrote this https://im-in.space/@etam/110515929718634904 . Few days earlier I contacted purism support about the sdcard reader problem, where I also received an update to the modem firmware.
output of bm818-fw-check:
chat: Jun 06 20:57:52 +BMSWVER: M100E_YCSN0_1.0.0_220926,YCSN0_M100E_1BAD_3117_V1.0.0.2_20220930,M100E_1.0.4_200715
M100E_YCSN0_1.0.0_220926
YCSN0_M100E_1BAD_3117_V1.0.0.2_20220930
M100E_1.0.4_200715
I not sure, but I think the problems appeared not longer than month ago. I'll send you more details and logs on priv.