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Have Purism solved the problem where it will randomly burn through an entire battery charge in an hour? That basically makes it a non-option for the overwhelmi
by nvy 3y ago
Have Purism solved the problem where it will randomly burn through an entire battery charge in an hour?
That basically makes it a non-option for the overwhelming majority of people, and it was still an issue 6 months ago.
I really want to like the Librem but it's hard to justify the price tag when you're going to have to carry another phone around with you anyway.
- Hackbraten 3y agoI use a Librem 5 as my daily driver without carrying a second phone around. The battery thing is not an issue for me in practice. I carry a spare battery (they're swappable), but I never actually need it because there's USB-C chargers everywhere I go, and I made it a habit to plug it in whenever I can.
- nvy 3y agoLook, no offense but it sounds like the battery thing is an issue for you in practice, as evidenced by the fact that you carry a spare battery and plug it into a charger multiple times per day. A phone should adapt to your lifestyle. You should not have to adapt your lifestyle to your phone.
- fsflover 3y agoLinux phones can't benefit from 10 years of software optimizations for the battery life, so yes. However it's good enough for non-heavy usage already.
- fsflover 3y agoI don't have such issue. The battery is sufficient for one day unless I use the phone heavily. Edit: Actually it did happen when I opened a Firefox tab with a heavy js and left it open with deactivated suspend, which you shouldn't do on any phone (and even then it's more than a couple of hours).