03-19-2021, 05:42 AM
I know this is an old thread but it is the only one I've found that addresses my problems (well, quite close anyhow). If you think this post is misplaced, please feel free to move it to a better location.
Out of the box, the PinePhone (booted on Manjaro, nightly) find my network with the default settings of "2G,3G,4G (Preferred)" but it is very fond of the 3G (strength 10%) signal and not so much of the 4G (strength 70%), and it manages to register. But since the 3G network has a signal strength of maybe about 10% (and that grows weaker and weaker by every day) it is practically useless. I miss 95% of all calls and 70% of all my texts.
If I do mmcli -m any --3gpp-scan --timeout=300 it gives me a list of carriers on the network... the one currently connected is marked with "current" and that is in 99% the UMTS 3G network that is shown in the GUI too. I also have some "forbidden" and some "available" carriers in my list. One of the "available" is my carriers LTE service.
I can ask the phone to register (again) with the command mmcli -m any --3gpp-register-home and that successfully registers the modem.
If I set the pinephone to "4G only" in the GUI and scan the network again (with the above command) the "current" carrier changes to the LTE-version that I previously saw as "available" when I was using UMTS. That makes sense, I think. BUT... and here is my problem... now the phone is no longer able to register. So it sits there with 70-80% signal strength and are equally useless.
Talking to the phone company support is like talking to a duck, they listen patiently and react in no relation to what has been said.
I still have the "old/original" modem firmware, I am to coward to update, I have a history of bricking things.
Quite obviously I am doing something wrong.... does anyone here have an idea?
Out of the box, the PinePhone (booted on Manjaro, nightly) find my network with the default settings of "2G,3G,4G (Preferred)" but it is very fond of the 3G (strength 10%) signal and not so much of the 4G (strength 70%), and it manages to register. But since the 3G network has a signal strength of maybe about 10% (and that grows weaker and weaker by every day) it is practically useless. I miss 95% of all calls and 70% of all my texts.
If I do mmcli -m any --3gpp-scan --timeout=300 it gives me a list of carriers on the network... the one currently connected is marked with "current" and that is in 99% the UMTS 3G network that is shown in the GUI too. I also have some "forbidden" and some "available" carriers in my list. One of the "available" is my carriers LTE service.
I can ask the phone to register (again) with the command mmcli -m any --3gpp-register-home and that successfully registers the modem.
If I set the pinephone to "4G only" in the GUI and scan the network again (with the above command) the "current" carrier changes to the LTE-version that I previously saw as "available" when I was using UMTS. That makes sense, I think. BUT... and here is my problem... now the phone is no longer able to register. So it sits there with 70-80% signal strength and are equally useless.
Talking to the phone company support is like talking to a duck, they listen patiently and react in no relation to what has been said.
I still have the "old/original" modem firmware, I am to coward to update, I have a history of bricking things.
Quite obviously I am doing something wrong.... does anyone here have an idea?
