PPP Explorer Edition - Wipe eMMC

[dukla2000]

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According to the PinePhone Pro Wiki, and due to the fact that not all software is stable yet, it is best to run all distros from an SD card. Yes I am aware that the Explorer Edition comes with Plasma Mobile installed to the eMMC, however from what I understand if something goes wrong and the stock bootloader becomes corrupted or overwritten you could be left with a more difficult time restoring the device due to the boot order of the PPP defaulting to the eMMC. So at this point it seems it is best to boot your distro from an SD card and wipe the stock bootloader and OS off the eMMC which forces the phone to always boot from the SD slot.

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Well written - thank you. And heartily endorsed: watching the developer chat it seems that at the moment (things on the PPP are very volatile and in state of rapid change especially around charging!) having any bootloader on the eMMC at present prevents recovery from suspend. (Lukasz @ 19:39 on 28 Jan on the dev chat channel.)

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I did give the installed OS a test drive before nuking it,  --->  IT Does FAIL the "Out of the Box"  usability test.
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Sadly couldn't agree more - lots of eye-candy, very little function!. My first "mistake" was to have triggered the boot in landscape mode at which stage the user name/password screen is impossible to complete, and can only recover by doing a power off as autorotate isn't working during setup so couldn't get back to portrait!!