04-05-2021, 12:06 PM
Had this for quite a while. I had an OS working and a sim for my provider a pay-as-you-go running on Verizon in the US. Was told by provider it couldn't give me service. Pinephone sat for a while then I needed the sd card for music in a very cheap Chinese mp3 player. My car cd player just failed and decided to use the Pinephone to play to my AUX using vlc. I ran sd card formatter on the card then tried it in the phone. The phone still had the OS with test options. I had never yet tried the option to write to the eMMC but thought I understood there was an OS on board in firmware that it wouldn't be a problem if the choice was wrong. Phone died. On button seems to do nothing. I took out the sd card and couldn't format it. It wouldn't get recognized so I went to my usual fix which is to format on a cheap trailcam. Still didn't work, wouldn't get recognized on ubuntu nor Windows. So, I went to an old compaq evo laptop having debian 3.2.51-1 i686 and a d-link hub. Repeatedly failed but I kept swapping out sd card readers and one finally worked. I dd if=./flasher-ubuntu-7b.img of /deb/sdb1 after dd if=./flasher-ubuntu-7b.img of=/dev/sdb didn't work. I went to another terminal a used fdisk to see if anything was getting on the card and it was. It showed a boot partition and another. No more writing was getting done so I shut down the laptop and removed the sd card, put it in the PinePhone, and tried to power up but again nothing.
The phone had been getting quite hot before I wrote to the eMMC. Now it doesn't get warm.
Where do I go from here with this?
Thanks.
soy
The phone had been getting quite hot before I wrote to the eMMC. Now it doesn't get warm.
Where do I go from here with this?
Thanks.
soy