Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities

Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by chriswarbo on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:30AM (#30011064)

Which telephony stack is generally used on PinePhones (e.g. by Majaro, Mobian, etc.)?

I've found the freesmartphone.org stack to be reasonably pleasant; e.g. a couple of years ago I used it to manually delete SMS messages from a SIM http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2019-11-29-openmoko_sms_deletion....

Unfortunately the freesmartphone.org page seems to be down (archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20210327153615/http://www.freesm... )

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Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by jpsamaroo on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:37AM (#30011164)

Sxmo uses ModemManager[0] for calls+texts, and mmsd-tng[1] for MMS support. It generally works quite well (in my limited experience), modulo some dropped messages (might already be fixed?) and the modem occasionally getting filled up with messages which take a while to clear (causing newer messages to not be delivered).

I can't speak for what other distros use.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/ModemManager [1] https://gitlab.com/kop316/mmsd/

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Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by kop316 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:03PM (#30014976)

> modulo some dropped messages

mmsd-tng is a lot more stable in dealing with transient network issues with 1.7, which was the cause of dropped messages (dog fooding your work helps!).

I think almost all other distros have moved to the modem manager stack (to my knowledge, UBPorts is the only one who still uses oFono). Phosh uses MM, Plasma Mobile moved to MM, and SXMO uses MM, which are the major players in phone DEs.

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Re:Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities by seba_dos1 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:45AM (#30011284)

For the record, FSO code is archived at https://github.com/freesmartphone/

Most distros use ModemManager these days, although some still use oFono.

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