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by kop316 2046 days ago
Interesting. My Understanding is that MMS is non-fuctional:

https://sr.ht/~anteater/mms-stack/

But I am admittedly more familiar with the Phosh stack versus the KDE stack. Are you then using ofono and that is providing a working MMS support for the Pinephone?

(Sorry I am not trying to be confrontational, it would be amazing if MMS works!)

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MMS doesn't work with modemmanager, it sounds like the OS this ships with uses ofono instead which has MMS support.
So I cannot speak to ofono, but modemmanager largely does support MMS, with two exceptions:

- The APN for mobile broadband needs to be the same for MMS (modemmanager does not have support for multiple APNs yet), and

- "transfer-route MT messages" aren't implemented (which some carriers use for MMS, but it is not clear for me to how).

The larger issue is that there is no stack on phosh to support any of this. I proposed a couple of ideas of how such as stack would work on their git site, but I don't have the time to impliment it.

From what I saw with scapebar, it does not have native support to send picture messages (MMS), does not recieve picture messages, and did not have a way to send a group message (MMS). I am admittedly not familiar enough with ofono to know what works or how it functions in the stack. However, there is MMS support in the patched ofono stack below:

https://sr.ht/~anteater/mms-stack/

I hate to say, I just tested it and MMS doesn't work on plasma Mobile (PostmarketOS with Plasma Mobile 5.20.3)