debian+phosh running on PinePhone

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Hello all!

First of all, thank you @a-wai for all of your work on this (and @bcnaz for steering me this way)! To parrot what other people have said, this is the most stable and usable distro I've used so far.

I'm not sure if this is a debian+phosh issue, chatty issue, or kernel issue, but I've yet to have any success with texting. I haven't been able to compose (just keep clicking on the contact) or receive a message (just never comes through). I've had outgoing texts work on Ubuntu Touch, but no luck with incoming texts there either.

I'm using Verizon with the latest image and updated packages and inclined to think it's related to Verizon. I'm not sure if there's a workaround or if this is a deeper issue, but this is the only thing keeping me from being able to debian+phosh as my daily! I'm not sure what logs would be most helpful, or if you can point me elsewhere, but any help is much appreciated!

I think this is the case with most distros using phosh. According to the wiki:

The Chatty app requires that in order to start a new text, you need to enter +[country code]-[phone number]. Without the + and the country code (+1 for USA) you won't be able to send a new text.

I also don't know of anyone who has gotten PinePhone to work with Verizon but check this thread