Sim cards and carriers, discussion
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I've been having trouble connecting my PinePhone (Manjaro) to my AT&T service (4G, Eastern US). A summary of my experiences (currently running Arch, but there was no real difference from Manjaro)...

Using mmcli's --simple-connect option (together with journalctl) shows that the connection almost works, but seems to get rejected eventually (I even see the 4G icon -- the phone is definitely aware of the network), usually with the QMI error "CallFailed".

I tried registering a new sim card in an online form with AT&T, but the web page reports something like "Device Not Found" when I enter my IMEI.

In talking to an AT&T tech for a little while, he suggested that he could manually enter the IMEI. While exploring this option, he noticed that AT&T seems to consider the Quectel Modem (model EG25-G, at least) to be an "internet only" (or "data only") device, that AT&T wouldn't support phone calls and SMS messages on it, and this might be the source of the problem. I didn't want to mess up my existing line, so we ended up not trying the manual IMEI registration.

Disappointing, but maybe informative. Has anyone had a similar experience?
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Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 09-29-2020, 09:09 AM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 10-15-2020, 07:04 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 10-17-2020, 10:02 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 10-22-2020, 02:46 AM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by desca - 10-29-2020, 12:28 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by desca - 10-30-2020, 12:33 AM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by desca - 10-30-2020, 10:28 AM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by parry - 01-27-2022, 06:37 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 10-29-2020, 01:50 AM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by drc - 10-29-2020, 02:03 AM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by brom - 11-04-2020, 03:29 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 11-14-2020, 05:38 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 11-25-2020, 07:37 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by ryo - 11-25-2020, 10:11 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 11-25-2020, 10:43 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by W64 - 11-29-2020, 09:47 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 11-30-2020, 04:39 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by ryo - 12-06-2020, 07:30 AM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 12-08-2020, 10:03 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by nimji - 12-22-2020, 07:10 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by ryo - 12-24-2020, 12:31 AM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by ryo - 12-28-2020, 01:49 AM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by ryo - 04-23-2021, 09:36 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 08-24-2021, 09:06 AM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by willy - 08-24-2021, 05:55 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 08-25-2021, 12:05 AM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 08-26-2021, 07:58 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 08-26-2021, 10:41 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 08-26-2021, 11:47 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by Angle - 09-10-2021, 02:43 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by Angle - 09-10-2021, 03:46 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 09-10-2021, 06:14 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by Angle - 09-15-2021, 09:51 AM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by Angle - 09-15-2021, 04:46 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 09-21-2021, 10:19 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by Angle - 09-28-2021, 03:35 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 09-28-2021, 03:49 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 09-29-2021, 12:27 AM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by Angle - 10-01-2021, 02:18 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 10-09-2021, 08:15 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by Angle - 01-19-2022, 02:58 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 01-28-2022, 10:54 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 02-23-2022, 07:11 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by parry - 03-03-2022, 05:18 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 03-03-2022, 10:48 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by parry - 03-04-2022, 07:45 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 03-04-2022, 08:00 PM
RE: Sim cards and carriers, discussion - by bcnaz - 03-08-2022, 10:40 PM

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