12-23-2021, 12:16 PM
Hello @g4mba5,
I seem to be having a similar issue. I was running Manjaro KDE on my PinePhone Pro. I left it on overnight and the next day it wouldn't boot anymore. The battery got fully discharged, but I didn't realized at the time. What I knew was that my PinePhone Pro stopped booting irregardless of whether it was plugged in or not. Thankfully the phone has a pogo pin that enables using the headphone jack for UART communication. Listening to the UART signals, I realized it would only emit sounds while connected to power, which later lead me to conclude the battery was fully drained.
For a moment I thought this wasn't a battery issue, because leaving it connected for an hour using a 5V 3A charger didn't make a difference. What I didn't think at the time is that the phone was spending all this energy attempting to boot an operating system and resting midway due to lack of power on the battery. Then I had an idea, which finally got the device to boot up!
If there is no SD card, and Android was properly removed, the hardware will idle and the battery might charge enough for it to boot. I left my PinePhone Pro charge with no SD card for half an hour, and proceeded to re-attempt booting the OS. A few seconds later I see Manjaro Posh loading on the screen, which is what was flashed on this other SD card. The battery had resumed charging as it normally would.
I seem to be having a similar issue. I was running Manjaro KDE on my PinePhone Pro. I left it on overnight and the next day it wouldn't boot anymore. The battery got fully discharged, but I didn't realized at the time. What I knew was that my PinePhone Pro stopped booting irregardless of whether it was plugged in or not. Thankfully the phone has a pogo pin that enables using the headphone jack for UART communication. Listening to the UART signals, I realized it would only emit sounds while connected to power, which later lead me to conclude the battery was fully drained.
For a moment I thought this wasn't a battery issue, because leaving it connected for an hour using a 5V 3A charger didn't make a difference. What I didn't think at the time is that the phone was spending all this energy attempting to boot an operating system and resting midway due to lack of power on the battery. Then I had an idea, which finally got the device to boot up!
If there is no SD card, and Android was properly removed, the hardware will idle and the battery might charge enough for it to boot. I left my PinePhone Pro charge with no SD card for half an hour, and proceeded to re-attempt booting the OS. A few seconds later I see Manjaro Posh loading on the screen, which is what was flashed on this other SD card. The battery had resumed charging as it normally would.
