Hello,
I am thinking more and more in investing in a FairPhone 3 with e/OS.
However, I nearly not use my smartphone. The only advantage I find in it is that I have an app that allows me to use my SIP line.
I have a spent a lot of time to find a voip-sip app that suit for my phone, notably a lot had troubles, cancelling without appearing reasons or there was an echo during the communication. I finally found an app that works. It is an application for which a fee is charged, that notably offers push-notification. I did not find it on the app checker of e/OS/
I would like to ask: are there SIP apps for e/OS that correctly run? And offer push notifications
Besides, is there a shop, or an association, close to Paris where I could speak of these issues with a “physical” expert?
the app availabilty checker is no longer a reference since app-lounge launched in v0.23.
Both sip apps are available, though if you use the paid version of sipnetic (there is a free version) or acrobits (paid only) you need to buy them with a play-services connected device first or ask the publisher if alternative methods to buy a license are available.
“play-services connected device” - a regular android phone, if you still have one, without modification from the manufacturer (“stock rom”) and connected to a google account is the easiest way to get paid apps onto a /e/ phone, as there is no way to buy apps from the play store, see this thread → Can't buy apps from Google Store
as for the other question in your top post
Besides, is there a shop, or an association, close to Paris where I could speak of these issues with a “physical” expert?
you could seek out the fairphone community, I guess most users that attend the meetings have knowledge on customroms as /e/ and Lineage and as you’re interested in a FP3 anyway - https://forum.fairphone.com/c/participate/local/42 … the forum software allows to search within the category, so Paris has some hits
As for VoIP / SIP, I’d really like to see an in-depth review/comparison on available Apps, with a query I mostly hit search engine spam (“top 10 x”). I did post a small guide to how to use the built-in client, but it’s not the most featureful: [HOWTO] use the builtin Android SIP client to do VoIP
Me too. I know this thread is old but I’ve recently found the apps I use have become unreliable. Crashes are frequent or video and messaging does not work. Paid apps are out of the question for all the usual Google reasons.
Linphone has turned to garbage for me. It constantly crashes the phone when I try to make calls. Just installed Baresip+. So far, so good. The UI is, er, an acquired taste though.
device sleep, the infra to do nat holepunching and timely discovery of the IP endpoints. Having a good SIP client is one thing, having the infra to reliable connect at all times is another. There was a bit of talk on push support (rfc8599) in both baresip and baresip-studio (PR), but you also need the SIP server to be able to handle that.
Would be interesting how much energy could be saved using PNS. Interestingly sipnetic isn’t speaking about PNS on www.sipnetic.com/
Is there a difference if I use sipnetic on stock Android vs LineageOS regarding PNS? You would also need a provider who is supporting Google FCM or, as an unavailable alternative by now (afaik), RFC8599?
Addendum: Perhaps a self hosted SIP-Proxy would be a solution…