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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>PinePhone Update — 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="about.html">About</a></li><li><a href="business-ideas.html">Business-ideas</a></li></ul></nav></header><h1>PinePhone Update</h1><main><section class="basic-section-padding"><article><h3>by Joshua Branson — November 02, 2022</h3><div><p>When I was using Mobian GNU/Linux, I had some issues with the PinePhone. Namely,
- my phone no longer received SMS text messages. I switched to <a href="https://postmarketos.org/">PostMarketOS</a>, and
- my issues seemed to have gone away, at least if I keep using the phone as a dumb
- phone. I have disabled wifi on the phone, because I really don’t use it.</p><p>It would be nice if I could get the PinePhone to work well with <a href="https://jmp.chat">JMP.chat</a>, but
- currently the texts from my desktop machine do NOT sync well with the phone. So
- if I use two devices, I end up in a weird situation with out of sync text
- messages, which is really confusing. Plus using the internet on the phone
- drains the battery. So I have just disabled the internet on the phone via the
- hardware kill switches.</p><p>Texting works flawlessly, but I cannot get SMS images. Also the phone volume
- for calls is pretty poor. And sometimes when I make phone calls, I cannot hear
- what the other person is saying. So that is a little odd.</p><p>I highly recommend installing the reversed engineered and nearly <a href="https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk">libre custom
- firmware</a> for the PinePhone’s modem. It was actually <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aokclNgnIbE">super easy to do</a>.</p><p>It might also not be a bad idea to edit the official PinePhone wiki and mention
- that <a href="https://tello.com/">Tello</a> is a fairly cheap provider. I pay them $8 per month and I have no
- data and unlimited calling and texting texts. That’s pretty good.</p><p>That’s the main update for today!</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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