I got lucky with my last round. I sunk quite a few hours into it before boxing it back up and was about to return it. I then read about inserting a blank sim and turning data on. I didn’t have a blank sim handy so I tried my active sim, and it worked. Got the OEM unlock and then ‘fastboot flashing unlock’ worked.
In case you try just to see, my steps were: Inserted sim, turned mobile data on, rebooted, ungreyed OEM unlock, switched it, put the phone into fastboot mode, connected to laptop via usb and ran ‘fastboot flashing unlock’
Due the 24th. Very soon, seeming like it might be early. Might have been the perfect time for the company I was working for to tank, in that way. I have some money saved, so we’ll be good until I find something else.
I’m going to swerve going Linux phone at the moment, turns out that Ubuntu Touch doesn’t have a fully featured, stable email app yet. I would have thought there’d have been a bit of a choice by now.
I got another phone with the intention of installing UT on it before learning of that bombshell, just going to install LineageOS with microG again on it. But I need to wait 168 hours for the bootloader to unlock because of Xiaomi rules. Ho di hum.
I guess it is installed by default in Manjaro Gnome, but Pulseaudio is enabled by default instead of Pipewire. Interesting. I didn’t even think to look if it was installed yet. It wasn’t installed by default in Manjaro XFCE, but it works well there after uninstalling Pulseaudio. I’ll have to remove Pulseaudio tomorrow and see how it goes.
Pipewire seems to be working fine in Manjaro Gnome. Just in case anyone needs it, this is what is required: Install ‘manjaro-pipewire’ and any optional dependencies you might like. Uninstall ‘pulseaudio-alsa’. Restart. This was the same as on Manjaro XFCE. Gnome tends to be an ass about some things, so I wasn’t sure if there would be a difference.
Actually, maybe everything isn’t well. When watching video cpu temp shoots up fast. It seems to be a lie though. Playing a video immediately shoots up the temp without time for that to happen.
I have a bit of OS install fatigue at the moment. Lineage OS 19 isn’t as stable on this new phone as 17 was on the last, which was rock solid and zero issue. This time around I’m having to reboot every other day because of slowdowns and every now and then there’s an unresponsive GUI.
Got replacement laptop with proper 90Wh battery and am going to chill on Win 11 before getting Manjaro set up on the 2nd SSD slot.
Gnome is nice, check out some of the extensions too. I like the “Hide Top Bar” one which is just about perfect, but there’s a buglet where it makes the text input box on the big search screen after pressing meta/iwndows key a bit small.