I had a problem with MMS the first time I had an /e/ phone, a Samsung S7 pre-installed with /e/.
I called the operator and I just had to put again the information on the mms (in french sorry, the path is réseau et internet/point d’accès/ mms/)
I put what told me the operator and after it worked.
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The developer who maintains the unofficial LOS ROM on which my builds are based has posted this in the XDA Forums
However with the recent release of Android 12 switching to that
becomes worth it due to various improvements over those 2 versions.
However porting a new LOS to a that device isn’t easy and requires
quite some testing (and I can’t even promise I’ll succeed) So in
order to keep supporting multiple LOS/Android versions I’d need a
spare device for testing.Hence I’m asking if anyone would be able to donate an XZ1C to me for
that. Maybe someone knows someone who has an unused phone, maybe with
cracked screen but otherwise working or one which isn’t used anymore.
Again: I can’t promise anything in exchange and I know the XZ1C is
still such a good phone that prices aren’t exactly low. So this is
really meant as an outreach to the community in case anyone has
somehow access to an unused phone which I can use for testing and see
what I can do with that. Of course you can tell me which LOS version
you use yourself and I’ll try and take a bit of extra effort to
support that as long as I can.
If anyone has a spare or slightly broken device they can spare, it would be great to support this developer
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Oui, moi aussi j’ai pensé a ça. Malheureusement inutile…
My current operator says they don’t have any different APN settings. I did try the primary and then the alternate settings with the second operator I tested, but those still didn’t help with the MMS issue.
Both of those carriers are MVNOs that use T-mobile’s network, which requires VoLTE. My previous carrier was an MVNO on AT&T’s network, which is not requiring VoLTE yet. (And the XZ1c doesn’t have VoLTE on AT&T.) With the previous carrier, I had no issues with MMS, even after installing /e/.
Other /e/ users seem to be using the T-mobile network with no MMS problems, so I wonder if I just did something wrong during the installation process. 
[EDIT: I just did a backup-wipe-install-initial setup, then -restore, but that didn’t fix the MMS problem. Oh well…
Is there a simplistic crowd funding website where those of us interested could contribute small amounts eg €20-30 each to hit a fund target, the LOS dev could access that to buy a device?
If somehting like this were simple to set up and use the /e/ community could tap into for funding small future activity - eg buying a device for a dev/maintainer, or paying a dev for a specific piece of /e/ work.
Had a quick look at crowd funding sites, some require setting up a ‘funding’ page etc, but just an easy way to pool funds is more what I had in mind.
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Interesting idea - I’d happily contribute to the upstream developers who make my unoffficial bulids possible
I’ve started a conversation with the developer who works on XZ1C, and I’ll report back
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just spent 30 mins trying to find a suitable website fo micro dev payments, but didnt find anything!
There was even a french one kisskissbangbang, but all too complicated. If anyone has suggestions shout
Or if you can contribute a bit of cash, he has a paypal donation link in his XDA Forums profile
https://forum.xda-developers.com/m/flamefire.5366259/#about
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I’ve no problem sending cash on a once off for something like this, but this could be a good opportunity to test group payments from the /e/ community. Maybe it hasn’t a hope of working, maybe people dont want to pay for things, but if it did work it could be used again and again in the future and the /e/ ecosystem would benefit from it.
Here are two possible group payment websites, no idea if they are suitable yet, but we could take them for a test run if the XDA dev signed up to one of them and sent a link for us to share in /e/ - eg with the title “XZ1C device for R testing” and amount €180 - (or whatever they estimate)
Interesting idea, but it adds complexity (for the developer who currently has a PayPal donation link)
He has posted that
I’m currently in contact with (another devleoper) who might be able to get his hands on a working device which he can donate. But always good to have a backup in case that doesn’t work out in the end. So thanks again!
So we can donate now via PayPal, or wait and see whether there is still a need
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I get that the dev has a paypal donate link, and setting up something else is hassle, agreed, but if /e/ community donate money using that url we would have no way of knowing if enough has been donated for the dev to purchase a device, therefore the donation might not achieve its intended goal, and we’d be none the wiser and out of pocket.
Maybe /e/ could set up a donation/funding facility to help the /e/ community to fund specific developments when needed / help with ad hoc fund raising. I dunno, just rambling now 
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Somehow, I’ve got MMS working again. I tried with WiFi Calling enabled, switched DNS to “Network” (
), and was able to send and receive.
Switched back to Preferred DNS, turned off WiFi, and it’s still working.
(Edit 1: I should add that I don’t know for sure if this is what fixed it; it might just have been a random tower reset or something. )
(Edit 2: When I powered up this morning, MMS had dropped out again. I was able to get it back, though. I tried the DNS switch/WiFi on, but MMS still failed. Finally I rebooted and switched to 3G. That did the trick…this time. Still working after resuming 4G/LTE.)
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There’s a new v0.19-q build available for this device. This one is built by /e/ rather than by me, but you should be able to ‘dirty flash’ it over your existing data. I have actually done some testing on this release, mostly of the fixed ‘dark theme’ bugs. I would still backup your existing setup before installation though 
Release notes for v0.19-q are here
The build is available here:
[edit: corrected the link]
So does this build not have the Sony camera software?
It does have the Sony camera app as well as /e/'s own Camera app. From my limited testing it seems to be pretty much the same as my unofficial builds.
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@petefoth, I backed up data, wiped, installed, went through initial setup, restored, seemed to be going well, but then ended with this error:
Restoring Data (excl. storage)... extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255
I rebooted, and now I’m stuck on the white Sony screen.
Volume Up + power button reboots, but back to the Sony screen.
Any ideas on how to proceed?
Edit: OK, Volume Up + power button, hold, buzz 3 times, phone is off; Volume Down + power on… I got back to TWRP now. Will repeat the entire process (except backup) and see how it goes.
Rember to format data partition, not just wipe
Yes, that’s what I did. Everything seemed to be successful, but then I was stuck in a TWRP loop, and couldn’t boot the system. So now I’ve formatted and reinstalled. We’ll see how it goes.
Edit: So, I’ve repeated the process several times. No errors on Install. Once or twice I got an error on Restore. So repeated the process, got no error on Restore. Phone boots into TWRP no matter what I try.
I even tried going back to the previous build, but same result.
Edit 2: Well…I don’t know what the problem was, but I’ve successfully reverted back to 0.18-q, with data restored. Maybe I’ll try 0.19-q another day.
It seems to work for me.
I still have the issue with no numbers when I want the numeric pad during a call though. But otherwise no bug detected.
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Yes, that’s (still) a know issue that isn’t fixed in this release. Maybe v0.20
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Hi there,
I realized that /e/ browser doesn’t work. With each search there is this answer “sorry no results found”
I don’t know if it was working before because it’s been a while since I’ve used it.
Do you have this problem too ?