07-28-2021, 09:11 AM
(07-28-2021, 09:05 AM)mouffa Wrote:(07-28-2021, 08:57 AM)swiley Wrote:(06-25-2021, 07:13 AM)Zebulon Walton Wrote: Others have brought out that the Pinephone is not on AT&T's whitelist and I think a few have reported being kicked off of services that use AT&T's network. So far I have not had a problem. Of course I've just been using the Pinephone for testing thus far, it's not in use every day.
This is anecdotal but I have had zero problems with the Pinephone on AT&T's network. I took the sim out of my (dead) iPhone and put it in the pinephone, set the profile and that's it (aside from normal pinephone issues like the modem firmware crashing or Gnome calls not working right or the MMS stuff.) I think the issues people are having are probably more with the prepaid plans ("AT&T go" or so) or something else.
Just in case your phone is blocked you can change easily the IMEI with a simple AT command, change it to the IMEI of a phone you don't use.
I could be wrong but I'm reasonably certain that's a federal crime (a felony IIRC) so that's probably not something you should be recommending. If AT&t really decided to play games like that I'd just cancel my plan. Cellular is convenient but I use VOIP for communication and WiFi is ubiquitous where I live anyway.