11-24-2020, 04:48 PM
I've been round and round and it seems the only way to make the pinephone work on verizon's network is to change the IMEI. For specificity, I use verizon through tracphone, but I assume network access is the same and my experiences would have been similar if I used verizon directly or another reseller.
First off, I bought a sim card pack for tracphone which includes 3 SIM cards. It has an AT&T sim, a Verizon sim, and another which is likely T-mobile.
In UBP the pinephone recognized both the AT&T and T-mobile sims when I boot into the hardware testing default OS. It did not recognize the verizon sim card.
I successfully activated the AT&T SIM card and made a call. Unfortunately only verizon covers all the areas I frequent, so AT&T is out of the question.
Just recently I got a cheap tracphone to use as a daily or backup depending on the state of the pinephone and my needs.
I activated the verizon sim card on that phone (on Mobian 20201113 + 1 apt upgrade), that worked fine, so I switched the sim card over to the pinephone and made a call successfully! That was exciting, and I thought that meant it would continue to work. Wrong. The next time I tried to make a call, all I got was a recording telling me the phone I was using wasn't the same that the SIM was activated on, and to move the SIM back to the original phone. That sucked. I think that's going to happen to anyone that activates a SIM on another phone and doesn't spoof the IMEI. It'll work once and then you'll get booted until the SIM is in the original phone.
So, the only way to get on verizon's network that I can see is to activate the SIM on a whitelisted phone and then spoof the IMEI of that phone on the pinephone. It works fine. Audio's not perfect, but I'm not experiencing any problems related to the SIM or carrier that I know of.
https://wiki.pine64.org/images/2/2e/Quec...l_V1.2.pdf
https://www.gadgetcouncil.com/free-andro...r-changer/
First off, I bought a sim card pack for tracphone which includes 3 SIM cards. It has an AT&T sim, a Verizon sim, and another which is likely T-mobile.
In UBP the pinephone recognized both the AT&T and T-mobile sims when I boot into the hardware testing default OS. It did not recognize the verizon sim card.
I successfully activated the AT&T SIM card and made a call. Unfortunately only verizon covers all the areas I frequent, so AT&T is out of the question.
Just recently I got a cheap tracphone to use as a daily or backup depending on the state of the pinephone and my needs.
I activated the verizon sim card on that phone (on Mobian 20201113 + 1 apt upgrade), that worked fine, so I switched the sim card over to the pinephone and made a call successfully! That was exciting, and I thought that meant it would continue to work. Wrong. The next time I tried to make a call, all I got was a recording telling me the phone I was using wasn't the same that the SIM was activated on, and to move the SIM back to the original phone. That sucked. I think that's going to happen to anyone that activates a SIM on another phone and doesn't spoof the IMEI. It'll work once and then you'll get booted until the SIM is in the original phone.
So, the only way to get on verizon's network that I can see is to activate the SIM on a whitelisted phone and then spoof the IMEI of that phone on the pinephone. It works fine. Audio's not perfect, but I'm not experiencing any problems related to the SIM or carrier that I know of.
https://wiki.pine64.org/images/2/2e/Quec...l_V1.2.pdf
https://www.gadgetcouncil.com/free-andro...r-changer/
