08-27-2021, 11:38 AM
I just installed the latest bookworm updates and also updated to the 5.13 kernel. (I did set screen brightness in rc.local before installing 5.13.)
Doing some quick tests things seem to be working well. The GUI seems to be a bit more responsive and less glitchy. (Also noticed a change in the "Web" icon across the top.) The phone wakes out of sleep for an incoming call very quickly and there is an improved screen for picking up the call without having to log back in. I did not test SMS reception because that's something I don't use.
Video playback is much improved. The "Videos" (Totem) player now works. Video playback quality between that, mpv, and VLC seems to be about the same now. (Previously VLC would hardly work for videos at all, would just display still images while audio played, and Totem would just display an error message.) I've found the VLC interface work the best for controlling playback (nice big buttons for fumbly fingers) so I've set that as my default player for now.
Also interesting is that screen orientation is working in 360 degree rotation. That's a feature I usually keep turned off but I tried it to go widescreen on testing video playback. I could have sworn that the last time I used it the screen would only rotate 90 degrees between portrait and landscape view.
As far as power consumption I have no idea if that's improved or not in the new kernel. I keep the phone turned off most of the time anyway.
So there seems to have been some real improvements made in the last week since I last updated. Kudos to the developers! (Time to make another image backup...)
Doing some quick tests things seem to be working well. The GUI seems to be a bit more responsive and less glitchy. (Also noticed a change in the "Web" icon across the top.) The phone wakes out of sleep for an incoming call very quickly and there is an improved screen for picking up the call without having to log back in. I did not test SMS reception because that's something I don't use.
Video playback is much improved. The "Videos" (Totem) player now works. Video playback quality between that, mpv, and VLC seems to be about the same now. (Previously VLC would hardly work for videos at all, would just display still images while audio played, and Totem would just display an error message.) I've found the VLC interface work the best for controlling playback (nice big buttons for fumbly fingers) so I've set that as my default player for now.
Also interesting is that screen orientation is working in 360 degree rotation. That's a feature I usually keep turned off but I tried it to go widescreen on testing video playback. I could have sworn that the last time I used it the screen would only rotate 90 degrees between portrait and landscape view.
As far as power consumption I have no idea if that's improved or not in the new kernel. I keep the phone turned off most of the time anyway.
So there seems to have been some real improvements made in the last week since I last updated. Kudos to the developers! (Time to make another image backup...)