When I first got my Pinephone Pro a little over two weeks ago, I removed my T-Mobile SIM card from my old phone, and inserted it in my Pinephone Pro. I enabled mobile data by setting the APN to fast.t-mobile.com in the phone's settings, and I recall that it seemed to work until I also enabled MMS by setting MMSC to http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc in the Spacebar texting program. I was able to send MMSs, but at some point thereafter, data stopped working. Editing/deleting/recreating the APN setting, rebooting, and removing/reinserting the SIM all did not help, so I put the SIM back in my old phone. I was also disappointed that YouTube videos in the Angelfish browser skipped (even over Wi-Fi), and were therefore basically unwatchable/unlistenable. I didn't get a chance to test the Pinephone Pro again until yesterday.
Well yesterday and today... data and MMS suddenly work fine. There are two reception symbols in the status bar, and one has a little "L" on it. I don't know what the "L" stands for, but I presume that symbol is for mobile data, because it gets replaced by a Wi-Fi symbol when Wi-Fi is enabled (which must mean the reception symbol without an L is for regular voice coverage). And YouTube videos suddenly play at 1080p in Angelfish over mobile data and Wi-Fi with no skipping now, which is great. However, on the phone's pull-down quick settings menu, the "Mobile Data" button usually says "Off", even when the "Mobile Data" switch is enabled deeper inside the "Cellular Network" settings, the symbol with the "L" is in the status bar, Wi-Fi is off, and data appears to be working. I'm inclined to chalk that up to Plasma Mobile being buggy (as it has plenty of other UI bugs).
Unfortunately, outgoing voice quality is awful. On a call between the Pinephone Pro with T-Mobile and an iPhone with Metro (which is owned by T-Mobile), the iPhone can be heard fine on the Pinephone Pro, but listening on the iPhone the Pinephone Pro sounds like it's at a harsh noise concert. Yes, this is with muting one microphone or going to separate locations to make sure there is no feedback loop. I'm worried there could be a hardware problem with the Pinephone Pro's microphone, and if so I don't know if the Factory Test Build for Hardware Checking would detect it since the mic technically "works", but I'm going to try running the FTB. Also, the phone died when it said the battery was 33% full.
1) Has anyone else used a Pinephone Pro with T-Mobile in the US, and can you comment on your experience?
2) Might upgrading to biktorgj's custom modem firmware alleviate any of the issues I've experienced?
3) Might changing out Manjaro + Plasma Mobile for Gentoo + Wayland + SXMO alleviate anything?
(My x86 laptop runs Gentoo + Wayland + Sway, and I already have experience cross-compiling for ARM for a Raspberry Pi).
Well yesterday and today... data and MMS suddenly work fine. There are two reception symbols in the status bar, and one has a little "L" on it. I don't know what the "L" stands for, but I presume that symbol is for mobile data, because it gets replaced by a Wi-Fi symbol when Wi-Fi is enabled (which must mean the reception symbol without an L is for regular voice coverage). And YouTube videos suddenly play at 1080p in Angelfish over mobile data and Wi-Fi with no skipping now, which is great. However, on the phone's pull-down quick settings menu, the "Mobile Data" button usually says "Off", even when the "Mobile Data" switch is enabled deeper inside the "Cellular Network" settings, the symbol with the "L" is in the status bar, Wi-Fi is off, and data appears to be working. I'm inclined to chalk that up to Plasma Mobile being buggy (as it has plenty of other UI bugs).
Unfortunately, outgoing voice quality is awful. On a call between the Pinephone Pro with T-Mobile and an iPhone with Metro (which is owned by T-Mobile), the iPhone can be heard fine on the Pinephone Pro, but listening on the iPhone the Pinephone Pro sounds like it's at a harsh noise concert. Yes, this is with muting one microphone or going to separate locations to make sure there is no feedback loop. I'm worried there could be a hardware problem with the Pinephone Pro's microphone, and if so I don't know if the Factory Test Build for Hardware Checking would detect it since the mic technically "works", but I'm going to try running the FTB. Also, the phone died when it said the battery was 33% full.
1) Has anyone else used a Pinephone Pro with T-Mobile in the US, and can you comment on your experience?
2) Might upgrading to biktorgj's custom modem firmware alleviate any of the issues I've experienced?
3) Might changing out Manjaro + Plasma Mobile for Gentoo + Wayland + SXMO alleviate anything?
(My x86 laptop runs Gentoo + Wayland + Sway, and I already have experience cross-compiling for ARM for a Raspberry Pi).