(06-04-2022, 12:07 PM)Syndicator Wrote: Before I respond I have a very simple question to ask, to boot my phone from SPI flash do I need to have the sim card in the phone?
No, SPI flash is baked onto the board. In order to flash the SPI though, bootloaders like Tow-boot will want to be flashed to the SPI from an sd card.