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  1. <!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="about.html">About</a></li><li><a href="business-ideas.html">Business-ideas</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
  2. receives SMS text messages. I used to be able to use the PinePhone as a simple
  3. dump phone that supported calls and texts. But about a month ago, when I wrote
  4. <a href="https://gnucode.me/the-pinephone-works.html">The PinePhone works</a>, suddenly my
  5. PinePhone stopped receiving SMS text messages. I can still send SMS texts, but
  6. I no longer receieve them, which
  7. is weird.</p><p>I thought I might be able to fix it, if I installed the reversed engineered and
  8. nearly free custom firmware for the PinePhone’s modem (You can find this
  9. modem on “Biktorgj” github account). It was actually super easy to
  10. install said open source modem:</p><pre><code>wget https://whatever/the/path/to/download/github/is
  11. tar xzvf package.tar.gz
  12. su
  13. ./flashall</code></pre><p>When I ran the <code>./flashall</code> script, the modem disappeared from the task bar, and
  14. a few moments later it reappeared. I also followed most of the instructions for
  15. the recommened settings for the modem on the github page. I will say that the
  16. 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
  17. feel annoyed that I used to have a phone that works as well as a dumb phone, and
  18. now I do not seem to have that. I suppose that I will have to post in the
  19. PinePhone forum and Mobian forum and get some advice. Other possible solutions
  20. include moving to a different cellular provider. AT&amp;T is one of the reccomended
  21. 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
  22. that Tello is a fairly cheap provider (the cheapest that I could find), provided
  23. 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>