Hello pinephone community !

I'm glad to own a pinephone pro ... but I need help

It seems that me eMMC installation is corrupted.
So I can only boot from sd card.

As https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_P...o_the_eMMC says, eMMC should appear when my phone is boot on linux and plug in usb, but I see nothing with lsblk.

The wiki only says "the eMMC wasn't initialized due to applying the above explained bypass method for a too long time during the boot".

What can I do to apply the bypass to a shorter time during boot ?

Cheers
Valère

Hello everyone,

I am new to the forum and wanted to ask the community a quick question about music players available on mobile Linux.

I understand the OS is still not in Beta and this request is of quite low priority, but I am keen to buy the Pine Phone Pro and the only thing holding me back is the lack of a decent music player for this phone.

I am currently using Poweramp on a Fairphone 3+ inside Ioda android, which I am very happy with, it ticks all the boxes form me including being able to play DSD files, and import and export M3U8 playlist files.

On my laptop I am running JRiver inside Qubes OS.

However I would much prefer a fully Linux phone, can anyone tell me if there are any decent music players available?

I have looked at all the usual's from the online lists, but don't know how many of them will run on the PPP, I also understand the Ubuntu Touch recently removed support for Cantata.

(edit)***Following the thread below I got the problem solved, turns out sudo su is needed and sudo is not enough permissions to flash the modem***

https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pine...k/releases

It has been suggested that upgrading the firmware on the modem can help Bookworm users get GPS working.
There is no mention in the troubleshooting if I cant even pass the AT commands as it shows the port busy.
I am running a 3/32gb upgrade board PP.

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Hi,

I have flashed multiple OS images available from the wiki (besides Manjaro) to the eMMC but consistently get stuck at the Manjaro logo/boot screen without getting to set up the prebuilt armbian, or DietPi, or Kali, but have been hesitant to overwrite the boot partition on the eMMC itself due to the news regarding the bootloader.

Is it possible to install anything but Manjaro on the new runs of the PBP now?

has anyone had success with pika backup archives?
I cant get the borgbackup installed on PP so cant even try.
Am I missing the easy solution?
https://docs.borgbase.com/restore/
The backup app looked so easy and was optomized for mobile so I had to do it, found out now after the latest Mobian updates had me crasing in under a minute that I dod NOT have a usable backup.
I am reinstalled but I guess I am going to have to look up phone numbers and reconfigure all of my apps.
Next time it is cp /home /mnt/SDcard/backups then tar-gz it vs pikabackup.

Using my SOQuartz board with a eMMC module for last few weeks has been great performace-wise. However, every time I have to detach the module, flash new OS and reattach I wonder how long is that tiny plastic connector is going to last. I do kernel and driver development so when I use it I re-flash the OS few times per day.

So my question is. How many connect/disconnect cycles are these flat eMMC connectors usually rated for? Had people have them break already in normal use? Should I be doing something special to extend its lifetime (lubricating with plastic spray lubricant) etc?

Also, when they break, is it fairly easy to buy them? I can solder such components no problem, but buying them is another story.

Can someone point me to an image of linux/bsd that is 100% bootable on Pibebook Pro from SD card with eMMC physically removed?

I tried latest Manjaro for ARM and a custom Debian from mrfixit2001, no luck.

Do I have to write u-boot separately after burning a distro img?

I don't know what goes on in the Linux world.  I surmise that Manjaro now comes with a U-Boot that is incompatible with NetBSD.

I bought another PinebookPro.  I have a microSD card with NetBSD 9.0 on it that I used as sort of a rescue boot for my other PinebookPro (which runs NetBSD 9.1).  I know that it works because I booted the old PBP with it, to make an image of the eMMC, so that I could make the new PBP a clone of the old one.  Booting this new PBP with the microSD card works for less than 20 seconds, and then the display turns off.  I have yet to open this PBP up to use the serial console, but I don't expect that will help, because NetBSD does start to boot.  I see that the PBP image of NetBSD has been withdrawn from armbsd.org, and I expect that is due to this problem.

I suppose it may be possible to install a different Linux on a microSD card in order to re-flash the eMMC with my original PBP NetBSD image.  But I wonder if I will run into some other trouble and effectively brick the PBP.  Is Manjaro booting via SPI ROM?  I'm not very ambitious about experimenting because I don't have my other PBP running NetBSD to fall back on.

Hello! New to the pinephone world, just got my PPP a few days ago. So far, I've installed Tow-boot (spi) and pmOS with Phosh (emmc) and been able to get SMS and mobile data working. I've got a few questions:

1. How do I remove the SIM? It's one of the new ones with a nano, and it fits so perfectly snug/flush that it doesn't seem like it can be removed. With all the posts about broken SIM readers, I figured I'd ask before becoming the next victim.
   
2. When booting, it's prioritizing the SD card, whether or not I hold power and volume down (before you ask, it's definitely an Explorer, and the LED reacts appropriately when I hold the volume buttons, so I'm pretty sure tow-boot is running).
   
3. It's stuck thinking that it's charging even when not plugged in. I saw someone say using Mobian unstable fixes this, but wondering if there's a fix for pmOS.