09-06-2022, 05:37 AM
I am well and truly inexperienced so much of the terminology on the posts means little or nothing to me. I have a lot to learn.
My initial problem with my Pinephone pro was with passwords. On first use all seemed O.K. Then when I shut it down and went in again it wouldn't recognise the pin I had put in and kept coming up with "Wrong Pin". And there is another password that it keeps asking for but again won't recognise what I put in. I tried the Manjaro "123456" but it's obviously not that either. That one it seems is for changing things like time zone etc. I set the time zone when I first used the phone and the time has remained correct but every time I get into the phone it seems to want me to set the timezone again and keeps wanting the password, that is not what I thought I had put in. I had still been able to get into the phone for some time without it recognising the pin or the password. And I set up and used the phone and went on line but it still wants an ellusive password. Suddenly without any change on my part it started recognising the Pin it hadn't recognised before. Then things started to go wrong. Now it wants everything reset and recognises nothing, and continues to ask for that elusive password.
Anyway I was told I needed to flash from an SD card. Have tried to understand this from the WIKI but it is not clear.
The WIKI speaks of burning an image to an SD card. I went to the options and downloaded the files from the Manjaro arm site but there were several image files plus text files, and as the wiki only talks of burning a single image file what is what with the others and what are the text files all about? They are not something I can read. So can someone explain what I need to do here?.
Image files for Manjaro end in either .img.xz or .img.xz.sha1
So what would I need?
I am tempted to try the ubuntu version instead because I use ubuntu on my computers, but there again there are three image files listed "base", "dpaw" and "phosh". So does one need to choose or do they all have to be somehow installed?
I run Ubuntu on my computer and my only experience with burning image files has been burning new versions of Ubuntu using "Start up disk creator" and that only accepts Ubuntu images. The Wiki talks of using the program "Disks" which is on Ubuntu but I have never used that for burning image files. So I need some step by step instructions'
I notice that "Disks" has two menus. In one menu there is an option "Attach disk image" and the other menu has "Create disk image", so I am not sure which one means burn disk image?
There are other problems and more I could say but this is where I start. I don't have a lot of time so can't get in here often and find when I do come in things have changed and I can't find things that I saw last time I was in, but anyway I need to start somewhere.
My initial problem with my Pinephone pro was with passwords. On first use all seemed O.K. Then when I shut it down and went in again it wouldn't recognise the pin I had put in and kept coming up with "Wrong Pin". And there is another password that it keeps asking for but again won't recognise what I put in. I tried the Manjaro "123456" but it's obviously not that either. That one it seems is for changing things like time zone etc. I set the time zone when I first used the phone and the time has remained correct but every time I get into the phone it seems to want me to set the timezone again and keeps wanting the password, that is not what I thought I had put in. I had still been able to get into the phone for some time without it recognising the pin or the password. And I set up and used the phone and went on line but it still wants an ellusive password. Suddenly without any change on my part it started recognising the Pin it hadn't recognised before. Then things started to go wrong. Now it wants everything reset and recognises nothing, and continues to ask for that elusive password.
Anyway I was told I needed to flash from an SD card. Have tried to understand this from the WIKI but it is not clear.
The WIKI speaks of burning an image to an SD card. I went to the options and downloaded the files from the Manjaro arm site but there were several image files plus text files, and as the wiki only talks of burning a single image file what is what with the others and what are the text files all about? They are not something I can read. So can someone explain what I need to do here?.
Image files for Manjaro end in either .img.xz or .img.xz.sha1
So what would I need?
I am tempted to try the ubuntu version instead because I use ubuntu on my computers, but there again there are three image files listed "base", "dpaw" and "phosh". So does one need to choose or do they all have to be somehow installed?
I run Ubuntu on my computer and my only experience with burning image files has been burning new versions of Ubuntu using "Start up disk creator" and that only accepts Ubuntu images. The Wiki talks of using the program "Disks" which is on Ubuntu but I have never used that for burning image files. So I need some step by step instructions'
I notice that "Disks" has two menus. In one menu there is an option "Attach disk image" and the other menu has "Create disk image", so I am not sure which one means burn disk image?