PinePhone Pro not detected by my PC

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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.

I did not think so.

Whats more, I loaded Tow Boot onto the SD Card again and put it back in and that does work. I even reinstalled it. I still cannot boot from SD and I cannot boot from the eMMC. I will post one picture, the phone is dead right now. The message that comes up is different when I attempt to boot from SD or the eMMC.

https://imgur.com/a/KDgq5I0

I would suggest you to insert a flashed microSD card in the top slot of the phone, all the way inserted. Then hold the RE button at the backside of the phone, while connecting the phone via USB to your computer and to keep continuing holding RE for a good more 30 seconds. Connecting the phone via USB will boot the phone and the RE button will disconnect the SPI and the eMMC at boot, so it should boot from the microSD card just fine.

If nothing comes up on the phone you can type the command "lsusb" on your PC to check if a new device comes up (which would be Maskrom mode and which would indicate that the microSD card is not flashed or inserted correctly).

Please also write the command and the exact image you used in a reply here so we can double-check that. From the image you've posted it seems to boot fine but into a corrupted installation (and it sounds like it always only boots into the corrupted installation on the eMMC), so I wouldn't worry too much. If you join the bridged community chat it should be an issue which should be quite easy to solve there: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Main_Page#Chat_Platforms