07-28-2021, 07:49 AM
Well, to put some closure on this thread, the day has come. I needed to use my old flip phone today and it came up saying "SIM not provisioned". So I fired up the KaiOS phone that AT&T provided and after a minute or two its SIM was activated. First thing I noticed is that Google Assistant gets in your face for just about any function. You can dismiss it, but still annoying and is evidence that Google is in there active and snooping around. Unfortunately from what I've been able to to find so far it doesn't look like anyone has yet been able to root one of these AT&T phones. So this thing is definitely going on the shelf for emergency use only.
In any event, once the new SIM was activated I took it out and installed it in the Pinephone using a nano-micro adapter, the same one I've been using with the Tracfone test SIM. On first boot with that SIM the Pinephone didn't recognize there was a SIM installed. I was afraid that either the SIM was not compatible for some reason or maybe I managed to damage contacts as some have reported doing with these adapters. Luckily after removing and reinstalling the SIM it's working properly, at least until AT&T figures out I'm using an unsupported device and blacklists it.
So now I'm in the Pinephone "daily driver" club. (Right now I'm doing an image backup of my working configuration.)
In any event, once the new SIM was activated I took it out and installed it in the Pinephone using a nano-micro adapter, the same one I've been using with the Tracfone test SIM. On first boot with that SIM the Pinephone didn't recognize there was a SIM installed. I was afraid that either the SIM was not compatible for some reason or maybe I managed to damage contacts as some have reported doing with these adapters. Luckily after removing and reinstalling the SIM it's working properly, at least until AT&T figures out I'm using an unsupported device and blacklists it.
So now I'm in the Pinephone "daily driver" club. (Right now I'm doing an image backup of my working configuration.)