It can, but both my Fairphone and old pixel could have a physical sim and an eSIM. I daily drive both with my old US number and my current EU number. Can’t have two active eSIM cards at once though
Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 hours agoCan’t your phone store multiple esims? I thought that was actually one of the selling points of the stuff.
frank@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
It’s a software implementation though, so if you have a rooted phone or use another Android OS, you have limited options in apps that implement eSim for you.
OpenEUICC is a good one, but sometimes requires magisk modules to work.
I remember it took me half a day of fiddling to get my eSim working under Lineage
Anivia@feddit.org 3 hours ago
That’s not a problem with eSims, that’s just a problem with your custom ROM not shipping with absolutely basic functionality
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
I don’t think it was a basic problem, but something to do with vendor’s implementation of it not being in the device tree and so it could not just be copied over as a binary blob