11-29-2020, 03:00 PM
After replacing the screen that I managed to crack on my new Pinephone (an interesting experience), I finally installed a Tracfone SIM for the AT&T network and activated it using a pre-paid Tracfone card. OS is the latest nightly build of Mobian as of this writing.
After activating the SIM and rebooting I found that basic voice calling and SMS both worked immediately. Pretty impressive for alpha software! Voice quality is not the greatest but is usable and will no doubt improve with updates. (People on the other end say it sounds muffled but they can understand me.) Interestingly at first the phone connected via 3G, then it switched to 4G.
So in theory when I'm ready to use this as my daily driver, a SIM for my regular AT&T account should work. Thanks and a tip o' the hat to the Pinephone and Mobian teams! (And to the guys on the hardware board that helped me get through the screen replacement!)
After activating the SIM and rebooting I found that basic voice calling and SMS both worked immediately. Pretty impressive for alpha software! Voice quality is not the greatest but is usable and will no doubt improve with updates. (People on the other end say it sounds muffled but they can understand me.) Interestingly at first the phone connected via 3G, then it switched to 4G.
So in theory when I'm ready to use this as my daily driver, a SIM for my regular AT&T account should work. Thanks and a tip o' the hat to the Pinephone and Mobian teams! (And to the guys on the hardware board that helped me get through the screen replacement!)