Rescue Your Mobian post Update Aug22 faster fix to working guide
Aaaaaarghh! The upgrade stalled at 92%, on repeat it worked within a minute, but then the calls still didn't work (SMS did!), and camera was still erratic.
So I did an apt dist-upgrade, which killed the SMS too and a few other things as well. On next reboot the Mobian was stuck on console login without keyboard, aka the silent death.
Luckily, I went through Jumpdrive and backed up my contacts and keyboards (there's still nothing else important there)... switched to Fedora for a while, same interface and far fewer stuff installed (doesn't even have apt or apt-get or software manager...). But calling and SMS work, and I was able to finish entering my contacts. Now backup that and worry later - I need the phone to make a call tonight (namely, call a cab after a party
).
p.s. It almost worked - dialed all fine, but there was no sound in either direction, so a friend called a cab for us. Tested today again, same - no sound. I sort of remember there were some distros with this problem, and that fixing it was a long process.
So I did an apt dist-upgrade, which killed the SMS too and a few other things as well. On next reboot the Mobian was stuck on console login without keyboard, aka the silent death.
Luckily, I went through Jumpdrive and backed up my contacts and keyboards (there's still nothing else important there)... switched to Fedora for a while, same interface and far fewer stuff installed (doesn't even have apt or apt-get or software manager...). But calling and SMS work, and I was able to finish entering my contacts. Now backup that and worry later - I need the phone to make a call tonight (namely, call a cab after a party
).p.s. It almost worked - dialed all fine, but there was no sound in either direction, so a friend called a cab for us. Tested today again, same - no sound. I sort of remember there were some distros with this problem, and that fixing it was a long process.