Bookworm

[ragreenburg]

For now it works fine. Good imprevement on the calls reception when locked.

Do you mean that calls are coming in earlier when the phone is locked?

Yes, there's a new interface on the lock screen that allows you to receive calls without unlocking. You can't use the dial pad though, you just need to unlock after receiving the call. For me it works much better than before.

I could be wrong but I think that came in with `Phosh 0.13` which happens to be the last update I got on Mobian since I haven't switch to Bookworm yet. I do agree though, that is way better. Same with lock screen notifications which are a huge step to making this feel like an actual phone.

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Yes, huge improvement on receiving calls when the phone is sleeping. The phone wakes up noticeably faster and can be answered direct from the lock screen.

There are minor nits, I have not been able to get my custom sound profile for ringtone working, though it's possible I missed something setting it up, will have to double-check. The totem video player is not working and others the video is choppy. As noted before, still no bluetooth audio for calls, still have to plug wired headset in after the call is connected for the mic to work, plus minor GUI glitches (poor sizing of apps) and other minor issues. Overall though a big improvement for basic call functionality.

For now I'm running off an SD card without encryption. (I don't keep any sensitive info on the phone anyway.) When ready to update my eMMC installation to bookworm, is it a matter of just updating the repositories and running apt-get dist-upgrade? Or is it necessary to do a fresh installation?

My understanding from their blog post is that you don't need a fresh install, just update the repos and upgrade.