(01-31-2022, 03:15 AM)ojimek Wrote: You did nothing dumb to me, this is just perfectly normal and sane hacking around

I didn't have the problems you encountered with wifi and updates (although indeed, camera does not work for me as well on pinephone pro), so I can't exclude the possibility of a hardware issue, but if you're trying to fix a broken install on the eMMC, you're almost there. I use pacman directly to perform my updates, though, so maybe I would have had the same issue using a GUI.

You did almost everything that you should : flashing an OS on a SD card and bypassing the eMMC to boot on the card (gladly, we can now do that, which allow to not brick the phone if we install a bogus uboot on the eMMC). Now the only thing you need to do is to flash an image on the eMMC.

For that, download a pinephone pro image on your temporary OS (beware not downloading a pinephone image, they're not the same!) and copy it to your eMMC.

To find the device name, use `lsblk`. The device will probably be `mmcblk1` or `mmcblk2`. The SD card you are currently using is the device with one partition mentioned as being mounted as root partition (a "/" in the column "mountpoint"), so the eMMC device is the other one.

Once you found the eMMC device, you can flash the image using `dd`, which copies a file at an other location:

    sudo dd if=</path/to/your/image/file> of=</path/to/your/device> bs=1M

`if` means "input file" (the image), `of` means "output file" (the device) and `bs` is the buffer size (how many bytes copied at a time ; the higher the faster, but the more ram used and the most prone to error - 1M is usually fast and safe).

Once done, the OS is installed on the eMMC, you can just reboot.

Note that if you mistakenly write on the device of the SD card instead of the eMMC, it's no biggie either : just flash again an OS on the SD card and start over.

(01-31-2022, 03:15 AM)ojimek Wrote: You did nothing dumb to me, this is just perfectly normal and sane hacking around

I didn't have the problems you encountered with wifi and updates (although indeed, camera does not work for me as well on pinephone pro), so I can't exclude the possibility of a hardware issue, but if you're trying to fix a broken install on the eMMC, you're almost there. I use pacman directly to perform my updates, though, so maybe I would have had the same issue using a GUI.

You did almost everything that you should : flashing an OS on a SD card and bypassing the eMMC to boot on the card (gladly, we can now do that, which allow to not brick the phone if we install a bogus uboot on the eMMC). Now the only thing you need to do is to flash an image on the eMMC.

For that, download a pinephone pro image on your temporary OS (beware not downloading a pinephone image, they're not the same!) and copy it to your eMMC.

To find the device name, use `lsblk`. The device will probably be `mmcblk1` or `mmcblk2`. The SD card you are currently using is the device with one partition mentioned as being mounted as root partition (a "/" in the column "mountpoint"), so the eMMC device is the other one.

Once you found the eMMC device, you can flash the image using `dd`, which copies a file at an other location:

    sudo dd if=</path/to/your/image/file> of=</path/to/your/device> bs=1M

`if` means "input file" (the image), `of` means "output file" (the device) and `bs` is the buffer size (how many bytes copied at a time ; the higher the faster, but the more ram used and the most prone to error - 1M is usually fast and safe).

Once done, the OS is installed on the eMMC, you can just reboot.

Note that if you mistakenly write on the device of the SD card instead of the eMMC, it's no biggie either : just flash again an OS on the SD card and start over.

(01-31-2022, 05:55 AM)Damage Wrote: I cannot boot from the SD card either - I just get a blank screen and green LED.

(01-31-2022, 07:57 AM)Conjada Wrote: I suspect that your battery is too low to boot properly. Even hooked up to the charger and fully updated, the battery still seems to discharge, albeit slowly. Turned off and disconnected from the charger, it willstill discharge.

There are some power management issues on PPP, waiting to be worked out. If you have access to an external battery charger (such as recommended in @Otter post on anti brick devices), i would start by charging the battery back to full state and putting in a fresh sd card (i am using archlinux phosh with few difficulties so far).

Fwiw, i and others have noted that by inserting an sd card and simply booting by plugging in the charger, no button pushes are necessary to bypass the emmc. Strange, but true.

My shutdown procedure for now is disconnect from charger (or it will simply reboot after shutdown),
Shutdown from the menu,
Remove the battery and put it on the charger to restore it.

I suspect that people like @Danct12 or someone else will soon find what is causing the charging issue

(01-31-2022, 06:44 AM)ojimek Wrote:

(01-31-2022, 05:55 AM)Damage Wrote: I cannot boot from the SD card either - I just get a blank screen and green LED.

Oh, ok. So you could boot on the SD card after the initial problem, but not after flashing the eMMC, is that right?

Have you tried booting on the SD card bypassing the eMMC by pressing the RE button? (as mentioned here : https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro#Boot_order )

I assumed that's how you booted the SD card after the first problem, but I realize you don't mention it, actually.