My pre-existing provider mostly worked on Librem 5 but the MMS never worked. Recently they decided to screw me over and combined with the MMS issue I am planning to change provider. Ideally I would find something that works in the US and UK but maybe I will have two services with one for each country. (My previous provider was allegedly international and allegedly worked in both but their SIM would sometimes struggle to find data in the UK versus native local SIMs like what you get at a street vendor.)
So I basically wondered if there was a page similar to the URL above that has a breakdown of which cell providers have MMS not working on Librem 5 and which providers would have MMS still working.
So what i know is that mms do not work on vpn or ip4mmssetting or wifi. In my case mms work omg including suspend mode.
Due to opensource invasion i not motivated to look why vpn,ip4,wifi block mms funtion.
I just super sensitive to opensource, as opensource it a antagonist for a omg libre computer and community.
Opensource it is like a Bridge to Vendor, then Vendor to control it the user via Linux or Gnu.
Thanks. I know I’ve said it before but this stuff is frustrating for me. My previous provider was happy to send infinite free SIM cards and gave infinite free international roaming. I guess there’s a reason they had to be suddenly taken down without warning, and stop allowing me to text.
Don’t get grandfathered into something too good, I guess, or else the whole system starts to feel like a scam.
Another option is JMP.chat (that’s their web address), but you have to provide the internet connection separately (SIM or wifi). So $4.99/month for chat (phone number/unlimited worldwide SMS/MMS, 120 minutes of included calling in U.S. and Canada, reloadable, but international calls cost more). Then add whatever you data connection might cost. The JMP US or Canada number is operational wherever you are as though it were local. (Dialing a UK number even if you’re in the UK would be international, of course.)
On L5, though, the phone calls may not be dependable, based on what others have written here in the forum. And you may have to use it with SIP if an XMPP app doesn’t work. Chatty or a separate XMPP app can handle all the messaging, though. Search for JMP in the forums.
(You can port your number into JMP after signing up with another number, if you want. You can also add multiple numbers to the same account for 1/2 price each.)
And of course, the JMP account could be used from your computer, too.
Wow… I appreciate the note here. That is extremely painfully hard to use “user experience” on my Librem 14. Did not notice this at all and even when I know it’s hard to use to correlate a carrier with SMS information
Try parking the cursor in a cell and using the arrow keys to go left or right.
Or download or copy/paste the table somewhere. (But I guess no download button has been implemented.)