11-12-2022, 10:08 AM
Having just taken delivery of a pinephone and found Manjaro unusable, I tried UBPorts on an SD card (ubuntu-touch-pinephone.img.xz) which worked well and simply. Thus I wanted to put it on the eMMC, but was put off by all the DD-ing and other software required, typed in from my screen. So, reading that you could access the eMMC memory by switching on the pinephone and holding volume up simultaneously, I did that.
- Then I connected my pinephone to a linux computer, and with trepidation, I used Gparted to clear all the partitions from the eMMC as if it was just an SD card.
-Next, with Gparted, I created a Partition Table, then a new Win 32 partition.
- Then I used the Raspberry Pi Imager software to write the UBPorts .img to the eMMC. It appeared to work just like Imager does with an SD Card.
- Having "Ejected" the eMMC, from the Linux computer, I then started the Pinephone and to my great relief, it worked just as my old UBPorts phone, if not better.
Is this a safe method, or not recommended for some reason?
- Then I connected my pinephone to a linux computer, and with trepidation, I used Gparted to clear all the partitions from the eMMC as if it was just an SD card.
-Next, with Gparted, I created a Partition Table, then a new Win 32 partition.
- Then I used the Raspberry Pi Imager software to write the UBPorts .img to the eMMC. It appeared to work just like Imager does with an SD Card.
- Having "Ejected" the eMMC, from the Linux computer, I then started the Pinephone and to my great relief, it worked just as my old UBPorts phone, if not better.
Is this a safe method, or not recommended for some reason?
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