08-07-2021, 08:57 AM
hmm ?
I must be one of the Lucky ones ? and I am just a GUI Linux user.
But even when I got my first Brave Heart phone, I was able to distro hop to find an OS that had some usability... Not always sometimes there were days or weeks.....
That was using AT&T prepaid. I also had usability on T-Mobile, another GSM service provider.
(BUT I have felt T-Mobile has serious trust issues)
My Brave Heart is in retirement waiting for me to install the upgrade motherboard that I bought for it.
I have since purchased 3 PMOS Convergent phones and 1 Manjaro Convergent phone,
( IF the Pine phone did not work, this poor old guy would have stopped buying them at the Brave Heart )
For me Debian, which evolved into Mobian has been the most dependable,
I have been using Mobian as my daily driver for quite some time now using my old AT&T sim card in one of the PMOS phones, still running from the sd card.
The other 3 phones have Pure Talk sim cards, yeah a cheap AT&T MVNO, those are running Post Market, Arch, and one I switch between Manjaro & Mobian all still running from sd cards, one day I will flash them to the eMMC, but no hurry, they run ok this way and I can change the OS in just a few minutes this way.
I remember when people started screaming the modem had to be flashed with new firmware, I considered it, but I never did it.
Turns out my modems were working, they were being blocked by the MMS messages stuck in the cache, clear the cache and they work fine.
I did spend hours & hours everyday the first year & half+ reading everything in the Pine forum, sometimes multiple times, trying to stay up on everything.
After so much forum time, I will "never buy a USED Pine phone" ! >Flash and Brick the modem, Then sell it on Ebay ? ? ? <
Since I am a basic GUI user, my contributions are to PayPal $$ to the developers. We should all help in whatever way we can.
You do not have to be a Linux Developer or Nerd to have a working Pine phone, (That does help though ! )
BUT you Must give it a lot of your Attention.
I must be one of the Lucky ones ? and I am just a GUI Linux user.
But even when I got my first Brave Heart phone, I was able to distro hop to find an OS that had some usability... Not always sometimes there were days or weeks.....
That was using AT&T prepaid. I also had usability on T-Mobile, another GSM service provider.
(BUT I have felt T-Mobile has serious trust issues)
My Brave Heart is in retirement waiting for me to install the upgrade motherboard that I bought for it.
I have since purchased 3 PMOS Convergent phones and 1 Manjaro Convergent phone,
( IF the Pine phone did not work, this poor old guy would have stopped buying them at the Brave Heart )
For me Debian, which evolved into Mobian has been the most dependable,
I have been using Mobian as my daily driver for quite some time now using my old AT&T sim card in one of the PMOS phones, still running from the sd card.
The other 3 phones have Pure Talk sim cards, yeah a cheap AT&T MVNO, those are running Post Market, Arch, and one I switch between Manjaro & Mobian all still running from sd cards, one day I will flash them to the eMMC, but no hurry, they run ok this way and I can change the OS in just a few minutes this way.
I remember when people started screaming the modem had to be flashed with new firmware, I considered it, but I never did it.
Turns out my modems were working, they were being blocked by the MMS messages stuck in the cache, clear the cache and they work fine.
I did spend hours & hours everyday the first year & half+ reading everything in the Pine forum, sometimes multiple times, trying to stay up on everything.
After so much forum time, I will "never buy a USED Pine phone" ! >Flash and Brick the modem, Then sell it on Ebay ? ? ? <
Since I am a basic GUI user, my contributions are to PayPal $$ to the developers. We should all help in whatever way we can.
You do not have to be a Linux Developer or Nerd to have a working Pine phone, (That does help though ! )
BUT you Must give it a lot of your Attention.
LINUX = CHOICES
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