08-03-2020, 03:59 PM
(08-01-2020, 05:44 PM)Lt. Dillinger Wrote: An update to help others out: On 8/1/2020 my wife and I had to go to a bigger city in Tennessee (I live in the boonies of NW Tennessee) so I decided to take the Pine 64 with me to see if just maybe it would connect to the Mint (T-Mobile) cell towers and within 15 seconds it was connect with a full 4 bars. So much for the Mint website telling me I had good coverage in my area. So, I tried to call my iPhone X and nothing. I tried having my iPhone call the P64 and it rang through, but very low volume and very scratchy sounding too. What was interesting was I sent my wife a test text and it went through, be she couldn't respond back. So, I'm making progress and I called Mint Mobile who will refund my money as I had a 7 days test run after paying for 3 months. Apparently I need to find a Verizon type plan like Mint as I have very good coverage in my area from my Straight Talk plan, but I don't want to pay that much. Too bad because I was very hopeful with the Mint plan working.08/03/2020 I just got my Mint SIM and set it up on UBports CE. Added the APN information for Mint and connected to their network. I am able to send and receive calls but no sound at all on my end or on the receiver's end. I am also able to send and receive texts. I do not see any sound settings specifically for call volume in the UBports setting app.
The volume side rockers do not seem to work when I am using the Mobian distro on a SD card but at least I am able to make and receive calls using my T-Mobile SIM. On Mint and Mobian, I am able to make and receive both calls and texts although the sound quality sounds a little hollow. I did not have to input any of Mint's APN settings when using Mobian but I do not know if there is any carry over of information from the UBport's settings.
PinePhone UBports CE and Mobian on SD, Mint Mobile, Pinebook Pro Manjaro