Gnome keyring storing SIM pin is kind of needed for daily driving due to modem locking it again

Describe your issue

Sadly, it seems like the modem occasionally locking the SIM again during the day (maybe due to eg25-manager restarts) with zero warning, no notifications, nor anything else is still pretty common. With a SIM card with a pin this however means that the PinePhone just randomly goes into unreachable without any way of being aware, until the user notices through sheer luck and re-enters the pin. It would therefore be desirable if the gnome keyring could be used to store the pin so I'm not forced to choose between SIM card completely unsecured without any pin or completely unreliable reachability.

What's the expected behaviour?

SIM card modal dialog has a checkbox which offers saving the pin in the keyring so I don't need to enter it next time.

What's the current behaviour?

I need to re-enter the SIM pin each time, including to fix completely unattended, unnoticed resets of the SIM to locked during the day.

How to reproduce your issue?

Disable & re-enable modem to see SIM locked. You'll always need to press "unlock" and enter the PIN manually, this is what should become avoidable with Gnome keyring suppport.

What device are you using?

PinePhone, some post-manjaro edition

On what postmarketOS version did you encounter the issue?

• edge (master branch)
• v21.12

On what environment did you encounter the issue?

Phone environments

• Phosh
• Plasma Mobile
• Sxmo (Wayland/Sway)

Other

• No environment
• GNOME
• KDE Plasma
• Kodi
• MATE
• Shelli
• Sway
• Weston
• Xfce4
• fbkeyboard
• i3wm
• Sxmo (Xorg/Dwm)

How did you get postmarketOS image?

• from https://images.postmarketos.org
• I built it using pmbootstrap
• It was preinstalled on my device

What's the build date of the image? (in yyyy-mm-dd format)

sorry, i don't recall

Additional information

added device-pine64-pinephone release-v21.12 ui-phosh + 1 deleted label

There seems to be a stalled upstream pull request to solve this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/merge_requests/216 I'm sadly not entirely sure what the hold up is

By Ellie on 2022-02-10T19:42:54

removed release-v21.12 label

added release-edge release-v22.06 labels

v21.12 is EOL, but this is still the case in v22.06 and edge. It would be quite useful to have this implemented!

By Oliver Smith on 2022-07-12T06:50:03

mentioned in issue #1767

By Ellie on 2022-10-25T13:27:35

removed release-v22.06 label

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assigned to @pabloyoyoista

By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-04-10T08:31:40

removed release-v23.12 label

added category::ui ui-gnome labels

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added type::feature label

I'll see if I can spend some time on this upstream. The development of gnome-settings-daemon is strongly limited by maintainer availability, so they need a bit of a ping from time to time. I'll see if I can rebase upstream and ask for the favor. Also, this is not a device-specific feature, but would be beneficial for everybody, so simply unlocking the keyring gives you the SIM password

By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-04-10T17:25:01