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PinePhone

Phone setup

Mobile network settings

In Phosh: Settings / Mobile Network / Access Point Names

Name: T-Mobile US

APN: fast.t-mobile.com

Messaging settings

In Phosh: Chats / Preferences / SMS and MMS Settings

MMSC: http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc

APN: fast.t-mobile.com

Additional info

Short Message Service (SMS)

SMS Email: 10digitmobile@tmomail.net

SMS center: 1-206-313-0004

Email center: 500

Voicemail: 1-805-637-7243 (1-805-MESSAGE)

Source:

T-Mobile BYOD

Upgrade modem firmware

Get latest firmware (package.tar.gz) release from GitHub

wget <link to package.tar.gz>
tar xzvf package.tar.gz
sudo ./flashall

I ran the automatic script several months ago, but updated to newest release manually (see source link), just to be sure.

Upgrade ADSP

According to some people on Pine64 forums, T-Mobile requires ADSP 01.003

Run as root:

wget https://github.com/Biktorgj/quectel_eg25_recovery/raw/EG25GGBR07A08M2G_01.003.01.003/update/NON-HLOS.ubi
echo -ne "AT+QFASTBOOT\r" > /dev/ttyUSB2
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.ubi
fastboot reboot

After properly updating ADSP, my modem stays connected and seems to connect to both 4G and 2G.

Sources:

Flashing instructions

PinePhone modem repo on GitHub

LinMob article

Mention of correct ADSP for T-Mobile

Software setup

Proton Mail

Install Geary:

sudo apk add geary

Build and install Proton Bridge, utility that locally encrypts and decrypts Proton Mail:

sudo apk add make git go gcc libsecret-dev libc-dev
git clone https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge
cd proton-bridge
make build-nogui

Move executables to directory under $PATH:

cp bridge ~/.local/bin/
cp proton-bridge ~/.local/bin/

Configure via CLI interface:

Proton bridge CLI guide

proton-bridge --cli

Use your ProtonMail username, not the email alias
Sync might take a while

>>> login
Username:
Password:
Authenticating...
Account ***** was added successfully.
>>> A sync has begun for username
A sync has finished for username.

Get and save the IMAP/SMTP info:

>>> info
Configuration for antonyak@pm.me
IMAP Settings
Address:   127.0.0.1
IMAP port: 1143
Username:  username@proton.me
Password:  a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8i9j0k1
Security:  STARTTLS

SMTP Settings
Address:   127.0.0.1
SMTP port: 1025
Username:  username@proton.me
Password:  a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8i9j0k1
Security:  STARTTLS

Run Geary.

Enter username and password from info above.

In my case, Geary automatically connected to localhost, which is correct.

For me, Geary was very slow, and some emails were missing. Proton Bridge claims to take up to half of all RAM. At this point, creating a service would be a drain on resources. I could write a script to start Proton Bridge

Exit the Proton Bridge CLI

>>> exit

Create a service:

sudo touch /etc/init.d/proton-bridge
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/proton-bridge
sudo $EDITOR /etc/init.d/proton-bridge

#!/sbin/openrc-run

name="proton-bridge"
description="Proton Bridge"
command_user="user"
command="/home/user/.local/bin/proton-bridge"
command_args="--cli"

OpenRC service script guide

Sources:

Reddit post

Fractal

Fractal on Flathub

sudo apk add flatpak
sudo apk add gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Fractal

Reboot for path changes and such to take effect

Geoclue fix

https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/geoclue/geoclue.5.en

Location from modem:

mmcli --modem 0 --location-get

(needs SIM)

Location from geoclue:

/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/where-am-i

Enable GPS?

mmcli --modem 0 --location-enable-gps-nmea

GPS is on /dev/ttyUSB1

Desktop files are found in

/usr/share/applications/, /usr/local/share/applications/ (and /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications for Flatpak apps).

Osmin (qt4)

mmcli manpage

Mobian how-to

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=11680&page=2&highlight=modem+sleep

I got things working in the end.

It seemed to help when I used the following command to start the GPS.

AT+QGPS=1,255,1000,0,10

AGPS fix?

Modem disconnect fix

Recommended settings

$EDITOR /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/80-modem-eg25.rules

For me, the change had to be done on line 6:

ATTRS{idVendor}=="2c7c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0125", ATTR{power/control}="on"

I sound too quiet on calls

$EDITOR /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/Allwinner/A64/PinePhone/PinePhone.conf

Set capture volume to 80% - 100%

cset "name='AIF ADC Capture Volume' 80%"

Inhibits

gnome-session-inhibit command # inhibit suspend and keep screen on until command finishes
gnome-session-inhibit --inhibit suspend command # inhibit suspend, but let screen turn off until command finishes
gnome-session-inhibit --inhibit-only # inhibit suspend and keep screen on indefinitely

Modem shit

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/issues/605#note_1906818

30.006.30.006 STOCK firmware

All you need is 01.002.01.002

/usr/share/eg25-manager/pine64,pinephone-1.2.toml

modem_udev = false

After trying both Biktor's open-source firmware, and the updated stock firmware, here are my findings.

Stock firmware (30.006):

Better sound and echo cancelling - I do not sound too quiet and I can use speakerphone without the other party hearing an echo of themselves.
Integration with location services on Phosh. Once an application requests a location, the modem will enable GNSS and start acquiring the satellite positions. On open-source firmware, enabling GNSS requires sending a command to mmcli or /dev/ttyUSB2, which requires sudo privileges.
The icon for signal sometimes drops to 0 bars, although one time, my call was not interrupted.

Biktor's open-source firmware (0.7.4):

Notifications for stuck messages.
Modem stats and diagnostics through SMS interface.

Send stuff to modem?

mmcli -m 0 --command='AT+QMBNCFG="list"'

Via Minicom

sudo minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB2

Ctrl+Z, E to enable local echo (see what you are typing)

AT

OK

ATI

Quectel
EG25
Revision: EG25GGBR07A08M2G

OK

Digital Audio Interface Configure

Response: +QDAI: <io>[,<mode>,<fsync>,<clock>,<format>,<sample>,<num_slots>,<slot_mapping>]

<io>:

1 Digital PCM output (customer defined)
2 Reserved
3 Analog output (for audio codec alc5616)

<mode>:

0 Master mode
1 Slave mode

<fsync>:

0 Primary mode (short-sync)
1 Auxiliary mode (long-sync)

<clock>:

0 128K
1 256K
2 512K
3 1024K
4 2048K
5 4096K

0 16-bit linear
1 8-bit a-law
2 8-bit u-law

0 8K
1 16K

<num_slots>

<slot_mapping>

Result on my fresh 01.002.01.002 firmware

https://github.com/Biktorgj/quectel_eg25_recovery/tree/EG25GGBR07A08M2G_01.002.01.002

AT+QDAI?

+QDAI: 1,1,0,1,0,0,1,1

OK

Megi recommends to run

AT+QDAI=1,0,0,2,0,1,1,1

once per modem and reboot.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_(pine64-pinephone)

Setting up modem for voice calling

Android

Waydroid on postmarketOS

This involves updating the kernel?

sudo apk add waydroid
sudo rc-update add cgroups default # optional
sudo rc-service cgroups start
sudo apk add iptables dnsmasq

On PinePhone, check which kernel it is using: (/boot/vmlinuz is the compressed kernel)

apk info --who-owns /boot/vmlinuz

Copy the result. In my case, it was "linux-postmarketos-allwinner-6.4.7_git20230731-r3".

On your main machine set up pmbootstrap and edit the kernel config:

pmbootstrap kconfig edit linux-postmarketos-allwinner-6.4.7_git20230731-r3 --arch aarch64

Uncheck General setup ─> Control Group Support ─> CPU controller ─> Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO

Exit.

Build the kernel:

pmbootstrap build --force linux-postmarketos-allwinner-6.4.7_git20230731-r3 --arch aarch64

Init Waydroid (it will take a while to download the Android image):

sudo waydroid init

Start the container:

sudo rc-service waydroid-container start

Container needs to be started every time, or add it to OpenRC:

sudo rc-update add waydroid-container default

Run Waydroid from the Phosh icon.

Enable networking on Waydroid:

sudo apk add waydroid-nftables

Restart, or find a way to execute the nftables config.

Find which IP4 address waydroid0 interface is connected to (inet4):

nmcli

In my case, it is 192.168.240.1

Add default gateway to Android:

echo "ip route add default via 192.168.240.1" | sudo waydroid shell

Check that Waydroid has network access by launching an Android browser, or check that IP address is set in Waydroid status:

waydroid status

Desktop entries (icons) for Waydroid apps are stored in .local/share/applications. If you don't want them to show in Phosh, add this to the .desktop file:

NoDisplay=true

https://wiki.debian.org/Mobian/Tweaks

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