New PinePhone Pro. No sudo command or access to root password.

[DanNewman]

I recently purchased a new PinePhone Pro and I'm working on getting everything working with my carrier, but I've found that the sudo command appears to be missing entirely and I don't know if there's a default root password set on these when shipped new. I tried the recovery mode process by shutting the phone completely off then holding power and volume up, but the phone will not even turn on when doing this. I'm a Linux professional and I know my way around in bash rather well, but I need to get past this initial hurdle before I can do much of anything.