(07-11-2020, 12:41 PM)scoobyscrappy Wrote: hello all,

I just received my CE phone and I wanted to update the version and it said "Software is up to date".  I looked at the Update Settings and the only Channel is Stable and when it fetches channels nothing else shows up.
I thought that my original OS version did not have the OTA feature so I flash version 68 using jumpdrive and etcher.  When I went back to the Update Channel, only Stable shows up.
When I go to About, here is my information:
OS build number:
2020-06-18
UBPorts Image part:
20200618-19040
It does not look like version 68 flashed on the phone.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Jeff

(07-12-2020, 11:54 PM)afigegoznaet Wrote: After a few weeks of usage with UBports, modem stopped working.
My suspicion is that it might have been broken by crust, since it doesn't work with other images either, and it was having issues for more than a week now (not starting after deep sleep). The other possibility is that it was faulty from the start, and it just died now.
I tried a factory test, and the modem test fails with a boot timeut.
Anyone else having these issues?

(07-14-2020, 08:41 AM)Djhg2000 Wrote:

(07-12-2020, 11:54 PM)afigegoznaet Wrote: After a few weeks of usage with UBports, modem stopped working.
My suspicion is that it might have been broken by crust, since it doesn't work with other images either, and it was having issues for more than a week now (not starting after deep sleep). The other possibility is that it was faulty from the start, and it just died now.
I tried a factory test, and the modem test fails with a boot timeut.
Anyone else having these issues?

Unfortunately that sounds like modem firmware corruption to me. Did you have any unusual shutdowns before it stopped working?

This is a known weak point of the EG25-G. It needs some time to shutdown before power is removed because the internal flash can end up in an invalid state. Why and how Qualcomm did this is beyond me, but it can't recover from a bad flash by itself.

IIRC there is a procedure for recovering a corrupted modem somewhere in the modem documentation but I don't know if the PinePhone is capable of doing it on its own (might require extra pins?). I might have a look at this and see what the exact details are.

(07-14-2020, 10:34 AM)Djhg2000 Wrote: After some digging there seems to be a tool called QFirehose capable of flashing firmware to the EG25-G modem. It's a bit uncertain whether or not it's enough to recover from a bad shutdown but it might be worth asking about it.