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No IMEI for Braveheart Pinephone? - curtvaughan - 02-10-2020
Forgive me if this has already on the web forums somewhere - I can only find references to topics about changing IMEI, or references to IMEI in conjunction with activating micro-SIM cards on the Pinephone. I have Ubports installed on my Braveheart Pinephone that I received two days ago and got wireless to work with a couple of command line entries and a reboot. I've ordered an ATT compatible micro-SIM card, and once inserted, would like to activate the phone on my pre-paid account with ATT. If I go to att.com/prepaid it looks as if I'll have to supply an IMEI number in order to activate the phone. If I go to "settings>about" to looke for the IEMI number, "None" is listed. Is this really the case? Is there another path to finding out the IMEI of the phone? How can one get around that in order to activate cellular service?
RE: No IMEI for Braveheart Pinephone? - noeman5 - 02-10-2020
(02-10-2020, 12:48 PM)curtvaughan Wrote: Forgive me if this has already on the web forums somewhere - I can only find references to topics about changing IMEI, or references to IMEI in conjunction with activating micro-SIM cards on the Pinephone. I have Ubports installed on my Braveheart Pinephone that I received two days ago and got wireless to work with a couple of command line entries and a reboot. I've ordered an ATT compatible micro-SIM card, and once inserted, would like to activate the phone on my pre-paid account with ATT. If I go to att.com/prepaid it looks as if I'll have to supply an IMEI number in order to activate the phone. If I go to "settings>about" to looke for the IEMI number, "None" is listed. Is this really the case? Is there another path to finding out the IMEI of the phone? How can one get around that in order to activate cellular service?
Hello Curt, once you have a SIm card installed and the modem activated, the IMEI box will show an IMEI. I had the same issue, until I put an old SIM card in and ran the scripts one of the moderators posted about enabling the modem.
RE: No IMEI for Braveheart Pinephone? - kuro - 02-10-2020
The IMEI is also printed inside the back cover on the exposed metal plate.
RE: No IMEI for Braveheart Pinephone? - curtvaughan - 02-10-2020
(02-10-2020, 01:16 PM)noeman5 Wrote:(02-10-2020, 12:48 PM)curtvaughan Wrote: Forgive me if this has already on the web forums somewhere - I can only find references to topics about changing IMEI, or references to IMEI in conjunction with activating micro-SIM cards on the Pinephone. I have Ubports installed on my Braveheart Pinephone that I received two days ago and got wireless to work with a couple of command line entries and a reboot. I've ordered an ATT compatible micro-SIM card, and once inserted, would like to activate the phone on my pre-paid account with ATT. If I go to att.com/prepaid it looks as if I'll have to supply an IMEI number in order to activate the phone. If I go to "settings>about" to looke for the IEMI number, "None" is listed. Is this really the case? Is there another path to finding out the IMEI of the phone? How can one get around that in order to activate cellular service?
Hello Curt, once you have a SIm card installed and the modem activated, the IMEI box will show an IMEI. I had the same issue, until I put an old SIM card in and ran the scripts one of the moderators posted about enabling the modem.
Thanks noeman5! I look forward to trying out the SIM tomorrow for further progress.
RE: No IMEI for Braveheart Pinephone? - curtvaughan - 02-15-2020
(02-10-2020, 01:16 PM)noeman5 Wrote:As a followup - activated and installed a SIM from AT&T (activated by an AT&T store). Sure enough, after activating the modem the IEMI shows up with "About" in settings. Unfortunately, calls still don't work, returning a popup saying "There is currently no network". There are apparently some low level modem commands that may partially be used to get access to the cellular network via the "minicom" package, but I've so far had no useful success using it.(02-10-2020, 12:48 PM)curtvaughan Wrote: Forgive me if this has already on the web forums somewhere - I can only find references to topics about changing IMEI, or references to IMEI in conjunction with activating micro-SIM cards on the Pinephone. I have Ubports installed on my Braveheart Pinephone that I received two days ago and got wireless to work with a couple of command line entries and a reboot. I've ordered an ATT compatible micro-SIM card, and once inserted, would like to activate the phone on my pre-paid account with ATT. If I go to att.com/prepaid it looks as if I'll have to supply an IMEI number in order to activate the phone. If I go to "settings>about" to looke for the IEMI number, "None" is listed. Is this really the case? Is there another path to finding out the IMEI of the phone? How can one get around that in order to activate cellular service?
Hello Curt, once you have a SIm card installed and the modem activated, the IMEI box will show an IMEI. I had the same issue, until I put an old SIM card in and ran the scripts one of the moderators posted about enabling the modem.