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Anyone happen to run pmos on an fp4? I'm considering flashing mine and would like to know what "partial" means specifically in the context of calls. I do need a telephone occasionally and would like to know which limitations I'm dealing with.
Also in regards to audio.
I'm running it. Unfortunately "partial" in this context means: audio calls go through (i can answer to a friends call and vice versa) but there is no functioning audio. I'm on pmOS edge branch. Speakers altogether started working just a couple of months ago. development is done mainly by a single guy, Luca Weiss, and is done mostly on fp5 AFAIK which then bleeds to fp4. Fp5 is in a daily usable status (again, AFAIK) but I wouldn't call fp4 as a daily driver. (still, I'm stubborn, and using it.) fp4 most crucially has broken audio on calls (voip calls work AFAIK) and a broken camera.
Thanks. Camera is also listed as partial. Sounds like audio is not one thing, but multiple. Does that affect headsets as well?
audio is only broken on sim phone calls. Otherwise audio works (audio stack is different from the usual pipewire/alsa stack) and that means that bluetooth devices work too. I just played music on a bluetooth speaker from youtube, works flawlessly. And the device speaker also works. But it's something to do with audio calls that, I think, makes it so that audio is routed somehow via the modem or smth, so it takes a bit more time to get working. But as I see it, I think we're not so far from fully functioning calls.
And about the camera. It works technically, but image quality is unacceptable (it's got this greenish effect), and zoom/focus doesnt work. But technically i've been able to capture images with it, and you can make out e.g. letters from a document, if you take a picture of one.
The camera would strictly speaking probably be good enough, as long as it can decode the odd qr code. Although it would be inconvenient.
But do I understand you correctly, that I can call and be called, but not hear and be heard? That must be the most technically correct definition of partial support anyone could come up with. I assume the use of a headset make no difference here, and neither does WiFi calling, as either would still have to route audio to the modem's audio sink, which we don't know how top talk to.
Yes you've understood correctly. :) You can call, and the other one gets the call, can be answered, the connection happens, but audio doesn't work. And yeah, the use of headset/bluetooth devices doesn't help here, because yeah I think that the problem is routing the audio via the modem. That was something I glanced on their matrix channel, I'm not a developer myself, just an enthusiast.