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Pinephone Pro impossible to switch on - gerard - 01-29-2022
hello everybody,
i received my PinePhone pro a few day ago. I was very happy. Everything worked fine until impossible to switch on.
Impossible to connect from my laptop (not present with lsusb), no message on phone's screen (nothing). I try to boot on SD card, no way....
Could you please help me?
Regards,
RE: Pinephone Pro impossible to switch on - bcnaz - 02-03-2022
Hi @gerard
Have you got your phone started yet ?
RE: Pinephone Pro impossible to switch on - meansbs - 02-04-2022
(01-29-2022, 07:13 AM)gerard Wrote: hello everybody,
i received my PinePhone pro a few day ago. I was very happy. Everything worked fine until impossible to switch on.
Impossible to connect from my laptop (not present with lsusb), no message on phone's screen (nothing). I try to boot on SD card, no way....
Could you please help me?
Regards,
I also can't connect to a laptop. Still using the Manjaro install that comes with the phone. I can see the device with lsusb after connecting the USB A/C while pressing the RE button on the back, but I can never get the connected message/image on the phone or in any way access the eMMC or microSD (other than from the phone itself). I've connected the USB A/C while PPP is powered off, powered on, pressing RE, using a USB2 port, a USB3 port, with the microSD inserted / not inserted, on a train, on a plane, while wearing sox, and with a fox.
I also flashed postmarketOS to the microSD and inserted it. I've tried every way I can find described to boot from the microSD including these instructions from the wiki, https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro:
The Explorer Edition comes with a modified U-Boot pointing to the microSD card pre-installed to the eMMC. The microSD card can be (temporarily) booted instead of the pre-installed operating system, when the power key is shortly held at boot. To always boot from the microSD card it is recommended to wipe U-Boot from the eMMC. When the pre-installed bootloader was overwritten with a bootloader without such a configuration, the RE button underneath the back cover of the phone can also be used to temporarily bypass the eMMC. The button may however only be pressed shortly for a few seconds during boot, otherwise the eMMC won't be initialized in the operating system.
Lastly, I read somewhere about booting while pressing power/volume up simultaneously. That doesn't work either.
Any thoughts?