(04-29-2022, 06:57 PM)Borealid Wrote: Sorry your SD card slot is broken. As a tip for the future, you don't have to remove the SD card from the phone to write it.
If you want you should be able to put the phone bootloader into USB Mass Storage mode. See the bottom of https://tow-boot.org/devices/pine64-pinephonePro.html - if you have tow-boot on your SPI flash, holding volume up will make the LED turn "blue" instead of "aqua".
You should then be able to use the directions in Step 3 to install directly to flash.
I have no idea if MMS works. Plain SMS does. If your SIM slot is broken you're not going to be using either with the phone's built-in modem.
I did install os/desktop software from my pc to an sd card installed in a smart card adapter on my pc using balenaetcher software. Then reinsert into phone. Did this probably a hundred times.
To test mms, just try attaching a file to a text message to see if it sends ok to see if mms work. Also send a message to your phone that contains an attachment to see if you receive it properly. Mine did send and receive mms as well as sms using manjaro-phosh (latest beta version) until SIM card stopped working.
tom kosvic