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- <!DOCTYPE html><head><meta charset="utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" /><meta name="keywords" content="GNU, Emacs, Libre Software, Hurd, Guile, Guix" /><meta name="description" content="GNUcode.me is a website focusing on libre software projects, especially the GNU project." /><link type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="GNUcode.me -- Feed" href="/feed.xml" /><a rel="me" href="https://fosstodon.org/@thegnuguy"></a><link type="text/css" href="css/footer.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link><link type="text/css" href="css/header.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link><link type="text/css" href="css/main.min.css" rel="stylesheet"></link><title>The PinePhone Mostly Works — GNUcode.me</title></head><body><header><nav><ul><li><a href="index.html">GNUcode.me</a></li><li><a href="services.html">Services</a></li><li><a href="business-ideas.html">Business-ideas</a></li><li><a href="about.html">About</a></li></ul></nav></header><h1>The PinePhone Mostly Works</h1><main><section class="basic-section-padding"><article><h3>by Joshua Branson — March 02, 2022</h3><div><p>So I now have some more issues with the PinePhone. Namely, my phone no longer
- receives SMS text messages. I used to be able to use the PinePhone as a simple
- dump phone that supported calls and texts. But about a month ago, when I wrote
- <a href="https://gnucode.me/the-pinephone-works.html">The PinePhone works</a>, suddenly my
- PinePhone stopped receiving SMS text messages. I can still send SMS texts, but
- I no longer receieve them, which
- is weird.</p><p>I thought I might be able to fix it, if I installed the reversed engineered and
- nearly free custom firmware for the PinePhone’s modem (You can find this
- modem on “Biktorgj” github account). It was actually super easy to
- install said open source modem:</p><pre><code>wget https://whatever/the/path/to/download/github/is
- tar xzvf package.tar.gz
- su
- ./flashall</code></pre><p>When I ran the <code>./flashall</code> script, the modem disappeared from the task bar, and
- a few moments later it reappeared. I also followed most of the instructions for
- the recommened settings for the modem on the github page. I will say that the
- call volume is a little low, but I have always thought that was the case.</p><p>Work is ok with me having a phone that only supports calls for now, but I do
- feel annoyed that I used to have a phone that works as well as a dumb phone, and
- now I do not seem to have that. I suppose that I will have to post in the
- PinePhone forum and Mobian forum and get some advice. Other possible solutions
- include moving to a different cellular provider. AT&T is one of the reccomended
- providers, and it costs about 30 dollars a month.</p><p>It might also not be a bad idea to edit the official PinePhone wiki and mention
- that Tello is a fairly cheap provider (the cheapest that I could find), provided
- you are ok with just calls. I think the Tello SIM card only cost me $1.</p></div></article></section></main><footer><p>© 2020 Joshua Branson. The text on this site is free culture under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International license.</p><p>This website is build with Haunt, a static site generator written in Guile Scheme. Source code is <a href="https://notabug.org/jbranso/gnucode.me">available.</a></p><p>The color theme of this website is based off of the famous <a href="#3f3f3f" target="_blank">zenburn</a> theme.</p></footer></body>
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