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Phone calls on New PMOS Community Edition phones - bcnaz - 09-02-2020
Has anyone succeeded in using the new PMOS Community Edition Pine phone to place or receive phone calls or to send & receive sms/text ?
Using the Factory installed operating system...?
Using an alternative operating system... ?
If so what carriers have been tested and working ?
Thanks for sharing
Update :
I received my new PMOS Convergence Pkg phone about 4:00 pm in the afternoon after the above post.
I just did some quick preliminarily tests using an AT&T prepaid sim card, (my sim card needs to be replaced as it does 'connect' to the internet, but will not allow me to 'use' the internet).
First I tried the Post Market that is factory installed, I did the updates, then everything I tried worked.
Both incoming & outgoing voice calls and sms/text works incoming and outgoing.
Using the wifi for web browsing Firefox appears to work slightly better than earlier releases.
The mobile data did 'connect' but I got the AT&T message "it looks like you are trying to connect to the internet, but your account does not have data..."
Then I tried the September 03 nightly release of Mobian, again everything that I tested was working for me, also, same as above for my attempt to connect to the internet.
Both Firefox and the Gnome browser were working fine from the wifi.
I only checked the speaker phone function on Mobian and it did not work.
This test was done with a sd card, but speed was ok, considering....
Both tests were done as a GUI user, just adjusted the usual settings and basic inputs.
So consider this as : "Out of the Box" tests.
NOTE : The first couple of calls on PMOS there was no handset ringtone heard, and no voice/audio ether direction.
But, after that it performed very well.
RE: Phone calls on New PMOS Community Edition phones - ThrillGates - 09-03-2020
(09-02-2020, 06:13 AM)bcnaz Wrote: Has anyone succeeded in using the new PMOS Community Edition Pine phone to place or receive phone calls or to send & receive sms/text ?
Using the Factory installed operating system...?
Using an alternative operating system... ?
If so what carriers have been tested and working ?
Thanks for sharing
I got Tracfone (T-Mobile compatible) working with calls, text, and data in Phoenix, AZ. Voice quality is meh, but everything seems to work. I got so excited that I made a thread about it. I've only tried PMOS so far, but will try Mobian over the weekend if I have time.
RE: Phone calls on New PMOS Community Edition phones - NobodyNew1 - 09-13-2020
My calls aren't great on any of the distros, and its driving me crazy. I don't need apps, per say. I could live with out them, I just want talk and text and for it to better about 2 steps better than now.
RE: Phone calls on New PMOS Community Edition phones - bcnaz - 09-15-2020
(09-13-2020, 09:03 PM)NobodyNew1 Wrote: My calls aren't great on any of the distros, and its driving me crazy. I don't need apps, per say. I could live with out them, I just want talk and text and for it to better about 2 steps better than now.The audio on the sept 15 mobian nightly build seems pretty good, just the ring-tone for out bound calls seems inconsistent, first had to change in settings> sound on output from 'default' to 'phone call'....
still a work in progress.