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Talk:PinePhone Carrier Support

2021-05-13T17:25:29Z

Daniel972: /* The Middle East Carrier section missing in Main wiki. */

== T-Mobile / Sprint ==

Hey so now that TMobile owns sprint or the other way around does that mean we can use it on that network now ??? Any body know [[User:Trk2233|Trk2233]] ([[User talk:Trk2233|talk]]) 03:07, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

-- At the moment, T-Mobile is offering all Sprint customers replacement SIM cards to switch over from Sprint band 42 to [https://www.frequencycheck.com/carriers/t-mobile-united-states T-Mobile Band 12]. Sprint customers will still retain the same Sprint website/account/login info. T-Mobile lists PinePhone as [https://www.frequencycheck.com/carrier-compatibility/nO1yTX/xiaomi-redmi-7a-standard-edition-dual-sim-td-lte-16gb-cn-m1903c3ee-m1903c3ec-xiaomi-pine/t-mobile-united-states "Xianomi Pine" ].
[[User:Egberts|Egberts]] ([[User talk:Egberts|talk]]) 03:07, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

== Carrier Support in Australia ==

Just wanted to add this somewhere because I couldn't find this info anywhere and took a punt ordering one, without knowing if it would work!! I'm not sure how to incorporate it properly because this breaks wiki style rules and I am new to Pine64 culture

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I am using a PinePhone in regional Victoria with Amaysim, and SMS worked. Phone picked up 2G, 3G and 4G (haven't tested mobile data). Phone calls worked with scratchy sound. An OS crash caused some glitches (lost the call but it was still connected somehow...) - but the issues were just software issues that will be worked out as the OS matures, the hardware seems to all work fine.

Amaysim uses the Optus 4G network - in Australia, there are three main networks (Telstra, Optus, Vodafone) and the others generally resell access to either of those two.

Amaysim says that the Optus network uses: 700MHz; 1800MHz; 2100MHz; and 2600MHz.
see https://www.amaysim.com.au/help/mobile/getting-started/is-my-device-compatible

There's an extra step to connect to a "hotspot" in order to use mobile data - there are separate hotspots for "iPhone" and "non-iPhone". Choose the non-iPhone one. (see here: https://www.amaysim.com.au/help/mobile/getting-started/manage-internet-settings-mobile-phone )

</blockquote>

[[User:Tawnyfrogmouth|Tawnyfrogmouth]] ([[User talk:Tawnyfrogmouth|talk]]) 09:33, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

== Cricket dropping support for 3G and PinePhone in general ==

I tried to get in contact with Cricket to activate my PinePhone with them and they are not supporting any new devices that do not support Cricket's High Definition Voice network. This is a very recent change that was made. Current users (including PinePhone users I presume) using Cricket will be supported until February 2022 when they depreciate it entirely. Attempting to swap an existing SIM card into a PinePhone will deactivate the line entirely and it will have to be reactivated by Cricket support.

Other users have been able to reproduce this issue: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12897&highlight=cricket. [[User:Hyperdriveguy|Hyperdriveguy]] ([[User talk:Hyperdriveguy|talk]]) 03:17, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

== The Middle East Carrier section missing in Main wiki. ==

I live in Tel Aviv, Israel. I received my Pinephone on May 7 -21.
I Successfully replaced Manjaro (untested) with a flaky alpha stage Sxmo yesterday, May 12 -21.

I have so far tried 3 different Carriers that registered with repeated flooding of UTF-8 error messages on Sxmo. into full reception bars. (Hebrew is generally Iso 8859 or similar charset)

I called My Pinephone from a fourth virtual network carrier SIM on an older Samsung Galaxy that I left untested for reasons of keeping SIM integrity.intact.

Sxmo will show an incoming call number as notification on top of page covering the notification bar completely.

(No ring signal. Only vibrator works. albeit speaker passed postmarketOS factory test repeatedly earlier.)

-Asking the user in fine print if user wants to pick up the incoming call. Sxmo will then fail to answer the call with a permission denied error. Sxmo will later show you a reminder of missed calls.

The three Carrier SIM cards that registred and received an incoming notification ok are:

Cellcom prepaid Israel, (A main 4g network developer and operator)

Golan Telecom. (A virtual network carrier and operator.)

Partner, former Orange, Israel (and another main 4g operator.)

Remaining SIM cards for now to be tested are HOT mobile prepaid. and 019 prepaid I simply forgot that I had them.

Talk:PinePhone Carrier Support

2021-05-13T17:21:13Z

Daniel972: /* The Middle East Carrier section missing in Main wiki. */ new section

== T-Mobile / Sprint ==

Hey so now that TMobile owns sprint or the other way around does that mean we can use it on that network now ??? Any body know [[User:Trk2233|Trk2233]] ([[User talk:Trk2233|talk]]) 03:07, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

-- At the moment, T-Mobile is offering all Sprint customers replacement SIM cards to switch over from Sprint band 42 to [https://www.frequencycheck.com/carriers/t-mobile-united-states T-Mobile Band 12]. Sprint customers will still retain the same Sprint website/account/login info. T-Mobile lists PinePhone as [https://www.frequencycheck.com/carrier-compatibility/nO1yTX/xiaomi-redmi-7a-standard-edition-dual-sim-td-lte-16gb-cn-m1903c3ee-m1903c3ec-xiaomi-pine/t-mobile-united-states "Xianomi Pine" ].
[[User:Egberts|Egberts]] ([[User talk:Egberts|talk]]) 03:07, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

== Carrier Support in Australia ==

Just wanted to add this somewhere because I couldn't find this info anywhere and took a punt ordering one, without knowing if it would work!! I'm not sure how to incorporate it properly because this breaks wiki style rules and I am new to Pine64 culture

<blockquote>

I am using a PinePhone in regional Victoria with Amaysim, and SMS worked. Phone picked up 2G, 3G and 4G (haven't tested mobile data). Phone calls worked with scratchy sound. An OS crash caused some glitches (lost the call but it was still connected somehow...) - but the issues were just software issues that will be worked out as the OS matures, the hardware seems to all work fine.

Amaysim uses the Optus 4G network - in Australia, there are three main networks (Telstra, Optus, Vodafone) and the others generally resell access to either of those two.

Amaysim says that the Optus network uses: 700MHz; 1800MHz; 2100MHz; and 2600MHz.
see https://www.amaysim.com.au/help/mobile/getting-started/is-my-device-compatible

There's an extra step to connect to a "hotspot" in order to use mobile data - there are separate hotspots for "iPhone" and "non-iPhone". Choose the non-iPhone one. (see here: https://www.amaysim.com.au/help/mobile/getting-started/manage-internet-settings-mobile-phone )

</blockquote>

[[User:Tawnyfrogmouth|Tawnyfrogmouth]] ([[User talk:Tawnyfrogmouth|talk]]) 09:33, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

== Cricket dropping support for 3G and PinePhone in general ==

I tried to get in contact with Cricket to activate my PinePhone with them and they are not supporting any new devices that do not support Cricket's High Definition Voice network. This is a very recent change that was made. Current users (including PinePhone users I presume) using Cricket will be supported until February 2022 when they depreciate it entirely. Attempting to swap an existing SIM card into a PinePhone will deactivate the line entirely and it will have to be reactivated by Cricket support.

Other users have been able to reproduce this issue: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12897&highlight=cricket. [[User:Hyperdriveguy|Hyperdriveguy]] ([[User talk:Hyperdriveguy|talk]]) 03:17, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

== The Middle East Carrier section missing in Main wiki. ==

I live in Tel Avi, Israel. I received my Pinephone on May 7 -21.
I Successfully replaced Manjaro (untested) with a flaky alpha stage Sxmo yesterday, May 12 -21.

I have so far tried 3 different Carriers that registered with repeated flooding of UTF-8 error messages on Sxmo. into full reception bars. (Hebrew is generally Iso 8859 or similar charset)

I called My Pinephone from a fourth virtual network carrier SIM on an older Samsung Galaxy that I left untested for reasons of keeping SIM integrity.intact.

Sxmo will show an incoming call number as notification on top of page covering the notification bar completely.

(No ring signal. Only vibrator works. albeit speaker passed postmarketOS factory test repeatedly earlier.)

-Asking the user in fine print if user wants to pick up the incoming call. Sxmo will then fail to answer the call with a permission denied error. Sxmo will later show you a reminder of missed calls.

The three Carrier SIM cards that registred and received an incoming notification ok are:

Cellcom prepaid Israel, (A main 4g network developer and operator)

Golan Telecom. (A virtual network carrier and operator.)

Partner, former Orange, Israel (and another main 4g operator.)

Remaining SIM cards for now to be tested are HOT mobile prepaid. and 019 prepaid I simply forgot that I had them.

User talk:Daniel972

2021-05-09T14:51:13Z

Daniel972:

== My Pinephone B.E. First impressions + Charge attempt. ==

My new Pinephone unlike the replacement screen I received by mail, is clean and without scratches and peaces of sand under the protection film. I notice that the screen protector that is fitted in an arbitrary angle towards the LCD is much narrower than the screen itself. I try the soft cover I received and it doesn't reach up to the glass edge, leaving the LCD completely unprotected in a fall. The soft case hase a loose fit and gives a feel like the phone might slip out any second. The hard case has a much better fit, but doesnt protect the LCD either.

Trying to be a good beta tester I read the guick start guide, where the claim is that you need a 15W+ charger which is much beefier than I have seen for Li Ione batteries of this calibre. The best I have is the Fully charged 10000 mAh Power Bank that I regularly use for my Galaxy J7. I attach the red USB-C cord that came with the Pine phone.

Because of bad previous experiences, and because of failing to understand the philosophy behind Manjaro and K desktop , I avoid pressing the ON button.

Also I turn off all the DIP switches and release the tab from the battery. Then I connect the charger. Now my expected outcome of plugging a charger to a new electronic device is to see a (yellow?) charging LED light up in a steady blinking manor. The LED color red in steady shine to me generally indicate serious malfunction of some sort.

The outcome: First a few seconds of nothing. Then a steady shining red LED. for a few seconds. After that the phone vibrates as if to say. Hi this is a Samsung Booting. The LED changes color to yellowish and then goes out while I chockingly watch the ugly white K Desktop animation appear on a black LCD background. After a few seconds of this a Samsungish home screen background appears with the words "welcome" printed over an arrow to click on.

This is where I turn the phone of by forcefully holding the power button in for a bout 5 seconds.

I repeat the procedure once more with the same boot-up result. To confirm that this is general boot behavior, I also press the power button without the charger plugged in. Pine64 claims to only assure warranty on hardware and not on software. According to nightly Telegram messaging battery charging is not performed with a micro controller, but part of the Operating system distros, and we all know the challenges that they are all facing at the moment. Also apparent accordingly: If no OS image is present then Battery will not charge. If battery is empty. and no OS is there. the phone will appear as faulty. I fail to understand how a Pine64 can leave the battery charging of a development phone with an arbitrary OS boot up to whoever decides is the coolest way to charge it. Isnt the hardware all supposed to be part of the same package?

User talk:Daniel972

2021-05-09T14:47:25Z

Daniel972: /* My Pinephone B.E. First impressions + Charge attempt. */

My new Pinephone unlike the replacement screen I received by mail, is clean and without scratches and peaces of sand under the protection film. I notice that the screen protector that is fitted in an arbitrary angle towards the LCD is much narrower than the screen itself. I try the soft cover I received and it doesn't reach up to the glass edge, leaving the LCD completely unprotected in a fall. The soft case hase a loose fit and gives a feel like the phone might slip out any second.
The hard case has a much better fit, but doesnt protect the LCD either.

Trying to be a good beta tester I read the guick start guide, where the claim is that you need a 15W+ charger which is much beefier than I have seen for Li Ione batteries of this calibre. The best I have is the Fully charged 10000 mAh Power Bank that I regularly use for my Galaxy J7. I attach the red USB-C cord that came with the Pine phone.

Because of bad previous experiences, and because of failing to understand the philosophy behind Manjaro and K desktop , I avoid pressing the ON button.

Also I turn off all the DIP switches and release the tab from the battery.
Then I connect the charger.
Now my expected outcome of plugging a charger to a new electronic device is to see a (yellow?) charging LED light up in a steady blinking manor.
The LED color red in steady shine to me generally indicate serious malfunction of some sort.

The outcome:
First a few seconds of nothing.
Then a steady shining red LED. for a few seconds.
After that the phone vibrates as if to say. Hi this is a Samsung Booting. The LED changes color to yellowish and then goes out while I chockingly watch the ugly white K Desktop animation appear on a black LCD background. After a few seconds of this a Samsungish home screen background appears with the words "welcome" printed over an arrow to click on.

This is where I turn the phone of by forcefully holding the power button in for a bout 5 seconds.

I repeat the procedure once more with the same boot-up result. To confirm that this is general boot behavior, I also press the power button without the charger plugged in.
Pine64 claims to only assure warranty on hardware and not on software. According to nightly Telegram messaging battery charging is not performed with a micro controller, but part of the Operating system distros, and we all know the challenges that they are all facing at the moment.
Also apparent accordingly:
If no OS image is present then Battery will not charge. If battery is empty. and no OS is there. the phone will appear as faulty.
I fail to understand how a Pine64 can leave the battery charging of a development phone with an arbitrary OS boot up to whoever decides is the coolest way to charge it. Isnt the hardware all supposed to be part of the same package?

== My Pinephone B.E. First impressions + Charge attempt. ==

My new Pinephone unlike the replacement screen I received by mail, is clean and without scratches and peaces of sand under the protection film. I notice that the screen protector that is fitted in an arbitrary angle towards the LCD is much narrower than the screen itself. I try the soft cover I received and it doesn't reach up to the glass edge, leaving the LCD completely unprotected in a fall. The soft case hase a loose fit and gives a feel like the phone might slip out any second. The hard case has a much better fit, but doesnt protect the LCD either.

Trying to be a good beta tester I read the guick start guide, where the claim is that you need a 15W+ charger which is much beefier than I have seen for Li Ione batteries of this calibre. The best I have is the Fully charged 10000 mAh Power Bank that I regularly use for my Galaxy J7. I attach the red USB-C cord that came with the Pine phone.

Because of bad previous experiences, and because of failing to understand the philosophy behind Manjaro and K desktop , I avoid pressing the ON button.

Also I turn off all the DIP switches and release the tab from the battery. Then I connect the charger. Now my expected outcome of plugging a charger to a new electronic device is to see a (yellow?) charging LED light up in a steady blinking manor. The LED color red in steady shine to me generally indicate serious malfunction of some sort.

The outcome: First a few seconds of nothing. Then a steady shining red LED. for a few seconds. After that the phone vibrates as if to say. Hi this is a Samsung Booting. The LED changes color to yellowish and then goes out while I chockingly watch the ugly white K Desktop animation appear on a black LCD background. After a few seconds of this a Samsungish home screen background appears with the words "welcome" printed over an arrow to click on.

This is where I turn the phone of by forcefully holding the power button in for a bout 5 seconds.

I repeat the procedure once more with the same boot-up result. To confirm that this is general boot behavior, I also press the power button without the charger plugged in. Pine64 claims to only assure warranty on hardware and not on software. According to nightly Telegram messaging battery charging is not performed with a micro controller, but part of the Operating system distros, and we all know the challenges that they are all facing at the moment. Also apparent accordingly: If no OS image is present then Battery will not charge. If battery is empty. and no OS is there. the phone will appear as faulty. I fail to understand how a Pine64 can leave the battery charging of a development phone with an arbitrary OS boot up to whoever decides is the coolest way to charge it. Isnt the hardware all supposed to be part of the same package?

User talk:Daniel972

2021-05-09T14:45:19Z

Daniel972: /* My Pinephone B.E. First impressions + Charge attempt. */ new section

User talk:Daniel972

2021-05-09T14:17:32Z

Daniel972:

User talk:Daniel972

2021-05-09T14:01:29Z

Daniel972: My Pinephone:First glance and Charger connect.

User:Daniel972

2021-05-09T12:43:47Z

Daniel972: The new era is here. Lets make it ours and not theirs.

Hi. I am Daniel Grynvald aged 56. I live in Israel.

I ordered a Pinephone from Hongkong on April 8. Recieved by me by pickup at DHL Airport City Tel Aviv May 7.Shipping and Delivery was not smooth and added another US$ 128 to the price of this new development hardware.
My reasons for ordering an experimental electronic linux device are many.
These posh Electronic glass soaps are the new yokes that we have to carry around in a creepy new brave world.
They do our ID-ing our health, Banking, finances travel, dating, and many times daily work.
I am writing this on my Samsung Galaxy. I hope soon to switch to write it on my Pine phone, and or other Pine64 devices.
I am not here as another Tech nerd or Gaming fanatic. I want to peek at these devices from a normal globalized citizens perspective. Gender inclusive

User:Daniel972

2021-05-09T12:37:55Z

Daniel972: A new era has dawned on us. Lets try to make it ours.

Hi. I am Daniel Grynvald aged 56. I live in Israel.

I ordered a Pinephone from Hongkong on April 8. Recieved by me by pickup at DHL Airport City Tel Aviv May 7.Shipping and Delivery was not smooth and added another US$ 128 to the price of this new development hardware.
My reasons for ordering an experimental electronic linux device are many.
These posh Electronic glass soaps are the new yokes that we have to carry around in a creepy new brave world.
They do our ID-ing our health, Banking, finances travel, dating, and many times daily work.
I am writing this on my Samsung Galaxy. I hope soon to switch to write it on my Pine phone, and or other Pine64 devices.
I am not here as another Tech nerd or Gaming fanaticd. I want to look at these devices from a normal globalized citizens perspective.