07-02-2021, 09:05 PM
Wow, thanks to everyone for all of the amazing tips! We have had the new phones for about two weeks. Here is our experience so far:
Initially had old Verizon flip phones. Service started to fall apart and we discovered the dismantling of the 3G service. Verizon is it for us in Northern, rural US. We ordered cards for Puretalk.
With Puretalk, we finally got it to work on Arch and Mobian fairly consistently. Arch was doing some dropping of service, had to turn off auto rotate or it would drop calls. Text worked for the most part, but some would get missed if phone was off or sleeping, and occasionally, text would get crossed and show up under the wrong contact. The biggest problem was that our area is only really covered by Verizon consistently, so we could not get calls at our house, which is kind of useless. Too get it to work, we just had to set the APN to RESELLER. It had to be in 4G only to get and make calls.
For USMobile, I currently have it running on Mobian and have sent and received text, made and received phone calls. I had to register the black SIM with an old phone and then switch it to the Pinephone, as suggested by others. So far, so good. The service is excellent and I will try It out over the next day or two before porting my old number. This may be the solution for us in rural (Midwest) america. I could send text on US Mobile recommended APN of pwg, but had to switch to vzwinternet APN to get and receive calls.
Thanks so much for all of the amazing help!!
Initially had old Verizon flip phones. Service started to fall apart and we discovered the dismantling of the 3G service. Verizon is it for us in Northern, rural US. We ordered cards for Puretalk.
With Puretalk, we finally got it to work on Arch and Mobian fairly consistently. Arch was doing some dropping of service, had to turn off auto rotate or it would drop calls. Text worked for the most part, but some would get missed if phone was off or sleeping, and occasionally, text would get crossed and show up under the wrong contact. The biggest problem was that our area is only really covered by Verizon consistently, so we could not get calls at our house, which is kind of useless. Too get it to work, we just had to set the APN to RESELLER. It had to be in 4G only to get and make calls.
For USMobile, I currently have it running on Mobian and have sent and received text, made and received phone calls. I had to register the black SIM with an old phone and then switch it to the Pinephone, as suggested by others. So far, so good. The service is excellent and I will try It out over the next day or two before porting my old number. This may be the solution for us in rural (Midwest) america. I could send text on US Mobile recommended APN of pwg, but had to switch to vzwinternet APN to get and receive calls.
Thanks so much for all of the amazing help!!
