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Question for any US-based PinePhone aficionados: what carrier are you using (where/how did you get a SIM card)? I recently got an ATT pre-paid SIM (that I was
by jlkuester7 4y ago
Question for any US-based PinePhone aficionados: what carrier are you using (where/how did you get a SIM card)?
I recently got an ATT pre-paid SIM (that I was planning on putting in an Android phone eventually). I thought I would give it a try in the PinePhone just to see what happens and found that it would not activate... (Note that this was just a normal pre-paid SIM direct from ATT and not from some 3rd-party MNVO that might require an app to activate. When I eventually installed the SIM in the Android phone it was able to activate as expected without installing any apps).
- unpixer 4y agoStock AT&T SIM. Been using it for over a year, has never not worked, but based on what I see online YMMV.
- increscent 4y agoI use US Mobile (https://www.usmobile.com https://www.usmobile.com). They're an MVNO on the T-Mobile and Verizon networks. I use their T-Mobile offering because I couldn't get MMS to work on Verizon. To fetch MMS, I use the T-Mobile APN (fast.t-mobile.com) instead of US Mobile's APN.
- therein 4y agoNot sure if there is anything against changing your IMEI to the IMEI of another device you own and purposefully break to avoid any future network collusion. Either way, since they have a Queltec modem, just write AT+EGMR=1,7,“NEWIMEI” over tty to the modem and your IMEI is permanently changed. This means your carrier will provision your device on their network.
- hcal 4y agoI use t-mobile. The SIM they sent me worked out of the box.
- Arnavion 4y agoSame, but through an MVNO (Ting). This way I don't have my details leaked in T-Mobile's annual data breach. General info is documented at https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Carrier_Support https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Carrier_Support