07-24-2020, 03:30 PM
I am a Brave Heart user.
I had pretty good results using UBPorts Ubuntu Touch early this year. But as a GUI user, as the newer releases kept coming out, the experience went downhill.
It got to be completely UN-usable....
Along came Debian/Phosh that was fairly usable in a new OS sort of way... That fell to the improved and improving Mobian.
Mobian worked real well, some minor faults, like multiple incoming texts, some screen sizing faults, but over-all improving really fast.
Then starting in July, I started seeing problems I assumed were "modem" related, my use of the text app was getting harder to use.
for a while the only way I could access my text app was to send myself a text from my second phone. Once opened it worked 'OK' ...
Then came the update where my text app disappeared ! ! !
There was not even an icon for the text app in the contact book -- Just the (phone) handset icon remained.
I decided to do some back tracking, The recent UBPorts downloads would no longer flash with Balena Etcher, it just freezes before it finishes flashing the sd card ?
The Mobian July 01 release would run my phone for calls, but not text.
Back to Mobian June 27, everything works, Except incoming text ! ?
I guess I need to go back to an earlier release.. ? I have not given up...
My question at the moment being, I wonder if there are minor firmware changes to the components, could be same part numbers, but built at different dates ?
That could explain why the software works fine for some, buggy for some, and not at all for others.... (?)
I have been extra careful to turn off my phone before removing the back cover, but even so, I have accidentally turned it on while removing the cover and the battery on more than one occasion.
That is why I thought I may have corrupted my modem, BUT, if it was corrupted it would not function on any OS I have tried since... right ? ?
I think eventually MOST of these problems will be resolved, ...
Just like waiting for your phone to "arrive" ...
. . . WE WANT IT NOW !
I had pretty good results using UBPorts Ubuntu Touch early this year. But as a GUI user, as the newer releases kept coming out, the experience went downhill.
It got to be completely UN-usable....
Along came Debian/Phosh that was fairly usable in a new OS sort of way... That fell to the improved and improving Mobian.
Mobian worked real well, some minor faults, like multiple incoming texts, some screen sizing faults, but over-all improving really fast.
Then starting in July, I started seeing problems I assumed were "modem" related, my use of the text app was getting harder to use.
for a while the only way I could access my text app was to send myself a text from my second phone. Once opened it worked 'OK' ...
Then came the update where my text app disappeared ! ! !
There was not even an icon for the text app in the contact book -- Just the (phone) handset icon remained.
I decided to do some back tracking, The recent UBPorts downloads would no longer flash with Balena Etcher, it just freezes before it finishes flashing the sd card ?
The Mobian July 01 release would run my phone for calls, but not text.
Back to Mobian June 27, everything works, Except incoming text ! ?
I guess I need to go back to an earlier release.. ? I have not given up...
My question at the moment being, I wonder if there are minor firmware changes to the components, could be same part numbers, but built at different dates ?
That could explain why the software works fine for some, buggy for some, and not at all for others.... (?)
I have been extra careful to turn off my phone before removing the back cover, but even so, I have accidentally turned it on while removing the cover and the battery on more than one occasion.
That is why I thought I may have corrupted my modem, BUT, if it was corrupted it would not function on any OS I have tried since... right ? ?
I think eventually MOST of these problems will be resolved, ...
Just like waiting for your phone to "arrive" ...
. . . WE WANT IT NOW !
