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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I currently have four eSIMs on my phone. I would love nothing more than to get rid of the last remaining physical SIM.
Ideally, also get rid of the whole slot to improve water resistance.
I would MUCH rather they focus on optimisation and power efficiency. My work iPhone can easily last two days on a single charge, three if I’m not really using it that much, all the while giving me all the processing power I’d need to run high-quality games on it. No Android phones comes anywhere near this and it grinds my gears.
All I’m saying is: different people, different needs.
I currently have 6 eSIMs, but on a removable eUICC. If the phone breaks, I can immediately put it into another phone and use it. Mine even has STK menu for switching and renaming profiles, so it also works in most dumb phones.
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, Orange €10, only Telekom does it for free.
But yeah, in my case, that could easily mean having to pay upwards of €60 just to put the fucking SIM cards into another phone.
Oh, fun fact, I wanted to try one plan at Orange, but screw it. The physical SIM is free, including shipping to home, but for eSIM they wanted €10.25 (while the plan would be €20/mo), and I don’t have empty slots for them.
Meh, average carrier shenanigans. Ereyesterday 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…
At least somebody probably understood what just happened, so they emailed me.
Well, guess your last sentence works.
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?
Wow, that’s insane!
Was that LycaMobile?
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.
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
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.