(02-21-2022, 08:43 AM)thechillhacker Wrote: On my PPP I was finally able to get the WIP4 tow-boot SPI installer to boot by holding down the reset switch and spamming volume down while booting, but when I tell it to install, it fails with:

Error: /dev/mtdblock0 not found

and

spi-nor spi0.0:
unrecognized JEDEC id bytes ff ff ff ff ff ff
spi-nor: probe of spi0.0 failed with -2

Has anyone else seen anything like this? For reference, this is from the first january batch of explorer editions. I would suspect a differing SPI flash chip perhaps due to chip shortages, but the "all ff's" tell me it's probably more likely related to the nasty reset thing I had to do to get it to boot in the first place. Has anyone else had similar issues trying to boot the spi installer, or using it?

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Oddly enough, WIP3 installs.. odd... Maybe I can now install WIP4. Will update.

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Confirmed. If you have the above errors with WIP4, try doing the following:

With WIP3 loaded SD card in the phone, reinstall battery and hold the reset and volume down buttons while powering up the phone. hold these until you see the Tow-Boot installer. Install WIP3. Then do the same thing with the WIP4 installer, without messing with the reset button.

Now to enjoy the full speed of my PPP, and with the SD card being a home or ext. data partition, as it should be!

(02-17-2022, 03:31 PM)lllsondowlll Wrote: Step 1. Install Tow-boot from sdcard
Step 2. Hold volume up while powering on to mount the eMMC over usb (Basically jumpdrive for Pinephone Pro)
Step 3. Install Manjaro by writing the image to the eMMC via mounted storage from my computer.
Step 4. I use my unofficial battery case to make the Pinephone Pro last all day with suspend disabled. I can make and receive calls, SMS, and MMS, all are all working. Daily drivable.

(04-25-2022, 04:01 AM)wibble Wrote: 1) https://tow-boot.org/devices/pine64-pinephonePro.html
2) No - it's part of tow-boot that provides similar functionality to JumpDrive on the non-Pro PinePhone. See the bottom of the tow-boot link above.

(05-01-2022, 10:39 PM)Tim_D Wrote:

(04-25-2022, 04:01 AM)wibble Wrote: 1) https://tow-boot.org/devices/pine64-pinephonePro.html
2) No - it's part of tow-boot that provides similar functionality to JumpDrive on the non-Pro PinePhone. See the bottom of the tow-boot link above.

What is JumpDrive?

(05-02-2022, 01:10 PM)wibble Wrote:

(05-01-2022, 10:39 PM)Tim_D Wrote:

(04-25-2022, 04:01 AM)wibble Wrote: 1) https://tow-boot.org/devices/pine64-pinephonePro.html
2) No - it's part of tow-boot that provides similar functionality to JumpDrive on the non-Pro PinePhone. See the bottom of the tow-boot link above.

What is JumpDrive?

A commonly used uSD image for the original PinePhone (plus a few others) that exposes the eMMC as a USB drive. It hasn't been ported to the PinePhone Pro, but some people mistakenly tried to use it with the Pro.
https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone_Installation_Instructions#Using_JumpDrive
https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive

(06-07-2022, 06:12 AM)98cwitr Wrote: Like others here, I used an sdcard to install tow-boot, then reflashed it with the Mobian installer, which has an option to install to eMMC. Worked great! Doing distro-hopping without an sdcard is going to be nearly impossible but best phrased as impractical. A 128GB sd is like $18 on Amazon. Your computer will need an sd card reader, and if you're using Windows and not linux, use something like Rufus for flashing.

(02-17-2022, 11:38 PM)lllsondowlll Wrote: Precompiled SPI installer can be found here 
https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/pull/67

Download the WIP4 image for PInephone Pro, extract it, flash the SPI installer image to your SD card, hold volume down when powering on the phone, click install.