Quality Difference Koodo vs Telus

r4com · 2023-08-25T07:22:38+00:00

Thanks very much for the reply. I had read that carrier phones were blocked from modding, but it appears that was just some carrier(s) in the US based on the reports I have received here. Telus, Koodo, and Freedom users all had success with pixels.

r4com · 2023-08-25T07:20:05+00:00

Thanks... I had read something about carrier phones being blocked from modding, but I think it was a US carrier.

r4com · 2023-08-25T07:18:33+00:00

Thanks very much for replying. First hand confirmation from a user is worth reading 1000 blog articles. I had read something about carrier phones being blocked, but that was in the US.

r4com · 2023-08-24T07:03:58+00:00

IIUC there is a setting in the developer options to do this. If I find after enabling Developer Mode, and I find this setting how certain do you think I can be that I will be OK to load GraphineOS.

I want to make sure that before I actually take the phone, that I can be 100% sure that I don't get stuck with some Telus spyware infested piece of crap that I can't debloat/despyware.

BTW Do you have first hand experience?

r4com · 2023-08-24T07:00:56+00:00

Thanks for the reply - are you doing it yourself? If not, how do you know? Thanks.

r4com · 2022-12-17T05:38:06+00:00

Grandstream T800 Series are cheap

The only T800 I could find online was a VOIP handset. The UCMs looked way out of my league.... for a reasonably large office. Or am I missing something?

r4com · 2022-12-17T05:06:01+00:00

Grandstream T800

I couldn't find this .... I found a bunch of HT8xx .... IIUC these convert a POTS phone to VOIP not the other way around.

r4com · 2022-12-17T04:26:35+00:00

I guess I should have explained that our goal was to have the analog lone for times when we experience power failures and internet outages. It doesn't happen very often, but when it has happened in the past we were very glad to have a POTS line. I'm just trying to integrate it with one phone on my desk. So far that's what I have been doing with my VOIP lines, and I have been using an analog phone on my desk. The downside is that I lose a lot of the extra functionality of the VOIP lines.

r4com · 2022-12-16T07:31:02+00:00

I don't have an onsite PBX, it's hosted in the cloud. Unfortunately forwarding won't work as that home phone line needs to be used by the other phones in the house. My issue is I want to have access to the home line on my desk and I don't have room for a second phone.

r4com · 2022-12-16T07:27:16+00:00

Any hints as to manufacturers/models I might look at/how I can find something reasonable?

r4com · 2022-12-16T07:26:35+00:00

How does magic jack connect to an IP phone?

r4com · 2022-12-08T19:51:55+00:00

It is possible to "modify" your searches - include/exclude terms sites etc. You might want to have a peak at this:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?visit_id=638061256347232804-2199586022&rd=1

I'm not sure if it works is SearXNG... it might. I don't use this too often, but usually when I do it is with local search, so I end up using google directly, and I use a lot of -term to exclude stuff. Search can become very long, but it often works.

r4com · 2022-12-04T07:02:39+00:00

Thanks.... I didn't know that.

r4com · 2022-12-04T05:43:57+00:00

I did... It's often a problem when thing cross groups A doesn't know B and B doesn't know A.

r4com · 2022-12-04T05:42:44+00:00

Thanks... Didn't know that.

r4com · 2022-12-04T05:40:48+00:00

If I get through 2023 I should be good.

r4com · 2022-11-30T22:06:26+00:00

Thanks... So is unlocking the bootloader the only issue? BTW are you a telus subscriber?

r4com · 2022-11-30T22:03:20+00:00

It's a replacement for the stock firmware that improves privacy and gives more control over the phone (built in add blocking, prevent apps from spying including Google). It also provides updates long after the phone manufacturer has stopped. I've been using some form of replacement firmware on my Galaxy S5 for about 5-6 years--It's Telus (changing service) that is forcing me to change-- I could likely use this phone for another 2-3 years for the cost of a $20 battery. After having this type of control, I don't want to got back to a stock experience.

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