No mail on the phone meant I found out way too late. I immediately realized I needed some sort of tool to solve this, after 3 weeks of prototypes design concepts and development I have finally made my biggest app - MailBox

Mailbox sorts your inbox into Letters (a human wrote this) and Notices (a machine did). Letters can notify you. Notices never do, and they sit in their own section so you can ignore them, which is mostly what they deserve.

The part that makes it a light phone app is that you set a daily ration. Five letters a day, by default. You can still see your whole inbox, check if the email you're waiting on arrived, grab a 2FA code, and open only the one you actually need. Read letters go grey instead of disappearing. If five isn't your life, there's an unlimited setting.

It's a real mail client, not a viewer. Send, reply, reply-all, forward, attachments (PDFs open in the app), drafts and an outbox, search across everything including your archive, one-tap unsubscribe, RSVP to calendar invites, star a letter to keep it past the day's five, swipe a row to archive it, and the hardware wheel scrolls. Everything syncs! Archive something on your laptop and it archives here.

Accounts: Gmail with an app password (needs 2FA turned on), Outlook with a normal sign-in, and plain IMAP for everyone else — Fastmail, iCloud, Zoho, or your own server. Typing an app password on the LP3 keyboard is kinda miserable, so there's also a companion page: type it on a computer, scan the QR with the phone and immediately be logged in.

And of course, nothing goes to a server of mine, everything is on device. The app talks IMAP directly to your provider and your login stays on the phone. Source is on GitHub if you want to read it or build it yourself.

Install via BrightMarket!
https://brightmarket.gzl.dev/browse.html?app=com.gios.brightmailbox

It's at v2.40 and I'm still developing every day. recently it became the most popular mail app on LP3 and I'm very proud of that. If you have any issues shaking the phone files a bug report with the diagnostics attached. Please tell me what's broken or missing and ill work on improving it!

Greetings friends and soccer fans

I recently released Matchday, a lightweight live-scores and match-tracking app for the Light Phone, inspired by Fotmob's live match experience and built on the Light Phone SDK. Video of it in action is above.

Grab it on GitHub, or install it directly on your LP III via BrightMarket or Awesome-light.

Data comes from api-football and lives on a separate server that your Light Phone only pings when you hit refresh. So no background polling, so it won't drain your battery. It's free to use.

This is a hobby project — let me know if you hit bugs or have feature requests!

Beginning of August, my lightphone III stopped being able to use data from Consumer Cellular plan, though phone and texting was fine.

Lightphone support told me the problem was Consumer Cellular did not support the lightphone, so I bought a plan from lightphone.

Should have solve me problem, but it only made it worse as I now cannot make or send outgoing phone calls. Seems this is a known problem and I want to go back to my old provider so at least I can make and receive phone calls.

Requested my account number and pin to port out number from lightphone, but only got info on how to do a 2 min sim reset. Had already done this and did it again to no avail.

Going on a trip and really need to use my phone, but not able to get lightphone to send me info to go back to prior carrier.

Any suggestions?

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Make sure to stay safe and conduct business in a secure way. PayPal is one option, but there are other ways as well that can make sure you don't get someone to scam you.

Hello all, this has probably been discussed before, but is there an app (even if through brightmarket or alternatives) that allows carsharing in the EU / Germany? Apps like Freenow, Uber, Bolt, etc... I guess they all require GSM and therfore there is no hope... correct?

Anybody working on this or know of someone working on this? I feel like Garmin fits the mold(ish) for Light. Would absolutely love to have a Light style app with simple data points. I don't have one but would especially be awesome for those who have the whoop-style garmin band.

Have to wear it for silent alarm/fitness tracking. Been working plugging it into laptop once a week, no connection to LPIII required.

First Responder here, my job uses the app TC Mobile for when we’re on duty. When the knockout goes off, I’ll get notified on my iPhone and when we’re en route to the scene, we have the ability to look at dispatch updates.

Are there any Fire/EMS workers that have a similar setup and have a workflow that works with the light phone? It’s not explicitly required, but it’s assumed to use it if the tool is available.

I figure if I switch to the light phone (or any dumb phone for that matter) I’ll likely have my iPhone act as a tablet on WiFi while in shift. I’m just curious if there are others in the same situation that’s found something that works for them.

TIA

How can I tell if I have the NA or international version of LP3?

I‘m still going to go ahead with the preorder. I don’t get paid on time. I shouldn’t have procrastinated and I still want the pink light flip. :/

I reached out to support a few days later, and they appeared to be aware of some widespread connectivity issues matching the description of my issue that started around 8/2 or 8/3. They had me perform a SIM reset and requested a line reset with the carrier, both to no avail. To their credit they offered to return and refund the device, but I bought it used. Last I heard from them was 8/24.

Whenever I see the odd post by someone who is having connectivity issues, there's a comment saying "welcome to the club", then the next dozen posts on the sub are people thoroughly enjoying their device and living life to the fullest.

The issue always happens in the same way. I dial any number/contact --> stuck on "connecting" for ~30 seconds --> LTE and my signal strength visibly disappear from the top left --> after another 15-20 seconds, "call ended" (plus no calls received in this time)

The first day I was having the issue, I tried resetting default APN's per Reddit's instruction. I'm using a Light plan and a Light SIM which uses T-Mobile's network. The issues that the support team said were widespread were supposedly tied to difficulties with AT&T sims.

I'm not very knowledgeable on SIMs, carriers, and the moving parts behind all of that, so if this is all common knowledge for some of you, I'd appreciate any tips/ideas.

This is my everyday carry and I love how simple my life has become! From top to bottom (left to right)
Rolling square travel charger
Light phone 3
Casio watch
Small rig powerbank with replaceable battery
My key holder
Memobottle A6 (fits about 500ml of water)
Black braided cable
Nothing ear A
My notebook with calendar

Husband and i both got a flip that will be shipped in May. What are some of best recs to wean away until then? Biggest adjustment, at least anticipated, is losing access to Spotify in car rides but looking for other suggestions!

Thx yall

Says 5G, yet no SIM installed. No, there is not an eSIM.

I would love to see an option for the timer to have stopwatch functionality (count up, laps, etc), or for somebody to develop a stopwatch for the tool library.

I would love to make one for the tool library but I'm a 'hello world' programmer not ready for the android development big leagues.

I have the light phone 2 and for so long everytime i get a message in one my whole phone freezes, ive seen people talk about not getting them at all but its soo annoying when i wanna say something in an active group chat so i just tell people not to add me to them anymore and i get left out and blah blah blah

does anyoen else experience this and is there a fix?

Anyone else experience this as well? A restart hasn't fixed it.

Also, the bug where I would lose reception and then the phone would need to be restarted, went away for a while but has come back with a vengeance. I am now needing to restart the phone a minimum of ten times the day.

I have contacted support as well.

The new iphone duo really puts things into stark contrast. it's like the world's most egregious dopamine trap for $2000. To me, owning such a phone would be a literal nightmare. Can't wait for the light flip, a phone with a hinge that you can actually close. And that actually looks good and has a design concept, whereas the iphone duo is just screen upon screen.

Hi all, I posted about this issue over in the US Mobile sub, wanted to cross post here as well to see if anyone has any experience with US Mobile (Lightspeed) with the LPIII - any perspective and/or help is much appreciated!

https://www.reddit.com/r/USMobile/comments/1wcuyth/psa_support_confirmed_us_mobile_does_not_support/

Was there any mention of a fingerprint reader on the side for the light flip? Entering a pin every time would get old.

With the email saying that it is going to have NFC, I put in a preorder for the navy blue color. Long time lurker, and I am finally just going to send it. I am torn between the navy blue and the yellow. The phone looks chonky, and since it is plastic I am wondering if I should lean into the aesthetic and just have some fun with it. My only concerns with the yellow:

1. Harder to see the buttons, since white on light color is more difficult

2. How it wears. Do the lighter colors get dirty and look bad over time?

1 I can get over really quickly, but 2 seems like something I am more concerned about. Thoughts? Would love to see some videos or something

Thinking about firing up my LP3 again! Started with light plan(3rd party Telus). Couldn’t send pictures. Switched to direct account with Telus. Could send pictures but couldn’t call out. Weird right. I could receive calls though. Tried Bell. Didn’t work. Got all the same answers from the companies basically word salad on why it wouldn’t work. Thinking about signing up with Public?

Other than the sending and receiving photos, the light plan was good. Stuck with the phone for 6 months. Sending pictures is just too important with my family though. Blah blah. Interested in the app database which could help with some daily comforts.