INFO!!! fairphone DOES SUPPORT CUSTOM ROMS!!!

i like the idea of a fairphone. i dun wana buy one tho - if it doesn hav the features i need/wan.

if fairphone had all dis stuff - it would hav a genuine moat, besides the sustainability stff-

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  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    I currently have 6 eSIMs, but on a removable eUICC.

    Are you able to have two of them enabled at the same time, or is there a limit to one, since it treats it like a SIM card?

    Plus all that is free. In my country, eSIM profile download codes are single use, and you pay for them. Swan is €8, O2 €10 (…) The physical SIM is free, including shipping to home, but for eSIM they wanted €10.25

    Wow, that’s insane!

    I wrote to my carrier about being unable to make phone calls, they replied me to call them to “continue the case” after unsuccessfully (who could have guessed) trying to call me. Bro…

    Was that LycaMobile?

    At least somebody probably understood what just happened, so they emailed me.

    Ah, never mind, not Lyca after all. These fuckers close FOUR CASES that I raised after failing to contact me, when I was reporting not being able to take calls.

    I currently have 6 eSIMs, but on a removable eUICC.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      Are you able to have two of them enabled at the same time, or is there a limit to one, since it treats it like a SIM card?

      Yeah, just one at a time.

      But maybe it could work on some devices, though I am not sure if with this adapter, since it has that extra STK menu, so it may work differently.

      Really, the same eUICC chip that would normally be soldered into a phone can be soldered onto SC contact pads and used like that too: https://xdaforums.com/t/a-tricky-way-to-use-esim-on-cn-in-variant.4609543/
      Difference is, this will require root to be used on most devices, since the chip doesn’t explicitly allow the respective apps to manage it.

      However, there’s some mentions that some devices may actually just recognize it as an eSIM even in settings, which is also mentioned here: https://osmocom.org/projects/pysim/wiki/UE_behavior_with_plastic_eUICC

      Rumour is that some UEs will treat such an external eUICC just like an internal one, i.e. their normal LPAd would be able to manage and/or download eSIM profiles to it.

      However, there may also be some issues with this. I’ve seen quite a few reports of these cards bricking Samsung devices, requiring a factory reset. And the linked article also mentions persisting issues after using the internal SIM manager on Pixel 4a 5G.
      What happens on Samsungs is that they suddenly won’t show an IMEI and they won’t recognize any SIM card.