I'm experiencing a similar issue. I received the phone a few days ago and the factory test image tested perfectly fine. I flashed Ubuntu Touch to an 8gb Micro SD card and rebooted the phone, the operating system (UTouch) ran fine but my SIM card was giving me issues. I shutdown the phone to check the SIM card was properly installed, removing the SD card to do so more easily.
I noticed while trying to reassemble the phone and boot it up that the SD card was very difficult to fit into the slot. The phone no longer boots and shows no signs of charging (tried with USB, Pixel 3 Brick, Chrome Cast Brick, Nintendo Switch Brick). Checking the battery directly, looks like there is still 2.8vDC charge on it. So there's some life there still.
Checked the SD card in my computer to confirm the image hadn't been corrupted, no signs of problems - Debian mounts, reads and modifies without issue. I re-flashed the SD card to be sure and tried to boot the phone again but no luck. Disassembling the phone to confirm nothing was wrong with the SD card reader indicated that it looks damaged - probably to the point it won't read SD cards.
I can't get the phone to boot, show signs of charging and I'm guessing that messing with the reset button isn't going to help. Feels kinda like this one is bricked... My computers (Debian Buster) don't recognize the device (likely because I can't power it on) enough to start messing with the eMMC directly to see if I can get a bootable image on the phone to bypass the SD card reader issues.
Open to suggestions on next steps, potential issues or just a new unit so I can continue on testing software and not hardware issues.
I noticed while trying to reassemble the phone and boot it up that the SD card was very difficult to fit into the slot. The phone no longer boots and shows no signs of charging (tried with USB, Pixel 3 Brick, Chrome Cast Brick, Nintendo Switch Brick). Checking the battery directly, looks like there is still 2.8vDC charge on it. So there's some life there still.
Checked the SD card in my computer to confirm the image hadn't been corrupted, no signs of problems - Debian mounts, reads and modifies without issue. I re-flashed the SD card to be sure and tried to boot the phone again but no luck. Disassembling the phone to confirm nothing was wrong with the SD card reader indicated that it looks damaged - probably to the point it won't read SD cards.
I can't get the phone to boot, show signs of charging and I'm guessing that messing with the reset button isn't going to help. Feels kinda like this one is bricked... My computers (Debian Buster) don't recognize the device (likely because I can't power it on) enough to start messing with the eMMC directly to see if I can get a bootable image on the phone to bypass the SD card reader issues.
Open to suggestions on next steps, potential issues or just a new unit so I can continue on testing software and not hardware issues.
