Brave Heart First Impressions ?

[pinetester]

BTW if anyone knows how to test mainline linux (should have no camera light issue) on pinephone please kindly tell me the steps. I still can't figure out the u-boot thing (guess I misunderstand something). I downloaded some of the pinephone developer images and then extract them but still not understand how it boots. Guess I am spoiled by all those bootable desktop linux distro that are so user friendly. Tried something like dd OS then dd u-boot bin to sd card thing but it didn't work.

It may be confusing but in most cases one just needs to write an image to SD then restart the phone with SD inserted. U-boot with "SD first" is already there.

I mean if I try to dd a linux image which is not designed for pinephone do I need to worry about the u-boot thing? Indeed pinephone images like the ubuntu one doesn't require dd u-boot separately as it is inside the boot folder.

BTW if anyone knows how to test mainline linux (should have no camera light issue) on pinephone please kindly tell me the steps. I still can't figure out the u-boot thing (guess I misunderstand something). I downloaded some of the pinephone developer images and then extract them but still not understand how it boots. Guess I am spoiled by all those bootable desktop linux distro that are so user friendly. Tried something like dd OS then dd u-boot bin to sd card thing but it didn't work.

The images that are available now are already all running mainline linux. The flashlight turning on thing is because the flashlight is on the same line as something from the eMMC flash. It doesn't happen when you boot an OS image from the sd card since uboot doesn't access the eMMC then.

The boot process for the A64 soc is documented on the sunxi wiki since it's the same for all A64 devices. (http://linux-sunxi.org/Mainline_U-Boot)

I guess I did it wrong, but I booted from sd card only (as if it fails it boots to factory testing os). At the maemo leste page
https://maedevu.maemo.org/images/pinepho.../20190515/
I tried both images with or without sql and won't boot (no bin), tried with dd image then the u-boot-sunxi-with-spl-sopine.bin it got the black screen and camera light turned on.