One idea is to run the Mint Mobile app in Waydroid.
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Yep. Better for privacy, but my first point (apparently unfounded) was about if you don’t have an internet connection at all anywhere when needing to install the app for activation.
Btw, it seems that said app is only required for the free trial, which is probably a differently programmed SIM card if it’s similar to the one I once tried from Mint’s sibling company Ultra. (It can’t be converted to a regular plan afterward.)
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A complication with a statement like that is that some of us (may or may not include you) activated our SIMs in other phones and then moved the SIM to the Librem 5 when the latter became available.
So it depends on whether the evil MNO/MVNO checks only at activation or checks all the time at or during registration on the mobile network.
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Use Wi-Fi to set up on Waydroid?
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Please read the posts above where @amarok lays out the hypothetical conditions that apply.
There are people around whose only connection to the internet is via a mobile phone and indeed, further, whose only internet access device is said mobile phone.
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I activated my Mint Mobile SIM card for my Librem 5 on an older Android phone and then inserted it in to the Librem 5 after I tested it and had it working on the other phone. Mint Mobile works on the Librem 5 just fine with all expected features there. I attached that SIM card/Librem 5 account to my Mint Mobile family (a Mint Mobile feature in their app that runs on my Android phone), so that the Mint Mibile account for my Librem 5 is listed in, and can be managed by my Android phone as a family member phone. That’s where I pay for the annual renewal for Mint Mobile on my Librem 5 (from my Android phone). But, I was also able to log in to my Mint Mobile account on my Librem 5 from the web browser. From the Librem 5, my login and the web page based features look exactly as if I were using the Android app. So I have not lost anything when using Mint Mobile on my Librem 5. I can see how much data I have left throughout the month on the Librem 5, and have all other features there.
I didn’t want to trust the SIM card activation process for Mint Mobile to the Librem 5. Somehow, I expected difficulty and I didn’t want to even get in to explaining to a Mint Mobile customer service person what the Librem 5 is and why they should let me activate their network SIM on a phone they couldn’t identify or might object to. Sure enough, I ended up needing their help to get that SIM card activated. I remember telling them that the phone was a Samsung Note 8 (which was true), and giving them my Note 8 IMEI number. After the SIM card worked and I could call in to the phone number from another phone, I moved that SIM from the Note 8 to the Librem 5. There have been no issues since then. The Mint Mobile web app is designed to match the Android app perfectly. It also matches the size and shape of the Librem 5 screen perfectly. So your use of Mint Mobile on a Librem 5 is pretty much exactly the same as it is on an Android phone.
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Ah, I didn’t catch that.
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I did originally activate the sim on another phone, but upon putting it in the Librem5, I got a message from AT&T saying it was unsupported and I lost cell signal. I went online to my AT&T account and registered the Librem5 and it’s been working fine since. This was all covered in the last forum thread on this subject.
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US Mobile works reliably for calls, SMS, and data.
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