(09-10-2021, 02:43 PM)Angle Wrote: So, I'm using verizon and they don't like the pinephone's IMEI. But, I have a Samsung S5 with a micro sim - can I just pull it and transfer it over, and expect things to work? :/
No. The IMEI is stored in the cellular modem chip so it will persist after installing the other SIM card.
Cellular providers also sometimes refuse service to Pinephone users when the Pinephone modem fails to report VoLTE capability for that network. I know that's been the case reported in these forums with Verizon, so are you sure it's the IMEI that's the problem? Sometimes activating a new SIM card in another phone and then transferring it to a Pinephone solves the problem.
Firmware updates will update the list of VoLTE approvals, but I think Verizon has been in the firmware VoLTE list that's shipped with Pinephone for a long time now. It's near the top of the list here:
https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=...1133#VoLTE
Information on flashing firmware:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...ight=modem
Although it is a more advanced and riskier procedure than just swapping a SIM card (and it may even be unlawful where you live), it should be possible to use the IMEI from your Samsung S5 in the Pinephone. Also keep in mind that there might be undesirable consequences from continuing to use both phones at the same time on a cellular network--especially on the same network at the same time!
Information about changing IMEI. I recommend NOT speaking of this capability with any cellular service representative. It is a chipset capability that we, as Pinephone developers, testers and validators, are lucky to know about. Disclosures of this sort are typically restricted under non-disclosure agreements between developers and modem chipset manufacturers and we don't want to give cellular service providers any more reasons to blacklist the Pinephone!
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=14743
https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=...T_commands
